The word "exaltation" in translation from Latin means "rise". In psychology, it is understood as an enthusiastic, extremely agitated mental state of a person, which, at times, can border on psychosis.
Exalted personality
By exaltation, some mistakenly mean pretentiousness in clothes, some kind of special external chic in a person, distinguishing him from the surrounding gray mass. While exaltation is a character trait, temperament, and hence - demeanor and, to a certain extent, a person's lifestyle.
Sociologists interpret the concept of "exaltation" as an excited, enthusiastic state, painful animation. There is such an expression: "go into exaltation." A similar state is inherent in artistic natures who live on emotions. They are extremely impressionable. Love for nature, art, worldview searches can capture an exalted personality to the core. They deeply experience the failures of their relatives and people close to them, just acquaintances, at a time when the victims themselves do not see the tragedy as being so large-scale. Compassion for an animal, lonely and unhappy in their eyes, can also drive such people to despair. An exalted lady in a fit of compassion is able to pick up an "abandoned" kitten on the street and take home, and the next day, after he "made a puddle" in her shoe, internally tormented and hiding from prying eyes, she will carry it back.
Also, the term "exaltation" refers to a short-term period of increased excitability of the nervous and muscular tissues, followed by a phase of somewhat reduced excitability. Changes in mood, enthusiasm and disappointment are characteristic of people of this type. They are talkative, often argue, but rarely slide into open conflicts.
Mass exaltation
The state of exaltation can simultaneously cover large groups of people in the form of spontaneous excitement to certain events - fire, earthquake, other natural and social phenomena. The ecstatic, extremely agitated state of the masses can be induced artificially. For example, the phenomenon of mass exaltation manifests itself at concerts of pop stars, during and after major sporting events.
Exaltation in astrology
Astrologers also use the term "exaltation". For them, it means the position of the planet in a certain part of its trajectory, path. A planet in exaltation means the planet is not at home, not in its abode. She is “visiting” and at the same time at work. Its effect on the zodiac sign is different. It is believed that if in the monastery the planet acts on an intuitive-instinctive level, then in exaltation - on an emotional-sensual level.