LOVE

There are 5 kinds –and based on which member of the Zodiac signs you are you will have over-riding tendencies to a specific one.

The first love is Physical Love. You can call this sex if you like, but in Taurus and Gemini this kind of love is greatly sought after. They view Physical love and signs of affection as an affirmation of somebody’s love for them.

The second kind of love is Love of Friends. This is had by Air signs specifically –Gemini, Aquarian, and Libra. They feel the more friends they surround themselves with the more loved they are. They fear being alone.

The third kind of love is Familial Love. The more emotionally-oriented signs will feel most strongly about this kind. Cancers, Leos, Earth signs –Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn. They will be more “clingy” to their family as well as have an innate desire to create a family of their own.

The fourth kind of love is Romantic Love. The older signs have this. Libra, Sagittarian, and the Water signs in general –Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces. They true love.

The last kind of love is Love of Humanity, also known as Compassion. This is held by the eldest signs –Aquarian, Pisces, Aries, and on some level Leo.

The reason for these signs’ choice in love is very interesting when you start to understand the nature of people.

When a child is young, it needs physical comfort. It needs to be held, nursed, rocked, and physically taken care of. Otherwise it will feel abandoned and alone. The youngest signs seek physical love for this reason. As they become older and more mature as souls they will find that physical love does not last and can often be misleading in showing the true feelings of the person they are with.

When a child is older and it gets over-run by its emotions it will experience, fear, anger, doubt, sadness, and loneliness. A parent needs to be there as a reassuring force to comfort and emotionally calm their children. The emotional bond among family members will be strong and many younger souls will mistake this for unconditional love. However, most adults realize that there are certain parts of their lives that they fear their parents wouldn’t understand or accept them for. Parents can abandon their children, abuse their children, and even hate their children. And even those who “love” their kids would have a limit if certain conditions arose. If an adult did drugs for example the family members could disown or disassociate themselves from that person. If you’ve ever watched the show Hoarders you can see how the strain of that disorder has torn families apart. It isn’t truly unconditional love.

The next kind of love is Social Love or Love of Friends. People figure of you hangout with large groups your presence will always be appreciated. But they also realize underneath that those people will not accept them unconditionally. As Jesus once explained, people are fickle and will desert you when they disapprove of your actions or beliefs. Then there are those who try to get a few close friends, but even those can fade or change with time. They are not constant. I will say that some close friends can be closer than people in romantic relationships.

Romantic love is the one most people opt for. They think that if they find someone who truly loves them for who they are they will be “whole” and “complete”. Unfortunately as close as people in relationships can get, this kind of love has its down sides. This is one of the most selfish kinds of love. A love of friends and family is looking after a group of people –almost like they were possessions that belonged to you. But physical and romantic love narrows your concern and attention to one main person. It seems sweet to devote your love to a person in marriage –the “highest” form of love according to most- but if you compare it to the last kind of love it shows it’s true nature and falls short of the highest point love can reach. For one it is only the love of one –even if it is unconditional.

You’re on a boat that’s sinking. It’s you are the soul mate you’ve been married to for 27 years. The water is rising and time is running out. You have to decide: Do you let the love of your life die and save everyone else on the ship, or do you let everyone else die and save the one you love? Hard decision. Most would say ideally quantity over quality –especially since those other members on the boat have families and wives and kids of their own. But when somebody holds romantic love to be the ultimate kind and the person they’ve devoted their entire life to is staring right at them waiting for them to make the decision, most would let everyone but the one they love die. This can also be seen as a great risk from the perspective of Troy. An entire war was fought, men lost their lives and families were torn apart –all because one king’s wife ran away with someone she was having an affair with.

The last and greatest form of love is Spiritual, Compassionate love. More than just love for humanity itself, but the love of all souls and lives created by God. This kind of love stretches a person and makes them expand and become greater beings. The eldest souls know the other forms of love will leave them wanting and unfulfilled. Each kind has its limitations and conditions. But unconditional love that comes from the soul and God allows patience, understanding, and acceptance towards people regardless of who they are and what they do. It is the most challenging and rewarding kind of love a human can achieve. It puts others before self and selfish inclinations. To give love unconditionally is to inspire others to love and be loved unconditionally. But ultimately the only being who has the capacity to love in that way is God and God alone. Humans can come close, and have come close, but only he can truly love all of humanity in spite of itself.

All souls need the same thing to be fulfilled. It’s called Love and Acceptance –a.k.a. Unconditional Love. As a soul goes through life it comes across lesser forms of love until it realizes the true form of love and how to give it as well as receive it.