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“Scorpio’s healing begins when it becomes possible for the individual to grieve rather than rage. Grief, sorrow, and remorse are feelings which seem to transform the bitter vindictiveness into something more fluid. One can begin to forgive life then. It is connected in some mysterious and deep way with the issue of emotional honesty.”
— Liz Greene (via astrolocherry)
the water signs , cancer, scorpio, and pisces are tasked with developing boundaries but relinquishing the need for control. they must surrender to the inner forces without slipping far from reason, they must draw the breath of another human spirit in love and intimacy, but they cannot let the shadows rage. desiring control is the side-effect of feeling out of control, foreign and different in a world that doesn’t stop to console anyone. water is introspection and self-reflection, privacy, and secrecy. and it’s mostly because they have to do this all alone
Don’t mistake Scorpio’s tact for manipulation. Their drive for precision and depth in human interaction is what steers them to make such layered decisions; it isn’t malice. They aren’t controlling you. Don’t condemn them for understanding you.
Scorpio - Apple Fatale
Scorpio is the sign of death and endings. In light of this quality, it is also a sign of life, rebirth, the second birth, the second coming. The soul light can only be seen in the darkest of nights, alone and abandoned. Scorpio knows that if one is to truly ascend then one must deeply descend. At its core, transformation and regeneration is creation. Scorpio is The Intelligent Host of Creative Force active in every live mineral. The sign rules over the reproductive organs and guards over the practice of The Maithuna that awaken the ingenious and magical Kundalini serpent within. In this respect, Scorpio protects the sacredness of sex. This commonly manifests through involvement in sexual justice, law and criminal proceedings, and battles for liberation. Scorpios shield against violation and abuses of this kind, the venom injected by their sting is capable of fatally wounding the depraved beings who do, or intend to defile the purity of this intimate practice. Scorpio dwells in this etheric realm of the fiery divine sexual force. This is the same force residing in the angelic cherubins enclosing Eden. Scorpio is the battleground between white magick and black magick. The good and evil inside Scorpio go into war, one is promising everything and one is promising nothing, and like a sleight of hand both can trade places. Scorpio is watery intuitive and Pluto psychic, everything within these people operates at hidden and subliminal levels. During childhood, the goodness of the world revealed itself in light of the bad. Adults tore off the masks of angels to reveal monsters, survival instinct was shaped, primed and prepared for the oncoming brutality. It conditioned a consequence for every action, it made every footstep they would take strategic and strikingly calculative, and no risk posed a greater threat than doing nothing at all. To loved ones this may have appeared as being lost or confused, but the Scorpio never wanted to be found. There was always a sense of direction - even if the compass spun from an unknown ocean. It glides and crosses up and around the spine like a psychic serpent, the air can feel thick crackling against their fingertips. Scorpio is the dark angel, the serpent who seduced Eve to taste the apple and thus “your eyes will be open and you will be like God, knowing good and evil“. The apple is forever outstretched in the right eye of Scorpio, the apple of ego loss through orgasm, reflecting and re-radiating the universal auric sparkle. The preceding sign is Libra on the descendant, so every shadow has been exposed upon entering Scorpio. The serpent has been relegated to a base and decrepit symbol of all that is pain and evil in modern theology. We can observe a similar designation applied to the astrological sign of Scorpio that is frequently slandered, denigrated, and associated with the activation of these lower and inaccurately retold serpentine traits, “(you will) become like God, knowing” the serpent told, beholding the wisdom within the Tree of Knowledge in its ascended state, and “knowing good and evil” is the awareness of the duality inherent to divine consciousness. Scorpio is on the borderland between consciousness like the serpent recoiled around the centre of the Tree of Knowledge, the position said to be the border of the Human Soul in between spirit and matter. “The inferno is the womb of Heaven. Beauty is born from rottenness. Lucifer grants us Light when we defeat him.” - Samuel Aun Weor
-C.
art by Dustin Bailard
water signs are known to take on others energies, they are entirely empathetic and can feel others emotions from miles away. sometimes they need a break from others emotions and struggles to deal with their own, it’s a form of self care for them. they need alone time to take care of their own selves and emotions without other energies coming into play
Scorpio (or those with personal planets in this energy (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus) value the time of others greatly, but only if there in genuine connection and presence there. It is easy for this energy to get frustrated with the constant ringing of phones or the distractions that someone can find more value in. Sometimes, they want to be your priority.
