creative scorpios.......

do you find your creative side is emotionally driven? do you get attached to whatever it is you 'create', like it's a part of you as a person? are you a perfectionist? do you HATE making mistakes - even those others don't notice?

is this a scorpionic thing or perhaps the dreaded virgo-rising - the bane of my chart?

I'm definitely a "Perfectionist", so I think it is a Scorpio thing as well and not just only a Virgo thing.

I'm Virgo with Scorpio rising, and I'm VERY like that. In fact it used to paralyse me cos I felt every time I redrafted, I was killing off the work I was rejecting.

And many years ago I played Eliza in 'Pygmalion' and on the last night, as I took off her clothes, I started sobbing because she had 'died' - or rather, my interpretation of her.

That's what decided me not to go into acting, which I'm sure I could have done and still occasionally regret. I don't think I was stable enough!

yes, this is the problem i find - it's physically and emotionally draining trying to live up to my own standards cos i pour all my energy into things, like an obsession.

i do think that it's a good thing to never be truly satisfied with your performance in something cos it motivates you to grow but i think the 'blinkered' approach to achieving goals can be really damaging in other areas of your life not to mention your health.

i can't help it though 😢

i think you're right mr. nice but the only way a scorp can see if something is a worthwhile use of time is by starting the project. if we abandon it - it was probably bullshit anyway. i only leave things unfinished if it's not important to me. i don't go back to it. if it's not finished while i'm on the job - it was probably me just disappearing up my own backside again.

which happens alot 😢

sometimes, i simply can't see for shit!!!

Creativity comes in fits and spurts..but it is there...yes driven by emotion mainly..

Perfectionist - hell yes!
Self-critical - incredibly

Starting projects...yes great at new beginnings, not so sure about the endings....that sounds too much like Aries, all excited and hot to trot at the beginning but boredom sets in during, and the ending goes out of the window. But one thing for sure, I have to finish it irrespective of how much I may hate it...Everything needs closure...an ending...

that is such a cute story starsapphire - about the picture. it actually reminds me of my aries daugher who just turned 10. she gets so caught up in her creativity that she becomes very moody and agressive when it doesn't pan out the way she wants.

i'm a singer and i find that sometimes, i am so emotional about a song that i simply can't sing it. it's good to use emotion in delivering a song but only if you can keep it under the surface. some songs i can't sing at all cos i would sound like bridget jones doing a bad karaoke and wailing all the way through!!

i spose we have to find a way to channel the emotion - to make it work with us rather than against us.

actually, yesterday, at my proper job (a writer), i was told by the boss that there had been a MISTAKE in the brochure i've just written. i glared at him and said - i don't make mistakes cos i KNOW i don't make mistakes. he got really flustered and admitted that he wasn't quite sure but it was probably something not related to the text and quickly changed the subject. i must've looked like i was gonna throttle him!

brave man! attempting to criticise a scorpio!! grrrrrrrrrrrrr.

yeah. actually i find that is the attitude of alot of teachers. my son is really into football and his french teacher said.....'you will never be a footballer'. bitch.

there's an english expression: those who can't.....teach. i think that is true of alot of people - particularly older people who haven't achieved their dreams cos they're a little bitter about it.