Scorpio on the descendant gives commitments a rare intensity.
You commit completely or not at all: the relationship transforms the people it joins.
Deep loyalty and the ability to get through crises together without running away.
Jealousy, suspicion, a wish to control what the other person thinks or does.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
This fixed water descendant is not satisfied with superficial relationships.
The partner who attracts you would have mystery, a strong personality, a charged history; you would feel seen to the core, which fascinates and worries at once. With your Taurus rising sign, you seem calm, sensual, attached to your habits; it is through the other person that strong emotions and upheavals would arrive. Bonds often form during a moment of crisis, a second date that ends in confidences until dawn, a partnership formed to save a business. Nothing trivial, rarely any lukewarmness.
Mars rules Scorpio in tradition, Pluto in modern astrology: both are read. Mars indicates where the relationship’s energy is spent, Pluto where deep mutations play out. Mars in the 2nd house, for example, would link the couple to money questions; Pluto in the 4th, to family inheritance. Since Pluto stays more than ten years in some signs, its house counts for more than its sign, shared by millions of people born in the same period. Mars in Capricorn, exalted, would give more controlled commitments.
The dark side of this descendant would be the power struggle. Who keeps the accounts, who knows what about whom, who gives way last: these questions can undermine a couple or a partnership. Jealousy, a taste for secrecy, and grudges are its ordinary faces. What helps: talking about money, desire, and trust without waiting for the crisis, and admitting that a partner keeps some rooms locked.
You would love with intensity and exclusivity.
Desire matters a great deal, and so does intimacy; you would want to know everything about your partner and would gradually reveal yourself. Relationships change you deeply. The risk is confusing love and possession, or constantly testing the other person’s loyalty. Talking about your fears rather than keeping watch soothes this descendant.
Partnerships involve a great deal: shared capital, professional secrets, risky investments.
You would work well with partners able to handle crises, restructure, negotiate hard. These alliances are solid as long as trust is complete. A written agreement on possible exits protects both parties if the collaboration comes apart. Roles that entrust third-party funds or sensitive information would suit this discreet descendant.
You would choose few close ones, but very reliable: the neighbor who keeps a spare key and your confidences, the friend you call at three in the morning.
You distrust surface relationships, colleagues who get familiar too fast, meeting smiles that cost nothing. You would gain from not reading every silence as betrayal, and from leaving others their ordinary zones of shadow.
With Mars as ruler of the descendant, tradition would describe an ardent, wholehearted, sometimes quarrelsome partner, and alliances in which no one holds back.
Lilly, who did not know Pluto, also filed lawsuits and rivals under the 7th house: in a martial sign, they would be tenacious. Scorpio, a fixed water sign, would add to this ardor a long memory for offenses as well as loyalties.
Modern authors added Pluto as ruler of Scorpio after its discovery in 1930. They read in this descendant the theme of transformation through the other person and the Taurus-Scorpio axis: owning or sharing, keeping or letting change. Shared property, inheritance, a spouse’s money, read in the 8th house, would mingle closely here with the couple’s affairs.
The sign on the cusp of the 7th 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.
angular house: the couple, partnerships, the other across from you.
The 7th houseA water sign, fixed.
The Scorpio signMars as traditional ruler, Pluto as modern ruler: both are read.
Mars in the 7th houseThis position indicates relationships lived with passion and depth. You would be drawn to intense, mysterious people and commit exclusively. Bonds would transform you. The downside: jealousy, secrets, power struggles. Opposite, the Taurus rising sign would seek the tranquility that the relationship comes to shake up.
Two rulers are read: Mars, traditional ruler of Scorpio, and Pluto, the modern ruler. Mars says where the energy of alliances is spent; Pluto, where they transform you. Since Pluto moves very slowly, you look mostly at its house, which is personal to you, rather than its sign, shared by a generation.
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