posted August 15, 2013 08:32 AM            

I can feel an emotion out of the blue IF it is someone I am emotionally connected to, but that is not such an empath, but more of a psychically sensitive person, who has picked up on a strong emotion of a loved one. Out of the blue as an empath, the source has to be in my proximity.

I first realized both about myself, many years ago. I was on the way to pick up my eldest, then about 2, now 24, at her grandparents as I went to work.

I was sitting at a stop light and got this overwealming feeling of heaviness, something "bad."

I immediatly thought something was wrong with my daughter. But as I pulled up to another stop light and got the terrible feeling again, I looked over and realized the feeling was coming from somebody sitting in a car next to me, the same person at the previous stop light.

posted August 15, 2013 08:36 AM            

There is so much charged energy in a room, but never the energy of the dying. In the ICU they are, and have been hangin on by a soul's toe, as I like to call it, for a while and their energy is elsewhere.

I used to be able to feel the dying person's loved ones come for them, and I still can if nobody is in the room, ie: they are dying alone, which I try really hard to not let happen, I try to be there for their last moments.

But with so much energy of the living, beside the dying I can only feel the overt energy of the living and not the ones who come for the dying.

And it makes it really difficult for the dying to fully let go.

posted August 15, 2013 09:09 AM            

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Originally posted by Doux Rêve:
I should add: I mean when you're not around a person. When you're by yourself, sitting in your room and suddenly start feeling a certain way. Well to me that's *your* emotion and not anyone else's.

Things get trickier when you're actually sitting next to someone who starts crying or something. Then what happens is that there's "emotional contagion" - you start feeling the same way as them but that's cause you interact with them.

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I disagree but then again it's my own experience and therefore subjective and I can't prove it to you.

posted August 15, 2013 09:28 AM            

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Originally posted by SDragon:
I disagree but then again it's my own experience and therefore subjective and I can't prove it to you.

There's a girl that I'm connected to and we haven't seen each other for over a year. When she's upset, anxious, happy, my own emotions get affected. I know they're not mine because I've processed my thinking/emotions to the point where I can detect the cause of them. Take it as you will.

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And see, this is where I say it is more of a psychic connection.

The empathic qualities are about picking up what is in your immediate energy space, in the 3d world.

Psychic sensitivity, encompasses the non 3d plane, I call the matrix, where we are all connected, to eachother, to everything and to everyliving thing.

posted August 15, 2013 09:54 AM            

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Originally posted by hippichick:

And see, this is where I say it is more of a psychic connection.

The empathic qualities are about picking up what is in your immediate energy space, in the 3d world.

Psychic sensitivity, encompasses the non 3d plane, I call the matrix, where we are all connected, to eachother, to everything and to everyliving thing.

There is a difference being psychically sensitive and empathically sensitive, I think, horses of a different color?

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Oh psychically sensitive? Do you think Mars and Jupiter in the 12th house would cause this?

posted August 15, 2013 09:58 AM            

anything that is active in the 12th will cause a degree of psychic sensitivity, definately Jupiter...will have to ponder on the Mars conj, since Mars is action. What sign?

Moon and Saturn, I highly doubt, Saturn is the "stop and a get a life kind of guy" not one to be lending his energy to floating off in the ether~

posted August 15, 2013 10:04 AM            

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Originally posted by hippichick:
hanna

anything that is active in the 12th will cause a degree of psychic sensitivity, definately Jupiter...will have to ponder on the Mars conj, since Mars is action. What sign?

Moon and Saturn, I highly doubt, Saturn is the "stop and a get a life kind of guy" not one to be lending his energy to floating off in the ether~

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posted August 15, 2013 11:53 AM            

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Originally posted by hippichick:
hanna

anything that is active in the 12th will cause a degree of psychic sensitivity, definately Jupiter...will have to ponder on the Mars conj, since Mars is action. What sign?

Moon and Saturn, I highly doubt, Saturn is the "stop and a get a life kind of guy" not one to be lending his energy to floating off in the ether~

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posted August 15, 2013 12:11 PM            

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Originally posted by Aries Eagle:
Mars placement for Aries people is extremely extremely important.

