Water Violet: The Distance of Self-Sufficiency

Water Violet is loneliness that looks like elegance.

The weather

Traditional interpretations say independent people who go alone, sometimes proud, sometimes simply self-contained. Number 7 and Ketu's unhooking sit in the neighbourhood as themes. We will not say they are the same. We will say the human problem is the door that only opens outward.

Beside the profile

Water Violet already lives in this house as a profile: “Proud solitude.” Gentle distance, self-containment that becomes an island. Quiet is not a flaw. Isolation as climate is the weather. Bach filed it under Loneliness — for those who are lonely. The profile is the door. This essay is a longer walk around the same weather. Neither is a diagnosis, a product, or a treatment plan.

Self-sufficiency is a skill. As a country it has poor food.

A takeaway

Keep the solitude that is craft. Risk one unnecessary kindness. Distance is a climate. It should not become a citizenship.

Readers exploring this theme may also find neighbouring rooms interesting. Similar weather across traditions is not proof that one system explains another.