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orpio is ruled by Pluto (Hades), the god of death and of the underworld. He was the older bother of Zeus and Poseidon and helped them over-throw their father, Kronos. When they drew lots to see who would rule what, Hades received the abode of the dead.

Key Words: Challenge, intimate,  danger, intense, passionate, compulsive, obsessive, sexual, crisis, merging, powerful, secretive, repressive, penetrating, hypnotic, magnetic. Driven into collision with dark and battle to free the feminine (feeling nature).

Virgo’s intent towards self-mastery and the next step of seeing ourselves within the context of relationship and moving into the outer world from the personal brings the confrontation of facing our personal limitations. Who we are and who we are not. With that comes a willingness to face the dark for the sake of inner transformation, empowerment, and coming back to the light a new person. The metaphor is the phoenix bird that lays her egg in the flames to be reborn anew.

One of the twelve labours of Hercules was to slay the Lernean Hydra. This Hydra lived in a dark cave in a swamp, preying on the countryside people. It had 9 poisonous snake heads, which would grow three new heads if one was cut off. Nothing Hercules could do would kill the Hydra, but then he remembered that it could not stand the light. So, Hercules lifted the beast into the sunshine and all of the heads shriveled up and died except the one that was immortal. One head was easy for Hercules to handle and he buried it under a rock.

We all have the Hydra within us whether it be resentment, anger, violence, jealousy, and so on, which left in the dark can become poisonous and harmful to ourselves and others. Lifting these into the light to be understood is Scorpio. The immortal head that is buried under a rock is a reminder that the seeds of evil are in us all.

Scorpio has the deep feelings and compassion of the water signs, but is rules by Mars, the god of war, and Pluto, the god of death.

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