Scorpio
An encyclopedia describes a scorpion as a nocturnal arachnid that attacks and paralyzes its prey with a poison injected by the long, curved tail, used both for defense and destruction. Its sting is sometimes fatal.
People often draw back visibly when someone says he or she was born in November, murmuring, "Oh, you're a Scorpio!" either in frank fear, or in awe and respect. Sometimes there's also a giggle that obviously refers to the legendary Scorpio passion. First, you'd better learn how to recognize the sign.
Look at the eyes. They can be green, blue, brown or black, but they'll be piercing with hypnotic intensity. Most people feel nervous and ill at ease under Scorpio's steady gaze.You'll have to break the spell and look away first. He'll outstare you every time. It's a foolproof identification of the Pluto personality. Scorpio eyes bore deep into you, mercilessly, as if they're penetrating your very soul. They are.
Scorpio has total ego. He knows what he is and he knows what he is not, and nothing anyone else thinks will change this knowledge. Insults roll right off his back, and compliments don't move him a fraction of an inch (unless contrary indication in the natal chart). He needs no one to tell him his vices or his virtues. At best, he'll calmly agree with your appraisal ; at worst, he'll suspect your motives.
Most Pluto people have powerful physiques. The features are noticeably heavy or sharp, and clearly drawn, and the nose is quite prominent, sometimes beak-shaped. Ordinarily, the complexion is very pale, almost translucent, and the brows are heavy and knit together over the bridge of the nose. There's a cracklin, electric vitality about the very presence of a Scorpio that gives him away. The poised surface calm of the Pluto character is carefully designed to hide the boiling inner nature. Such mastery of the personality has to be envied. These people proudly and consciously practice a blank expression. They command their features to remain firm, and their features obey. You'll seldom see a Scorpio give himself away by blushing or flushing, frowning or grinnin. Smiles are rare, but genuine. Reaction is always kept at a bare minimum, because Scorpio's art is to probe your nature and motives relentlessly, while remaining inscrutable himself, and he's an expert at it.
If you're sensitive, don't ask his opinion or advice. You'll get the naked, brutal truth. You asked him, he'll tell you. Scorpio will not pay a false compliment to gain a point or win an ally. It's beneath him to flatter. When he says something nice to you, treasure it. Don't believe everything you hear about Scorpio selfishness. Instead, listen to some of the grateful people who have been on the receiving end of his wise counsel and generosity. Scorpio naturally attracts either fiercely loyal and dedicated admirers, or envious and spiteful enemies. But even the latter give him grudging respect, and you'll notice they're careful not to challenge him openly.
Yet, there's a haunting sweetness about these people, and often a gentle sympathy with the sick or despairing. Scorpio's touch can be cool and tender, as well as hot. His Sun position gives him several paths to follow. He can imitate the nocturnal scorpion, who will sting others and even sting himself to death for the pure pleasure of stinging - or he can imitate the glorious, soaring path of his symbolic eagle, who rises above earthly limitations, and uses his strenght wisely and justly. A few Pluto people fall somewhere between the eagle and the stinging scorpion, victims of their own black magic. Theses are the gray lizards. With them, supreme self-sacrifice becomes neurotic concern about the self, and psychic abilities become fearful apprehensions of the lurking evils which may strike at any moment. The gray lizards fail to draw on the power of Pluto in their natures - power that could lift them high above all the unfortunate circumstances that surround them. In the very teeth of tragedy, this awesome inner strenght could give them a new life in the sunlight. But they seek the dark shadows and lie dormant, a pathetic waste of the brilliant potential of their birthright. Still, Scorpio can never slide deep enough into the slime of bitter depression to completely lose the power of Pluto. It's never too late for the gray lizard to transform himself into an eagle.
Scorpio is intensely loyal to friends. "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." Scorpio never forgets a gift or a kindness, and it's richly rewarded. Conversely, he also remembers an injury or an injustice, but there are different ways of reacting. The eagle will crush the enemy, so the enemy learns never to hurt him again, wins the fight, and leaves the defeated to go his own way. The deadly nocturnal scorpion will first sting, then plan destruction, then sting again. He's not content with merely evening the score. He must totally destroy the enemy, or at least top him. However, with the gray lizards, Pluto revenge takes the form of bitterness held inside for years, which inevitably causes deep melancholy or actual, lingering physical illness. Seething Scorpio resentment, turned inward and never expressed, poisons with deadly certainty. Turned outward, it can create guilt, because the stinger scorpion is ashamed to harm the defenseless, when all is said and done.
