Aspects
Sappho Opposition Sun
The part of you that wants to stand plainly as yourself and the part that lives through art and devoted friendship sit across from each other, often arriving through others, the artists and intimate friends who mirror your sensitivity. You may suppress your creative, bonding nature to function, then ache to express it, or pour yourself into art and friendship and lose your own center. The work is balance, not choice: let your selfhood give your artistry direction and your lyric heart enrich your identity, so you can be wholly yourself and deeply expressive at once, neither walled off from beauty nor dissolved in it.
Lean in — Let the self direct the artistry and the artistry enrich the self.
Watch for — Suppress your creative, bonding nature, then ache to express it.
- self-vs-artistry
- projected-aesthetics
- balancing
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Treats Sappho among the additional asteroids, its principle of artistry and romantic friendship as it meets the Sun.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Frames the Sappho-Sun aspect as an inner dynamic of the chart.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Reads the Sappho-Sun contact in evolutionary, growth-oriented terms.