- Air and Water Type
- Although you often feel pulled between intellectual and emotional orientations of life, heavy doses of Air and Water elements can make you very much attuned to both realms of experience. Neither the abstract nor the feeling-intuitive world is alien to you, and you are thus able to develop a mode of operation that encompasses both types of perception. This results in your being able to give depth to your ideas and in your ability to gain detachment and perspective on feelings and deeper yearnings. You are physically and psychologically sensitive; a dreamer, an escapist, perhaps a little fantasy-prone. You have an amazingly fertile imagination and specialized skills for dealing with people. You know how to tune in to people, and communicate concisely.
- Air and water make for another occasionally uneasy grouping. The deep emotional realm of water and the cool logic of air do not fit together easily. However, an integrated air/water personality will be able to care deeply, but with reason keeping it from the greater disappointments that come without caution. Both of these elements are adaptable, and therefore this personality will be able to shift around a problem and regroup from a different angle. However, as both of these elements have a tendency towards the distant, this personality must be constantly on the alert for this effect. An air/water combination may decide, after a particularly jarring emotional disappointment, simply to close off from the rest of the world and nurse the wound. In general, though, water’s emotional depth keeps air from becoming too aloof, while the air mitigates water’s moodiness and irrationality.
- Air/Water (Sun in air + Ascendant in water, or Sun in water + Ascendant in air)A very imaginative and sympathetic combination - these individuals are good at dealing with people and have a way of being real “darlings”, appealing to most. They like to communicate and are usually good listeners. But at times they can be too agreeable, avoiding harsh and direct confrontation. They will tell people what they want to hear rather than what they really feel. Air/water people should learn to stand their ground and be less vacillating. It is likely that they follow some creative endeavour - any artistic or intellectual outlet is a potential goldmine for their inner growth. It may not be the most honest and reliable of combinations; these folks see “truth” as a relative concept, and are tempted to use fantasy to recreate their own view of the world.
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Aspects: semisextile, square, inconjunct.They analyze to later feel what they thought of. They attempt to provide an intuitive base for their ideas and thoughts, creating some inner conflict but also interesting outlooks and schemes. Though it is similar to the water-air combination, the articulation between logos and pathos in this one is focused outwardly instead of inwardly. Communication gains an emotive touch. The keyword is quest.
Aspects: semisextile, square, inconjunct.They feel to later analyze and communicate their emotions rationally, trying to make thought and feeling coincide or complement each other, pathos and logos. This pair can experience strong contradictions when trying to solve inner problems, but when properly channeled it can come up with very valuable synthesis of its own personality. The keyword is comprehend.
Air/Water Cusp
