His Scorpio Moon and My 8th House… Psychic Defense And The Subconscious
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“I’ve got a pretty good psychic shield,” the soldier said. “Yeah, I’ve got a shield up and it’s damned good.
“Yeah?”
“Well no one has ever been able to penetrate it… not once has my shield ever been penetrated.”
“In your life?”
“In my life. If there is a someone out there who can… well there is no one out there who can penetrate my shield though many tried, the stupid bastards.”
“Are they stupid?”
“If they think they can penetrate my shield, then they’re stupid. Smart people know they’re not getting in, they figure it out right away if they even try in the first place.”
He stated this matter-of-factly and it’s not the first time he’s talked about this.
Today I brought up the occurrence after we watched The Green Berets that weekend… it was the second time I’d broached the subject since the day itself and he is inordinately uncomfortable and I realized why,
That weekend the soldier stumbled on something in his psyche he did not know was there, I witnessed this and I don’t know think this happens to soldier very often - maybe never. He prefers to discover things in private, know them and think about them deeply over a period of time before he ever reveals them IF he reveals them.
I have a really good map of my psyche too. I have no awareness of having or not having a psychic shield. I don’t really think I need one because people are always poking my hologram anyway. This Leonard Cohen line from Tower Of Song applies:
“So you can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll
I’m very sorry, baby, doesn’t look like me at all
I’m standing by the window where the light is strong…”
And while I don’t feel exactly the way the soldier does it is easy for me to understand how a person would not want huge chunks of their psyche breaking loose… have things that change their entire paradigm surface when someone is sitting there looking them in the eye.
It’s happened to me and while I am not bugged out like he is, these times are definitely never forgotten.
Do you have a psychic shield? Ever have a witness when something in your psyche broke loose? How did you feel about it? What was the (ultimate) result?
11 Responses to “His Scorpio Moon and My 8th House… Psychic Defense And The Subconscious”
I do.
I work(ed) in the delivery business, and I was in and out of elevators with mirrors all day long, but could never look in them with other people watching. I was fascinated by people who could.
One day I bumped into a lawyer I knew, and watched him as he preened in front of the mirror, completely oblivious to me. I thought “Wow, that’s so weird he can do that in front of me,not embarrassed.” Suddenly this horrible childhood experience (there was a mirror involved) came back to me like a tidal wave. It was highly disturbing but also very therapeutic to work through it all.
Mind you, that was just the beginning of Pluto conjunct my ASC. There were more incidents like that. I honestly felt for a time I was reliving everything that had every happened to me. Weird.
Was wondering if you could elaborate a little more by what you mean by a “psychic shield”? Do you mean not letting others read your thoughts, or your moods?
Oh well, than I do not have one. I have little skills in covering up what I am thinking, or feeling. If I don’t like you, you know, and of course, the opposite is true too. I would never (not ever) cut it in the corporate world - I can’t “play the game”.
What I feel is written all over my face and it is a matter of integrity for me that I be real. However, if I want to keep something hidden as in ‘don’t cast pearls before swine’ I am inpenetrable! I mean that in the sense that if someone is trying to be familiar with me and I don’t respect them I just don’t allow the connection. No entry! Scorpio rising to thank for that I think.
My shield is so intense I’ve tried to respond three different times to this and each time had to delete what I’d written! It freaks me out that I may really be that protective of myself, even online with people I don’t know and will not impact much on either way. How much of it is my planets and how much my life expereinces, and how much my planets working in with my life expereinces (and so on with that circular thinking ad infinitum) 
I can’t hide anything; everything I do is broadcast, like Dorothy up there. If I don’t like somebody, everybody knows it.
It’s harder to show when I like someone.
yes, and. it depends on who they are.
i try to kep it contained unless there’s a lot of trust involved. otherwise i get hurt and/or furious at their response, usually.
it’s funny how much of my perception of…. everything… is colored by someone else’s world that i just left. i feel like i’m still surfacing out of someone else’s muck. it’s very strange. and more disturbing how little trust there was there, eventually….
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