SCORPIO EAGLE

 The sun has now entered the much maligned tropical zodiac sign of Scorpio. This rather complex sign has three symbols just to demonstrate how complicated Scorpio can be; they are the scorpion, naturally; the serpent, and the lesser known third aspect of the golden eagle. These 3 symbols represent the 3 phases of development in the life and character of those with a heavy Scorpio influence in their astrological birth chart.

Scorpio has received a lot of bad press by those who do not know their astrology too well. Yes, sure its influence can make a person at their worst appear cruel and controlling, but when these people reach the height of their best expression, WOW, the sky is the limit – thus the third symbol of the high soaring and dignified Golden Eagle of exquisite self-discipline, wisdom and inner strength.

When Elizabeth I of the Tudor Age, [who had the sign Scorpio on the Mid-heaven] consulted her astrologer John Dee on a particularly thorny question relating to governing, he is reported to have replied

 

‘Soar like an Eagle, my Queen’.

 

Here was one dignified, resourceful and life-changing character who ruled in a ‘Golden Age’ of Britain. The Mid-heaven of a horoscope indicates the best way to interact with the world at large.

 

The intermediate Scorpio symbol of the Serpent alone has multiple layers of meaning. The scientific-mystical viewpoint is well discussed in Mark Balfour’s ‘The Sign of the Serpent’, where that creature represents the mysterious energy that drives the Cosmos. The serpent also represents our ability to slough off our old out-worn skin and become renewed person.

 

Scorpio people have a driving need to understand what makes the universe tick; a driving ambition to get to root causes and find solutions; either through modern orthodox scientific method, or if they are a little less traditional, by ploughing the by-ways of ancient arcane knowledge. ‘Life, the Universe and Everything’ really does apply to this sign.

 

Now, as if having 3 phases of metamorphosis were not enough for our Scorpions to deal with, this sign is the first in the series of twelve to have what is known astrologically as a dual rulership. That means two not one planet is associated with this sign; Mars the ‘traditional’ ruler, and Pluto the newest ruler, allocated after its ‘discovery’, and therefore entrance into human consciousness, in 1930.

Some parts of the tropical 30* arc of tropical Scorpio actually cut across the constellation of Ophiuchus, which has been postulated as a 13^th sign of the zodiac, but whose energies are yet to come into play fully for life on Earth. Ophiuchus is roughly opposite the constellation Arachne, another contender for a 13^th Ecliptic sign, or perhaps the 14th?

Nebula ‘Rho Ophiuchi’