The Scorpion is the symbol of this sign and suggests itself in the disposition and character of Scorpio natives. These people are extremists in every way. They are the most dominant, ruthless, self-willed and autocratic of any Zodiacal type. They are passionate and rebellious, tearing down the tenets of God and Man alike to suit their purpose. They WILL RULE, not with gracious majesty of Leo, or even the sharper authority of Aries, but with the fierce tyranny of a Czar. It is THEIR WAY or no way.
The enigma of all who understand the Scorpio temperament is this combination of violent qualities with a fine constructive mind. These people have a true comprehension of life, its difficulties, and problems. They are exceedingly astute, and know how to win out in the difficult battle of life. For, to them everything is a battle. Yet with all that superior knowledge, they seldom take the easy way to accomplish anything, but always choose the road of contention and strife. They are contrary and contradictory, and choose to go in opposition to even their own conceptions, if it suits their mood of the moment. This sign was once called the negative side of Mars and Mars was appointed its ruler, but the newest astrological thought has described Pluto named for the dark lord of the underworld, as the rightful ruler of the sign.
Such a picture of active unpleasantness leads one ti wonder how Scorpio natives conform to this world at all. Actually they are often very successful people, of great ability, and high accomplishment.
The sign of Scorpio, ruled over by Pluto, is the sign of death, birth and the principle of sex. It also deals with problems of race preservation, reform and regeneration. The turgid passions of hatred, revenge and rivalry are also part of the Scorpio sign-personality.
In appearance the Scorpio man is thick set, even squat. He is a giant in strength, and moves with effortless power, and works with tireless energy. The face is heavy, dark and often sneering or saturnine in Expression. The jaw protrudes and the mouth is determined, harsh and somewhat coarse.
The Scorpio woman is more agreeably shaped, although big boned and somewhat heavy. Sometimes the figure is grandly voluptuous. The face is generally a full oval and the mouth sensual, though not without beauty and appeal.
Both sexes are exceedingly passionate but very often their physical capabilities are not up to the desires of the mind. Unless there is a little prudence somewhere in the make-up the Scorpio passions can become degrading. Illness and incapability have come to many Scorpio natives as a result of their own unreasoning sexual activities.
In the intellectual fields Scorpio people are successful as they are able to grasp and master any subject. Will power and the unconquerable desire to dominate often force them to tackle jobs that others would avoid. Usually they succeed in their work, for they are thorough, systematic and very capable. They work tirelessly for the salvation of the race, and often thanklessly, as the Scorpio personality invites quarrels, criticisms, and tumult. Working in the medical and surgical field, operating, searching for causes and cures, the Scorpio native plods tirelessly, spreading violent emotions in his’ wake, sometimes work ship, more often hatred, but never indifference. They work and get results long after other types have ceased their efforts.
Scorpio people are philosophical, for they are deeply analytical and profound. But, unable to separate their discoveries from their own temperament, they color everything with a dark, pessimistic shroud, even when their common sense and experience have taught them that the facts are different. They are impossible in argument, as only they can win.
At the head of a great project, this type of inflexible command has its value, and though the big boss (if he is Scorpio) may be well hated, he is also obeyed. Work carried on under such direction is never shallow, but always well done and permanent, as if it were created to fight the elements. It is quite usual to find a Scorpio man with all his’ faults at the head of a vast undertaking.
Scorpio people are often engaged in the execution of great wills, and the settlement of big inheritances. The high type of the sign are scrupulously honest, and have pathological interest in bereavement that makes them zealous in completing settlements and in making a material return as far as it is possible for spiritual losses.
They are prolific people in every way, and they are prodigious workers. They like large families, even though they make the poorest parents, being tyrannical, overly possessive and violent. But despite their unsuitability of temperament, the principle of sex operates more fully with Scorpio than any other type in the Zodiac. They have large families.
By the same token, Scorpio is temperamentally unfit for matrimony, and though almost always married, the Scorpio husband is violent, too demanding, jealous, suspicious and over- bearing.
The Scorpio wife may be a shrew, keeping her family in a state of nervous exhaustion with her tyranny and temper. For Scorpio, success in marriage comes when the type is slightly modified by the Moon, Ascendant, or some other planet, powerful in the birth chart or marital success may come when the opposite partner is yielding and very docile, and even stimulated by such explosive guidance. As friends, Scorpio people succeed rather better, but when intimacies grow too close, conflict arises.
Thus in all human relations Scorpio revolts. The mind is large, able, capable and comprehensive, but natives make life a bitter struggle, tinctured with their own warped brand of humor and relived by secret lust.
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