Obsessions

Hello to all my Scorpios out there!

Do you guys and gals ever get "obsessed" with something? I constantly go through phases where I will become completely obsessed with something, then lose interest in it or move on to a new obsession. Nothing too serious...for example I was obsessed with ancient Egypt, the pyramids, all of that for about a year. Then I became obsessed with vampires, and all I read was Anne Rice books. Then, I took up calligraphy as a hobby and that's what I did in my spare time for about 2 months. My current obsession is Shakespeare (by the way, have any of you ever read "Venus and Adonis" by Shakespeare? It's one of the most beautiful things I've ever read, you should read it!). There's lots more I've been obsessed with, but now you go!

Phoenix,

You're living in the best area if you and your baby love Shakespere. That is what Ashland is all about!!!!!!! Start going to the plays! You know this I am sure!
S.

Scorpio female here. Last month someone told me I am bordering obsession. My answer was. Doesn't everyone some time or another. —

I obsess to prove a point. Maybe to validate my feelings. I also obsess when I research a subject.

And if I really want to be anal. Isn't obsession another word for dedication?

Yes, I think so, but then who am I — just another borderline obessive person!

Yes, I think so, but then who am I — just another borderline obsessive person!

Corrections included. I think the mis-spelling occurres after you send it!!! Maybe it is the computer messing up? It always looks good before I send it!

Obsession? I am abnormal about everthing I do. If I am into something my mind is focused! I think that is the way I look at it. I am just thoroughly FOCUSED(center of intrest) on what ever I am after, or doing! I can also be quite lazy when I am not being obsessive!

LOL--okay, good, so I'm not the only one then!

S--yeah, I just went last night to see "Macbeth" in Ashland; it was awesome. The only things I didn't like about the play was that they only used 6 actors to play a multitude of characters, which was confusing. Not to mention the director used women to play male soldiers...weird! Shakespeare used BOYS to play FEMALE parts...not the other way around. But other than that, it was great. Funny thing...when me and my bf got there before the play, we needed to know what time it was. So this woman riding a bike pulls up right next to us and starts to lock her bike. My bf went up to her and said, "excuse me ma'm, do you know what itme it is?" And she said "It's five to eight". After the play was over and we were walking out, he said, "I asked Lady Macbeth what time it is". LOL! He was right! That WAS Lady Macbeth! How funny.

Now, I agree with the statement that being obsessive...is basically being focused! I like that! I'm also glad to know I'm not the only one!! : )

Thanks everyone, keep the posts coming!

-phoenix

I think everyone obsesses. I think I just obsess about different things than most, and after Heather's post, it makes me wonder why I don't have a big Scorpio pull in my chart. My life seems like one long obsession to the point where I get frustrated in school because I've always felt like the structure there gets in the way of what I want to learn!

When I was old enough to read- which was earlier than anyone else in my kindergarten class- I jumped right into adult books and I knew more about dinosaurs and volcanoes than most- if not all- of the actual adults I talked to ("professor Josh" is what my mom called me) and I did have conversations with adults more often than not. I was reading Stephen King and Tolkein in the 4th grade, but that was before my obsession over the U.S. Civil War started...that was my biggest obsession ever and it just expanded and expanded until I'd read just about every history book on just about every subject I could think of. Everything I've ever been interested in, I've taken it as far as I could, and I wonder all the time when the new knowledge is going to force out the old...but it never does. Personally, although this has gotten me beaten up more often than I'd like to recount, I love it!

Now, one of these days I'm going to have to go to a psychologist and get checked for OCD among other things....

Josh,

I too am wondering why there isn't any scorpionic influence in your chart yet you identify! : ) I think it's pretty remarkable that you knew more than most adults as a young child. I remember being very fascinated with adults when I was a kid. I wanted to use all the words they were using. I also identify with having a rough time as a kid. Not only did teachers accuse me of cheating on spelling tests, but when I was placed in the "above and beyond" group then it got really bad with the other kids. Since I'm a girl I didn't ever get beat up, but the other kids definitely labeled me as "stuck up", "teacher's pet", "brain"...yada yada yada, becase I also read books before kindergarten. Hey, that's pretty cool, you're the forst person I've known that read that young too!Luckily I had friends who were in my same situation, and eventually (like after 6th grade) the teasing subsided, and by high school unfortunately I was too busy skipping class, doing things I shouldn't have been doing that I was no longer thought of in that way! lol.

Well I just thought I would share with you! 🙂

Thanks for your post.

phoenix

I can spell FIRST! (lol)

phoenix

P.S. Anothr thing I obsess about: cleaning things that are dirty. lol. Sometimes I could care less, and then all of a sudden it's like I can't do anything BUT clean. And once I start a major project, such as cleaning my closet, or going through all my stuff to decide what to throw away and what to keep, it can get ridiculous. I will only stop to eat or sleep or do the most necessary of things. I have been known to work on projects such as this for up to a week. lol, maybe I'm the one who needs to be screened for OCD!

-phoenix

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Hey Phoenix,

Could it be "inspiration" instead of obsession? I know there are times I am inspired to do something and nothing can stop me. I really do not think that there is anything wrong with this. Determination, a feeling to do something that fulfills you, gives you pleasure. Why would you have a desire to do something that does not "spark" you? Sometimes we do things because we "think" we have to and you know what? our heart isn't in it, it will take forever to complete and usually it is not of the best quality. Keep following your passion (obsession) whatever you wish to label it and enjoy!

Josh,

Aren't you a Cappy? If I have read correctly, you guys start out as adults and when older you become fun and playful...maybe this is part of your make-up. You are highly intelligent species...keep learning what you desire to learn, how can that be wrong?

