A fantastic article

...it's quite a long one though.

Zodiac Tales: Beauty and the Soft Spot of the Beast
by Dana Gerhardt

Fairy tales, like signs of the zodiac, are paradigms of wisdom and guidance that can teach us how to more profitably live with ourselves. Combine signs and stories and they will speak to both the adult and child within - each of whom we must enlist whenever making a major change or psychological adjustment. The deep gift of good astrology and good stories is that they can help us to write good stories for ourselves.

Scorpio gets a bad rap. We tend to expect something wicked or a little perverse with Scorpio, but I think that's unfair. Even so, I can't resist sharing the following story. It happened to a friend in a Pluto period, when Scorpio's ruler was transiting her 5th-house Moon. As transiting planets meet natal planets, we can find ourselves in a real-life encounter with someone expressing the energy of that planet or sign, as though the astrological symbol had come alive. The 5th house may stage romantic experiences, and sure enough, on the day the transit was exact, Wendy met a man who earnestly tried to romance her. He said he worked at the coroner's office, spending his days cutting into the dead. Nights he dabbled in black magic. He claimed he could fashion a little voodoo doll that would make her crazy to have sex with him. His eyes, Wendy recalled, were deep and intense, like they wanted to bore right through her. You guessed it . . . he was a Scorpio.

But I don't know too many Scorpios like that. They may be out there, but the majority are about as twisted and diabolical as the average surgeon, therapist, or tax consultant. So when a Scorpio comes somewhat defensively into my office, mumbling "All I know is I've got the same sign as Charlie Manson and a lot of what I read sounds creepy and not like me . . . ," I nod in commiseration. The cliches about any sign can be misleading. The 15-second sound bite on Scorpio is that it's vengeful and controlling; it's jealous, secretive, power-mad, and overly sexed. The irony (or is it the method in its madness) is that this sign that rules hidden things should also conceal its weightier gifts. A world without Scorpio would be a poor world indeed.

I most like Scorpio for what it's not: it is not superficial. Of all twelve signs, Scorpio commands the greatest passion and depth. As a water sign, like Pisces and Cancer, its energetic base is emotional. Emotions and water can take many forms. If sentimental Pisces floats like mist, and Cancer is comforting and constant as a small-town creek, then Scorpio is ground water, powerful and sustaining, yet unseen. Much of where it goes must be inferred. Zodiac logic has Scorpio trailing graceful and harmonious Libra, that charming mistress of beautiful appearances, doyenne of the good-looking surface. Then comes Scorpio, fascinated with what lies underneath. It is intent on shadow material. It will turn over the rock and examine the worms. Scorpio touches what people don't talk about; it trades in the things people like to deny or hide. This is why Scorpios can make such good therapists, surgeons, and tax consultants, not to mention detectives, researchers, claims adjusters, and mystery writers - and yes, serial killers and devil worshippers.

Of course, a sign is not just a string of career possibilities, nor even a personality type, though it's easy to make that mistake. People born with a particular Sun sign will tend to showcase its qualities. They'll work at it. But there's plenty of room for innovation. Despite our fondness for the metaphor, a horoscope is not genetic code. A truer understanding of signs may be as twelve energetic possibilities, with each, in some measure, available to any of us. The more we aspire to wholeness, the more we can find ourselves in any sign; each is a mode of being, a style of perception, another angle on the truth. Like the

phoenix once again u have found a great read I loved it! and yes it is very very long but you know us scorpios like to get to the bottom of things. I found it to be mostly true hi have a strong scorpio influence in my chart: sun - scorpio, moon- capricorn, mercury- scorpio, venus- virgo, mars capricorn, jupiter- virgo, saturn- aries, uranus-virgo, neptune-scorpio, pluto- virgo thats my chart but u know the strong scorpio influence seems to take over my personally i tend to try not to get angry with people because i can do and say some very nasty things because with me i either love you or i hate you there is no in between as far ass the occult thing we scorpios are supose to induge in i find that to somewhat be true although i believe in god i do study the tarot and im not sure why i guess it has something to do with getting to the bottom of things. like when I meet a new guy Ispend so much time trying to figure him out and i usually do and this drives them nuts lol but i wouldnt change being a scorpio with any other sign I love the power that I have.i hope that u guys can read my post i know that im not spelling correctly but hey this isnt school is it lol

ladyscorpio, hey there! Glad you liked the article, and also, you are completely right and very detailed the way you put things; I like that! (I bet that's where all those Virgo planets come in, huh!) Your chart seems very *solid* to me, alot of earth, and water....makes for a very deep, solid person. With a lil bit of fire thrown in with the Aries planet 🙂 I hear you about being attracted to the occult while at the same time believing in God, I am the exact same way, I think a lot of Scorps are like that, constantly meshing the dark with the light, the so called "evil" with the so called "good". We're set up for that because of our black-and-white way of living life, we have the tendency to vascillate between both those extremes over the course of our lives. Pretty damn interesting if I do say so myself, and yeah I wouldn't trade my sign either, even if it *is* REALLY hard living and loving as a Scorpio sometimes. I like the fact that within us is this extremely powerful ability to change at any time, even if we are at the lowest of lows. We can always pull ourselves out of it and come back stronger. We always know what we are getting into and we are acutely aware of the dangers, but sometimes we want to do it anyway, just to prove we can live through it and survive another experience!

That was a GOOD article....

Now, in place of some possibly deeper words of wisdom, I'll instead say I think I'd trade my chart for a strong Scorpio influence any day. I've always been the most fascinated by that sign and all of its complexities, now more than ever, having dated and been very close to someone with a Scorpio ascendant. That and Capricorn are the two signs I've tried my hardest to emulate, always inevitably thinking like a Cap and acting like a Scorp. It's quite curious, really. Everyone I talk to with an interest in astrology says "Scorpio" unfalteringly when I play the "What sign am I? Are you good enough to guess it?" game. I think someday I'd like to attatch myself to one of them, if not a Pisces. Pisces is on my descendant, but Pisces doesn't sound like anything I could lean on or build on, and it sounds like it could get smelly if left in the open and not in the proverbial meat cooler. But, they say no one's colder than a Cap, who never loses his cool to the eternal frustration of jilted lovers and potential leaders abound.

That last paragraph was especially moving. It really rang some bells for me. That's something similar to where I'm at now, where I've been at for a long time. This author really knew what she was doing when she wrote this. Most exceptional indeed, I say!

Josh, hey, I'm glad you enjoyed it and saw the truth in it as it pertains to your life experiences. That's so funny, what you said about the "what sign am I?" game...ooooh, very interesting....people think you're a Scorpio....you know what that means. lol. Actually it means many things, but you probably radiate sexuality and mystery, you slut! (jk) 😛 Funny enough, I am in fact a scorp but frustratingly, I apparently don't come off as one. When I play the guess my sign game w/people, they always say Libra or Virgo. And then there's the "astrologically challenged", who say, "huh?" lol. And then there's the "witty" ones who say something like, "YIELD" or "MERGE". Hyuck. But anyway, speaking for the millions upon millions upon millions of Scorpio women out there in the world, we'd be glad to let you attach yourself to one of us. Just beware...we can be a handful, so I'm told by an ex boyfriend or three...lol. 🙂

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