Free Will Astrology Magic
Mar. 8th, 2006 03:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluegargantuaUgh.
Nothing but meetings today. I couldn't even get any goofing off done, let alone actual work.
But Brezny says things are looking up:
The ancient Greeks had words for love that transcend our usual notions, writes Lindsay Swope in her review of Richard Idemon's book Through the Looking Glass. Epithemia is the basic need to touch and be touched. Our closest approximation is "horniness," though epithemia is not so much a sexual feeling as a sensual one. Philia is friendship. It includes the need to admire and respect your friends as a reflection of yourself--like in high school, where you want to hang out with the cool kids because that means you're cool too. Eros isn't sexual in the way we usually think, but is more about the emotional gratification that comes from merging souls. Agape is a mature, utterly free expression of love that has no possessiveness. It means wanting the best for another person even if it doesn't advance one's self-interest. The phase you're currently in, Virgo, is providing you with opportunities to explore the frontiers of at least three of these kinds of love.
Three of four, huh? Hmmm...tough call. They're all really good. However, one of the foundations of magical theory is that you make active choices and then put those choices out there to the universe so that it knows what you want.
So I'm choosing: Epithemia, Eros, and Agape.
I hear the derisive snorting from the peanut gallery already. However, I figure that if I'm having sensual, soul-merging, non-possessive love with someone(s), they're probably alrady my friends. (OK, they might be hires, but I think that's a different greek word altogether).
So now the universe (and you know). Bring on the Greek lovin'!
later
Tom
Nothing but meetings today. I couldn't even get any goofing off done, let alone actual work.
But Brezny says things are looking up:
The ancient Greeks had words for love that transcend our usual notions, writes Lindsay Swope in her review of Richard Idemon's book Through the Looking Glass. Epithemia is the basic need to touch and be touched. Our closest approximation is "horniness," though epithemia is not so much a sexual feeling as a sensual one. Philia is friendship. It includes the need to admire and respect your friends as a reflection of yourself--like in high school, where you want to hang out with the cool kids because that means you're cool too. Eros isn't sexual in the way we usually think, but is more about the emotional gratification that comes from merging souls. Agape is a mature, utterly free expression of love that has no possessiveness. It means wanting the best for another person even if it doesn't advance one's self-interest. The phase you're currently in, Virgo, is providing you with opportunities to explore the frontiers of at least three of these kinds of love.
Three of four, huh? Hmmm...tough call. They're all really good. However, one of the foundations of magical theory is that you make active choices and then put those choices out there to the universe so that it knows what you want.
So I'm choosing: Epithemia, Eros, and Agape.
I hear the derisive snorting from the peanut gallery already. However, I figure that if I'm having sensual, soul-merging, non-possessive love with someone(s), they're probably alrady my friends. (OK, they might be hires, but I think that's a different greek word altogether).
So now the universe (and you know). Bring on the Greek lovin'!
later
Tom
