The potent and potentially lethal venom represents the power, dynamism, intensity, and resolute determination that characterize this sign. There is often an interest in death, rebirth, dying, and things of the dead. As a Water sign, Scorpios are highly intuitive, even psychic, and easily tune into the feeling states of others. They are also adept at self-analysis and looking within.

Scorpios are intense, driving, resolute, and indefatigable workers. They often gravitate toward occupations involving research, medicine, science, chemistry, pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, engineering, sleuthing, psychology, psychiatry, sexuality, psychoanalysis, and any of the healing arts. Their need to understand in a profound way may also lead to an interest in teaching, preaching, religious or spiritual studies, shamanism, hypnosis, meditation, alternative therapies, reincarnation, metaphysics, psychic phenomena, unseen forces, or the occult. Detectives, investigators, secret police, military personnel, forensic workers, spies, and mystery writers often have Sun in Scorpio.