So we got our lady who wouldn’t leave. The lady is poor.
Why is she poor?
Because she has placed all her value into another person.
Her solution?
Run to the land of the rich.
Enter Taurus
Taurus is the other side of the coin to Scorpio.
And speaking of coins, Taurus is about money.
To put it more esoterically, Taurus is all about one’s own value.
See, both sides of any given Nodal axis will have a similar theme, but with complete opposite approaches to it. Taurus and Scorpio are both about VALUE and/or MONEY. It’s just with Scorpio it’s about other people’s value and money.
Scorpio is the Lacanian principle of desire that must stay in a perpetual state of desire. If one attains what one desires then it kills the desire. And as such, desire desires desire.
Taurus, the opposite principle to Scorpio, represents the principle of ownership.
Herein lies a clue to flipping the script on this Scorpio problem. Scorpio doesn’t really want to have something. It wants to be in a perpetual state of desire. Desire is suffering. And this suffering leads to destruction in one way or another. It leads to Hell is another way to put it.
Now Taurus on the other hand, is this whole earlier state in the evolution of man. It is that primary “This is MINE” state of development, like when kids are going through that stage where they see an object and they test out the universe by going up to it, and saying this is mine.
That’s the basic strategy of Taurus. And so when you say something is mine, it’s related to the self, the me, which is the previous stage that leads up to mine.
So, Taurus is quite easy to understand. There is no suffering. No desire. It’s just the mystical principle of ownership.
When one OWNS a lot of things, they are said to be rich.
Heard of Robert Kiyosaki?
He has this fascinating book called Rich Dad, Poor Dad.
In this book one of the first things he talks about is what an asset is.
He goes on to say that the reason poor people are poor is because they think they are buying an asset when in fact it’s a liability.
Rich people don’t make this mistake.
Therefore, it becomes largely a matter of determining what an asset is.
And rich people become rich because they stack assets over time. That’s really all it is.
Now all this is strictly in the material sense.
But what about assets in the non-material sense?
What about people and relationships?
The lady who wouldn’t leave’s whole evolutionary strategy is based on “I must have that man”
Cost what it may.
And this sort of thinking is always going to lead to being poor. Passion leads to being poor. Sorry romantics.
This is why love is a liability.
Unless it can be corrected with more of this Taurus way of thinking.
Taurus only buys assets. And asset evaluation has nothing to do with the way one feels about the asset under consideration.
Its goal is to increase its net worth.
Same in the inner world. The Taurus evolutionary strategy is to acquire capacities that increase their value.
This is a whole different mindset to our impoverished debt spender whose way of life is to live in a liability.
But taking it off the outright material level of manifestation, one can possess inner riches too.
One has a high feeling about themselves. One feels like “I got a lot going on, I’m pretty happening.”
This is called SELF-ESTEEM.
So these Taurus cats are just at this level of evolution. They’re thinking about themselves and their own worth. Other people never enter into the equation. Unless they can possibly strike a land deal with them to acquire all their property and assets.
However, with Scorpio, all the value lies outside themselves.
It’s all about what other people got going on. And in this way, Scorpio becomes the psychologist.
If you add this Scorpio script to an intuitive feeling romantic orientation then it’s likely to manifest as such a need to find the perfect partner that they emphasize the other person’s value out of all proportion to their own. They think things like
1. If I can’t be with that person, I will die.
2. I’m nothing without you, baby.
And so it is with the lady who wouldn’t leave.
She has put all her value into this other person for so long.
It never occurred to her that she might have some things going on that have nothing to do with whether her relationship works out or not.
She has spent so long ignoring herself and what she has going on, that even the thought of herself as a separate entity is anathema to her disposition, that even if she has momentary glimpses of her evolutionary condition, she immediately goes back to focusing on her man, typically in the form of problems. His problems. Because it’s his value that’s so critical. If she ain’t getting the juice out of that any longer than she needs to keep retooling it until she does.
Meanwhile she is making herself weaker and more disempowered in the process of focusing everything on him.
But anyway, let’s circumvent all that shit.
Flipping the script
The answer to all nodal problems is to do a 180 on the problem.
