HE INHARMONIOUS ASPECTS

Though far less depressing than the evil aspects of Venus and Saturn, this combination has
a tendency to make the native extremely touchy, so that co-operation of any kind becomes almost
impossible. There is self-will, and sometimes an unusual rigidity of outlook and opinion from which
the native cannot be moved; indeed it often happens that he will refuse to discuss his reasons or
motives. The feelings seem subtly to dominate the will, so that the native, while remaining outwardly
rational and logical, will persist in an unfortunate course, and will refuse to give away or concede
anything, with the strange unreasonableness of the Uranian. The character is often good and kind,
but the orientation of the will is, as it were, distorted.
Unfortunate associates menace the life, both in love and in business, as well as in other
ways. In marriage the partner is uncongenial or dies, and sometimes the native is changeful or
exacting or eccentric. It inclines to peculiar and unconventional ideas about sex, and the native
often has an exaggerated idea of independence and personal freedom, overlooking the fact that
man is naturally gregarious and is more or less dependent on his fellows, whether he cares to admit
this dependence or not. But the aspect does not incline to promiscuity or vulgar vice, and its
connection with sexual perversion has probably been extremely exaggerated.
It may concur with other features to signify tragic separations and bereavements either in
marriage or other near relationships.
It is a somewhat common feature in the natives of suicides, and it is also sometimes found in
the horoscopes of child-victims of assault and sexual offenses, so that children possessing it should
be carefully protected.
It is not favourable with regard to the mother, who may die early, or be unfortunate or
uncongenial.
It inclines to nervous instability and various nervous afflictions, probably due to repressed or
defeated desires, for the desire-nature is strong and does not easily submit to repulse or rejection. It
is useless to expect persons with this aspect to live a strictly conventional or harshly Puritanic life, for
repression is likely to cause violent outbreaks or else repression-neuroses.
The effects of the sexual life upon the health are often unhelpful.