Aspects
Eros Square Saturn
Your erotic life-force and your sense of limit keep grinding against each other. Fear, shame, or an old lesson that desire is dangerous can inhibit your passion, block intimacy, or make wanting feel fraught, and you swing between repression and the guilt of breaking your own rules. There may be a real heaviness or frustration around desire. This square does not want grim denial, it wants action: to let yourself want without shame, to face the fear rather than wall off the spark, and to give desire a real, committed place in your life, until passion and discipline stop fighting and the life-force can move freely and durably.
Lean in — Let yourself want without shame, and face the fear directly.
Watch for — Wall off the spark, then feel guilty when it breaks through.
- inhibited-desire
- shame
- healing
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.