mars is not alone with scorpio. mars is also there with pluto, and those daggers can feel like they are being thrown into sheer darkness. the fight is for larger-than personal causes, the battle is for the truth that is revealed to them from behind the veil, fighting death. these conflicts are taken partly under water where they cannot breathe, and partly on land where the smoke is too dark to see through, daggers are thrown from the invisible
Scorpio Scorpio Moon
Emotional Exorcism
Emotions are a source of energy for Scorpio. Wherever emotion goes, it makes passion, desire, love, and collision flow. It’s difficult for Scorpios not to pour their whole spirit into their emotional pursuits, they can become unwillingly attached, infatuated, and consumed. Whatever they become emotional about can seem like a matter of life and death. Scorpios are naturally impassioned, and when their hearts have locked forces their resolve is inspiringly remarkable. This is why Scorpios can become explosive, commanding, and ferocious in debate and ensuring the message is heard. They can become intensely frustrated and agitated toward people who disrespect their craft, conviction, or calling. They put their heart and soul into these pursuits, they represent a part of themselves released from the shackles and exposed vulnerably to the world. The Scorpio’s emotions are like a morse-code, and next to impossible for anyone but the Scorpio to decode, but this can only follow intense self-reflection and painful self-honesty. Emotions intrude like masked assassins and the message is obscure, complex, and lurid. They can become very good at containing these in the short term, but that dense and opaque fire is always burning behind the eyes. They are forced to tear themselves to shreds with psychological incisions to source the mood, the emotion, and the wound, learning to decrypt their emotions like a psychic psychiatrist and read them like it’s someone else’s diary. There are multiple layers and currents in every emotion, and the mood prevails long after the physical experience has vanished. This can be demanding, so it’s common for Scorpios to shut themselves off from people for days and crawl into spaces that nobody knows.
-C.
art by Xue Wang
Stress Responses
Aries: racing thoughts, increased agitation to normal events. they can get the red eyes and they find it hard to sleep even with extreme tiredness and exhaustion. there can be headaches, migraines, or clumsiness and they can see their short comings in crystal clear black and white
Taurus: heaviness and the feeling of carry extra body weight. appetite changes and an increased reliance on personal pleasure to the extent it becomes routine but there isn’t real satisfaction in anything. the voice is shaky, caffeine intake can increase
Gemini: quietened into silence by the consistent loud banging of thoughts. less focused and animated during conversation and socialisation, they can become more argumentative and defensive. quickly diverts the subject off themselves. if they smoke it increases. it may be hard to maintain dietary intake, they can become easily panicked and impossible to follow
Cancer: reacts overtly and excessively to emotional provocation. everybody in the house knows they are ‘in a mood’. the appetite can change, increase in sugar cravings, its easy to gain weight, regressive patterns can re-emerge
Leo: physical symptoms of exhaustion including heart palpitations, hot flashes, and sore muscles in the chest and lower back. stress can increase energy to untameable levels so they can become more frantic, more sacrificial, more of a people pleaser, more in need of recognition
Virgo: a person running around in a frantic pace doing 20 different things at the same time, feeling unrealistic time constraints, looking ultra productive and constructive but is running around in directionless circles. the rituals can get out of hand, digestive discomfort, appetite changes
Libra: they can care too much about the image people have of them to expose their concerns and worries. they can wait for close friends to pick up on this by some form of telepathy and feel disheartened and betrayed when they don’t. they can get a nervous or sensitive bladder and feel like everybody is personally agitated or ignoring them
Scorpio: Becomes self-reclusive and shuts off from everybody. They can become very hostile or reactive to attempted intrusions into their inner space and get ‘those eyes’ everyone close to them knows well. Sexual desire can fluctuate
Sagittarius: The pace of everything increases to uncontrollable rapid speed in the mind and body there can be unusual headaches, nerves, the feeling of breathing stale air, back pain, and restless legs. They can feel happy, but they overthink, doubt, and wonder how long it will last.
Capricorn: Can become itchy and suffer jaw tension. Everything needs to remain the same and completely normal so they keep everything inside so that nobody changes their behaviour around them. they self seclude and spend a lot of time thinking, cataloguing stressors and working through them one at a time, purposefully and painfully on their own
Aquarius: the will to make a difference flatlines, there is little inspiration and a lot of frustration in a world they can’t seem to fit into. their thoughts become very sharp and cut them deeply, they can detach from everyone and everything
Pisces: They can become their own worst enemy, worries can inflate into disproportioned fears and they can actively live these out, like if they have an early alarm and frantically try to get sleep and agonise about tomorrow’s tiredness and keep themselves awake all night by playing out imaginative scenarios until the morning
-C.
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Marina Tsvetaeva, from The Complete Poems; “April 28, 1915,” (via violentwavesofemotion)
There’s a reason why Scorpio is a fixed sign, and there’s also reasons why people tend to question how Scorpio is fixed at all. Scorpio however, will always be a fixed sign.
The questioning usually starts due to the planets ruling Scorpio. When people think of the fixed modality, they tend to think of keeping something stable, calm, or static, which is the technical definition of being fixed. However, Scorpio shows that you don’t always have to try to be comfortable and safe to feel stable with yourself. Scorpio actually proposes the opposite: you can gain stability and fixation by being doing the counterintuitive - being volatile and extreme. It implies that sometimes, in order to be truly maintain stability, you must go out of the comfort zone to get it. This is explained through Mars traditionally ruling over Scorpio. Mars always presents an energetic, argumentative energy that goes against the nature of staying unchangeable. That’s why Scorpio is always seen to be a polarizing sign, but that’s not the only place where Scorpio’s extreme nature comes from.
