right now, Im feeling a bit pissed off with all these people who insist that staying in the love and light is the only place to be. Be positive, dont focus on the negative. Bla bla bla. But I like studying the darkside of life and humanity, my own darkness. It intrigues me, I love following its trail back to its root. Why is it just seen as a negative and not the flip side of positive? Reality? Part of life? I love burning down to the ashes of self and reinventing, reinvigorating, evolving with some new perspective, insight, wisdom. As a scorpio woman who has spent quite a large amount of life in the darker recesses.. do the shiny shiny people not just shit you to tears? Or am I just jealous of them for their constant friggin happiness? I for one think humans need a good dose of hardship to make them better people, give them perspective. I have experienced a lot of grief, which inturn makes me appreciate life as (one example) or is this just rationalising my own behaviour? Probably.
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Fri, March 14, 2008 - 11:12 PM>>>
I love burning down to the ashes of self and reinventing, reinvigorating, evolving with some new perspective, insight, wisdom.
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I feel that...
I don't think anyone is always happy... I can appreciate really positive seeming people because I do think they radiate good vibes though...
I think It's cool when a person can can put things that are bothering them aside when they are around people... -
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Fri, March 14, 2008 - 11:29 PMyeah me too.. Im not always able to do it though.. I lived in Japan for a while and its the rules (please take what I say with a grain of salt.. there is always humour in what I say even though most people dont see it. especially in text only stuff) to always always present yourself as happy, which I struggled with on the odd occasion. Its interesting though my best friend is a scorp who is more honest with her inner self in public than me, and sometimes I just wanna shake her out of the spot she is in, but at the same time I just know she is just ruminating her inner thoughts and workings through stuff and is not expecting me to make her feel better.. and I would rather see that than a false facade. I wanna know all of her and I love that she shows me that, the realness of her, good and bad. And she does the same for me. Its a wonderful friendship. And I get that other people dont want to have to deal with that, I of course I try to spare people that. But I think if people were prepared to go to that place more, just as something to discuss then maybe people would be able to resolve more stuff rather than just sweep it under the carpet.
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Sat, March 15, 2008 - 12:00 AMno smelk its not a rationalizing of behavior ...you're quite right ... and I feel the same way ... I've about fucking HAD it with the endless new age metaphysical sunshine coming out their ass types here on Tribe and elsewhere......
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Sat, March 15, 2008 - 1:23 AMha ha you make me laugh.. see there, darkness makes me smile. Its funny, and true.. metaphysical sunshine coming out there ass.. I can just visualise it
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Sat, March 15, 2008 - 7:31 AM"endless new age metaphysical sunshine coming out their ass types here on Tribe and elsewhere...... "
INDEED.
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Sat, March 15, 2008 - 2:36 AMI agree that darkness is necessary and not inherently bad, and as a feminist especially, I think we need to honor the "dark" side, because it's also the feminine side.
But... I still don't think it's cool to use scorpion powers of control and manipulation to hurt other people without justification. A lot of Scorps make themselves judges of human behavior, and if another wee earthling doesn't stack up to their standards, it's off with their heads. I have experienced this kind of manipulative, insane, warrantless behavior and I certainly didn't do anything to deserve it. I was just a handy tool for this particular Scorp to get what they wanted/needed. Not cool... and probably not what you meant anyway, but still... -
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Sat, March 15, 2008 - 4:13 AMno that wasn't what I was talking about at all.
But sure if you want to go there, Im sure we as humans all part-take in that kind of behaviour, not just scorps. i had some pretty bad run ins with people who happen to be aquarians, gemini's, virgos, sag's, capricorns, taureans'.... but that's life. Why do people do the things they do? I dunno. Some people are afraid, insecure, jealous, dont know any better, who knows really. Im sure there are some that control and mainpulate without justification.. but Im sure in their mind they believe they are justified as much as you believe they arent. The world is full of complicated human beings. I dont think you can just tell people there behaviour is bad without finding the root of it. What their motivation is. And with that you need to delve into their darkest most inner world. Everyone has a reason for doing things, but half the time Im sure they dont even know what it is because they havent looked deep enough. -
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Sun, March 16, 2008 - 12:10 AMYes, we can all do that. But that intense power to control/manipulate is generally considered a Scorpio trait. And we all have some degree of Scorpio in us, because we all have an 8th house. I personally have a Venus in Scorpio and Uranus in Scorpio, and I know my Venus has lead me to do some shitty things. And those shitty things were not justified... they were selfish. I was using my power for evil. Which isn't okay. -
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Sun, March 16, 2008 - 1:31 AMHmm I've got a bad Scorpio I have to deal with on quite a regular basis. Rather an un-evolved one, dark, very dark. Manipulative, self-centered, arrogant, controlling, vindictive and enjoys vengeance, every drops of it. Don't really like him being around me as it vigorously stirs up the dark side of me I care to forget and put behind. But he seems to knows exactly which of my buttons to push, to his own unforeseen destructions. -
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Sun, March 16, 2008 - 1:45 AM"to his own unforeseen destructions."
