Cast & Chart

Placement

Sun in Scorpio

A chart describes tendencies in a symbolic tradition. It cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.

In an older source

in this sign there appears to be more scope for extremes of character than in any other

Alan Leo, Astrology for All (1899)

About this entry

Scorpio divides the old authors more sharply than most signs. Alan Leo 1899 says it allows a wider range of character than any other and writes of two contrasting types within it, in harsh moral language that this page sets aside. Adams 1928 calls it comparatively simple to treat, because its planet and its nature agree.

Both Ptolemy (Ashmand's 1822 translation) and Lilly 1659 make Scorpio a house of Mars, and Lilly hands the water signs to Mars at every hour. The Sun gets only a face here, degrees 11 through 20 in his list. Adams adds that no planet is exalted in the sign.

Modern books often name Pluto as Scorpio's ruler. That assignment has no source among the writers read for this site, and Pluto was found only in 1930. Heindel 1918 says little on this Sun beyond a remark that it brings out the sign's better side.

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