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The journey into #Scorpio will start a lil different. Let’s start with the fact that I never wanted to be one. -
I am born on this mystical, mythical creature called the cusp between Scorpio and Sagittarius. It was a no brainer for me: I was a Centaur.
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If I had to select one. I mean, wouldn’t a sane person rather choose to be a Centaur than a bug? #Scorpio
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My brother is also a #Scorpio. (His birthday’s tomorrow.) We were both hotheads, but I was the more level headed one. I didn’t want to be…
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…be like him. Then I had my bout w/ fundamentalist Christianity, so I used to say that I was born under the sign of the Cross.
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The truth is that I didn’t know how to pick my sign. I read both descriptions and felt like both. I once coined the phrase, “Scagittarius”
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Well, I developed a crush on an older Gemini woman who was deeply into astrology. She didn’t play my love games, but was a good friend.
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I have to remember one day soon to write on the powerful connection between Gemini & Scorpio. There’s an astrological aspect between them for sure.
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After getting to know me, she was convinced that I was a Scorpio. I was convinced she was nuts. She had her evidence, tho.
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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.
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He asked about my chart. I didn’t know what that was. He offered to do mine at a reasonable rate. I agreed.
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He said I needed 2 60 min. tapes for the recording. I went. First 15 minutes sounded like BS, personally. Told me the easily deduced.
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And then it happened. He started talking about things, my family, that he couldn’t have possibly known. Then the #Scorpio arrived.
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“How do you know that?,” I said very sharply after being quiet for most of the reading. W/o missing a beat, he jovially elaborated. #Aries
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I definitely felt violated, but couldn’t understand how. I even said, “This doesn’t make sense.” Convinced that he picked up on some cue.
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I asked him if he knew my Gemini friend. Of course he didn’t. How could these symbols unlock family secrets or things like that? #Scorpio
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So…in typical #Scorpio fashion, I spent the next 10 years attempting to prove what he did was a trick.
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My astrology career is the net result of my failure and gives you a sense of what #Scorpio is really about. I am a 29 Scorpio.
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There is 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.
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In sidereal and tropical astrology, I will always be Scorpio.
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That’s something I also learned from that jovial #Aries astrologer. Bless him.
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Now, if u asked me to choose between being the Centaur or the bug, I would laugh at u. I would choose neither. #Scorpio is more than that.
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#Scorpio has at least 4 or five symbols to it. The #Scorpio is only the first face & most popular. #Scorpio has been symbolized by…
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..the Eagle, the Serpent, the Dove, the Lizard, and the Phoenix. I mainly use the Scorpion, the Eagle and the Phoenix.
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These symbols of #Scorpio represents different layers of being or evolution of #Scorpio consciousness.
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Some people like to divide #Scorpios into one of these symbols, but one has to be careful abt that. These symbols are not permanent, per se
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For instance, I definitely would consider #Scorpio Mahalia Jackson an Eagle, but that doesn’t mean that sometimes she didn’t have a sting.
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But let’s talk about #Scorpio consciousness, although this is also personal. It will reflect some things I’ve always wanted to share.
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#Scorpio is a sign of Mars. In modern astrology, it also seen as a sign of Pluto. I do not believe this, but #FYI.
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In #Aries, another sign of #Mars, we see that the energy of Mars is toward defining lines in the external world through sheer power…
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As a fire sign, #Aries will exhibit more of the Mars tendency to venture out and show forth his/her identity in clear terms.
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In #Scorpio, a water sign, Mars doesn’t show himself as clearly, but still seeks to define boundaries & make himself known.
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So in #Scorpio, we’re known for a passion, but we’re described as secretive. That’s Mars acting through the bubbly water.
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Mars never acts direct in a water sign. This isn’t because we just want to be secretive, but because of something else.
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#Scorpios live with the horror of wondering if the world is trustworthy. Can we trust the dark that we know we see around us?
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In this sense, #Scorpio is a response to #Libra, the sign before. With #Libra, we could depend on the rational to guide us out of the dark
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In #Scorpio, we learn that we have to face the irrational and the encrouching dark of the days with passion & courage. Reason isn’t enough.
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However, as a water sign, #Scorpio isn’t content to just the wage the battle outside. We wage the jihad (battle) within.
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This fabled intensity of #Scorpio is the world’s inability to understand that as we’re encountering the world, we are encountering ourselves
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Unlike #Libra, who weighs the balance to a null set, #Scorpio has no such recourse. All or nothing, baby. 24/7.
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This is usually the most difficult thing to understand about #Scorpio, even in small things.
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My mutable #Sagittarius partner has had to adjust to the fact that my concentration is all or nothing. It does not split like hers.
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For instance, there are dms and @ replies I see in my periphery. They do not exist until I finish my task. #Scorpio
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This is also why #Scorpios can be tough in love. When a #Scorpio is hurt, we don’t just break up with us. You DIE! You cease to exist.
