On Knowing More

[sdi]

There's an old survival adage, "The more you know, the less you carry." It refers to skills in wilderness situations: the more skill you have, the less gear you need. For example, if you are well-practiced at starting fires with flint and steel, then you don't need lighters or matches or other things that can run out or wear out or get wet and fail, allowing you to travel lighter when backpacking or hiking or camping or what-have-you.

It occurs to me that this is a direct expression of the first triplicity in geomantic charts. Your first and ninth houses determine your second house ("the more you know, the less you carry"), while conversely your first and second houses determine your ninth house ("the less you know, the more you carry").

Comments

[emmanuelg]

Hmmm! Excellent!
What about the second triplicity, aka 'Events in Play?'
So III + IV --> X; III + X --> IV; IV + X --> III

III - Brothers/Sisters/Neighbors; basic edu, advice, news, rumors.
IV - Old things/Old age/roots/underground; Father; land/agriculture; building/moving; end/bottom line.
X - Career/reputation/social standing; people in authority/Mother/Politics; Weather/Medical Treatment.

III + IV --> X
Your standing in the community (X) develops from the opinions people have of you (and the news and rumours they circulate with each other about you) (III) combined with your roots and history (IV). Someone once said, "We stand on the shoulders of giants." With respect to X, social standing partly comes from one's ancestry, the lessons learned while growing up, and one's links to the land/local environment.
Local Events in Play come about from the interactions of the people around us with each other in the context of their shared history, expectations and local environment.
Medical knowledge (III) + Local resources (IV) can be used for medical treatment (X).

IV + X --> III
On a very basic level, Father and Mother interacting produce brothers and sisters, a family; a basic local community. Working up from there, the movers and shakers (X) manage the resources (IV) to create a neighborhood (III).

III + X --> IV
The neighborhood (III) under the influence of leaders (X) manages the land, builds a legacy (IV).
Soccer Moms (X) take their soccer team (III) to the Championship (IV).

[sdi]

Thank you! I've been meaning on digging into the second and third triplicities, but I've been struggling with tying them together; I suspect because most of those houses are pretty troubled in my natal chart and so I have few solid examples to draw on!

I think you're on to something particularly with Newton's quote—"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."—the X also refers to one's ambitions, goals, and future... it is, in a sense, where you're looking to, opposite the IV, which is where you've been (your "roots"), and one takes advantage of other's knowledge via communication (III).