Aspects
Sappho Square Venus
Your longing for love and your lyric, devoted nature keep colliding. You may romanticize a relationship into a poem the real person cannot live up to, take the cooling of a bond as a creative wound, or feel that ordinary affection lacks the beauty and intensity you crave, then feel let down. There can be friction between idealized and actual love and friendship. This square wants action, not a comfortable answer: to love the real person rather than the muse, to let a bond be beautiful without demanding it be perfect, and to bring your artistry to relationship rather than imposing a fantasy on it, until love and the muse stop working against each other.
Lean in — Love the real person rather than the muse you made of them.
Watch for — Demand a bond be a poem, then grieve when it is merely human.
- idealization
- muse-projection
- integration
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Treats Sappho among the additional asteroids, its principle of artistry and romantic friendship as it meets the Venus.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Frames the Sappho-Venus aspect as an inner dynamic of the chart.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Reads the Sappho-Venus contact in evolutionary, growth-oriented terms.