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The star in this constellation is it's brightest and most well known, Antares, which is right at the heart of Scorpio. Antares means "The Wounding" which is precisely what the scorpion is designed to do, wound  and kill.

The aother bright star in this constellation is in the tail and it is known by the name Lesath, which means "The Perverse". It signifies Satan's perverse nature and how he would rebel against God.

So here we the blueprint of Satan's battle with Christ. The serpent throughout scripture has been attacking Christ. For example the Pharaoh tried to destroy all of the children of Hebrews in order that the line leading to the Messiah would be cut off. Athaliah destroyed all the royal seed of Israel, but the kings son wasresecued.  In the book of Esther, Haman tried to destroy all of the Jews, and yet he wasput to rout by Esther and they were saved. Again at Bethlehem, Herod killed all the babies under two years of age in an attempt to destroy the Christ child.  Yet each of these attempts were halted.

So now we move on to the decans in the house of Scorpio. First there is Ophiuchus, which simply means in Greek "The Serpent-Holder". It portrays a great man struggling with a giant serpent , who is trying to reach up and grasp the crown.

Coming out of Arabic into the Greek the name Ophiuchus is Aesculapius. Aesculapius was a greek god and son to Apollo. He was a god-man.  According to Greek mythology he was a healer and brought back the dead by means of blood taken from the side of the goddess of justice. He suffered death from lightnings of heaven, but was raised from the death to glory through the influence of his father Apollo.

Amazing how even Greek mythology paints the portrait of Christ's death and resurrection for you.  Here Christ endures in his soul and body the infinite penalty an wrath of God, but he was not left in the tomb; He was raised to glory, so that he could heal the nations by defrauding the tomb with his victory.