The second video in my You Don't Understand series is now up on my Youtube channel! See transcript below.
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INTRO
Welcome back. To those of you who have scoped my channel before, I did an intro video before in this series the “You Don’t Understand The Signs” series and that is on Cancer’s video. This is the second video concerning the second of the water signs, Scorpio. Premise
In this video, as with the one before, I’m going to be touching on the energy of Scorpio in whole and also give a few details when it comes across in certain houses or through certain planets. Scorpio especially on the ascendant, sun, moon and with stelliums may be able to relate very strongly to what will be said but this energy can play out in smaller parts of our lives and our personalities.
Disclaimer: I have formatted this video with a Who and What segment. That section is going to be discussing the energy with examples that concern activated or pinpointed expression of the energy (so looking at it being activated in a house or through a planet or point)
SCORPIO
Scorpio is a sign that is very much defined by their hard personal truths. It is a sign that is often called secretive and in fact they are more likely than other sign placements to have many more secrets or we could also call them “lies” and things they omit or fabricate--though that same thing is usually their Achilles Heel if someone they care about or someone observant notices this and declares it. This speaks to the nature of Scorpio more than anything to me because Scorpio is very much a sign that lives by the effect it has on others and it lives by these personal truths which inspire fear and require bravery. Without bravery, we can see a lot of negative traits and with bravery we can see a lot of wonderful ones. Scorpio concerns that which we are supposed to ultimately prioritize and face: the less brilliant and less holy parts of our ego so as to prepare for finding truth outside of us in Sagittarius.
Scorpio energy is a very misrepresented energy in astrology today and that is both in a way Scorpios want you to know and in ways they don’t because some of the current understandings serve them. And they, like their neighboring sign Libra, understand keenly that social influence of others is so important. The clear water nature of Scorpio is funneled through sexuality and the new sub ruler Pluto--and not even the full range of Pluto--has basically swallowed up the sign attributes in modern understanding. I have found that this is one of the signs where the lies they tell people about themselves to protect themselves from others have become the bulk of their archetype for most modern depictions. And that’s how this keeps getting perpetuated and the other truer attributes get lost.
STEREOTYPES CORRECT AND DEBUNKED
Sexuality
Sexuality is a big part of a Scorpio archetype without some other affliction and sometimes begetting afflictions due to the types of sexuality, the recklessness with sexuality, the pridefulness with sexuality, etc. Sexuality is very much going to be a type of focal point in a Scorpio dominant person or Scorpio sun’s life.
Jealousy
Jealousy is another trait correctly applied. Scorpios are jealous. Any place in your chart where you have Scorpio, you are going to perform and behave jealously.
Secretive
In general, keeping secrets, omitting things, or fabricating things is very much a part of the Scorpio archetype.
“Power” hungry
Power hungry is correctly applied to Scorpio. Now, the areas and type of power I think could have fallen in the misrepresentation category. Scorpio is very much a sign that operates off of those original connotations of other-ness and social power is their power. Influence is their power and they particularly desire that type of power. Personal power is what they need to cultivate but that comes with bravery and facing personal truths about themselves so they can face their truth calling. The more personal power that can be gained later has to do more with Mars mastery and I have more on this on an article on Scorpio on my website as well.
Paranoid and vindictive
Paranoia and vindictiveness is also something you will find with Scorpio energy/ Scorpios. They share this with Virgos in that they are not just distrustful in ways other signs can be. There is a good deal of energy that thinks of the wild or the impossible or that everyone is out to get them.
Occult-leaning
Another true stereotype is that Scorpios are occult leaning. Many Scorpios get into things like astrology, things like Reiki. They are into a lot of things that would be considered taboo, would be considered...at one point having been the subject of outcasting. There is this fetishization of the pariah or the outcast type of veneer in Scorpio individuals.
Magnetic
Another correct stereotype is that they are magnetic. It has to do with a beckoning or an initial something--an initial push. It’s not just them going about or moseying about their day. They are very aware of being perceived. They are very aware of wanting to impact or affect other people.
Tortured Life
One of the biggest stereotypes that needs to be debunked is the tortured life and/or nature of Scorpio just by virtue of them existing. To say that Scorpio in a chart creates tortured life or creates trauma is very much overblowing or overstating what their lives actually are like.
Fiery
Another stereotype is the fiery nature of Scorpio. They are very much a water-based sign with watery reactions, watery motivations, watery behavior patterns if you observe them. And the Martian nature of them which gets completely left out of the picture as well is I think what people are thinking about when they say fiery personality.
Detached
There is this sort of detached stereotype that gets thrown around about Scorpio. They are not detached people. They are water signs and they are fixed. There is a lot of extremity when it comes to attachments and sometimes very quick or instantaneous attachments as well.
STEREOTYPES UNKNOWN
Highly social suns
Stereotypes that are unknown about Scorpio placements, and specifically with the sun, is that Scorpio suns are a highly social sun. And in fact, sometimes they might even like to be the center of the group--no matter the identity or veneer they want to put on.
Very Forgiving
Another stereotype that needs to be applied and is overlooked is the fact that Scorpios forgive--and they forgive a lot. They often end up coming to understanding, finding weird common ground with their enemies. Scorpio’s penchant for forgiveness has shocked a lot of people and I think it’s because in essence, if they are acting out of their insightful ability to take apart and really see into the reasons why people do the things that they do, of course they would forgive. Because they would be the ultimate empathetic person who can see the ugly and the good in all people, including people who have slighted them.
