Unlocking the Secrets to Scorpios: How People of Every Sign Can Effectively Handle the Scorpios in Their Lives

Unlocking the Secrets to Scorpios: How People of Every Sign Can Effectively Handle the Scorpios in Their Lives

by Trish MacGregor
Unlocking the Secrets to Scorpios: How People of Every Sign Can Effectively Handle the Scorpios in Their Lives

Unlocking the Secrets to Scorpios: How People of Every Sign Can Effectively Handle the Scorpios in Their Lives

by Trish MacGregor

eBook

$9.99 

Available on Compatible NOOK Devices and the free NOOK Apps.
WANT A NOOK?  Explore Now

Related collections and offers


Overview

Learn How to Harmonize With the Most Common and Intense Sign of the Zodiac

Unlock the secrets to your Scorpio lover, friend, spouse, family member or boss with this insightful guidebook by renowned astrologer Trish MacGregor. Get sign-specific advice for compatibility, potential conflict hot spots and tips on how to navigate the complex Scorpio personality. Learn how to improve relationships and get what you need out of them.

You'll recognize Scorpios as the most mysterious and captivating people in your life - intense with a powerful presence. At the same time, Scorpios get a bad rap as one of the more difficult personalities of the Zodiac. With Unlocking the Secrets to Scorpios, learn how to troubleshoot your relationship and which habits to cultivate for a lifetime of harmony.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781624141690
Publisher: Page Street Publishing
Publication date: 09/08/2015
Sold by: Macmillan
Format: eBook
Pages: 208
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Trish MacGregor is an astrologer and award-winning novelist. Her novel Out of Sight won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Paperback Original of 2002. Trish has written 15 nonfiction books on astrology, the tarot, dreams and yoga. In 2003, with the death of renowned astrologer Sydney Omarr, she and her husband, Rob MacGregor, took over the writing of Sydney Omarr's day-by-day yearly astrology books, which consists of 13 books each year. She lives in Wellington, Florida.


Trish MacGregor has more than twenty years experience as an astrologer and is the author of several previous books on astrology. As T.J. MacGregor and Alison Drake, she is author of more than twenty suspense novels. She lives in Florida with her husband and daughter.

Read an Excerpt

Unlocking the Secrets to Scorpios

How People of Every Sign Can Effectively Handle the Scorpios in Their Lives


By Trish MacGregor

Page Street Publishing

Copyright © 2015 Trish MacGregor
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-62414-169-0



CHAPTER 1

Scorpio: The Transformer

October 23–November 21


"Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be."

- Kurt Vonnegut, November 11


Secretive. Powerful emotions. Passionate. Sexual. Piercing insights. Regeneration. Destruction. Rebirth. Resurrection. These words are often used to describe Scorpio, a fixed water sign, and while all of them are true, they aren't the full story.

Scorpio's intense and sweepingly powerful emotions often make him feel as if he's been seized by a force beyond his control. In spite of how he feels, this sense of outside forces is just an illusion. His emotions are his allies. They provide him with an immediate and direct connection to the deepest parts of his intuitive self and are capable of instantly transforming his reality.

This transformation occurs when he brings his considerable will, intent and burning desire to bear against whatever it is that he wants to change. When his energy is so laser-focused and backed with passion, this change occurs at the quantum level and can result in the remission of an illness or disease, sudden rise to wealth and fame, an explosion of psychic ability or landing the dream job. His reality changes — and can do so in a heartbeat.

His emotions permeate everything he does, every choice he makes, every thought he thinks and every dream he has. They are the lens through which he perceives himself and his world. And sometimes they nearly overwhelm him.

Scorpio is also about power — the power he wields over others and the power others wield over him. This power is sometimes misused and then its tremendous capacity for positive transformation turns negative. Self-awareness is what spells the difference. Take Charles Manson and Bill Gates. The only thing these two men have in common is that both are Scorpios. Manson wielded his power in such a profoundly evil way, and Gates wielded his power to transform the world in an overwhelmingly positive way.

Because Scorpio doesn't accept easy answers about anything and always looks for her own truth, she tends to dig and probe deeply into whatever she takes on: a relationship, a creative project, a cure for some terrible disease or the answer to the riddle of the universe. She turns on that laser focus, frees her intuition, dives in and doesn't give up until she finds what she's looking for — the absolute bottom line.

