#But androgyne is specifically + etymologically 'both male and female'

[multiplyqueer]

I've been leaning towards the word "androgyne" lately to express and identify with my male/female bigenderness. Even though the definitions of androgyne are usually "a gender that's both m & f" rather than 2 genders, I can just interpret that as "a gender IDENTITY that's both." Especially since there's historical precedent for using it in a bigender way. There's enough room in the androgyne label for both meanings, and we male/female folks (with some wiggle room in exactly how we identify as such) could use any bonding we could get.

[gender-jargon]

[Image ID: the Trinteri pride flag by Gent of Gender-Jargon. The Trinteri flags consists of three down-pointing chevrons of the same size, with negative space above, between and to the left and right bottom corner of the flag. The top negative space is very light green. The left-botton negative space is very light pink. The right-bottom negative space is very light blue. The chevrons from top to bottom are indigo, grey and teal with very very light grey space in between. ./. End ID]

Trinteri: a gender amidst the Gender Trinary; a gender that is centered in the middle of the Male-Female-Neutrois trinary.

[PT: Trinteri: a gender admist the Gender Trinary; a gender that is centered in the middle of the Male-Female-Neutrois trinary. ./. End PT]

Etymology

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From Latin, "Tri-", a prefix meaning "Three" + "Inter" meaning "Between" + "-i", an English neologistic suffix indicating genderness. Literally "between the three". Coined by Gent (Gender-Jargon) (link) in March 2024.

Elaboration

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Trinteri was created as a result of this post (link) by @your-bigender-big-brother (link). The post posed the question, "what gender quality is right in the center of the trinary?". Most replied, including myself, neutrangity, while others cited epicenity or neutrœmmity, but the more I thought about it, the more I began to feel like these suggested designations were only approximate and didn't quite get to the root of the question.

As Stormy said emself in eir essay (link) ey wrote, the Gender Trinary contains qualities aside from masculinity, femininity and androgyny. Aside from these three, some others are effeminacy, femmulinity, epicenity, neutrommity, neutremmity, neutrœmmity, gynxemity, androxulinity, gyndroxity, neutrangity, tomboyishness and janegirlishness, to name a couple. This got me thinking, which lead me to coin Trinteri as a centrigender that includes the entire Gender Trinary.

Here is the graphic that Stormy included with eir question, which I edited to add Trinteri in the center for reference:

[Image Id: a graphical representation of the Gender Trinary. It is a down-pointing triangle with the left corner labeled "masculine", the right corner labeled "feminine" and the downward-facing point labeled "neutral". Between masculine and feminine, feminine and neutral and masculine and neutral are double-pointing arrows. In the left corner, there is a point labeled "Man". In the right corner, there is a point labeled "Woman". In the downward-facing point, there is a point labeled "Neutrois". Between "Man" and "Woman" is a point labeled "Androgyne". Between "Neutrois" and "Man" is a point labeled "Neutromme". Between "Neutrois" and "Woman" is a point labeled "Neutremme". In the very center, circled and pointed to by a large arrow is a point labeled "Trinteri", which is located at the very center of the diagram. ./. End ID]

I propose the term trinterinity to refer to the quality of gender that is located in the very center of the Gender Trinary. I would be very interested to hear about Stormy's thoughts on this post to see if ey agree, if I missed the mark or if ey have any other kind of feedback for me.

Trinteri is can be considered a midtrinary aporagender. Trinteri is:

a single, specific non-binary identity.

located in the very center of the Gender Trinary of Male-Female-Neutrois.

a centrigender of all trinary gender qualities.

[PT: a single, specific non-binary identity. located in the very center of the Gender Trinary of Male-Female-Neutrois. a centrigender of all trinary gender qualities. ./. End PT]

Trinteri is quite similar to, but distinct from Neutrangi, Neutrœmme and Epicene:

[PT: Trinteri is quite similar to, but distinct from Neutrangi, Neutroemme and Epicene: ./. End PT]

Neutrangi

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Neutrangi and Trinteri are both in between Male, Female (rationalized as Androgyne) and Gender-Neutral, but Trinteri is also centered/in between all other trinary genders.

Neutrœmme

[PT: Neutroemme ./. End PT]

Neutrœmme and Trinteri are both in between Male, Female (rationalized as Femache) and Gender-Neutral, but is also centered/in between all other trinary genders.

Epicene

[PT: Epicene ./. End ID]

Epicene is a gender related to Male-Female indeterminance, having characteristics of both Maleness and Femaleness and/or having no characteristics indicative of Maleness or Femaleness. Epicene is a relatively complicated identity, as it can be considered masculine, feminine, androgynous, neutral and a sort of genderless all-in-one.

Both Trinteri and Epicene encompass experiences of masculinity, femininity, androgyny and neutrality, but Trinteri involves all other trinary identities as well. Trinteri is explicitly a centrigender, where as Epicene is generally considered not to be. Epicene is definitively indeterminate with regards to the Male-Female binary, but Trinteri may or may not be indeterminate in it's nature.

