Sign 8 of 12 · Tropical zodiac
Scorpio
Scorpio is a fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars. Continuity through emotional commitment. The emphasis is on sustained involvement, privacy and questions of trust.
Find Scorpio in my chart- Element
- Water
- Modality
- Fixed
- Traditional ruler
- Mars
- Zodiac longitude
- 210° to <240°
Read Scorpio through the planet
A sign describes a style of expression. The planet supplies the subject. A Sun reading concerns identity; a Moon reading concerns emotional needs and familiar responses.
Sun in Scorpio
Sun in Scorpio is associated with committing fully to something that matters. That can mean pursuing a difficult question long after an easy answer stops satisfying you. The challenge is knowing when commitment has become a need to control the outcome.
Read the full Sun in Scorpio guideMoon in Scorpio
A Scorpio Moon is associated with needing trust before sharing private feelings. Watching whether someone keeps a small confidence can matter more than hearing a promise. Protecting yourself becomes harder to distinguish from testing someone when reassurance never feels sufficient.
Read the full Moon in Scorpio guideScorpio rising
The Ascendant describes the zodiac degree rising at the eastern horizon. In a reading, it concerns personal presence and the approach to unfamiliar situations. A birth time and location are needed to calculate it.
With Scorpio rising, Mars is the traditional chart ruler. Its sign and house connect the rising-sign interpretation with another part of the chart.
Modern astrology also associates Scorpio with Pluto. Astriel uses Mars in its traditional ruler calculations.
Find my chart ruler and its placementA worked comparison
The same sign, different questions
A Scorpio Sun concerns chosen commitments and the use of personal power. A Scorpio Moon concerns the experience of emotional exposure. Someone can speak openly about a demanding professional aim while taking time to discuss a private disappointment. Read the houses before treating those situations as one pattern.
These are illustrative interpretations, not facts inferred about you.
Every planet in Scorpio
Choose the placement listed in your birth chart. Each guide explains its meaning and how houses or aspects change the reading.
Find the rest of the context
A sign label is one part of a placement. Read it alongside the planet, house and aspects. These describe different chart relationships.
The degree range, with an example
A longitude of 225° is 15° Scorpio. At exactly 240°, the next sign, Sagittarius, begins.
Every tropical sign spans 30°. The signs are equal coordinate divisions; the astronomical constellations have different boundaries.
Read the calculation methodsPlacidus houses with Scorpio rising
The Ascendant degree in Scorpio starts the 1st Placidus house. Its end and the remaining cusps depend on the exact birth time and location.
Read the calculated house list rather than counting one sign per house. A sign can appear on consecutive cusps or sit inside a house without starting one.
Read Placidus boundaries and house topicsRelated signs and chart angles
Cancer and Pisces share the water element. Taurus is opposite Scorpio in zodiac order.
Matching degrees in opposite signs are 180° apart. Exact degrees and the permitted orb decide whether two placements form an aspect.
Sign categories do not provide a relationship score. A two-person comparison needs the placements in both charts.
Understand aspects and orbs · Compare two chartsWhen a birth time or sign boundary is uncertain
Calendar date lists are approximate. Near a Sun-sign boundary, the year and birth time can change the answer. If an uncertain birth period includes a sign change, Astriel shows the alternatives.
Unknown birth time leaves the Ascendant and houses unavailable. The available planetary signs remain in the result.
Calculate my Sun, Moon and rising signSources and reading limits
Elements, modalities and rulers are astrological conventions. They do not establish a measured personality profile or predict an event.
The symbolic explanations follow Astriel's editorial astrology reference and the linked placement guides. Worked comparisons illustrate the reading method.
Classification references: elements, modalities and traditional and modern rulerships. Degree examples follow the tropical zodiac. House teaching uses calculated Placidus cusps.
Sky calculation: apparent geocentric ecliptic of date; tropical zodiac. Ephemeris: astronomy-engine 2.1.19. Computed 2026-11-03T13:28:50.967Z.