Want to hear the stinger? Scorpios are one of the least-liked signs on the Zodiac spectrum, but we think they get a bad rap. Scorpios are kind, sensitive folks who just happen to take no nonsense from other people.
Scorpios born on November 12 have had a whole year come to a close by the time they celebrate their season. This article will provide insight into what kind of people Scorpios are and what kind of year they’ll have.
Scorpio Quick Facts
Scorpios are one of the three water signs (Cancer and Pisces are the other two). The Scorpio is symbolized by, aptly, a scorpion symbol.
The Scorpio’s modality is fixed, meaning they’re stubborn in their behavior and thoughts. Outside parties must extend a considerable amount of energy to change the Scorpio’s opinion or behavior, but it can be done. A Scorpio is not one to take leadership like a Cardinal sign or be overly accommodating like a Mutable sign.
This sign is ruled by Pluto and Mars, which are at odds with each other. Mars is the planet of self-initiative and focused determination. Someone ruled by Mars wants to create their identity on their own terms and would push away any indication that another person is helping carve their identity. For a Scorpio, the Mars ruling planet means they’re independent — sometimes to a fault.
Pluto, on the other hand, is the planet aligning the rulee’s connection with greater cosmic forces. Those ruled by Pluto want to see “signs” that their decision is correct before fully committing to one. The Scorpio under Pluto would halt their self-determination to make room for their intuition.
You can see how these two forces within the Scorpio conflict. The internal Pluto-Mars battle means the Scorpio comes off as inconsistent or even erratic at times. Their disposition changes from energetic motivation to a wait-and-see method of approaching life.
Here are a few other aspects to know about the Scorpio Zodiac.
Other Facts
- Celestial longitude: 210° to 239°
- November Birthstone: Topaz, Citrine
- Colors: Red, Maroon
- Flower: Dark red flowers, such as Geraniums.
- Motto: “I’m in it for the long-haul.”
- Main traits: Mysterious, loyal, resourceful, stubborn, jealous, secretive.
Scorpio Personality Overview
The overarching trait among Scorpios is that they’re intensely loyal to their friends. It takes a while to build a Scorpio’s trust, but the Scorpio will be in your life for the long term if you do. Scorpios are a faithful sign, but they’re also known for their distrustfulness and secretiveness.
What Are Your Positive Traits?
Faithful
Scorpios don’t extend their time and energy for just anyone. Scorpios are picky with their friends since the Scorpio knows they’re sensitive to toxic or unhelpful people in their lives. But if the Scorpio decides you’re a special person, they’ll keep you around.
Scorpios are the type of friend you can call up at 3 am for a late night chat or to request help from. In addition to great friends, the Scorpio makes a loyal partner who recoils at the thought of cheating on their spouse. Another person’s heart and mental state are of the utmost priority for a Scorpio (if the Scorpio likes you).
Resourceful
Thanks to their Mars ruling planet, the Scorpio doesn’t like to ask for help from anyone. They’ll use the resources available to them to succeed at a task or goal. While Scorpios will ask for help if truly necessary, they’ll try to push it off until it’s no longer possible.
That’s right, a Scorpio is that person who refuses to go to the doctor for aches or pains. While their resourcefulness is endearing in a professional sense, this positive trait can be negative in other senses.
Brave
Putting it in Harry Potter terms, a Scorpio is a total Gryffindor. They’re the ones volunteering to help others first when others are too scared to do so. A Scorpio remains loyal to the greater good, extending their time, energy, even their lives for such causes.
In another sense, a Scorpio is usually the first one to initiate conversation. Whether it’s an acquaintance or a love interest, Scorpios don’t waste time when they want to get to know someone who strikes their fancy. Taking interest in someone doesn’t happen often to the mysterious Scorpio, but they can be gregarious when they want to be.
Passionate
You’ll find it hard to understand how a Scorpio’s mind works. They’re disinterested in many aspects of their life — perhaps with school or their job search. But there are certain things the Scorpio adores.
Perhaps it’s baking or good literature, helping people or building a business. The Scorpio throws their all into what they love and shaves off time where it doesn’t need to go. In short, a Scorpio focuses their attention on what matters to them instead of half-heartedly doing what they don’t care about.
What Are Your Negative Traits?
Secretive
Others find it hard to approach you. As a Scorpio, you’re so focused on other objects that you don’t present a friendly, inviting aura that makes people comfortable talking to you. You look broody and disinterested, keeping your emotional state to yourself. People find it hard to read you.
If you do happen to make a friend, you’re also reluctant to share your total self with that person. You maintain emotional distance with most people you meet, withholding secrets from them. It takes a special person to get you to open up, but you don’t find that person too often.
Distrusting
You usually expect the worst in people upon first meeting them, looking for the negatives in them before focusing on the positives. It’s almost as if you’re looking for reasons not to keep someone in your life.
