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(Here’s the image and aspect-neighbors theory ripped out of this ask into its own post)

Theoretically - very theoretically, we’re in uncertain theory-territory here - you could say Rage is only a couple ‘steps’ away, though…  Many of these aspects sound like they should be 'next’ to each other, if they were laid out (opposites across from each other) in a circle.  Heart would be next to Blood, for example (for obvious literal reasons), and Blood in turn might be next to Rage, the former dealing (partially) with suffering to match the latter’s hopelessness?  (You can look at trolls and kids who are close to each other relationship-ways for much of this, using shipping as clues!)  Or, Doom might serve as the neighbor to Blood and/or Rage, though I’m certain that Time and Doom are obvious neighbors…  And keep in mind that the opposing elements would be neighbors too.  If Heart and Blood are neighbors/'sisters’, so are Breath and Mind, the aspect of direction and the aspect of choice.  Light and Space seem like they’d be related, so by extension, Void and Time would be sisters too, which makes plenty of sense.

And they could be said to affect Prospit/Derse leaning, too, based on the circle… it would make sense if the half of the circle containing the necessarily always-Derse Time aspect would lean Derse, while the always-Prospit Space aspect’s half leaned Prospit?

Again, neighboring aspects - an aspect circle - is on shaky ground and very unproven.  You’re working on much more tenuous and subjective ground than with dichotomies, and nobody has a really good idea of what order these would go in.

But if I had to take a second stab at it, and don’t assume this is right, it’s just a guess…

[IMAGE ABOVE]

WOW THAT TOOK A LONG TIME TO 'SHOP

In fact, that almost certainly isn’t right.  Rage is nowhere near Blood, it feels like the drives and passion entailed by Blood and Breath should be neighbors of Life and Hope… really, the whole chart makes only a shred of cursory sense, ignore it.   :P

EDIT:  Wait, that’s odd…

When you combine two of these aspects that are two apart, you get the aspect between them!  Look at the outside words:

When you combine Mind’s Choice and Rage’s “Resignation” (the constriction of visible possibilities), you get a single Direction, or Breath!

When you combine Resignation and the passage/view of Time in Progression, you get Pessimism/Doom.  When you take the unpredictable Soul and try to track it over Time, you get Mystery.  When you combine positive energy to affect reality (Life) with the concept of information, you get Reality’s literal fabric, Space.  When you combine Unity and Optimism, you get Belief, like the religion that sprung around the Sufferer…

Hmm!

EDIT3:  THIS POST IS OBSOLETE!  Chart revision 2 and further explanations are here!

2012-9-24