Part of Necessity
Part of Necessity Square Venus
The Part of Necessity 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. Venus presses the things you must endure against your wants, your spending, and your longing for ease, so obligation chafes whenever it asks you to deny yourself something you crave. The friction tests whether you can value the durable over the merely pleasant. Spend your resources on what frees you, not on what soothes you for an hour.
- necessity
- craving
- friction
Sources
- Brennan, Hellenistic Astrology (2017)Brennan reads the Part of Necessity, the lot of Mercury, as the point marking constraint, compulsion, subordination, enemies, and the limits one is bound to endure.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Treats the meeting of love, pleasure, and value with the lot's significations of constraint as a specific working relationship.
- Valens, Anthologies (160)Valens reads the square to a lot as obstruction and hard pressure bearing on the lot's affairs.