Well this has been quite a learning experience. Something happened just a few minutes ago, which I might otherwise have paid much attention to, but I began to realize it is a reflex. It's a running theme throughout life.
Here's what happened: I was studying something about midheaven and oriental planets. I came upon a sentence in which the writer wrote something clearly debatable as though it was an assumed truth. I saw flashes of red. Reacted. Wanted to shout, "hey! Time out! I'm not sure I agree... if the rest of what you're saying depends on whether this you say is an inarguable truth, then we should not go any further until we sort this all out, which could take awhile, so we better order plenty of beers and chips."
Then I started thinking about it, this reaction, and it's pretty much a no-fail way to arouse what are normally rather passive passions.
The problem is not whether the statement presented as fact rather than possibility-to-chew-on is in fact correct or otherwise. It could very well be. After a nice long season of casually thinking on it, I might end up in agreement. What makes it ever more aggravating is the inability to directly ask the speaker to pause so I can at least raise a voice that may not necessarily agree with what is spoken of as a truth.
Just curious who/what/ planet/sign is involved here. Uranus? Mercury? Libra? Virgo? Combination? Well it's reactive... so... something Fixed, in comfortable recline... when without warning, a firecracker explodes... Reaction.
Here's what happened: I was studying something about midheaven and oriental planets. I came upon a sentence in which the writer wrote something clearly debatable as though it was an assumed truth. I saw flashes of red. Reacted. Wanted to shout, "hey! Time out! I'm not sure I agree... if the rest of what you're saying depends on whether this you say is an inarguable truth, then we should not go any further until we sort this all out, which could take awhile, so we better order plenty of beers and chips."
Then I started thinking about it, this reaction, and it's pretty much a no-fail way to arouse what are normally rather passive passions.
The problem is not whether the statement presented as fact rather than possibility-to-chew-on is in fact correct or otherwise. It could very well be. After a nice long season of casually thinking on it, I might end up in agreement. What makes it ever more aggravating is the inability to directly ask the speaker to pause so I can at least raise a voice that may not necessarily agree with what is spoken of as a truth.
Just curious who/what/ planet/sign is involved here. Uranus? Mercury? Libra? Virgo? Combination? Well it's reactive... so... something Fixed, in comfortable recline... when without warning, a firecracker explodes... Reaction.