2023 Scorpio Horoscope Preview

2023 Scorpio Horoscope Preview: Your Year Ahead

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Scorpio Horoscopes, Year 2023: 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.**

2023 Scorpio Horoscope Overview

The following is an overview horoscope for the zodiac sign of Scorpio the Scorpion for the year 2023. 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 2023.

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

Areas of Expansion in 2023 for Scorpio:

Your Scorpio 2023 Horoscope points to areas of life that are destined to expand, improve, and grow.

Health & Habits
Work, Routines, & Chores
Partnerships
Counseling/Negotiations

Until May 16th, your work, daily routines, and health endeavors continue to expand, improve, and grow.

This influence spans two date ranges, with the first wave having occurred last year, and the second one underway as you greet 2023:

from May 10-October 28, 2022,
and from December 20, 2022-May 16, 2023.

You’re on the second and final step, running until mid-May.

This is a time when your work projects or duties expand, or you have increased opportunities for employment. You can be so confident in your ability to take on projects and endeavors, however, that you overload your plate, so do watch for that.

You find more joy in your work (as long as you don’t overload), self-improvement endeavors, and taking care of your health. If you provide a service to others, it is likely to prosper, primarily because you’re enjoying it more! If applicable, you are especially successful in hiring people to work for you, and improvements to your working environment are likely. It can be easier than usual to find employment now.

You may get a new job during this cycle or significantly improve an existing one. Work tends to be very
available to you. You more intently focus on what really matters to get ahead, and recognition for your efforts may be forthcoming. Still, this cycle is less about recognition as it is about the enjoyment of your duties or daily life.

You are proud of how useful you are to others during this cycle. The more integrity and honesty you bring to your services, the more “payback” or rewards you will receive. Health may very well prosper now, and medical procedures or programs, if necessary, are more likely to be successful. Of course, this isn’t something to take for granted since there are always other concurrent transits that can refine this one. There may be an inclination to put on some weight, for example, if you don’t watch your sweet tooth. A greater love of food might instead lead to a booster hobby.

You are bringing fresh and original ideas to the work you do and the services you offer. During this cycle, you might experience overload or initial magnification of problems surrounding work. There is a tendency now to focus on the details of your work, and you might sometimes feel a little overwhelmed with monotonous tasks. Again, the key is to avoid overdoing.

Your work might involve more services or assisting others during this cycle, and for some, health-related or healing professions can be attractive. You can feel quite motivated to improve your life, particularly by pursuing a healthier lifestyle and through your daily routines, habits, chores, tasks, services, and work.

Challenges may occur sporadically during this period with the need for time away from your duties either to take care of yourself or of others requiring care, or the consequences of taking on so much that you have trouble taking time for yourself. Responsibilities on the home front can sometimes conflict with your stronger desire to work, take care of business, and attend to health and wellness.

However, for the most part, this is a good time for winning appreciation for what you do or your skills, enjoying what you do, finding work, and working relationships.

Money, comfort, self-worth, and security matters may closely tie into work and health during this period. Your services to others can be particularly profitable during these periods. Your work ethic stands out as particularly powerful at this time–you can be committed to putting in the work! For some, income can relate to health, wellness, or service fields.

These themes particularly thrive in February and the first half of March–health advances or diagnoses are possible for some, and for others, a more vital interest in wellness or work is a powerful theme.

From May 16th onward, your relationships receive a boost of forward-moving energy. This cycle helps you succeed in partnership or improve your relationship status/situation.

This influence lasts for a little over a year, spanning from May 16, 2023, to May 25, 2024.

Your partnerships, relating abilities, and powers of negotiation grow and expand during this timeframe. New partnership opportunities can arrive now, or the chance to bring fresh energy to an existing committed relationship emerges.

Relationships you enter into now are generally successful and happy — they are mutually beneficial. Sometimes, this transit absolves an existing partnership, but if this is the case, it is likely to come as a relief or a “blessing in disguise.” Meeting someone more suitable for you at this point in your life may be a reason for this, although it’s important not to blindly jump into something new since you could suffer from some feeling that the “grass is greener” elsewhere.

