Amazing.

Thanks

how can anyone NOT?

@@RadioPsychicAstrologyByPepper absolutely xxx

Hi Diana, Aristophanes' drunken speech in the Symposium is a satirical jumping off point for Socrates' final speech. People commonly misread Plato on this issue...Socrates' view of love is the one that wins...whereas all others present eventually fall asleep in their drunkenness, he is still awake!

I'll go ahead to Marsilio Ficino's commentary; but I trust an argument has not yet been made against faith and love, let alone a satirical one. :) I myself have vehemently defied the "twin flame" concept (of which I wasn't even aware), yet I simply had no choice but surrender. The signs were mounting and synchronicities abound; I even spontaneously quit drinking in the process, which had proved impossible to me before. Finally, I've no romantic delusions or practical expectations whatever - the man is dying and largely irresponsive to me. It's an entirely intimate process, indistinguishable from a religious one. I never fathomed I could write poetry before, and by no means do I flatter myself, but my poems are eerily resemblant of Rumi, and sometimes I've repeated him almost verbatim, prior to reading him.

@@softseagreens the Bhakti tradition I practice sees the original twin flame as Radha and Krishna! The goal of Bhakti is to learn to be a servant of that relationship...so you're in good company...I think the idea of twin flames is deeply meaningful regardless of whether or not it is literal! Ficino is great! He did so much to revive the ancient emphasis on the love of God that was present in both Plato and Hermeticism!

First of all, thanks for responding! My spiritual life had completely stagnated, and this "twin flame" connection, whether real or imagined (I feel human mind is too weak to tell a difference), has set in on fire. I have yet so much to learn, and Indian philosophy is another universe in its own - but you're wise to direct me there - isn't it the origin of our entire culture. So, I am to reconnect with the flame in me. I feel that, anyway, we're merely vessels of divine love in order for her to recognise herself/himself/itself. Only in that we're awfully important. It's all about self-love, but ultimately, that's about just Love - a thought enough to give us all the peace of mind we need. I'm a bit of a rebel, and like Jiddu Krishnamurti says, to have an authority is the most vile and ungodly thing (to paraphrase), so to trust one's own intuition is crucial - but once that's clear, it's a vast world of learning. You've given me a useful direction to inquire into the Bhakti tradition. Indeed, Indian philosophy might be where my concept of interest finds clarity, and not Plato. On a personal note, my spiritual stagnation has had to do with a brooding, overbearing Capricorn mother whom I had the duty to not just overthrow - I think she really might mean well, and is unable to tackle her issues. So, this Venus in Aries squaring the nodes has been important to me. First, in releasing a fire through Mars that was conjunct my NN when I unashamedly plastered a poem on your Facebook; to ultimately yield Mars to Venus - tough for me, with Scorpio rising and Mars conjunct the Descendant - but progressed Venus is now tightly conjunct my Sun. In addition, my Saturn just ingressed into Cancer, which Mars will follow to do in a few months; and the transiting NN is just separating from my Moon. Venus angling the Nodes... a crossroad almost like Robert Johnson's. :) To finish, I just had a dream about my late grandmother, my mother's mother who passed away thirty years ago - she was lovingly scolding my mother for reciting some communist crap just in order to make a career in the then totalitarian state. To finish about this twin flame, there's no doubt the affection has compassion as a fuel. Is there anything else that matters, essentially, when we talk compatibility? My Cancer Moon asks your Cancer Sun. :) Well, my Sun in Pisces also poses the question, but all my desire for this person boils down to a motherly care, I'm afraid - this morning I find myself searching for a lullaby sung by Bobby McFerrin to share with him... Oh, it's interesting... An intensely private person as I've been, I found myself not caring if I make my affection public - almost as if only he and I exist. Some may call live arrogant, but there's great intimacy in that - like when Sade sings for thousands, and it feels like a bedroom. So, I started posting on the page of his Virgo colleague, who encouraged me - why else would I dare write so explicitly. At one point I fell out with the Virgo and stopped writing. Some time after, he comes in an interview (they're a band), making an indirect address: "Please keep writing to our friend, do it on the band's page, he's very passionate about the mail he receives, he loves you, it's all such a big thrill, it means the world to him." I took that to be addressed to me, since hardly anyone else writes him publicly. But why wouldn't a Scorpio utter a word... One of life's mysteries. :)

Btw, I don't think you've talked about the yod? My TF has it with Moon at the apex quincunx Neptune and Mars+Pluto.

That speaks to that sense of a deeper pattern recognition that we can use when comparing charts, totally!

See my comment below!

Venus loves poetry and Mercury loves being poetic.

They may or may not be...the example that I used has them, as asc lords, connected by triplicity! Context is everything.

Didnt see anything and didnt delete anything. Maybe it didn't post!! The dying rose symbolizes the fate of all... :) jk

@@Adam-Elenbaas It's my computer....does that w/ e-mails 2, drives me nuts. Can't remember what I was going on about. What does jk mean? Joke? Just really curious if u wouldn't mind.Merc retro/station pisces exact trine sun 4 me, bringing signs. Interesting & eerie.

@@aprilemily7148 means just kidding