Special Issue #6
Mars Scorpio: Marilyn Manson, Mel Gibson, DMX, Bruce Lee, Bill Cosby, Steve Wozniak, Charlie Sheen, Martin Scorcese, Luther, Rembrandt, Leonardo DiCaprio
Hello friends… late this week due to a couple days of illness. By nature of Mars Scorpio, the people discussed herein are controversial. I try to be clear about my biases where present and impartial otherwise. Enjoy and thanks again for subscribing:
Mars Scorpio.
Mars in Scorpio has quite a few sides. It is shock for its own sake, the bristling violence which warns not to push back. Decisive & unblinking judgement. Drive. Perfect awareness and perfect control. Black, surging force.
It’s possessed by an instinct which guides it unerringly towards its goal. Fear, pain and the thrill of victory are its prime stimuli and attraction. It presses on BECAUSE it feels fear, because fear signifies that the struggle it needs is present, that it will be tested to the limits of its ability and pushed beyond itself. Scorpio wants to push harder and deeper into the meat of life; the abysses and swamps of the world (and beyond) call to it irresistibly, rot & corruption the scars of its struggle. For this reason Scorpio purges and purifies itself, regenerates, shakes off the filth of the world and comes back stronger each time it’s crushed nearly out of existence.
Aries will enter a game of chicken as testament to its glory, its values, its personal qualities. Scorpio will do so simply to win, to make space for itself, to face death, to die and be reborn in the encounter. It goes to extremes for the sake of going there, because it cannot live otherwise. It must press or be pressed. It pours itself out into any endeavour, carries it through to the final extreme and rests (beaten into a brief moment of convalescence) knowing that it didn’t hold back - from the ripe fruit of life it squeezed every last drop, something it has in common with Taurus, its counterpart.
The mastery Scorpio seeks over forces of all kinds can lead it to technical and scientific achievement. The Scorpion forces himself deeper into the mysteries of the thing sitting before him. The blacksmith: A marginal, quasi-magical figure whose obsession has led him to the secrets of matter. Intense heat, extremity, pounding force, quenching & transformation. Pushing simply to push, pushing blindly to break deeper into its mysteries, guided solely by intuition. In any domain, Mars in Scorpio presses deeper and further than any other placement.