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There’s a reason for this. We are born just as the dark of the night overtakes the light. So our consciousness becomes consumed w/ that…
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At its worst , this consumption about the dark or negative things can lead to obsessive issues of control or power. Fearing for one’s life.
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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…
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…the hazard is that we may seek to protect ourselves on too many fronts, have too many fears about how we can be extinguished.
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The moment a #Scorpio realizes that there is something in him/her that cannot be extinguished than we move into #Eagle realms.
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We no longer have to live in the fear of the #Scorpion (arachnid), can transcend our limited awareness and freakin’ soar!
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But our eyes (internal or external) eyes are still attuned 4 seeing what’s not easily visible or what still lurks in the dark, like an Eagle
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This goes along with the notion that #Scorpio love secrets. Love is a strong word.Our minds are just made for what might be lurking around.
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The difference is between the #Scorpion phase & Eagle phase is that we aren’t looking out of fear, but for a diff. level of sustenance.
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Once a #Scorpio stops making this world his/her soul focus, then s/he can focus on other inner worlds or more transcendent worlds.
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#Scorpions can be very, very spiritual people, even if they don’t subscribe to any particular religion or idea.
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At bottom, #Scorpios are looking for the light while keenly aware of the darkness around them.
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When we catch more of a glimpse of the light–hope, love, divinity, whatever, and give intense focus to that, we move toward the Phoenix
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But you can catch a #Scorpion at any one of those phases in a day. Although the avg. #Scorpio usually stays w/in a range of phases.
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This concern about life/death or light/darkness is at the heart of the #Scorpio, processing both until one can transcend it.
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@sfreynolds I swear I came to an understanding last night how trying to protect yourself so much can be a destructive thing. cc @dcap -
However, there are some dangers with these concerns, beyond the ones I’ve enumerated so far.
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As a #Scorpio, I’ve always had mixed but mostly distasteful feelings about our reputations as ho’s of the #Zodiac.
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Some of this stems from an astrological misunderstanding, but some of it does fit in an odd way.
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Each sign of the #Zodiac rules a different body part. #Scorpio rules the gonads. Hence, its association w/ sex.
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However, sex is not the same as sexual organs. And why does #Scorpio rule the gonads?
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Because in the grand consciousness, #Scorpio represents the essence of preserving life and that’s what the gonads do.
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In the northern hemisphere, as we see everything around us dying, we also see life procreating. Trees are dropping seeds. #Scorpio
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This is an image that #Scorpio should contemplate often, because we can tend to focus on the dying part rather than the constancy of life.
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Anyway, the #Scorpio tendency is to become consumed, so it makes sense that we can sometimes become consumed by “our” body part.
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We get lured into the portal to “eternal life,” so many may seek to explore that portal of creation/creativity as often as possible.
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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…
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…personal sense of power, either from the act, from the person, or an admixture of both.
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Let’s be clear: #Scorpios can get off on power. (One way to keep the dark at bay.)
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For instance, if you have a #Scorpio child, you have to keep clear lines of power buttressed by reason not brute force.
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If you beat a #Scorpio too much, s/he will spend a lifetime finding other tools to beat you. Like a child of Mars, they want self-definition
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This taps into something that’s going to make some uncomfortable, but that I believe is true, based on my observations.
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#Scorpios can also be secretly or not-so-secretly one of the most arrogant/egotistical signs of the #Zodiac. We’re a proud people.
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Why? I’ve thought for several reasons.
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Remember, #Scorpios want power to be able to define themselves, but may not always know how to do that directly.
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So when #Scorpios achieve power, any kind of power, its merit bade of success. Some of the power is embedded in the sign itself.
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Let’s face it: a Scorpion, a tiny dispenser of death, is a pretty bad ass image. That’s why so many #Scorps have one somewhere on them.
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For instance, yours truly has a Scorpion/Phoenix tattooed on his rt. forearm, a big one! (Nothing in simple measure.)
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I have yet to observe a sign that has as much paraphernalia as #Scorpio.
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The other “reason” for the pride (and all its hazards) is that it can be used to buffer the ego against extinction.
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“Life would never crush something/someone who values herself this much!” #Scorpio, that’s a lie. #FYI
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Nothing ensures your survival, #Scorpio, except grace (or chance if you’re an atheist) & your spirit to shine on thru others.
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Okay, there’s more, but that’s my #hour of #Scorpio power. There’s lot more to share. I see questions. Let me get out of #Scorpio lock mode
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I have to say though that I have become fond of #Scorpio lock mode. I can’t imagine splitting my focus over soo much as mutables do
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I’m not knocking it. I understand it as an astrologer. But it’s hard to imagine it as my 1st choice of doing things.
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It is hard for others though, especially partners or friends who need attention.
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@sfreynolds For me these have been the most pertinent and amazing of all yr insights. Thank you for your time in doing this. #ScorpioRising
