MARGARET WAS EEYORE when we were young, seeing the impossible in everything. She has grown up to be Kanga, her youthful negativity evolving into a carefulness for all things, as well as an exactness for detail, reminding us not only to take our medicine, but when to do so. Me, I was born a Tigger, and show little chance of ever growing up to be anybody else. I bounce, and when people try to get me to give up my bounce, I bounce away.
Everything I know about the taxonomy of sisters, you see, I learned from Winnie the Pooh.
A few memoir-writing posts ago I floated the idea of using astrology to help develop your writing. Maybe you are wrestling with a story of your sister and how you struggle with her decisions. A quick read through astrological types will jump-start your thinking about the separate ways we respond to the same forks in the road. Is that sister of yours as impulsive as a ram, barely noticing the fork, or does she nearly get hit by the oncoming traffic as she stands there, weighing and re-weighing on her metaphorical scale the pros and cons of either lane?
Astrological types might get you moving forward, and help map out the simple, as well as the complex likes and dislikes, inclinations, tempers–in all, what ancient medicine referred to as the humors–of people. And no one explains it better than Sheilaa Hite, right here on TSP. Have you checked out her February forecasts?
Not into astrology? No problem. Popular culture is saturated with other easy archetypes from which to pilfer. For instance, the world of Peanuts is beautifully drawn, both artistically as well as along the lines of how people whack up emotionally. Who doesn’t know a Lucy or a Linus, for that matter? Though for me, the best education on types was also one of my first, puddling along with our dear friend, Pooh. Before Disney got their mitts on him, Pooh and his pals provided some of the clearest examples of personalities I can name. So read it in the original, and see if you don’t find yourself—and your sister—there in the Hundred Acre Wood.
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