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"  With smoky eyes and the piercing gaze of a raven, Scorpios&amp;#039; sex appeal is unmatched by any other zodiac sign. Maybe that&amp;#039;s why it&amp;#039;s seems so effortless for September ELLE cover girl Katy Perry (born October 25) to channel the va-va-voom allure of pin-up queen Betty Page. Perry may play up her erotic charms in the public eye, but she remains true to her sign&amp;#039;s deeply private nature. While her private life has been on display, from kiss-and-tell Gemini ex, Russell Brand, the clever Scorpio chanteuse rebounded quickly, taking back the control of her public image. Her self-funded feature documentary &amp;quot;Part Of Me&amp;quot; reveals an intimate (and hand-picked\u2014hello, Scorpio creative control) selection of vignettes from her life. It was a brave move indeed for any secretive Scorpio\u2014especially since Perry&amp;#039;s moon sign is also in Scorpio, doubling the intensity of her Plutonian prowess. Born in the year of the Rat (1984), she&amp;#039;s also gifted with shrewd business savvy. Her secret weapon? Perry&amp;#039;s rising sign (ascendant) in Libra, which hews the harsh Scorpionic edges into a sweet, saucer-eyed first impression. Venus-ruled Libra is the peacemaker, gifted with social graces, fashion-forwardness, and genuine likeability. Much like the whipped-cream foam she shoots out of a bright-colored bazooka at her concerts, Perry knows how to slay the audience with sweetness, turning them into sugar-coated disciples. Ophira took her 12-year-old stepdaughter to see &amp;quot;Part of Me&amp;quot; with raised eyebrow and left the theater an unlikely new superfan. Moved by the mystical, Scorpio is a spiritual sign prone to swinging between extremes. Who else could cut a gospel album as a deeply religious teen then go on to &amp;quot;kiss a girl&amp;quot; and become a gay icon in her early 20s\u2014all while keeping the faith? Running &amp;quot;Hot N Cold&amp;quot; is not unusual for this sign, as Perry proves. Scorpio, after all, is the sign of transformation\u2014the zodiac&amp;#039;s phoenix. Perry has crashed, free-fallen from grace (even having her car repossessed during one couch-surfing low point), only to rise higher with each rebound. Powerful indeed. On the fashion frontier, the jury is in: no one can wear black leather and lace like a smoldering Scorpio. Note the over-the-knee Tom Ford boots and the printed viscose dress with gathered mesh neckline from Etro. Perry wears both like a second skin in this issue, not to mention the spiky, dominatrix-y Versace leather and suede pumps. Meow! As for the purple-haired pop star&amp;#039;s astrological future? With maturing Saturn moving into Scorpio for three years this October 6, there will be a lot less fireworks ahead for her. Perry may kiss off the Hershey&amp;#039;s Kisses and candy-coated dreams in favor of more substantive fixes. Our prediction: In the months ahead, we&amp;#039;ll see the teenage dream ripen into a full-bodied woman\u2014and there&amp;#039;s nothing sexier than that. Go buy the ELLE September issue featuring Katy Perry on sale now! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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