This distrustfulness adds to your mysterious air but further alienates people from trying to get to know you. There have been people in your life who took a strong interest in you because of your distrustfulness, which made you distrust them further.
Whether this distrustfulness comes naturally or from past events in your life, you need to spend long periods of time with someone before you can relax your guard around them.
Jealous
Scorpios invest lots of time to get to trust their friends or partners. They feel they’ve earned their loved one’s attention, so Scorpios hate thinking the time they’ve spent on their loved one was wasted. Scorpios fear their friend or partner dropping them for another person, so this Zodiac becomes intensely jealous of other people who show interest in their friends or partner.
The intensity of the jealousy ranges based on the Scorpio’s maturity and confidence. It’s likely that an insecure Scorpio will fly into a rage and cause drama if they think another party is stealing the interest of their friend or partner away from them.
A more self-evolved Scorpio, though, will keep their outbursts hidden but find ways to subtly tell their loved ones what they feel. Scorpios are not above passive-aggression, and in some cases that’s their preferred form of conflict-resolution.
What Will This Year Look Like for the November 12 Zodiac?
The Scorpio’s year is going to get worse before it gets better.
You’ll find you’re not getting as much done as you would like to in a day. Your professional life is putting too much pressure on you to focus on work, leaving you little time to spend on what you’re truly passionate about. You don’t spend as much time maintaining relationships or fostering personal projects as you would like.
Your loyalty and resourcefulness will make it difficult for you to drop commitments to free up your schedule, but you’ll find lacking a connection with what makes you feel happy too draining to continue. Whether you take the initiative to make a change or Pluto’s forces take a liking to you, your schedule will clear up toward the middle of the year.
During this time, you’ll feel invigorated and connected with yourself once again. You may even decide to give dating a try if you’re single or spice up the relationship with the person you’re already with.
Love
In terms of love, you’ll flourish in the second part of the year. The rough period from the first half of the year will smooth out, leaving you more time and energy to find someone who fits your high standards for a partner.
You’ll meet potential matches who excite you and leave you wanting to know more about them (a rare occurrence for you.) You’ll find someone around fall or winter with whom you’ll see a future with, and it will be right in time to be nourished during Scorpio season.
Which Signs Match Best with the November 12 Scorpio?
You need someone who gives you no reason to distrust them. This person is authentic to everyone they meet and doesn’t like hurting others, even if accidental.
Looking at the Scorpio’s traits, we think you’ll match best with the two other water signs: Cancer and Pisces. Here’s why.
Cancer
Cancers are sweet, sensitive homebodies who have a lot of love to give to other people. They crave affection and intimacy, and are willing to work with someone who seems distrustful on the outside because the Cancer can see there’s more to the person on the inside (just like you, dear Scorpio).
Creative and romantic, a Cancer partner can smooth down your distrustful edges and find ways to make you feel loved that’s personal to you. Scorpios are open and honest when they’ve found the right person. Since you and a Cancer are both Water signs, you’ll have the baseline similarities to build off of.
Both you and a Cancer enjoy long-term commitment over casual flings. Cancers are loyal partners, as their empathetic nature makes them unlikely to intentionally hurt the one they love. You can rest easy knowing a Cancer partner would do anything to make you feel loved, never the opposite.
Pisces
Pisces excel at creativity and imagination, fostering relationships with people, and finding the best parts of a person. They’re loyal and caring just like a Scorpio, but the Pisces is actually super trusting with people they meet.
A Pisces and Scorpio pairing would entail the Pisces attaching to the Scorpio while the Scorpio remains distant. However, through their loyalty comes an eventual friendship, with a relationship following suit. Pisces and Scorpios have many traits in common, such as sensitivity, kindness, and empathy, they just have to spend enough time to get there.
Best Careers for This Scorpio
A Scorpio can work a dead-end job for money, but they don’t see themselves staying in that role for too long. This sign needs to feel fulfilled first, get money later (although the Scorpio will sacrifice their happiness temporarily to survive).
A Scorpio’s passions range from the sciences to humanities, business to arts. However, since they’re inherently distrustful, they may not fare well with jobs that require intense trust in tools or professions. If anything, they’ll excel at jobs forcing them to be distrustful, such as science or journalism.
In all, the Scorpio can brute force their way into a profession they think will bring them security or wait until they get a sign from the universe forcing them in the right career path.
Words of Advice for the November 12 Zodiac
Relax. It’s okay. Not everyone is going to hurt you, and there are people who will shock you with how perfectly they match you — if you’ll only give them a chance.
Learning to trust those closest to you will be a challenge this year, especially in your relationships. When you feel stress from extra-relationship forces, you take it out on the people nearest you. Lack of control over your job or other aspects of your life will make you clamp down on those you love, making them feel suffocated under your grip.
Teach yourself how to work through stress consciously and beneficially for everyone around you. Your love life, friendships, and connection within yourself will become stronger because of your growth.
We hope this article helps. Feel free to take a look at our other tips for Scorpios.
