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THE INHARMONIOUS ASPECTS

This species of configuration does not favour happiness, and this for a double reason: the

native does actually meet more than his due share of unkindness, and, besides this, he is usually

more sensitive than the average person to it. Venus has much to do with interior happiness, asJupiter influences exterior prosperity, and the bad aspects of Mars put this happiness, so to speak, at

the mercy of the rough and rude elements of life. Venus also rules adaptation and all forms of

mutuality and relationship, and the bad aspect of Mars causes these to be unfortunate in some

manner or other. Venus is also significatrix of those from whom affection may normally be expected

(in particular mother, sisters, wife) and the action of Mars tends to make these persons either harsh

and non-understanding, or it may remove them.

It is true that Mars does impart some robustness of temper, so that the native generally re-

acts to injuries in anger rather than grief, and this is a more comfortable condition. But as Mars

diminishes the Venus charm, so Venus weakens the courage and hardihood of Mars. If Mars

predominates we may see a liking for horse-play (cf. ex Kaiser); if Venus predominates, then there is

such sensitiveness that the least roughness has a prostrating effect.

The lack of real content makes the Venus-Mars person dissatisfied with himself and a keen

critic of others; he cannot take people and things as he finds them; he feels too much and expects

too much.

He is often warmly, but capriciously, affectionate.

The affliction does not, as is sometimes thought, centre round the married and other inter-

sexual relations. There will be emotional trouble, and naturally this will often be expressed in the

above manner, but the family-life and particularly the early family-life is also often the field

wherein the contacts will operate. It is rare to find a person with them who has not lost, or suffered

through or at the hands of, one of the parents, who may be unfortunate in his affairs, die, or practise

harshness to the native. In married life the influence is by no means always towards disagreement

or unhappiness in fact, there may be ardent affection. But separation by force of circumstances is

common. For example, the husband may be obliged to travel, or, again, conditions of health or

business may cause separation in some form or other. It tends also to deny or harm the children,

and as a rule there are but one or two.

In fifteen cases before me the fathers died or were unusually harsh in eight, to my personal

knowledge. In three cases there was family disaster. Other cases were that psychologically

unfortunate person, the only child, or there was but one brother or sister, and that one died.

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The bad aspects do not prevent marriage indeed, they seem to promote it in female

genitures, perhaps because the pains of parturition are an appropriate field for the expression of

these influences. But the woman who weds a man with this affliction may find him dominating, not

too refined, egotistical, touchy and sometimes unprepossessing in appearance. If she have it

herself, then the husband may be licentious, sickly, or unfortunate. These rules are of coursesubject to countervailing influences.

The health may be affected through worry, strain, and lack of interior tranquility, or through

hurt to the feelings or sorrow. It may likewise denote harm through self-indulgence.