Scorpio Season 2026: First Day, Exact Time and What It Brings

When does Scorpio season start in 2026?

Scorpio season 2026 starts on Friday, October 23, when the Sun enters Scorpio at 09:38 UTC. It ends on November 22 at 07:23 UTC, when the Sun enters Sagittarius. October 23 is the first day of Scorpio season in every major time zone from the Americas to Australia. Only in Hawaii (11:38 pm HST) and American Samoa does the ingress still fall on the evening of October 22.

What is happening

Scorpio season is the stretch of autumn in the northern hemisphere when the Sun moves through the sign of depth, intimacy, shared resources and transformation. In 2026 the Sun crosses 0 degrees of Scorpio at 09:38 UTC on October 23 and leaves for Sagittarius at 07:23 UTC on November 22.

Every Scorpio season asks the same question: what are you avoiding looking at directly. This one asks it louder, because the two personal planets that govern love and communication are both moving backward through the same sign while the Sun is there.

The sky · Oct 24, 2026

The sky on October 24, 2026

A zodiac wheel of the ten planets at 8:00 am ET (12:00 UTC) on October 24, 2026, computed from the ephemeris. Sun at 1 degrees 6 minutes Scorpio; Moon at 9 degrees 9 minutes Aries; Mercury at 20 degrees 59 minutes Scorpio, retrograde; Venus at 0 degrees 32 minutes Scorpio, retrograde; Mars at 14 degrees 45 minutes Leo; Jupiter at 23 degrees 21 minutes Leo; Saturn at 9 degrees 47 minutes Aries, retrograde; Uranus at 4 degrees 56 minutes Gemini, retrograde; Neptune at 2 degrees 15 minutes Aries, retrograde; Pluto at 3 degrees 5 minutes Aquarius. Tight aspects within 3 degrees: Sun conjunct Venus, Moon conjunct Saturn, Neptune sextile Pluto, Uranus trine Pluto, Sun square Pluto, Mercury square Jupiter, Venus square Pluto and Uranus sextile Neptune.

The sky on October 24, 2026

Each glyph points to its exact degree on the ring. Lines join planets in a tight aspect: green-grey for trines and sextiles, red for squares and oppositions. Replay to watch the ten days before this moment: the Moon sweeps a third of the wheel while the outer planets hardly move.

• Sun1°06′ Scorpio
• Moon9°09′ Aries
• MercuryRx20°59′ Scorpio
• VenusRx0°32′ Scorpio
• Mars14°45′ Leo
• Jupiter23°21′ Leo
• SaturnRx9°47′ Aries
• UranusRx4°56′ Gemini
• NeptuneRx2°15′ Aries
• Pluto3°05′ Aquarius

Tight aspects

• Sun conjunct Venus · 0°34′
• Moon conjunct Saturn · 0°38′
• Neptune sextile Pluto · 0°50′
• Uranus trine Pluto · 1°51′
• Sun square Pluto · 1°59′
• Mercury square Jupiter · 2°22′
• Venus square Pluto · 2°33′
• Uranus sextile Neptune · 2°41′

›Every planet's position

Planet	Sign	Degree	Motion
Sun	Scorpio	1°06′	direct
Moon	Aries	9°09′	direct
Mercury	Scorpio	20°59′	retrograde
Venus	Scorpio	0°32′	retrograde
Mars	Leo	14°45′	direct
Jupiter	Leo	23°21′	direct
Saturn	Aries	9°47′	retrograde
Uranus	Gemini	4°56′	retrograde
Neptune	Aries	2°15′	retrograde
Pluto	Aquarius	3°05′	direct

›Tight aspects (within 3°)

Aspect	Orb
Sun conjunct Venus	0°34′
Moon conjunct Saturn	0°38′
Neptune sextile Pluto	0°50′
Uranus trine Pluto	1°51′
Sun square Pluto	1°59′
Mercury square Jupiter	2°22′
Venus square Pluto	2°33′
Uranus sextile Neptune	2°41′

Computed from the real sky with the Natal Junction ephemeris (tropical zodiac, geocentric). Dates in US Eastern time.

The exact moment in your time zone

Two clock changes fall inside the season. The UK returns to GMT on October 25 and North America leaves daylight time on November 1, so the later dates below are given in standard time.

Every date that matters in Scorpio season 2026

Scorpio season start dates, 2024 to 2030

Scorpio season does not start on the same date every year. The Sun reaches 0 degrees of Scorpio about six hours later in the calendar each year and each leap year pulls it back by most of a day, so the start moves between October 22 and October 23. These are the exact moments, computed with the ephemeris that powers our charts:

Am I a Libra or a Scorpio if I was born on October 22 or 23?

It depends on the year and the minute you were born, not on a fixed calendar line. Someone born on October 23, 2026 before 09:38 UTC is a Libra. Someone born after it is a Scorpio. The same rule applies to every year in the table above. Our free birth chart reading computes your Sun's exact degree from your birth date, time and place, which settles a cusp birthday for good.

