Rollo Reese May

08/28/2024

05/28/2022

Rollo Reese May, the Father of American Existential Psychology.

“Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.”
― Rollo May, Man's Search for Himself

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When interpreting a natal chart, the best method is to start gradually from general features to specific ones. Thus, there is usually a plan to be followed, from the overall analysis of the chart and its structure to the description of its different character traits.

The analysis of an astrological portrait consists in understanding four types of elements which interact with one another: ten planets, twelve zodiacal signs, twelve houses, and what are called aspects between planets (the 11 aspects most used are: conjunction, opposition, square, trine, sextile, quincunx, semi-sextile, sesqui-quadrate, quintile, and bi-quintile. The first 5 aspects enumerated are called major aspects).

I was born under the sign of the Rooster, element Earth.

Chinese astrology is brought to us as a legacy of age-old wisdom and invites us to develop an awareness of our inner potential. It is believed that the wise man is not subjected to stellar influences. However, we must gain the lucidity and the distance without which we remain locked up in an implacable destiny.

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Meet my friends!

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Who: Rollo May & Viktor Frankl
Where: Mental Facility

Visiting a mental facility, both Frankl and I observe the behavior of the patients. These patients are survivors from a war, acquiring a trauma on what they witnessed during being in a war. Suffering from guilt and loss after what happened, they will start to think and question their meaning in this life. We can help them by letting them undergo therapy and making them think about the lives that they lived. We will make them understand their meaning and purpose in this life and by searching for it they needed to endure the hardships and sufferings. Going on a mental facility with patients who survived in a war is a sentimental part for the both of us, knowing that we can extend our hands to help them find their meaning in life.

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Who: Rollo May & Erich Fromm
Where: Hospice

Fromm and I will visit a hospice where people who have cancer and incurable disease resides. We can have a seminar and talk to each patient about life and death, how death is destined upon us humans and we shouldn’t be scared instead use it as a motivation to exercise our freedom. Fulfill our hearts and mind with love and acknowledge our self. As what Fromm said, a road map without a destination is worthless and as what I qoute, a life becomes more vital, more meaningful when we confront the possibility of death. Don’t think about the future, live the moment, and make the most out of it. Connect yourself with your environment, people, and yourself can help with anxiety. Fromm and I will fore sure have lots of fun visiting a hospice because we help people who fear life and death.

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Them: ayaw ko na, gusto ko na magpakamatay.
Rollo May:

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Them: Sabi ni mama ko, "Follow your dreams." Kaya ito sinundan kita.
Others: 🙄
Rollo May:

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We all wonder why we are here at times and what our purpose is, don't we? For youth groups, Existence is associated with growth and change; essence signifies stagnation and finality. For cancer patient support group, people are both subjective and objective and must search for truth by living active and authentic lives. Spiritual groups frequently have fears in their hearts since the world is unpredictable; yet, as I have stated, turn your anxieties into courage and continue forward despite the fear because we are all lucky to have existential freedom.

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Gestalt

My concepts are connected to gestalt approach, which is centered on increasing a person's awareness, freedom, and self-direction. I believed that lack of courage to face our destiny, and in the process of fleeing from it, we give up much of our freedom. In contrast to this, healthy people challenge their destiny, cherish their freedom, and live authentically with other people and with themselves. They recognize the inevitability of death and have the courage to live life in the present.

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Humanistic

My work stems from humanistic psychology, which focuses on the capacity for growth and achievement in human beings. I took these ideas a step further as I explored the purpose of anxiety in human beings. I also proposed that anxiety emerged because of uncertainty in life and of looming death.