OFF-TOPIC BONUS : ASTROLOGY # 2 - Film Score Rundowns

I’ve seen with people who are just very conscientious & really want to do it right, and
they’re pushing themselves too hard and they develop these nervous tics & twitches. This
is one side of the mutable dilemma where you want to do more than you can do. It’s
never enough and they always feel pressured.
Stuttering typically might also be mutable since it’s speech, connected to Gemini.
And of course remember there’s never one thing alone. You’ve got to have a conflict for
a problem. But I would think also stuttering is much connected to anxiety, so again you
might get your earth-water emphasis, your lack of faith.
…My conviction is that astrology can help to see the reasons for the behavior, but
it can’t predict the behavior. You can go backwards from the chart to the reasons, and
once we get actual charts of people in these categories producing these behaviors, then
we can learn something about the real dynamics from astrology. We associate fire with
physical movement. When fire is emphasized, people need sports, they need to move
physically. They need that action. And when it’s combined with Letter 12, you often get
people with physical grace & beauty.
Ok. “Substance-abuse disorders” (including alcoholism), we don’t have any final
decisions here, but I would expect some kind of emphasis on Letter 12 and other forms of
water and earth where the frustrations and dissatisfactions within the world & what they
can do in the physical world. So they find ways to escape the world in its ordinary form,
to make it somehow more tolerable or palatable because they haven’t the faith to tolerate
it the way it is. It’s the feeling, “I can’t handle it emotionally. It’s too painful and
threatening, and I just want to get away from it.”
“Schizophrenic Disorders” I think is basically connected first and foremost with
the mutables, especially Letters 9 & 12. Letter 12 is more unconscious in conflict with
reality and with what the world thinks is real and non-real in terms of functional
consensus. And you can get categorized as schizophrenic if you talk about your beliefs to
the wrong person! If we went right now to a good group of behaviorist-materialistic
scientists and try to tell them what we’re talking about, they’d put us down as either crazy
or deluded because we have a different consensual belief than they do, a different version
of the world. They think they’re right or “normal,” and therefore we’ve got to be wrong.
But if you’re truly schizophrenic, then you can’t make those discriminations. You don’t
know when and how to do something appropriate in order to be understood & accepted.
A person who is not schizophrenic can believe in anything they want to believe, but they
know when to talk about it or to whom to talk about it so that they don’t get themselves
into hot water if they’re still in touch with the reality of the situation. If you want to go
thru graduate school in psychology, you don’t talk about astrology! I went thru seven
years of graduate school and never mentioned astrology. That’s practicality and being in
touch with the world you’re living in, and being able to relate to it.
Yesterday we talked about the man who decided he wanted to try to be
homosexual but who was married and had two kids, and he also wanted to do a good job
being a teacher, and he also wanted to be open & truthful about his feelings. At the same
time, he wanted also to protect the feelings of his wife, his kids, his peers. Ok. Here’s
Sagittarius saying “Truth at any cost, be open, straight, integrity, tell it like it is.” And
Pisces says, “Don’t hurt anybody. You’ll destroy your wife & your kids and your parents
if you reveal it.” And Virgo says, “How will you ever do a good job in the community
and be accepted to do a good job?” So this is a genuine mutable dilemma. If you are
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