Sappho
Sappho, the asteroid named for the lyric poet of Lesbos, is read as the principle of romantic and artistic sensibility: the capacity for deep affection and friendship-love, an emotional refinement that often expresses through art, and bonds that blur the line between love and friendship. It is associated with same-sex love and with the tender, creative, lyrical side of attachment. Read Sappho by house and aspect to see where deep affectionate bonds form and where a poetic, artistic feeling colors the way you love.
Lean in — Value the deep friendships and the artistic feeling Sappho brings to love.
Watch for — Dismiss a bond as just friendship when it runs to the depth of love.
- sappho
- affection
- art
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads Sappho as romantic and artistic affection, including friendship-love and same-sex love.
- Greene, Relating: An Astrological Guide to Living with Others on a Small Planet (1977)Treats deep affectionate and artistic bonds among the ways people attach to one another.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Gives the modern symbol-reading of Sappho as a refined, poetic capacity for affection.