posted September 23, 2004 10:53 AM            

Here's my (romantic) theory on Scorpios....

We don't create conflict, so much as we act as catalysts, or spiritual mid-wives, who draw whatever screaming secret is lurking inside out into the light of day. (Can we help it if "sinners hate the light"?) See, conflict is always there, dormant or otherwise. We merely seek to name the unmentionable elephant squatting in the middle of the room. Most people would like to sweep that elephant under the rug.... we like to lift the corner.

The outlandish philosopher, Diogenes ("the Cynic") of Sinope, took a kind of disinterested pride (if such a thing may be fairly said to exist) in being a sharp thorn in his contemporary's side. He said, "The reason Plato hates it so much when I track mud on his floors, is that he knows it is really his vanity I tread on." He also said, "What good is a philosopher who offends no one?," and, "To a woman who prayed with her butt in the air, I remarked in passing, 'God is also behind you!'" If these aren't the (re)marks of a true Scorpio, I don't know what are.

The wisdom of a Scorpio is in recognizing the mysterious healing properties of a good, clean slap in the face. It is the ability to understand the true nature of "evil" - not as something which may be created and destroyed, but, as something which may be transcended by virtue of experience... "Ignorance," we say, "does not create error; Rather, error reveals ignorance!" We would rather get everything out in the open, and deal with all of it face to face, than act like it isn't there, and take it on peacemeal. It's nothing that isn't going to confront us sooner or later (in this life or the next); and, if its going to happen anyway, Scorpio's would rather see it go down with a bang, rather than a wimper. We are screaming "Fire!! Fire!!" And you say, "Not now, can't you see we're trying to watch T.V.?"

Please, don't shoot the messenger.

Also, the passive-aggression... In my experience, as a Scorpio, I try so hard to suppress my dark side (because I want so desperately to be good), that occassionally, when a nerve is struck, I automatically vent like a mother____. I can be genuinely repentant in a matter of seconds, but that doesn't prevent my barbs from making wounds that last a helluva lot longer than that. But, can I help it if everybody's got a pistol, and all I've got is this here 12-gauge?

,
Heart-Shaped Cross

posted September 23, 2004 01:29 PM              

Having strong Scorpio influences, I know what you mean about being able to see what's behind the curtain - people just reveal it to us, and then sometimes direct anger towards us.

posted September 23, 2004 06:00 PM              

I so try to be SOOO nice all the time... but lettin' it loose is almost lethal!

posted September 28, 2004 12:45 AM              

LOL!

posted September 28, 2004 05:06 AM              

I read somewhere that scorps are the sort of people that their friends come to for a well-timed kick up the butt.

Yeah, I tell it like it is. I am always playing devil's advocate and getting people to look at things that they may perhaps be otherwise uncomfortable with.

The upshot is that a lot of people (particularly men) run. I think they don't like to look in the mirror.

If you don't want my opinion, don't ask me then.

posted September 28, 2004 12:07 PM            

My Cappy friend said "Of course I love it. It helps me feel like the normal one in comparison." LOL.

I think all the signs are crazy, but as an Aqua, I embrace my crazy. Scorpios don't think they're crazy, which makes them the craziest of the bunch.

posted September 28, 2004 12:40 PM            

I KNOW I'm crazy

posted September 28, 2004 12:45 PM              

YEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

But in the best ways, they mean so very well.

I have NO Scorpio in my chart, but I oftimes live vicariously through my best friend, who is all Scorp and I love her to pisces... i mean pieces!

posted September 28, 2004 05:01 PM              

It wouldn't take a stretch of the imagination to think a Cap comes across as judgemental. I sometimes catch my Libra friend doing that, but luckily he has some other influences in his chart which also gives him softness there. Do you remember the thread I started about Uranus being Saturn's best friend?

If not, I'll try to find that link for you. There was an excellent article on that.

posted September 29, 2004 05:13 PM            

ON THE CONTRARY, Scorpios are just about the only ones who really DO know it...

Most signs don't know enough to distrust others, let alone themselves!

The Scorpio understands that, just because he knows he is nuts, doesn't make him sane.

posted September 29, 2004 10:14 PM              

But also because Scorpio's have an inner knowing of just how powerful their emotions can be. It's the "transformer," it is "death" and "rebirth". Not someone who takes things lightly.

posted September 30, 2004 10:48 PM            

Autumn, I did say we're all crazy.

I once knew a Scorpio that I fell for. Finally I decided that I didn't feel like having my emotions be manipulated, so I just cut him off completely. He then went on to make an online statement that "people are not supposed to have emotions" and that I probably never loved him anyway. LOL. A water sign, saying that to an Aquarian. That's rich.