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Scorpio (Vrishchika) rashi
Scorpio is the sign of depth and intensity.
- Sanskrit
- Vrishchika (वृश्चिक)
- Symbol
- the Scorpion
- Element
- Water
- Mode
- Fixed
- Ruler
- Mars
- Sidereal span
- 210° to 240° of the zodiac
- Stars inside
- Vishakha, Anuradha, Jyeshtha
- Position in the order
- Sign 8 of 12
It is read as private, determined and perceptive, and associated with transformation, research and strong loyalties. Its shadow is secrecy and holding a grudge.
Scorpio is ruled by Mars. In a birth chart, the sign tells you where a planet sits, and the lord of the sign shows where that planet's influence travels. See the page on the lagna for how a sign becomes a house.
Water and fixed
Water signs (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces) are read as feeling and intuitive. They are the signs of emotion, memory and depth, and the texts link them with care and imagination, and with a tendency to absorb other people's moods.
Fixed signs (sthira) hold things steady. They fall in the middle of each season and are read as persistent, loyal and slow to change.
Mars also rules Aries, so the two signs share a lord in a chart. Mars is exalted in Capricorn (28°) and debilitated in Cancer (28°).
See it in your own chart
The terms on this page appear in every birth chart report, explained for your own planets and dates.