Sabian Symbols · Scorpio · Degree 11 of 30
Scorpio 11°
The traditional symbol for this degree, one of the 360 Sabian symbols first recorded in 1925: “A drowning man is pulled from the water and saved just in time.”
THE SYMBOL
“A drowning man is pulled from the water and saved just in time.”
Scorpio 11° · 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
Crisis met by intervention, danger real enough that the outcome could genuinely have gone the other way. Scorpio knows something about being in over your head, about needing another hand to arrive at exactly the right moment rather than a moment too late. The degree does not pretend the near-loss was not real; it simply insists that the rescue, when it comes, is every bit as real as the danger was.
When a planet or point falls here
A planet here can indicate real experience of being helped through a genuine crisis, or of being the one who does the helping. Neptune or Mars here often shows someone who either once truly needed saving, or has become genuinely skilled at doing the saving for others.
Who pulled you out of water that was actually closing over your head, and have you actually thanked them for it?
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