Maybe you’re right.
I think I’m very compassionate (not modest, no, but compassionate yeah) and I have 3 planets in Scorpio.
Nobody really knows how I feel inside, so how can I ever assume that I know anything about others? If they’re in a dark place, they probably have reason to be.

Do tell, Elsa, if you can, the conclusions you reached with your sister and your charts.

well, if you live in the dark, you know how little there is to actually fear in there.
so i guess you’re less likely to freak out and start projecting away your shadow. onto people. which is like anti-compassion. (when it’s negative shadow. there’s positive shadow too, where you give all your best elements to someone else. and shades of grey….)

so it makes sense.
my prototypical scorpio example is also 12th house stellium so i’d assumed the compassion was a 12th house thing rather than the scorpio. but perhaps there’s bits of both to it.

my friends are the most compassionate people to me. they’re gemini, capricorn, and cancers.

I’ve always thought that pisces’s greatest gift is their compassion and empathy. too much empathy sometime without boundaries, but their compassion runs very very deep.

With a strong Scorpio Rising, I feel compassion for those in genuine pain but am more inclined to want to give the hypochondriacs a swift kick in the backside. I also learned the hard way to avoid doing “rescue missions” (Moon conjunct Neptune).

Well…there’s a difference between emoting and being compassionate. My Scorpio mother will yodel about ‘injustice’ done to others, and suffering of very mundane people (she holds it against you if you were ever successful / smart etc.) but then stay self-absorbed, there isn’t action-followthrough. And that was the reaction of a Scorpio “friend” when I was fired: initial yodeling followed by nothing, the call when I told him I’d been fired was the last we spoke. As far as I know he couldn’t care less what happened to me, and this was someone I spoke with regularly, sometimes for hours, known for about a year.

And how many Mother Teresa (a Virgo) prototypes do we have who are Scorpio?

I’d guess we have compassion for people in situations we can relate to possibly being in ourselves. So…the Scorpio likes / relates to suffering with dramatic overtones*, but can you imagine them having compassion for someone very different than themselves, like a very Aquarian Aquarian? And would their type of ‘compassion’ meet the need of the Aquarian’s definition of compassion, what they find to be a relief / help / not a burden?

The Capricorn might express compassion via respecting the other person’s boundaries, the Aries might provide much needed inspiration, etc.

* I personally feel if a person is hearty enough to complain that others should feel sympathy for them then they are probably ok. But then I realize this is my personal quirk and there were times I was “complaining” when I should’ve been listened to and the people around probably carried the same assumption I do.

I agree. I may attract Scorpios with my Taurus Moon… although two of my closest friends who are there for me unconditionally are both Scorpios. They are always there for me when I need emotional support.

Pisces Rising, Venus conjunct Pluto in Scorpio. And Chiron in Cancer.

I am way toooo compassionate!