Venus in Scorpio and Mars in Scorpio: The Same Sign

Venus in Scorpio: what you are drawn to

Venus is the placement that answers what attracts you and how you show affection, and it is a far better guide to somebody's love life than their Sun sign. With Venus in Scorpio you are drawn to depth. Somebody with something underneath, and no interest in small talk.

You show affection by total attention, and by letting somebody see what nobody else does. What you need in order to feel loved is to be trusted completely, and to be able to trust completely, and the thing that reliably puts you off is lightness, and anybody who keeps it casual on purpose. That last one is worth knowing, because the turn-off is usually more consistent across a lifetime than the attraction.

Mars in Scorpio: how you go after it

Mars is the other half: how you pursue, how you argue, and what you want physically. With Mars in Scorpio you chase quietly and completely. You decide first and act later, and you rarely change your mind.

You fight by going cold, remembering everything, and waiting. What you want is intensity, and all of somebody's attention. And the way it gets stuck is testing people rather than asking them, which is the specific failure mode of this Mars and the thing most worth watching for in yourself.

The angle between them, and why it matters

Scorpio and Scorpio are the same sign, which is 0 degrees apart, a conjunction. This is the part that makes the combination more than two separate placements, and it is the part almost every page about Venus and Mars leaves out.

What you are drawn to and how you go after it are the same thing. There is no gap between the attraction and the pursuit, which makes you unusually straightforward in love and leaves you with no internal brake.

The cost attached: no second opinion. Nothing in you disagrees with the chase, so there is nothing to slow it down when it should be slowed down.

Both signs are Water, which is the simplest version of this: the wanting and the chasing are made of the same material and they do not argue with each other.

What this actually looks like

In practice: somebody drawn to depth. Somebody with something underneath, and no interest in small talk, who pursues quietly and completely. You decide first and act later, and you rarely change your mind. Because the two work together, what you want and what you do about it tend to point the same way, and people generally find you readable.

The argument version is worth thinking about separately. You fight by going cold, remembering everything, and waiting, and you need to be trusted completely, and to be able to trust completely. Those are compatible, which means conflict in your relationships tends to resolve rather than accumulate.

What to do with it

1. Check it against your actual history rather than against how you would like to be. Venus and Mars are descriptions of a pattern, and the pattern is in what you have done.
2. Watch for testing people rather than asking them. That is the specific way this Mars goes wrong and it is the most actionable thing on this page.
3. Say what you need out loud. Venus in Scorpio needs to be trusted completely, and to be able to trust completely, and nobody can supply that by inference.
4. Do not assume the ease is compatibility. An easy Venus and Mars makes you consistent, not well matched with anybody in particular.

Where to read next

Venus in Scorpio in full and Mars in Scorpio in full cover each placement on its own. Venus conjunction Mars covers the aspect itself, for anybody whose Venus and Mars are close enough in degree for it to count properly rather than merely being that many signs apart.

Which houses these two fall in is the part that makes it personal, and that needs a birth time. Here is how to find yours.