Scorpio and the 8th house are associated with the shadow of the collective… repulsiveness and so forth. The soldier and I on the weekend:

“I wish I could be more normal. Lord knows I’ve tried. I have tried, but I just can’t seem to do it,” he said.

“Do what?”

“Be normal. Work 9-5. Not have this kind of life Be normal, P. Just be a regular person.”

“Oh.”

“Not that you’re much better off,” he said.

“What do you mean? I’m normal.”

“You are not.”

“Yes I am! I am so normal,” I said.

“P, you’re an astrologer,” he said. ‘That’s what you are and I am what I am.”

“Well yeah,” I said. I thought for four seconds. “Okay, I get your point. It seems normal to me but it sure is not. I have had enough men try to take me home to meet their families… do you know what that’s like?”

“What?”

“You’re bringing an astrologer home? A what? Oh for Godsakes we are going to kill her at our first opportunity! Could you possibly drag home anything worse than that? Is she bringing her crystal ball with her?”

He laughed.

‘Yep. You kill people and I’m an astrologer. I see what you mean. There’s not much difference is there?”

He shook his head.

“Well I have no problem with either one of us,” I said.

“Either do I. Either do I, P. Either do I.”