Porousness is the defining condition. Such a person absorbs the mood of a room within moments of entering it and cannot always tell afterwards which feelings were theirs. This makes for remarkable sympathy; the sufferer is understood without explanation, and consolation offered here actually consoles. It also makes for a self that is difficult to locate. Asked to describe their own character, this person will often describe the effect other people have on them, which is not evasion but an accurate report.
The imagination is the real estate. Music, drama, painting, fiction, faith and care work all offer somewhere for it to live, and lives that provide no such outlet tend to leak the imagination into daydream and drink instead. There is a marked capacity for self-erasure in service of something larger, whether a vocation, a religion or a person, and it can produce work of unusual beauty or a decade quietly given away to someone undeserving. The two outcomes look similar from the inside for a long while.
The difficulties are boundaries, evasion and drift. Unpleasant facts are postponed rather than confronted, and postponement is achieved by a kind of gentle vagueness that infuriates the practical. Rescuing others becomes a way of not examining oneself. Those who manage this placement well acquire a few hard structures on purpose, since a strong container does not diminish water; it makes it possible to carry any at all. Firm hours, a fixed craft, and one blunt friend do more good than any amount of resolve.
What It Gives
- ◆deep imaginative reach
- ◆instinctive compassion
- ◆artistic sensitivity
- ◆ready forgiveness
What It Costs
- ◆weak personal boundaries
- ◆avoidance of hard facts
- ◆loss of self in others
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