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Enigmatic Scorpio Sun as creative muse
Eight Scorpio Sun women, and the depth, intensity and transformation they brought to art, science, ideas and music.
The lowdown
Meet the Scorpio Sun muses
The Sun moves through Scorpio from around 23 October to 22 November. Scorpio doesn’t skim the surface. It goes straight to the bottom of things, to the places most people would rather not look, and comes back with what it found.
Every woman here did exactly that. Each went down into something, a canvas, a laboratory, a song, a truth no one wanted told, and came back with work that changed the room.
Three of them even share a birthday: Lorde, Joni Mitchell and Marie Curie were all born on 7 November.
The way down
How the Scorpio Sun helps you find your way in the world
When the Sun sits in Scorpio, depth becomes identity. You find your way by going down, not around: into the feeling, the question or the work that others avoid.
These women show what that looks like in practice. None of them took the shortcut. All of them came back changed, and they changed what came after them.
Art · Mysticism
Hilma af Klint
Born 26 October 1862 · Birth time unknown
She painted what she couldn’t see: spirals, petals and geometry received in séances and meditation, years before abstract art had a name. Then she hid it, and asked that it stay unseen until twenty years after her death.
Scorpio knows the power of what’s kept back. The world is still catching up with her.
Feminism · Truth
Nawal El Saadawi
Born 27 October 1931
Egyptian physician, psychiatrist and novelist. She wrote about female genital mutilation when almost no one would, lost her government post for it, and was imprisoned in 1981 for her writing.
She kept writing anyway: in prison, she wrote her memoir on toilet paper with an eyebrow pencil. She died in 2021, having spent a lifetime saying what was forbidden to say.
Fashion · Power
Anna Wintour
Born 3 November 1949 · Birth time unknown
She led American Vogue from 1988 to 2025, and for most of that time she was the most powerful person in fashion.
She says little, reveals less, and watches everything from behind the dark glasses. Scorpio power is quiet power.
Music · Mystery
Lorde
Born 7 November 1996
From Auckland, she released “Royals” at sixteen and became a global voice before she was old enough to vote.
She writes about growing up, grief and the body with a stillness that feels like looking into deep water. Between albums she disappears, and each time she comes back changed.
Nine questions. Nine muses. Find the one who is showing you the way.
Art · Vision
Georgia O’Keeffe
Born 15 November 1887
She looked closer than anyone else: a single flower filling the whole canvas, a bleached bone against the desert sky.
She left the New York art world for the New Mexico desert, and built a life, and a body of work, entirely on her own terms. With her Ascendant, Sun, Moon, Mercury and Jupiter all in Scorpio, she is Scorpio through and through.
Music · Feeling
Joni Mitchell
Born 7 November 1943
Blue, released in 1971, is still one of the most emotionally exposed records ever made: songs that go to the bottom of feeling and stay there.
She has remade her sound again and again, from folk to jazz and beyond, and painted most of her own album covers. Her Sun and Mercury both sit in Scorpio, in the house of creation.
Science · Truth
Marie Curie
Born 7 November 1867
She went into the hidden heart of matter. With Pierre Curie she discovered polonium and radium and coined the word “radioactivity”.
She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and is still the only person to win in two different sciences. Scorpio’s drive to uncover what’s hidden, turned on the atom itself.
Music · Transformation
Björk
Born 21 November 1965
Rising sign, Sun and Moon, all in Scorpio. She remakes her sound, her image and even her instruments with nearly every album, and she has never once done the expected thing.
From Debut to Fossora, every record goes all the way through a change, and comes out the other side as something new.
Your resonance
Which Scorpio Sun muse moves you?
Each of these women shows a different face of Scorpio: the mystic, the truth-teller, the power broker, the poet of feeling, the scientist, the shapeshifter.
The one you’re drawn to says something about where your own depths are calling you. Notice her. Then go and find out where Scorpio sits in your chart.