Your ability to get along with others improves as you are especially willing to compromise, and you are more appealing or companionable than usual.

The positive potentials of this transit are many, and they depend on your current life path: You can negotiate more successfully and, if applicable, win in legal matters. Legal matters or challenging relationship problems from the past might resolve, and settling more casual disputes amicably can figure strongly.

You may find yourself taking on the role of consultant or advisor, or you could benefit from help from the same. Good publicity may come your way. If your career has you working with or before the public, you can safely expect increased popularity now, particularly if you do counseling or negotiating in your job.

Relationships and partnerships benefit from expansive, warm energy, difficult relationships may be absolved, and/or you enter into successful new ones during this period. It’s a relationship-boosting period!

Jupiter rules your sector of finances, self-worth, valuables, personal resources, income, and sense of security, and any of these things tie into partnerships during this time. A partnership could form that’s related to money or security or the relationship is characterized as secure, grounded, practical, or derives from a powerful financial connection.

A partnership may strengthen, or a significant person in your life can help make you feel more secure. Instead, you may be working on enhancing your income or sense of security and stability to improve relationships. Loyalty and security are strong themes in a close relationship.

Shared beliefs, interests, and ideologies might be a focal point in a close relationship during this cycle. For some, a significant person comes into your life with common educational goals or belief systems, possibly through long-distance connections, schools, or publishing/online activities. For many of you, you attract people who want to help, who are on your side, and who take a strong interest in you.

Potential negatives: You might attract partners who are more concerned with freedom than pairing or seem to be quite extravagant or full of themselves. Troubles could be associated with an existing partner’s extravagance or desire for increased autonomy. Be careful to avoid sugarcoating or closing your eyes to problem areas that could grow exponentially at this time. Watch for having your blinders on with people.

However, for the most part, you are likely to enjoy an improved social life during this cycle. You learn much through your experiences and interactions with a significant “other.”

In May, when this transit begins, there can be initial challenges largely revolving around home and family, as well as close partnerships and relationships. You could struggle to balance family with other relationships. It’s a time to recognize an attachment to certain traditions and ways of living that have restricted growth in relationships. It’s a time to better understand your need for freedom and your fear of what you might lose in the process. Dealing with fears, purging, and letting go is necessary to make good decisions.

Fortunately, in June especially, pairing up with someone to get a job done is very satisfying. A partner or a relationship can inspire you to reach new heights or to learn a new skill. A more disciplined or concerted effort with creative efforts, hobbies, or romantic pursuits benefits you greatly. For some, a fun relationship moves to a new level. Negotiations can be successful, and the establishment of reasonable boundaries improves a connection. Partnering up can be beneficial.

Areas of Contraction and Lessons in Simplicity:

Your Scorpio 2023 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 from itself.

Home & Family
Security & Familiarity
Self-Expression & Joy
Romance & Leisure

Until March 7th, the areas of your life that continue to require a “back to basics” approach are 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 suitable and worthy will endure and strengthen.

This influence began in 2020 and it now finishes up in March 2023. You can feel it 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 November 15-22 and those with a Scorpio Ascendant of 23-30 degrees. For earlier Scorpio Suns and Ascendants, this influence is largely behind you!

You are becoming especially security-minded and have a stronger need to live a more organized life. Some of you may be more private about your home life during this cycle. This is an excellent 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. It’s true, there may be some restrictions experienced in your living conditions or arrangements, or circumstances tie you to your home or a particular place. Ultimately, it’s about tidying and firming things up.

Tests can come to your home or personal life while this transit is in influence until March 7th 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 fix what you 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 consequently be more realistic. It’s a good time to organize and structure your home life; your mind can unclutter as you simplify things. This doesn’t always mesh perfectly with your work and health goals, especially prominent in February, but striking a balance can be a good bet.

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. It’s a career-building stage if you’re looking far ahead. The early beginnings of a special long-term project/business can emerge now.

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.

