Amor
Amor, the asteroid that takes the Latin word for love, is read as the principle of tender and unconditional affection: the capacity to love compassionately, without conditions or demands, and a gentle, accepting warmth toward others. Where Eros burns with desire, Amor loves softly, closer to caring and spiritual love than to passion. Read Amor by house and aspect to see where you give and long for unconditional acceptance, and where your tenderness is most freely offered.
Lean in — Offer the unconditional tenderness Amor marks, and let yourself receive it too.
Watch for — Pour love without limit where it is only taken for granted.
- amor
- love
- compassion
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads Amor as tender, unconditional love, the gentle and accepting counterpart to erotic Eros.
- Greene, Relating: An Astrological Guide to Living with Others on a Small Planet (1977)Treats compassionate, unconditional affection among the ways love is given and received.
- Arroyo, Astrology, Psychology, and the Four Elements (1975)Frames unconditional, accepting love as a distinct relational principle from passionate desire.