Sun in Scorpio
As the autumn leaves turn and the season of long shadows arrives, Scorpio’s sun sign comes to life. Their planet is Pluto, their element is water, and they are at home in the Eight house of the Zodiac.
People born between October 23 and November 22 are represented by the Scorpion, a symbol of the power to deal a fatal sting to those who betray their trust. Scorpios are constantly observing others—sizing up people, situations, and careers—as they’re extraordinarily perceptive. They’re also very clever—you can barely outwit a Scorpio! And they enjoy their privacy. It can be hard to break through their mask; this kind of control gives them power.
Scorpios are complex and hard to understand. They possess a combination of empathy and deep, intuitive insight. What’s just out of sight or beyond mortal touch is fascinating to a Scorpio. They can be magicians or private investigators and phenomenally entice you by holding your attention immediately. They can be protective and skeptical, so you must prove yourself to them. Of all the water signs, this one is very, deeply sensitive. Getting to know one could take a lifetime.
Ready to plumb the depths of the Scorpio psyche? Read on to uncover the rich layers of energies, symbols, planetary influences, personality, quirks, and compatibility of this intense and mysterious force of nature.
Scorpio Symbolism and Meaning
Scorpio is represented by the scorpion. The scorpion symbol meaning is fitting, as like Scorpio, this predatory arachnid represents dominance, defense, rebirth, and transformation. Scorpions are nocturnal, and despite their fearsome reputation, even the deadliest scorpions will only sting as a last resort to protect the future of the species, and in doing so give up their own lives. An evolved Scorpio only resorts to its stinger when faced with existential threat.
Scorpio is also represented by the serpent or snake, as well as the phoenix, both symbols of transformation. The snake regularly sheds its skin in a process of transformation and renewal, and it’s a powerful symbol of sexual energy as well as mystical wisdom. The phoenix rises from the ashes of defeat to overcome darkness and destruction, and like Scorpio, will never give in to failure.
Scorpio Season, Element, and Mode
Scorpio Season is influenced by its Element, Water, and its Mode, which is Fixed. If you are a Scorpio, you’ll experience these forces acting directly upon your personality, and if you’re not a Scorpio, you’ll benefit from the energy of Scorpio Season supporting you in your endeavors.
Scorpio Season
Welcome to Halloween and Scorpio Season! This is the time when the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest, a time known for spirit visitations, apparitions, astral travel to other dimensions, and ever-darkening days. In a season ruled by Pluto, planet of transformation, and heavily influenced by Mars, planet of action and desire, expect the energy to feel like a quiet yet seismic shift below the surface. Scorpio Season harnesses perception and determination to fearlessly sift through artifice, lies, and superficiality till raw buried truth is revealed in the rubble. Scorpio never cares about appearances; it’s always all about the truth below the surface.
Scorpio Season is a season that feeds intensity and passion. Tap into its sexual energy and act on your repressed desires, or let its passionate energy lead you to engage with other people and the world in new, deeply intimate ways. Scorpio season brings with it a fixed energy that may cause you to hold onto opinions, decisions, or grudges a bit more tightly than usual, or you may find that your emotional reactions are more intense and on edge. It’s a good time to tap into Scorpio’s fearlessness and challenge the status quo – Scorpio will always seek the truth, even the darkest truth.
Everyone can benefit from the energy of Scorpio Season, by refusing to accept what you truly deserve and desire. In Scorpio Season, you’re called to dig deep into your soul to fearlessly ask the questions and then act on the truths you discover within.
Scorpio Element
The passionate intensity of Scorpio could be confused with Fire, but its quality is actually quite different and even at odds with Fire. Scorpio’s element is water, and like the ocean or a mighty river, it is dark and moves deep below the surface, guided by powerful tides or currents. Water eschews the flashiness of Fire, which it will extinguish in any battle of wills.
Even when water appears calm at the surface, there is movement below – an entire world hidden from sight. The saying “still waters run deep” aptly describes Scorpio. Scorpios are blessed with the gift of seeing the essence and depths of what others can’t fathom, but they prefer to keep their own emotional world below the surface, choosing if and when they reveal some of its mystery to others.
The Element of water represents emotion, and emotions are not meant to stagnate but to flow freely. Scorpio will resist being contained. Water teaches us to experience the emotion – however intense – and to let it go. Water enables Scorpio to face the darkest of emotions without fear, and the deeper Scorpio goes, the more transcendent and rewarding the experience.
Scorpio Mode
Scorpio mode is Fixed, meaning that it starts mid-season. Although Scorpio is ruled by water, an energy that encourages emotional flow, Scorpio’s Fixed mode puts them at odds within themselves. Scorpios want to release and let go, but their fixed mode encourages them to resist the flow: they tend to stand firm and not let go, even when they want the release.
The gift of the fixed mode is consistency; its weakness is inflexibility. Scorpios can stubbornly hold grudges or negative emotions for years. The flip side of this quality is that they can harness incredible focus and determination to meet their goals and powerful resilience when faced with adversity. They remain true to their goals and their commitments.
Scorpio Ruling Planet
Pluto, the planet of transformation, is the ruler of Scorpio. This wasn’t always the case; before Pluto was discovered astrologers identified Mars as Scorpio’s ruler. In truth, the influence of Mars is a part of the Scorpio DNA, but Pluto gives shape to Scorpio’s soul. Pluto propels Scorpio’s inner journey. Pluto guides Scorpio through periods of depression, breakups, deaths that may be metaphoric as well as real. Scorpio’s subconscious mind longs for transformation, spiritual awakening, and rebirth. As much as Mars compels Scorpio to be ambitious and successful in the world, Pluto rejects ego and superficiality, guiding Scorpio towards the power of love as the most transforming force of the cosmos.
In astrology, Pluto is a feminine planet, and it governs what is hidden and mysterious with an alluring mystique. Situated far from the sun, it’s comfortable in the darkness. In Mythology, Pluto was God of the Underworld, with a decidedly male energy but equally dark and mysterious. In Scorpio, Mars comes in as the gatekeeper to the inner emotional landscape governed by Pluto, offering some protection (defensiveness) to Scorpio’s emotional sensitivity. Mars also provides the force and drive that allows Scorpio to act on Pluto’s creative and regenerative potential to turn endings into even better beginnings.
Scorpio Ruling House
The Eighth House of the zodiac symbolizes death, rebirth, the subconscious, the deepest level of intimacy, and sex. Pluto is closely associated with these forces, as well as all the things in life many are afraid of or prefer not to see, but which hold the greatest potential because of their power to end an old way of being and create something better in its place.
Born with the Sun in the Eighth House, Scorpio is both fated and best equipped to grapple with core issues, personal demons, karmic forces, and soul level work. Like the Goddess Persephone who goes to live in the Underworld to emerge in Spring, so too will Scorpio need to make time and space for deep, soul-level work. Psychic information seeps into Scorpio’s consciousness through dreams and flashes of intuition, hinting at past life lessons and replaying karmic struggles. Scorpio’s Ruling House will also compel the merging with others on all levels – from the emotional and sexual, to the financial, to the psychic, leaving it up to other planetary influences to dictate how Scorpio manages the tension between connection and separation.
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