What it means now

Scorpio is a fixed water sign ruled by Mars in the old system and Pluto in the modern one. Where Libra season weighed and balanced, Scorpio season commits and merges. The themes are intimacy, shared money, debt, inheritance, sex, power, secrets and the kind of ending that clears the ground for something real.

Astrologers read the collective mood in late October as tightening, a theme of saying the thing held back in the Libra weeks. Under a double retrograde they read that tendency as turning backward as well as inward: the thing said is often an old thing, a truth from months or years ago that finally finds words.

In the tradition, Scorpio is read as a sign that reveals rather than forces: what is hidden surfaces in its own time, and the question is how you meet what is actually there rather than what you feared or hoped was there.

Why this Scorpio season is different: two retrogrades in the sign

Venus stationed retrograde at 8 degrees of Scorpio on October 3, so by the time the Sun arrives Venus has already spent three weeks reviewing love, money and desire in this sign. On October 24, the day after the ingress, retrograde Venus passes directly between the Earth and the Sun at 0 degrees 45 minutes of Scorpio. Astrologers call this the inferior conjunction and treat it as the heart of the retrograde: the moment an old attachment is seen clearly and either released or renewed on new terms.

Four hours later Mercury stations retrograde at 20 degrees 59 minutes of Scorpio. So within one day of the season opening, both the planet of love and the planet of communication are moving backward in Scorpio. Astrologers read conversations about intimacy, shared money and buried history as running in reverse until both planets turn direct on November 13.

The last time Venus retrograded through Scorpio and Libra was October and November 2018. If a relationship or financial question from that autumn is still unresolved, astrologers read this season as one that reopens it.

The Hunter's Moon square Pluto

The Full Moon on October 26 falls at 2 degrees 46 minutes of Taurus, opposite the Sun at 2 degrees 46 minutes of Scorpio. It is the Hunter's Moon, the first full moon after September's Harvest Moon, and both the Sun and Moon square Pluto at 3 degrees of Aquarius within a third of a degree.

Astrologers read that as the emotional peak of the season. Taurus asks what actually makes you secure, Scorpio asks what you have merged with someone else and Pluto asks what you are afraid to lose. The themes are money, ownership and control, often surfacing through a conversation avoided since the spring. Astrologers read the square as a reckoning rather than a war.

Halloween and the Samhain point

Halloween on October 31 finds the Sun at 8 degrees of Scorpio with the Moon waxing in Cancer, both retrogrades still running. The festival's origin, Samhain, marked the midpoint between the autumn equinox and the winter solstice. Astronomically that midpoint is the Sun at 15 degrees of Scorpio, which in 2026 arrives on November 7, two days before the Scorpio New Moon. The astrological Samhain, in other words, is a week later than the calendar one, and it sits right on the season's fresh start.

The Scorpio New Moon and the double direct station

The New Moon at 16 degrees 53 minutes of Scorpio on November 9 is read as the cleanest moment of the season for a new intention, with one caveat: Mercury and Venus are still retrograde for four more days. Astrologers read the New Moon and the double direct station as one turn: Mercury turns direct at 10:54 am Eastern on the 13th and Venus follows at 7:27 pm. Astrologers read the second half of November as the close of the review, a theme of knowing what you value and what you mean.

The rulers: Mars in Leo and Pluto direct

Mars, Scorpio's traditional ruler, spends the entire season in Leo, and on November 16 it meets Jupiter exactly at 25 degrees 53 minutes of Leo. Astrologers read it as the most energetic day of the month, a burst of confidence and appetite, and two days later the Sun squares both planets from 26 degrees of Scorpio. The tradition reads the theme of November 18 as overreach: the big promise, the grand gesture, the purchase that felt brilliant at the time.

Pluto, the modern ruler, turned direct at 3 degrees of Aquarius on October 15, which astrologers read as the deep, structural changes of the year moving outward again just as the Sun enters Pluto's sign. The Full Moon and the ingress both square it. Astrologers read power and who holds it as a live question all month.

Questions for this season

In the tradition, Scorpio season is read as the descent of the year: a month for what lies beneath the surface rather than what is on display, for closing old financial and emotional accounts and for the truth held back in the Libra weeks. With Venus and Mercury both retrograde until November 13, astrologers read this one as a review of love, money and old history, with the Scorpio New Moon on November 9 as its intention point.

• What truth has been waiting under the surface since the Libra weeks, and what would it mean to say it plainly?
• If the Hunter's Moon square Pluto touches money or control, what would a reckoning look like rather than a war?
• If a person or a question from the autumn of 2018 comes back into view, what does it show you about who you are now?
• When the Mars and Jupiter high of November 16 to 18 arrives, which part of the feeling is a plan and which part is appetite?