47 as compliment/opposite of 22

[floranova]

Hopefully this is the right place to post this, I'm not asking about a specific reading but I just wanted to check if it was fair to interpret 22 as "pretty" and 47 as "ugly"? Or is that overly simplified?

 

[Liselle]

I can see "pretty" for 22 but not quite as much "ugly" for 47. Though there is the "nose cut off" line, and generally ugly/unpleasant situations in 47. Depression, oppression, exhaustion, etc.

Here's something Hilary had to say about it:

47's all inner world, inner experience and resources; 22's more how you represent things - to others or to yourself.

(From here, for anyone in Change Circle.)

But there are some, Bradford Hatcher for instance, who say 47's suffering is kind of optional. (I'm paraphrasing that, don't know how badly.) So I suppose both could be about appearance - in 47 an appearance of badness.

It's tricky, though - just because in theory you might not have to feel oppressed doesn't mean you don't, or that it's easy to fix it. It sounds too much like "just snap out of it."

Also, 22 is not just superficial and unnecessary. Appearances are important - imagine a really good product with bad advertising, it'd probably fail. In some professions uniforms are important - if a fireman came to my door in a grubby t-shirt I'd have a hard time believing he is who he says he is.

 

[floranova]

I can see "pretty" for 22 but not quite as much "ugly" for 47. Though there is the "nose cut off" line, and generally ugly/unpleasant situations in 47. Depression, oppression, exhaustion, etc.

Here's something Hilary had to say about it:

(From here, for anyone in Change Circle.)

But there are some, Bradford Hatcher for instance, who say 47's suffering is kind of optional. (I'm paraphrasing that, don't know how badly.) So I suppose both could be about appearance - in 47 an appearance of badness.

It's tricky, though - just because in theory you might not have to feel oppressed doesn't mean you don't, or that it's easy to fix it. It sounds too much like "just snap out of it."

Also, 22 is not just superficial and unnecessary. Appearances are important - imagine a really good product with bad advertising, it'd probably fail. In some professions uniforms are important - if a fireman came to my door in a grubby t-shirt I'd have a hard time believing he is who he says he is.

Badness as in detrimental, or more like in a bad place? Like rather than being malicious it's more like being down in the dumps? Thank you!

 

[Liselle]

Mostly that was the word I used because I couldn't think of a better one.

But I suppose it could be various sorts. There's the gloomy valley in line 1, violence in the nose-cut-off line, unwanted house guests...