miquar
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Whether or not you have water and air both strongly emphasised in your chart, you can use this thread to share and compare your struggles and breakthroughs in balancing these intrinsically opposite elements.
Watery consciousness adapts to life using the feeling function. We don't just have feelings about things - our very sense of being a person is founded upon the continuity of our feeling life. Our subjective and instinctual sense of what feels good or bad provides deep insight into people and situations, and connects us empathically and spiritually with others. Inspiration, imagination, and emotional and spiritual nourishment are some of the gifts of the chaotic waters of the feeling realm.
More negatively, water's fear of isolation can cause dependency and irrational anxiety - a cutting off from new perspectives and respect for the individuality of others.
Airy consciousness adapts to life using the thinking function. Life is evaluated according to conceptual frameworks (such as astrology) which help us to understand the (archetypal) lines along which things work. Through air we are able to expand the breadth of our existence through the detached inventiveness of the rational mind, seeing where improvements can be made. And through the thinking function we can maintain an objective stance from which civility and impartiality can be exercised, developing ethical frameworks to guide us. Clarity, innovation and social integration are some of the gifts of the crisp, clear air of the thinking realm.
More negatively, air's fear of chaos and emotional/instinctual confinement can cause detachment to the point of coldness - the loss of any sense of rootedness, and an inability to enjoy the warmth of intimacy with another human being.
Unfortunately I'll have to wait until later to share some of my own experiences of these elements as I have to go off somewhere. I'll start another thread about fire and earth later, too.
Thanks for taking part,
Watery consciousness adapts to life using the feeling function. We don't just have feelings about things - our very sense of being a person is founded upon the continuity of our feeling life. Our subjective and instinctual sense of what feels good or bad provides deep insight into people and situations, and connects us empathically and spiritually with others. Inspiration, imagination, and emotional and spiritual nourishment are some of the gifts of the chaotic waters of the feeling realm.
More negatively, water's fear of isolation can cause dependency and irrational anxiety - a cutting off from new perspectives and respect for the individuality of others.
Airy consciousness adapts to life using the thinking function. Life is evaluated according to conceptual frameworks (such as astrology) which help us to understand the (archetypal) lines along which things work. Through air we are able to expand the breadth of our existence through the detached inventiveness of the rational mind, seeing where improvements can be made. And through the thinking function we can maintain an objective stance from which civility and impartiality can be exercised, developing ethical frameworks to guide us. Clarity, innovation and social integration are some of the gifts of the crisp, clear air of the thinking realm.
More negatively, air's fear of chaos and emotional/instinctual confinement can cause detachment to the point of coldness - the loss of any sense of rootedness, and an inability to enjoy the warmth of intimacy with another human being.
Unfortunately I'll have to wait until later to share some of my own experiences of these elements as I have to go off somewhere. I'll start another thread about fire and earth later, too.
Thanks for taking part,
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