Lathyrus
Padawan Learner
"Everything in this universe can be weighed and measured. ... If the Absolute is God it means that God can be weighed and measured, resolved into component elements, 'calculated,' and expressed in the form of a definite formula." - G
With the above quotes in mind, I've been thinking a lot about how, if the "laws" that govern reality are themselves mathematical, if there were a "mathematical basis" for interpersonal compatibility. Using astrology as a study tool of such, I've been focusing on the "modalities" and "elements" of the signs as a jumping-off point, which I hope might prove to be of some interest.
Gurdjieff speaks about the "Law of Three", or the three forces which are responsible for the production of phenomena, they being termed the positive, the negative, and the neutralizing. In astrology, the three modalities, the "cardinal", the "fixed", and the "mutable", would necessarily correspond with the trinity described. In addition to the three modalities are the four elements, which are themselves like the subdivisions of the positive and the negative, with "fire" and "air" both being very fluid and ethereal though differing in temperature, whereas "water" and "earth" may be quite similar in temperature while being different in fluidity.
I've got a little chart I whipped up that might help illustrate if anyone wants to see it, but the basic trend I saw is that same elements, or elements of the same polarity (e.g. fire/fire as they're both positive, water/earth as they're both negative) work well together when their modalities are different, but usually not if they're the same, and nor do elements of different polarities work together all that often regardless of modality. There might be some exceptions and I did have a bias towards looking more at long-term compatibility, so there you have it.
I guess that's about all I've got at the moment. Let me know if you have anything to say.
Laura said:A: Mathematics is the one and only true universal language.
With the above quotes in mind, I've been thinking a lot about how, if the "laws" that govern reality are themselves mathematical, if there were a "mathematical basis" for interpersonal compatibility. Using astrology as a study tool of such, I've been focusing on the "modalities" and "elements" of the signs as a jumping-off point, which I hope might prove to be of some interest.
Gurdjieff speaks about the "Law of Three", or the three forces which are responsible for the production of phenomena, they being termed the positive, the negative, and the neutralizing. In astrology, the three modalities, the "cardinal", the "fixed", and the "mutable", would necessarily correspond with the trinity described. In addition to the three modalities are the four elements, which are themselves like the subdivisions of the positive and the negative, with "fire" and "air" both being very fluid and ethereal though differing in temperature, whereas "water" and "earth" may be quite similar in temperature while being different in fluidity.
I've got a little chart I whipped up that might help illustrate if anyone wants to see it, but the basic trend I saw is that same elements, or elements of the same polarity (e.g. fire/fire as they're both positive, water/earth as they're both negative) work well together when their modalities are different, but usually not if they're the same, and nor do elements of different polarities work together all that often regardless of modality. There might be some exceptions and I did have a bias towards looking more at long-term compatibility, so there you have it.
I guess that's about all I've got at the moment. Let me know if you have anything to say.