Astrologie - Dies und das

Sub-Personalities

The maintenance drive

In its purest expression, the maintenance drive offers us anchoring and deepening, patience, and a sense of rhythm and timing. Maintenance offers us consolidation, a sense of waiting for something to be right. It's like waiting for something to cook or watching something grow. Maintenance means being with something and staying with something. It offers us structures which serve life and forms through which our being can manifest. Maintenance gives us time to ground ourselves in something and accepts the need to live within boundaries and recognises the limits of our human-ness.
 
Subpersonalities with maintenance urges at their core reflect all these qualities.
 
The signs I most associate with this principle are Taurus and Capricorn and to some degree Virgo and Cancer. A predominance of earth signs may give rise to a maintenance subpersonality. A strong Saturn does so as well. I would also look at important placements in the 2nd, 6th or 10th houses.
 
However, the drive or urge for maintenance can be distorted into stubbornness, hanging on, inertia or keeping the status quo because of fear of the unknown. Maintenance can turn into crystallisation and rigidity. Too much staying with something when it has outlived its time is a problem with these subpersonalities. Things turn tamasic; they grow stale, outworn, rotten and sterile. Maintenance can dig its heels in and say, “So what? Why do you want more? Be happy with what you already have—stop dreaming; come down to earth.”

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