Pride Flag

[PT: Pride Flag ./. End PT]

The Trinteri pride flag was created by the coiner at the same time of the term (Gent, GJ, 3/24). The flag consists of three down-pointing chevrons of the same size, with negative space above, between chevrons and to the left and right bottom corner of the flag. The top negative space is very light green. The left-botton negative space is very light pink. The right-bottom negative space is very light blue. The chevrons from top to bottom are indigo, grey and teal with very light grey in between. The colors have the following meanings:

The very light-green negative space represents neutrinity.

The very light-pink negative space represents femininity.

The very light-blue negative space represents masculinity.

The purple chevron represents androgyny.

The grey chevron represents neutremmity.

The teal chevron represents neutrommity.

The very light grey negative space between the chevrons represents the center of the Gender Trinary.

[PT: The very light-green negative space represents neutrinity. The very light-pink negative space represents femininity. The very light-blue negative space represents masculinity. The purple chevron represents androgyny. The grey chevron represents neutremmity. The teal chevron represents neutrommity. The very light grey negative space between the chevrons represents the center of the Gender Trinary. ./. End PT]

[aplanterofthought]

It’s been a year since I’ve sat down and typed like this..all my previous posts are pretty new agey-but i dont care enough to delete them.

 I’ve been thinking a lot about each of our dual natures. Our feminine and our masculine. Our moon and our sun. balancing the two---The left hand path is our spiritual, our inner light, our intuition. The right hand path is our material, our external light, our logic. In our physical lives, tuition is something we use to gain knowledge in Universities, through a degree...a course. In our spiritual lives, intuition is something we use to gain knowledge of our Universe, 360 degrees, a source....My focus is balancing the two, respectfully. Symbolically, these are the hands in prayer. The two come together in front of the heart in solidarity. im a little obsessed with understanding the science to it all----best described by people like George Gurdjeiff, Rudolf Steiner, Ouspensky, Mark Hedsel, and Boris Mouravieff and a ton of others. 

I think we feed the moon.  We are not “sun food”, because the sun doesn’t take. The moon acts as a magnet...It pushes and pulls. Inhales and exhales? Inhales a specific energy and exhales a certain “power”  or “command” that keeps the mechanical aspects of us in order. Which is Gurdjeiffs whole gig.  Fourth Way initiate, Rodney Collin explained that, “because our body was largely made of water and the moon pulls on water to create the ocean tides, our bodies are made to move in similar but more complicated ways through hydraulic principles”. Gurdjeiff explains the moon as pretty much an earth baby, that its a developing planet still in a type of cosmic womb connected to the earth via an etheric umbilical chord and that in life on earth, organic beings feed energy through this chord with unprovoked emotional turmoil and unconscious psychological suffering. Pre-meditated spiritual warfare is something interesting to consider, maybe we are intentionally influenced by corruption that easily feeds our undisciplined lower natures, creating a devastating spiritual divide within ourselves and consequently manifesting that imbalance through wars choreographed by elitists.  I wonder how the admitted dumping of aluminum into our atmosphere to “deflect the sun’s radiation” plays into all of this. It’s interesting to think about the role of “light” in developing countries, more specifically the SOURCE of that light. And how this effects our relationship to our moon. Before electricity, our lives went dark when the sun descended. And something beautiful happens then.......

A little bit of sun and moon-

The sun -male- It’s entire energy is all giving, all illuminating, selfless, healing. I’ve read that those closest to, or whom have reached “enlightenment”, not only appear brighter as en entity, but actually communicate with the Sun energetically. They resonate the same healing frequencies. Rudolf Steiner teaches that beings who reach this point can either chose to reincarnate on earth to become a teacher to others, or ascend to the sun. a being who’s energy is overwhelmingly in accord with logic, is less in touch with their intuition. They are more consumed by matter than spiritual, by action than non action. You hear people call materialistic people shallow because large bodies of water is a deeply rooted symbol for our consciousness. (Could the physical earth be an emanation of our “collective” spiritual awakenings? Land vs water? Maybe the mass of water is a symbol for how little we understand about our consciousness?) People in the extreme of logic may have no connection to the spirit, deny any existence of spirit at all. I’m not saying i think “enlightened beings” are materialistic. Enlightenment sounds like a fine inner alchemy, and becoming an entity which no longer takes energy, but becomes a beacon of light...to help save those who have forgotten their silence, or forgotten their voice. They become the light that guides us back to our center.

On the other hand, the moon, representing our intuition/imagination/creative/sensual feminine sides, is (as is the point) equally important. With the absence of light, we are forced to develop our intuition. Without the light of an exterior world, or the use of our external eyes/sight we see through our in-site. Our third eye?  This is how we sense danger, how we develop our inner voice, our relationship to ether/astral planes, communication with our “spirit guides”/our clairvoyance...our senses that are directly effected by the non-physical realms. Is our intuition 1 sense? or a multitude of senses. 

