Cast & Chart

Rising sign

Scorpio rising

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

In an older source

Scorpio, physically speaking, rather delights in extremes.

Evangeline Adams, Astrology: Your Place in the Sun (1928)

About this entry

A compact, powerful body appears in all the older descriptions. Lilly 1659 sees a strong body with a broad or square face, Sepharial 1920 a thick and powerful one, and Adams 1928 deep-set eyes with a fixed look of thought. Raphael's Guide 1877 is sharply hostile about character, in a passage that belongs to its time.

Adams also admits that neighboring Sagittarius can impinge on the type, and the hour of birth therefore decides which description even applies. Only a recorded time can do that. Modern popular astrology gives this rising a magnetic reserve, a mood that takes the deep-set eyes of Adams and adds mystery of its own.

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