Part of Eros
Part of Eros Opposition Mercury
The Part of Eros opposite Mercury sets your desires against analysis or differing views, often through a partner whose words pull against what you feel, making you aware of the gap between thinking and wanting. The tension is between naming a longing and explaining it away. Let your desire be felt before your mind talks you out of it.
- desire
- mind
- tension
Sources
- Brennan, Hellenistic Astrology (2017)Brennan reads the Part of Eros, the lot of Venus, as the point marking desire, love, longing, and what you yearn for and are drawn toward.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Treats the meeting of Mercurial mind and exchange with the lot's significations of desire and longing as a specific working relationship.
- Valens, Anthologies (160)Valens reads the opposition to a lot as tension and challenge reaching the lot's affairs, often through others or open conflict.