Fashion Designer Yoshiko Kajitani, photographed at home in Tokyo, via The Selby
Nooo, I don’t know what sign she is but the taxidermed look is one I automatically connect with Scorpio & maybe a non-Vegan Aquarius? Capricorn too. I know there is ‘cool’ taxidermy a la Wunderkammer – like antique scientific taxidermy…My browser playing up INSANELY so I can’t link where i wanna link with this. I am going to post this & try to fix it.
Obviously, i am semi-Vegan and a Veggo and into Feng Shui so it freaks me out on a Qi level. But i also know a whole lot of stylish peeps who do it and there IS apparently a sort of Eco argument to it. Over to you while i fix the browser – it is Firefox, bats just after each Full Moon – why? – WHICH SUN SIGN IS MOST LIKELY TO DECORATE WITH TAXIDERMY…
When i was a child i thought it had something to do with taxi drivers and got horribly confused, as one does.
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Scorpios. Aquarians.
I have two very close friends, both vegetarians, both former flatmates. The Aqua (Cancer Rising, Virgo Moon) is a male and decorated our living-room with a stuffed pheasant and a massive cowskin. the Scorpio girl (Scorpio Rising, Pisces Moon) did not like linen and had an impressive reservoir of sheep skin she was sleeping in and she loves to wear fur.
how weird. never thought about it.
Happy Saturn in Libra!
NV
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That sheep skin idea is one of the most awesome things I have ever heard in my life! Whenever I see movies set in pre-history times or native american settings etc and they are making love in furs I have the most intense longing and jealousy!
Then I remember the plumbing sitch and I’m fine. But you r roommate ffigured out how to do both!
In answer to taxidermy question. I guiltily admit I hae always wanted a massive pair of deer antlers in my house. Not the head, just the antlers. For the symbolic alpha male quality. I have eros in cap and I just read Mystics soul mating book and apparently we are all about the alpha-males.
So maybe she’s aqua with eros in cap?
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On second thought, that apartment feels somewhat Taurean. But are they neater?
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Thinking a Saturn angle also for the preservation thing. Cappy Moon in 8th and I took a crow to the Taxidermist. Found out I’d needed a license though to have a crow to begin with so had to scratch that, but would leave the dead crows, owls, outside in a brown paper bag and nature would clean them. Later made feather fans out of them.
At a time, the kids knew of my interest in crow medicine and they’d come home from school and say “Mom, there’s a dead crow at the bus stop” And I’d go get it..
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What’s crow medicine about?
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Just read below. But I am interested if you feel like blogging more about that.
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I’m a multiple conjunct Aquarian and taxidermy scares the bejesus out of me. Just think of all those things you had stuffed eyeballing you around the room and plotting revenge in the wee hours…
I would suspect Cap or Scorp. Or maybe a Sagg who’s been a-hunting.
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same….
its like they arent given dignity after death or something….
i mean, do we go around doing the same to our grannies?-
What I found disturbing of course, is that when I took the crow to the taxidermist one needed a license as usually one had ~killed~ the animal.
My purposes were purely spiritual as during a poignant transition in my life, crow’s feathers guided me and brought about synchronistic happenings as I found them on my travels (daily walks). This is why they and an owl became significant to me and by preserving them as a totem I had wished to honor them in that manner.
May shamanic cultures do.
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I love owls too esp Screech owls. What kind of owl do you like?
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I like that type also but here on the West coast, we have many barn owls. That was the kind I had found. A story to that too but it was an omen as one day when I was on the way to the beach, I looked out at the road and there was a dead owl looking right at me. I had to go back and get it.
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sagg- no way! i can barely go to the zoo, the sight of animals in cages seems tragic. so hanging their dead bodies on my wall as decoration? id be in actual pain.
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Ditto!
I’m a Sagg too and would rather see an animal in the wild than have it strung up on a wall or a fur/hide rug on the floor. UGH.
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hmm the only person that I have learned is into the taxidermy is Nikki Sixx and he is a Saggi. he is also right into old medical equipment and prosthetics as viewing pieces too.
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As a child I thought it was what planes did on the runway…. Lol
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Fierce Aries types.
