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Mercury in Scorpio
Natal
You have excellent mental concentration and the ability to become completely immersed in your work.
You love ferreting things out and are a natural detective. Your mind may dwell on the sensual side of life and may think about sex or death often.
You seem to know things at an instinctive, nonverbal level and prefer learning through direct experience or apprenticeship rather than vicariously via books or lectures. You have mechanical ability and work well with your hands. You may develop healing ability through your hands.
You are quick-witted, resourceful, shrewd, direct, sharp-tongued, and will readily say what is on your mind, in a most stinging manner. You enjoy satire and other forms of critical humor.
You want to know everything while at the same time disclosing nothing to no one. You have the ability to penetrate beneath the surface of problems and people and really understand them. You have abundant manual dexterity with the ability to repair anything.
On the negative side, you can be stubborn, quarrelsome, skeptical, cynical, headstrong, and always holding the opposite views to others. There is interest in the occult.
Astrological Properties of Scorpio
Planetary Rulers
Modality: Fixed
Fixed signs are conservative in nature and are very resistant to change. It is a steadfast and supportive energy. People with strong fixed placements are good at being relied upon to see things through, but may lack the ability to take initiative. With partial exception for Aquarius, because their co-ruler Uranus lends credence to their ability to be one step ahead of everyone else.
Element: Water
Water signs are emotional energy and are concerned with things of the heart. They operate most comfortably with feelings and intuition. People with strong water placements excel at listening to others, romance, and the supernatural.
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