Scorpio is deeply interested in religion, intensely curious about all phases of life and death, passionately concerned with sex and violently drawn by a desire to reform. Yet he's also heroic, dedicated to ties of family and love, and gently protective of children and weaker souls. He can experiment with the darkest mysteries this side of Hades, or he can scathingly revile sin and decadence.
He's fiercely possessive of what he believes to be his, including success, but his ambition is never obvious. He quietly waits for the chance to move ahead all the while he serves, knowing he is qualified for the position above him. He takes control slowly, but very surely. Scorpio can do just about anything he wants to do. The dark, magical and mysterious power of Pluto turns desire into reality with cool, careful, fixed intent.
The ancient mysteries fascinate his brilliant mind. Out of his powerful empathy with human nature grows the outstanding detective, the composer of great musical works, literature of depth and permanence, or the actor who projects with unusual dramatic intensity. Sometimes he lives alone, near the sea, as strong and as silent as the tides.
One of the strangest patterns in astrology is the death of a relative in the family within either a year before or the year after the birth of a Scorpio. And when a Scorpio dies, there will be a birth in the family within the year before or the year after. It happens at least ninety-five percent of the time.
Pluto's symbol is the triumphant phoenix, rising from its own smoldering ashes, and Scorpio personifies the resurrection from the grave. Both the ray lizards and the stinging scorpions can become proud eagles, without ever revealing the secret of their sorcery. No use to ask - Scorpio will never tell.
November's thistle is dangerous, yet it grows entwined with the heavy, languid beauty of the Scorpio honeysuckle. Have you ever inhaled that sweet, overwhelming fragrance on a still midsummer's night? Then you will know why there are those who brave the thistles to seek the gentleness of Scorpio - exquisite gentleness.
The female Scorpio has a deep, mysterious beauty. She's magnetic, proud and totally confident. But she has one secret regret. She was not born a man. Less restriction - more opportunity. It's the one secret she even hides from herself, and seeing it exposed won't sit well with her.
Once the Scorpio girl has figured out the difference between blue booties and pink booties, she'll resign herself to wearing the pink ones, because she's fabulous at making the best out of a situation. But pink isn't her natural color. The true shade of her nature is dark maroon, or deep winered. However, to give her proper tribute, she's able to make you think it is. She can easily pretend to be a fragile, fluffy kitten and most men would take her for an ultra-feminine Piscean. She is no kitten.
A Pluto girl will control her desire to dominate, while she gives a glorious performance of womanhood. She will subdue her drive and magnetize a man with the heavy perfume of her exotic glance, as she allows him to use his lighter to ignite her cigarette. That's far sexier than aggressively striking a match herself and blowing the smoke in his face, and she knows it. She knows lots more. Whisper something romantic that would melt another girl out of her senses, and the Scorpio girl will simply give you an intense, penetrating look that will see right straight through to your real intentions.
I'm well aware that this dangerous femme fatale can hide her power of retaliation with a tremulous smile, gentle mannerisms, and the most breathless voice this side of an angel. But astrologers are expected to be up on these things. It's more important for you to be well aware.
The Scorpio woman has a disconcerting gift that can make icy shivers run up your spine. It's a peculiar form of black magic, and she weaves it expertly, it can seem like real witchcraft. You have very little chance to escape, once her eyes meet yours. Stay around awhile. You might find out what life is all about. She knows. And she'll teach you. Anyway, you should be flattered that she considers you worth that strange gaze.
A Scorpio woman can't excuse weakness in a man. She looks for ambition and courage. She wants a mate who can dominate her and make her proud, without disturbing her secret individuality. A high degree of intelligence is required to watch her own excellent mind, plus more than a passing acquaintance with abstract, philosophical wisdom.
Having once achieved closeness with a female Scorpio, you can be positive you're a unique and unusual man. You can also be sure that her love for you is unmatched by any you'll ever experience - and you can take that in several ways. You'll be the most important interest in her life. If she's a typical Pluto girl, she'll boost you loyally, and try to please you with passionate intensity. If you're too hard to please, she'll show her fruistration with passionate attempts to conquer your disinterest.
