The Lovers
Eros: Capacity for vitality and passion
Psyche: Capacity to be psychically sensitive to another person
Together, Eros and Psyche symbolize Soul-mate union.
Psyche represents the principle of being psychically attuned and bonded to another human being. Astrologically, Psyche is the higher octave of Venus, expressing a refinement of personal love and psychically attuned to another.
In Chart analysis, a prominent Psyche symbolizes the capacity for psychic sensitivity to the mind and feelings of another person. This heightened awareness can produce a yearning for mystic, soul-mate union. Stressful placements of Psyche can indicate a total lack of sensitivity to others, a blocked psychic awareness or the inability to enter personal relationships.
Because of their need for deep, intuitive communication, Psyche individuals may often decline to enter into superficial or short-term relationships. Thus they may have many admirers, but remain essentially alone.
Psyche In Gemini
Psyche in Gemini, the most reflective and intellectual of the Air signs, implies mental telepathy. You can be very intuitive towards those you feel connected to, and they will feel like you can read their minds when you're with them. In this sense, you seem to know what people are thinking, when your in a close relationship with them. You ability is a deep communication that can be shared between two people, when you're already connected in this core level of you
In relationships: You yearn for a deep understanding from a partner, their desires must meet yours on a level that you will feel sharing true understanding is soul-union. You tend to feel things to the core, and you react with all your being. You want to share a meaningful unity with your partner.
Your intense emotions are often tempered with a secret shyness and a respect for you partner, provided he treats you with equal respect. The Soul mate union that you seek and offer is one that is beautiful, transcendent and cosmic in nature.
The love that you need is not found in those who are just physical or material. You need depth, understanding, communication, intellectual intimacy, meaningfulness and love from a person who would be able to offer you emotional safety and security, equality, true love and fulfillment.
You wish for someone who would be able to dream with you, be awake with you, hold you when you're feeling weak, support you in emotional ways to keep you strong and focused. A person strong enough to be your equal. A mate strong enough to stand naked in their soul, meeting your true self behind all your facades.
Be it in friendship, in love or in marriage. This is also where you are strongest and most vulnerable; because your ability to ”see or know” what people are thinking, they might consider you someone to be feared or avoided once they feel you know them too well and they wouldn't want you to see too much into them.
Eros
Eros represents the principle of passionate desire.
In chart analysis Eros serves as indicator of your passion, sexual attraction, sexual preferences and vital energy. Your Eros personality is marked by the need to continuously recreate the excitement of falling in love and being in love. Stressful placements of Eros in the chart may describe potential difficulties in sexual potency, and activity, frustrated passion, depletion of vital force, or obsessive-compulsive attitudes towards love until the person learns to channel the passion positively.
Eros brings beauty, meaning and divinity into our lives. It comes to us through a very particular epiphany, a passionate inspiration present in a particular lover, teacher, melody, or landscape. We long to follow it always. But this is not the whole story. For Eros also brings us obsessions, cruelty, abandonment, and betrayal. It may come through anguish."--Harriet Eisman
The asteroid Eros, like any planet in the astrological chart, represents a basic human need, drive or impulse. As Mars symbolizes the drive or urge towards assertiveness, action and direction, Eros symbolizes the urge towards erotic love and the transformations offered by this experience. The PLANETS represent the nature of an inherent impelling force in us, as well as a piece of our own soul, and Eros’s impulsion is towards union of a particular kind.
Eros in Sagittarius
Eros in Sagittarius says, "expand my horizons and explore the unknown with me!" This placement of Eros needs widespread goals for the future and the space, energy and enthusiasm to live them out. Spontaneous, exuberant, adventurous and fickle, Eros here prefers a lively and challenging experience with the beloved, one that will take him to the limitless corners of the universe. If someone is going to be with Eros in Sagittarius, they best get ready to soar.
This third FIRE sign has enormous sexual energy and will become bored if the relationship does not develop into broader and richer potentials, or offer new horizons. Travel is his watchword and that does not necessarily mean physically jumping on a plane and heading for a distant culture. The travel Sagittarius has in mind involves the exploration of any previously unknown realm. This includes symbolic journeys through intellectual concepts, philosophical ideas, spiritual beliefs and artistic creations.
Eros in the Second House
May I ask whether you inherited most of your possessions or acquired them yourself? --Plato
The second house traditionally rules money, values, resources and innate capabilities. It has a lot to do with valuing our self as a unique individual and can give indications of tangible longings, desires and aspirations.
People with Eros in the second house may value the erotic union as a resource or reserve. An erotic manner may reside with them comfortably like an inborn perception of what they are worth, what they deem estimable. This may actualize as a subtle undertone in some, or a brash and even overbearing urgency in others.