Thoughts on Scorpio
Scorpio is like ice. The water molecules bond together, stick together like ice. With Cancer and Pisces there’s movement, there’s flow, there’s change.
With Scorpio it’s unchanging, it’s unmoving (maybe seemingly) until it is not — Until the ice is cut and slides away.
I think of Elsa in Frozen.
The opening scene of ice blocks being cut speaks to Elsa being, from the public’s point of view, stuck, frozen, hidden away in the castle with her sister. Those two a pair that none of the public has seen for years.
Inside the castle, the dynamic is icy.
Even the day of the accident when her sister fell ill — That all happened abruptly; their relationship changed overnight. Her sister was confused as to what happened, whereas Scorpio herself, in this case lovely Elsa, was away. So away, that eventually she builds her own castle of ice. Elsa experiences separation through trauma, a scar and break from her family and responsibility.
This is how her ruling planet, Mars, functions. One child, Aries, is of fire and the other is of water, Scorpio. A steel blade forged fire is used to cut frozen water into separated chunks of ice.
In any other state, water can be blended into itself again. With ice, ice blocks can be blended superficially, like multiple cubes in a glass, but not completely.
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When I think about Mars, I think about severing, cutting and working. Mars finds its joy in the 6th house, meaning Mars finds the circumstances of the 6th akin to its own nature. A-kin, alike, similar, of the one’s family.
The 6th house is about toiling, and a servitude to various actions, tasks. I must always wash plates. I, the average person, will never escape this task in life.
Scorpio. There’s segregation, there’s separation in Scorpio. There’s black or white.
Taurus is the mouth, the opening for pleasure in daylight.
Scorpio is the opposing opening, through which people take pleasure at night. Maybe not true pleasure, but a whole lot of pain.
I want to write about Scorpio because I relate to Scorpio in ways. I am scared of Scorpio and yet I am so much like it also. I feel Pluto squaring my Sun and Moon, and both the Sun and Moon being on an angle, 1st and 7th, along with Pluto approaching (or falling away, not sure) through the square speaks to how realized that energy is in, I guess the circumstances of my life, but also in the body/physical energy, and my personality, journey, individuality/individual expression.
I do not have any planets in Scorpio. I wonder, would Pluto find its joy in the 8th? Pluto is in the 8th and the 10th. Pluto in the 10th is an angle.
Mercury is in the 8th. IC is on Gemini, Mercury is Gemini’s ruling planet. Mercury is making a sextile to Pluto. Mercury is in Libra, Libra is ruled by Venus, and Venus is in tight conjunction with Mars, Scorpio’s traditional ruler.
I can interpret that as… As much as I value union, separation is always close by. Not separation by the sword, separation by the tongue. My words unify, harmonize or can also sever, break apart relationships. With Libra’s ruling planet being in conjunction with Mars in my chart, a fast, severing and severe planet, I must be careful what I say as it may have lasting results. How do I know that it may have lasting results?
Well, Mars itself is quite final. It may be quick but it’s also final, cutting and all. Along with this, Saturn is in Aries, Mars’ sign. I have lessons to learn about the use of Martial energy.
And that’s why Mars in Cancer can be so detrimental — I shouldn’t cut things on a whim, or from a highly personal and subjectively motivated angle. Mars is so final and detrimental a decision to make: to cut. This decision is not one to be taken lightly. Mars cuts. Mars is final.
