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• Scorpius as portrayed by Urania's Mirror
• Image credit: Wikipedia

• Of course, there's a moral to this timeless tale, often overlooked by people of great beauty and inherent ability. Our talents are given to us by the gods. To appreciate these gifts, and to make good use of them, repays our debt to the gods. But to brag about, or to abuse a god-given endowment is to incur the gods' displeasure.
• This story - almost certainly - could only have originated in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere, New Zealanders see Orion climbing into the eastern sky in the wee hours before dawn right now - and at the same time, see the Scorpion's stinger stars jutting up into the southwest

sky. Not too surprisingly, many native Polynesians associate a different story with the constellation Scorpius, viewing its graceful J-shaped curve of stars as a Magic Fishhook.
• Look tonight, as the bright waxing gibbous moon closely pairs up with Antares, the Scorpion's heart, tonight.
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