posted August 19, 2016 03:47 AM
Hmmm...I have 1 degree difference between my sun and Pluto (both Libra on the Scorpio cusp).I've experienced obsessive stalkers, and at least one was Scorpio heavy (sun and personal planets, and he made me worry for my personal safety), and I don't know about the others (I generally didn't get to know them first, and as I quickly pushed them away I never even learned their birthday). I don't take crap (and I feel to "pass" a Scorpio test is to fail) and give the negative Scorpios the boot. They don't impress, intimidate, or attract me to them, and frankly I don't know what the big deal is supposed to be other than people wrongly imagine them like the larger than life (and unrealistic) characters in thrillers and romance novels.
Generally speaking, I also think their "intuition" is overrated, though I do find it darkly amusing that they supposedly have such a good intuition but are also known for paranoia, pessimism, and thinking those they love the most are betraying them. And I thought most people don't like that attitude (a few will even cite the LOA saying what you expect is what you get), but Scorpio gets a pass for some reason.
Oh, and can't forget how intuitive they're supposed to be but even on LL we get threads asking on how to be fake to a Scorpio or at even manipulate one! (Though unsurprising to me these people find their efforts ending in bitter failure, so maybe those Scorpios are more intuitive than I give them credit for. I usually suggest another sign to obsess over to those who ask questions like that.)
Though I kick the bad Scorpios out of my life fast, I make an exception for my Scorpio mother (who is about as low as you can get as described here ), but that's because I can afford to be sympathetic as she no longer has power over me. I loathed her as a kid, however, back when she still had too much control over my life. And I'd never allow her to have that kind of control again, because no matter how sympathetic I am, and how I can't help but love her a little, I still don't trust her, and her know her nature is to sting, sometimes even when she knows she'll hurt herself at the same time. And just because I care about her doesn't mean I'll let her treat me like crap.
'Course I've been around the more evolved type as well (not limited to eagles and phoenixes, mind you), and I remember them fondly, or at least wish them well. And two of them had very deductive minds (they'd have made awesome detectives, heck, one was a coroner who spoke to such). I can enjoy talking to them about their lives because when they choose to share they don't pretty it up the way most do. I'd say that this (accepting the parts of life others minimize or pretend doesn't exist) might explain why a sun-Pluto person could attract them, but it doesn't explain the negative ones.
As for general intense? I suppose so, but I've been in some intense areas which brings out intensity in many people (also, I don't shy away from intense, especially not in my youth). This was especially true when Pluto was transiting my Sag stellium.