Scorpio - Medical Astrology Sun Sign SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22):

Your health rarely crashes, but when it does, you go down like a bull felled with a sledge hammer! Scorpio is one of the strongest, healthiest signs in the zodiac, partly because you are such a powerful energy to begin with. Your ability to be strong and persevering is wonderful in many ways, but if you begin to ignore and hide from your intense feelings and emotions, then health trouble is brewing. One area of weakness for Scorpio is the large intestine, especially the colon region. Our fecal matter is known as bowel movements. In a healthy person, a BM (bowel movement) occurs two to three times daily. Scorpios have an awful problem with CONSTIPATION. Once, I knew a patient who had come to me for help who has a BM once every 12 days!!! The poor thing was bloated in abdomen, in pain and absolute misery--and she was a Scorpio. You see, your passionate, intense emotional structure, while strong and often over-riding, can also be your downfall health wise. Stuffing your feelings and emotions and not expressing them verbally via communication, puts that energy into your bowel area and guess what? Constipation is the result. You can tell if you're stuffing your feelings by how many BM's you have a day. If you don't have at least one, then you are stuffing. In the future I'll list the different ways to relieve one's self of constipation. In the mean time, you can change your diet to a degree: drink plenty of water (4-6 glasses daily), have a high fiber diet (whole grains such as a "high fiber" cereal or rice, and raw fruit like an apple). Get plenty of exercise, too! Just moving around, sometimes, helps. Most importantly, stay in touch with your feelings and TALK about them--Scorpios are so closed mouthed!!! If you speak to the person who is making you feel like an emotional roller coaster, then you're relieving yourself of the possibility of stuffing, which, in turns, spells constipation for you. Isn't it nice to know that you have control over this situation? Yes! Scorpio's other weak spot is their reproductive system. Nowadays, "safe sex" is more than a casual by-word--for Scorpios, it's an absolute necessity. (That doesn't mean if you aren't a Scorpio you don't have to practice safe sex, because you do!). It's just that Scorpios have a very strong, robust sex drive and consequently, may enjoy many more sexual contacts than some other zodiac signs. So, safe sex is Scorpio's by-word. If you don't practice safe sex, then because the reproductive region is your weak link, you are open to STD's--sexually transmitted diseases--such as Candida, genital herpes, genital warts, acquired syphilis or gonorrhea. NONE of these are fun to have! Worse, HIV and AIDS is out there--and YOU have to be particularly careful--so practice safe sex.