2021 Scorpio Horoscope Preview

2021 Scorpio Horoscope Preview: Your Year Ahead

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Scorpio Horoscopes, Year 2021: Summary/preview of the year ahead for the zodiac sign Scorpio.

The following forecast is for those born with the Sun in Scorpio (born approximately from October 23/24 to November 22/23)* and those born with a Scorpio Ascendant.**

2021 Scorpio Horoscope Overview

The following is an overview horoscope for the zodiac sign of Scorpio the Scorpion for the year 2021. This forecast outlines the key areas of Scorpio’s life that will expand, grow, and improve, as well as those that require change, transformation, new approaches, and simplification. See also the full Scorpio Yearly Horoscope for 2021.

(Click on any sign above to navigate to that sign’s preview horoscope).

Areas of Expansion in 2021 for Scorpio:

Your Scorpio 2021 Horoscope points to areas of life that are destined to expand, improve, and grow.

Home
Family
Sense of Security/Safety
Creativity & Children
Leisure & Entertainment
Self-Expression
Romance

Until May 13th, 2021, and then July 28th-December 28th, 2021, you continue to enjoy an influence that boosts your personal life, family, or home experience. This influence lasts for most of the period from December 2020 to December 2021 (with the exception of May 13 to July 28, 2021).

Depending on your personality and unique circumstances, this transit can manifest in a variety of ways:

You are more confident about your family, living arrangements, and living conditions. While this is a rather domestic transit, relationships with anyone you feel especially connected with emotionally can benefit.

You are comfortable with your position, and you may be building loving and secure connections with others.

There can be special attention to the comfort and beauty of your home or a stronger desire to connect with your roots. There is a stronger ability to bounce back from problems.

Your inner world, family life, domestic activities, and domestic arrangements expand and grow. Relations with family can be especially pleasant and supportive. You might move to a new home, likely a bigger one, or expand real estate holdings. Some of you can get a mortgage or support that allows you to expand your home base.

The family itself can expand, or there might be an addition to your home. Some might take on a roommate for example, or bring more friends to their home. Others might pool resources with a partner and move in together. Entertaining in the home can be emphasized if that is something that makes you happy. Otherwise, you can experience a stronger sense of peace and privacy in your home life.

Because Jupiter is the natural ruler of your solar second house of resources, you may be investing more money or resources into improving your home or family life during this trend. Homelife may be more comfortable, and you can be quite security-conscious at this time in your life. In some cases, there can be income related to home products and the home itself, or working in/from the home.

Generally speaking, positive energy is brought to your domestic world, and long-standing problems with family might be put behind you.

Do be careful about overextending yourself with home improvements, or larger accommodations that are beyond your means.

Your personal life tends to overshadow your professional life or material activities during this cycle. Relationships with family can improve significantly now, although pre-existing problems might be magnified initially.

This can be a good time to set up a home business or for home studies. On a more psychological level, confidence in yourself and feelings of security increase during this period.

Potential problems: Excessive money spent on home improvement, too much emphasis on the home to the point that other areas of your life suffer, or some unwillingness to expand your horizons. Avoiding or escaping responsibilities may be a problem from time to time. You may be wanting to please too many people, and overdoing things leaves you exhausted, as it seems there is never enough time and energy to meet all your needs.

There can be issues, at times, when your need for emotional or psychic space interferes in a close relationship, or family and partnership can be draining you as they seem to clash at times, most likely in January. In early 2021, erratic experiences or ups and downs in your relationship world could impact your basic sense of security.

However, this influences overlaps with one that is mentioned below (in the Areas of Contraction section) that helps stabilize you. You want to improve these areas of life, and it seems the best way to do so, with this concurrent influence, is to simplify. You can do some hard work getting things straightened out, but you find some joy in so doing. The desire to improve your life from the very base is compelling now.

For the most part, you are likely to feel emotionally secure and supported during this cycle. This is a time of nest-feathering. It’s a strong time for psychotherapy and purging as you are willing to look at the root of problems. It’s also a good time for long-term financial planning and strengthening your financial picture.

There can be more power and resources available to you to establish yourself, especially through a home or property, but also for long-term business endeavors. This is a time of working hard on or around the home, but you’re enjoying yourself as you do!

From May 13-July 28, 2021, and then from December 28th onward, your creative, playful, and romantic side begins to expand, develop, and blossom. This is a powerful time for self-expression, new forms of entertainment, and romantic explorations.

This influence spans three date ranges, and we’re on the first wave this year:

from May 13-July 28, 2021,
from December 28, 2021-May 10, 2022,
and from October 28, 2022-December 20, 2022

It may sound complicated, but it just means that you’re experiencing these themes in steps, starting this year from May to July.