Scorpio is probably one of the most misunderstood signs, often associated exclusively with intense sexuality. In fact, some descriptions of Scorpio that I've read over the years make her sound like a sex fiend or like some sort of primitive human who lurks through shadows and darkness in search of a sex partner. The truth is that sex just for the purpose of sex doesn't interest her as much as sex as a means to a deeper kind of knowledge about her partner. She's after the whys and whats that have molded her partner, and sex is a means of uncovering that. Even when she's involved in a relationship that is strictly sexual, there are always more dimensions to the relationship for her.

The other element that is so often associated with Scorpio is secrecy, but it's due to a lack of trust and a reluctance to let just anyone into the privacy of her head, the sanctuary of her being. People must win her trust, and it isn't easily won. Beneath her smoldering sexuality and piercing insights lies a toughness that others may sense but may not be able to define. She's an enigma even to the people who know her well, and much of the time she's a mystery to herself as well.


Planetary Rulers:


Pluto and Mars

Every sign is ruled by a planet, and some signs, like Scorpio, also have a co-ruler. These rulers are associated with mythological gods and goddesses whose lives and personalities match the tone and texture of a particular sign. Ancient astrologers assigned Mars as Scorpio's ruler. But with the discovery of Pluto in 1930, modern astrologers assigned that planet to rule Scorpio.

To the ancient Greeks, Mars was Ares, a savage god who was little more than a thirsty SOB. In the Iliad, Zeus says it as he sees it. He finds Ares, his son, completely odious because his primary enjoyments are nothing but "strife, war, and battle." On Olympus, Ares was disliked for his blind violence and brutality. He was all about aggression, physicality and survival.

The ancient Romans looked upon Mars much more kindly. They called him by the name we know him, and he was first and foremost the god of agriculture, the protector of cattle and the preserver of corn. As the husband of Rhea Silvia, a vestal virgin, he fathered Romulus and Remus, who were suckled by a wolf.

The connection between Mars and sex probably came about because of Ares's affair with the goddess Aphrodite. At the time, she was married to a cripple, Hephaestus, and compared to him, Ares was a dashing suitor, handsome and utterly fearless — all the things the Olympians looked for in a mate. Ares, naturally, took advantage of the situation. All the other gods eventually discovered their lustful encounters when Hephaestus ensnared the adulterous couple in an invisible net.

These ancient mythological gods had strange and dramatic lives, fraught with all the sexual and emotional tension of soap operas, and Mars/Ares certainly had his share. He was assigned as the ruler of Scorpio until the discovery of Pluto in 1930 by a young astronomer named Clyde Tombaugh.

Tombaugh and his fellow astronomers were certain he had discovered the long suspected ninth planet in the solar system, the mysterious Planet X. In classical mythology, Pluto governed the underworld, or Hades, as it was known when referring to an actual place. For the Greeks, Pluto was seen as more benefic than the ruler of hell; he was the god who reigned over the afterlife. Like all these mythological gods, his life was tumultuous, and he is probably best known as the dude who abducted Persephone and took her to the underworld — hardly a stunning endorsement of his character. That said, though, he apparently turned into a loving husband for Persephone.

Pluto's underworld and afterlife connections fit well with Scorpio's ability to delve into the unseen, the unknown and the mysterious, and also fits Scorpio's natural home, the eighth house, which governs death, the afterlife, reincarnation and the occult. So, eventually, Pluto became the modern ruler of this sign. Even though Pluto was demoted as a planet in 2006, astrologers who dismiss it do so at their own peril!


Scorpio's Creativity & Intuition

All signs have creative and intuitive strengths. We develop, nurture and use these talents, or we don't. But for Scorpio, there's no hesitation or ambivalence about what he'll do with his creative talents. He's all about breaking taboos, digging deeper, getting to the heart of whatever it is. And his considerable intuition is one of the vehicles through which he does this. Imagine this. It's the late fifties, and life is as stark as a black-and-white photograph with good guys and bad guys clearly defined. Strict gender roles exist — men work and women don't — and hundreds of things are taboo and never enter polite conversation. Now imagine two young women, both aspiring poets. They meet at Boston University, where they're taking Robert Lowell's class in poetry. Lowell has already drawn analogies between the two students, perhaps noting that both women have a fascination with death. As the friendship between the women deepens, they share intimate details of their individual suicide attempts.

