Aspects
Neptune Trine Sappho
Affection and imagination come together easily for you, giving a tender, romantic, artistic quality to how you love and befriend. You bring beauty, poetry, and a sense of soul-connection into your bonds without losing yourself, and your creative sensibility flows naturally from the heart. Because it comes so easily, the only risk is idealizing because it feels so lovely. Use the gift consciously: let romance and imagination deepen real friendship and art, bring your lyric sensibility to the people and work you love, and keep enough ground that the beauty stays connected to the actual person.
Lean in — Let romance and imagination deepen your bonds and your art.
Watch for — Drift into idealizing because the feeling is so lovely.
- poetic-affection
- imagination
- tenderness
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads Sappho as romantic and artistic affection, friendship-love, and the lyric, creative side of attachment.
- Greene, The Astrological Neptune and the Quest for Redemption (1996)Reads Neptune as longing, idealization, and the dissolving of boundaries between self and other.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Treats the blend of affection and romantic longing as a dynamic of the muse and possible illusion.