Scorpio is the sign of intensity: a taste for secrecy, the ability to go through a crisis and come out transformed, an emotion lived in depth rather than on the surface. A planet in Scorpio acts with force and restraint at once.
A Venus in Scorpio, for example, loves with an intensity that is far from superficial; this principle of depth applies to any planet found there, not just the Sun.
Element: Water. Modality: Fixed. Ruler (domicile): Mars, in the classical seven-planet system. Opposite sign: Taurus. Natural house: 8 (crises, inheritances, what is shared or transformed).
The Moon is in fall here: lunar gentleness and the need for security express themselves poorly, thwarted by the sign's intensity. No classical planet is in exaltation here.
Modern (20th-century) astrology conventionally assigns the co-rulership of Scorpio to Pluto — see the Pluto entry for this convention, distinct from the classical dignities.
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