Intensity without a mask: magnetism, total loyalty, a taste for the depths of things, and a need for control.
The Sun rises in Scorpio: an intensity without a mask, which goes to the bottom of everything and comes back transformed.
Passing through the heaviest crises without breaking, and helping others to do the same.
Demanding all or nothing, and slamming the door for good at the first hint of disloyalty.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
At the dawn of November, the stinger and the Sun rise together: fixed, receptive water, ruled by Ares among the ancients, by Pluto among contemporaries.
The person appears reserved, focused, magnetic; they speak little, listen intensely, and their rare sentences go straight to the heart of the subject. One often has the impression that they know more than they say. Their calm hides a vigilance of every moment.
This intensity is a considerable strength. The person fears neither crises nor taboo subjects; they know how to accompany a loved one through an ordeal, untangle a complicated family matter, and lift a company back from the brink. Their friendships are few, but unfailing. Their capacity for transformation impresses: they can start over entirely, change their life, be reborn from a failure. What they promise, they deliver.
Lacking a counterweight, each quality quickly turns to excess. With no other sign to temper it, wariness becomes suspicion, passion possession, memory grudge; a perceived betrayal brings a definitive break. The person controls a great deal, their emotions and sometimes other people. Taurus in the west would offer the antidote: peaceful, sensual partners who show the value of the simple and the lasting.
For the double Scorpio, love is lived in full: fusion, passion, absolute faithfulness.
Neither lukewarmth nor lies are bearable. Taurus in the west would bring them across stable, warm people who calm their storms without fearing them. Their simplicity may seem bland, then becomes a precious refuge. Learning to trust without checking everything would be the condition of a lasting bond that can breathe.
Investigation, research, finance, psychology, crisis management, archaeology, business turnaround: the person excels wherever one must go to the bottom of things.
They keep a secret, hold up under pressure, and transform what no longer works. Colleagues consult them when everything is going wrong. The pitfall would be suspecting everyone and wanting to master every detail, to the point of exhausting their teams. They are often the last to leave the ship.
Few guests, a sober home charged with meaning, deep reading, demanding hobbies: daily life is intense and protected.
The person likes nights, mysterious places, deep water, dark music, Russian novels. Their private life remains jealously guarded. Regularly sharing a light moment with a few close people, a picnic, a board game, would lighten this permanent intensity. They choose their friends as one chooses a treasure.
With Scorpio holding both the horizon and the Sun, Mars becomes their sole lord according to ancient doctrine, and the strongest of the rulers if he accompanies the Sun.
The authors distinguished this nocturnal Mars, withdrawn and obstinate, from the diurnal Mars of Aries. Pluto, identified in 1930, was associated with it by 20th-century astrology.
The November dawn sees the sign rise with the Sun. The Sun is thus in the 1st house, which the Hellenes gave as the joy of Hermes: there one read temperament and the course of life. A Sun rising in its own sign would pass for the figure of a whole character, without mask or detour.
The Sun sign depends on the day of birth; the rising sign, on the time and place.
Scorpio takes about 2 hr 45 min to rise in Paris: with the Sun in Scorpio, the rising sign is Scorpio for a birth during that rise.
A water sign, fixed, ruled by Mars and Pluto (modern).
The Scorpio signA water sign, fixed; descendant in Taurus.
Scorpio risingMars rules Scorpio: its place in the chart (sign, house) colors the rising sign.
The page of Mars| Sun in Scorpio | Scorpio rising | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| October 25Start of the sign | 7:21 AM to 10:06 AM | 2 hr 45 min |
| November 7Middle of the sign | 6:30 AM to 9:14 AM | 2 hr 45 min |
| November 20End of the sign | 5:39 AM to 8:23 AM | 2 hr 45 min |
Legal time in Paris; elsewhere, latitude and longitude shift these times. The rising sign calculator takes them into account.
The Sun was in Scorpio and that sign was rising in the east: the birth took place at daybreak. Intensity, depth, and reserve reign within as without. Clichés readily darken it; the Moon and the other planets nuance it considerably. Every real chart remains unique.
The person has a long memory, it is true, and a betrayal marks them lastingly. But tradition also associates Scorpio with transformation: capable of breaking off, they are also capable of being reborn and of forgiving, once trust is restored. The rest of the chart would weigh heavily in the balance.
Ares for the ancients, Pluto for contemporaries: they are the common rulers of the Sun and the horizon. Ares’s placement would describe the exercise of will; Pluto’s, a very slow planet, would count mainly through its sector. Together they would tell how crises are passed through.