ALMUTEM
Mars in Scorpio
Mars represents your energy, your desire and the courage to act. In Scorpio, it expresses itself with intensity and depth, all or nothing.
Mars rules Scorpio — fixed water — and stands here in his second dwelling, lord of a nocturnal house that suits his sect. Here the force draws in and thickens: not the open surge of Aries, but the silent blow, planned in the dark and dealt cold. The fixed water keeps the fire deep down, and Mars burns without smoke, a covered ember that neither cools nor shows itself. It inclines to a deep and secret passion, to the desire that risks all, to the will that neither yields nor pardons. It gives penetration — a hand for what demands a deep incision, courage to descend where others fear, mastery over fear and death. It tends to the rancour that bides its hour, to the jealousy that corrodes, to a vengeance patient as venom. Like the scorpion that waits motionless and strikes of a sudden, it strikes without warning. The danger is that of his own rule deepened too far: a force that poisons itself in the secret it keeps.