“Both/And” was one of the most important values I experienced from the (very open) seminary I attended. IMO, it’s our responsibility as spiritual shamans and counselors to invite this kind of thinking and culture into astrology. Thanks for your leadership in this regard Adam!
Wow, this post is just the medicine I needed! Adam, thank you for your enlightening discourse on polarity. The timing is perfect as I wrestle with the dichotomy of life. No accidents here, I'm so grateful the universe is providing divine guidance and inspiration during this tumultuous time. I'm humbled to be a one of your beginner students.
A friend of mine told me recently that purple doesn’t exist on the light spectrum that it’s something our brain creates when mixing equal parts blue and red…got me thinking that when we hold the tension of the opposites we create a third thing in which both things are true. I love this episode thank you 🙏
❤ When walking down a dark street with the rain coming through my shirt. I have found myself singing just that word. Over and over till I remember that wonderful movie. I'M DANCING IN 🕺 THE RAIN. and Life is but a Dream 🙏
Thank you, Adam Elenbaas, for another brilliant video! The way you use Hellenistic astrology to explain the deeper spiritual themes of this Mercury-Jupiter opposition is so inspiring. I’m grateful for how you make these complex ideas accessible and meaningful. This was just what I needed today!
Someone said (obviously, I can't remember who) that the ability to live with the tension of ambiguity was a major condition of maturity. This "two things true" ideas has been central to my thinking for the past couple decades. I can confidently say that every major spiritual or psychological concept is involved in a dialectic where two things are true at the same time that cannot be true at the same time ( if viewed from a limited perspective). For one tiny example, we are perfect, loved and loveable and must accept ourselves exactly as we are AND much improvement is clearly needed. Haven't listened to Adams list yet, but can't wait. Btw, I have Sag AC, Jupiter opposite Gemini DC Venus/Uranus. Also Aquarius 3 Moon opposite Leo 9 Mars/Saturn/Pluto. These form a rectangle.
Another symptom of the inability to hold opposites that I can identify in myself is anxiety-when one ‘side’ must be exclusively true, otherwise my worldview or sense of self feels like it’s being destroyed or attacked. I can still be BOTH a good person AND not totally be right!
Fabulous exploration Adam! Almost a sermon, in fact it should be in every religious congregation. People need to be propelled into deeper thought about the lives we live and share here in this time. Awareness and holding the tension sometimes,...might advance our evolution individually and communally, creation yet unfolding. Thanks so much for your soul-fuel.
Incredible analysis, Adam! Your take on Hellenistic astrology and how it reflects in our spiritual journey is so enlightening. Watching this, I feel like I'm gaining new tools to navigate the complexities of life. Thank you for guiding us through Mercury and Jupiter's dance - I really feel empowered by your insights!
This hit deeply I have this in my 1st/7 th house w natal mercury in sag . I fell in love with this guy and we are complete opposites and he has come and gone very quickly and I’m convinced he has avoidant attachment. As soon as we get close he runs and I don’t exist then two months later he comes back etc . This has been very painful. Obviously I’m trying to let go as there is nothing I can do but let go. Ultimately, it has led me to come in terms with my own self worth and values as it ripped open my deep wounds. I have been trying to have faith there is a bigger scheme for all of this to unfold in a way that can be healed
Ahh, the paradox of the human condition. One of my favorite musical poets, Jimmy Buffett, from He Went to Paris summed it up at the end of the song…”some of it's magic, some of it's tragic, but I had a good life all the way.” The paradox is at the core of the human experience. It is the both/and of it all. Thanks for keeping it real!
Love this talk! This same understanding led me to one of the most profound realizations I have had; that oppositions or problems are never resolved, but rather, transcended. This is kind of like shifting the duality from horizontal to vertical. So… for example - not sure these are great examples, but I’ll try - instead of saying that fiscally conservative and fiscally liberal are opposites, see that these are attempts to control something through money. What are you trying to control? Is money the most appropriate tool or context for that concern? Or another example, instead of saying that heterosexual and homosexual are opposites, realize they’re both sexual and can be seen as part of the broad experience of humanity. Also, shifting from polarity to looking at qualities along a spectrum from one pole to the other can be quite enlightening. Anyway, thank you for yet another important talk!
