I am very sensitive and would have been hurt and angry and probably would have tried to change your mind in the past but now I keep it to myself better and seem to have gotten more understanding of peoples’ rights to their own feelings about me and just try to move on.

Of course I have a pretty strong advance warning radar about who will reject me and I avoid those people like the plague – so I don’t end up here too often thank goodness.

I’m very sensitive and don’t take rejection well. I have a leo moon. BUT after the initial kick, I do get back on my feet and plough on. I have a lot of fixed signs, inc leo mars so rejection, bizarrely, drives me to excel. Eventually.

I’m sure I wouldn’t be doing the job I am now if it had been plain-sailing and I’d got into university all those years ago.

Nope, I am not sensitive to rejection and I don’t see the point in crying over it. Life is way to short. Besides there is so much more out there to feel and experience.

I am not surprised at everyone. I do think this woman has an extraordinary way of dealing with rejection that is inspiring. It’s as if at her core, she is kind. She is just not going allow something to bother her to the extent where she has to act against the other person.

I am so used to rejection that most of the time it does not even register any more. Discovering astrology has given me something to use to rationalize it. I just tell my self…well that is my saturn venus pluto t square at work and I keep right on rolling. Funny this post is up this morning as the aries moon is squaring my cancer saturn. Well its been activating the t square since yesterday plus mars in cancer is doing the same thing. This morning I woke up feeling alone and lonely. I live with that feeling every day. But when transits activate the t square it just highlights it more. This morning I sit around and just wait for luna to move on down the road…..so i can get on with the business of being me with this chart.

Yes, I feel rejection very acutely, with (me,me!) Aries Moon opp Saturn, but the Libra weighs and balances and always respects another’s viewpoint as valid. I lost a fabulous freelance job in 2005/6 thanks to a change of editorship , asked for a meeting with him, went in and thanked him as the company’s representative for all the great times I’d had over 18yrs and said I understood his thinking, and left with a warm smile and a handshake..got in the car and drove home in tears, not knowing what to do, given that due to husband’s past health issues he’d never been our breadwinner over those years. Somehow I learned a lot, created new work and gained time to spend with loved ones,and materially we survived, just! Last year the same editor re-employed me in a job I’d always wanted to do. I can’t tell you how emotional I felt going back into the building, so many former colleagues smiling and welcoming me back, leaving messages, sending mails.I cried again on the way home in the car, but mostly I smiled x

I am sensitive to rejection. I usually feel anger and want to verbally cut them up,lol. I do not let then see that, of course. I act like it is no big deal and shrug it off.

I’ve got Moon/Aries/10th in tight opp with Pluto/Libra/4th. Moon is inconjunct Mercury & Uranus/Scorpio/5th.

I am not great at emotionally handling rejection. With the opposition, I’m figuring that maybe my hurt feelings are very visible to everyone else, because I WILL talk about it, but I feel like I’m secretly seething inside. My public persona (10th) will cry about it, but the people I live with (4th) see me like a bomb about to explode. Cuz I explode sometimes.

I think the inconjuct between my Moon and Mercury/Uranus in Scorpio tells how I react/combat against the person that rejected me.
I think about Scorpio revenge all the time, but there’s only a few people that piss me off that bad, and I don’t want to *destroy* anyone, I just want to get in a couple good stings.

I learned several years ago, for instance, that a baby cobra or rattle snake bite is more lethal than an adult bite because the babies have not yet learned to control their venom output and release more than they need to.

Sometimes I feel like a baby cobra, because I have trouble tempering my venom.

Uranus… I’m still trying to figure out how everything works in this setup, but Uranus points to awkward timing of my expression? And maybe I’m unusual about the way I express myself? I can be pretty blunt.

It’s weird having Scorpio Merc/Uranus in the 5th house, because it would seem to indicate I actually enjoy finding creative ways to be a bitch and sting you! Or maybe I try to sting with humor or sarcasm?

Usually I think I just write (Mercury) a long emotive email that I feel better about writing because it got my feelings out, but I shouldn’t actually send. But I send it anyway. (Uranus)

Primarily I think I see this play out in my love life, rather than with friends and family, but I will pay closer attention.

I also have Saturn/Virgo/4th on my IC, square Venus/Cap/6th, so I also probably carry around the expectation that I will be rejected by those I love and want to serve (Venus/6th) if I show them where/what I came from.

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I wish I could say I have a handle on this but I really don’t. Rejection hurts plain and simple, my first response is to retaliate and say or write something hurtful to the ‘offender’ which I usually end up doing, and then over time I rationalize things and realize that sometimes I’ve rejected people myself and I just need to “get over myself” because everyone at some point experiences rejection.

I’ve only been rejected a few times, and as soon as I met someone else, which was almost immediately, I completely forgot about the other person. Out of sight, out of mind.

I am, and I used to be like her. Even last December, when I was in the midst of something, I was still defending others; I was trying my best to not be mean, even though I’d just been repeatedly stabbed in the back.

I am more defensive now, and I do have a sharper tongue. I’ve been trying to do the mental shift, because I feel it – I feel this ‘new’ me and the regular me (how do I say this without sounding like I now deal with multiple personality disorder?). I’m hugely sensitive to it, to the point that I’ve found I’m always, unconsciously, waiting for the knife to come out.

Only if it’s someone I really care for and they blindside me. And if it’s unfair or due to misjudgment or misunderstanding. That hurts a lot.

Otherwise, it may hurt but usually it happens for the right reason so I try to focus on that and just let them go.

Well done lindiloo. I really admire you for that stance, and am so glad it came around your way again. I don’t deal well with rejection as it brings up previous layers of feeling unworthy. I’m thinking the lesson for me, having quite a few fixed planets, is as the Kenny Rogers “The Gambler” song of “to know when to fold them, know when to hold them, know when to walk away and know when to run.”

“I am so used to rejection that most of the time it does not even register any more.” Moonpluto I hope you don’t mind but that tickled me. I usually walk away and lick my wounds, if it gets to me.

It’s all in the delivery. Some people are very good at rejecting, some people suck. I can be both. Some are good at knowing when they are being rejected and don’t push the issue, and some pursue further. I can be both.

In business I learned that the clients who pursue are the ones that want to continue business with me. The ones that walk away well, that’s a lost client.

I’m a Taurus with a Moon/Pluto conjunction in Virgo. Needless to say, I do not handle rejection well. I’ve been trying to rationalize it with what the universe wants, but I still withdraw to lick my wounds.