12h = Pisces qualities = Psychic ability

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That's so important! I don't know why I never considered Mars and all the aspects to it important.

posted August 15, 2013 05:37 PM            

Since I was a child I have been able to pick up on the feelings of people that I have close relationships with. My sister(Pisces sun) is 8 years older than me, and when she was a teenager, I would feel her emotions when she was not there. It was weird to be a 7 year old, having the hormonal mood swings of a 15 year old. I felt it when she didn't make the cheerleading squad and when her boyfriend broke up with her, among many other disappointing moments in her life. I remember numerous times crying in a heap on the floor, and my mom could not figure out what was wrong with me. Then my sister came home, and was in the same emotional state. There were happy moments too, but the sad ones were always confusing because they would just come out of nowhere. My mom has this too. Every time I'm in a bad emotional state, usually from fighting with my boyfriend, my mom calls. She usually starts the conversation with a sad "I love you honey", and I know that she can feel that I was in pain. So, from my experience, it is possible to pick up on emotional energies, even if the person is not physically close.

I find it difficult to even watch the news, and unless I really detach myself, I always end up crying or becoming outraged over the stories that I hear. There is just so much unrest in the world, and I honestly have to tune it out for the sake of my own health, not for lack of caring about others. I have found myself becoming completely disgusted by many of my fellow human beings. I cannot take on the responsibility of enlightening these people. I refuse to be around perpetually negative people because misery does love company. I just put up a barrier of bright light, smile, and go on about my day. Since I have been consciously practicing this, I have found that it brings out the positive energy in others. It's like a Debbie Downer repellant. Ha ha!

The world needs more positive energy. Empaths have the ability to not only take in energy, but to release it as well. When I'm around a positive person, even if it's the cashier at the grocery store, I feel like our vibes are coming together and uplifting us both. I walk away, feeling like my positive energy just went up a notch. I shut out the impatient, fidgety person behind me in line that's wearing a stink face. I'm learning to use this gift the right way, and not letting the energy vampires get their fill. It's working, because my life as I know it has been totally turned upside down, and I still feel like I have absolutely nothing to complain about.

I'm in a very positive state of mind, and it's a good feeling. Even though there are moments that I am inexplicably overcome by sadness, I feel it and I move on. It's an emotional release, and then I'm left with the positive vibes once again.

posted August 15, 2013 06:54 PM            

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Originally posted by Bluejay:
I have always called myself an "emotional sponge", and I learned years ago that I really have to choose my company wisely. I pick up on the energy of everyone around me, good or bad. I have recently been tuning just about everything out, because the negativity has become too much to handle. I think the recurring grand water trines are bringing a lot of emotions to the surface, when the majority of people bury their emotions rather than deal with them. I was looking forward to all this water energy. I have a lot of Scorpio in my chart, plus an 8th house Moon/Pluto conjunction-sextile Neptune. I guess that I thought this was going to be a cake walk, since I'm very watery and I can handle emotions good and bad. I should have known that the emotions rising to the surface would most likely be negative rather than positive, and I have been feeling the weight of it. I am most sensitive to the people in my immediate environment, whether I know them or not. I am a visual person, so to be able to see someone's body language definitely strengthens the signals that I pick up.

Since I was a child I have been able to pick up on the feelings of people that I have close relationships with. My sister(Pisces sun) is 8 years older than me, and when she was a teenager, I would feel her emotions when she was not there. It was weird to be a 7 year old, having the hormonal mood swings of a 15 year old. I felt it when she didn't make the cheerleading squad and when her boyfriend broke up with her, among many other disappointing moments in her life. I remember numerous times crying in a heap on the floor, and my mom could not figure out what was wrong with me. Then my sister came home, and was in the same emotional state. There were happy moments too, but the sad ones were always confusing because they would just come out of nowhere. My mom has this too. Every time I'm in a bad emotional state, usually from fighting with my boyfriend, my mom calls. She usually starts the conversation with a sad "I love you honey", and I know that she can feel that I was in pain. So, from my experience, it is possible to pick up on emotional energies, even if the person is not physically close.

