Scorpio RisingThe Symbols:This person has come into the world wearing the mask of the Psychoanalyst,

Scorpio RisingThe Symbols:This person has come into the world wearing the mask of the Psychoanalyst, Hypnotist, Shaman or Detective. Other images for Scorpio rising are the Occultist, Sorcerer, Spy or Hospice Worker. Less than optimal manifestations of this Ascendant might include the Intensity Junkie, the Manipulator, the Brooder or Gollum (from The Lord of the Rings).The Style: This Ascendant is complicated, so we’ll spend some extra time here. Imagine you’re on a blind date with someone who knows you’re a brilliant, groundbreaking and incredibly skilled and perceptive psychoanalyst, or forensic pathologist, or FBI profiler. How comfortable do you think your date feels? You know that your date knows this about you. How comfortable do you feel?A man or woman with Scorpio rising has reached an evolutionary stage where he or she should present a penetrating, intense and probing face to the world. To minimize the possibility of others’  negative reactions to such a mask, the development of a certain level of psychological awareness of oneself and others is essential here.Basically, someone with Scorpio rising does well to realize that he or she tends to have a powerful unconscious mind. What does that mean? Material from his or her unconscious floats up into this person’s awareness more frequently than in people who don’t have a lot of Scorpio, Plutonian or eighth house energy in their birth charts, and who can therefore better repress whatever “shadow” material makes them uncomfortable–ambivalent or inappropriate feelings, painful memories, insights about people’s Freudian slips and unconscious motives, etc. Although Scorpio Ascendants can have their blind spots, they can be far more perceptive about  their own shadow functions than the average person is. Although they are by no means always right, Scorpio Ascendants can often be very perceptive about other people’s shadows, too, as if this rising sign came equipped with psychological X-ray vision.if someone with a Scorpio Ascendant is unaware that not everyone’s “vehicle” is also equipped with these in-depth psychological sensors, then he or she can attribute all kinds of motive to another person that simply aren’t in that person’s conscious thoughts. After a few too may accusations of suspiciousness or of having their minds in the gutter—”How could you say such a thing?”–Scorpio Ascendants may start keeping their thoughts to themselves. Although developing some discernment and discretion before they speak can be a good thing for these people, emotional isolation never is. Scorpio is a water sign, and water wants emotional connectedness. Scorpio rising benefits from relationships of cathartic and transformative emotional intensity, where they have a partner for their explorations of the psychological underworld. They need their trusted intimates’ perspective on their inner landscapes, lest they blow some of their own issues out of proportion.For Scorpio rising, life should be confronted with honesty , intensity, a commitment to deep self-awareness, and a willingness to examine all taboos. That doesn’t mean to break all of them. It just means that no area of life or death should be bared from the laser-sharp scrutiny of this Ascendant.Taboos are usually assigned to such psychologically charged material as sex, death and the afterlife. This is why kids are told not to discuss religion, the neighbors’ divorce, or their uncle’s cancer diagnosis at their parents’ parties. People with Scorpio rising need some intimates with whom there are no taboo subjects–and they do well not to overuse that X-ray vision with the rest of us.If the rest of the chart is sensitive and cautious, this Ascendant is intended both to protect this person, and to advertise for the sort of partners who can truly understand him or her. If the rest of the chart is strong and vivid, this Ascendant is intended to express it and to give this person depth and honesty. If the rest of the chart is that of a thinking type or a pragmatic type, this Ascendant is intended to help this person stay in touch with his or her own feelings and with those of other people. All of these types need to be aware that the intensity of their Scorpio masks can seem to convey the desire for a deeper intimacy than they may actually want or should have with everyone whose paths they cross. In such cases, cultivating the ability to use a lighter self-presentation sometimes–more humor, less eye contact, fewer charged topics of conversation, etc.–can be very helpful. In any event, this rising sign’s demeanor should transmit the message: “Here is someone who sees deeply into people, who demands frankness and can grasp secrets, and who probably has a few of his or her own.”If the childhood environment was either chaotic, or spent with parents or family members who themselves had powerful unconscious minds and turbulent feelings, then a Scorpio Ascendant with a strong psyche may have felt that he or she had to understand a parent or parents very thoroughly in order to make a deep impact on them. Such an impact may have felt imperative for the Scorpio rising child to achieve, just to capture enough of the parents’ attention to get the child’s needs met–placating an angry parent, cheering a depressed one, etc. However, Scorpio rising children may also have felt that too much notice from a parent or relative might engulf them emotionally or psychologically. In that event, they may have blurted out an occasional home truth in self-defense. They may have been shamed or even punished for verbalizing their perceptions, and may have learned to hide them or even doubt them.How close was so close  that the Scorpio rising child would feel swallowed alive, and how far away was either too far away to get his or her needs met, or too far away to observe and guard against a relative’s potentially problematic behavior? Such was the dance that people with Scorpio Ascendants might have needed to learn. Can you imagine how vigilant these people might have therefore had to be, and how much discernment about others they may have had to develop?In adulthood, this dynamic may translate into wanting to probe into others but not be too deeply probed oneself. Scorpio Ascendants with a less healthy ego structure and a chaotic upbringing may repeat a dynamic of alternately feeling overwhelmed and invaded by intimacy, trying to shut it out completely, or accepting it only if they can control it. But true intimacy works best as a two-way street, so a Scorpio Ascendant may need to choose partners who are more stable than their relatives might have been, and to allow such people to get and stay closer than the Scorpio Ascendant may initially find comfortable. –Jodie Forrest, The Ascendant -- source link
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