Rāśi
Scorpio
Scorpio is the eighth sign, symbolised by the scorpion
See where Scorpio falls in your birth chart — the sign, house and nakṣatra it occupies.
Scorpio is the eighth sign, symbolised by the scorpion. It carries intensity, secrecy, and regeneration — probing, loyal, and transformed by crisis rather than broken by it.
Parashara describes Vrishchika as a fixed watery sign, female, brahmin in the classical listing, rising head-first, reddish-brown, dwelling in holes and crevices. Its lord is Mangala; Chandra is debilitated here at the 3rd degree; the classical seven take no exaltation in it.
— Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra ch. 4 (Rāśi Svarūpa)
A sthira jala-tattva sign ruled by Mars, hosting the Moon's debilitation (deepest 3°) — the emotional signature the sign is famous for. On the platform's node convention Ketu is both co-lord and exalted here. For Vrishchika lagna the Moon (9th lord) turns functionally precious despite her fall risk in the lagna, and the Sun–Moon pair carry the trine lordships, making the luminaries' strength the first thing to check.
Your placement is shown in the band above: this states where Scorpio falls in your chart and links each term to its page.
Interpretation — what the placement means for your life and timing — belongs to your personal reading, not the reference library.