- Life, death, and resurrection are all inextricably linked in Scorpio
- Powerful, instinctual Scorpios sting and destroy
- As their natures evolve, they rebuild and create
- Has not only one symbol, but three: the scorpion, the eagle, and the phoenix
- Profound perceptions and violent urges
- Easily become bitter and depressed
- Compelled by overwhelming, unconscious forces that can find no coherent manifestation
- Complicated and multifaceted
- Sexuality is expressed as eroticism, even aggression
- Giving it free reign, they risk wreaking havoc on themselves and others
- Prone to fierce jealousy and possessiveness
- They may sting others without meaning to, then turn their venom on themselves in remorse
- They may incite more fear than affection, and they tend to have a few intense relationships, rather than a large circle of casual friends.
- Court danger and revel in risk
- Great courage and strength of will, but also a taste for conflict and a need to dominate
- Unorthodox, nonconforming, even revolutionary
- They joyfully trample tradition and desecrate convention on their way to constructing something new and altogether different
- Scorpios are survivors. Emotionally they may perish in the ashes of their own destructive nature. But they can also transcend and transform; they can bring forth from the ashes new and shining life. During this phase their intense perceptions will bend toward compassion understanding, rather than judgment. Their eroticism will reach beyond passion, toward love.
- Capacity for high spiritual development, but their path toward it is the most difficult in the zodiac
- They must be alchemists, transmuting dark nature and selfish impulse into purified desire, striving to discipline themselves and to curb and channel their great destructive power toward constructive ends
- Sexuality for Scorpio is more a matter of emotion - a symbol, a way of reaching a different order of experience
- Their biggest issue as a lover is the need to maintain control
- They like to find malicious ways to test you, so that the other person always feels like the dispensable one
- Scorpio has little respect for someone who won't fight back
- Implacable resentment, and making you pay for any insult - real or imagined - are other bonuses on the less pleasant side
- Scorpios know how to read another person's needs - and, if not threatened, will do their utmost to meet them.
- It is one of the few signs that others instinctively know not to mess with, an inbuilt self-preservation mechanism in the other mere mortals.
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