Seven Days of Scorpio: Demotion, Tribute or Simple Truth?

One more love letter to Scorpio...

In western astrology, we observe the month of Scorpio from October 24-November 22 (mas or menos a day depending on the year). However, did you know the Sun only transits the Constellation of Scorpius for 7 days a year? It is the smallest constellation in the Zodiac; however, for the sake of convention and convenience, we omit its neighboring constellation, Ophiuchus the Sepent Bearer (the ONLY constellation of the Solar or Lunar Zodiac we don't use in modern western astrology) and assign its yearly span to tiny Scorpio.

However, when one takes into account the "Movement of the Ages" and Scorpio's true, small size, the truth is this: the actual timeline of the Sun's yearly transit through the CONSTELLATION of Scorpio vs the one which we currently observe-- its corresponding SIGN (ie what is traditionally, arbitrarily held to be "Scorpio time" in accordance with the now out-of-whack calculations of the Greeks thousands of years ago)-- has no overlap at all. NONE!!!

This means true Scorpios are born between November 23-29th.

This is particularly interesting when combined with the recent demotion of Scorpio's ruling planet, Pluto, (remember, Scorpios used to be governed by Mars before Pluto was discovered, and are often stlll considered to be co-ruled by Mars) to "dwarf planet" status by astronomers, because it's so much smaller than Earth, Venus, etc. See October's "Who Rules Scorpio" post for more info.

I wonder if Scorpios who are aware of these facts feel they are getting a cut in astrological/planetary status? I doubt it.

I actually think the opposit is more likely to be true. Scorpios are the most compelling, hypnotic personalities in the Zodiac. True Scorpions are uncommon because they truly ought to be-- otherwise, they would radically dominate the rest of us... more than they already do, that is. In that respect it makes perfect astrological sense that the "planet" Pluto and Constellation of Scorpius happen to be smaller than the others, for, as everyone knows:

It's not the size of the Scorpion that counts, it's the power of his or her sting.

It's a shame most of them think they are Sagittarians!!!!!!!


xo,

Sybilla