Hi Peter! I can possibly provide some insight here - I have a fairly static hormonal balance, as all of my hormonal intake is artificial (I am a trans woman who takes hormonal medication every day). I can say with some confidence that hormonal changes don't really have much of an effect on anything beyond emotional perception and physiological changes (usually discomfort). Sometimes I'll accidentally miss a day or two of meds, and I can be either extra sensitive or far less sensitive the next day or so as a result (or just absolutely regular). Sometimes I'll have stomach issues as well, but I don't think my basic mode of cognitively processing information changes at all.

I CAN say though, with some confidence, that going from having testosterone as my main hormonal neurotransmitter to estrogen and progesterone certainly DID effect my cognition. I remember feeling like my very thought structures were changing, like the architecture of my mind was being slightly rearranged. Emotions became far easier to access, and far harder to suppress or ignore at first. Not sure if that helps, but it's an interesting side-note.

I also for a little while tinkered with creating a homonal cycle for myself, where I mapped out dosages for different hormones for each day to create a typical cycle for myself that lasted about 28 days. I can tell you that emotionally things certainly felt a bit different along the cycle, and I also felt a good deal of physical discomfort when my hormonal levels suddenly dipped at the end of the cycle, but I don't think it translated to my base vultology.

Also, this may seem obvious, but I've lived with other women all my life and I can also tell you that it isn't typically obvious where any given person is at in their hormonal cycle by just talking to them. When somebody menstruates, their general levels of all hormones are low - this sudden change in levels can make somebody have headaches, aches and pains, and gastrointestinal issues for about a week until their levels begin to rise again. While this can make somebody uncomfortable and in general feel pretty awful, I don't believe it would change anybody's innate vultology or emotional attitude. Obviously this would depend on the individual however! I personally find that seelie-ness and unseelie-ness change depending on situation throughout my day. If I feel I can be vulnerable with the people around me, I will typically be emotionally unguarded, and vice versa. I've honestly kind of trained myself to switch between them at will if I need to or want to, though by default I trend toward guardedness and unseelie-ness.

I hope this helps and provides some insight!

get outta my bawx

@fayest42 shortest video i could find to get the point across.
i go around teaching ppl how to speak from their diaphragm for a living (jk lol). it's amazing how some ppl just puff nothing out. just stand straight chest out speak jeezus.
dont feel down just be a strong force, i think kiddos need that, especially now with recent/current events. they will appreciate when older + also know how to recognise strength in themselfs. unseelie=is not mean.

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also to see, as i believe that sometimes they are trying to describe/locate similar things to CT , Masculine and Feminine Sensory  - energies

Interestingly, I'm not sure that being unseelie translates to being thick-skinned, or at least it doesn't for me. I was always a thin-skinned sensitive kid, and I still am as an adult. I know the whole seelie vs unseelie thing is a spectrum though, and I seem to recall from my report that I'm not super far over on the unseelie side, so maybe that's why I still have my sensitivity. Similarly, I have a really hard time speaking loudly. When I was a kid, I did theater, and I was *constantly* being told to speak up. As an adult, I worked for a while as a standardized patient where I was being videotaped doing practice interactions with students in med school, and again, I was constantly being told I needed to be louder because they couldn't hear me on the videotape.

In regard to the thing about how unseelie ≠ being mean, I don't typically think of myself as a mean person, but it was being mean that was a problem for me today with my kids. Or at least, acting annoyed with them and arguing instead of being more understanding and patient. I do agree that there are situations where unseelieness is an advantage. But the pattern I can sometimes get into of acting annoyed with my kid doesn't seem to have any advantages. Maybe trying to be more seelie isn't necessarily the answer to that problem though. Or at least not the only answer.

@sierrarose You're right, thanks for this reminder. I think I also tend to get irritable with my kids because they are around so often and asking for my attention so often. As an FiNe, I'm an introverted person whose default state is basically being in my own head. Extraverting takes an energetic toll. So having what sometimes feels like constant interruptions of my internal focus can be difficult to cope with.

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About Seelie --> Unseelie transformation. Maybe it's an already known correlation, however, my supposition is that this transformation could easily be influenced by life experiences and, at a larger scale,  by social transformations.