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 A tense aspect between planets about 90 degrees apart that creates friction and a push to act. Squares are challenging but are often what drives real growth. 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.