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Sun, March 16, 2008 - 3:48 AMjeeze you guys really have it in for scorps... thats pretty dark in itself. How is it any nicer to be bagging out scorps based on generalisations? Maybe they are just assholes fullstop. -
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Sun, March 16, 2008 - 3:48 AMthe people you are referring to.. -
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Sun, March 16, 2008 - 9:14 AMwe were both referring to the scorpio within ourselves, actually. I mean, I also was talking aboutt a different woman in my first post,, but in the later post it was obviously about myself, and the other guy was talking *just* about his own scorpio self. when he said "I have a bad scorpio," he was talking about the scorpio in his chart, not someone he knew.
And also... I think there are a lot of wonderful things about scorpio as well. But controlling and manipulative are not the good Scorpio traits.. There are good and bad traits to every sign. I would never judge someone just upon learning that they're a Scorpio. In fact, this guy I know from an activist conference is a Scorp and I have a big old crush on him. With my Venus in Scorpio, that intensity is pretty attractice in a romantic partner. Also, one of my fave and most respected friends is a Sun Scorpio, another Venus Scorpio, and another Moon Scorpio. . And Scorpios can be super loyal friends.
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Sun, March 16, 2008 - 11:27 AMi love my scorpio nature and would not trade it for anything
boo yaa
come get some intensity
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Mon, March 17, 2008 - 1:25 AMME? Controlling and Manipulative? NEVER!!!!!!
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Mon, March 17, 2008 - 1:29 AMi've got some scorpio intensity...
but i don't appreciate manipulation. two different things. i love scorpio nature too (intense is terrific, especially for love/sex), but manipulation and friendship do not mesh! I'm not implying that all or even most Scorpios are like that ( in fact, only one of the ones I know has been), but the way she wielded the bad side of Scorpio was not okay.
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Mon, March 17, 2008 - 2:49 AM[Smelkstar]
"do the shiny shiny people not just shit you to tears?"
Sometimes, though just because they're not on my road, it doesn't mean they're on the wrong road.
"Or am I just jealous of them for their constant friggin happiness?"
Maybe, if they are on doses of constant happiness then they're either crazy or lying. Rainbow would be so boring with only one color, so let them paint. They have their roles in the whole grand scheme of EmoSystem.
"which inturn makes me appreciate life as (one example) or is this just rationalising my own behaviour? Probably."
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Mon, March 17, 2008 - 2:55 AMjoke people joke
of course Im manipulative and whatever else. Im shiny, Im dark, im jealous, im happy, im sunny, im rainbow, im a good person, Im bad. Im everything. Im human. -
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Mon, June 2, 2008 - 11:04 AMHey everyone, now wait just one minute here - Smelkstar's Universe knows what he's talking about.
I agree with the notion that being "happy" all the time, is plain backwards. What is it with society and their unrational fear of the 'dark'? We are continually conditioned to be happy all the time and that's unhealthy. It's stupid.
You need the dark, to see the light, and appreciate it. In the dark is where the answers lay. But you have to find them. Especially about oneself. Don't be afraid of it- accept it, and work through it. Sometimes when you have a problem, the only way to fix it is to go into the dark, and deal with it, this time you will come out more healed.
I think people are afraid of the dark because they are scared about what they will learn about themselves. I am not going to go through my life afraid of my darkside, I want to understand it. And isn't that what Scorpio's want most? To be understood. In every case, we should start with ourselves.
Fuck, I hate it when people get so afraid of dark emotions, it's what makes us human! -
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Mon, June 2, 2008 - 4:45 PMSmelkstar is a fem-ale Jen
get it str8
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Thu, July 3, 2008 - 7:30 AMI smile when Im angry....grrrrr lol
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Mon, June 2, 2008 - 4:14 PMsome of them are unhappy but haven't got a clue. really.
and a lot of them are happy to be manipulated and controlled.
