Scorpio on the cusp of pleasures would give intense creativity and magnetic flirting.
Pleasure is never lukewarm: you create to understand, you love to transform.
Committing wholly to a work or a passion and following through on what it reveals.
Turning play into a power struggle, or flirting into a hold over someone.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
A detective novel written at night, a black-and-white photograph of industrial wastelands, a passion for scuba diving or unsolved mysteries: this house, opened by Scorpio, would draw you toward what is hidden.
You would not have fun by halves: you invest completely or abstain. Your creativity would be dark at times, powerful often, and draws on strong emotions. You win people over without talking much, through your gaze and mystery. With children, you would be present, protective, able to speak frankly about subjects others avoid.
Mars, traditional ruler of Scorpio, therefore leads this domain; Pluto, which twentieth-century authors associated with this sign, would add a dimension of metamorphosis. Mars’s placement indicates where this intensity is invested: in the 8th house, toward intimate bonds and shared resources; in the 10th, toward a creative ambition; in the 1st, toward personal assertion. In Paris, the associated rising sign is Cancer (53%) or Leo (47%).
The dangerous slope would be control. Jealousy in budding romances, competition lived as a matter of survival, children watched too closely, a work destroyed rather than shown imperfect. Opposite, the 11th house in Taurus offers relaxation: simple, loyal friends, peaceful group projects where you rest from your own intensity.
Attraction would be immediate and deep, rarely light.
You look for fusion, total trust, a partner able to bear your intensity. You reveal little at first. The risk would be jealousy and loyalty tests imposed on the other; naming what worries you, instead of testing the other, calms the relationship and gives it time to settle.
Digging, investigating, creating with high standards: this is what would give you energy, in dark fiction writing, investigative journalism, psychology, art restoration, archaeology.
You like to dig into a subject to the bottom. You do well to share your discoveries as you go, rather than keeping everything secret until a final reveal that may disappoint or worry people.
The hobbies you choose would be absorbing: suspense series, strategy games, combat or endurance sports.
You need an outlet for your strong emotions. With the children in your family, you are devoted and attentive. You do well to include lighter pleasures, an aimless stroll, a game of chance with nothing at stake, so as not to live every free moment as a dive into deep water.
With Mars in command of pleasures, lodged in the fixed water of Scorpio, the ancients noted lively, sometimes hidden pleasures and energetic or strong-willed children.
Scorpio is among the signs Lilly calls fruitful, with Cancer and Pisces; tradition then spoke of a house abundant in offspring, a reading reported here without drawing any forecast from it. Venus, in detriment in Scorpio, would lose some of her lightness there.
Since the discovery of Pluto in 1930, several astrologers assign Scorpio to it; they would read here a creativity that changes the person who creates, as you come out different from writing a difficult book. They also stress the Scorpio-Taurus axis with the 11th house: intimate intensity on one side, friendly stability on the other, two poles that would do well to feed each other.
The sign on the cusp of the 5th house depends on the time and place of birth; its ruler becomes the ruler of the house, and where it sits in the chart extends the house.
succedent house: creativity, pleasures, children.
The 5th houseA water sign, fixed.
The Scorpio signMars as traditional ruler, Pluto as modern ruler: both are read.
Mars in the 5th houseIt describes intense pleasures and passions lived to the full: creation that explores the depths, magnetic flirting, strong attachment to children. You invest totally or not at all. The risk is control, jealousy, competition taken hard. Opposite, the 11th house in Taurus offers stability and soothing friendships.
Mars first, since Scorpio is its nocturnal domicile, and Pluto in modern readings. Pluto lingers one to several decades in a sign, so it is its house, not its sign, that individualizes the reading. Mars, much faster, keeps the main role in classical interpretation: its natal house steers creative intensity.
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