From March 7th, the areas of your life that require a “back to basics” approach are creativity, dating and romance, pleasure, children, hobbies, and creative pastimes. There may be tests of sorts in these areas of life, as if the universe is checking that the foundations are strong. Things built on weak foundations may very well crack under the pressure of these tests. Those that are suitable will endure and strengthen.

This influence runs from March 2023 until 2025/2026. You’re likely to feel this transit 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 will influence those born from approximately October 23-30 and with a Scorpio Ascendant of 0-7 degrees the most. The rest of the sign will feel its influence more directly in later years.

Tests can come to your romantic life during this cycle. For single Scorpios, there can be some reluctance to enter into light-hearted romantic relationships. If you do go forward, you do so cautiously, and you are attracted to more mature or stable people during this cycle. Because you are more discriminating now, the pickings might be (or appear to be) slim.

Those dating might sometimes feel lonely, as it can be hard to find what you are looking for now. An existing romance may face tests, but strong ones strengthen further. Those Scorpios who are in committed partnerships could find the romantic or fun element of the relationship becomes a vital area of focus during this cycle, for better or worse. Keeping this aspect of your partnership alive requires work. For example, a romantic partner could feel like a “heavy” at this time, and you might feel restricted in terms of making acquaintances and enjoying other people’s company.

For those single and looking, be careful not to project a negative attitude without realizing it, as this can intimidate some. Those of you who are parents could feel the weight of responsibilities towards children during this cycle. They may require more attention now, although this can ultimately be rewarding.

However, for many others, this is a time when a relationship stabilizes, and it feels great. In fact, this can be a generally more stable or steady time in your life, which can be exactly what you need at the moment.

Creatively speaking, you are a little more serious in your approach. You might get serious about a hobby, or you might discover there’s less time for creative pursuits, pastimes, amusements, and entertainment. Your studies or projects and personal interests can involve more show, drama, creativity, and entertainment value. Romance and studying or communicating can tie together in some significant way. Some of you could be working hard on–and putting a lot of effort into–creative hobbies or pastimes.

You can be filled with desire–or circumstances create a need–for more structure in all or any of these areas of life, including children, romance, creativity, and recreation.

This can be a truly wonderful time for feeling balanced and steady. Firming up areas of your life that have become wasteful can benefit you in many ways. It’s a generally good time for realizing a dream or goal, particularly along creative lines. The last time a similar theme occurred was from 1993 to 1996.

Especially in April, June, August, and October, pairing up with someone to get a job done is very satisfying. A partner or a relationship can inspire you to reach new heights or learn a new skill. Structuring your creative efforts, hobbies, or romantic pursuits can boost a connection. A fun relationship could move to a new level. You have increased common sense at your disposal. Negotiations can be successful, and establishing reasonable boundaries in relationships works well. Partnering up can be beneficial. You might discover very constructive channels for your creativity.

Areas of Excitement, Innovation, Independence, and Speed: One-to-One Relationships

Your 2023 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 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 (it began in 2018/9). There’s a strong connection between your sector of home and family and your sector of partnership and finding a balance.

There can certainly be times when an unreliable or erratic theme with one-to-one relationships can disrupt other life departments. Indeed, an unpredictable theme in relationships can compete with or disrupt other life department goals. However, you seem more capable of making the most of the positive side of these relationship themes in 2023. Particularly in late March and early May, as you open your mind to new ways of interacting and connecting, new worlds open to you.

Areas of Change, Purging, & Transformation:

Your 2023 Scorpio Horoscope reveals life areas where change and transformation occur. It’s a time for “out with the old, in with the new.”

Communications & Transportation
Learning & Sharing Ideas
Home & Family Life
Partnerships & One-to-One Relationships
Independence
Work & Rest Balance

Until March 23rd and from June 11th forward, communications, learning, and daily life continue to transform. This can be an excellent time for studies, writing, and communicating, although there is a tendency for intensity that can sometimes work against you if you’re not careful.

This influence is very long-term. It first began in 2008 and is with us until 2024. This year and the next, this theme is phasing out. Resolutions to problem areas are in the works!

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.

