Thinking about Annalisa's post this morning, re. anger.

If you are angry--what do you personally do with that?

Walk. Fuck. Dance. Sometimes I can cook it away.

ETA: Mars in Cancer, much?

I love walking when I'm mad. The old Saggie Stomp!

I get tired sometimes. The people I personally know who are angriest about society, seem to do the least. Other than posting conspiracy theories, telling me "You're too stupid to know this inside information that I know, but here, little stupidhead, let me enlighten you..."

ha ha ha Kashmiri!

Walking (taurus mars), playing my guitar (mars/mercury). Also listening to Jazz seems to help me too.

Yeah, I don't want to be enlightened by an angry person who is calling me stupid. Go figure, lol!

Vent.  It's not good if I let it seethe around in there.  I swear a lot.  I also talk out my feelings as a whole (3rd H moon), and if I'm angry @ someone, I will hash out my problem with them very directly until I get some kind of resolution - even if the resolution is simply "that person is being a jackass and I don't care to be around them right now".

I don't get avoidance of conflict/confrontation - it's hard to solve a problem when you dance around it and aren't clear about what it is, yanno?  I don't welcome irritation/annoyance/anger by any means, but it's like any other feeling and is there to be honored, not squelched.

I hate how we collectively tend to classify feelings of anger as "negative".  Anger can do a lot for you - it can prevent you from being someone else's doormat, prompt you to defend others, spur you to take action....there are a lot of things it is good for and I think this gets overlooked a lot.

Kashmiri gets my QOTD

I just had a chance to read through that whole post and here is my two cents worth.  Long story short people have to get mad at themselves first, and they have to get mad enough to take back their power.  But before you can do that you  have to realize that you gave your power away in the first place.   I hope with mars in leo, People are going to say, I'm mad and I'm not going to take it anymore, this will go up against how well do you get along with others.  If you don't your out.  

Many of you know I just moved back east.  I have noticed that since 9/11 people gave away a lot of their power in the name of security.   People here just say *yes dear* to those in authority.  

Mars in Virgo : I clean when angry, but if I get angry and I'm not at home, I'll do my best to leave the scene before I start venting. It's really just best if I evaporate.

I froth and I bitch and I mutter and I talk it out out loud.

If I'm frustrated-angry, I cry.

I feel it.  What else do you do with anger?  ;)

If I want to get it out, I either MOVE or I confront the person I'm angry with.  Very occasionally, I'll vent to a third party if I know going to the source is an exercise in pointlessness.

i'm confrontational. if i'm already angry, it's hard to get me back to being diplomatic. so i just try to stay self-aware and defuse or avoid situations that get me angry in the first place.

i go through alot of pillows, yep they bear the wrath of my ange, i love beating the shit out of a pillow

there you go

http://honjii.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/buddhist-advice-on-anger2.jpg?w=550

hmm, in short, kr's stages of anger:

*seethe/self-flagellate (cancer)
*bike ride or yoga (6th house Aqua moon)
*listmaking (virgo)
*plot new ways to take over the world and change the situation (Mars/Jupiter in Aries 9th opp Uranus in Libra 3rd)
*think of some beautiful, mannered way to rise above it all (Venus Leo/12th)

Confront the source of anger.If not possible I listen angry music or exercise.

I stew for awhile and try to to find my part in it.  My delivery needs work and I am trying to learn that frilly adjectives make a difference in how I am responded to.I'm trying to avoid a gloves off fist to cuffs!

Sometimes I know it is displaced anger about something that happened a million years ago.  One trigger and WHAM! Im blasting off.  Sometimes it's anger due to another post about passive-agressive behavior.  It drives me CRAZY!

I have currently enjoyed Cartoon clouds- doing a visual of choking the living shit out of someone and this usually calms me down.  I thought it, but didn't do it!  Its entertaining making the pictures an actual cartoon character of some type. 

I read an amazing book last year called The Secret Language of Feelings, which completely changed the way I think about anger. So much so that I look at strategies like walking or cursing or cleaning or whatever as bandaids. Stress release, maybe, but not stress resolution. They work in the moment, but can't eliminate the root of your anger. I think it's amazing that the general consensus is that you basically have to live with the pain, but if you go running, it won't hurt so much.

Now that Energy psychology is becoming more widespread, people are waking up to the possibility of getting rid of it altogether. Much better option!

tMercury is conjunct nPluto right now, so I can totally relate to this thread.

Buddhist approach to anger:  I totally thought it would say to have compassion towards who I'm angry with.  Nah. 

I like the picture. LOL. :)

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"> Long story short people have to get mad at themselves first, and they have to get mad enough to take back their power. 

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">I think this has been happening with me. I remember repeatedly trying to talk about something with another person, and I was just sinking, because of the way they were responding. I was always put in the position of taking things on my own shoulders that had no business being there, and I finally just blew up at them, and blew again.. and again. Every time they tried to put those things on my shoulders, I made it difficult for them to do so. I wasn't going to think it was my problem to work through anymore - always taking responsibility, and whatever. 

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">When I'm angry, I work it off - only I haven't been able to do that, because of dizzy spells, and something going on with my hip that sparks the pain in my back, and put me out of commission earlier this year (and threatened to at the end of August). I used to draw and paint, and have felt more drawn to those things, since my emotions have been heightened, only I can't focus. I vent somewhere in writing, and I cry when frustrated.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">I see the good in anger, re: Alethea's point, but I always seemed to think it was more acceptable to become angry on behalf of another, than it was for my own benefit. 

I clean while pissed off at THEM. Right now i want to just be left alone by men. fuckers. Mars in libra and aries ruled 6th/7th. I'm about to go for a walk to let some of it out. Mars squares saturn in my 9th so walking and getting a new perspective usually does me good.