Sabian Symbols · Scorpio · Degree 13 of 30
Scorpio 13°
The traditional symbol for this degree, one of the 360 Sabian symbols first recorded in 1925: “An inventor runs an experiment in the laboratory, testing an idea against reality.”
THE SYMBOL
“An inventor runs an experiment in the laboratory, testing an idea against reality.”
Scorpio 13° · 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
A hypothesis meets actual conditions, and the inventor is willing to be wrong in service of finding out what is genuinely true. Scorpio's investigative hunger takes a methodical, literal form here: not guessing, testing, and testing again if the first result disappoints, until the answer is real rather than merely assumed. There is real patience under the intensity, since a good experiment cannot be rushed into confirming what the inventor already hoped.
When a planet or point falls here
A planet here often shows a genuine appetite for rigorous testing rather than settling for untested theory. Uranus or Mercury can indicate real inventive capacity and comfort with a trial that might not work the first time.
What theory of your own are you still avoiding actually testing against reality?
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