Sabian Symbols · Scorpio · Degree 1 of 30
Scorpio 1°
The traditional symbol for this degree, one of the 360 Sabian symbols first recorded in 1925: “A crowded sightseeing bus moves through city streets, everyone aboard looking out at the same passing view.”
THE SYMBOL
“A crowded sightseeing bus moves through city streets, everyone aboard looking out at the same passing view.”
Scorpio 1° · Sabian symbols, devised 1925 (Marc Edmund Jones, clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler)
Remember to round up: a planet or point at 9°30′ takes the 10° symbol, not the 9° one.
What this degree describes
Scorpio's own reputation is all interiority, and yet its very first degree opens facing outward: a busload of strangers, riding together, watching the same city slide by through glass. Nothing here is private yet, nothing has been entered. This is Scorpio before it has gone anywhere alone, still taking in the surface of things the way any tourist does, one pass through a place that has not yet asked anything real of it. There is a quiet foreshadowing in the image too: a bus tour only ever shows the outside of a city, and this whole sign is about to spend twenty-nine more degrees getting off the bus and going in.
When a planet or point falls here
A planet at Scorpio 1 tends toward wide, unfocused awareness before any single fixation sets in, cataloguing a scene before choosing where to look closely. Mercury here often gives a broad, accurate first read of a room. The Moon can show sensitivity to shared atmosphere, feeling with a group before knowing anything individually and privately.
What are you currently watching pass by at a comfortable distance, that this sign is eventually going to ask you to get off the bus and enter?
Find your own Sabian symbols
Your Sun, Moon, Ascendant, and every planet each sit at their own exact degree. Cast a free natal chart to find yours, or let a full reading trace what they mean together.
Cast your free chart