|Polarity in the Birth Chart| Polarity emerges out of the
original unity in what is called the 'primal schism', or the
'separation of the world parents'. The creation myths of almost
every culture describe the first division out of the primordial
ocean, or chaos, which creates by dividing itself, in the same
way that a living cell divides and becomes two. Everything in
time and space is governed by the opposites and swings between
them. Opposites both repel and attract each other: they are
fundamentally united because they share the same source, which
is the original unity. Even our language reflects this split,
with many words beginning with the prefix 'di-' describing the
separation of something which has previously been whole, or one.
For example: di-vide, di-scern, di-sect, di-stinguish, di-vorce,
di-chotomy, and so on. The 'problem of opposites' has always
been a subject of fascination in many different fields of study,
such as mysticism, philosophy, mathematics, science and
psychology. The Gurdjieff sch