Fire in the Belly: What Rage Looks Like
September 7, 2007
By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com Several hours ago, something kinda, well, enraged me. I haven’t been that angry in quite a while. One of those things that violates ya’, but there’s nothing you can do — just something a young, not particularly astute (being nice here) person did without thinking, and there’s no way to repair the damage…
Since there’s no one I can reasonably rip to pieces, hehe, I had to come up with a way to release the anger. First, I asked my Tarot cards… “I’m on fire here, and I don’t know what to do with this, what’s your advice?” I drew the Ace of Wands and the Eight of Cups. At first, I saw in those cards that I should feel my anger and then just let it go — the Eight of Cups often means to walk away from something or have a change of heart.
Okay. Feel my anger, I felt like I’d been doing that plenty :) Then I looked again at the Ace of Wands and felt like it was telling me to use this fire, release the anger by using this creative fire. So I just spent the last couple of hours in the MS Paint program spewing my anger into this image below…while the fire burned in my belly. Most of it was releasing the anger through the painting, and some more was released by talking it out with some people here at work (while painting) who knew about this situation.
Ya’ know, it’s wild, I’ve done this a few times in the past (should do it more), but while painting, I release these deep, heavy sighs — very cool how you can feel yourself letting it go… Anyway, I still feel a few embers, but feel much better now :) So here’s my “Rage” on a page, heh ;)
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“Fire in the Belly” by Dove, September 2007
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September 7, 2007 at 6:19 pm
[...] here and I was feelin’ kinda depressed, some residual anger from yesterday (see my “Fire in the Belly“/pic) and other things I s’pose are making me feel kinda blue… I thought [...]
September 8, 2007 at 4:33 am
You did that in PAINT? Wow. Good for you for getting in touch with your emotions and working on transforming them so soon.
September 8, 2007 at 5:36 am
Hi Kelly,
Yep :) I did that one yesterday, but then I felt really depressed this morning. I thought I was all better after doing the one above, but I guess it’s not always that easy. I think it actually stirred up some older anger I had…some repressed stuff. Check out the one I did this morning from my depression. See on there where I also drew a Tarot card that referenced repressing one’s emotions. I’ve been doing that for a long time without realizing it (like most people, I think)…so I’ve got a lot of paintin’ to do, heh ;) I think the one I did this morning is totally wild (click on the ping above ya’ here) — unlike anything I’ve ever done before.
December 13, 2007 at 7:20 pm
[...] names, they told me their ages and WHERE THEY LIVE IN MY BODY. Jack is in my stomach (see my pic of “Fire in the Belly”). Jack is just 17 — he holds back [...]
December 14, 2007 at 4:51 am
Some commentary on this image at this link… (see the first two comments)
http://dovelove.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/healing-our-little-ones-within/#comment-300#comment-300
December 24, 2007 at 3:43 pm
[...] Update: I thought this might be a good place to share a picture I created while feeling a lot of anger, “Fire in the Belly (what rage looks like)” [...]
December 24, 2007 at 7:48 pm
[...] cancer. That concerns me per what I discovered with talking to my emotions, and the discovery of my anger living in my stomach…and then becoming depression (”Jake”) in my [...]
May 3, 2008 at 8:20 pm
[...] things strongly fueled by “him,” including one of my favorite MS Paint pics, “Fire in the Belly.” But like I’ve said in other posts, like fire, we have to be very careful in using [...]