Pluto is the other reason why people can question Scorpio’s fixed modality. Pluto represents transformations, which is an impactful change. When placed next to each other, what Pluto represents also contradicts with the fixed modality. It almost seems that Scorpio is too dynamic to be a fixed sign, when really, Scorpio uses change to maintain stability. You may ask why Scorpio would want to be stable in the first place.
Scorpio wants to be stable so that it can stabilize the inner chaos it has inside itself. After all, stability is the core principle that holds Taurus and Scorpio together as sister signs. Stability and control is what gives Scorpio’s seemingly dangerous volatile nature a sense of direction. Without the idea of stability, Scorpio would truly be a sign of disorganized chaos… But Scorpio is not. Scorpio represents organized chaos. After all, you never see a Scorpio lose its composure in public, since it is good at keeping a scarily calm demeanor. Scorpio will also fix itself on something powerful, but tangible to keep themselves together. This is why Scorpio is known to keep secrets.
The fact that Scorpio is also a water sign also explains its fixed modality. Emotions is the main medium used by the water signs, and emotions are quite fleeting, dynamic, unstable, and irrational at times. Naturally, emotions are preferably (but not always!) hidden for the water signs, and for Scorpio, it keeps its emotions hidden to keep itself in line.
a scorpio has 3 options in life
-become prey to the demons, to act on their every urge and desire, to reap in harrowing images of what salvation could be, an image of power, compulsion, seething manipulation
-to fight the demons, to activate the survivalist mode, to attempt to dilute the shadow… retreat away, the energy fed trying to defeat them becoming more and more consuming, there is taste for life
-to exploit the demons, using every experience of darkness to see their own shadow through the demons, to be aware, to know, to integrate, and not to vanquish, but accept, and to leat soar into greatness, power being sourced, to manoeuvre demons, to turn them into slaves
Internet descriptions of Scorpio are malicious, or else raunchy and uncontrollable. Scorpio is hinged and described with an air of mystery, desire, and an outrageously potent passion. We relate Scorpio to the 8th house and Pluto. We relate Scorpio to intimacy, sex, passion, shared things, psychology, and obsession.
Internet descriptions of Taurus are dry. Taurus plagued with the stereotypes of stubbornness and gluttony. We describe Taurus as a loyal, hardworking person who likes nice things. Taurus is related to the second house and Venus. The bull is akin to finances, personal belongings, self worth, valued belongings, and generalized sensuality.
The bull and the scorpion unite on opposite poles of a single wavelength. The wavelength follows that of Aries and Libra, which rightly rules the self and the others. (Others being people with whom the self interacts, be it briefly or in a strong relationship.) Following awareness of self, of the existence of a single self that is controlled by that same self, is acknowledgement of personal possession, capability, and power. Following the presence of others, in relation to the self, comes shared relationships. This shared closeness can be expanded to depth of relationship, or as we better know it: intimacy.
Thus it can be presumed that one pole holding possession, capability, and power must relate to the opposite pole. It is not the qualities that change in two connected points, but the expression of each.
As previously mentioned, Taurus follows Aries and accordingly relates to the self. Taurus governs my things, my pleasures, my earnings, my power, my work, my ability, my body, my self.
Scorpio, then, following Libra, relates to the relationship. This should not be pigeon-holed into romantic unions, but those relationships that are riddled with depth, dependency, and intimacy. Scorpio governs our things, our pleasures, our trust, our power, our accomplishments, our union, our relationship.
So it is not sex or murder that drives the Scorpio, but intimacy and, consequentially, betrayal. Breaking apart an intimate relationship- be it romantic, platonic, or familial- is destructive to the very identity and well-being of the Scorpio archetype. Depending on the planet placed in Scorpio, and generally the eighth house, Scorpio themes can be examined and interpreted with better clarity and finesse.
And Taurus, our hungry bull, displays individual accomplishments and working for reward. The concept is basic, and it is the Taurus archetype that allows us to value our individual selves. The identity of the Taurus is formulated around their decision-making, their value systems, and their belongings. Disregarding the work, autonomy, and earnings of Taurean placements, and generally the 2nd house, is equally as destructive as breaking intimacy with Scorpion placements.
The difference comes from vindication, which is more prevalent in the Scorpio towards a single individual, where as the Taurus immediately writes off those who challenge their prowess. A boring Taurus is a Taurus uninterested in letting you into their life. An angry Scorpio is a Scorpio that has been broken and used from the inside-out.
Friedrich Nietzsche (via yeshecholwa)
