☉ Sun Ingress 2026

Sun Enters Scorpio

The season that asks: what are you still pretending not to know?

October 23, 2026  ·  ♏ Scorpio In 248 days

What Sun in Scorpio Means

Scorpio season begins on October 23, and the atmosphere changes. The light shifts. The air gets sharper. The easy warmth of early autumn gives way to something more primal and penetrating. Scorpio season isn't interested in your surface-level answers. It wants the truth beneath the truth, the feeling behind the feeling, the real reason you do what you do. This is the season when the zodiac goes deep, and anyone willing to go with it emerges changed.

In 2026, Scorpio season arrives with a unique intensity. Mercury retrograde begins in Scorpio on October 18, just five days before the season officially starts, adding a layer of introspection and review to an already inward-focused transit. Saturn and Neptune in Aries square the Scorpio Sun in ways that demand honest confrontation with fears, desires, and power dynamics. Meanwhile, Pluto in Aquarius forms a fixed-sign square, ensuring that this season's transformations are not optional.

The gift of Scorpio season (and it is a gift, even when it doesn't feel like one) is the freedom that comes from radical honesty. When you stop pretending, stop performing, and stop running from the parts of yourself you find uncomfortable, something remarkable happens: you become unshakable. Scorpio season 2026 is an invitation to look at whatever you've been avoiding, and discover that the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, is always less frightening than the effort of hiding from it.

How Sun in Scorpio Affects Your Sign

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Aries

Scorpio season activates your 8th house of shared resources, intimacy, and transformation. Financial matters involving others (investments, debts, joint accounts) demand attention. On a deeper level, this transit strips away pretense in your closest relationships. Emotional honesty, even when it feels risky, leads to trust and connection that surface-level interactions simply cannot provide.

Taurus

The Sun illuminates your 7th house of partnerships, sitting directly opposite your sign. Relationships reach a point of reckoning, not necessarily crisis, but honesty. Issues that have been avoided must now be addressed. Scorpio's intensity in your partnership house can feel overwhelming, but it also has the power to deepen bonds beyond anything superficial. Truth-telling is an act of love.

Gemini

Your 6th house of health, work, and daily habits is activated. Scorpio's penetrating energy reveals the hidden costs of habits you've maintained on autopilot. A health concern may surface that demands real attention. Work dynamics shift in ways that expose underlying power imbalances. A season for ruthless honesty about what's actually working in your daily life, and what's quietly depleting you.

Cancer

Scorpio season lights up your 5th house of creativity, romance, and self-expression. And as a fellow water sign, you feel this energy as a creative and emotional intensifier. Artistic work gains depth and psychological richness. Romantic connections become more passionate and all-consuming. Creative projects born during this transit carry a raw authenticity that moves people deeply.

Leo

Your 4th house of home, family, and roots is activated. Scorpio energy goes beneath the surface of family dynamics, potentially unearthing old patterns, secrets, or unresolved emotional inheritance. This can feel intense, but it offers the chance to heal family wounds at their source. Private, honest conversations with family members have the potential to change everything.

Virgo

Scorpio season activates your 3rd house of communication and thought. Your mental focus sharpens to a laser point. Research, investigation, deep study, and writing that requires psychological insight are all powerfully supported. Conversations cut deeper than usual. You have little patience for small talk and a strong instinct for what remains unsaid. Use this mental intensity for discovery, not obsession.

Libra

The Sun enters your 2nd house of income and self-worth. And Scorpio's energy forces a confrontation with your relationship to money, value, and power. Where are you giving away your power for the sake of harmony? Where are you accepting less than you're worth to avoid conflict? This season demands that you name your price, financially and emotionally, and hold the line.

Scorpio

This is your season. And in 2026 it arrives with Mercury retrograde already in your sign, adding an extra layer of introspection to your solar return. Use this potent combination to look honestly at who you've become and whether it matches who you want to be. Release what no longer serves your evolution. You have an extraordinary capacity for transformation, and this birthday season asks you to use it.

Sagittarius

Your 12th house of the subconscious and spiritual retreat is activated. Your pre-birthday quiet period. Scorpio's depth makes it especially powerful for shadow work, therapy, and spiritual exploration. Hidden fears and desires surface for examination. Dreams are intense and symbolic. Don't avoid what comes up. Sit with it. The psychological clearing you do now directly fuels the optimism of your birthday season.

Capricorn

Scorpio season lights up your 11th house of friendships, groups, and future visions. Social dynamics intensify. Power plays within groups may become visible, and friendships are tested by honesty. The connections that deepen during this transit are built on mutual trust and genuine vulnerability. A group goal or community project may reach a critical turning point.

Aquarius

The Sun activates your 10th house of career and public reputation. Professional dynamics intensify. Power struggles, hidden agendas, behind-the-scenes maneuvering may become visible. But so do opportunities for genuine authority and influence. Scorpio season rewards those who lead with authenticity rather than manipulation. Your career is changing. Let it.

Pisces

Scorpio season illuminates your 9th house of beliefs, higher education, and philosophical truth. And as a fellow water sign, this transit opens deep spiritual and intellectual channels. Your worldview is evolving in ways that require you to let go of comfortable illusions. A teaching, book, or spiritual experience during this period could fundamentally alter how you understand reality. Let the old beliefs die. The new ones are richer.

Frequently Asked Questions

When does Scorpio season start in 2026?

Scorpio season begins around October 22, 2026. It lasts approximately 30 days until late November. After Libra's focus on pleasant social interaction, Scorpio brings a dramatic shift toward emotional depth, transformation, and confronting what's hidden beneath the surface.

What does the Sun in Scorpio mean in astrology?

The Sun in Scorpio emphasizes intensity, psychological insight, and transformation. People naturally dig deeper, question surface appearances, and confront uncomfortable truths. Scorpio is traditionally ruled by Mars and modernly by Pluto, combining willpower with the drive to transform and regenerate.

Why does everything feel so intense during Scorpio season?

Scorpio doesn't do superficial. When the Sun moves through this sign, life demands more emotional honesty and depth. You may find yourself drawn to complex topics, intense conversations, or situations that require facing your shadow side. This intensity can feel uncomfortable, but it's also incredibly valuable for growth, healing, and clearing out what no longer serves you.

What should I avoid during Scorpio season?

Obsessive tendencies, power struggles, and the urge to control outcomes or people. Be cautious about jealousy, manipulation, or holding onto resentments. While Scorpio energy helps you see the truth, it can also tempt you to use that knowledge destructively. Channel the investigative power of this season toward self-understanding rather than trying to control others.

How can I make the most of Scorpio season?

Therapy, shadow work, research, and any process that requires going beneath the surface. Scorpio season is excellent for financial planning (especially shared resources), intimate conversations, clearing old emotional patterns, and investigating subjects in real depth. This is also a powerful time for releasing what no longer serves you, whether that's a relationship, a belief, or a way of being that has become toxic.

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