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i am a pisces sun, scorp moon and i decorate with taxidermy and found animal fragments. I also skin found animals and taught my self to tan a hide. Mostly to appreciate the art form and the entire use of an animal which has died.
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Yes, Anon, I feel when in synch, nature brings us such wonderful and magical messages.
Used to call it ‘dressing’ my dragon (large candle) as I’d do crows feathers on her. The tail feathers as a crown on her forehead was truly awesome.
Swear that one time when I’d had her ‘dressed’, the Pisces was over and he was lying to me. As he glanced at the dragon I just knew right then and there. Later found out it was true.
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Just realized you are a Pisces. Excuse me please. No reflection on the females. Er, if you are a female.
I’ll be quiet now…
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I’m a Scorpio with Capricorn rising and seriously considered taxidermy as a career at one stage – a mortician too but that was during my Goth phase.
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maybe leo or aries – as they like to make an impact
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Not this Leo….I’m ok making an impact…surrounding myself with static death is not the impact I want to make.
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Cancer with Scorpio rising, no go with taxidermy here! As I live in the bush there are often dead birds & animals. I bury them with a nice bunch of leaves or flowers, and thank them, but don’t think I would ever feel the desire to preserve them and keep them in my house. I prefer live ones!
Robots, you had a Goth phase??? I think I had a mini one
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of course i had a Goth phase. Didn’t every Scorp? hehe.
I agree with you about the animals though i prefer live ones. And even though i’m not really into Feng Shui it’s got to be bad hanging dead animals off your wall.
I had a life size replica skeleton that i picked up from an ad agency (he was used in an IBM ad) and i loved dressing him up and taking photos but got rid of him during a decluttering phase. Didn’t want any skeletons in my closet hehe.
I do love the macabre. Here’s Bones:http://robotsdream.redbubble.com/works/826929-2-drop-dead-gorgeous
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he he, nice nighty he has on there! Time for me to take my cuppa to bed and look out the window at the moonlight in the garden. Night all x
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ooh lovely!! must be a scorpio thing … yeah I had one too & was known to dress him up lol
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Could use him in the “Diamond Lane” here as need at least two to drive on the expressway!
At massage school had a real skeleton hanging in the corner for teaching purposes. Was of an oriental man said the teacher. Teacher and his wife made many trips to the Orient. I think they knocked him off…
“Psycho” was on Halloween weekend. You know, the movie where he stuffed his Mom? Think Aquaphobe they DO do that to grannies. (guess I should be scared!!) lol.
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Hey Mystic when i was little (3-4) i had a similiar confusion – not taxi drivers – i used to stay with my nana on the weekend & she used to take me to sunday school where i learned the ‘our father’ and for a long time i thought my dad was God …
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ha,ha…Cute!!
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Scorpio on the taxidermy
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Yep Scorpio definitely – and the furs (but from animals that are already dead, not bred for the purpose, preferably. Ahem.) Also skeletons, skulls etc.
But then we all die, something that Scorpios are aware of every breathing moment, and all these things are momento mori and also a way of making yourself accustomed to death and to being around it, so as not to be so scared/worried about it.
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hehe… see my comment above.
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yep ! mine wasn’t blue though – nice touch.
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you should have seen the taxi driver’s face when i struggled to get him in the back of the cab – priceless!!!
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audrey niffenegger, author of the time traveler’s wife, is apparently keen on taxidermy and collects it. She is born on June the 13th and therefore a Gem…
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Ooo I share a birthday with her, yet I am not such the collector of this type of stuff
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only know one taxidermist… Scorpio male. Broke my Toro bestfriend’s heart…but she remains bizzarly fascinated with taxidermy to this day.
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OMG her ring is just devine!
Aqua sun, kataka moon. Taxidermy belongs in a museum. It’s hideous!
Though I would get temporarily used to it if Nikki Sixx would spend the weekend with me.
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Leo with Scorp moon, wall to wall stuff animals looking and looming from every surface, that’s the HM!
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Nooo, no Scorps on taxidermy! I doubt it. So appallingly pseudo-comfy. Wouldn’t a double Scorp know?
It’s more Piscean, I think. Very warm and cosy.
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I know a sculptor in Sydney, who used to run a taxidermy practice in Surry Hills. He has sun and venus in Libra, but Merc, Jupiter and Neptune conjunct in Scorp. Saggo moon.
