November 3 zodiac sign
By November 3 the Sun has reached about 10° Scorpio and usually entered the second decan, where Pisces and its ruler Jupiter add imagination to Scorpio’s steady focus.
Sun signScorpio
- Sun at 9°–13° Scorpio
- 2nd decan · Jupiter (modern: Neptune)
November 3 in profile
Middle degrees show a sign at its most typical, and 10° is where Scorpio settles into itself. The second decan belongs to Pisces, the next water sign, with Jupiter as traditional sub-ruler and Neptune as the modern one. The result is a softer, more intuitive Scorpio: still private, still watchful, yet more ready to forgive. In some years this date sits right on the decan line, so a little first-decan sharpness can remain. They read moods in a room the way other people read headlines.
At home they are the keeper of family memory. They know which cousin is not speaking to which aunt, and why. They host small, careful gatherings rather than large loud ones, and the guest list is quietly curated. Childhood rooms, old photographs and inherited recipes matter to them more than they admit. If a relative is struggling, they are often the first to notice and the last to mention it.
Communication is careful and layered. They write a message, delete half, then send the shorter version. In conversation they listen longer than most and pick up what was left unsaid. The Jupiter side brings warmth and occasional long, meandering stories once trust is established. The useful habit is saying the obvious thing too, such as “I missed you”, because the people around them cannot always read between the lines.
Scorpio all day
In every year from 1930 to 2040 the Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 3, 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 3 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 3 in recent years, from 00:00 to 23:59 UTC (an arrow means it changed sign during the day).
- 2017Aries → Taurus
- 2018Virgo
- 2019Capricorn → Aquarius
- 2020Gemini
- 2021Libra
- 2022Pisces
- 2023Cancer
- 2024Scorpio → Sagittarius
- 2025Aries
- 2026Leo → Virgo
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. For a November 3 birthday, in the Pisces decan, Pisces is a natural match. The full charts decide how a real pairing feels.
A gift for a November 3 birthday
A restored family photograph, framed, or a small printed book of old family pictures with captions they can fill in themselves.
Asked about November 3
What zodiac sign is November 3?
November 3 is Scorpio in every year: the Sun is at about 9°–13° Scorpio that day, in the sign’s 2nd decan.
Is November 3 a cusp birthday?
No. The Sun is well inside Scorpio on November 3. 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 3?
November 3 falls in the 2nd decan of Scorpio. In the triplicity system we use, that decan belongs to Pisces and its ruler Jupiter (modern: Neptune), which colours the Scorpio Sun with a little of Pisces. In some years the Sun crosses into the next decan during the day.
Your birthday is only the Sun
A November 3 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.