In the intellectual fields Scorpio people are successful as they are able to grasp and master any subject. Will power and the unconquerable desire to dominate often force them to tackle jobs that others would avoid. Usually they succeed in their work, for they are thorough, systematic and very capable. They work tirelessly for the salvation of the race, and often thanklessly, as the Scorpio personality invites quarrels, criticisms, and tumult. Working in the medical and surgical field, operating, searching for causes and cures, the Scorpio native plods tirelessly, spreading violent emotions in his wake, sometimes worship, more often hatred, but never indifference. They work and get results long after other types have ceased their efforts. 

Scorpio people are philosophical, for they are deeply analytical and profound. But unable to separate their discoveries from their own temperament, they color everything with a dark, pessimistic shroud, even when their common sense and experience have taught them that the facts are different. They are impossible in argument, as only they can win. 

At the head of a great project, this type of inflexible command has its value, and though the big boss (if the is Scorpio) may be well hated, he is also obeyed. Work carried on under such direction is never shallow, but always well done and permanent, as if it were created to fight the elements. It is quite usual to find a Scorpio man with all his faults at the head of a vast undertaking. 

Scorpio people are often engaged in the execution of great wills, and the settlement of big inheritances. The high type of the sign are scrupulously honest, and have pathological interest in bereavement that makes them zealous in completing settlements and in making a material return as far as it is possible for spiritual losses.