Ascendant in Scorpio

Ascendant: characterizes our starting energy, view of the world and our opinions

Scorpio: The principal quality of this sign of the Zodiac is to take everything intensely...

First impression. People remember your gaze first, steady and a little hard to read. A Scorpio ascendant is traditionally linked with striking eyes, darker colors in the closet and a calm with strength behind it. In a meeting you sit off to the side, listen and speak up only at the end, but in a way that makes everyone stop. You don't let people close right away, and yet more than one of them tells you a secret on the first evening. Some find you mysterious; others are a little wary of you at first.

Strengths and pitfalls. When everything falls apart, you stay standing. You can take pressure others can't imagine, you can tell when someone is being evasive, and a secret entrusted to you stays kept even years later. You go to the root of things, and shallow answers don't satisfy you. Depth has its price, though. Sometimes you test people without their knowing, and you remember a wrong longer than is healthy. Not every disappointment is a betrayal.

Love and the descendant. Opposite a Scorpio ascendant sits a Taurus descendant. You look for a partner who lets you settle down: reliable and sensual, someone who doesn't play games and whose "yes" still holds ten years later. Such a person grounds your storms, and in return you give them depth and passion. Casual flirting bores you. Your arguments run quiet and long, because the Taurus on the other side can be just as unyielding as you.

Work and the chart ruler. Your traditional chart ruler is Mars, and modern astrology adds Pluto. Mars gives you fight and endurance, Pluto the urge to dig below the surface and change things from the ground up. Fields that deal with crises, secrets or big money suit you: surgery, the ER, psychology, investigation, auditing or insurance. You work best on your own and fully trusted. You take being checked at every step as distrust, and you don't forgive that easily.

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Scorpio ascendant and the Sun signs

This is how a Scorpio ascendant colors each Sun sign:

Aries with Scorpio ascendant: Mars in two forms, open and hidden. They seem calm and closed until someone provokes them, and then they won't back out of a fight until they win or understand why they lost.
Taurus with Scorpio ascendant: opposite fixed signs, which means stubbornness from both ends. Intense and guarded on first impression, at home they mainly want peace and security. Their loyalty has no exceptions.
Gemini with Scorpio ascendant: curiosity with a sharp eye. They keep asking until they get the truth, then say it in a way that hits home. They have no patience for small talk, even though they're great at it.
Cancer with Scorpio ascendant: two water signs. They sense the family mood before anyone voices it and will stand up to anybody for their loved ones. Old hurts, though, they let go of only very slowly.
Leo with Scorpio ascendant: pride without compromise. They want influence and know how to get it; they say little and then decide. They won't admit weakness even to themselves.
Virgo with Scorpio ascendant: analysis with intuition. They notice details others miss, work quietly and thoroughly, and find the weak spot in any plan before the competition does.
Libra with Scorpio ascendant: charm with depth. In company they seem polished and light, but they read people with great precision. They want more from a relationship than nice moments: real closeness.
Scorpio with Scorpio ascendant: a double Scorpio. Passionate and hard to read, they can endure more than anyone around them. They keep quiet about what hurts and wait to see who notices without being told.
Sagittarius with Scorpio ascendant: a cheerful mind with X-ray vision. Serious at first glance, open and funny once you know them. They're drawn to psychology and to questions with no easy answers.
Capricorn with Scorpio ascendant: strategy and stamina. They know where they're headed, don't tell anyone and get there quietly but surely. At the head of a company or an agency they're in their element.
Aquarius with Scorpio ascendant: a visionary with an iron will. They refuse to be pigeonholed and can fight for their ideas for years. Compromise sounds like defeat to them, even when it would save them a lot of energy.
Pisces with Scorpio ascendant: still water that sees to the bottom. They sense what others hide and know how to keep quiet about it. Psychology and mysticism attract them, and other people's secrets stay with them forever.