Disliking People Because They Are Not Like You

October 8th, 2012 @ 5:30 am by Elsa

Ask the collective.

There is a certain segment of people out there who become incensed when they meet a person who does not mirror them in thought and/or deed.  It’s impossible to say whether they are mad because they are not you, or because you are not them, but they just can’t deal with a person who is dissimilar from them. They come unglued.

I would say this is a Saturn problem, because it has to do with fear and control. If you don’t overcome it, you limit yourself which is also a Saturn concept.

Has anyone else seen people react this way? Have you ever disliked someone for not mirroring your own personality? What is the root of this behavior?


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14 Responses to “Disliking People Because They Are Not Like You”

1.
CArRiE
CArRiE

As much as I love my mother, I grew up watching her do this. It actually can make me ill physically. I simply don’t get it, and it pains me to hear her criticize people, just because they aren’t like her. (She’s got her Sun in Capricorn)

 
2.
kiriecat
kiriecat

I’ve noticed the twitter feeds aimed at the “other party” people are often “kill yourself” or “I’m going to kill them”. I have never seen our country so divided. I’m waiting for the violence we saw in the 60′s to start. Maybe it’s mostly beinig channeled through rhetoric via twitter. I hope so. Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.

 
3.
Siddiya
Siddiya

The root is our projections/judgements. Whatever a person dislike in another is the exact same thing they dislike about themselves.

The mirror of someone else always shows you something about yourself you can learn or need to learn.

 
4.
SaDiablo
SaDiablo

I have disliked people for who they are, yeah, but never for not being me. I will admit I sometimes don’t understand how someone can have the same set of facts as I do and come up with a completely different answer, but that’s only vaguely related.

 
5.
Elsa
Elsa

I don’t think I explained myself very well so I took another shot at this:
http://www.elsaelsa.com/astrology/2012/10/08/never-mind-the-polarization-look-at-the-continuum/

 
6.
Jennifer
Jennifer

My relatives in this state are pretty much like that. I’ve run into a lot of people like that in my hometown too.

 
7.
Kat21
Kat21

I think it is a Saturn thing.

 
8.
Dawn
Dawn

I just don’t get people sometimes but don’t get incensed, unless they do something really rash, stupid, obnoxious or thoughtless and cruel. If that mirrored who I am I probably wouldn’t be upset. So the fact that these behaviors do upset me, is not because they are not like me, but because they just rub me the wrong way due to their lack of thought of “the other”.

 
9.
boba
boba

THAT IS MY STORY,I AM A CAP AND I FACE THAT FEELING EVERY DAY.

 
10.
Elsa
Elsa

Welcome, boba. :)

 
11.
Empress_Scorps
Empress_Scorps

No not when I meet someone it becomes that a way after a while (pathology). It’s not necessarily about mirroring me it’s about that lack of respect for the fact that I’m different than them and not accepting those differences or someone who keeps making sweeping generalisations and that is where my incensed dislike comes from.

I can’t expect everyone to be as open minded as myself or as accepting of what is different. However my open mindedness will only go so far. I can understand why someone feels the way they do and listen to it about a situation or person or whatever but there comes a time when that feeling has to fall and the open minded feeling or thought has to begin. Limit me, you limit yourself and so the cycle begins until there’s nothing left to limit and it comes to an end. Limit yourself, limit others and so the misery begins of realising that all that limitation has lost some people who couldn’t take being limited anymore. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy almost but just not of the self, if I make sense.

It is a control thing. It’s like a mother telling their child they can’t be something because they weren’t something or didn’t do something. It’s like a friend telling another friend that their way of living isn’t right and to expect the worst instead of hoping for the best (jaded, maybe but at least they can push for it). It’s like a spouse telling their spouse they can’t go back to school because of kids or their level of education. All for the fear that they’ll leave them behind, be more successful or just be better than them because they think that their exchanging of energy is on that level when it started but after a while it isn’t. It’s that common interest thing… we share the same blood, house, resources, time, music etc and become blinded by thinking that we’re the same but are in fact very different. Its like someone saying ‘I wouldn’t do that, I would…’ failing to take into account that everyone does things differently and react differently. We’re a family therefore we should all behave and think the same, no!

I’m going to stop writing now, cause I’ve written an essay and I sound so psychological, that it’s even spooking myself. Lol.

 
12.
AddyB
AddyB

My mother is like this and since she’s an Aquarian it knocks out A LOT of people. Its aqually still kinda shocked to watch her in action. It’s “you are not good enough for x, y and z reasons.” She’s not aware she does this. I know for sure I have inherited some of this. ((Saturn and Libra had me work on this.))

 
13.
Elsa
Elsa

It’s good you recognize that, AddyB. :)

 
14.
Salamander
Salamander

I think what astounded me the most was how different me and my twin sister are. But I’ve come to accept that.

I’m not surprised other people are different from me, except when people have a different view of the bigger picture.

 


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