Scorpio horoscope

From the Moon. This is the single biggest difference between a Vedic reading and the Western one most people have seen: Jyotish treats the Chandra rashi — the sign the Moon occupied at birth — as primary, and reads the Sun sign as a secondary indicator of vitality and standing. So a daily Scorpio rashifal is written for people whose Moon is in Vrishchika, not for people born between Oct 23 – Nov 21. If you know your Moon sign, read that one. If you do not, cast a free Kundli and it will tell you, along with your nakshatra.

Because there are two zodiacs and they no longer line up. Western astrology uses the tropical zodiac, which pins 0° Aries to the spring equinox; Vedic astrology uses the sidereal zodiac, which is fixed to the actual stars. The equinox drifts against the stars by about one degree every 72 years, and the gap has now opened to roughly 24 degrees — that offset is the ayanamsa. So tropical Scorpio runs Oct 23 – Nov 21 while sidereal Scorpio runs Nov 17 – Dec 15, and the Sun's actual entry into Vrishchika is Vrishchika Sankranti. Both sets are given on this page: the tropical dates because they are what you recognise, the sidereal ones because they are what the reading is computed from.

Mars — and only Mars. You will often see Scorpio given as ruled by Mars and Pluto, which is a modern Western attribution: Pluto was not discovered until long after the classical texts were written, and Jyotish works with nine grahas — the seven visible bodies plus Rahu and Ketu, the Moon's two nodes. Pluto is not among them, so nothing on this site computes anything from it. Mars owns Vrishchika, and it is Mars's condition in your chart that a Scorpio reading actually turns on.

Three, always. Vishakha (pada 4, ruled by Jupiter); Anuradha (all four padas, ruled by Saturn); Jyeshtha (all four padas, ruled by Mercury). The arithmetic is exact rather than approximate: 27 nakshatras of four padas each is 108 padas, and 108 divided among 12 rashis is nine padas per rashi with nothing left over. Vishakha is split across the boundary here, so two people can share it and sit in different rashis. Your nakshatra decides your Vimshottari dasha sequence, so it matters more for timing than the rashi does.

Fixed signs hold the middle of each quarter and correspond to the succedent houses. What is established from a sthira rashi is slow to begin and slow to end, which is why construction, long leases and anything meant to endure are timed to these signs. Vrishchika is one of the four sthira rashis, along with the three at 90, 180 and 270 degrees from it. In practice this is what an astrologer reads before anything else when choosing a muhurta, because it decides whether a thing started under that sign is likely to move, hold or repeat.