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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

(7) THE MERGER

The MERGER is the least applied of the prophetic traits because it is the coordination of processes into a normal whole. His language is integrity which means that he employs overlap to navigate life. Such a person focuses on one thing: the integration of all life's rays into a normal lifestyle.

The MERGER shuns compartmentalization and tends to intentionally blur conventional distinctions. He merges home and work by working out of the home. He tends to work in his pajamas and sleep in his day clothes. He might conference call while playing with his children. He tends to blend business and conversation by having "work lunches" in which the conversation covers the whole gamut of life.

She is the person who hires her friends, brings her wife and children (rather early) into the family business. Strict mergers tend to live less than ideal lives of integrity because the blending of areas of distinction carries fallout with it, particularly when dealing with people of other personality bents. Her husband might not want her to work from home because business does not stop once the children come home from school or go to bed. Her business associates might not like the way she "blends" company money. She goes to bed with her laptop. She wakes in his day clothes. She does not observe the days of the week, holidays or special days unless prompted to do so.

On the positive side, he is constantly comparing and contrasting both spiritual and earthly realms, seeking to make application from one to the other, using one to illuminate the other, ultimately seeking to reconcile both into one. He tends to see both realms as one and the same, even though they require different expressions. His motto is "Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven." The whole man is important to him and he finds it inhuman to neglect any part of this man.

She is sensitive to spiritual, emotional, psychological and physical neglect, perhaps seeing them all of equal damage when a breach occurs. Psychologically she thinks in parallelisms. She also thinks analogically. She does not compartmentalize and is bothered by the possibility of exploitation when others compartmentalize. She sees variety in unity & unity in variety. Naturally, with her illuminating gifts, she is highly competitive and desires to pursue her equivocations, knowing full well that she is the far superior for it. As a result, she is cheered by integration and tends to have a strong sense of well-being.

On the negative side, it is difficult to restore a broken relationship with a merger. Oftentimes, the reason is that he tends to deplore boundaries. He might not be able to tell the difference between YOURS and MINE: YOUR wife and MY wife, YOUR time and MY time, YOUR pin number and MY pin number. A broken relationship might occur because you insist that a clear dilineation of property lines be observed. Restoration to a merger might mean unequivocal access to YOURS once more.

It can be quite common for a merger to experience disappointment when the combinations she creates do not materialize with the anticipated benefits. If she is not open to adjusting her expectations to more realistic (and, therefore, healthy) aspirations, she can be entirely defeated and lean towards a thoroughly hedonistic lifestyle. She might tend to blame the failures of integration on factors other than herself (which can look like hubris to others). It is difficult for her to understand that each integration of categories represents a loss. If the merger does not have complimentary managerial skills, she can very well be ignorant of the consequences of her own expectations. And mergers do not like those kinds of surprises.

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