Scorpio zodiac sign: dates, traits, love and career

Scorpio falls in the middle of the northern autumn and is the fixed water sign. People born under Scorpio are often intense, private and determined, with deep feelings they do not show easily.

Scorpio at a glance

The dates follow the Western (tropical) zodiac. The Sun changes sign at a different hour each year, so if you were born around 23 October or 21 November, the exact sign depends on your birth year, time and place.

Scorpio traits and nature

In short: Scorpio people tend to be intense, private and determined. They do well when they learn to trust and to let go of old hurts.

Scorpio people usually look beneath the surface. They want to know the real reason behind things, keep secrets well and give their full attention to whatever they take up.

Trust matters greatly to them. Once given it is lasting; once broken it is hard to win back. Learning to forgive and to let go is often their deepest lesson.

Strengths

• Focus and willpower
• Loyalty
• Insight into people
• Courage in hard times
• Keeping a confidence

Things to watch

• Jealousy
• Holding grudges
• Secrecy that shuts people out
• All or nothing thinking

Element, modality and ruling planet

Scorpio is a water sign. Water signs are commonly linked with feeling, intuition and close bonds. The other water signs are Cancer and Pisces.

It is a fixed sign. Fixed signs sit in the middle of a season and are said to hold steady and finish what they start. The other fixed signs are Taurus, Leo and Aquarius.

Its traditional ruler is Mars; since the outer planets were found, modern Western astrology also names Pluto as its ruler. Its opposite sign is Taurus, often read as its complement.

Scorpio in love and compatibility

In love Scorpio is usually deep, loyal and protective, and wants a bond that is honest at every level. Light flirting means little to them. A partner who is sincere and can handle strong feelings suits them best.

The table reads the match with all 12 signs by a common rule: the same element and complementary elements (fire with air, earth with water) read as easy, signs a square apart as tense, and signs that share nothing as mixed.

This is a general guide from the sun signs alone. How two people get on shows in their full birth charts; in India, marriage matching uses the Moon sign and nakshatra in Kundli milan. Kundli matching by date of birth · Love calculator

Scorpio career themes

Fields commonly linked with Scorpio: Research and investigation, Medicine and surgery, Psychology, Finance and insurance, Crisis work, Detective and security work.

These are tendencies of the sun sign as commonly described, not predictions. Your rising sign, Moon and the other planets shape each person far more than the sun sign alone.

Western Scorpio and the Vedic sign

Western astrology uses the tropical zodiac, tied to the seasons: Aries always begins at the March equinox. Indian astrology uses the sidereal zodiac, tied to the stars, which now sits about 24° behind (the Lahiri ayanamsa). That is why most people’s Vedic sun sign is the sign before their Western one.

In 2026 the Sun enters sidereal Vrishchika rashi on 16 November. So of the people born 23 October to 21 November, those born 23 October to 15 November have the Sun in Tula (Libra) in Vedic astrology, and those born 16 November to 21 November have it in Vrishchika. These are the Sankranti dates.

Your Indian rashi (janma rashi) is a third thing: the sign the Moon was in at your birth. The Moon changes sign about every two and a quarter days, so it needs your date, time and place of birth: use the rashi calculator.

More on this site

• Scorpio horoscope: today, weekly, monthly and yearly
• Zodiac sign calculator: by date of birth, with cusp days flagged
• Rashi calculator: your Vedic Moon sign
• Vrishchika rashi (the Vedic Scorpio)
• Scorpio tarot card

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