Scorpio, a sign under the water quadruplicity, and the fixed triplicty.
It seems unbelievable that after the peace and balance of Libra comes the passionate and powerful scorpion; this ascendant symbolizes the capacity to modify ourselves and others, or at least the potential for it.
Scorpio ascendant perfectly enacts what has been said about the meaning of the ascendant, this union between the earthly and the celestial; in this case, being basically intense in nature, it tends to experiment and investigate in the darkest and most luminous aspects, and it is even possible that it swings from one extreme to the other at some point in life. Its guiding principle seems to be that of deep inspection.
Even in their way of looking, we can glimpse the need of these natives to go beyond what forms appear to be, and surely many vocational researchers have a Scorpionic ascendant.
It is said that Scorpio is where society excretes its miseries, and in some way these natives present themselves in very different ways with no middle ground. There are those who represent the darkest part of society, the most hidden and subterranean, but also those who have the inner power to change it, transforming the psychology and energies of their environment. Surely many mystical figures have this birth mark and chose the celestial part more than the purely earthly.
Sex and the hidden parts of the personality will be greatly affected when Scorpio rises, and if there are problems with aspects to the ascendant or to its ruler, Mars, they will be put to the test. Once again, it must be said that they are always walking in an intensity that can generate a metamorphosis, and they can spend a long time overlooking a topic for which they were previously seen as completely passionate.
Their magnetism comes from their quadruplicity; they belong to the water element, and fixed water, this still element, is like water that does not flow, that remains without renewing itself. In this way they are found with expressions of controlled emotionality and with a certain predisposition to possessiveness.
The serpent or the eagle are the animals usually associated with Scorpio, one that crawls on the earth and another that flies very high.
Death and its background are usually topics associated with this ascendant and this sign, which will show, if other aspects do not prevent it, a serious countenance and a natural taste for dark or red colors.
If Scorpio rises, Taurus descends, and in some way these two signs represent the polarity that generates earthly life. Being a fixed sign, it tends to assert its personality on very clear concepts, and is usually someone who attracts a specific type of sector, since this is polarized.
It shares the planet Mars as ruler with Aries, but in this case, the appearance will be less lively and proud, or rather, outwardly, because the thing is that Scorpio must be looked at in depth and not in what it shows on the surface.