Their bond, this dangerous fascination with death, is incomprehensible to others. But after the younger of the two women kills herself, the other poet tells her shrink: "She took something that was mine, that death was mine. Of course it was hers, too. But we swore off it, the way you swear off smoking."

The women, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath, were both Scorpios, and this sign is about transformation at the deepest levels. For these two women, there wasn't any transformation as significant as creativity and death. Of the two, Sexton tackled taboos the way few other female writers had at the time. Her poems included taboos that ran the spectrum from abortion to menstruation, incest to adultery, masturbation to drug addiction.

During Anne Sexton's first psychiatric hospitalization, her psychiatrist urged her to resume writing poetry as a kind of therapy. She wrote some of her best pieces then, and some of them became her first published book, To Bedlam and Part Way Back. Most of her poetry reflected the probing intensity typical of Scorpio. Her fame grew out of her need to understand herself. By turning her emotions inside out, she won a Pulitzer Prize and was the first woman ever awarded an honorary Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard.

Once Scorpio has found her creative path, she often becomes the path, so that her life and her creative work are inseparable.

Or take Michael Crichton, another Scorpio. In an interview years ago, Crichton talked about the way he works. First, he researches. Scorpios excel at research. Over the course of Crichton's writing career, he delved into neurobiology, biophysics, primatology, UFOs, international economics, Nordic history, time travel and genetics. Once his research was completed, he started writing. He would get up early to write, take a lunch break and then return to his writing. As the book progressed, he would get up earlier and earlier until he wasn't sleeping at all. This kept the momentum rolling, and he would finish the book in about a month.

This kind of intense creativity is a hallmark of Scorpio, and is nearly as consistent in his life as his intuitive perceptions. The final chapter in the book goes into Scorpio's creativity in greater depth.


A Scorpio Natal Chart


The Houses

Before you take a look at Kurt Vonnegut's natal chart, you should understand a few basics about a birth chart and familiarize yourself with the glyphs or symbols for each of the planets. You'll find reference to "Nodes," which aren't planets but are the degrees where the plane of the moon's orbit crosses the ecliptic — the earth's orbit around the sun. The Nodes are about our connections with other people. The North Node, by sign and house placement, is the direction in which you should move in this lifetime to achieve all the potential promised in your chart. The South Node is what you have achieved in previous lives, your comfort zone.

A chart is divided into 12 houses, and in Vonnegut's chart, you'll see the number for each house on the inner ring of the circle. The horizontal line just above the first and seventh houses forms the horizon and is known as the ascendant or rising. The vertical line between houses nine and ten and three and four is the meridian. Entire books have been written about the houses in astrology, but the basics are fairly simple:

Ascendant or rising: Your entry point into this lifetime. It represents how other people perceive you, the mask you wear and the persona you project.

1st house: YOU, your physical appearance, general health, how you deal with the world, early childhood, ego and your creative thrust

2nd house: Your money and financial resources, how you earn your money, your material security and attachments and personal values

3rd house: Communication skills, siblings, short trips, your neighborhood, conscious mind in daily life, exchange of information and your intellect

4th house: Your home and domestic environment, early childhood conditioning, the nurturing parent, your roots, conditions at the end of your life and real estate

5th house: Children (particularly the first born), creative pursuits, pleasure, romance, love affairs and pets

6th house: Working conditions and environment, employees, competence and skill and maintenance of your daily health

7th house: Partnerships (both romantic and business), your spouse, open enemies and contracts

8th house: Joint finances and resources, taxes, death, inheritances, sexuality as transformation, your secrets, your partner's finances, metaphysics and the occult and psychic ability

9th house: The higher mind, higher education, law, philosophy and religion, foreign cultures, countries and travel, publishing and spiritual pursuits and interests

10th house: Profession and career, your public persona, authority figures, the authoritarian parent, status and position in the world and creative goals and achievements

11th house: Friends and associates, peer groups, social circles, your network of acquaintances and dreams and aspirations

12th house: Personal unconscious, hidden enemies, institutions (like hospitals, prisons, nursing homes), confinement, issues brought in from other lives and the power you have disowned and that must be claimed again


Observations about Vonnegut's Chart

A complete analysis of Vonnegut's chart is beyond the scope of this book. However, notice the placement of his sun in the twelfth house, at 18 degrees Scorpio. When I first saw this, I wondered what defining event had occurred to Vonnegut when he was 18 years old and how this twelfth house sun had played out in his life. From biography.com, I learned that in 1940, at the age of 18, Vonnegut left home to attend Cornell. That event coincides with the degree of his sun. He was at Cornell until he enlisted in the army in 1942, and a year later he was sent to what is now Carnegie Mellon University to study engineering. The following year he was sent to Europe and fought in the Battle of the Bulge.

