More Mercury
Aquarius, 2003, more specifically?
“Aquarius: It’s a new year, right? It’s a time when things are supposed to move forward. You’re in the process of shedding a few items that are no longer required. Unload some of your baggage. Look, everyone has emotional baggage. By the time we’re all two years old, it’s because we were bottle fed, or maybe it’s because we were all breast-fed, it’s something like that, but by age 2, the damage has been done. …”
Pretty sure I’ve used the idea before, digging in, I found it, but that’s right at 20 years. Still stands, but I tend to be more graphic in person.
It’s binary, you know?
The question, and its direction? Directed to a client, in a reading, or to a client’s child, spouse, boyfriend, girlfriend, whomever, whatever?
“Were you bottle-fed or breast-fed?”
It’s binary.
It implies an area of intimate knowledge that would, presumably information that will have some demonstrable outcome on the current interpersonal situation that’s part of the question. What it does? Boil it down to a binary question. It’s either A or B, and there is no C. One or the other, no room to equivocate.
Political correctness and hyper-sensitivity renders my droll manner of addressing the binary question somewhat suspect, but still, it is the most effective route. Binary. One or the other, no room for anything in between.
Here’s the kicker, in this situation, with this exact question: the answer doesn’t matter. It should’ve been the other. Bottle-fed? Should’ve been breast-fed. Breast-fed? Should’ve been bottle-fed. Hint: there is no right answer. In a binary setting, what this question evokes, in that position, it has to be one or the other, and whichever one is the answer? It’s wrong.
Excoriating to comprehend that there is no correct answer, it helps.
The point, and this is a largely Socratic, teaching, rhetorical device — effective in my mind — but as such, the point itself? It is just a simple way to grind down to the core of the problem, and then look to see that there is no correct way to answer the question.
That’s the real question: how do you answer question that has no right answer?
the Portable Mercury Retrograde
