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A letter M whose final stroke continues upward and to the right as a straight arrow, the zodiac sign for births between 23 October to 21 November.
Also known as: Scorpio, Scorpio zodiac sign, Scorpio star sign
Scorpio is the zodiac sign traditionally assigned to births between 23 October to 21 November. Astrology classes it as a water sign of fixed quality ruled by Mars, and reads the glyph as a scorpion's raised sting. The sign no longer lines up with the constellation it is named after.
The astrological sign Scorpio, which tradition assigns to births between 23 October to 21 November. The dates shift by a day either way from year to year, because they track the Sun's position rather than the calendar.
Encoded at U+264F in the Unicode Miscellaneous Symbols block, alongside the other eleven signs.
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Classified in astrological tradition as a water sign of fixed quality, ruled by Mars.
A classification within astrology, recorded here as what the tradition holds. Symbolwise makes no claim that it describes or predicts anything about a person.
Modern astrology also assigns Pluto to Scorpio, which traditional astrology — written before Pluto's discovery in 1930 — could not.
The glyph is conventionally read as a scorpion's raised sting.
The sign and the constellation of the same name no longer coincide. Precession of the equinoxes has shifted them roughly one sign apart since the scheme was fixed around two thousand years ago, and the Sun's actual path crosses a thirteenth constellation, Ophiuchus, that the twelve-sign zodiac does not use.
A letter M whose final stroke continues upward and to the right as a straight arrow.
Astrological tradition assigns Mars as this sign's ruling planet.
Both are drawn from the letter M. Scorpio ends in a straight arrow; Virgo ends in a closed loop turning back across the letter.
Both belong to the twelve signs of the tropical zodiac.