I’ve been fascinated with being alienated. It appears extra constructive than detrimental to me, which I do know is just not how the phrase is used. I began fascinated with it, laborious. I went so far as to verify the definition with my husband. “What’s alienation imply to you?” I requested.
“It means they shun you,” he responded.
See? That’s detrimental.
However once I take into consideration each time I’ve each been alienated, the shunning appeared to profit me. I merely didn’t belong within the group I used to be in. The group was going a method. I used to be going one other.
I thought of my kids; my son specifically. There was a degree the place he turned alienated from his buddy group. It occurred as a result of he began to use himself at school. His buddies had been slacking. My son has Aries and solar conjunct Saturn. He’s formidable, so you possibly can see how the cut up needed to occur, to ensure that him to develop and transfer within the path that was proper for him.
I’ve thought of all of the instances I’ve been alienated. With out fail, it was an inside job. I alienated myself.
One very clear instance of this; I’d left house at fifteen years outdated. At one level I wound myself sitting within the grime with folks smoking pot. I used to be not a pot smoker. I don’t like sitting in grime both, so I alienated myself from this group, instantly, somewhat than conforming to their tradition.
Now I perceive alienation can occur in different methods. You steal from your loved ones they usually eject you. However from what I can discern, from my small pattern, as a rule, the alienated individual winds up higher off, if “higher off” means she or he resides true. I imply, actually. Capricorn sitting in a ditch, smoking pot. I believed I higher arise and go get a job, sure?
The specter of alienation retains an individual towing the road, however what if the road is silly or simply plain incorrect for you? Higher to alienate your self, from what I can see. It takes braveness.
I feel this can be a Pluto in Aquarius subject. The group expels the shadow individual. However it’s additionally about empowering the person.
It the group is darkish or evil, killing the person, particularly their creativity (Leo), you then’re seemingly much better off to alienate your self. See what you are able to do, independently, unhindered by your attachment to the Borg.
What do you suppose? Why will we view this phrase the way in which we do? Have you ever ever been alienated / a part of a gaggle who alienated somebody?