October begins with Libra and ends with Scorpio. Birthdays from 1 to 22 October are Libra, the air sign of balance, and birthdays from 23 to 31 October are Scorpio, the water sign of depth. It is the shift from the sign that keeps the peace to the sign that wants the truth, whatever it costs, and the two kinds of October people are seldom mistaken for each other.

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The moment the Sun enters Scorpio, for each birth year

Universal Time (UTC). Add or subtract the time zone of the birthplace.

The decans of October

Libra to the 22nd, Scorpio from the 23rd

Libra is cardinal air under Venus: gracious, reasonable, drawn to partnership and to beauty. Scorpio is fixed water, ruled by Mars in the old system and by Pluto in the modern one: intense, private, determined and loyal to the end. Libra works on the surface of relationships, on manners and agreements; Scorpio works underneath, on trust and motive. Astrology treats them as two stages of the same subject, how people bind themselves to one another.

22, 23 or 24 October

The 23rd is the day in the great majority of years. Over the birth years 1940 to 2040 the Sun entered Scorpio on 23 October in 82 years, on 24 October in 12 and on 22 October in 7, in Universal Time. The cases on the 24th are from the middle of the last century and those on the 22nd lie in the years ahead. People born on any of the three days can find their own year in the table; with the time of birth it gives one sign and not a blend of two.

October Libra and October Scorpio

The Libras of October are described as tactful, sociable and fair, good at putting people at ease and uneasy when they have to disappoint someone. They think in pairs. The Scorpios of the last week are a different matter: watchful, magnetic, slow to trust and impossible to fool, with strong feelings kept under control. Both signs care about relationships more than about things. Libra asks whether a bond is balanced, Scorpio whether it is real.

October in the Calendar and the Sky

October means the eighth month in the old Roman count. It has two birthstones, the opal and the tourmaline, and its flowers are the marigold and the cosmos. The Orionid meteors, like those of May, come from Halley's Comet and peak around 21 October. In much of Europe the clocks go back on the last Sunday of the month, so that the first days of Scorpio are also the first dark evenings of the northern autumn.

Frequently asked

What zodiac sign is October?

Libra from 1 to 22 October and Scorpio from 23 to 31 October.

Is 23 October Libra or Scorpio?

Scorpio in most years. The Sun entered Scorpio on 23 October in 82 of the 101 years from 1940 to 2040, on 24 October in 12 and on 22 October in 7.

What is the October birthstone?

October has two, the opal and the tourmaline. Its flowers are the marigold and the cosmos.

October birthdays, day by day

The two signs

Zodiac signs, month by month