Adam Elenbaas, thank you for such an insightful exploration of Mercury and Jupiter in mutual reception! I love how you blend Hellenistic astrology with modern spirituality, bringing ancient wisdom into our lives today. This discussion reminded me that in astrology, just like in life, two things can truly be true at once. 🙏✨
This gave me so much peace that I have desperately needed recently. I am so grateful for you and the community you have built here. Thank you for your work 🧡
Listened to Josh’s The Emerald podcast about justice and it was so poignant! Thank you for that connection. I have mercury opposite jupiter in my natal chart that forms the long axis of a kite formation. I crash 🪁 kites at the beach in the wind all the time!! This is not a gentle rudder to master but it’s one that recently I have focused in on to maintain trying to keep aloft. Love love love this presentation today Adam. I don’t thank you enough for your balanced philosophies and thoughtfulness in sharing and teaching astrology. You are such a voice of reason in all the lo here and lo there 🌟🙌
Wonderful post! I was thinking that all polarities spin around a share "tertium quid" Eg: 1. "Ought" lies behind Justice--unfairness; 2. "Trust" lies behind both suffering - transcendence. 3. "Consciousness" lies behind both Resilience and Sensitivity. 4. "Agency" lies behind Fate - Free will. 5. "My freedom" lies between Independence -- Surrender. 6. "Will" lies between Control -- Surrender. " 7. "Import or meaning" (does it matter?) lies between Nothing --Lots at Stake. 8. "Accountability" lies between MY fault -- Yours. 9. "Judgment" lies behind Good and Bad. “Being” lies behind Oneness and Duality. Perhaps these underlying concepts/assumptions are at the core of being human? (Sorry, ignore strikeovers! Weird.)
I appreciate seeing and viewing life with different perceptions. Acceptance without judgment invites a love based focus when it is a happening in my unfoldment. In my life dark night of the soul hiccups haven't been designed for ease. I love it that there is always one more step with the knowing journey.
23:30 This point has had a huge place of importance in my life recently-- about learning how to see the cruelty I've experienced as something to be gentle with myself instead of bypassing my feelings like I've been taught. Thanks, Adam.
I was watching half a video then stopped to record a video about random banking thoughts and I talked of me doing the maslaw pyramid upside down during pluto Capricorn and later learning on Victor Frankel- then I release, continue watching you and Victor Frankel is the next line or so. Powerful synch for me.
I was meditating on this topic the other day and I came up with the metaphor of fractals. Jupiter is zooming out, putting all the fractals in greater perspective. Mercury is zooming in to the infinite unfolding inward.
Thank you, Adam!❤ 🙏🏾I think we can all use some encouragement in exercising and stretching our minds beyond black and white polarity thinking in these complex times!
Enriching talk. For me, part of the search for truth was, how did I create all this bad karma I was born into, in a past life. Helping to take some responsibility for being born into an unloving family. This reminded me of ACIM, in it's intro, says there is not only one true religion, but as many paths to God as there are people. It's very specific about that. I fell in love with it. The energy of it goes way beyond words for me. Words can create more understanding, or separation. Violence is usually separating. Hoping for the most peaceful transfer of power possible. I'm having Mercury, and Venus return, with them in 8 and 20 degrees Sag. It feels pretty positive. Then, I got into a quagmire over my solar return, on Thursday. Date wise, it is, but if I was born at 15 ° Scorpio, I'm also watching for that, because I don't think it always happens on the same day every year. So, maybe an excuse to celebrate twice. Ha ha. Hope everyone has a great week. At least the election will soon be over. It has been intense. Thanks for everything U do. It really helps alot of people. Take care! 💙💜🇺🇸💜🐱💙🌹🐼🎃😊🐾
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. That was my thought while listening to you and pondering the mutual reception. You are a Contemplative and I greatly appreciate your offerings, you are a Blessing!
Only in a given situation where everything becomes doubtful could some level of certainty be achieved .. thank you being a guide towards that paradoxical point Adam
I don't think "soldiers marching through life" is actual resilience. That is just suppression. Real resilience is dynamic & includes time for processing emotions. It just doesn't prioritize emotional hurt above everything else.
Maybe...but thanks to soldiers putting aside emotions and simply carrying on World War Two was brought to an end and Hitler stopped...so again two things can be true, and I also agree with what you've shared here! I just dont think one thing cancels out the other.
