If you have Mercury or Venus in Scorpio in your natal chart, you’re wanting intense connection. Right. You’re just not into superficial mindless chit chat, or low-level thinking and ideas. You don’t do superficial anything. And if you have both of these planets in Scorpio there’s a double intensity of Scorpio energy around how you process your thoughts and want to relate to others.

But with any gift there is always a shadow side. Our greatest talents can also be our biggest curse when it comes to applying our gifts to our own life. And when you have Mercury or Venus in Scorpio, you can really trip yourself up when you’re intensely and sexually attracted to someone, fixated on an idea, or on a research mission. Feelings, desires and motivations that you’re often not even aware of, or clear on, can get in the way of you being objective. But you don’t see it that way. You think you know exactly what you’re doing and why. Whereas everyone around you is watching the whole obsessive thing play out.

Here are 3 ways shadow Scorpio in Mercury and Venus can trip you up:

#1 Analysis Paralysis

Your mind is sharp, astute, clever. But when you’re really attracted to someone, or engaged in work that really matters to you, you can go down endless rabbit holes over-thinking and over-analyzing. You love to research and get to the bottom of things. But when this leads to analysis paralysis, or hours of cyber stalking someone’s social medial accounts, it’s time to step back and take an objective look at things.

#2 Pattern Recognition Over-Drive

So you’re a natural at sussing out patterns and themes. In your career your research and analytical skills are stand outs. But when you’re doing lower Scorpio when it comes to attractions – your mind literally can’t see the woods for the trees. You start making linkages and assumptions that don’t make sense. You read way-too-much into things without reality testing. Your desire for deep intense connection takes over everything.

#3 Secrets And Stealth

Scorpio in Mercury and Venus wants deep connections through communication and intense physical and emotional intimacy. But the underbelly of Scorpio is deep fear, mistrust, sometimes paranoia. So it becomes a catch-22. You’re driven to deep, passionate intimacy through communication and relationship, but a big part of you holds back. You’re secretive, sometimes even sneaky. You hide big chunks of who you really are and withhold your true feelings. You don’t want to relinquish your need to control things. You don’t reveal your true motives. Weirdly it feels safer to live in the fantasy and potential of what could be. And if you are dating someone, they’re often wrong for you. Relationship-going nowhere makes you feel safe somehow. Even though you’re not sure why.

If you’re stuck in shadow Scorpio then you need to sort this out so you don’t waste precious time fixating on people that aren’t good for you. Or going down rabbit holes over-analyzing things. It’s time to become aware of what’s driving you so you can do high-end potent Scorpio.

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