Diseases

The diseases which are apt to attack these people are those of the heart, weakness of the back, lumbago, and gout.

All these ailments and every other known to man can be entirely dominated, forever cast out, by those who realize that mind is master and the body is the servant of the mind.

Mode Of Growth

Scorpio people should remember that one true friend is preferable to a hundred flatterers, and that true friends are very rare, for the reason that true men and women are not common. They should begin at once to take account of their tendencies and their weaknesses. They should set apart a few moments each day for searching, analytical mental contemplation, and not spare themselves. They should resolve with all the splendid will-power and de-termination which belongs to this sign to overcome every obstacle to true spiritual progress. These people can be anything they choose to be, and while their faults are difficult to overcome, they are so superiorly endowed with resolution that they can succeed if they will. If they could but catch a glimpse of their possibilities, of the work they could do in the world, of the magnetic, curative, and inspirational power they possess, they would never lag in the work of redemption. They must overcome suspicion and jealousy, and this can be only accomplished by the realization of the existence of these dwarfing and despoiling qualities. They must acknowledge that they are prone to excuse themselves, and, worse than this, to flatter themselves. Some of the Scorpio people who read this will immediately protest. "No such faults are mine," they will say, and perhaps in their indignation will close the hook and vow never to have anything more to do with it. Such an exhibition of temper will prove that they are well hit, because those born under this sign who have given no attention to spiritual development are always very tender of their own feelings and equally careless of the suffering of others.

This may be true of other signs, for Scorpio people are not the only ones who wish to deceive themselves.

The women who indulge in scolding and nagging will do well to notice the effect of such conduct upon those about them. They will see that it drives away from them those they love the most and for whose real good they are most anxious. It will not take long for them to discover that their children and all under their authority are deceiving and evading their commands. Servants to such mistresses, unless very conscientious, invariably do things their own way, and become very tactful and cunning.

When Scorpio people step to the moral plane where they will acknowledge their faults, the battle is half won, but as long as they determine to deceive themselves they are in utter darkness.

Marriage

When Scorpio and Virgo people are united, the children will be physically strong and brilliant, and when the contracting parties have learned the happiness and power obtained from overcoming, a wonderful harmony will result. The children of Libra and Scorpio, or Scorpio and Pisces, are not apt to be robust, and the marriage relation is usually a marriage in name only.

The reader must remember that usually the happiest results arise in marriage where social and intellectual equality exist.

Government Of Children

The little folks born under Scorpio are usually very domineering, and evince this tendency even in babyhood. They are the fretting ones, those who demand instant attention, and who expect to be constantly amused. The Scorpio child who has not learned something of self-control, and who has not been instructed concerning the danger of giving way to jealousy and suspicion before he or she has come to the age of ten years, will not be easily reached during the next ten. Moral and spiritual development will then be an individual matter entirely, and it will come from the working out of a natural law - the hardest and the only one - "As a man soweth that shall he-also reap."

These children are generally so bright, so apt, so quick to separate the good from the bad, the true from the false, when properly trained and directed, that they can be saved a great deal of after misery and shame by wise instruction in the very early years. This is of course true in the largest sense of all children, but these Scorpio little folks will by their natural tendency dominate every thing and everybody about them unless this characteristic is 11 corrected as soon as the trait manifests itself. Scorpio babies should be taught to entertain themselves, and should be kept very quiet.

The largest and highest possible range of education should be given those born under this sign. These children are usually very fond of animals, but sometimes become extremely cruel when their commands are not obeyed. They should be led into a close intimacy with these dumb creatures as soon as they are old enough to notice, by means of pictures and a personal acquaintance. Scorpio children are very fond of luxurious surroundings. They should be taught simplicity in all things, and carefully watched as to emotional and passionate habits. This field is worthy the most patient and persistent working.

The governing planet is Mars, and the gems are topaz and malachite. The astral colors are golden brown, and black.