“What &*^$# Word Is Giving You Trouble?”: Mercury In Aspect To Saturn In Synastry

6 Responses to ““What &*^$# Word Is Giving You Trouble?”: Mercury In Aspect To Saturn In Synastry”

1. Loonsounds says on 4/12/08 at 11:27 am:
   

   Elsa, you reckon the soldier ever plays you a little…by playing dumber or more obtuse than he actually is on something? I realize it was only an example and maybe didn’t happen that way, but “I have no purse” for example, is well, like, duh! Dude, see, there is this thing, it is called a metaphor? (Actually, I am not sure what it is called, maybe good to find out…Elsa or some English major, what is the word?)

   I have seen it used as a trick. To take the ‘metaphor’ and make it literal and then stand there, open palms, facing up, all innocent-like…who me? well, it’s a little slick…and then, as you pointed out, he gets to drop the whole thing and go eat or do other cool sensually enjoyable Taurus yummy things.

   Maybe maybe this pattern is perfect for most of the time, then if you really want to pursue some concern with The Soldier you will have to dumb it down, LOL and smirk, because dumb like a fox is more like it, and while Taureans are not remotely dumb, some of us can be great pretenders when it serves us. I know that I myself have mastered Obtuseness to an art form.

   cuz you know, here is a funny example of a real language problem, a different dynamic all together, but something you said reminded me. When I was in India there were so many communication situations due to language. An Indian would tell me something or other with great enthusiasm, and then like a typical American oftentimes says to show enthusiasm, I would say, “You’re kidding!” (as in, that’s so cool!) And they would be like, “Kidding? Kidding? who is kidding?”

2. Alma says on 4/12/08 at 11:59 am:
   

   When I’m around my family, I definitely let it fly. We all interrupt each other, say outrageous things, and ask questions without listening to the answers. I learned verbal sparring over the dinner table.
   With my last boyfriend, I would take one of his comments and expose its ridiculousness by extending it to its fullest reach. At the Thai restaurant, he made a comment about a waitress who used to work there, who had huge fake boobs. He said some guy must have seen her, set her up in an apartment and told her she never had to work again. It soon became a running joke. Are you and your friends going to pool some money and buy a Thai girl? I know you wouldn’t want to take on the expense all by yourself. Are you going to chain her to the radiator if she acts up?
   I do have Mars/Mercury tied up together. My communication isn’t heated though, I don’t yell at all. I just make withering comments.

3. Tam says on 4/12/08 at 12:02 pm:
   

   I wouldn’t have gotten the metaphor either. I am Lucy Literal all the time.

4. Elsa says on 4/12/08 at 12:14 pm:
   

   Loonsounds - it’s possible he plays me but I doubt it. He hates fighting with me worse than anything in the world and besides that he knows I am dangerous to play with. For example I am perfectly capable of not talking to you for 3 years. Wanna take a chance? He knows my history, this is why all the respect. I know his history so vice versa.

   And yeah, I made up that conversation.

5. kashmiri says on 4/12/08 at 12:34 pm:
   

   I have been know to yell ‘I’m not the dancing bear at the zoo’ at people. Then freaked out when they laugh at me. AGH!
   (Point being: I don’t perform on demand).

6. wyrdling says on 4/12/08 at 11:40 pm:
   

   sometimes i make weird metaphors. sometimes people understand, sometimes they don’t. sometimes i have no idea.

   but i think that’s uranus/mercury.

   and i have saturn/mercury going too so sometimes i shut myself up when i probably should let fly.

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