Just the same, spiritually “addicted” people, have little or no interest or relationship to their material lives, or the material world. If ones attention is left leaning, they will lack attachment or concern to the physical world....physical life, nature, or their duties as people in a physical world. The in between, specifically exactly in between, are those who have chosen the middle way. Jesus found the middle way. So did Buddha. This is Christ Consciousness or Buddha Nature. To find the middle way is to balance both sides. We are here on earth, our experience is human, and that experience is of dual nature. Masculine and Feminine. The inner and the outer. The receiving and the giving. The action and non action, the doing and not doing, the being and not being. Actor, and the audience. The is and the isn't. 

Back to life before electricity, how about life before fire? I read something outstanding about fire and language that ill write about in my semantics/etymology post. But how has artificial light effected our spiritual evolution? The sun goes down and our lights go on. An enormous amount of darkness has no longer become an issue for peoples in developed countries. Its the shadows that question our logic. The shadows that define our strengths and fears, its an absolute yin and yang--this entire thing. Some of us are so disconnected to nature simply by working inside during the day, and staying in our homes during the night. Not only has our relationship to nature been fractured, our relationship to the darkness is ironically fading into it’s own shadow...the dark side of darkness. the dark side of the moon? And this is where i think a very abstract personality of the moon develops. What if the moon had it’s own yin and yang? And what if our emotional states, as a human race, were feeding into it’s own imbalance? 

In these mystery schools, some talk about the moon being a kind of cosmic “house cleaning”, and that without its’ absorption of our toxic emotions/energy....earth would become a spiritual wasteland. Rudolf Steiner explains that the moon used to be apart of the earth, and in fact the sun did as well....Since I, personally, have doubts about the physical reality of space and our galaxy the way we are taught...I lean more toward the expression that these planets are energetic realms, aspects of our emotions that we resonate with, and perhaps even tune in and out of  “alternate universes”, depending on how disciplined and balanced our energy centers within our bodies are. Steiners work is extremely complex and I have only breached his teachings, so I cant speak at length (yet) why exactly the sun and moon separated from earth. But to imagine these entities physically being united at one point, and then physically separating is odd...and a little difficult....how ever, it feels more likely to me, that the energetic separation could represent our stage of evolution. And since an emanation is a male and female product of something that is androgynous---it would make sense that the moon and sun would be that product. When the sun separated from earth, it was the BIRTH of the sun, the birth of light, the first time man saw himself, as well as his surroundings, thus developing is relationship to them. This was the birth of EGO. Because man saw HIMSELF for the first time. Maybe this was when we went from MAN (emanation/E-MAN-NATION/energy man/A Nation of energetic man) to a Human/HUE-MAN, a man of color/light being the source of color.  ----And the moon separated as well to function as some kind of dwelling for the aspect of ego that serves as a different kind of evolution.

does the moon have its own balance, and does the collective emotional bank of the human race offset it’s pendulum by the etheric feeding during our human experience? 

The moon used to have a different role, i believe it used to be a different teacher...or perhaps we have willed ourselves into a different student...back when we lived in sync with its cycles, we understood the nature of the moon, because it made us understand the nature of ourselves. We connected with it, and like the sun giving life to a plant through its light in the sky, it gave life to our inner growth through its’ glow in the night. But like all things, the further we separate ourselves, the less we understand it. And the less we understand something, the more fearful we become of it, and the more fearful we become of something, the more powerful does that something become. And the stronger that illusion, the tighter the chains that enslave us. The moon is no longer our teacher, like it used to be. It’s source of darkness, of shadows that frighten us, of cold winds that play tricks on our senses-used to sharpen our intuition, we’ve almost abandoned that side of us.  The artificial light in our lives has created a bizarre shift of consciousness.

How can we reconnect with our divine feminine? 

Spend more time outside in the dark. Go to bed an hour before you get tired and be alone with your thoughts. Meditate. Think more! Dont let steal creativity. Write more. Find ways to engage your intuitive side, search online ways to sharpen your intuition. Start noticing synchronicities, dejavus, start analyzing your dreams. Start to dissect your fears, our fears are just projections of the conflicts we have internally. Understand your relationship to things sensually. Find the comparisons with your inner and outer nature. Make the connections. Practice self discipline. Discipline will strengthen your connection to your spirit, because your only weakness is your mind. 

I think we’ve lost touch of our feminine, we have lost control/understanding and power over those energies and given them to the moon..i think there’s a much larger picture that’s happening to our evolution and perhaps our increasing abandonment of our spiritual side is creating a large shift of energy toward the moon. 

But there is also theories that the moon is a satellite, man made, or a hologram. I dont rule anything out. This was just one that i’ve explored most. Some old initiations of mystery schools required students to sacrifice a pig, where the ocean meets the land, under the moon. And obviously we have all heard about full moon sacrifices, even today. The old initiation that i read about, were to symbolize sacrificing the flesh/lower nature part of ourselves to the God’s of the underworld,, and giving our spirits to the moon.