According to biography.com, "After this battle, Vonnegut was captured and became a prisoner of war. He was in Dresden, Germany, during the Allied firebombing of the city and saw the complete devastation caused by it. Vonnegut himself escaped harm only because he, along with other POWs, was working in an underground meat locker making vitamin supplements."

His confinement in prison fits with that twelfth house sun. It doesn't mean that everyone with the sun in the twelfth house will end up in prison, but that was how the energy manifested for Vonnegut. His experiences during the war provided creative fodder for his novels, another facet of this twelfth house sun. In Slaughterhouse-Five, the protagonist, Billy Pilgrim, is a soldier who, like Vonnegut, was taken prisoner and worked in a meat locker. True to the imaginative powers of a Scorpio sun in the twelfth house, Vonnegut's character begins to experience his life out of sequence and revisits different times repeatedly. He also encounters the Tralfamadorians, an alien race that exists in all times simultaneously. They kidnap Pilgrim and put him in a zoo on Trafalmadore with a Hollywood starlet, Montana Wildhack.

As biography.com noted, "This exploration of the human condition mixed with the fantastical struck a chord with readers, giving Vonnegut his first best-selling novel."

CHAPTER 2

Hooking Up with a Scorpio

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

— Carl Sagan, November 9


Aries Dating a Scorpio
Taurus Dating a Scorpio
Gemini Dating a Scorpio
Cancer Dating a Scorpio
Leo Dating a Scorpio
Virgo Dating a Scorpio
Libra Dating a Scorpio
Scorpio Dating a Scorpio
Sagittarius Dating a Scorpio
Capricorn Dating a Scorpio
Aquarius Dating a Scorpio
Pisces Dating a Scorpio


Dating a Scorpio is an experience you won't ever forget, regardless of how the relationship turns out. It's likely to be emotionally intense and passionate, sometimes secretive and rarely predictable. You may feel as if you're living in a John le Carré novel, propelled and buffeted by forces you don't fully understand. The source of Scorpio's raw power in romance acts as a kind of magnetism, and no sign is immune.

One of the first things you realize is that the relationship unfolds on Scorpio's terms, not yours. These individuals are strong-willed, resolute and accustomed to getting their own way. Gray areas don't exist for them. They live in black-and-white worlds, where everything is either/or, yes or no. In a relationship, it means that if you're ambiguous about what you feel, Scorpio will walk fast in the opposite direction. This sign doesn't have time for indecision.

Whether you're a guy dating a Scorpio woman or vice versa, it's smart to have your natal charts drawn up by a professional astrologer. By comparing the charts, an astrologer can pinpoint important connections, possible points of contention, why you're attracted to each other and how things between you may evolve.

The Swiss psychologist Carl Jung studied hundreds of charts of married couples back in the days before computers and astrological software, when charts were drawn up by hand, through complicated mathematical formulas. He concluded that the best relationships were those where the man and woman had the sun and moon, the sun and ascendant, or the sun and Venus or Mars conjunct — i.e., in the same signs.


(Continues...)

Excerpted from Unlocking the Secrets to Scorpios by Trish MacGregor. Copyright © 2015 Trish MacGregor. Excerpted by permission of Page Street Publishing.
All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Excerpts are provided by Dial-A-Book Inc. solely for the personal use of visitors to this web site.

Table of Contents

Contents

Title Page,
Copyright Notice,
Dedication,
How to Use This Book,
Introduction: Astrology & Synchronicity,
Chapter 1: Scorpio: The Transformer,
Chapter 2: Hooking Up with a Scorpio,
Chapter 3: Tying the Knot with a Scorpio,
Chapter 4: Scorpio Mom, Scorpio Dad,
Chapter 5: The Enigma of Your Scorpio Kid,
Chapter 6: The One in Charge: The Scorpio Boss,
Chapter 7: Best Buds & Colleagues,
Chapter 8: Scorpio's Boundless Creativity,
Acknowledgments,
Index,
About the Author,
Copyright,

From the B&N Reads Blog

Customer Reviews