Aries & Paradox
Posted: Mon May 08, 2017 8:51 pm
The following is me thinking aloud. I may decide it's brilliant or baloney later 
But I want to get the thoughts down.
One of the themes that I've long though belonged to Aries is PARADOX. There are several examples of this, but I'll just mention a few. Aries has a strong relationship to cyclicity as an expression of gain and loss, highs and lows, etc. (The Manilius wool metaphor. This BTW is a variant theme of the Libra feast-and-famine rhythm.) Aries is hard to peg on whether they are conservative or liberal to the pint of radical. (Which was Hitler? Did it depend on when in his care we look? Does it depend on whether they are The Establishment in control or the upstarts seeking control?) Aries is the most active and dynamic sign, yet also the laziest.
And so on.
I've long suspected that part of this is that they don't want to be "pegged." Being labeled and categorized is a form of being controlled, Aries doesn't want to be controlled.
I was thinking about this again today, and thought I still don't have an integrated understanding on this. I was looking for an organizing principle, and thought i should look closer into the word "paradox." I know what the word means... but mane (I thought) if i get out of my head and into a dictionary - a definition right in front of me in black and white - I might see something that should have been obvious to me all along.
And there it was: INHERENTLY CONTRADICTORY. That's it. That just might be Aries in a nutshell.
I wants to put these initial thoughts here while i was thinking them.
But I want to get the thoughts down.One of the themes that I've long though belonged to Aries is PARADOX. There are several examples of this, but I'll just mention a few. Aries has a strong relationship to cyclicity as an expression of gain and loss, highs and lows, etc. (The Manilius wool metaphor. This BTW is a variant theme of the Libra feast-and-famine rhythm.) Aries is hard to peg on whether they are conservative or liberal to the pint of radical. (Which was Hitler? Did it depend on when in his care we look? Does it depend on whether they are The Establishment in control or the upstarts seeking control?) Aries is the most active and dynamic sign, yet also the laziest.
And so on.
I've long suspected that part of this is that they don't want to be "pegged." Being labeled and categorized is a form of being controlled, Aries doesn't want to be controlled.
I was thinking about this again today, and thought I still don't have an integrated understanding on this. I was looking for an organizing principle, and thought i should look closer into the word "paradox." I know what the word means... but mane (I thought) if i get out of my head and into a dictionary - a definition right in front of me in black and white - I might see something that should have been obvious to me all along.
And there it was: INHERENTLY CONTRADICTORY. That's it. That just might be Aries in a nutshell.
I wants to put these initial thoughts here while i was thinking them.
