“Okay, so they train you to ignore pain. Exactly how do they do that?”
“Well you just keep going no matter what. You’re in some country with a job to do that has to be done. You’re a weapon, you have a job to do and if you don’t get it done people are going to be killed. Sometimes a lot of them will lose their lives if you don’t get the job done so whatever pain you might feel from whatever source has no bearing. You got to do the job no matter what, get out if you can and if you can get out alive, then you can worry about whatever pain you may have.”
(Mars square Saturn)
So THAT’s how I work myself sick. Huh, that mars saturn thing. I’ve been called stubborn because when the thing that needs doing isn’t being done I’ll pick up the job – no matter how hard it is for me – and do it. Not perfectly but decently and workably. But often hurt myself in the process.
Ahh thanks again Elsa – your stories are enlightening.
Is that why I injure myself often but don’t notice it until later that day,lol. I have mars in libra 5th house opposite saturn in aries 11th house.
“You got to do the job no matter what, get out if you can and if you can get out alive, then you can worry about whatever pain you may have.”
I think I may have to start all of my consultations with that line…
“Pain is just fear leaving the body”–believe that’s the expression on a USMC t-shirt that’s popular ’round these parts where I live. I think of the expression often when I’m at the gym–I tell myself that the burn I feel in doing sit ups is just the fear leaving my abs as they contemplate being flat for the first time in 30 years! They are afraid they won’t know what to do with all their sexy flat ab power when it manifests!
could be “weakness leaving the body”…brain fog…no coffee in the house this morning. My Freudian slip! No fear Aries Sun/Scorpio Moon/Mars in Leo, no fear. Well, no fear when I can control things! Ha! LOL.
“You got to do the job no matter what…..then you can worry about whatever pain you may have.”
Wow, didn’t realize this kind of attitude is common in mars square saturn types.
Willingness to take on pain to spare other people.