I find it difficult to even watch the news, and unless I really detach myself, I always end up crying or becoming outraged over the stories that I hear. There is just so much unrest in the world, and I honestly have to tune it out for the sake of my own health, not for lack of caring about others. I have found myself becoming completely disgusted by many of my fellow human beings. I cannot take on the responsibility of enlightening these people. I refuse to be around perpetually negative people because misery does love company. I just put up a barrier of bright light, smile, and go on about my day. Since I have been consciously practicing this, I have found that it brings out the positive energy in others. It's like a Debbie Downer repellant. Ha ha!

The world needs more positive energy. Empaths have the ability to not only take in energy, but to release it as well. When I'm around a positive person, even if it's the cashier at the grocery store, I feel like our vibes are coming together and uplifting us both. I walk away, feeling like my positive energy just went up a notch. I shut out the impatient, fidgety person behind me in line that's wearing a stink face. I'm learning to use this gift the right way, and not letting the energy vampires get their fill. It's working, because my life as I know it has been totally turned upside down, and I still feel like I have absolutely nothing to complain about.

I'm in a very positive state of mind, and it's a good feeling. Even though there are moments that I am inexplicably overcome by sadness, I feel it and I move on. It's an emotional release, and then I'm left with the positive vibes once again.

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SO much perfection in one post. Thank you for validating my theory as well.

posted August 15, 2013 08:07 PM            

VERY well said and thank you for your sentimism~

I get it, we all get iT!

They key is finding what works for oneself.

The world is full of negativity, It is everywhere!

I dont watch the news either.

(but my co-workers find me strange for scrolling the obits once a week )

I, too, embrace the light and I find it really difficult to give out a smile, which I do often, genuinly and sincerely and dont feel like I have done any good.

But it is not my place to feel like I have done good. It is up to them to accept us.

Who knows, I probably never will, but perhaps, maybe that smile changed somebody's outlook on their day, and I did not mean to, it was just a pure expressin of ME.

This is a terribly, TERRIBLY negative world we live in.

All we can do as empaths and as psychically sensitive individuals is to protect ourselves and let a little love/light shine when we are able..

But we need to keep some for ourselves?

posted August 15, 2013 10:00 PM            

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Originally posted by Bluejay:
I have always called myself an "emotional sponge", and I learned years ago that I really have to choose my company wisely. I pick up on the energy of everyone around me, good or bad. ..... ........

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posted August 16, 2013 01:56 AM            

I think the most obvious thing in my chart is the fact that all of the planets that are associated with water(subconscious, emotions, feminine energy) are tightly aspected. Just being a Scorpio sun on it's own usually gives people an edge when it comes to seeing what's not there, what is hidden beneath the surface. Not to mention all the 8th house stuff.

When the Moon, Pluto, Neptune or their respective houses 4th,8th,12th are prominent there is bound to be some type of access to the subconscious.

I have always been different, and even as a child I would pick up on things that adults would miss. It's like Sookie Stackhouse(for all you True Blood fans) only instead of hearing peoples thoughts, I just "feel" them. Some people are uncomfortable and can sense that I'm "in their heads", but to me it's just another sense as if I'm seeing them with my eyes or smelling their perfume. Most people are oblivious to it, and I just observe. I can spot BS from a mile away, and if a person is a fake, I can see through it before they have spoken a word. Their body language and their eyes give them away. My first job was in retail in customer service, and I could spot the shoplifters when they walked in the door. A lot of information comes to me in dreams too, but that's a whole other subject. I first learned about empaths a few months ago, and I knew "That's what I am"! Before that, I just called it ESP, 6th sense, or my favorite...my Scorpy sense, but empath is a more specific term. The energies that I feel are like waves of emotion hitting me. I'm thankful to have so many planets in Libra, and to have Aquarius rising. It allows me to somewhat detach myself and try to make sense of the energy that's around me. It's a deep breath of fresh air so I don't drown in a sea of emotions.

I am new to astrology, and I just did my natal chart a few months ago. I never really believed in astrology, but I definitely knew I was a Scorpio when I would read about their traits, so I thought there had to be some truth to it. Either that or it was just a coincidence. When I first did my natal chart on Café Astrology, I couldn't believe how accurate the chart interpretation was. It was so spot on, and it opened my eyes to this magical new world. So from that point on I've been trying to learn as much as possible about astrology and how the different planetary energies manifest themselves in everyday life.