Love
Journey: Intro | 1. Taurus
| 2. Leo | 3. Scorpio
| 4. Aquarius
Our
final stop on the love journey is agape with affinities to
Aquarius.
Agape
- with affinities to Aquarius - says that I love you enough
to let you be more fully and completely who you are. Agape
is not a sexless, nonphysical love - nor is Aquarius a sexless
sign. True
Agape brings with it everything previously learned in Epithemia
(Taurus), Phileo (Leo) and Eros (Scorpio).
Step
Forward
But
Agape goes a step forward from eros, because it involves
my loving you enough to let you go - if being fully, completely yourself
means not being with me. Aquarian agape energy is therefore
able to detach.
Aquarian
energy says: "I love you for being yourself... I love you so very
much - that even if it means, you must go away from me to be fully
yourself... Then you must assuredly go - and I send all my love with
you..."
Remember
the lyrics of that old song by Sting? -
"If
you love somebody, set them free."
(Spoken like a true Sun Sign in Air.)
Wow!
This
can be really tough for some folks... And, okay - I openly admit it...
Letting go and detaching is my single toughest challenge on the Journey
of Love through the Zodiac.
I
don't do this letting go stuff very well at all. I
can literally hang on and allow myself to emotionally suffer (eros)
for months and months and months. (does this ring a bell with anybody?)
This
Aquarian love is most certainly no sloppy agape...
Darker
Side
But
lest I become guilty of overly romanticizing the Aquarian love of
agape... Like all the other Zodiac Signs, the Aquarian love
of agape has its darker side. Aquarius can often become too
detached from the earthy sensuality of Taurus, the fiery heart of
Leo, and the passionate desire experienced in Scorpio....
The
temptation of Aquarius is then to become the archetypical "Iceman"
of the Zodiac. Aquarian
love then becomes icy, cold detachment and total isolation.... with
the "Iceman" forever escaping into the safety of his/her own high
ivory tower of intellect and lofty ideals.
The
detachment of Aquarius becomes a safe tower where no one can ever
again touch (and hurt) the "Iceman...."
So
in summing up
And
thus ends our Zodiacal journey through the vast mysteries of love...
We're now beginning our descent into the Love Menu area. So, we ask
that you please return your seat backs and tray tables to their fully
upright, locked position, and extinguish all smoking materials. On
behalf of Zodiac Master Airlines, we hope you've enjoyed your flight
and will fly with us again soon. Have a pleasant afternoon.
To
learn more on the four stages of love:
Recommended
(if you can find it)
Through the Looking Glass
written by Richard Idemon
(only recommended for those with a previous knowledge of astrology)
Buy
it now at Amazon.com
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