Scorpio Sun: Only 3 Possible Mercury Signs and 5 Venus Signs — How Often Each, Every Hour of Scorpio Season 1980–2009
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If your Sun is in Scorpio, your Mercury and Venus signs are not free. Mercury always stays close to the Sun, and Venus a little less close. So a Scorpio Sun limits them to a short list.
We checked every hour of Scorpio season from 1980 to 2009 (21,527 hours) with our chart engine.
Mercury with a Scorpio Sun
| Mercury sign | Share of Scorpio-season hours |
|---|---|
| Scorpio | 58.2% |
| Sagittarius | 24.3% |
| Libra | 17.5% |
Mercury was never more than 24.4° from the Sun in this sample, so it could not reach Virgo or Capricorn.
Venus with a Scorpio Sun
| Venus sign | Share |
|---|---|
| Scorpio | 30.2% |
| Libra | 24.5% |
| Sagittarius | 23.7% |
| Capricorn | 11.5% |
| Virgo | 10.1% |
Venus reached up to 47.3° from the Sun, which is enough for Virgo on one side and Capricorn on the other, but never Leo or Aquarius.
All 15 combinations
Three Mercury signs times five Venus signs gives 15 possible pairs, and all 15 occurred:
| Mercury + Venus | Share |
|---|---|
| Scorpio + Scorpio | 19.8% |
| Scorpio + Libra | 14.5% |
| Scorpio + Sagittarius | 13.4% |
| Sagittarius + Libra | 6.3% |
| Sagittarius + Capricorn | 5.8% |
| Sagittarius + Sagittarius | 5.4% |
| Libra + Scorpio | 5.3% |
| Scorpio + Virgo | 5.3% |
| Scorpio + Capricorn | 5.2% |
| Sagittarius + Scorpio | 5.1% |
| Libra + Sagittarius | 4.8% |
| Libra + Libra | 3.7% |
| Libra + Virgo | 3.2% |
| Sagittarius + Virgo | 1.6% |
| Libra + Capricorn | 0.5% |
A Scorpio with Mercury in Libra and Venus in Capricorn is the rarest pair: Mercury behind the Sun and Venus far ahead of it at the same time.
It depends heavily on the year
Which signs are possible in a given year is set by where Mercury and Venus were in their cycles. Some examples from the 30 years:
| Year | Mercury signs during Scorpio season | Venus signs |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Scorpio only | Scorpio only |
| 1993 | Scorpio only | Libra, Scorpio |
| 2002 | Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius | Scorpio only |
| 2006 | Scorpio only | Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius |
| 2008 | Libra, Scorpio | Sagittarius, Capricorn |
In 2026, every hour of Scorpio season has Mercury in Scorpio, because Mercury's retrograde loop keeps it there from September 30 to December 6. Venus, retrograde too, sat in Scorpio for only the first 32 hours of the season (October 23 at 09:41 UTC to October 24 at 17:58 UTC) and is in Libra for the rest. So a Scorpio born in 2026 almost always has the pair Mercury Scorpio + Venus Libra.
What the numbers do and don't tell you
These shares are astronomy: how much of the time each pair was in the sky. They are not birth statistics, since births are not spread evenly over the hours, and we did not count actual births. What a Venus in Libra Scorpio is like is an interpretation that these numbers cannot test. This is a calculation, not a reading of you.
How we calculated: apparent geocentric longitudes of the Sun, Mercury and Venus from the public-domain formulas in our chart engine (Meeus; NASA/JPL low-precision orbital elements), sampled every hour of 1980–2009 while the Sun was between 210° and 240°. Hours near a sign change can fall either side by a few minutes.
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