Your focus is now on having a fun time, enjoying life, and expressing yourself in freeing, rewarding ways. Your romantic and creative worlds grow and expand. Your desire to express your unique side and creativity increases. You are learning to express yourself playfully and creatively without apology, and you are more willing to take some personal risks along the way!

Romantic opportunities tend to abound during this cycle; or chances to kick back and have fun, express yourself in unique ways, and pursue hobbies and entertainment are abundant. Creatively speaking, you can be filled with ideas and plans for realizing a dream.

This can be a fertile time on many levels, including physically and emotionally. Note that this influence is associated with casual dating and exploring romantic possibilities more so than binding or committed relationships.

This enhancing, supportive influence is also strong for good fortune with finances, income, personal possessions, sense of security, comfort matters, and self-esteem.

Potential negatives: Excessive emphasis on, or attention to, having fun to the detriment of other life departments. Throughout this transit, you may need to come to a balance between attention to romantic and creative needs and the rest of your life.

However, for the most part, you are likely to feel supported and confident during these periods. While it’s more likely to strengthen in 2022, a booster transit might be felt subtly now, and it’s wonderful for creativity, imagination, romance, and wonder.

Your income might increase as you explore and make the most of your creative abilities, make connections, pursue a talent or special craft, or other such ventures. Or, you might invest more of your time, energy, and money into creative or romantic pursuits during this cycle.

Areas of Contraction and Lessons in Simplicity:

Your Scorpio 2021 Horoscope reveals areas of contraction, restriction, and necessary “slimming down” in order to test for stable foundations. There are always areas of life that require more simplicity. Tests may be part of the picture as you learn that life with only growth and expansion can run away with itself.

Home & Family
Security & Familiarity

All year, the areas of your life that require a “back to basics” approach are associated with the sector of your solar chart that governs your personal life, home, family, your roots, domestic activities, living conditions, and security. There may be tests of sorts in these areas of life — as if the universe is checking that the foundations are strong. Those things built on weak foundations may very well crack under the pressure of these tests. Those that are strong will endure and strengthen.

This influence only just got started last year. While it wove in and out of influence in 2020, you experience it more consistently in 2021. Saturn will transit this area of your chart until March 2023.

It can be felt most strongly earlier or later in the cycle, depending on whether you were born earlier or later in the sign of Scorpio. This year, it impacts mostly those born with a Scorpio Sun from October 24-November 5 and those with a Scorpio Ascendant of 1-14 degrees. For the rest of the Scorpio Suns and Ascendants, this influence is stirring–it’s up and coming!

You are becoming especially security-minded and you have a stronger need to live a more organized life. Some of you may be a little more private about your home life during this cycle. This is a good time to be frugal due to your increased desire to feel secure and safe. You have or feel a special responsibility to your home and family now. There may be some restrictions experienced in your living conditions or arrangements, or circumstances tie you to your home or a particular place.

Tests can come to your home or personal life this year. The responsibilities and demands of domestic life can run high. There can be a feeling that others are not as sympathetic to you, or that they leave you alone to your own defenses during this period. In truth, you are learning how to stand on your own two feet, as well as to meet your responsibilities and to fix whatever it is that you have let slide in the past.

At the end of this cycle, you’ll have built a stronger foundation. You’ll see yourself and your family more clearly, and your expectations will be more realistic as a result. It’s a good time to organize and structure your home life, and your mind can unclutter as you simplify things.

You can be filled with desire, or circumstances create a need, for more structure in your home life. This is also a time for the very beginnings of a business project for some, and especially for those with a Scorpio Ascendant. This is a career-building stage.

It’s vital that you get your home and personal life into order so that you can move forward feeling rooted and secure. The last time Saturn transited here was from 1991 to early 1994. The very beginnings of a special long-term project/business can emerge now.

Areas of Excitement, Innovation, Independence, and Speed:

Your 2021 Scorpio Horoscope points to areas of your life that seem to speed up so that you can take some risks, innovate, and revolutionize.

Partnerships
Agreements & Negotiations
Contracts

All year, you’re part of a trend, lasting until 2026, in which partnerships and relationships with others can be unpredictable and unusual, but also inspiring and exciting.

This may mean you’re more attracted to people who are free-spirited, individualistic, and possibly even eccentric or unstable as close partners during this period; or that you attract these types of people into your experience.

You are learning about giving freedom to others, and this isn’t always easy. Trying to force convention or tradition on partnerships will be a lesson in frustration during this period.

