There’s a new James Bond movie coming out next week (No Time To Die), which reminds me how very much James Bond exemplifies the nature of the sign Scorpio. In what ways does Scorpio resemble James Bond? Here are 5 ways Scorpio is like James…
In my previous article about Ceres, the largest asteroid in the asteroid belt, I argued that Ceres fits very well as a ruler of Taurus. If Ceres does rule Taurus, then Scorpio is its sign of detriment. In this article I continue by describing why…

“This is what I’ve been trying to tell you all along. Don’t call me an ice dwarf. I know I’m short, but really, do you have to make a guy feel so small? You’ve demoted me from planet-status, isn’t that enough? I have a heart….
The last time Saturn changed signs, I wrote about it here in the Pandora blog. That was in July of 2010. Now Saturn is finishing up the tail-end of Libra (his favorite sign to occupy) and entering the dark, mysterious regions of Scorpio, to travel…
Scorpio, thank you for keeping the darkness at bay! Scorpio is that side of us that stores, protects and keeps our painful experiences and memories safe, and manages the instinctual side of our life. It’s a sort of holding-place for all the dark things in…
Solutions for Water-Gone-Wrong In my recent post Personality Flaws of the Four Elements I described ways the 4 Elements can go wrong, each according to its own nature. How To Know If You’re Drowning In Water Water is arguably the hardest element to get right,…
In November of 2008 I posted an article called Scorpio Rising, Boundaries and Intimacy. In that article I talked about the mysterious fact that underneath the crusty, protective exterior that Scorpio frequently wears is a profound sensitivity, which is hard to see at first, but…
Of the 3 water signs, one is Cardinal, one is Fixed and one is Mutable. When a zodiac sign is Cardinal, that means it sends its elemental energy in a directed way. If it’s Fixed, then it consolidates and contains its elemental energy while the…
To have Scorpio rising (i.e. on the Ascendant) in one’s birth chart is an essential dilemma. Why is that? The Rising Sign, or Ascendant, represents how you present yourself to the world. If you were a house, your Ascendant would be the front door. It’s…
Let me tell you a little story about the phoenix. The phoenix was a mythical bird who built itself a fire, then allowed itself to be consumed by the flames until it died. It then rose from its own ashes, shining and new. Fans of…