My Sun-Mercury-Saturn in Gemini and Moon in Capricorn frequently struggle to understand insanity. I don’t mean clinical insanity (though maybe it’s not exempt!), but the calculated insanity imposed upon moderate people — crazy-makers, rather than crazy people per se. Just look at all the loonies shouting and crying out against Obama’s ‘death panels’ and ’socialism’. [...]
Archive for the ‘Perception’ Category
The mad woman leaves the attic
Posted in Astrology, Buddhism, Perception, Responsibility, Thinking, tagged madness, reason, Saturn-Uranus opposition on 1 October 2009 | 6 Comments »
Projection: Who I’m not
Posted in Astrology, Awareness, Buddhism, Perception, tagged conversation, projection, speech, Venus on 10 May 2009 | 4 Comments »
In a moment of synchronicity, I read Julie Demboski’s take on ‘Receiving Venus’ very shortly after having one of my impossible conversations with the Mercury in Virgo person (hereafter known as ‘MV’) in my life, though I didn’t allow it to escalate this time.
His Venus falls in my 7th house (as does mine, so [...]
Invisibility vs. transparency
Posted in Awareness, Perception, tagged invisibility, psychotherapy, Sheldon Kopp, transparency on 1 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Emerging from my recent musings about invisibility, it occurred to me that there is an important distinction between invisibility and transparency. While the invisible object cannot be seen, the transparent object can be clearly discerned, even as it is looked through. Glass is transparent, as is water. Air is invisible. You can walk through [...]
Adventures of the Invisible Girl
Posted in Astrology, Perception, Thinking, tagged invisibility, projection on 25 March 2009 | 2 Comments »
While I’m still mulling over issues of projection, I thought I would try and make some sense of my apparent invisibility. I mentioned this once to Mercury in Virgo (MV, from now), that I often felt like I was an understudy for a role I didn’t ask to play. He retorted by saying that I [...]
Now you see me, now you don’t
Posted in Astrology, Perception, Thinking, tagged Neptune, Venus on 13 March 2009 | 3 Comments »
One of the reasons I really like Elsa P’s blog is that she relates aspects in the natal chart very directly and pithily to human behaviour. She writes quite a bit on Neptune aspects which I find fascinating and illuminating. Neptune is in my 12th house and often I find that I can’t quite get [...]
Mirror science
Posted in Perception, tagged mirror on 28 July 2008 | 2 Comments »
Following my two earlier posts about mirrors (here and here), I read with much interest this article from the New York Times discussing the scientific basis of perception distortions generated by mirrors. Here are some extracts:
To scientists, the simultaneous simplicity and complexity of mirrors make them powerful tools for exploring questions about perception [...]
Mirror-image twins
Posted in Astrology, Perception, tagged mirror, mirror-image twins, Picasso on 9 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I had lunch with a friend today and discovered for the first time that she is one half of a mirror-image twin. I’d never heard of the phenomenon before. She says that they are basically mirror images of each other.
Apparently it occurs when the embryo splits really late in the cycle and produces two [...]
Mirror, mirror, on the wall…
Posted in Ego, Perception, Poetry, Practice, Zen, tagged mirror, projection on 6 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I finally bought a mirror yesterday after three months of moving into my new flat. I remarked to a friend that living without a mirror has been a good exercise in ego reflection, and although I’d meant it as a joke, it made me think about mirrors, and ego reflections.
Mirrors are funny things, [...]
A question of perspective
Posted in Perception, tagged perspective, sight, the 14th Dalai Lama, visual regimes on 29 October 2007 | 2 Comments »
I was teaching about the cultural implications of visual perspective recently and how the perception, and expectation, of visual perspective locks the spectator into a particular mode of seeing.
