A sign · Scorpio · 210° to 240°

The three decans of Scorpio.

The Sun is in Scorpio about 23 October to 22 November each year, ten days in each of its three decans. The Golden Dawn gave each decan a numbered card, so a Scorpio birth is one of three: the Five, Six and Seven of Cups, depending on the day. Which one is yours is below, with the planet that rules it and what the tradition reads into a birth there.

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The Sun, now☉ 1.8° Libra, Two of Swords

Death from the 1909 Waite-Smith tarot, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith — Deaththe card of Scorpio

Which decan of Scorpio am I?

Five of Cups, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith, 1909

Five of CupsScorpio I · Mars · 0° to 10° · Lord of Loss in PleasureBorn about 23 October to 2 November

Mars at home in Scorpio. The old reading is intensity that keeps score of what was lost, and rarely looks at what is left.

Six of Cups, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith, 1909

Six of CupsScorpio II · Sun · 10° to 20° · Lord of PleasureBorn about 2 to 12 November

The Sun in Scorpio. The old reading is loyalty to the past, and a memory that gives old things back with both hands.

Seven of Cups, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith, 1909

Seven of CupsScorpio III · Venus · 20° to 30° · Lord of Illusionary SuccessBorn about 12 to 22 November

Venus in Scorpio, in its detriment. The old reading is a rich imagination with a taste for the one cup it cannot see into.

The boundary between decans moves by a day or so from year to year, so a birthday on the edge can fall either side. The birth card page settles it from an ephemeris rather than a table.

Which tarot cards are Scorpio?

Death, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith, 1909 — **Death**the sign itself

Knight of Cups, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith, 1909 — **Knight of Cups**Scorpio I and II

King of Wands, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith, 1909 — **King of Wands**Scorpio III, and into Sagittarius

Six, in the Golden Dawn's scheme. Death is the card of the sign itself. The Five, Six and Seven of Cups are its three decans. And two court cards hold thirty degrees each across it: the Knight of Cups over Scorpio I and II, and the King of Wands over Scorpio III and the first two decans of Sagittarius. A reading here that turns any of them says so.

Why a sign has three cards and not one

A decan is ten degrees of the zodiac, a third of a sign, and there are thirty-six of them around the year. Book T (1888) gave one to each numbered card of the minor arcana, which is the whole reason a card can carry a date. All thirty-six · where the Sun is today · who rules each decan, in both orders.

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