Scorpio Sun

October 23 to November 21

You notice things others miss, filing away details like someone keeping score.

What the Sun in Scorpio describes

The Sun in Scorpio becomes itself by going through rather than around. It is drawn to what is actually happening under a situation, and it has little patience for the version everyone has agreed to repeat.

Where you would notice it

It shows up in knowing something is wrong days before there is evidence, in how completely you commit once you have decided a person is yours to trust, in the long memory for the moment that trust was tested.

What it leaves out

This Sun says nothing about how much of that inner life is visible. The Ascendant does, and a Scorpio Sun behind an open, easy Ascendant is read by everyone as uncomplicated. The intensity attributed to this sign is often really the gap between what is felt and what is shown.

Scorpio in the chart

Element: Water
Modality: Fixed
Ruler: Mars, and Pluto in the modern reading

Mars is the classical ruler and the one the readings use, which puts the emphasis on will rather than fate. Pluto, the modern addition, is what later authors reached for to name the depth. Both are worth knowing, because a text that uses only one of them is describing a narrower sign than the one you have.

The Sun changes sign at a precise moment, and that moment shifts by up to a day from year to year. If you were born near either end of this window, only a chart computed for your date, time and place can say which sign it actually was.

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