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Mars in Scorpio

Mars in Scorpio is where Mars sat in the zodiac at the moment of birth, the part of a chart read for how you act, compete and get angry. Mars stays in a sign for six to seven weeks, up to seven months around a retrograde. Scorpio is a fixed water sign.

Of the 6,194 well-known people in StarMap's dataset, 535 have Mars in Scorpio for the whole of their birth date. Jean-Paul Sartre, Taylor Swift and Dmitry Medvedev are among them. Their commonest Sun signs are Scorpio (70), Capricorn (69) and Virgo (60); every Sun sign appears with Mars in Scorpio. 16 more were born on a day Mars moved into or out of Scorpio and are left out, because the hour decides and StarMap has no birth time for them.

Jean-Paul Sartre and Taylor Swift both have Mars in Scorpio.Is your Mars in Scorpio?Find out with the free Mars sign calculator

What Mars in Scorpio means

Read for how you act, compete and get angry. If this is your placement:

You act with focus and intensity, and your anger, when it surfaces, is controlled, cutting and hard to forget. The risk is holding on to a grievance well past its useful life. Your calm exterior gives little warning before a sharp response.

One placement is one part of a chart; the Sun, the Moon, the rising sign and the planets around them change how it plays out. Draw your whole chart to see the rest.

Famous people with Mars in Scorpio

All 535 people with Mars in Scorpio, A to Z

Mars in Scorpio, from last year to two years ahead

  • before the period shown to 4 November 2025
  • 2 September 2027 to 15 October 2027

Dates are UTC. A retrograde close to the sign boundary shows as two stays a few weeks apart; born between them, Mars was back in the sign before.

Questions people ask

How do I know if I have Mars in Scorpio?

From your birth date: the Mars sign calculator works it out from the real sky. Mars stays in a sign for six to seven weeks, up to seven months around a retrograde, so most birth dates settle it; on a day it changed sign, the time decides.

Which famous people have Mars in Scorpio?

Jean-Paul Sartre, Taylor Swift, Dmitry Medvedev, Mark Zuckerberg and Bruce Lee all have Mars in Scorpio. StarMap's dataset of 6,194 well-known people has 535 with it for the whole of their birth date, each with a birth chart.

When is Mars next in Scorpio?

Mars enters Scorpio on 2 September 2027 and leaves on 15 October 2027. It was last there until 4 November 2025.

More of Scorpio

Positions are computed from each person’s birth date and place with the astronomy-engine ephemeris, checked against Swiss Ephemeris. Birth data comes from Wikidata; a placement is listed only when it holds for the whole birth date, and a rising sign only with a birth time Astro-Databank records. Readings describe tendencies, for entertainment and self-reflection; StarMap predicts nothing. Every planet in every sign.

Photo credits (48 photos from Wikimedia Commons)

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