Other people always seem to think that Scorpio midheaven tries to do too much. Time and time again, Scorpio midheaven seems to prove other people wrong.

The midheaven, in astrology, isn’t just an expression of your career or your job. Your midheaven is your capacity to nurture a future. It also represents your caregivers from childhood, those people who mothered you and nurtured your future. Scorpio, the zodiac sign where the Moon is in fall and where Venus meets its detriment, is the most resourceful sign because it represents scarcity.

Scorpio midheaven will seem to conjure up awesome acts of will from almost nothing. It’s not nothing. Scorpio midheaven has been training themselves to do a lot with very little from birth. In terms of nurture, Scorpio midheaven has a feeling that they didn’t quite get enough of something that they needed.

People with Scorpio midheaven are determined to succeed. They design their days and their lives to function so efficiently that they almost seem to transcend the realm of personal wishes. On the outside, Scorpio midheaven can seem a bit cold. They’re focused on the facts and, once they have a goal, they work that goal like their survival depends on it.

Scorpio midheaven commands their own future into being. They know what they are doing most of the time and they also know that they are unstoppable as long as they keep going. Scorpio midheaven doesn’t give up. They pursue what they want until the time becomes right because they have almost willed it to be.

Scorpio midheaven loves power and desires it, not to dominate other people but because power is just another name for cooperation. In the past, Scorpio midheaven felt lonesome and powerless. They no longer want to be. They want relationships, want intimacy, want to be desired.

Yet, when it comes to relationships, Scorpio midheaven finds themselves trying their best to make a quick judgment about whether you are safe for them or not. If you are, then they’ll start to make plans with you. This is a planner and they make romantic overtures by including you in their plans or even by planning for you.

You have to keep in mind that, on the inside, Scorpio midheaven truly feels like their survival is determined by their success because that has been true for so much of their life. Making an income and seeking stability—these things have been pursuits that have cost Scorpio midheaven dearly. They don’t always feel like they have time to play or to try things that might not go the way they want it to.

Most of the time, Scorpio midheaven succeeds in their goals because they devote themselves to them and because they feel like failure is death. These people have extremely high expectations for themselves. They grew up under the impression that love is earned, and they fear that they will be discarded if they are not useful to other people.

When it comes to pursuits that one can’t really win or succeed at because that’s not the point, like romance and friendships, Scorpio midheaven sometimes avoids these topics because they simply don’t know what to do. They despise activities that seem useless, like hanging out or socializing, because they need to feel useful.

Every Scorpio midheaven harbors an intense and private desire to be known. They want to be seen for who they really are. Often, Scorpio midheaven has no idea what to do with that desire to strip oneself naked of all pretense so that they can finally be seen for who they are. They don’t quite know how to do that but they are trying their best.

Many Scorpio midheaven people spend a lot of time trying to figure out other people because they want to be known on the same level of depth. These people remember everything that you have ever told them like an inventory. They have the ability to feel as though they know you inside and out from afar because they have been observing you for so long.

This tendency for Scorpio midheaven to store a lot of information isn’t contained to just relationships. Scorpio midheaven is constantly reading and researching about their wider world. They have a need to constantly prepare themselves for anything that could happen but trying to predict the next sequence of events. This is why a lot of Scorpio midheaven people seem to have a weird, prophetic power. It’s not supernatural—just intuition. Scorpio midheaven collects information and puts it together to imagine every possible outcome. They’re so experienced at doing this that they can usually reasonably guess what will happen next.

Scorpio midheaven isn’t very uncomfortable with uncertainty because they’re not used to it. They know so much and they research everything under the sun. They’re used to being able to predict how a society might develop but they often can’t predict what their loved ones will do.

This prophetic power of Scorpio midheaven tends to work better when it comes to the broad strokes more than what happens closer up. Scorpio midheaven is pretty good at predicting what direction a whole city or town might be going in based on what they dug up about that city’s history and local policies. However, they are still quite clueless when it comes to personal relationships because the scale of what is personal is too close to be predictable. Anything can happen when it comes to people on the level of you together with me.

When you get close with a Scorpio midheaven, when you really get on their soft side, you’ll realize that this intimidating and commanding presence isn’t who you thought that they were. You’ll realize that, in intimate relationships, Scorpio midheaven is happy to let someone else take the lead.

This is the paradox of Scorpio midheaven. They know you so well because they have studied you but they really want to be known themselves. They’re hopelessly awkward but other people see that as authority instead of noticing the way they’re trying really hard to reach out. Scorpio midheaven can have a lot of people who seem to imagine themselves as their enemies because competitive people tend to project their insecurities onto the person who seems like they know what they’re doing. In actuality, Scorpio midheaven couldn’t give less of a shit about competition. They’re seeking connection, not pride.

Quiet, reclusive, and serious. People are intimidated by them. Yet, Scorpio midheaven is really kind. You would think that such an ambitious person, such a self depriving personality at times, is mean. Scorpio midheaven is not. They just thought that they needed to be ambitious or else they would get left behind again. Their main goal is to know people deeply.

Suitable careers for Scorpio midheaven: surgeon, podcaster, journalist, counselor, teacher, anything where one meets with people one on one and talks deeply with them.