Snagged from Free Will Astrology
The
oracle below is excerpted from the book PRONOIA Is the Antidote for
Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with
Blessings.
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"The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was
important to them," wrote novelist Margaret Atwood. "There ought to be
as many for love."
Here are a few that the ancient Greeks devised, according to Lindsay Swope in her review of Richard Idemon's book Through the Looking Glass.
Epithemia is the basic need to touch and be touched. Our closest
approximation is "horniness," though epithemia is not so much a sexual
feeling as a sensual one.
Philia is friendship. It includes
the need to admire and respect your friends as a reflection of
yourself—like in high school, where you want to hang out with the cool
kids because that means you're cool too.
Eros isn't sexual in the way we usually think, but is more about the emotional gratification that comes from merging souls.
Agape is a mature, utterly free expression of love that has no
possessiveness. It means wanting the best for another person even if it
doesn't advance your self-interest
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