Scorpio

Scorpio: Characteristics

Successful Humility

The task for each of us is to develop our Scorpio characteristics, the intense and penetrating power necessary to cause our own metamorphosis. By removing the excess  we begin to perceive the motion that causes our transformation into the One.

Life should bring greater success and a striving for position of advancement that results in our self-image getting a big boost. As our self-image grows, making huge strides in your outer world, we must also incorporate a new attitude of acceptance to reconcile the warring aspects within yourself. Ask yourself, how can you have complete control in some areas of your life, and yet, have no control over other areas? Has success been at the expense of health, or relationships? How successful do we need to be, or how do we measure success?

This lifetime you must reconcile the striving quality (represented by the successful areas of your life), with the combative quality (represented by the area of your life that you feel you have no control over). Wherever the struggle appears in your life, whether in work, health, relationship, or money issues, the struggle is really just a spiritual test — for all struggle is really just your ego seeking a self-serving expression.

Success is an opportunity to be more humble. Work, or not working, because of health issues, is an opportunity to be of more service. To live successfully outwardly, while combat is going on inwardly is an opportunity for greater acceptance.

Acceptance gives us the ability to perform any task with an open heart. With an open heart, there is real growth and healing. But humility must occur first, before we can serve in the capacity that compliments this new phase of outer success.

This phase is one of spiritual combat, because it is a combat regarding our attitude. Spiritual combat is merely the dispersion within personality of what is false (pride, selfishness, greed, etc.) — the last combat of temptation before we are regenerated, and become holy (holy implies without struggle).

The struggle was necessary to keep us humble. Seeing our struggle issue as a lesson in humility, and an opportunity to serve a higher purpose is the first step. Yet, humility must occur first, before we can be reconciled to the cause of our struggle.

The attitude of confidence and control, that made our outer life successful, must now be applied to the struggle area of our life. Just as the outer world can be molded to our will, so too can the cellular structure of our body be administered to health; or the emotional state of our partner administered to love — merely by reconciling the warring elements within our own nature.

Our task is to understand that our personality, and our body, are meant to be instruments for a higher purpose — higher than mere outward success. That purpose, is to recognize the holy aspect within the struggle. An attitude of acceptance will open the door to more appropriate opportunities to love and to serve. Accept the call! — Spiritualize the struggle with humility.