Passion and Anger, Logical Science Mind, Scorpio at Work

Scorpios are drawn to the religious and austere professions. Many ministers, priests and nuns have a great deal of Scorpio influence in their chart. However, they can also use these professions to cloak their deeply passionate and sexual natures which they sometimes find disturbing. Passion and anger can be all-too-comfortable bedfellows with guilt and self-loathing — watch that you don’t curl that sting back on yourself.

It comes as no surprise then that you will find many a Scorpio at the other end of the scale, brandishing a whip and hot wax. Scorpios are night people (although they love their sleep as well) and they are often found working the bar at the seedier end of town.

Science is the modern religion and is a field where Scorpio can find many challenges. Psychology is a field that often interests the Scorp. Human nature intrigues them, though they can be abrasive counsellors and psychologists. They also have an uncanny knack for remembering everything you have ever said to them, word for word, and they are not afraid to repeat it back to you when you appear to be inconsistent! Scorpios also make great parents — they are fiercely protective of their offspring and will go to any length to do their best by them.

Lady Lazarus

Probably the life that most embodies the passion and pathos of the Scorpio is that of the poet Sylvia Plath. Sex and death were her life’s work, and her poems are still favoured reading by those going through a period of introspection.

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.

Born in Massachusetts on 27 October 1932, Plath was a popular, straight A student, whose first poem was pub- lished by the age of nine. She had a constant drive for perfection that earned her the high-school nickname ‘The High Priestess of Suffering’.

Plath used her writing to explore the taboo topic of death. In her work, she views death not merely as an escape, but as her chance to be reborn. The very Scorpion imagery of the phoenix comes up more than once in her poetry.

Out of the ash

I rise with my red hair And I eat men like air. from ‘Lady Lazarus’

And her epitaph read: ‘Even amidst fierce flames — the golden lotus can be planted.’

After she won a scholarship to Cambridge, England, Plath met her future husband, the poet Ted Hughes. Plath described him as ‘that big, dark, hunky boy, the only one there huge enough for me’. He kissed her ‘bang smash on the mouth’ and ripped off her headband and earrings, before she bit him on the cheek until he bled. This flavour of sex and violence tainted their relationship from the beginning. After a brief courtship, Plath and Hughes married in June 1956.

After finishing her studies at Cambridge, they returned to the US, where Plath worked as a lecturer and then as a receptionist at a psychiatric clinic. Here she did most of the research for her book The Bell Jar, which explores, among other themes, mental illness. She worked days, visited a therapist during the afternoon, and spent her evenings diligently writing.

The couple returned to England in December 1959. Plath gave birth to their first child, Frieda, in 1960, but miscarried the following year. This event was the catalyst for a dark period of her life.

A second child, Nicholas, was born in 1962 and the family moved to countryside Devon. Feeling isolated, Sylvia wrote and cared for her children. In July that year, she discovered Hughes was having an affair with a German woman with movie star looks, Assia Wevill. They separated in September and later divorced.

Not at all eager to begin life on her own, Plath reluctantly packed her bags and moved with her two children to an apartment in London. Ill with chronic flu, she would work on The Bell Jar from 4 a.m. until the children woke. The book was submitted under the pseudonym of Victoria Lucas; it was published in January 1963, but the critics were unimpressed.

Extremely depressed over the break-up of her marriage and lack of success, Plath felt she could no longer go on. In the final days of the coldest winter Britain had seen in sixty years, she penned her last works. On 11 February 1963, she put her children to bed upstairs, opened their window to the night air, and stuffed towels to cover the crack under the door.

She made a plate of bread and butter for her sleeping children for the morning, placed it on the kitchen table with glasses of milk, and put her head in a gas oven.

The Bell Jar was published in the US in 1971 under Plath’s real name. It became wildly popular and earned her a place in literary history. Plath received a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for this work.

Scorpio Health

Scorpios should avoid fatty, rich and intoxicating food and drinks. Scorpios benefit from a vegetarian diet. Stabilising foods like brown rice, millet, wheat grass, spinach, lettuce, celery and cucumbers are good. Others are cherries, oranges, lemons, asparagus and rhubarb. The influence of Mars requires that Scorpios drink plenty of water and vegetable juices, and avoid salt.

Scorpio rules the nose, the pubic area and genital organs. Internally, it rules the gonads, haemoglobin, bladder and prostate. It has influence over the vocal cords and larynx.

This sign also has influence over the liver, uterus, menstruation, sweat glands and the endocrine glands in general.

Typical Scorpio afflictions are anaemia in women; adenoids, sore throats, hay fever; profuse menstruation, painful and irregular menstruation, ovarian disturbances; diarrhoea, haemorrhoids; hypersensitivity; bladder problems and infections; obesity, diabetes; heart disease; genital infections; and renal calculi.

When choosing music for meditation, keep in mind that the healing note for Scorpio is C. Oils that are good to use in aromatherapy are black pepper, cardamom, coffee, ginger, hyacinth, hops, pennyroyal, pine, thyme, tuberose and woodruff.

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