Best wishes,
Freebird

I don't care what anyone thinks, if I get off on it and it makes me happy and I'm not bothering anyone, then its nobodies business.

Won't let em' steal my joy!!!

Way to go, Susy-Q...keep living and feeling your joy! Life is meant to be joyful.

Have a Happy day!

Freebird

Hey Guys & Girls...

Before I go on I want to admit that I am nit picking here but in the face of perfection (which is surley our mission) a miss is as good as "ten" miles so simply put the little things in life DO count.

O.k Freebird here we go...hypothetical situation...(and very possible I might add)

You buy a baseball from a shop downtown with money you earned from your job which is good and fair. You take that ball home and you throw into your glove for fun and it brings you much joy...

You didn't know that that ball was actually sourced by the shop owner from a bad place and made by a poor man in some foreign country who was paid a pitence for his labours and whipped when he tried to rest.

My point is this...

You create the need for the ball because you bought it so whether you like it or not you are connected to the cause of that man's misfortune as well as the badness of the shop owner who should also know better...it's a ripple effect.

Yes you had pleasure from the ball but yes you must also pay through the laws of karma for the mans misfortune and the shop owners ignorance. The fact that you had no way of knowing doesn't matter...that fact is that you are a part of the reason now...

My question is this...does your 10mins of pleasure through wanting that ball measure up to that mans misfortune and the shop owners ignorance...?

Through karma you will pay equally for all misgivings involved for this is only fair.

So the real question is how do you know what baseball to buy...because I am not saying we should not have joy or baseballs in our life for that matter.

We prey...we live and give our lives to God and he in his greatness will guide us to the right place and time to buy the right baseball...

Admitedly the real goal is becoming less physically dependant so as not to make these mistakes because God's gift to us is our right of choice so we do not always buy the ball from the right shop even when our communication with God is heightened because we have the right to listen or not.

Love and light to you alland always...
Durrie.

I think all Scorpios obsess over somethings.....unfortunately mine was a special person in my life....I thought I would never do the "ridicolous things" other people did....guess what I did....but you know, looking back, the only thing a know is that all this person can say about me is that I treated him right, respected him, never judged him and obsolutley spoiled him rotten....I know he's a better person for knowing me...he realizes that now, that I don't obsess over him anymore...

Sammie,

Wow, Sammie you sound great!

Do you still spoil him, and love him? Can you do that and not be obsessive?

If I am crazy about someone, I tend to do crazy things!

It takes alittle time before I can trust them, but once I do, I want to put them way up on the pedestal.

Wow Durrie, I can tell that you have had your "thinking" cap on. Baseballs, gloves, hypothetical questions....my goodness. Here is how I am going to choose to answer your question. First of all, I am a woman and would not buy a baseball but I will go along here with you since you are a male. I went into a shop to buy a baseball because I have this desire to throw it in a glove as it brings me joy. Okay, here we go...I would not create a need for the ball simply because I "bought it"... it is the "action" the "feeling" of using the ball, throwing it into my glove that brings me joy. Does NOT matter what happened before I bought the ball as it is in the past and the past no longer exists. What I am now dealing with is the present moment of joy that this event is bringing me. Once the moment is over, it is gone forever, the end. Now, one may choose to keep this event alive by "living in the past" and that is their choice. Karma...okay so I will have to deal with whatever Karma is from the past. I will be ready for that as this is the reason all has fallen into place and this is why I chose this specific ball, because I am able to handle the Karma, it is meant for me. Let's say, we meet a person...we like this person, this person has baggage from the past...so? this is life, all things are presented to us for a reason. We can handle them or they would not be in our life. You see? Any situation is a situation...the past is the past...there will always be a past. Something comes from somewhere doesn't it? It is all about how we perceive it...our attitude about each situation. Life is not this hard, this difficult...it is so easy. It is what we choose to make of it. Ride with life, enjoy the ride. This is not a dress rehersal... Take a moment and really think about this....all we have is this MOMENT. It is then gone FOREVER. Live IN the moment, not for the moment. And when your life is up...you will have had no regrets. You will have truly lived each moment to its fullest from your heart knowing that you loved life and it has fully satisfied your soul.

Okay, you have me all excited about playing ball...I will say that for a female, I am one heck of a football thrower...YOU should see my spiral!

Freebird

hi pheonix!!!! *hugs*

hello my dear Luz! *hugs* for you too! I've been so freaking busy, I've had no time to post on here like I usually do. That will change soon hopefully...I'm going to Disneyland for 5 days week after next though, so then I will be AWAL again for awhile. Roar. It's like the times I need others' opinions the most, I'm too busy to talk about it with them... : (

Well hope y'all are well, I have to come back later and post, no time right now.

Hi! Phoenix,

I have been thinking about you alot lately, and I hope you are OK and you are happy!!!

Come back to us when you can!

Love,
SuzyQ

Actually Suzy-Q that's so weird, because I've been thinking about YOU a lot lately as well...I hope you are trucking along fine in life also! : ) That's weird (yet cool)...stuff like that has been happening to me lately more than ever, I ran into a friend who said he and his g-friend were "just" talking about me (as I was "just" talking about him and his girlfriend), and almost didn't go to the coffee shop where we ran into each other, just like *I* almost didn't go in, either...my bf dragged me inside (icky coffee btw--place right next to the Tinseltown movie theater...are you familiar with that place Suzy?). Anyway we hadn't seen each other in over a year...so that was odd and cool. I wonder if it's been a Pisces moon lately or something...

Suzy-Q and all the others, take care...I'm working on my "dxpnet comeback". lol.

Love to you all.
Heather