Trauma Seeking
Scorpios often are trauma seekers and that is a statement that has to be taken with a grain of salt. Scorpios who have lived relatively benign or tame lives are often drawn to things that will likely cause trauma in their lives. For example, with things taboo or dangerous things/people or people with reputations for betrayal. They are actually attracted to those situations. Scorpio placements typically seek those types of situations out; they are interested in those situations. I think it comes from a desire to feel something that feels real and a lot of times the things that feel more real are things that would be construed as undesirable to society--things that induce trauma.
Many a Scorpio have even admitted to close counsel (maybe not the world) that even if they think or know that something is wrong or something will hurt them, a lot of them have said phrases along the lines of: “yeah, but I’ve got to just experience it for myself.” So in that way, it is not also a running away from things that might cause trauma but a fascination with the feeling of or potentiality for being traumatized by a situation.
Family Oriented
Their families, specifically their blood ties--because blood ties feel like something that is inescapable, something essentialist that they can grab onto--so they are usually very family oriented people. They are very driven and motivated and emotional and feel about their families.
Masterful Determination
The determination and obsessive nature of Scorpio makes it so that they could potentially be good at...almost anything.
Desirous
Scorpios are maybe becoming more well known for being almost slaves to their desires. They are very desirous people.
Constant Change
They are very changeable for being a fixed sign. In fact, the regeneration and becoming something new every year or every other year is something Scorpios undergo and people who observe them will notice about them. Whether or not they profess to having changed or that they “were this way the whole time” is a different story. But they go through extreme and complete changes throughout their lives a lot-a lot more than would be expected of a fixed sign.
Psychologically Investigative
Investigative. This is not the same as Virgo investigation which is why when people say “private investigator or government agent” I think it’s very weird that they say Scorpio. I think it is because of the secretive aspect of it (or something like that). That rings Virgo to me. With Scorpio, it’s a very psychological investigation. It is one that has to deal with culture, anthropology maybe at most but usually it’s psychology. It’s emotions, it’s pathology. It’s things like that. It’s less of the “just facts (Who Done It)” and it’s more of the motivations and psychological undertones and those types of things. The very psychological investigator and I think because in this fact based society where you need proof, I think that has gotten dimmed down in Scorpios when in fact that usually is their talent to be able to see those things and usually they can eventually find proof for it as well.
Stubbornness
The word stubborn is reserved for Scorpio’s opposite sign. However, anyone who has dealt with or complained to their astrologer about people with major Scorpio placements will understand that Scorpios--and Scorpio placements and wherever you have Scorpio in your chart--is where you will be intensely stubborn and extremely stubborn. Scorpio is the either first or second most stubborn sign in the zodiac. Because they are fixed, because they are Martian, and because they are based on the emotion and felt experience, Scorpios and Scorpio in a chart will be very barring to changing; they will be barring to any perceived infringement on what they think, what they feel, their experience, their identity, etc. It is going to be very combative. And even when a change does come and even if it is at your influence, has a Scorpio ever told you to your face that is the reason why or did they start acting differently and then they don’t want you or anyone else to mention it? Why? To not even admit that it’s someone else’s influence or someone else told them that is the reason they should change. And that is a marker of just how stubborn this sign is. And I think that gets lost a little bit.
Lazy Streak
There is the risk of extreme sloth and extreme laziness with Scorpio energy I have noticed. Because of the extremity of their emotions, they are either go-go-go or they are extremely slothful. There is this vacillation between the two but the laziness just doesn’t get talked about.
WHO/WHAT IS SCORPIO
Those with Scorpio placements (specifically Ascendant, sun, moon or mars) or Scorpio on their 2nd, 4th, or 9th houses may feel most connected with the answer to this question.
They may feel like they are so misunderstood but go out of their way to deceive…. They may feel that they are fascinated with darkness and taboo...so much so that they seek it out or invent it about their lives. They could give so much to someone...but all people want is the surface of them instead of the depth. They may have a fear that people can’t handle and wouldn’t love the real them: the real them that does operate from and have a lot of emotion, the real them that does have a lot of fears that they are brave enough to face everyday. The real them that does feel things very extremely and does have more than one mode.
Scorpios are feelers. Scorpios react strongly to almost everything whether they feel safe enough to express that or guarded enough that they hide that and go and express it elsewhere. They are the fearful actor who needs a kick in the pants to be the bravest. They are extreme and that extremity leads to intensity and that intensity leads to recklessness or it leads to mastering the art of fully knowing all the extremes of both themselves and of other people. They’re potentially the greatest healers, the greatest advocates, and the greatest preparers of and for humanity.
WHAT SCORPIO WANTS/ IS MADE OF
Those with Scorpio placements (specifically Ascendant, sun, moon) or Scorpio on their 2nd, 5th, or 8th (sometimes 11th) may feel most connected with the answer to this question.
Scorpios want an impact that is greater than any other impact on another individual or another several individuals. They want to be known, totally and fully, and effortlessly and psychically connected with someone else. Scorpios want to dedicate themselves or else run the risk of having a buildup of obsessive energy that has nowhere to turn but viciously against those who don’t deserve it or on themselves. Scorpios are the flip flop between lies and truth, powerful and weak, and sometimes victim or victimizer. Scorpios are made of deception and acceptance of hard truths, brilliant insight and denial. They are as likely to sting their best chance of making it across the river as they are to sting their greatest foe. And they are the epitome of willing to die on that hill or for that which they are bound to.
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