Today I did something inordinately weird, I watched a TV show with the soldier.  I don’t remember the last time I watched a TV show but I can tell you it’s been years.  We watched “Trading Spaces”.

Now I have never seen the show before but assume it is the same each week. A young couple was fighting to they were to decorate a room in the other person’s place to see if they were or could be compatible?  I don’t know… it was something like that but anyway the man had a female roommate who clearly did not want the relationships on the rocks to recover and I pointed this out to the soldier.

He was pretty fascinated with my interpretation of things so he continued to ask me questions and eventually I just kept up a running commentary that sounded like this:

“Yes, well the redhead roommate wants the boy.  She says, I don’t think the girl is right for him but what she means is, I don’t think she is right for him… he should have someone more like me. She’s got custody of that guy and she is not giving it up!”

“Oh my God, that is ugly,” I said as the decorator helped the girl paint white characters in Hebrew onto a black background. “But look!  The design matches the shirt she is wearing.” I stopped to laugh out loud. “See that? She did all that work to come up with that design and actually it’s the same thing she has on her shirt and I bet she doesn’t even know it.”

And then the man was doing his design for the girl, with roommate helping…

“Now look at that. Look what they come up with.  See the red in the middle of the design? That is the girlfriend.. that red is the same color as her hair, did you notice?” I roared.  “It’’s the exact same color. What they did is made a picture of the relationship all right. The whole thing is scratchy and harsh and there is the redhead right there in the middle where she is and where she is damned, damned going to stay.”

He came back with this:

“I can’t believe what you can make of this.  Want to know what I do when I go into a situation?”

“Tell me.”

“Well the first thing I do is access, threat or no threat. If there is a threat, I either take out the threat or I leave. If no threat, then nothing. I am a person with purpose in my life. I know what I am doing at all times and I don’t like to deviate from it. I am with the people I want to be with and there is little else I care about or even think about.”

“I see.”

“Yeah so if there is a threat, then I deal with it and if not - If the people are nice and if they are friendly then I will be friends with them but it will be very superficial.  I am on a course, see. So even if someone is nice, I am not apt to head towards them and merge in some kind of way. I am staying on my track…”

I have an emphasis on the 8^th house (what is subconscious) and Neptune-type sensitivity to pick up on the nuance. In contrast the soldier is very fixed. I thought this was fascinating and wonder..

If plunked down in an environment, how do you function?