Aspects
Neptune Quincunx Venus
What you actually love and your romantic, idealized longing do not naturally line up, so you keep adjusting between the real bond and the dream of it. It can feel like the person in front of you and the one you imagined are never quite the same. The work is treating that adjustment as a skill, a hard-won sense of when to dream and when to see clearly. At your best you become unusually good at loving the real and the ideal at once.
Lean in — Learn when to dream and when to see the person clearly.
Watch for — Keep measuring real love against an impossible ideal.
- adjusting
- real-vs-ideal
- supple
Sources
- Tompkins, Aspects in Astrology (1989)Reads the quincunx as perpetual adjustment between mismatched functions.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Reads it as a constant, uneasy realignment.