Aspects
Eros Conjunction Saturn
Your erotic life-force and your sense of limit and duty are fused, so desire comes wrapped in restraint, seriousness, and sometimes fear or inhibition. You may take passion gravely, feel that desire must be controlled or earned, or experience a real tension between longing and self-denial, often rooted in an early lesson that wanting is dangerous. The gift is deep, durable, committed passion and the patience to let desire mature. The shadow is repression, shame around desire, or a heaviness that dampens the spark. Let discipline give your passion staying power without locking the life-force away behind fear.
Lean in — Let discipline give passion staying power without caging it.
Watch for — Repress or shame the desire until the spark goes out.
- restrained-desire
- durable-passion
- inhibition
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Treats Eros among the additional asteroids, its principle of erotic desire and aliveness as it meets the Saturn.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Frames the Eros-Saturn aspect as an inner dynamic of the chart.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Reads the Eros-Saturn contact in evolutionary, growth-oriented terms.