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Sun, June 29, 2008 - 2:08 AMonce upon a time, i was there too. the positive optimistic people i couldn't stand seeing one bit.
and the darkness is where i believe i still am. not the cold, gloomy place where everyone see is evil.
but the darkness is where no one can see but I.
i believe there's two worlds, one is where the sun is, the other is where the mind is.
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Wed, July 2, 2008 - 8:07 PMI can't stand when people tell me that as well. If I wanted the la-la postive police I would look for them.
I think it's good to explore that. And you can't have one without the other. -
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Wed, July 2, 2008 - 10:35 PMi don't focus on the negative, but i ain't gonna bullshit myself about it either, a shit day is a shit day. and a good day is a good day. i think sometimes that those people who just must verbally accoust you into positivity, are people whom may not be dealing with stuff in their own reality. -
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Thu, July 3, 2008 - 10:19 AMi find it interesting that as soon as darkness is mentioned people start talking about 'bad' and 'good'
have you ever murmured to a lover in the darkness and felt undulating mysteries unfold?
in the darkness only clear sight is deprived - all the other senses are heightened.
...and when the nails and teeth come out... hehehe
bad?good? *shrug*
i do find all the 'oh the light, oh the light, be in the light' to be tiresome crap.
i do love the light - but i get 'sun' burnt ya know, and by 'eyes' get sore.
for the most part - especially coming from the meta-fluffy type - the light is just 'pretty' and 'nice'
and i have a taste for the mysterious, unfathomable depths.
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Thu, July 3, 2008 - 12:27 PMI think darkness is part of the process. Isn't it the ultimate goal to get to the light?
I also believe that one can't exist without the other. To stay all 'lightheaded" would be dillusional and I would suspect one of hiding something, or like someone else said - clueless. Ignorance is bliss.
Fact - going all the way down to the depths of darkness definitely helps to see the light truly.
But darkness is not meant to live in forever. Or should I say (I) - as in Sunshine- don't want to be in the darkness forever. Just enough to appreciate the light.
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Thu, July 3, 2008 - 3:43 PMI agree with Sunshine, without darkness there is no light
Maybe the people who avoid or neglect the dark side , can never know the true beauty of its opposite
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Thu, July 3, 2008 - 11:17 PM"How about people who believe they are always good?"
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Thu, July 3, 2008 - 11:21 PMthe word "lucifer" translates to lightbringer. -
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Thu, July 3, 2008 - 11:24 PMit is actually a corruption of the term 'lucificias', or 'ornament of brightness'. -
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Fri, July 4, 2008 - 2:29 AM'ornament of brightness'.
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Fri, July 4, 2008 - 11:55 AMIt comes from a book called "A true and faithful account of what passed for many years between dr. dee and some spirits"", meric causabon, facsimile of the 1658 edition. the accounting of the angelic forces are different than the typical christian point of view. the book concerns itself with angelic language, syntax and grammar. the language is supposed to be the original, descended from the time of the patriarch enoch.
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Fri, July 4, 2008 - 2:44 AMLucifer was Gods most beautiful angel. According to the Hebrew text he was Gods lawyer. He would witness mans sins to god and report them back to him. This is what he still does today. Lucifer left god for his own kingdom. But any learned man knows that Michael defeats Lucifer every time. Michael is God’s infinite angel. All Lucifer does is report back to God mans sins. Lucifer wants you all to lose. Call Michael to defeat him. It works every time. Michael is supreme and infant. If I may suggest a book by Rudolf Steiner called The Archangel Michael His Mission and Ours. It is a very cosmic book that goes beyond thinking and into the universe. -
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Fri, July 4, 2008 - 10:10 AMi do not trust old texts .
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Fri, July 4, 2008 - 4:04 PM"How about people who believe they are always good?
That's someone with good intentions, but even with good intentions, most of us mortals have a blind spot or two.
To see 'em would take a moment of darkness....
The movie The Matrix seems to fit somewhere in this discussion....
It's no wonder the sign that would govern a soaring eagle and transformation, also will govern all hidden psychological depths, or the darkness. -
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Fri, July 4, 2008 - 4:12 PMSmelkstar are you jealous? I don't think you're jealous, maybe irritated because you know there's more to it.
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Sat, July 5, 2008 - 1:51 AMsynerGy is this to me?
do not trust old texts .
dont believe the hype ...
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