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Why Some People Can Figure Things Out And Other People Never Will
Astrology in real life
The Moon in Scorpio (depth and psychology) is opposing Mercury in Taurus (plain and simple information) today on that note, I am pretty sure I can tell you why people can’t figure things out worth a damn.
It is because they simply refuse to comprehend that other people are not like them. They just cannot grok the fact that people are individuals and just because they think or act or respond in a certain way, others feel similar when they do not.
For example, regarding figuring out that crime (and I did figure it out), I’d have never been able to do that without understanding that some people don’t mind going to prison. Matter of fact, going to prison may actually be the goal.
If you think about this for even 30 seconds you will realize I am right. Somewhere along the line, via TV or something you must have run across a career criminal who sort of feels at home in prison. But if you are unable to absorb and use that information, you are going to look at a situation like as if it were you (who does not want to go to prison) and consequently you will be hopelessly lost in the land of un-knowing.
Why do people look at others and see their own face?
16 Responses to “Why Some People Can Figure Things Out And Other People Never Will”
I think to really see or hear another person, and to be able to dissect between yourself and others, you need to be able and to be willing to FEEL, you need to be in touch - with yourself. And that is scary as hell to most.
And maybe the illusion of others feeling, perceiving, thinking, aiming for the same as we do, makes us feel less alone…
I think it’s pretty common - to look at others and see one’s own face. As for why….. I don’t know!
But it reminds me of a close friend of mine. She has really strong feelings about certain stuff and it totally directs her behavior. Like, when she is in a social situation, she always feels left out of conversations. And then she projects this onto other people. If she doesn’t talk to everyone equally, she starts assuming that others feel left out. She can’t begin to fathom that some folks like to be quiet, observe, have any number of things on their mind. She can’t imagine that others don’t get hurt by what hurts her!!
I can totally understand the prison thing actually. Probably seems easier life in some ways in that one’s decisions, or many of them, are taken away. Some prefer structure like that. Food, shelter, clother, social life, social organization — smaller scale living. And that’s just scratching ths surface. In jail you don’t have to worry about rent, bills, and so on. Could be a tremendous relief, kind of like heaven.
I think it is a kind of built-in protection mechanism that keeps one at a distance from the experience of others, where the mind can turn off at, “I just don’t understand.” Where blaming is easy and one’s position is safe in not having to rethink themselves or any behavior in the world they were brought up to think of as “wrong.”
Well, my brother (Leo Sun-Aquarius Moon)is one of those who believes others are like him. I spent hours explaining to him (and other people) why people do what they do. Unfortunately he married someone like him . . .
Yes, I get the prison thing too, only for me it was living a monastic life (lots in the 12th house + Sagittarius South Node in the 1st) But thankfully, I kept getting that notion booted out of my head! 
speaking of that. I had a revelation yesterday too. Must be something in the air these days. I was so gung-ho about reading “The Gift of Fear” to try to hone in on my intuition and try to understand the mind of a stalker,hanger on, predator…and then while reading it dawned on me that I was the one behaving like a predator! And that I was just not hearing other peoples words and that what they say might mean something different than what it does to me, and they are their own individuals. It was so liberating and scary at the same time. Now my points of reference are gone, and I have to build a whole new way of interacting with people. Thank you Pluto transit square my progressed mercury…
I was just rereading an Agatha Christie book (Appointment with Death), and one character is cited as being mentally lazy because he pretty much refuses to acknowledge that Mrs. Boynton is mentally torturing her relatives and lives in denial about it. Maybe that’s it, I don’t know. I do know that my relatives in general tend to do this, and lord knows I have had a billion arguments with my mother because she cannot conceive that I would feel differently (in fact, the opposite) from what she feels.
Moonpluto hit the nail on the head with her comments….with my work, I spend alot of time visiting prisoners, in jail, in court and I have seen so many repeat offenders that you begin to comprehend that they (repeat offenders) are a different creature as we all are and many like the structure, lifestyle, and having people do for them than to have to do for themselves.
Antisocial people are not all killers, rapist and such….many are people who don’t have the conscience to do for themselves and take responsibility….it is an unknown to them and these are the ones primarily that you find living comfortably in prison. feeling more at home there than outside.
Regarding what Elsa said about heaven/12th house: and I’m a 12th house Venus. I might be happy to be cooped up, but it has to be the right coop -
Denamaria: so interesting. I totally get that, what you wrote abt your work and the ones feeling more comfortable on the inside. Womblike, too, maybe.
I have seeds of that in myself and also looked for it in spiritual community.
Also always wanting to be taken care of. I can nurture also (Cancer stellium) but oh man the parental thing is strong–
I had a really hard time with understanding that other people were not like me until I started studying astrology. Honestly, it’s probably the most useful realization I’ve ever had. Helps me have more compassion and empathy than I used to, that’s for sure. Also helps me protect myself better than I used to. Just because I won’t intentionally hurt someone doesn’t mean that other people have any problem doing so.
I always felt different from other people but I think I might have lumped everyone else together :0
I often think (not seriously of course) that prison looks pretty good - time to study and meditate and just be without the outside world. I put it down to having been to boarding school and having 12th house planets. Weirdly, I also have often thought that I was a monk or nun in a past life. I like the idea of seclusion and devotion.
i remember reading a news story when i was a kid about a homeless man who’d go in to a restaurant every fall, buy a meal, then not pay for it so they could send him to jail for the winter.
i had a lot of broken moments of schema cracking this past year. learning the worlds my students live in and the sorts of decisions they’re used to making. many of them quite alien to me.
but, eh, i guess i did figure out some of it. but there’s always things i don’t know…
My north node is in my 12th house cancer at 15 degrees (cancer rising at 28 degrees)square Jupiter, sextile Pluto, trine Neptune.
For a variety of reasons I didn’t learn much about surviving, dropped out of university, started living with a musician in exchange for being young at 17, he was 27 (love was certainly established I still speak to him, he passed away through suicide in 93)…Maybe the reason I did marry my ex husband in a maximum penitentiary is b/c I have trouble being responsible in life myself. I still seem to be struggling with this and maybe am not figuring it out either
I remember being amazed when I realized that not everyone saw everyone else as a potential friend (I guess that’s my Moon/Venus in Gemini). I can accept that, I just can’t relate to it.
I have found that I err on the side of giving people the benefit of the doubt, though. I recently made the mistake of thinking that, when someone felt the same way as I’d been feeling emotionally - that toxicity that can come from feeling extremely hurt and angry - that they wouldn’t be dangerous, just because I hadn’t been. I highly doubt that they will be, but after defending them, I realized that I shouldn’t have been so quick to put myself in their place.
I also know of someone who wouldn’t mind going to prison. They’ve been in self-destruct mode for a while, and just don’t seem to care anymore.
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