LOVE this talk!!! Thank you!!! I was just expressing similar ideas the past few days regarding the liminal space of the figure 8 and holding space between two opposites. I have a lot off oppositions in my chart as well as Libra placements so maybe I have been practicing this in this life, but I just wanted to say again, I LOVE THIS TALK!!!
Wow. This was an amazing video. Thank you thank you thank you! Absolutely love thought exercises like this, and so much of it rang true!!! Literally felt my brain go ‼️‼️‼️ on the third point, haha!!
On the opposite end of the spectrum from humility in the equation of fault and blame is, in my opinion, forgiveness. It's like chicken sometimes, who's going to be the one to swallow their pride and say "I'm sorry" or "it's ok, I forgive you." I feel like holding the tension is being able to truly forgive, to apologize and trust that people will be held accountable by karma. That very rarely do I have to be the hand of judgement.
I've written this in the comments in the past when Adam spoke about the tension of opposites, but a great lecture from Iain McGilchrist entitled "The Coincidence of Opposites" on RUclips that can be found here: ruclips.net/video/N4AFdNxLmb4/видео.html I listen to it a couple times a year just to keep reminding myself about this fundamental truth. (The actual lecture is just under an hour, the rest is an introduction and a Q & A.)
Gretchen Rubin, author who does a lot of research, talks about this concept of 2 things seeming to be opposite and also true. She might have information on the origin of the idea.
My solar return chart for me while in a 4thH year, Gemini with Mercury as my time lord. My theme for the year, two things can be true. Should be an interesting year😊 Thank you for this great info 🙏
Jupiter in Gemini in the 9th…both can be true is one of my life mottos. Haha, but Pluto in Libra in the 1st makes me RIGHT about whatever balance I see. 😂
Adam “two things can be true” sounds to have its roots in Marxist philosophy called Dialectics. Dialectics are now an important component of certain therapies that emphasize working with people who can get highly polarized and impulsive. I was a dialectical behavioral therapist and teacher for 15 years and teaching dialects is super important for helping us address our internal complexities. Hope that little nugget of info is useful.
@LaurenCecilia722 i would say it's the opposite, that dialectics have their roots in Hermes...because everything I've presented in today's talk, philosophically speaking, predates Marxism and dialectics by literally thousands of years...its as ancient as Taoism and Hermeticism, as old as Pythagoras and the yogis, etc...not that other schools haven't worked with the same or similar ideas about opposites...its just important to note that this philosophical tension is archetypal and therefore it's roots are very ancient within astrological thinking about planets...
If I may note: - the opposition with Mercury creates a certain communication tension, often due to different viewing perspectives. I think the key problem here is not misunderstanding, but beliefs that have shaped certain attitudes that a person adheres to; people speak based on their beliefs, quite often. In this direction, the questioning of one's own beliefs is significant, as well as the "mental model" that a person uses. I will also mention here that we do not all have the same "mental filters" when it comes to beliefs or convictions. It is basic for someone to believe in karma, a cause-and-effect sequence... someone believes in coincidence, someone in synchronicity, someone in God and justice and someone in nothing - which is very impressive, actually. - secondly, we deal with concepts about which we have an idea, but we have no clear experience. For example: if someone believes in karma, then tell me something about your past life ..and then we are on thin ice. I admit, too, that there are experiences for which there is no adequate word in the dictionary; indescribable experiences.. - there is also a "mind game" when we think that our thoughts are correct and that our observations based on senses and beliefs give an accurate interpretation of events, life, etc. We forget that everything is actually just our interpretation. We don't see reality as it is, we see our interpretation of reality. Example: I knew and often talked with a man, very broad erudite knowledge, politically active, very well-read, very sensitive... He filtered all content through "conspiracy theory". Very selective in mental perception, very deep in experiencing. - I love the opposition in the chart between the planets, there is some strength in that connection that separates and at the same time the separation that unites. Also, I think the opposition is doing the strongest extension. I feel that the planet uses the "strongest force" in opposition and can definitely go the farthest.. - in conclusion: mind and thoughts create reality. Where focus goes, energy goes. In the not so distant future, people will create material things with their thoughts without using their hands. - this is summarized although it seems extensive - And, thank you!I love your point of view, as always.
the kind of tonic we need for our time, or any. it's what Jung praised in the mind that can lovingly hold the tensions of paradox. we find it above all in poetry, perhaps the most denigrated mode of thinking and creating in our era of hyperbranded fanaticisms.
