The eagle
The higher side
Thoughtful and reserved, drawn to high ideals, dignified in manner and proud, with the temper under complete control.
Scorpio
Rising
The Scorpio ascendant
Scorpio was coming up over the eastern horizon when you were born. The old books call it the sign of the eagle: a searching eye, a set jaw and a will that does not bend.
Scorpio rises today
Rising now
in
Scorpio rising
at a glance
RulerMars, and Pluto in modern astrology
Element and modeWater, fixed
Symbolthe scorpion and the eagle
Opposite, on the seventh houseTaurus
Time to rise each day in London
Your rising sign is the sign that was coming up on the eastern horizon at the minute and place you were born. Astrologers read it as the way you meet the world: the first impression, the manner, and in the older books the look of the body too.
With Scorpio there, the chart starts in a fixed water sign ruled by Mars. Taurus, its opposite, sits on the seventh house, the house of partners.
How Scorpio
rising looks
After Max and Augusta Foss Heindel, The Message of the Stars, 1918
- The face
- Angular, with the nose as the feature people notice first: strong and often curved, like an eagle's beak.
- The eyes
- Sharp and searching, under heavy brows.
- The jaw
- Firm and set. The Heindels read the eyes and the jaw as the sign's great determination.
- The hair
- Dark, with a reddish light that shows in the sun.
- The build
- Compact and sturdy, with a short, strong neck, much like Taurus, the opposite sign.
These are types, written a century ago. Planets close to the ascendant, and where Mars stands, change the picture, and pure types are rare.
Scorpio rising
personality
After the Heindels, chapters V and XIX
People with Scorpio rising stand up for their rights and do not accept being pushed around, though they can ride roughshod over others in turn. They worry about things that may happen and never do.
A sharp, stinging remark is never far from the tongue, yet the love is strong and the aims are high. The Heindels saw two natures pulling against each other here, and asked friends for patience with both.
In danger they do not flinch, and can be brave to the point of recklessness. The mind is sharp, cool and collected. Like all the fixed signs on the ascendant, it takes its time to reach a decision, and then holds to it.
The eagle
and the serpent
The Heindels write that Scorpio rising gives a dual type of mind, and gave each side its own animal.
The serpent
The hidden side
Shrewd and secretive, hard to read and slow to forgive, jealous and passionate, with a very sharp tongue and a fiery temper.
Questions
It depends on where you were born, because signs take different lengths of time to rise. In London Scorpio takes about 2 hours 50 minutes of every day to rise, more than the two-hour average, so it is a little more common there. In Sydney it takes about 1 hour 34 minutes, less than the two-hour average, so it is rarer there.
No. Being a Scorpio usually means the Sun was in Scorpio, which happens from late October to late November. Scorpio rises every day of the year for a few hours, so a person born in any month can have it.
Mars in traditional astrology, and Pluto in modern astrology. The ruler of the rising sign is called the chart ruler, and where it stands in your chart colours the whole reading.