Synesthesia, Memories, and Minor vs Tertiary Progressions

Mysteries of The Mind: A Path to an Unknown Land by Jude Cowell

September 14, 2020: This morning while investigating the rather curious brain phenomenon of synesthesia and its possible connection to Astrology's technique using Minor, Tertiary, and Secondary Progressions, I ran across an interesting Ted-Ed video Ideasthesia: How do ideas feel? by Danko Nikovic. Opening with Descarte's famous, "I think therefore I am" and moving directly into Science's ongoing attempts to understand the mind-body connection, this brief video could possibly make you...well, think. And if you're into Astrology, you might think of the 3rd-6th house mind-body connection!

You might also think of how a study of the three psychological houses (4-8-12) in a horoscope provides information on such topics as the mind-body connection while special attention is always warranted toward the mysterious 12th house of the Unconscious. What, we wonder, could be bubbling around in there? Which ideas and concepts to suppress or express into reality?

For more on Minor (mind/thoughts), Tertiary (emotions/intuition), and Secondary Progressions (body/reality), here's an excerpt from a previous JCAstro post with the post's link added:

"A Revealing Astrological Method -- 1:13:27 in Progressions

One astrological method for sussing out the Unconscious involves time and the three dimensional quality of it as found in astrologer Robert Blaschke's work on Progressions and the 1:13:27 ratio of Secondary ('1' = physical plane/day for a year), Tertiary ('13' = feeling-desires-intuitional plane/day for a month), and Minor ('27' = mental-thought plane/month for a year). Everyone has unconscious thoughts (Minor-mental plane) that drift up from the depths and are either allowed into awareness or suppressed on the Tertiary-intuitive-emotional plane--for we have positive or negative emotions and feelings about these thoughts and whether we choose to act (or feel compelled to act) on them or not. So thoughts occur 27 times faster than physical action, and feelings-desires occur 13 times faster than the actions we may take based on our feeling about those thoughts." Astrology's 12th house: There Be Monsters!

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So is the Minor-Tertiary-Secondary Progression method yet another way to study the mind-body connection? I see it as such although, as always, you are welcome to disagree.

Kitchen-Related Synesthesia?

So why was I searching today for information on the curious case of Synesthesia? Because I wondered if I am afflicted by the neurological condition since childhood when certain names conjured sights, fragrances, and textures, a tendency I consciously noticed around the age of 5 1/2. (Born in early January, I'm always a half-year-old in summers and this was the summer we moved into a new house--I first noticed the tendency in my Mom's new kitchen and can see it now in my mind's eye as it first happened!)

The very first occurrence of what I suspect falls under the heading of synesthesia involved milk packaged in waxed cartons back in the day (not so much plastic around then) and how the name 'Fred' was the sensation of wax that flaked off from inside the container whenever I drank a glass of milk poured from a waxed carton. That annoying feeling which interfered with the flavor of milk was Fred.

Throughout my childhood other names became associated with food-related connections and though I don't remember them all as I type now, here are three amusing ones that I do remember:

Vanessa: chocolate pudding, accent on the consistency of pudding; Jennifer: spicy gingerbread cake (just baked! not cookies - cake!), and Scott: foods with butterscotch flavors, especially butterscotch candy in cellophane wrappers.

Now can anyone challenge the logic of Scott? ;)