The journey into #Scorpio will start a lil different. Let's start with the fact that I never wanted to be one.
Being born on this mythical creature called the cusp btwn Scorpio & Sagittarius (Nov. 22). It was a no brainer for me: I was a Centaur.
If I had to select one. I mean, wouldn't a sane person rather choose to be a Centaur than a bug? #Scorpio
My older brother's also #Scorpio. We're both hotheads, but I was the more level headed one. I didn't want to be…
...be like him. Then I had my bout w/ fundamentalist Christianity, so I used to say I was born under the sign of the Cross.
Truth is I didn't know how to pick my sign. I read both descriptions & felt like both. I once coined the phrase, "Scagittarius"
For those who also struggle w/ this thing called the cusp, I wrote this: bit.ly/TDibJY
Well,I had a crush on an older Gemini woman who was deeply into astrology. She didn't play my love games,but was a good friend.
After getting to know me, she was convinced that I was a Scorpio. I was convinced she was nuts. She had her evidence, tho.
I didn't care. On a lark, looking for an occult book, I met Kofi, of Kofi's bookshop in N. Philly. He was an astrologer.
He asked about my chart. I didn't know what that was. He offered to do mine at a reasonable rate. I agreed.
He said I needed 2 60 min. tapes for session. I went. First 15 minutes seemed like BS. Told me the easily deduced.
Then it happened. He started talking about things, my family, that he couldn't have possibly known. Then the #Scorpio arrived.
"How do you know that?," I said sharply after being quiet for most of the reading. W/o missing a beat, he jovially elaborated.
I felt violated, but couldn't understand how. I even said, "This doesn't make sense." Convinced he had picked up on some cue.
I asked if he knew my Gemini friend. Of course he didn't. How could symbols unlock family secrets or things like that? #Scorpio
So...in typical #Scorpio fashion, I spent the next 10 years attempting to prove what he did was a trick.
My astrology career is the net result of my failure and gives you a sense of what #Scorpio is really about.
There's no such thing as a cusp when you know when you're born. When you're born at the end, you're actually more the essence of the sign.
I will always be a Sun in #Scorpio in sidereal and tropical astrology.
Now, if you asked me to choose btwn being a Centaur or a bug, I would laugh at you. I would be neither. #Scorpio is more than that.
#Scorpio has at least 4 or 5 symbols to it. The #Scorpio is only the 1st face & most popular. #Scorpio has been symbolized by…
..the Eagle, the Serpent, the Dove, the Lizard,the Wolf, and the Phoenix. I mainly use the Scorpion, the Eagle and the Phoenix.
These symbols of #Scorpio represents different layers of being or evolution of #Scorpio consciousness.
Some people like to divide #Scorpios into one of these symbols, but be careful about that. These symbols are not permanent in any one individual, per se.
Example: I would consider #Scorpio Mahalia Jackson an "Eagle," but that doesn't mean that sometimes she didn't have a sting.
But let's talk abt #Scorpio consciousness, tho this is also personal. It will reflect some things I've always wanted to share.
#Scorpio is a sign of Mars. In modern astrology, it also seen as a sign of Pluto. I do not believe this, but #FYI.
The assignment of #Pluto to Scorpio was a product of 20th century astrological ignorance & tinkering. #Messy
In #Aries, a Mars sign, we see that Mars' energy directed toward defining lines in the external world through sheer power…
As a fire sign, #Aries will exhibit more of the Mars tendency to venture out and show forth his/her identity in clear terms.
In #Scorpio, a water sign, Mars doesn't show himself as clearly, but still seeks to define boundaries & make himself known.
So in #Scorpio, we're known for a passion, but we're described as secretive. That's Mars acting through the bubbly water.
Mars never acts direct in a water sign. This isn't because we only want to be secretive, but because of something else.
#Scorpios live with the horror of wondering if the world is trustworthy. Can we trust the dark that we know we see around us?
With #Libra, we could depend on the rational to guide us out of the dark.
In #Scorpio, we learn that we have to face the irrational & encrouching dark days with passion & courage. Reason isn't enough.
However, as a water sign, #Scorpio isn't merely content to the wage the battle outside. We wage the battle within too. Often.
This fabled intensity of #Scorpio is the world's inability to understand that as we're encountering the world...
...or even battling within ourselves, we're doing it with complete FOCUS.
Unlike #Libra, who weighs the balance to a null set, #Scorpio has no such recourse. All or nothing, baby. 24/7.
This is usually the most difficult thing to understand about #Scorpio, even in small things.
My mutable #Sagittarius ex-wife had to learn that my concentration is all or nothing. It does not split like hers.
