What zodiac sign is October 25?

Sign

Scorpio

Element

water

Ruling planet

Pluto

Decan

first

Decan sub-ruler

Scorpio (Pluto)

Sign dates

October 23 – November 21

October 25 falls in the first decan of Scorpio, with Scorpio (Pluto) as sub-ruler.

Unlike the later Scorpio decans, softened by Pisces' dreamy compassion or Cancer's protective nurturing, the first decan is undiluted Plutonian will. Their secrecy never yields to the second decan's vulnerable confessions or the third decan's emotional clinginess. They probe with clinical precision where other Scorpios might intuit or empathize, remaining the uncompromising investigator. They meet the world with a gaze that strips pretense, their self-containment contrasting sharply with the second decan's longing for mystical union and the third decan's craving for domestic sanctuary.

Transformation for them is solo willpower, not the second decan's mystical surrender or the third decan's gradual emotional evolution. Strategists who turn secrets into power, they never drift into fantasy like the Pisces decan or retreat into moodiness like the Cancer decan. Their inner command center grants an authority that later decans, seeking fusion or safety, often compromise.

Decans divide each sign into three parts of about ten days. Because the Sun does not enter a sign at the same moment every year, people born on the first or last day of a decan may belong to the neighbouring one.

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