This long-term trend continues until April 2026. There’s a strong connection between your sector of home and family and your sector of partnership and finding a balance. This year, it’s a somewhat problematic one at times. It may mean that disagreements between a partner and family or about family are part of the picture. Or, your needs for rest, repose, downtime, and comfort/safety conflicts with developments in close relationships. You might be a support system for a significant person in your life, which can cause some friction at times in 2021.

There can certainly be times when an unreliable or erratic theme with one-to-one relationships can disrupt other life departments. There is stronger attention to your domestic world and your needs for nurture, comfort, and safety in 2021, and an unpredictable theme in relationships can compete or disrupt these goals, particularly when Uranus forms square aspects to Jupiter and Saturn this year (in January, February, June, and December).

Areas of Change, Purging, & Transformation:

Your 2021 Scorpio Horoscope reveals areas of life in which change and transformation take place. It’s a time for “out with the old, in with the new.”

Communications
Transportation
Education
Learning & Sharing Ideas
Intimacy
Finances

Communications, learning, and daily life continue to transform this year. This can be an excellent period for studies, writing, and communicating, although there is a tendency towards intensity that can work against you at times if you’re not careful.

This influence is very long-term. It first began in 2008 and is with us until 2024. While it’s in effect each year within this time frame, including in 2021, it’s sometimes more prominent through its outer planet connections/aspects, as it was last year. This time around, it’s not as dominant in the astrology of 2021.

There may be some challenges related to these changes, most notable when Pluto forms challenging aspects to inner planets, and the demands of daily life or your personal interests, projects, or studies can compete with other life arenas.

However, most notably when Pluto is working in harmony with other planets, it can also be a good period for communications, personal influence, and persuasion. You might embrace your passions and ambitions, recognizing the need to change, reform, and renovate your projects or greet the world with a special mindset.

In 2021, the Moon’s Nodes and eclipse activity continue to highlight the need to manage your resources. Particularly around the May, June, and December eclipses, themes related to shared finances, support, dependency, intimacy, and power dynamics are strong. You’re encouraged to share yourself with others in satisfying ways.

Life challenges you to improve your financial picture. Your finances are evolving in important ways in 2021. Dependencies on others are revealed and could feel uncomfortable at first. The ways you handle money need to change, but also your attitude towards how effectively you can make an income, save, and depend on yourself. You experience a strong need to eliminate things you no longer need.

You might find that your attitude towards moving forward improves in direct proportion to your ability to rid yourself of excess baggage – the literal leads to the figurative. Shuffling around your finances is likely. There is a real need to share yourself with others in empowering and effective ways.

Near the end of the year, a newer theme emerges that will develop more fully in 2022. This one is about embracing your need for partnership or better relationships with others. In these areas of life, you’re likely to see important changes, beginning with the Lunar Eclipse on November 19th.

Pluto is your modern planetary ruler, and Mars is your ancient ruler. Pluto was forming intense aspects with Saturn and Jupiter, but this year, the only major aspects it’s making with major bodies are with the inner planets. As such, it’s not a prominent year for Pluto, and that helps you feel that you’re more in charge rather than at the mercy of forces pushing you in certain directions. While Mars was retrograde last year, in 2021, it moves in direct motion.

While Mars is out of bounds from March 21-May 24, it’s better not to push the envelope. It’s a time when it can be all too easy to act out of character, not always favorably.

More power and courage to you when Mars travels through your sign from October 30-December 12.

2021 Yearly Overview Horoscopes:

See also 2021 Summary Horoscopes for neat summaries of the year ahead for each sign, 2021 Yearly Horoscopes for detailed forecasts for each sign, and 2021 Love Guides/Horoscopes for Each Sign for forecasts in the areas of romance and relationships.

*It’s important to note that birthdates for Sun signs are always approximate since the starting date and time varies a bit every single year. If you were born on one of these cutoff dates (commonly known as a “cusp”), you can get a definitive answer using a Sun Sign Calculator. You can also write reports@cafeastrology.com with your birth information and we can let you know your true Sun sign if you were born on or beside the approximate date range given for any sign of the zodiac.

**If you don’t know your Ascendant and you DO know your birth time, you can easily find out your “rising sign” (Ascendant) with an Ascendant calculator, such as our What’s My Ascendant?, but do note that it cannot be determined for unknown birth times. This calculator is excellent for birthdates from 1970 forward since time zone changes were well-documented during this period. If you were born before 1970, it’s better to find your Ascendant and other planetary positions in our Free Report section or at Astrodienst if a historical time zone issue is in question. It’s also wise to double-check your info as explained in that section.