Pausing to take notes after your awesome breakdown of Mercury and Jupiter. I'm curious to track this transit because as Mercury ingess in Sag is directly opposed my Sun; While Jupiter Rx is conjuncting my natal Mercury! I'm wondering how this is and will affect my intense search for a specific used car to use for Rideshare And my ex cutting me off from our settlement agreement because he has decided to simply stop working and because of he is 64 years old I have no legal leg to stand on and at 62:I Have to find a car so I can do Rideshare to pay my Rent. Crazy time for sure, but at least I'm now clear about where I stand. I just Can't seem to find the car though!!! I want one of those affordable readings right about now! 😅
Any girls bron with Moon in Aries? This is Marsian femininity that in my culture ( growing up in post communist Poland where the grandparents lived through both World wars) was beaten and forced out of me yet I blazed my own trail in life.
Opposites = Polarity, do we use the opposing perspectives to strengthen plans because we value learning for each other and this supports trust building? Or Duality, Do we use opposing perspectives to separate because an opposite view is weaponized and framed as an enemy that cannot trusted? When all choices presented are more about control environment than a trust environment than it is not truly an opposite perspectives, just variables of a control environment
We are all sinners and some are more than others. Some are more by a lot. We are all sinners and we still have the right to hold accountable those who fuck up Some people are very comfortable in their dark side and use it to manipulate others acting as if they're more honest than those who chose to do the right thing most of the time. Many people don't trust those who do good most of the time and see it as not human unless you show some imperfection. And, many good people feel pressured to meet that expectation and do or say things thay don't want to in order to appear "more sincere and authentic." People can take any ideology to extremes.
Sensitive vs resilient people are not necessarily on the opposite spectrum. For instance, workaholic is an addict motivated by desire for power or money, often time at the expense of the well-being. Similarly machoistic people drive pleasure out of abusing their bodies. Spanking is painful, but not really 😂 Gym rat is working hard, but not really. Having fun is unpleasant for workaholic. True suffering is slow , consistent and often goes on for decades and is actually life transforming. And it's also unpleasant. It's plutonian. Like you said , it bring you down to your knees, shatter your ego and force you to change at your very core. In a way, human life is about experiencing such transformations.
Hate and love.. I think of things as two sides of the same coin a lot.. things can be different expressions of the same energy too I suppose.. like an engine running vs an explosion.. they are the same but different..
Dialectical behavior therapy is based on working with opposites and polarized thinking, that two opposing realities can be true. ☯️
Yes!!!! I’ve been saying “two things can be true” (both to myself and to others) very frequently since doing DBT, loved seeing Adam talk about it :)
Amazing. Thank you, Adam. Like going to church, but in a good way. I’m enriched by your perspective every day. 🙏
“Both/And” was one of the most important values I experienced from the (very open) seminary I attended.
IMO, it’s our responsibility as spiritual shamans and counselors to invite this kind of thinking and culture into astrology. Thanks for your leadership in this regard Adam!
Wow, this post is just the medicine I needed! Adam, thank you for your enlightening discourse on polarity. The timing is perfect as I wrestle with the dichotomy of life. No accidents here, I'm so grateful the universe is providing divine guidance and inspiration during this tumultuous time. I'm humbled to be a one of your beginner students.
A friend of mine told me recently that purple doesn’t exist on the light spectrum that it’s something our brain creates when mixing equal parts blue and red…got me thinking that when we hold the tension of the opposites we create a third thing in which both things are true. I love this episode thank you 🙏
“…you can’t take away my hallelujah!” Amen!
❤ When walking down a dark street with the rain coming through my shirt. I have found myself singing just that word. Over and over till I remember that wonderful movie.
I'M DANCING IN 🕺 THE RAIN.
and Life is but a Dream 🙏
Thank you, Adam Elenbaas, for another brilliant video! The way you use Hellenistic astrology to explain the deeper spiritual themes of this Mercury-Jupiter opposition is so inspiring. I’m grateful for how you make these complex ideas accessible and meaningful. This was just what I needed today!