He also collects Ken dolls, toy robots and crucifixes dating from the 9th century. Story about him here: http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/arts/avenue-to-wonderland/2008/10/10/1223145609097.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2
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oh cool. I saw and loved his work at Sculptures by Sea last year.
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Didn’t know Ken went back that far….lol
Thanks for the article. Interesting chap!
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That’ll teach me to use commas. He’s amazing and FUN. I’ve been in his house. It’s like a shrine to art and toys and Scorpionicism. Robots would have flipped in there.
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oh i would LOVE to see his house!!! we have similar astro – Sagg moon, Merc and Neptune conjunct in Scorp and venus in Libra. My Jupiter is in Taurus.
We even live in the same neighbourhood! and i went into his taxidermy shop back on Flinders street back in the late 80’s to enquire about getting my dead snake stuffed.
How cool!!
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stuff it, how would i know….?
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My impression is that Taurus would be Taxidermists. They like Nature, and also like to collect things ( ? )
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The only peeps i know who do the taxidermy thing as decor here are Taurus and Sagg. :/
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Never thought about this before in relation to taxidermy – but yes, Taurus/Sagg Asc. and I have always loved found remains of dead animals, and plants as well, but bones and feathers and have a big skull collection . . . not as on display as it used to be, I am lacking a studio space at present, but to me they are poignant delicate objects . . . I’d never kill for them, but I happily gather and display as beauty altho have buried-to-clean some skulls . . . .
hmm I so also have Uranus in Scorpio in the 12th house . . . but am such a novice am not sure that has any bearing
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Woman w multiple Hoofs, love your name!
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o thank you!
I think I finally found one I might remember!
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Vegan virgo and I don’t mind SOME taxidermy. I find the trophy-hunting-animal thing horrific, but if the animal died of natural causes/is artistically done OR if I feel like I have “rescued” it from a place where no one would have respected it in life I love it. I have a mink scarf (adorable, I can make one speak) that is vintage so was very old before I got to it. Love the thing to pieces, I find fur disgusting but for this piece I feel like it’s in a better home now that it is with super vegan girl who would have adored the animal during it’s life. I never feel bad about buying secondhand fur/leather for that reason. Otherwise the whole idea of it all is no doubt a terror!
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I agree Lesly, have always felt that if an animal is killed at least honour it by not wasting its precious materials – and making sure they are worn back to dust just makes sense to me – as a flip to that, I always felt that if I were to be vegetarian it would have to be as a vegan – but am more comfortable with being a responsible, aware, choosey meat eater and animal product consumer . . .
sorry, tangent, I think the fur’s age is important – ie, old fashioned shot/trapped fur as opposed to farmed, caged fur . . .
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I agree with you on the fur’s age. On the vegetarian/vegan note, while I was once a vegetarian now they make me sick (sorry, all of you out there!). Vegetarians only look for things that specifically say MEAT on them, when most meat products are not so cut and dry. For example: gelatin, rennet, amylase, aspic, castor, catgut, down, elastin, etc. The more one looks into what it used in everyday animal-product foods, the more disturbing it becomes and the less easy it is to wave it away off-hand and say “Oh, but I don’t eat hamburgers, so screw the rest of them.” Sorry, I think I’m beginning to rant. =)
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Virgo sun and nary a planet in scorp , and I have a pair of red deer antlers mounted above my bed… And wouldn’t say no to additional taxidermy items…
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Where do you live? a cold place? where did you get the antlers? You’re avatar is really arresting!
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Just real quick: yes! Firefox was acting up terribly for me this weekend! So glad you’ve determined the possible cause. It was making no sense and driving me crazy!
On the taxidermy: Sun Aquarius, North Node Scorpio and vegetarian since birth: I both love the beauty of a wild animal statue as decor and am disgusted by the idea of a dead animal in my house. Cannot even stand to touch a fur coat (have always been terribly conflicted about those great vintage coats and sweaters with fur collars). I do especially love antlers, though, and have learned that they’re shed annually therefor I am stalking shed antlers on ebay. -
This is actually Delila’s cousin – Lilly Raye = she is an aqua with a scorp rising=hense the black!
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