You’re learning how to balance your interests with chores, particularly in February. The result is magical!

From March 23rd to June 11th, a new Pluto theme is with you. While it’s only a sneak preview of a transit that will stick around for years to come, you’ll see some preliminary changes in 2023.

Attitudes towards home and family are transforming. There can be a retreat into yourself during this long-term cycle as you explore, on a profound level, your roots, childhood conditioning, and feelings of personal security.

Problems adjusting to these changes are more likely to occur when Pluto forms challenging aspects. There can be times when urges, needs, and desires in other life departments conflict with the changes you’re engaged in on the inside and with home or family life. Especially in May, you could struggle to balance family matters with other relationships. It’s a time to recognize an attachment to certain traditions and ways of living that have restricted growth in relationships. You’re learning about your need for freedom and your fear of what you might lose in the process.

When Pluto connects easily with the inner planets, there can be nice support for your efforts to excavate, change, and renovate your life from the ground up or from the inside out. Deep, lasting changes and improvements can occur on physical and emotional planes. Activities related to purging and emotional renewal can figure strongly.

In 2022, the Moon’s Nodes and eclipse activity continue to highlight the evolution of your personality and your partnerships. Your definitions of “me” and “you” are transforming. Issues of personal courage, confidence, and independence come to the fore. Personal appearance, your body, and your image become especially important. Still, it’s a time for better balancing and understanding your needs for independence and partnership.

For some, marriage or divorce will be an issue. For many, carving out a personal identity that includes a significant other who furthers their own personal growth will come into strong focus. For others, it’s about enlisting help or support when needed while rising to the task when independence serves you best. You’re discovering where you stand when it comes to partnerships and independence.

The North Node continues to transit your solar seventh house until mid-July, calling on you to face up to your needs and desires to partner effectively. There are benefits to embracing your need for partnership or better relationships with others.

A new and building theme emerges in 2023, beginning with the Solar Eclipse in April and strengthening with the North Node in your solar eighth house from mid-July forward. These influences challenge you to improve your attitude towards service, health, work, and privacy–areas of your life destined to evolve in important ways this year and the next.

Circumstances are such that you need to develop healthy habits, routines, and schedules. You are called upon to rid yourself of guilt about under-performing and develop faith and trust in a larger, more spiritual plan. Work on finding a balance between mental health and physical health; and between work and rest for best results.

It’s a time to face your needs and desires to provide services or pursue work that truly suits you and pay special attention to your health. You can benefit greatly from getting your life organized and spending more time and energy caring for your health and body. This is one of the major keys to happiness in the latter part of 2023.

Pluto is your modern planetary ruler, and Mars is your ancient ruler. Pluto is transitioning out of the sign of Capricorn and into Aquarius, and you, too, can go through a personality transition. You’re becoming less guarded with what you say. Still, any transition can come with some hiccups. It would be wise to be gentle with yourself.

Mars is retrograde this year, but only until January 12th: from October 30th, 2022, to January 12th, 2023. It’s important that, during this period, you get the rest you need and that you avoid pushing yourself or your personal plans and ventures ahead. Observe, reflect, and be as patient as you can.

Note, too, that there’s a post-retrograde shadow period in which it’s best not to push your affairs forward, and this shadow phase occurs until March 15th. Ideally, you’ll handle your bigger initiatives after this period.

While Mars is retrograde, it’s best to focus on reorientation and building up resources and energy.

While Mars is out of bounds, 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. Note that Mars is out of bounds for a relatively long time, overlapping with its retrograde period: until May 5th (it began on October 22nd, 2022) and then from December 20th forward (to January 23rd, 2024).

Mars gets extra support on May 14-15, August 1, August 24, October 29, November 17, and November 21.

2023 Yearly Overview Horoscopes:

See also 2025 Summary Horoscopes for neat summaries of the year ahead for each sign, 2024 Yearly Horoscopes for detailed forecasts for each sign, 2025 Yearly Love Horoscopes for love guides to the year, and 2025 Preview Horoscopes for a preview of the year ahead.

*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.