07-23-2010, 10:59 PM
(07-23-2010, 10:52 PM)Questioner Wrote: Aaron, thanks for the idea. I'll let it go for now, because I can't concisely summarize what I meant and I don't want to take a long detour into astrology while discussing the Enneagram. Astrology threads occasionally show up here and tend to fizzle out quickly. If I see an appropriate place to reuse my Aquarius concept, I'll do so but I think it would be necessary for me to rewrite it in a much clearer way. I don't have comparable concepts for other astrology signs, so there might not be much to say there anyway.
I agree that a digression into astrology can bring in various distortions upon the essential theme of this thread. But it could be useful to be flexible. For instance, I see a close correlation between the Tarot and the Enneagram. I do not refer to the Tarot here as an astrological widget; but as a means of studying individual polarity within a matrix. From what I have read so far from you, the Enneagram too appears to faintly delineate a 'right hand' path or the 'left hand' path (in short - the two essential polarities of the current matrix).
My point is that let us not predetermine to include or leave anything out. We will stick to the trunk, but if the branches sprout into unexpected directions, let us not be too hasty into pruning it. The view from anyone of those branches could finally prove to be breathtaking.