Sun in Scorpio
What Sun in Scorpio means, the traditional facts behind it, and when the Sun is actually in Scorpio.
What Sun in Scorpio means
Your Sun in Scorpio draws identity toward depth — you want what is real underneath the surface and commit fully once you trust. Scorpio is a water sign, so intensity and honesty feel truer to you than easy small talk.
A sign placement reads the same in every house system.
These interpretations are drafted with software assistance and edited by our writers. Astrology is a symbolic language, not a science — take what's useful and leave the rest.
The sign: Scorpio
- Element
- Water
- Modality
- Fixed
- Polarity
- Yin: inward, receptive
- Ruler
- Mars (traditional), Pluto (modern)
Essential dignity
The Sun holds none of the four major dignities in Scorpio: no rulership or exaltation, no detriment or fall.
The four major dignities, from Ptolemy's table as Lilly gives it (1647).
When the Sun is in Scorpio
The Sun is in Scorpio every year from about October 23 to November 22. The exact moments this year and next:
| Enters | Leaves |
|---|---|
| Oct 23, 2026, 09:38 | Nov 22, 2026, 07:23 |
| Oct 23, 2027, 15:32 | Nov 22, 2027, 13:16 |
Times in UTC, to the minute.
See where the Sun falls in your own birth chart
How this page is made
Sign facts and dignities follow the traditional tables; dates come from our own ephemeris engine. Exact about the astronomy, honest that astrology is a symbolic language.