Eclipses in Scorpio
Scorpio's eclipses come around November and around May: solar ones with the Sun in the sign, lunar ones with the Moon full in it. Every one from 1900 to 2100, dated and placed.
Scorpio eclipses at a glance
An eclipse in Scorpio means the eclipsed body stood between 0° and 30° of Scorpio. Solar eclipses in Scorpio fall from October 23 to November 22, with the Sun in the sign; lunar ones from late April to mid May, when the Moon is full in Scorpio and the Sun is opposite in Taurus. Scorpio is thin on total solar eclipses, 8 in the two centuries, the fewest of any sign; the most recent was Nov 3, 2013 and the next is Nov 14, 2031.
- Total solar eclipse
- 8
- Annular solar eclipse
- 13
- Partial solar eclipse
- 16
- Total lunar eclipse
- 17
- Partial lunar eclipse
- 8
- Penumbral lunar eclipse
- 13
The earliest in the span is the annular solar eclipse of at 29°33′ Scorpio, and the latest is the partial solar eclipse of at 1°34′ Scorpio. The most recent total solar eclipse in Scorpio before 2026 was on at 11°15′; the first from 2026 on is at 22°17′.
Upcoming eclipses in Scorpio
The eclipses in Scorpio from January 2026 onward, in UTC. The list is split at the year boundary rather than at today's date so it stays put for twelve months, which means its first row can already have happened.
The will, the loan, the conversation ten years overdue: that is what people with a planet near an eclipse degree in Scorpio tend to report. Astrologers file the shared and the hidden under Scorpio, joint money, debt, sex, death, the thing nobody at the table mentions, and read an eclipse there as the unmentioned thing arriving at the table. At the lunar ones the Sun is opposite in Taurus, and the argument is about what is mine and what is ours.
| Date (UTC) | Kind | Degree of Scorpio |
|---|---|---|
| Penumbral lunar eclipse | 16°31′ | |
| Total solar eclipse | 22°17′ | |
| Total lunar eclipse | 6°00′ | |
| Partial solar eclipse | 11°21′ | |
| Partial solar eclipse | 12°58′ | |
| Partial lunar eclipse | 25°27′ | |
| Annular solar eclipse | 2°01′ | |
| Penumbral lunar eclipse | 27°06′ |
Every eclipse in Scorpio, 1900–2100
All 75 of them, by decade. Each degree links to the Cycle Lab query for that point of the zodiac, so you can see what else has ever stood there.
The partial solar eclipse of Oct 25, 2022, at about 2° Scorpio, returns annular on Oct 25, 2041 within an arc-minute of the same degree. That is the Metonic cycle, 19 years to the day, and the catalogue holds 633 such pairs with a mean drift of 0.24°. The Saros, 18 years and 11 days, does something different: each step moves the eclipse about 10.79° forward, so a Saros series takes roughly three steps to cross Scorpio and then leaves it.
1900s (5 eclipses)
1910s (4 eclipses)
1920s (5 eclipses)
1930s (3 eclipses)
1940s (4 eclipses)
1950s (2 eclipses)
1960s (4 eclipses)
1970s (2 eclipses)
1980s (4 eclipses)
1990s (3 eclipses)
2000s (3 eclipses)
2010s (4 eclipses)
2020s (3 eclipses)
2030s (4 eclipses)
2040s (4 eclipses)
2050s (5 eclipses)
2060s (3 eclipses)
2070s (5 eclipses)
2080s (3 eclipses)
A solar eclipse is listed by the Sun's own sign. A lunar eclipse is listed by the sign of the eclipsed Moon, which is always opposite the Sun, so a lunar eclipse shown here in Scorpio happens with the Sun in Taurus. Positions are apparent geocentric ecliptic longitude for the equinox of date, the tropical position an astrologer reads. I store each instant in the shared catalogue floored to the hour, so the UTC date is exact and no time of day is shown. The catalogue is published under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: AstroCalcs, eclipses in Scorpio 1900–2100, https://astrocalcs.com/eclipses-in-scorpio/ (CC BY 4.0).
Eclipses in the other signs
The same tables for each of the twelve signs, from the same catalogue, so a degree that looks busy here can be checked against its neighbours.
- Eclipses in Aries
- Eclipses in Taurus
- Eclipses in Gemini
- Eclipses in Cancer
- Eclipses in Leo
- Eclipses in Virgo
- Eclipses in Libra
- Eclipses in Sagittarius
- Eclipses in Capricorn
- Eclipses in Aquarius
- Eclipses in Pisces
To search one degree rather than a whole sign, use Cycle Lab, which runs the same catalogue in your browser and shows how busy every other degree is by comparison.
Eclipses in Scorpio: questions
What does an eclipse in Scorpio mean?
Astrologers treat an eclipse as a new or full Moon with the volume turned up, and read one in Scorpio through what they file under Scorpio: shared money, debt, sex and death. They give it most weight when it lands within a few degrees of a planet or angle in a birth chart. The astronomy is plainer: an eclipse is a new or full Moon that falls close to a lunar node. Every degree is in the tables above.
When is the next eclipse in Scorpio?
Counting from January of the year this page was built, the first eclipse in Scorpio is May 7, 2031 (penumbral lunar eclipse, 16°31′). I split past from upcoming at a year boundary rather than at the build date so the list stays put for twelve months; the price is that its first row can already have happened. The rows after it sit in the upcoming table above, and the decade tables hold every eclipse in Scorpio from 1900 to 2100.
How often do eclipses fall in Scorpio?
75 times between 1900 and 2100, 37 solar and 38 lunar. Not evenly, though: they come in runs. Each eclipse season falls about 19 days earlier than the year before, which walks the eclipsed degree back through the zodiac by roughly 19 degrees a year, so Scorpio collects eclipses in a cluster of about eighteen months, then waits years for the next cluster. And an eclipse usually returns to nearly the same degree, on nearly the same date, 19 years later.
Which sign is a lunar eclipse in?
The Moon's. At a lunar eclipse the Moon is full, so it stands opposite the Sun, and a lunar eclipse listed here in Scorpio happens with the Sun in Taurus. Astrologers name it the same way, as a full Moon in Scorpio. The catalogue follows suit: I record the longitude of whichever body is eclipsed, the Sun for a solar eclipse and the Moon for a lunar one. The lunar eclipses that have the Sun in Scorpio are on the Taurus page.