My 16.5 (in detriment 🤓) is ‘nodding’ over here 🤭
Ironically also in my P Venus (conscious ‘values’) …. seriously not wired for the “love and light” and “be kind” conditioning 😅
It’s interesting to read here that Ra ties it all to personal talent. I suppose it’s true (hahahaha not meaning to model it but, ya know - no choice) … but also, the general sharing of enthusiasm, or rather the ability to excuse myself from it and give others a heads up that that’s what’s up - has been a great addition to my life (I say with as much enthusiasm as possible 😂).
TBH, this is one of my most appreciated emojis 🥳 … and when I use it, I really mean it 🙂
Watch this short reel first to follow along -
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From the line companion -
16.5 The Grinch
“When we come to the fifth line, we come to the line that gets projected on. The first line tells us the nature of a hexagram and the fifth line tells us how the world sees it.
This line is called The Grinch. That name comes from a children's book by Charles Dickens.
The Grinch is like Scrooge: they are not the kind of people that give easily. They are very tight in that sense.
The refusal to share in enthusiasm. In talent.
These people are being projected on that they are the ones that have the skills, that they are the ones that can get everybody else's depth out. It is always being projected on them.
"This one has the skills. I'll hook up with this one. I am able to get to the throat and get my stuff out."
Pluto exalted: The power to avoid enthusiasm for the sole purpose of being converted. As with Dickens' Scrooge, eventual conversion leads to greater and more enduring enthusiasm.
Here is somebody that has
skills but he/she is a fifth line and the outside world is saying, "Wow, you have all these skills." They
need to be told that over and over again. They usually answer with, "Maybe, I don't know."
The 16.5 can always recognize the skills in others. It is the resonance to the second line, to The Cynic. It has the capacity to distinguish who has skills and who doesn't.
The 16.5 waits until all that pressure comes and, only when others encourage them, are they going to have an opportunity to flower.
The people who are coming to encourage them are people who have the energy but no skills.
They have the energy and say, "This is the one that has the skills. Let me project on them that they are really the best."
In the white book: The lack of confidence in the expression of skills that needs the encouragement of others.
This is a lack of confidence because it is all projection. "I do not know if I am talented but all of
you are saying so. I don't have the energy myself and so I don't really know how talented I am. I don't really know how good my skills are. You keep on telling me that they are great, but I still don't know."
The lunar detriment is: The perverse feeling that sharing in enthusiasm hampers individual development.
"Why should I be happy when...?" this line asks. "Why should I make all of them happy and give all of
them talent when I still don't feel good myself? Why should I bother? This is only a projection."
This is the universalization of talent. One of the things that we expect from our artists is that, when they are complimented or asked about their art, they all play humble. This is the image of the fifth line.
"Yes, but there are others who are so much better. The music, the dance scene, the editing could have been better."
The nature of the collective logical process is deeply connected to our critical capacity to check it and perfect it and to work on it.
When you have a fifth line, somebody has to recognize your talent and project that on you in order for you to have the opportunity to respond to it. That is true for all fifth lines.
When the fifth line complains
that it does not get recognition, you can ask them if they recognize other people.
What is underneath here
is that the fifth line is concerned about finding whether they truly have the skill. They do not care whether others have it.
People can project onto my 51.5 that I am an initiator but, until I initiate somebody, it is nothing but a projection. The fifth line is taking in all this projection and it needs to see whether or not
that projection has a basis in reality.”