The problem fucking vanishes first of all.
To be suddenly replaced with completely new problems.
But those new problems aren’t really problems. They are solutions to the problem you couldn’t solve. In solving those new problems, you will be inadvertently solving the problem you couldn’t solve for so fucking long.
The first thing the lady who wouldn’t leave should do is LEAVE!
This doesn’t necessarily mean that she should leave the relationship, but she should leave the relationship even if she is still in the relationship.
She would realize what she is bringing to the table.
She would sweep her own side of the street.
She would mind her own business.
She should probably buy that Robert Kiyosaki book for starters and start steeping herself in that mindset.
She would ask herself “What is an asset?”
And she would really try to wrap her mind around that like it’s a new philosophy.
Anyway
Despite this being one of 12 possible positions of the nodal axis of ze moon, and even if you have this one, you still need context. It’s one thing to read about these things generally, or even in the instances of how they manifest for other people. But it’s quite another to see the way you are through-and-through mired in a problem in your own life, a problem that is holding back your entire evolution.
Do you know where your nodal axis of the Moon is?
Where do you need to run away to a land you don’t understand?
P.S. I Love You
Also, despite this Scorpio script being a particular nodal position, I have noticed in my time on Stellar Maze that many of my readership seem to have this implied nodal position.
Both INFJ’s and INFP tend to have this soulmate focus to the point where they feel like they’re gonna die if they can’t have that man.
Too much Scorpio. Not enough Taurus.
The problem is not that you can’t find the right man, the problem is that you are not whole in yourself.
The problem is that you can’t live out of your own power whether there is someone else to share in that or not.
The problem is you don’t know what an asset is.
Run to the land of the rich.
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I feel like it is harder for us women to build ourselves independently of a relationship because we are wired to invest in relationships more than material things. Especially us Romantics.
You know who is best at gaining assets? ESTJ males. I know a few ESTJ guys, my stepdad being one. He has a whole mentality and personality so completely different from mine that I could never embody. He works hard because he loves working and is completely into mundane things and gaining assets. He only thinks realistically about what he can achieve that is just outside of his reach and nothing unattainable which is why he always has nicer things than other people who aim big. He also loves giving work to other people and he loves to demand thing he knows he is entitled to due to working hard. He also has an eye on everyone around him, coworkers, neighbours etc to see that they follow rules and yet he is liked and respected because he is always cheerful and cracks jokes. Compares himself to neighbours and coworkers and brags about having nicer things than them. I’m obviously completely opposite and I’m convinced that the world is made for guys like that, sensors.
Do you think that the Western world might change to fit intuitive types more? I’m noticing with the fall of Western power that intuitive values are becoming more prominent and world is changing especially when people criticize Boomers and their values?
Your ESTJ will crumble with only a few strategically pointed scorpionic stings.
Material power is pretty much the only power his ESTJ brain has access to, and so that is all he focuses on.
Hi Blake,
When writing Morning Pages as an INFJ, how do we know what’s productive venting and what’s merely making things worse?
Ie I’m venting about my finaically more successful peers and I write stuff like “f*ck their business f*ck their digital marketing consutancy they can shove it up their ass f*k big global director at big bank you can suck my d1ck”.
It feels like relief. However, what’s the difference between emotional discharge of Fi id via Fe, and the type of venting/complaining that some people do where the more they complain the more negative momentum they build and become even more negative and complain even more?
When writing Morning Pages as an INFJ, how do we know what’s productive venting and what’s merely making things worse?
The simple question you can ask is “On the days I do my Morning Pages, do I feel better than when I don’t?”
If you feel better on the days you do them, then keep on doing them. If you start to find that Morning Pages don’t add anything, then stop doing them. In my experience, they produce diminishing returns after a while.
What’s the difference between the type of venting/complaining that some people do where the more they complain the more negative momentum they build and become even more negative and complain even more?
I think the difference is one of honesty. People that chronically complain don’t want to get honest with what’s really bothering them because this would lead to something in their control that they have the power to change. Morning pages lead to getting honest with yourself. You start to see your patterns. So, I don’t think Morning Pages lead to building negative momentum, at least no more than it would if you held those things inside day after day.