posted April 02, 2005 02:05 AM              

however Ive seen some awesome ones as well, I think it was the scorp mothers/wives/lovers thread, that i talked about my moms boss, who i am so impressed by.

i guess i just think that Scorp women have a lot of willpower and strength, and power, they can use this in a positive way or negative, unfortunately most of the ones ive come across it is manifested in the negative way, but then i see a few of the positive ones also who are simply inspirations for me on all levels,

so no offense,

i am a Gem sun/Scorp moon,

posted April 02, 2005 01:34 PM              

I was once told by a philosophy prof that the people who hate each other the most tend to be the ones with the most in common. He was referring to cultures and ethnicities, but it can be applied here too, methinks. It would make sense that two persons of similar energies that manifest in distinctly different ways would make each other uneasy. Ironically, it's a case of being too similar to one other that the differences feel enormous. So when I recognize my own Gem traits in another Gem, I unconsciously sense how differently they manifest individual by indiviudal, and often times there's a definite difference in how they manifest in males and females, and admittedly, I'm irritated, either conscously or unconsciously, by the simple fact that they're not more like me. Petty, true, but unfortuantely, very very human.

A lot of things come into play here - other factors, signs, plaents in their chart as well as social conventions and life experiences all shape how their basic Sun energies manifest. Since gender roles are so oppressively defined by social convention and pressure, it shouldn't be surprised that as a person matures towards adulthood, it become one of the most overt influences to cause a differencec in how teh same energies would manifest in the different genders.

I personally do better with other Gem women than Gem men, basically because gem men are allowed by society to get away with more nonsense and immaturity than women, and because by nature women mature faster than men anyhow. So Gem women often have to confront and understand some of their less positive Gem traits earlier than many Gem men, who too often seem to be overgrown, self-centered children well into adulthood (as attested by the frequent gripes about them around here).

This of course works differently for other signs - often depending how that sign relates or doesn't relate to the gender roles society tries to assign us. Pisces for example: I tend to do better with male Pisces than female because male Pisces have had to consciously or unconsciously curb some of their Neptunian childlikeness to fit into society's idea of a man, whereas Pisces women often too easily fit society's idea of a young girl and often get trapped playing the little girl role into their adulthood. Of course I'm doubly sympathic, since my moon's in Pisces, but like a Pisces male, Gem women are often forced to grow up more quickly than their sign would prefer in order to fit into society's gender roles, and so I relate to them on that level as well. So if I come across a female Pisces who lacks that kind of life experience to shape her Piscean energies, I tend to find her off-putting much as I would an immature Gem male, despite my affinity for either Geminians or Pisceans in general. Ithink I rspond differently to the males and females of each sign a little differnetly, but for some signs the difference is much less than others. I pretty much respond the same to all Taureans, Sags and Aquas, but very differntly to male/female Cancers, Scorps and Caps.