Sabian Symbols · Scorpio · Degree 16 of 30
Scorpio 16°
The traditional symbol for this degree, one of the 360 Sabian symbols first recorded in 1925: “A girl's face breaks slowly into a smile.”
THE SYMBOL
“A girl's face breaks slowly into a smile.”
Scorpio 16° · 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
An internal shift becoming visible in real time, feeling surfacing plainly on the face before words have caught up to explain it. Scorpio usually guards its expressions with real care; this degree offers something rarer, an unguarded moment where whatever is happening inside simply shows, unfiltered and warm, without the sign's customary management of what gets seen.
When a planet or point falls here
A planet here often shows real capacity for spontaneous, unguarded warmth breaking through an otherwise careful exterior. Venus or the Sun can indicate genuine, visible delight that does not get held back once it arrives.
What is currently breaking, slowly, into a smile in you, whether or not you have let anyone else see it yet?
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