posted June 18, 2005 04:23 PM              

Perhaps I should explain this whole evolution thing - seeing I’ve confused some

Let me use my family as an example. Now in every family there’s a sort of hierarchy - some can get away with murder, while others can’t. My family isn’t really that dramatic though.

There’s usually a few who are “in charge” and can do and say whatever they want..

Most don’t really want to get involved, and turn a blind eye. Not my mum lol - she’ll say what she wants, when she wants. And it’s always the TRUTH!! She says what no one else has the guts to say.

My Gemini uncle is exactly the same, only he lacks my mother’s charm and gets into trouble for it lol but he doesn’t really care.

If anyone ever stands up to my family’s “system”, it’s usually an air sign. All the other elements stay quiet.

The same thing happened during school and with family friends. Certain people are just allowed to do as they please. It’s so stupid, a person can preach about how homicide should be made legal - and everyone else applauds and claims that they’re a revolutionary and the only person ( in my experience ) to stand up and say “No this isn’t revolutionary…it’s psychotic” is an air sign.

OK that’s OTT but you get what I mean.

It’s like that in my family. The air signs are the only one’s with enough guts to go against the “hierarchy” - not all though.

posted June 18, 2005 04:24 PM              

Their excuse to follow blindly?

*in eight year old voice*
“we’re friends”

*reads between the lines and translates”
“to strengthen social bonds in order to move up the ladder”

Do these people not use their brain? Yes - but that’s not the point. The point is, the only person who seems to have the guts to stands up against this “hierarchy”…is usually an air sign. They appear to be anything but sheep.

This isn’t to suggest air signs don’t take part in this “system”, but in my experience they’re the only one’s who can see right through it and actually use their brains to think for themselves - instead of following blindly.

And to me, that is evolved. To break away from this social hierarchy that apes follow to “maintain order” and keep everyone “in their place”.

Note: not ALL air signs are like this - so don’t jump down my throat.

God this all sounds so dramatic. It’s just that during high school I was part of a social “hierarchy” who did unforgivable things to really sweet girls - and NO ONE said anything. I hate that I was like that, and I hate anyone who is like that. I guess hate isn’t very evolved.

posted June 19, 2005 06:41 PM            

Jeez, DD ~

Sure made me cringe when you wrote "when Linda was writing her books, in the 60s was it?" LOL! I can remember when Sun Signs came out in 1968 -- I picked it up in the early 70's.....

NM ~

Please take a look at the topic I posted for future_uncertain about Pluto in the 10th House -- it has some great stuff about pecking orders in it.....

posted June 19, 2005 06:59 PM              

I think around the 60s people were starting to notice the influence and power some words have...like evolution, and evolved, or progress for instance. I was born at the end of the 70s ...but I can imagine how it was then

posted June 21, 2005 04:29 AM              

I’ll checkout your thread Az

posted June 21, 2005 09:10 PM              

one of the brightest people to me, in terms of intellectualism, is John Maynard Keynes, who helped shape almost the entire field known as macroeconomics today. take an advanced microecon and ur brain will spin. this man was truly amAZing, he thot of stuff AND put it into action, that most people could never even dream of....it could be said he singlehandedly pulled the US out of the great depression coz he wrote to fdr during the depression and fdr based his new deal policies on keynes' letter....he developed modern economics really. besides which he was extensively involved in poetry, literature, politics, and travel and writing.

keynes was a gem sun (5 planet stellium in gemini, ack, along with 3 planets in taurus, leo rising, giving his sun elevated importance).

other personal favorites on the intellectual plane are: William Faulkner in literature (Libra), William Shakespeare for lit (Pisces), Albert Einstein (Pisces), Lewis Caroll (Aqua)

surprisingly, or not, theyre all air and water. the one exception i can think of is Kahlil Gibran, who is Cappy i believe.

so, for me, in purely intellectual terms, yes air signs are v impressive, v symbolic of the highest intellectual achievements. this does not undermine the achievements and contributions of other elements. it is quite clear for anyone to see.

posted June 21, 2005 10:17 PM            

Nice to see ya back! Well, here's the tradional -- will have to see what HD comes up with for your Aries! I'd like to see a pic: try my hand again at guessing Rising Sign.....

posted June 22, 2005 10:53 PM              

and how has life been treating u

my aries is v cute. hes v adorable in fact. i could post his pic as a path from my computers files but i dont know if i would do it in the same way that i would do an internet link? how would i go about it? anyone know?

thanks

posted June 22, 2005 10:56 PM              

anyway i actually just started a post kind of related to this about having a libra and aquarius combo with your sun, moon, or ascendant, and how it makes you relate to lots of people and understand them but still be really detached from humanity and how that isn't easy....yeah.

posted June 22, 2005 11:08 PM            

Can you put his pic in your LL Photoshop album? I was just there today & saw you have a couple of pics up.....I have some foggy idea how to post into the forum: if your pic link has a url you can do [img]url address[/img], or if you right click on the picture and choose Properties from the pop-up menu you can highlight and past the url between the [img]url[/img]. Hope this helps!

Would like to try and guess Mr Aries Asc! I did up a quickie chart for him at astro.com for noon and it came up Cancer Rising. If he was born much earlier in the morning you may have a lovely Sun-Moon conjunction!

Talk to ya soon! I've noticed that if you go in and try to edit someone else's post you can see the url's of pics/objects -- here, I'll put one in....

posted June 22, 2005 11:21 PM              

[img]C:\Program Files\My Received Files\Image(014)[/img]

if it doesnt come out right ill try again

posted June 22, 2005 11:22 PM              

lemme try to post it on LL and give the url from there

posted June 22, 2005 11:48 PM            

I don't know how to make it work from your c:\ drive -- it has to be a url as far as I can tell.....