wilsontc
Staff member
Frisian,
You said:
You bring up some interesting points that were taking me far away from the original subject, so I created a new thread to discuss this. The basic issue is:
What is Gemini energy? Specialized or General?
What is Sagittarius energy? Specialized or General?
You believe Gemini is General, while Sagittarius is Specialized.
I believe the opposite, that Gemini is Specialized, while Sagittarius is General.
Your point is that Gemini is about our basic ability to learn, and an interest in knowing is, by its nature, general.
I disagree with this point. If we think of the signs as symbolic of the birth and death of a person (go with me here! ), So Aries (the first sign) is the time when we are just born and just becoming aware of ourselves; Taurus is the time later, when we become aware of our physical body; and Gemini is the time when we begin to become aware of our own thoughts. This awareness is HIGHLY specialized since we are literally learning how to think. So we look at EVERY detail of our thought and focus inwardly on our awareness in order that we most fully understand what it is we need to know. We can see this process as an "inner thinking": thinking deeply, inwardly about our own ideas.
Now if we look at the chart as a whole, there is a top and a bottom. Gemini is on the bottom (inner world), and Sagittarius is (as you mention), exactly opposite it at the top (outer world). Where Gemini is all about our inner, detailed awareness, Sagittarius energy is about "outer world" thinking. About opening up to ALL the possibilities of thought...not just our own, personal, specialized point of view, but the views of all the OTHER people out there who have their own thoughts and opinions. Instead of drilling down into some specialized point, Sagittarius "throws it out there" into the world to look into as many possibilities as possible.
And that is my two cents!
Continuing the dialogue (because the "truth is out there" ),
Tim
You said:
I have always understood Gemini, as the first mental sign, to represent mental intellect in its basic form. The thought, the Questioning, the curiousity, the differentiation, the comparison of dualities, via the written and/or spoken word in order to LEARN and DEVELOP one's mental qualities through GENERAL KNOWLEDGE of basic school principles. IMHO applying the detail is the next stage of that development, through Virgo as second mutable sign. The scattered thoughts/ideas of Gemini get placed in their separate compartments marked useful and/or useless and are given defining form. Those considered useful go on to be expanded upon and given specialisation through Sagittarius; the useless is forgotten. IMHO, one can learn but not necessarily understand WHAT one has learnt. It's Sagittarius that provides that understanding that is then given the identification of SPECIALISED KNOWLEDGE.
...Gemini is renowned for knowing a little about a lot and will change its mind according to whichever way the wind is blowing, whilst Sagattarius knows a lot about something in its particular field that it will continue to expand, progress and improve upon. That's why they are opposites on the same axis. IMHO.
You bring up some interesting points that were taking me far away from the original subject, so I created a new thread to discuss this. The basic issue is:
What is Gemini energy? Specialized or General?
What is Sagittarius energy? Specialized or General?
You believe Gemini is General, while Sagittarius is Specialized.
I believe the opposite, that Gemini is Specialized, while Sagittarius is General.
Your point is that Gemini is about our basic ability to learn, and an interest in knowing is, by its nature, general.
I disagree with this point. If we think of the signs as symbolic of the birth and death of a person (go with me here! ), So Aries (the first sign) is the time when we are just born and just becoming aware of ourselves; Taurus is the time later, when we become aware of our physical body; and Gemini is the time when we begin to become aware of our own thoughts. This awareness is HIGHLY specialized since we are literally learning how to think. So we look at EVERY detail of our thought and focus inwardly on our awareness in order that we most fully understand what it is we need to know. We can see this process as an "inner thinking": thinking deeply, inwardly about our own ideas.
Now if we look at the chart as a whole, there is a top and a bottom. Gemini is on the bottom (inner world), and Sagittarius is (as you mention), exactly opposite it at the top (outer world). Where Gemini is all about our inner, detailed awareness, Sagittarius energy is about "outer world" thinking. About opening up to ALL the possibilities of thought...not just our own, personal, specialized point of view, but the views of all the OTHER people out there who have their own thoughts and opinions. Instead of drilling down into some specialized point, Sagittarius "throws it out there" into the world to look into as many possibilities as possible.
And that is my two cents!
Continuing the dialogue (because the "truth is out there" ),
Tim
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