In The Opinion Of My 8th House… Stabbed In Back? No Problem!
Hi Elsa,
Awhile back I read some advice you gave regarding betrayal. You wrote about the idea that if someone stabs you in the back, that knife is yours to keep forever.
Now I’ve been pondering this, but have yet to figure it out completely. Would you mind enlightening me a bit more with expanding on why keeping the knife is seen as beneficial?
A Reader
Great question, thank you. Sometimes I say these things, knowing they are home truths but not knowing no one knows what I am talking about!
First, I did not specify “back”. It has nothing to do with being stabbed in the back. I am talking about being stabbed, period. Because what happens when someone stabs you?
What happens is there is an energy exchange. If someone hits you, same thing. If someone oppresses you in any way they are giving you energy. If someone kisses you, same thing. They are transferring their energy to you and at the point they do the energy is yours and therefore it is yours to use.
I hold that energy is neutral until directed. So when this persons lashes out, you now have their energy and what you do with it is completely up to you. For the record, I learned this by being stabbed! Someone stabbed me when I was a kid. I was 15 and not in the mood to be injured so I pulled the knife out of my arm and just looked at the guy like this:
“What do you think you’re doing, fool? Who do you think you are stabbing, you stupid motherfucker? Me? Well that’s not going work…”
So think about that. He’s got all this rage, he sticks a knife in me and I immediately neutralize his energy. It was like a hard-on gone soft. And though I don’t know, I probably looked at him ad if to say, “Try that again and I’ll kill you.” He didn’t stab me again. And now it’s years later and I own that knife. Don’t you think? Who has the knife? Me? Or him? And don’t you think I’m just a tad fearless courtesy that experience?
So that is what I did with that energy as opposed to letting it crush me. As opposed to spending the next twenty years in abusive relationships, getting re-victimized. But let me come back with another example, not so extreme. Because this phenomena happens every day all around you and if you can get hip to this, the benefits are endless.
Are you adept at transforming negative energy? Tell us.
the o’jays-back stabbers

16 Responses to “In The Opinion Of My 8th House… Stabbed In Back? No Problem!”
Oh and I like the image of the hard-on gone soft, because it’s exactly that: you make them impotent.
great post
I was stabbed just last week, actually. By a Scorpio who’s waited two years… All that was left to wonder was what form it would take. No biggie, it turned out. I saw this one coming for several months…:p
My Sun is in Virgo/8th; My reaction most of the time is very similar to yours, Elsa.
I just don’t do revenge. Wonder if this is one of the the fundamental differences between 8th house suns and solar Scorpios? Not all Scorpios do revenge, I’m sure;) But I know many of them and they all take revenge - eventually. I tend to trust that most people learn from their mistakes without my help - but then again, I’m terribly naive in many respects. Currently taking a lesson in realpolitik (Pluto in Cap square my Mercury).
I suck on candy canes till the ends are sharpened then *POOSH*
ho ho ho.
It’s a very valuable lesson and one it took me years to learn. My sun-pluto conj and scorpio rising could have led me down a way different path. I am feral in battle but I must pick very carefully or I end up destroying myself.
Is that a Scorpio/Pluto/8th thing - transforming negative stuff?
Anyway, that post reminded me of this zen story.
Is that a Scorpio/Pluto/8th thing - transforming negative stuff?
yes. all energy - any energy which means the meaner you are the luckier I get. ![]()
I think that the evolved expression of that scorpio knife is to use it on the energy connection between you, not the actual person. that way you leave no knife behind, and no trail. stealth.
Jilly, thanks for that link! I saw some of myself in another story there:
http://www-usr.rider.edu/~suler/zenstory/selfcontrol.html
“I am feral in battle but I must pick very carefully or I end up destroying myself” GAH. me too. Must be my Mars opposed Pluto.
what bothers me more is when i feel like they’re trying to suck me dry… pull away my energy..
which seems far easier to do with words…
“i feel like they’re trying to suck me dry… pull away my energy..”
I always feel it’s meant to be and largely complementary.
Or when someone quietly provokes you into slapping their face and you realize they’ve won, it’s a reference to when Uriah Heep provokes David Copperfield to slapping him.
i like how you think, and i am going to use this, thanks!
Ahh… this is SO great. I love these ass-kicking lessons that you dispense.
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Oh yes. I know about this. Same experience here which saved me from …well rape probably. Looked the guy with the knife who said he was going to kill me in the eye and kindly asked him to try it on someone else. He left. I was 17. I wonder whether I would have the guts now. Seems that you need to keep practicing these skills. (but I pray not in those circumstances)