Better to be angry than sad is what I’m thinking on the subway ride home.
Sadness has its place, yes. But there’s this one variety of it… it sucks you dry, no blood left to boil all that potential anger in and make your meal.
I had a moment today. I didn’t mind. (Did I?) My friend minded, being on the receiving end, but a funny thing happened. I mean, I had a realization.
Las Vegas, my trip way out west, changed me. But you already knew that. Spend 7 days and nights with a Scorpio (stellium) and you will come home changed.
Did being on the receiving end of his Scorpio probing give me carte blanche to forever now misbehave and push others too hard, like he did me?
No. But I am more comfortable now with my nature, which at times will tear down foundations, expectations, security… to build it up again.
Actually, I think I don’t push hard enough. I don’t dig under the limit. Or maybe my friend today would disagree. Hmm. It happens so fast. The storm.
Remember, readers of mine from a year ago, or more, how I used to write about this stuff all the time?
Yeah. That’s exactly what it is, what it was. I have Mars in Cancer. I stop too soon. When you stop too soon, you miss opportunities over and over and over. Stopping too soon can take the form of… walking away or turning off the drill. My Scorpio friend, he kept the drill on high.
In either case, if you are a Moon Pluto person, if Pluto touches your emotional nature, emotional body, in any way at all, you likely know what the hell I’m talking about here. And if not? Be grateful 🙂
It’s a Richard and Linda Thompson kind of night. I would have posted a YouTube of Beat the Retreat for you but could only find a live version (which I don’t like). If you have Spotify though, it’s there.
Love, MP
7 thoughts on “For MoonPluto People And Anyone Else Caring For Their Intense Emotions”
I HATE when people try to push me for their own purposes. Its very difficult to make me angry because when I’m truly angry I say vile things and I’m liable to make an absolute mess of a situation because of it. Mars-Pluto builds up like a dormant volcano that eventually destroys part of a city. Anger certainly does serve its purpose in giving me a purpose but I try to avoid it these days with these intense skies.
Good topic.:) My Aquarius Moon is quincunx Pluto and squares my 3-planet Scorpio conjunction. For me, it all depends on *why* someone is pushing and probing, what their motives are and how much spiritual integrity they have. I think we all need to be sensitive and discerning when it comes to timing and *how* we approach people. There’s very little point in trying to convince someone of something they’re not interested in, ready to hear or don’t value – it’s draining. Sometimes, just to satisfy the demands of my conscience, I put it out there anyway, then let it go. If the level of someone’s denial seems harmful, then either I detach and move closer to shore (away from deeper water), or I enlist the help of more powerful forces.:)
I just got in a big discussion with a good friend of mine (an Aries Sun, Cancer Moon and Rising) about what LOVE looks and feels like in healthy relationships. I told him I think love is more than an emotion and therefore involves action and sometimes discomfort or pain, which is not the same thing as causing harm. I expect to challenge and be challenged by the people who truly love me – either because they care about me *or* because they care about something bigger than me. I agree about anger, Aliza. So long as I check myself first, my anger can sometimes serve as a guide, especially when it comes to injustice or abuse. It takes a lot to get me angry.
I have a feeling you don’t mean this, so this is off topic, because I’m really mad about something extraneous, a Libra pushing me (in a Virgo way) and me angrily resisting to the point where his “shoulds” don’t do the potential good they could do, but if you mean trying to remove someone’s emotional exoskeleton to reveal the bones because you feel they need to be cleansed, (like, for instance, trying to push someone “clearly in denial” out of the closet) that is something I vehemently disagree with. I myself have a Crab stellium and deeply resent when people feel the need to bring my emotional (especially physical!) evolution to where they think I should be. Who is to know what someone else needs? Bringing someone to an uncomfortable place emotionally is something that requires their consent. I always support Scorpios in their need to go deep into their emotions and let themselves feel in order to metamorphose. My 8th house friends are people I have told that they are not strange or different to do that. But, in that way, I am also respecting the sanctity of how they deal with their emotions even if they are ostensibly stagnant and stuck in a rut I can see, at least I try to.
Oooh thanks for your thoughts, D. Very potent. Great points.
AND you made me realize something, which is always valuable to me, D…. that I think my Scorpio friend was trying to make HIMSELF feel. By penetrating me (and not always kindly) … as though he were…. as an experiment per se…. trying to make himself feel human again. This is not acceptable. And is not my approach and yet…
That said – i’m not sure I agree about the consent part because discoveries are made…. by surprise, all of a sudden. They happen too fast for permission.
I have Sun/Pluto but my sun is in Cancer so I do know something about what you’re talking about, I think. I often don’t push hard enough for fear of pushing someone right off a cliff.