The word passionate probably caught your eye. Most men have heard exciting rumors about the passion of November females. It's true. She's brimming over inside with passion, though it's kept under rigid control by a poised, frosty attitude toward strangers, and a surface smoothness suggestive of black velvet. But the male sex is too inclined to relate passion strictly to romantic action; and that's selling her short, because Pluto's definition of the word is far more encompassing. It's involved with her feelings about resents or she intensely worships. If one of these two passions can't be aroused, then she totally ignores.
She has such fabulous virtues, you might know her vices wouldn't be skimpy, either. So think about her good points. All right, then, think about her good points after that lump on your head has healed!
Because she's drawn to investigation of the shadows, she may at first seem to be tempting, forbidden fruit, and the deep, strange expression in her eyes intensifies the impression. It's true that the Scorpio girl sometimes wanders into dangerous waters in her efforts to penetrate life, and since there's not the slightest trace of fear in her (unless she has an afflicted Moon), her search may indeed take her into some weird byways. But the typical Scorpio will emerge from any discovery still strong and pure. She may have been a fascinated spectaculor to a million human foibles, and she may have tasted a variety of experiences to savor the knowledge. But she can mysteriously emerge from all her explorations above suspicion.
There's a private part to this woman you'll never touch, a part of her mind and soul that belongs strictly to her, and there's absolutely no trespassing there. She's not untruthful, in fact she's more often too brutally honest, yet there will always be those special thoughts and feelings she won't confide to you or anyone else. Sooner or later, she'll probably investigate some form of the occult, and ancient mysteries and unseen worlds will eventually have her respect, though Scorpios can range all the way from religions fervor to total atheism during a lifetime.
Despite her own strong individualism, the typical Scorpio girl will let her man be the boss. Instead of overshadowing him with her force and drive, she'll apply her talents to help him attain his goals. She may fight you wildly in private, but she'll defend you fiercely in public. Your happiness will always come first.
Scorpio women love their homes, which usually shine with cleanliness, taste and comfort. They love to dig into corners to see what they can find. Just be careful he doesn't find any cryptic notes that smell perfume in your old jacket pockets when she's cleaning out the closets. Scorpio is unreasonably suspicious, even when there's no basis for suspicion, so you can imagine what happens when she finds a real clue to possible infidelity. It's no good being suspicious of her, no matter how many opportunities arise. Like that locked chest or drawer she's had since childhood, certain things about her are off limits. It will get you nowhere to probe. I realize fully that this isn't fair. So does she. But that doesn't change things a bit.
In the budget department, Scorpio women are completely unpredictable. But one thing is sure. She'll enjoy money, whether she saves it in an old shoe or spends it on luxury. But this woman always leans toward prestige, and she won't let cash compromise that. Scorpio females like power, and they will sacrifice much for it. Your power will also do.
She'll be possessive but won't want to be possessed. One of the worst traits of both male and female Scorpios is a refusal to see any viwepoint but their own when emotions are involved. It takes weeks of introspection to bring them around to a semblance of humility. Her natural interest in the opposite sex, even if it remains platonic, may give you as much reason to be jealous of her as she is of you. It seldom leads to anything serious, but it can cause some uncomfortable moments.
The Scorpio sense of justice is as strong as the sense of revenge. Most people forget this. She'll remember every kindness and give you back double for that, too. It works both ways.
With the children, her expression of love may lack a certain tenderness and open demonstration, but the youngsters will probably sense her deep devotion and feel emotionally secure anyway. Her offspring will find her strong and helpful when youthful problems arise, because her knowledge of human nature makes her a wise counselor. She'll teach them to meet difficulties with her own courage.
A Scorpio woman will sometimes nearly drown you in her passion for living, yet in a real storm, her cool, calm reason and steely strenght will be a life raft. Though she works her magic in strange and secret ways, her haunting eyes will always gaze at you with basic honesty, even while she remains just beyond the reach of human understanding. She's a little dangerous, perhaps, but undeniably exciting. You've known the compelling mystery of lovely witch, who brews a pretty good cup of tea and never burns your toast. (well, almost never!) When the cup is empty, let her read the tea leaves for you. She can - if she wants to. You mean you didn't know? I told you there are things she keeps to herself...
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