General Flashcards
Fire
The Identity Principle
Spirit - Life Force
Express with direct action/visions
Assertion to Aggression, enthusiasm to fanaticism, daring to reckless: Fire raging out of control, consuming everything in path vs lacking energy
Air
Mental/Breath
Express by sharing communicating ideas
Scattered, inconsistent, indecisive vs
Difficulty learning, poor communication, lack of perspective and objectivity
Earth
Physical realm, real tangible
Express by mastering common sense, actualizing dreams, supplying basic survival needs.
Over cautious, fear of change vs ungrounded, difficulty coping with mundane responsibilities of every day life
Water
Emotional realm of feelings, soul. Unconscious forces that motivate us.
Express through sympathy, compassion, intuitive awareness.
Emotional roller coaster, stormy, turbulent vs cold, unsympathetic
Orientations:
Personal
Interpersonal
Transpersonal
Supplying personal needs as center of universe.
- selfish, egocentric vs difficulty supplying basic needs
Interacting as social individual
- too focused on others losing sense of self vs denied own need for human co tact
Seeking to understand relationship with the universe
- feel out of place in world, neglecting practical matters vs no connection with the greater whole, no spiritual perspective