Someone said (obviously, I can't remember who) that the ability to live with the tension of ambiguity was a major condition of maturity. This "two things true" ideas has been central to my thinking for the past couple decades. I can confidently say that every major spiritual or psychological concept is involved in a dialectic where two things are true at the same time that cannot be true at the same time ( if viewed from a limited perspective). For one tiny example, we are perfect, loved and loveable and must accept ourselves exactly as we are AND much improvement is clearly needed. Haven't listened to Adams list yet, but can't wait. Btw, I have Sag AC, Jupiter opposite Gemini DC Venus/Uranus. Also Aquarius 3 Moon opposite Leo 9 Mars/Saturn/Pluto. These form a rectangle.
Another symptom of the inability to hold opposites that I can identify in myself is anxiety-when one ‘side’ must be exclusively true, otherwise my worldview or sense of self feels like it’s being destroyed or attacked. I can still be BOTH a good person AND not totally be right!
#6 and the balance is where my creativity thrives
Fabulous exploration Adam! Almost a sermon, in fact it should be in every religious congregation. People need to be propelled into deeper thought about the lives we live and share here in this time. Awareness and holding the tension sometimes,...might advance our evolution individually and communally, creation yet unfolding. Thanks so much for your soul-fuel.
Adam, this talk is just brilliant, deep and full of compassion for a human experience. At 27:05 your observation moved me to tears. Thank you 🙏🏻 ❤❤❤
Incredible analysis, Adam! Your take on Hellenistic astrology and how it reflects in our spiritual journey is so enlightening. Watching this, I feel like I'm gaining new tools to navigate the complexities of life. Thank you for guiding us through Mercury and Jupiter's dance - I really feel empowered by your insights!
Yes Bruna! Totally agree. I love the meditation part of the talk
so glad this is already up, my body won’t sleep the extra hour 😅. And a longer one for the xtra time I have ❤
This hit deeply I have this in my 1st/7 th house w natal mercury in sag . I fell in love with this guy and we are complete opposites and he has come and gone very quickly and I’m convinced he has avoidant attachment. As soon as we get close he runs and I don’t exist then two months later he comes back etc . This has been very painful. Obviously I’m trying to let go as there is nothing I can do but let go. Ultimately, it has led me to come in terms with my own self worth and values as it ripped open my deep wounds. I have been trying to have faith there is a bigger scheme for all of this to unfold in a way that can be healed
this guy is at the end of a Pluto Quincux Venus transit. He also have Venus square Pluto natal. Ughhhhh
You don't lose by loving, you *let yourself go* by loving.
Ahh, the paradox of the human condition. One of my favorite musical poets, Jimmy Buffett, from He Went to Paris summed it up at the end of the song…”some of it's magic, some of it's tragic, but I had a good life all the way.” The paradox is at the core of the human experience. It is the both/and of it all. Thanks for keeping it real!
Very exceptional 😊
Love this talk!
This same understanding led me to one of the most profound realizations I have had; that oppositions or problems are never resolved, but rather, transcended. This is kind of like shifting the duality from horizontal to vertical. So… for example - not sure these are great examples, but I’ll try - instead of saying that fiscally conservative and fiscally liberal are opposites, see that these are attempts to control something through money. What are you trying to control? Is money the most appropriate tool or context for that concern? Or another example, instead of saying that heterosexual and homosexual are opposites, realize they’re both sexual and can be seen as part of the broad experience of humanity. Also, shifting from polarity to looking at qualities along a spectrum from one pole to the other can be quite enlightening.
Anyway, thank you for yet another important talk!
Adam Elenbaas, thank you for such an insightful exploration of Mercury and Jupiter in mutual reception! I love how you blend Hellenistic astrology with modern spirituality, bringing ancient wisdom into our lives today. This discussion reminded me that in astrology, just like in life, two things can truly be true at once. 🙏✨
I love that!
So good!
