Scorpio

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BIRTHSTONE ___________ FLOWER
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Tourmaline ____ Opal __________ Calendula

Scorpion
passionate, intense, secretive

Scorpio, with his claws reaching out to influence the scales,
is crushed beneath the foot of Ophiuchus, the serpent holder,
who in earliest times was depicted as an eagle.

Ophiuchus 's foot is stung (wounded foot, like Oedipus) by the
upraised tail of the scorpion, his other foot is above the scorpion's
heart.

He restrains the serpent coiled around him from taking a crown.
Ophiuchus depicts the earliest prophecy in the Bible, "I will put
enmity between the serpent and the offspring of the woman,
it will strike at his heel, and he will crush (the serpent's) head."

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