Scorpio 003

Video Transcript: So I think I figured out what’s going on with this gigantic head here. In my Star Names book it says ‘The Scorpion, was the reputed slayer of the giant, exalted to the skies and now rising from the horizon as Orion.’ The Dictionary of Symbolism says ‘Artemis, the goddess of the hunt, sent Scorpius to kill the mighty hunter Orion, and they were both translated to the sky. This is why, whenever the constellation Scorpio appears in the eastern sky the otherwise undaunted Orion flees below the horizon.’ So, essentially, I think this is an astro-mythological story explaining the relationship between two constellations, Scorpio and what we now know as Orion. Notice Orion’s proximity to Taurus, so when Scorpio rises Orion falls. When Scorpio rises Orion, which would be right here, is falling. So the card, essentially, is showing the slaying of the great, giant hunter Orion.