the associations I'm (relatively!) more familiar with fit 14/16 figures perfectly well
I would say this is a sign that what you're familiar with is inconsistent! Either it should fit all of the figures well or none of them well, and if it's in the middle, then you haven't gotten all the kinks worked out, yet. This happened to me a lot when I was picking up geomancy and trying to figure out why was one of the main ways I got better at the system.
For example, I can't see how you can have Albus be confusing but Puer make sense, since they're defined as opposites to each other. Albus is water, it flows downward, it turns inward into itself—hence it's a hermit who ignores the world and spends its time in contemplation. Puer is everything *but* water: it does everything *except* reflect, hence it's the man of action who does what its told. But the boy's going to just shoot off like a rocket wherever he's pointed, and that's probably going to land him into trouble without a voice of wisdom. That's why every Luke Skywalker gets paired up with his Obi Wan Kenobi in every story, right?
I don't think watery people even pay attention to theory! (By that criterion, I'd think air>earth>fire>water.)
And yeah, I'd say you're working with very different symbolism, as I'd have reversed what you have! Fire and water deal with theory: fire creates ideas, water contemplates them. Air and earth deal with practice: air does things, earth embodies the results. As further evidence of this, Laetitia and Albus, while generally positive, don't really do anything: Laetitia (fire) gets lost in la-la land, while Albus (water) is just too detached to care.
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Date: 2023-06-13 02:35 am (UTC)I would say this is a sign that what you're familiar with is inconsistent! Either it should fit all of the figures well or none of them well, and if it's in the middle, then you haven't gotten all the kinks worked out, yet. This happened to me a lot when I was picking up geomancy and trying to figure out why was one of the main ways I got better at the system.
For example, I can't see how you can have Albus be confusing but Puer make sense, since they're defined as opposites to each other. Albus is water, it flows downward, it turns inward into itself—hence it's a hermit who ignores the world and spends its time in contemplation. Puer is everything *but* water: it does everything *except* reflect, hence it's the man of action who does what its told. But the boy's going to just shoot off like a rocket wherever he's pointed, and that's probably going to land him into trouble without a voice of wisdom. That's why every Luke Skywalker gets paired up with his Obi Wan Kenobi in every story, right?
And yeah, I'd say you're working with very different symbolism, as I'd have reversed what you have! Fire and water deal with theory: fire creates ideas, water contemplates them. Air and earth deal with practice: air does things, earth embodies the results. As further evidence of this, Laetitia and Albus, while generally positive, don't really do anything: Laetitia (fire) gets lost in la-la land, while Albus (water) is just too detached to care.