Sun enters Scorpio 23rd October at 17.21 BST

‘The hardest thing is to live richly in the present without letting it be tainted out of fear for the future or regret for a badly managed past.’ Sylvia Plath

Scorpios possess the powerful imagination of all Water signs. Sensitive and capable of deep compassion, they will fight to the death for those they love because anything less is pointless. With their penetrating gaze and disconcerting insight they seem to plunge the depths of your psyche.

Sun Scorpios have a powerful presence. Picture Joaquin Phoenix; the slightly hooded eyes that appear to penetrate deeply into your soul. He has Sun, Mars and Venus in Scorpio and is known for portraying dark and unconventional characters, such as The Joker.

The co-rulership of Mars and Pluto means that Sun in Scorpio people live intensely and meaningfully. Scorpios like to dig beneath the surface and very little escapes their eagle eye. They also possess impressive memories. These talents often make them great psychologists, researchers or detectives.

Both intelligent and perceptive, Sun in Scorpio people grasp instinctively that life is a window and death is always close. It’s no accident that Hallowe’en falls in Scorpio season. Scorpios understand that the veil between the worlds is thin. They and perceive the unseen along with the seen and sometimes walk the worlds in parallel. They often have prophetic abilities or are drawn to practices such as tarot which enable them to look beyond the mundane world.

This sign is perhaps more capable than all others of rising above its darkness and reinventing itself, phoenix-like, from the ashes of the past. Regeneration is for them, a natural process.

All this deeply penetrating understanding is all very well but it can cause anxiety. Sun in Scorpio writer and poet, Sylvia Plath summed up this up succinctly; ‘The hardest thing is to live richly in the present without letting it be tainted out of fear for the future or regret for a badly managed past.’

To learn that sometimes today, this moment, is enough, that is the Scorpio lesson.

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