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Scorpio is the eighth sign of the zodiac. It is symbolised by the serpent or scorpion and sometimes by the eagle. This sign presides over all liquids of a thick and heavy nature, viscid oils, poisons, sewage, stagnant pools, chemicals, mineral waters, ice, etc. This will at once convey the idea that it is a sign in which liquids are solidified, the rotary^, motion connected with the fixing quality being very marked in this sign. The psychic germ born of the vibrations in Cancer is brought to the solid state corresponding to awakening consciousness, and thus all the feelings and sensations of the sign are made potent and persistent. Both vice and virtue are very pronounced in this sign and nothing with which Scorpio is actively concerned is weak or ‘milk and water.’

Just as rotary motion makes firm and stable an otherwise unstable body, such as a top, so the kind of soul that belongs to Scorpio gathers its experiences into a very clearly marked kind of personality, fixed and emphatic, whether for good or for evil, strong and unyielding. Along the evil side there are seen pride, jealousy, malice, personal ambition, envy and hatred; and along the good side perseverance, courage, both physical and moral, and practical ability. When the inner psychic side is awakened it brings out in a very remarkable way the mystical, occult, and higher sensitiveness shown in the sign, and the soul becomes as keenly active on the virtue side as the personal is capable of being in the vice tendencies. Its most distinguishing characteristic is intensity, or, as it might be put, ‘passionateness.’

Cancer as the head of this triplicity sets quivering in a semiconscious manner the sensations that are to be constantly repeated and made stable in Scorpio, therefore, in common with the central or fixed sign in each triplicity this is one of the critical signs, in which either will or desire is the strongest element.