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somewhat practical and intelligent, doing enough Virgo & Gemini, and not being carried
away by Letters 9 & 12, you know when to do which. For it to be a serious problem, it’s
got to be more than just mutables. I do see it as essentially a mutable problem, but for it
to be chronic and really severe, it’s got to include some other factors: Fixity for
persistence and being chronic, and a conflict with Letter 10 for the rules of society and
being accepted by society. It’s only when the mutable dilemma gets more involved with
the heavy Pluto, Sun, Saturn, Mars that it can take these more serious forms.
The two catatonics that I have both happened to have Saturn in the 1 st house. At
least one of them at the time that he was going thru a catatonic episode (immobilized) had
progressed Ascendant on Saturn. They just cut off the world, closed off, and retreated
into themselves. Also you frequently find the Fixed emphasis too for this strength of will
to be able to do this, to persist in it, in the face of all the pressures from everybody
outside.
The persecution-type paranoid where other people have the power and might use
it against us is really classically and typically Letter 1 mixed in with Letters 7 & 8. It is
that sense of other people have my power and I’m threatened and I may be overwhelmed.
The delusions of grandeur are more likely to be an identification with Letters 9 &
12, rather than Letter 1 connected to Letters 7 & 8, where they are identified with God.
One case had Sun-Mars-Jupiter and south node all in Aries: “I speak with the words of
God.” That may be the inspired and inspiring person, but who is to say where is the fine
line between going overboard into some kind of unreality.
The “Affective Disorders” is the technical term for “emotional” where we
associate fire especially—but fire supported by air to some degree with the manic highs,
and earth-water for depressive lows. So you get a person who has not integrated these
sides of the nature, and you may get mood swings. And especially you’ll see it with fire
mixed with water. Mood swings I call the emotional yo-yo or the firecracker explosive
personality where they hold back until fire blows the lid. It’s much more common just to
see the depression. Mental hospitals are full of people who are just depressed, who don’t
have upswings. The drugs are very effective in cutting off their highs, but no so effective
in getting out of the lows! The only person that I saw the year I spent at the VA hospital
who actually had a real manic phase was a little Catholic priest. He was amusing because
he was very funny and very witty, but he did create chaos one day when he got off the
mental ward and was going around the rest of the hospital—which was full of ordinary
people with physical problems—and doing what he was trained to do—administering
extreme unction! To people who knew what he was doing, it meant that they were going
to die! They did not know they had a fatal illness and were shocked when a priest came
along and gave them the last rights. But the priest was thoroughly enjoying himself,
doing his own thing. The manic stage varies a bit, but usually not that long—a few days.
The depressive stage can go on what seems forever! They get down in the dumps and just
stay there, and really be miserable. That’s the heavy water and earth blocking the air and
fire—either very weak air and fire or blocked fire. And they feel they can’t do anything.
They feel helpless; the world’s a mess, they’re a mess, so there’s no use in trying
anything.
“Post Traumatic Syndrome” is fairly obvious. It’s how you structure the
experience whether it’s traumatic or not. So it depends on your faith & belief system, in
part, whether something is considered traumatic. For instance, if someone loses a loved
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