This gave me so much peace that I have desperately needed recently. I am so grateful for you and the community you have built here. Thank you for your work 🧡
Listened to Josh’s The Emerald podcast about justice and it was so poignant! Thank you for that connection. I have mercury opposite jupiter in my natal chart that forms the long axis of a kite formation. I crash 🪁 kites at the beach in the wind all the time!! This is not a gentle rudder to master but it’s one that recently I have focused in on to maintain trying to keep aloft. Love love love this presentation today Adam. I don’t thank you enough for your balanced philosophies and thoughtfulness in sharing and teaching astrology. You are such a voice of reason in all the lo here and lo there 🌟🙌
Wonderful post! I was thinking that all polarities spin around a share "tertium quid" Eg: 1. "Ought" lies behind Justice--unfairness; 2. "Trust" lies behind both suffering - transcendence. 3. "Consciousness" lies behind both Resilience and Sensitivity. 4. "Agency" lies behind Fate - Free will. 5. "My freedom" lies between Independence -- Surrender. 6. "Will" lies between Control -- Surrender. " 7. "Import or meaning" (does it matter?) lies between Nothing --Lots at Stake. 8. "Accountability" lies between MY fault -- Yours. 9. "Judgment" lies behind Good and Bad. “Being” lies behind Oneness and Duality. Perhaps these underlying concepts/assumptions are at the core of being human? (Sorry, ignore strikeovers! Weird.)
I appreciate seeing and viewing life with different perceptions. Acceptance without judgment invites a love based focus when it is a happening in my unfoldment. In my life dark night of the soul hiccups haven't been designed for ease. I love it that there is always one more step with the knowing journey.
23:30 This point has had a huge place of importance in my life recently-- about learning how to see the cruelty I've experienced as something to be gentle with myself instead of bypassing my feelings like I've been taught. Thanks, Adam.
Year one is a phenomenal course. Highly recommended!! I did year one and year two and Adam and his team are amazing instructors. Well done
thank you Adam for posting early 🎉❤
His dog woke him early too 😂
I was watching half a video then stopped to record a video about random banking thoughts and I talked of me doing the maslaw pyramid upside down during pluto Capricorn and later learning on Victor Frankel- then I release, continue watching you and Victor Frankel is the next line or so. Powerful synch for me.
This was amazing! I cannot wait until your course starts as I finally signed up after contemplating taking it for years!
I was meditating on this topic the other day and I came up with the metaphor of fractals. Jupiter is zooming out, putting all the fractals in greater perspective. Mercury is zooming in to the infinite unfolding inward.
Thank you, Adam!❤ 🙏🏾I think we can all use some encouragement in exercising and stretching our minds beyond black and white polarity thinking in these complex times!
Enriching talk. For me, part of the search for truth was, how did I create all this bad karma I was born into, in a past life. Helping to take some responsibility for being born into an unloving family.
This reminded me of ACIM, in it's intro, says there is not only one true religion, but as many paths to God as there are people. It's very specific about that. I fell in love with it. The energy of it goes way beyond words for me. Words can create more understanding, or separation. Violence is usually separating. Hoping for the most peaceful transfer of power possible. I'm having Mercury, and Venus return, with them in 8 and 20 degrees Sag. It feels pretty positive. Then, I got into a quagmire over my solar return, on Thursday. Date wise, it is, but if I was born at 15 ° Scorpio, I'm also watching for that, because I don't think it always happens on the same day every year. So, maybe an excuse to celebrate twice. Ha ha. Hope everyone has a great week. At least the election will soon be over. It has been intense. Thanks for everything U do. It really helps alot of people. Take care! 💙💜🇺🇸💜🐱💙🌹🐼🎃😊🐾
My Jupiter return is underway … gemini 19 degrees. I’m expecting some good things from all of this.!!!
Thank you for the vast, profound enrichment you bring into every day of the mundane existence.
You’re speaking my language as a fellow Natal Mercury in Sagittarius. Attachment and letting go are part of the rhythm that propels a life to balance.
Absolutely brilliant... the dance of Mercury and Jupiter as rulers of the Pisces Virgo when the Nodes move in January.
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. That was my thought while listening to you and pondering the mutual reception.
You are a Contemplative and I greatly appreciate your offerings, you are a Blessing!
For some reason the second you said “mutual reception by opposition” the very first thing that came to mind was the movie Freaky Friday
Two things can be true...both candidates will promise you things, and both candidates are lying.😂😂
Two wings of the same bird 😂
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Is this about the bird mites that are puppeteering again?😂
Haha exactly
😂😂😂
Expecting the universe to be just in terms as humans think of is quite a disempowering thought, in my opinion.
00:40 ❤ I own that Coffee ☕️ Cup. A great 👍 way to start your day.
Still have it sense 1980. It Will Servive and so shall I. 😊
Adam, you have a beautiful heart and such a loving way of expressing yourself. Grateful for you.
