ScorpioAstrological sign — Complete profile

The most natural position for Scorpio. The critical sense is the dominant tendency, accompanied by tight argumentation and a permanent spirit of contradiction. The analysis is penetrating, the judgement quick — but it can be distorted by passion or bias. An aptitude for research in every field, sometimes an attraction to the occult sciences. The will is imperious, the keenness and tenacity considerable. A deep love of independence. Much self-control under an apparent calm, pride and ambition. The sensitivity is acute, the feelings deep — but often tinged with selfishness. Activity that is at once decisive, intense and rapid: the native cannot remain inactive and, if need be, destroys in order to rebuild. Obstacles act as a stimulant; the subject often struggles throughout life, and the results obtained are very satisfying, the fruit of enormous expenditure of energy.

This is not a sign of luck from the standpoint of personal earnings, but the situation is nevertheless stable, even brilliant, owing to the native's great activity and relentless perseverance. Spending is fairly heavy and often impulsive. Earnings come in the professions of Scorpio or Mars: medicine, surgery, research, investigation, finance. It seems to slightly improve inheritance prospects that may exist elsewhere. The relationship to money is complex and powerful — the native sees it as a tool of power, security or transformation.

Strongly inclines toward technical studies, medicine, chemistry, physics or psychology. Positivist tendencies and a scientific mind. The critical sense is always alert, with a natural aptitude for polemic and incisive debate. Frequent discussions with siblings, cousins, neighbours or colleagues — the exchanges are rarely lukewarm. The native excels as an investigator or polemicist. The possibility of accidents during short trips if Mars is poorly aspected.

Unless the aspects are particularly beneficial, family complications and sometimes serious arguments must be expected, or at least relationships lacking spontaneity and warmth. Sometimes the premature loss of a parent. This position hardly favours real-estate acquisitions or peace at the end of life. Harmony at home may leave something to be desired due to deep divergences between the spouses and their respective families. Possible worries concerning an inheritance or a real-estate venture.

Predisposes to passionate whims as well as to abrupt and unforeseen romantic breakups. Jealousy is often tenacious on both sides. A position rather favourable to offspring, but children are sometimes difficult to raise, either through a lack of docility or through a predisposition to illness. Passion is the engine of creativity — when Scorpio creates, it does so with its whole being. Losses through recklessness in gambling or speculation are frequent. In artistic creation, the native is drawn to what is deep, transgressive or cathartic.

Predisposes to the sign's ailments and to the afflictions of Mars. A tendency to excesses causing premature wear of the body. Subordinate work is rather painful and unpleasant, but fairly stable. If the native is self-employed, its employees are hard to govern and can periodically cause serious worries. Scorpio's rigour in daily work can become obsessive. If the dissonances are very serious, the possibility of accident or surgery.

Marriage is often concluded impulsively. Conjugal harmony often leaves something to be desired, the arguments can be very heated, but in spite of everything the union is often lasting and ends rather in widowhood than in divorce. The partner is frequently authoritarian, jealous and aggressive. Partnerships should be entered into only with the greatest caution, for they risk causing the same tensions as marriage. One must also beware of lawsuits. Declared enemies are particularly violent and aggressive, but they act openly, which makes them fairly easy to counter.

The natural position of Scorpio — the Eighth House is its chosen domain. In general, an indicator of an end that may come more or less prematurely depending on the severity of the dissonances. But it is also the house where Scorpio expresses its full power of metamorphosis: the ability to die to oneself in order to be reborn, to go through the deepest crises and to come out transformed. Rather favourable to inheritances if concordant indications exist elsewhere, but a risk of squandering. An intense relationship to sexuality, symbolic death and shared resources.

Seems rather contrary to conventional philosophical or religious aspirations, but can indicate a powerful attraction to the occult, esotericism and the experiences related to them. The mind is sceptical, scientific, demanding: it believes only what it has verified for itself. Journeys are not very numerous and not always favourable — a risk of accidents or complications during travel, especially by water. A position that can nevertheless be favourable to expeditions, distant missions and immersions in unknown territory if the aspects are favourable.

This fixed sign indicates a certain stability in the professional situation, although the first part of life sometimes experiences impulsively decided changes. It is not a sign of easy luck, but rather an indicator of success through hard work and persevering effort. The native's plans are generally very precise, and it knows how to carry them out with patience and ardour at once. A marked tendency to reorganise enterprises, to destroy in order to rebuild on more solid and vaster foundations. Ambition is very pronounced. This position sometimes produces strong political, military or scientific personalities who have had to struggle and show authority to impose themselves.

May indicate few friends but faithful, active ones of proven loyalty. They are, however, particularly touchy, which causes cyclical fallings-out and reconciliations. If the aspects are favourable, the native can establish professionally useful relationships — solid in work, though not always pleasant on the surface. Scorpio in the Eleventh House demands absolute authenticity from its friends and does not forgive betrayal.

Predisposes to the sign's ailments as well as to the afflictions of Mars, with a risk of hospitalisations or even surgery. The trials are deep and particularly formidable, touching the most intimate areas of existence. If the chart is globally powerful, success in a career related to medicine, psychology or research would be eased by this position. Scorpio here learns to transmute suffering into knowledge and crisis into wisdom.

Sun

The Sun in Scorpio forges a magnetic, courageous identity inhabited by a quest for truth. The person exists through its ability to metamorphose and to probe the invisible. When well aspected, it gives great energy, unfailing courage and a deeply independent character.

Moon

The Moon in Scorpio (in fall) experiences emotions of extreme intensity. The need for security comes through controlling its own feelings and meticulously analysing those of others. Emotional reactions are deep, underground, hard to express but impossible to ignore.

Mercury

Mercury in Scorpio gives a detective's mind. Thought is penetrating, critical, sharp, and always seeks to unmask what is hidden behind words and appearances.

Venus

Venus in Scorpio (in exile) experiences love as a sacred drama. Feelings are deep, complex, sometimes tormented but always wholehearted. Beauty is magnetic, romantic sacrifice total, faithfulness uncompromising.

Mars

Mars in Scorpio is in its traditional nocturnal domicile. Action is calculated, powerful, enduring and often irresistible. Where Mars in Aries strikes fast and hard, Mars in Scorpio bides its time and strikes only once — definitively.

Jupiter

Jupiter in Scorpio amplifies the need to understand the mysteries of existence and to acquire inner or financial power. Growth comes through transformation, through crisis overcome, through the descent into the depths.

Saturn

Saturn in Scorpio structures emotions and the relationship to power. It gives great rigour in the exploration of the shadow and demands discipline in managing the passions.

Uranus

Uranus in Scorpio (in exaltation) produces radical revolutions and abrupt awakenings in the unconscious or in power structures. Liberation comes through crisis, rupture and the transgression of taboos.

Neptune

Neptune in Scorpio seeks spiritual fusion through emotional intensity and the mysteries of existence. Intuition becomes mediumistic, inspiration draws from the deepest layers of the unconscious.

Pluto

Pluto in Scorpio is in its domicile. Here it expresses its full power of transformation, destruction and reconstruction. This is the generation that confronts society's deepest taboos and that carries within it the power to metamorphose the world.