Love As A Battle

Influenced by the two poles, Life and Death - Eros and Thanatos (Mata Hari) - a Scorpio's love is a passionate and intense form of love, often expressed as conflictive love, where bonds between two lovers are strengthened by the pain which they endure.

Rooted in sexuality, men and women born under this sign readily display their masculinity or feminity. In an extreme form, the Scorpio woman becomes afethinefatale, represented by the image of Carmen ("If I love you, watch out!") or by the myth of the vamp in films.

The Scorpio ideogram consists of a character whose first stroke,is comparable to the scorpion's claws, whereas the final stroke suggests its tail. A scorpion clings with its claws and defends itself by means of its tail which can kill other creatures or even the scorpion itself. The ' ideogram is also the letter "M," with the last leg becoming -an arrow, representing 'the stinger. The letter "M" represents water, the source of fertilization, and, in this in-stance, the arrow penetrates the depths. The Scorpio symbol may also express the mystery of redemption through the fecundity of water: death by means of the stinger represents renewal of life through water, resulting in rebirth.