Only in a given situation where everything becomes doubtful could some level of certainty be achieved .. thank you being a guide towards that paradoxical point Adam
thank you Adam for posting early 🎉❤ shout out to sky house herbz !
Not sure when, but thinking about you and wishing you peace and surrender while your dad goes into surgery!
I don't think "soldiers marching through life" is actual resilience. That is just suppression. Real resilience is dynamic & includes time for processing emotions. It just doesn't prioritize emotional hurt above everything else.
Maybe...but thanks to soldiers putting aside emotions and simply carrying on World War Two was brought to an end and Hitler stopped...so again two things can be true, and I also agree with what you've shared here! I just dont think one thing cancels out the other.
LOVE this talk!!! Thank you!!! I was just expressing similar ideas the past few days regarding the liminal space of the figure 8 and holding space between two opposites. I have a lot off oppositions in my chart as well as Libra placements so maybe I have been practicing this in this life, but I just wanted to say again, I LOVE THIS TALK!!!
Wow. This was an amazing video. Thank you thank you thank you! Absolutely love thought exercises like this, and so much of it rang true!!! Literally felt my brain go ‼️‼️‼️ on the third point, haha!!
What a treat for my birthday. Thank you 🙏
Happy birthday 🎉
2 thoughts: "things can be two things" and Kahlil gibran "on joy and sorrow"
On the opposite end of the spectrum from humility in the equation of fault and blame is, in my opinion, forgiveness. It's like chicken sometimes, who's going to be the one to swallow their pride and say "I'm sorry" or "it's ok, I forgive you." I feel like holding the tension is being able to truly forgive, to apologize and trust that people will be held accountable by karma. That very rarely do I have to be the hand of judgement.
I've written this in the comments in the past when Adam spoke about the tension of opposites, but a great lecture from Iain McGilchrist entitled "The Coincidence of Opposites" on RUclips that can be found here: ruclips.net/video/N4AFdNxLmb4/видео.html I listen to it a couple times a year just to keep reminding myself about this fundamental truth. (The actual lecture is just under an hour, the rest is an introduction and a Q & A.)
❤excellent..playing with the opposition..as a ♐ rising jupiter is too jolly for its own sunny self😂
Gretchen Rubin, author who does a lot of research, talks about this concept of 2 things seeming to be opposite and also true. She might have information on the origin of the idea.
Very clever and profound ideas, thank you.
My solar return chart for me while in a 4thH year, Gemini with Mercury as my time lord. My theme for the year, two things can be true. Should be an interesting year😊 Thank you for this great info 🙏
Jupiter in Gemini in the 9th…both can be true is one of my life mottos. Haha, but Pluto in Libra in the 1st makes me RIGHT about whatever balance I see. 😂
literally my natal mercury & jupiter. i already know this will hit something in me 😖
Fascinating talk, thank you 🤗🙏🏻💚
Adam “two things can be true” sounds to have its roots in Marxist philosophy called Dialectics. Dialectics are now an important component of certain therapies that emphasize working with people who can get highly polarized and impulsive. I was a dialectical behavioral therapist and teacher for 15 years and teaching dialects is super important for helping us address our internal complexities. Hope that little nugget of info is useful.
@LaurenCecilia722 i would say it's the opposite, that dialectics have their roots in Hermes...because everything I've presented in today's talk, philosophically speaking, predates Marxism and dialectics by literally thousands of years...its as ancient as Taoism and Hermeticism, as old as Pythagoras and the yogis, etc...not that other schools haven't worked with the same or similar ideas about opposites...its just important to note that this philosophical tension is archetypal and therefore it's roots are very ancient within astrological thinking about planets...
Great talk! Love the dress shirt, looks nice!
26:59 theodicy.. I like the song.. joy is my armor.. Albert something
If I may note:
- the opposition with Mercury creates a certain communication tension, often due to different viewing perspectives. I think the key problem here is not misunderstanding, but beliefs that have shaped certain attitudes that a person adheres to; people speak based on their beliefs, quite often. In this direction, the questioning of one's own beliefs is significant, as well as the "mental model" that a person uses. I will also mention here that we do not all have the same "mental filters" when it comes to beliefs or convictions. It is basic for someone to believe in karma, a cause-and-effect sequence... someone believes in coincidence, someone in synchronicity, someone in God and justice and someone in nothing - which is very impressive, actually.
