November 1 zodiac sign
On November 1 the Sun stands at about 8° Scorpio, still inside the first decan, where Mars rules both the sign and the decan and Scorpio’s focus comes through undiluted.
Sun signScorpio
- Sun at 7°–11° Scorpio
- 1st decan · Mars (modern: Pluto)
November 1 in profile
Early Scorpio is the sign at its most concentrated, before experience has taught it to hide the effort. The first decan is Scorpio’s own, so Mars (and, for modern astrologers, Pluto) acts as both ruler and sub-ruler. In some years the Sun on this date is already brushing the edge of the second decan, but the core stays raw and watchful. A November 1 Scorpio notices who is lying in a room within minutes and rarely says so out loud.
Under stress they go quiet rather than loud. The phone goes face down, the reply comes a day late, and every detail of the problem is quietly mapped before anyone else knows there is one. Friends mistake the silence for calm. In fact the Mars side is fully awake, choosing which battle matters and dropping the rest without comment.
At work they prefer one hard problem to ten easy ones. Give them an audit, a broken process or a client nobody else can handle, and they will stay late without being asked. Shared credit is fine; shallow effort from colleagues is not. The useful habit is to say early, in one sentence, what they are working on, so that their intensity reads as commitment rather than secrecy.
Scorpio all day
In every year from 1930 to 2040 the Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 1, in every time zone. This is not a cusp birthday: the nearest changes of sign fall around October 24 and November 21.
Your Moon sign depends on the year
The Sun is in the same place on November 1 every year; the Moon is not. It changes sign every two and a half days, so people who share this birthday can have any of the twelve Moon signs. Here is where it was on November 1 in recent years, from 00:00 to 23:59 UTC (an arrow means it changed sign during the day).
- 2017Pisces → Aries
- 2018Leo
- 2019Sagittarius → Capricorn
- 2020Taurus
- 2021Virgo → Libra
- 2022Aquarius
- 2023Gemini → Cancer
- 2024Scorpio
- 2025Pisces
- 2026Cancer → Leo
Compatible signs for a Scorpio
Sun-sign compatibility starts from the element. Scorpio gets on most easily with its own element and with the two sextile signs, and feels the strongest pull from its opposite. The full charts decide how a real pairing feels.
A gift for a November 1 birthday
A good notebook with a lock or an elastic strap, paired with a fountain pen: a private place for the plans they prefer not to discuss yet.
Asked about November 1
What zodiac sign is November 1?
November 1 is Scorpio in every year: the Sun is at about 7°–11° Scorpio that day, in the sign’s 1st decan.
Is November 1 a cusp birthday?
No. The Sun is well inside Scorpio on November 1. The cusp days, when the Sun changes sign, fall around October 24 and November 21. Astrology has no blended cusp signs anyway: at any moment the Sun is in one sign.
What decan is November 1?
November 1 falls in the 1st decan of Scorpio. In the triplicity system we use, that decan belongs to Scorpio and its ruler Mars (modern: Pluto), which colours the Scorpio Sun with a little of Scorpio. In some years the Sun crosses into the next decan during the day.
Your birthday is only the Sun
A November 1 birthday tells you where the Sun was. The Moon, the Rising sign and eight more planets each sit somewhere of their own, and they depend on the year, the hour and the place. The free calculator shows all of them.