Soul Macrame
Sep. 8th, 2008 08:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qosAs someone with a very strong Queen of Swords aspect, my tendency is to analyze by breaking down, making distinctions, and classifying. I discriminate. I sort.
That kind of analysis and processing can bring clarity, but it can also fragment -- and I've been fragmenting myself for years.
One of the insights I've gained over the past couple of weeks of processing is the need to take all my distinct pieces and bring them together into a whole. Instead of dividing for clarity, I need to bring together for depth and strength.
[ETA: Not instead of -- in addition to. "Either/or" is another overly-strong tendency of the Queen of Swords. I can continue to sort and make distinctions, but I need to balance that by using other forms of processing as well. I need to be able to gather and make whole as well as divide and sort.]
Still working out how to do this, of course. . . But it's feeling a bit like putting a puzzle together.
When I was growing up, my central mythic story was one of traveling between worlds in order to be able to help them combine harmoniously when the inevitable collision happened. Years ago, a spiritual teacher told me that my real task would be briging the different worlds of my inner self together. I think that time has come.
That kind of analysis and processing can bring clarity, but it can also fragment -- and I've been fragmenting myself for years.
One of the insights I've gained over the past couple of weeks of processing is the need to take all my distinct pieces and bring them together into a whole. Instead of dividing for clarity, I need to bring together for depth and strength.
[ETA: Not instead of -- in addition to. "Either/or" is another overly-strong tendency of the Queen of Swords. I can continue to sort and make distinctions, but I need to balance that by using other forms of processing as well. I need to be able to gather and make whole as well as divide and sort.]
Still working out how to do this, of course. . . But it's feeling a bit like putting a puzzle together.
When I was growing up, my central mythic story was one of traveling between worlds in order to be able to help them combine harmoniously when the inevitable collision happened. Years ago, a spiritual teacher told me that my real task would be briging the different worlds of my inner self together. I think that time has come.
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Date: 2008-09-08 08:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-08 08:38 pm (UTC)yeah. this integration idea makes a lot of sense to me as well.
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Date: 2008-09-09 12:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-09 08:07 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-09 01:10 pm (UTC)I would assign her to either the Knight of Swords or the Knight of Wands -- probably the latter. She was a crusader, and one driven by passion more than intellect (although she seems to have been quite intelligent).