- secondly, we deal with concepts about which we have an idea, but we have no clear experience. For example: if someone believes in karma, then tell me something about your past life ..and then we are on thin ice. I admit, too, that there are experiences for which there is no adequate word in the dictionary; indescribable experiences..
- there is also a "mind game" when we think that our thoughts are correct and that our observations based on senses and beliefs give an accurate interpretation of events, life, etc.
We forget that everything is actually just our interpretation. We don't see reality as it is, we see our interpretation of reality.
Example: I knew and often talked with a man, very broad erudite knowledge, politically active, very well-read, very sensitive... He filtered all content through "conspiracy theory". Very selective in mental perception, very deep in experiencing.
- I love the opposition in the chart between the planets, there is some strength in that connection that separates and at the same time the separation that unites.
Also, I think the opposition is doing the strongest extension. I feel that the planet uses the "strongest force" in opposition and can definitely go the farthest..
- in conclusion: mind and thoughts create reality. Where focus goes, energy goes.
In the not so distant future, people will create material things with their thoughts without using their hands.
- this is summarized although it seems extensive -
And, thank you!I love your point of view, as always.
the kind of tonic we need for our time, or any. it's what Jung praised in the mind that can lovingly hold the tensions of paradox. we find it above all in poetry, perhaps the most denigrated mode of thinking and creating in our era of hyperbranded fanaticisms.
Very profound and timeous... Especially wrt war...
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25:59. Best to remember friend…
Those sufferings? All because I like or do not like. Pretty personal
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Brilliant!
❤Good morning. Thanks so much
Thank you
Thank you for the video Adam. PS. When you say ripe division "at least in the recent history" do you mean starting from the Civil war? 🤔😁
Thanks.
Pausing to take notes after your awesome breakdown of Mercury and Jupiter. I'm curious to track this transit because as Mercury ingess in Sag is directly opposed my Sun; While Jupiter Rx is conjuncting my natal Mercury! I'm wondering how this is and will affect my intense search for a specific used car to use for Rideshare And my ex cutting me off from our settlement agreement because he has decided to simply stop working and because of he is 64 years old I have no legal leg to stand on and at 62:I Have to find a car so I can do Rideshare to pay my Rent. Crazy time for sure, but at least I'm now clear about where I stand. I just Can't seem to find the car though!!! I want one of those affordable readings right about now! 😅
Any girls bron with Moon in Aries? This is Marsian femininity that in my culture ( growing up in post communist Poland where the grandparents lived through both World wars) was beaten and forced out of me yet I blazed my own trail in life.
Opposites = Polarity, do we use the opposing perspectives to strengthen plans because we value learning for each other and this supports trust building? Or Duality, Do we use opposing perspectives to separate because an opposite view is weaponized and framed as an enemy that cannot trusted?
When all choices presented are more about control environment than a trust environment than it is not truly an opposite perspectives, just variables of a control environment
We are all sinners and some are more than others. Some are more by a lot.
We are all sinners and we still have the right to hold accountable those who fuck up
Some people are very comfortable in their dark side and use it to manipulate others acting as if they're more honest than those who chose to do the right thing most of the time.
Many people don't trust those who do good most of the time and see it as not human unless you show some imperfection. And, many good people feel pressured to meet that expectation and do or say things thay don't want to in order to appear "more sincere and authentic." People can take any ideology to extremes.
haha i always say "not only but also!"
Most of The Emerald seems to no longer be on RUclips unfortunately 😢
Sensitive vs resilient people are not necessarily on the opposite spectrum.
For instance, workaholic is an addict motivated by desire for power or money, often time at the expense of the well-being. Similarly machoistic people drive pleasure out of abusing their bodies. Spanking is painful, but not really 😂
Gym rat is working hard, but not really.
Having fun is unpleasant for workaholic.
True suffering is slow , consistent and often goes on for decades and is actually life transforming. And it's also unpleasant. It's plutonian. Like you said , it bring you down to your knees, shatter your ego and force you to change at your very core.
In a way, human life is about experiencing such transformations.
Hate and love.. I think of things as two sides of the same coin a lot.. things can be different expressions of the same energy too I suppose.. like an engine running vs an explosion.. they are the same but different..
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