Decisive, emotional, exciting, intuitive, magnetic, passionate, powerful

NEGATIVE TRAITS

Defiant, imperative, jealous, obsessive, secretive, sensitive

LIKES

Being involved, being persuasive, hidden reasons, meaningful work, truth

DISLIKES

Being exploited, cool relationships, meaningless work, not getting to know everything

PERSONALITY

Scorpio is the most intense, deep, and powerful character of the Zodiac. Even when you seem calm and relaxed, you are full of emotional energy. You carry a restrained aggression, an immense forcefulness, a magnetic intensity, and a hypnotic personality. You are often pleasant company – thoughtful, respectable, reserved, amiable and polite. In everyday life you seem withdrawn and watchful, and you have got a strong self discipline.

You possess an enormous willpower and imperturbability. You are very emotional and sensitive, and you are easily hurt, sometimes without any real reason for being so. You might at such occasions explode into furious rage. You have a hard time forgiving and forgetting.

You might use your immense energy in a constructive way with people that you like, but you might at the same time be very destructive, even cruel, with people that you do not like. You want to lead, and you are very demanding and unforgiving with other people’s shortcomings, at the same time as you do not always see your own failings.

You are a good friend, as long as you are not being challenged, but you are very easily becoming jealous if you feel that you do not get enough attention and appreciation. You have an excellent critical ability and analytical capacity, at the same time as you are very imaginative and intuitive. All this gives you the ability to look beyond everyday life, and there are more geniuses in Scorpio than in any other sign.

You might though easily become very extreme and then develop directly harmful tendencies. At extremely rare occasions you might become extremely rebellious towards all conventions as a political or religious extremist, wielding even hatred and terror to reach your goals. At extreme occasions you might also become sadistic, brutish and extremely arrogant, with an extreme temper. But you might also end up as the opposite, becoming slack and self-glorifying, not lifting a finger unless you are not praised and flattered for doing so.

PROFESSIONS

Your intensity and passion for everything you do make you skilful within many professions. You possess the self-control of the surgeon and the focus of the researcher. You are especially skilful within professions which call for analysis, exploration and research, and where you may deal with practicalities – within the police force, law, physics or psychology. You might also be a master of the written as well as the spoken word, and you might be an excellent diplomat or preacher.

RELATIONSHIPS

You are an extremely passionate lover and you possess more sexual energy than any other character in the Zodiac. You are easily getting carried away and sometimes you might become all too extreme.

You are most compatible to

Cancer – An ideal combination of two passionate and dedicated personalities. A warning needs to be issued, however, for violent mood-changes and jealousy from both parts.

Leo – There is an impending risk for conflict between your two strong-willed personalities. But even so, there actually is a big chance of a long and happy relationship, as the attraction between you is so strong that there is always a will to compromise.

Virgo – Virgo is fascinated by your mysterious and strong-willed nature. With your foresightedness, you are skilled in avoiding giving Virgo anything to irritate itself on, and by thus avoiding that unnecessary conflicts arise. Given that Virgo is careful not to hurt the feelings of your sensitive nature this might well be a successful relationship.

Libra – There is very strong attraction between you, as well as a shared perception on what is really important in life. 

Scorpio – It cannot be avoided that the relationship between your two emotional, decisive and dominant personalities will be very explosive. The risk for quarrels and conflicts is ever present. But on the other hand there is a whole lot of attraction between you, and you share the same interests and preferences, and have a lot of mutual understanding, so this might still after all end up as a happy and successful relationship.

You are not as compatible to

Aries – You are both all too hot tempered to get along. Both of you want to get your will through, and both of you refuse to give in. Physically, this relationship might however be tempting.

Taurus – There is vast mutual admiration between you and Taurus, but also a lot of jealousy. This is a very volatile and probably not very long-lasting combination. The physical attraction is however overwhelming, and with the immense sex drive of both parties, there would be a lot of sexual enjoyment in this relationship. 

Gemini – Purely intellectually, this is a good combination. However, Gemini’s need of freedom risks creating jealousy with your possessive and controlling nature, and this risk to lead to a very volatile relationship. From a physical point of view, this is a very bad combination. You have got an all too strong sex drive for Gemini’s taste.

Sagittarius – Freedom-loving Sagittarius risks bringing forward the very worst sides of your jealous nature. Your need of control is very trying for Sagittarius.

Capricorn – Your two stubborn personalities risk to very fast getting on each other’s nerves.

Aquarius – Aquarius is too unpredictable and freedom-loving for you, who want to keep your partner to yourself. And you regard Aquarius as all too inhibited for your passionate nature.

Pisces – There is a very strong attraction between you, but your two very sensitive and possessive personalities risk to fast get on each other’s nerves. To begin with, you appreciate the dependence of Pisces, but soon your positive feelings of being appreciated turn into irritation and contempt towards weak Pisces, and there is a very big risk that Pisces will become very hurt.

Your opposite

Taurus

DISEASES

Bladder problems, prostate problems, urinary infection

RULING PLANET

Pluto

RULING DEITY

Pluto (Hades) – the God of Death and Wealth

ENGLISH COMMON NAME

The Scorpion

KEYWORD

Transformation

PERSONAL KEYWORD

I desire

DUALITY

Yin (feminine, dark, soft, passive)

TRIPLICITY

Water

QUALITY

Firm

COLOUR

Chestnut

STAR STONE

Opal

METAL

Plutonium

FLOWER

Chrysanthemum (rhododendron)

TREE

Blackthorn bush and fast growing trees

ANIMAL

Insects and shellfish

LUCKY NUMBERS

2 and 4

LUCKY DAY

Wednesday

COUNTRIES

Algeria, Brazil, Morocco, Norway, Panama, Russia, Tahiti

CITIES

Liverpool, New Orleans, Newcastle

THE MYTH BEHIND THE SIGN

The hunter Orion bragged about how he could kill any creature on Earth. And as a punishment towards his arrogance, Diana, the goddess of hunt, sent a Scorpion to sting Orion and prove him wrong. The sting of the scorpion became the death of the hunter, and so, every time that the sign of Scorpio rises above the horizon, does the sign of Orion even to this very day disappear beneath it.

SOME FAMOUS SCORPIOS

Pablo Picasso, John Cleese, Bill Gates, Paul Simon, Marie Curie, Katherine Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Whoopi Goldberg, Martin Scorsese, Danny DeVito, Martin Luther, Voltaire.