For instance, if there are dms and @ replies I see in my periphery now. They do not exist until I finish my task. #Scorpio
That's also why #Scorpios can be tough in love. When a #Scorpio's hurt, we didn't just break up. You DIED! You ceased to exist.
That's also why #Scorpios can be tough in love. When a #Scorpio's hurt, we didn't just break up. You DIED! You ceased to exist.
So our consciousness becomes consumed with that. At its worst, this consumption about dark or negative things…
...can lead to obsessive issues of control or power. Or fearing for one's life.
We feel we have to bury others before we ourselves are buried…by them, by our fears,or our own pain, take your pick.
This is very real for # Scorpio-influenced souls. #Scorpio believes that there's a self to protect, like a true Mars child...
...but the hazard is that we may seek to protect ourselves on too many fronts…
...have too many fears about how we can, will or would be extinguished.
The moment a #Scorpio realizes that there is something in them that cannot be extinguished...
...then we move into higher realms, like the #Eagle. We no longer have to live in the fear the smallness of the #Scorpion…
We can transcend our limited awareness and truly soar!
But our internal or external eyes are still attuned for seeing what's not easily visible or what lurks in the dark, like an Eagle
This goes along with the notion that #Scorpios love secrets.
Love is a strong word. Our minds are just made for what might be lurking around.
The difference is btwn Scorpion & Eagle phases is that one is no longer looking out of fear, but for a diff. level of sustenance.
Once a #Scorpio stops making this world their sole focus, then they can focus on inner worlds or more transcendent worlds.
#Scorpions can be very, very spiritual people, even if they don't subscribe to any particular religion or idea.
At bottom, #Scorpios are looking for the light while keenly aware of the darkness around them.
When we catch more of a glimpse of the light--hope, love, divinity and give intense focus to that--we move toward the Phoenix
You can catch a #Scorpion at any one of those phases in a day. Although the avg. #Scorpio usually stays within a range of phases.
This concern about life/death or light/darkness is at the heart of the #Scorpio, processing both until one can transcend it.
However, there are some dangers with these concerns, beyond the ones I've enumerated so far.
As a #Scorpio, I've always had mixed but mostly distasteful feelings about our reputations as ho's of the #Zodiac.
Some of this stems from an astrological misunderstanding, but some of it does fit in an odd way.
Each sign of the #Zodiac rules a different body part. #Scorpio rules the gonads. Hence, its association with sex.
However, sex is not the same as sexual organs. And why does #Scorpio rule the gonads?
Because in the grand consciousness, #Scorpio represents the essence of preserving life and that's what the gonads do.
During #Scorpio season, as we see everything around us dying, we also see life procreating. Trees are dropping seeds. #Scorpio
This is an image that #Scorpio should contemplate often, cuz we tend to focus on the dying part rather than the constancy of life.
Anyway, the #Scorpio tendency is to become consumed, so it makes sense we sometimes become consumed by "our" body part.
We get lured into the dreams of "eternal life,"so many seek to explore that portal of (pro)creativity as much as possible
But it may not be for the same reason that our polarity, #Taurus, may explore sex, with pleasure in mind.
We may do it for a personal sense of power, either from the act, from the person, or an admixture of both.
Let's be clear: #Scorpios can get off on power. (One way to keep the dark at bay.)
For instance, if you have a #Scorpio child, you have to keep clear lines of power buttressed by reason not brute force.
If you beat a #Scorpio too much, they will spend a lifetime finding other tools to beat you.
As children of Mars, they want self-definition and their own sense of power. Will surrender if they see you're worth of it.
This taps into something that's going to make some uncomfortable, but that I believe is true, based on my observations.
#Scorpios can also be secretly or not-so-secretly one of the most arrogant/egotistical signs of the #Zodiac. We're a proud people.
Why? I've thought for several reasons.
Remember, #Scorpios want power to be able to define themselves, but may not always know how to do that directly.
When #Scorpios achieve power, any kind of power, it's a merit badge of success. A lot of power in the name itself.
A Scorpion, a tiny dispenser of death, is a pretty badass image. That's why so many #Scorps have 1 somewhere on them.
For instance, yours truly has a Scorpion/Phoenix tattooed on his rt. forearm, a big one! (Nothing in small or simple measure.)
I have yet to observe a sign that has as much paraphernalia as #Scorpio.
The other "reason" for the pride (and all its hazards) is that it can be used to buffer the ego against extinction.
"Life would never crush something/someone who values herself this much!" #Scorpio, that's a lie. #FYI
Nothing ensures your survival, #Scorpio, except grace (or chance if you're an atheist) & your spirit to shine on thru others.
I could go on and on about #Scorpio, but don't want to overdo it (as we may tend to do).
Of course, all these things depend on the dynamics of your own personal horoscope, not just one sign. This is a general guide.
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Thank you for tuning in. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
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