Part of Fortune in Scorpio: Meaning and Ruler

A Scorpio Fortune gives Mars responsibility for the livelihood. The favorable reading is force held long enough to accomplish difficult work; the difficult reading is a fight that keeps consuming property. Scorpio’s fixed quality can make either pattern persistent.

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Schulman's modern sign reading uses Ascendant + Moon − Sun for every chart. Augurine reverses Fortune at night, so his Fortune for a night birth falls where this site places the Lot of Spirit. If you were born at night, read his interpretation for your Lot of Spirit sign, or treat it as the modern day-formula tradition. His construction appears on pages 12 to 16 of Joy and the Part of Fortune; the index explains the formula choice.

Correspondences

Sign
Scorpio
Element
Water
Modality
Fixed
Traditional ruler
Mars
Day formula
Ascendant + Moon − Sun
Night formula
Ascendant + Sun − Moon

Sexuality and dismantling belong to the modern reading

Schulman includes sexuality and regeneration in his modern Scorpio interpretation. His building image requires tearing down an old structure before another can stand on the site. The pleasure can be in dismantling itself, with the opposite Taurus point offering rest and contentment.[2]

This gives the sign reading an appetite for change. Letting an obsolete arrangement fall can feel liberating, even when its replacement has yet to take shape. The bodily side of his account includes sexual intensity.

Mars has to hold what it wins

Command can become costly under Mars, whose significations include the loss of goods and anger between friends as well as skilled work with iron.[1] Earning and defending a living can demand courage. The danger is that defending the claim becomes more costly than the claim itself.

At a night birth, Mars is in its own sect, so its force is generally easier to handle.[1] A dignified Mars with benefic testimony favors disciplined action. A damaged Mars with hostile testimony gives the harsher reading: conflict consumes earnings and puts the body under strain.

Sources and Editions

  1. Vettius Valens, Anthology. Mark T. Riley translation, Book I, chapter 1, p. 1; Book II, chapter 2, p. 26.
  2. Martin Schulman, Karmic Astrology, Volume III: Joy and the Part of Fortune (1978), pp. 72 to 74.

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