More thoughts about "Gay Aspects" and the Like
I think the member was stating only that "God does not care whether we are gay/white/male/female/transexual/heterosexual/bisexual/black/brown/yellow/red...so, why would He/She provide astrological indicators for them?"
EJ
EJ I have a question for you. I know you were only speaking and clarifying for another individual but I noticed that since you understood this point so well, if we could explore this direction with it.
What about how life impacts us in certain ways based on these ways of being identified?
To expand further:
I am a Woman, my life has impacted me a number of ways based on this fact. So if I turn this around and say my chart is a reflection of me and my life, then my chart must also include something about my experience as a Woman in this lifetime. Therefore there must be some indication that I am experiencing life in a certain way that can point to my experience as a Woman.
Perhaps then, Goddess/God gave us indicators for these exact categories of identity but more specifically through the experience of these as such, in a highly specific way. :shrugs: The problem I think comes in more when we try to make generalized statements, either about the experiences of people in these categories of identity, or through finding aspects which point to an across-the-board "this is a definitely the gay indicator." It just makes for a bad climate in the social world, to do this to people, and it also really rejects some of the more esoteric qualities of astrology.
I know it can be rather comforting, and it also can be personally qualifying to say, "oh I am gay, and here is where my chart indicates that." But I don't think we can turn this around and say this therefore makes everyone gay who has this aspect.
So EJ, I guess I wasn't really asking you a question, but more sort of dissecting my own personal concerns with the "Gay Aspect," or the idea that Goddess/God doesn't care about these parts of us and therefore they don't show up in the chart. I happen to think that maybe Goddess/God should care very much about these parts of who are, because so much global and social damage has been done with what we as humans with a certain kind of power to manifest and create, have made this to mean.
And then we can eventually turn this around and say, to heck with these categorizations, what purpose did they ever serve in the first place? I recognize the need to make a distinction between the Male Bodied and the Female Bodied person, but even that line gets blurred.
If anything Astrology should serve the purpose of self-reflection and self-awareness which can be related to our categorical identity assignments, but also stand outside of those places, inherent more in our spiritual sides and spiritual qualities.
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