Scorpio, degree by degree
Each of the thirty degrees of Scorpio: its image as Marc Edmund Jones published it in 1953, quoted and credited, and the same image as this house words and draws it. To read the degrees your own planets stood in, cast your Sabian reading.
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Scorpio 1 · degree 211 of 360
A sight-seeing bus Jones, 1953
A tour bus full of sightseers ours
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Scorpio 2 · degree 212 of 360
A broken bottle and spilled perfume Jones, 1953
A broken bottle, its perfume filling the air ours
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Scorpio 3 · degree 213 of 360
A house-raising Jones, 1953
Neighbours raising the frame of a house together ours
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Scorpio 4 · degree 214 of 360
A youth holding a lighted candle Jones, 1953
A young person holding a lit candle ours
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Scorpio 5 · degree 215 of 360
A massive, rocky shore Jones, 1953
A towering rocky coast, the surf breaking against it ours
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Scorpio 6 · degree 216 of 360
A gold rush Jones, 1953
Prospectors rushing to the goldfields ours
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Scorpio 7 · degree 217 of 360
Deep-sea divers Jones, 1953
Divers in heavy helmets walking the sea floor ours
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Scorpio 8 · degree 218 of 360
The moon shining across a lake Jones, 1953
Moonlight laying a silver path across a lake ours
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Scorpio 9 · degree 219 of 360
Dental work Jones, 1953
A dentist at work on a tooth ours
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Scorpio 10 · degree 220 of 360
A fellowship supper Jones, 1953
Friends sharing a meal at one long table ours
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Scorpio 11 · degree 221 of 360
A drowning man rescued Jones, 1953
A man pulled out of the water just in time ours
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Scorpio 12 · degree 222 of 360
An embassy ball Jones, 1953
A grand ball under the chandeliers of an embassy ours
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Scorpio 13 · degree 223 of 360
An inventor experimenting Jones, 1953
An inventor at his bench among gears and a lit bulb ours
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Scorpio 14 · degree 224 of 360
Telephone linemen at work Jones, 1953
Linemen at work at the top of a telephone pole ours
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Scorpio 15 · degree 225 of 360
Children playing around five mounds of sand Jones, 1953
Children playing among five little sandhills ours
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Scorpio 16 · degree 226 of 360
A girl's face breaking into a smile Jones, 1953
A smile spreading slowly across a young girl's face ours
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Scorpio 17 · degree 227 of 360
A woman the father of her own child Jones, 1953
A woman who is both mother and father to her child ours
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Scorpio 18 · degree 228 of 360
A woods rich in autumn coloring Jones, 1953
Woods blazing with the colours of autumn ours
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Scorpio 19 · degree 229 of 360
A parrot listening and then talking Jones, 1953
A parrot that listens, then speaks ours
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Scorpio 20 · degree 230 of 360
A woman drawing two dark curtains aside Jones, 1953
A woman parting two dark curtains ours
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Scorpio 21 · degree 231 of 360
A soldier derelict in duty Jones, 1953
A soldier asleep at his post ours
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Scorpio 22 · degree 232 of 360
Hunters starting out for ducks Jones, 1953
Hunters setting out at dawn for the ducks ours
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Scorpio 23 · degree 233 of 360
A bunny metamorphosed into a fairy Jones, 1953
A rabbit changed into a fairy with a wand ours
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Scorpio 24 · degree 234 of 360
Crowds coming down the mountain to listen to one man Jones, 1953
Crowds streaming down a mountain to hear one man ours
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Scorpio 25 · degree 235 of 360
An X ray Jones, 1953
An X-ray showing the bones beneath the skin ours
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Scorpio 26 · degree 236 of 360
Indians making camp Jones, 1953
Travellers pitching their tents and lighting a fire for the night ours
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Scorpio 27 · degree 237 of 360
A military band on the march Jones, 1953
A marching band with its drum and bugle ours
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Scorpio 28 · degree 238 of 360
The king of the fairies approaching his domain Jones, 1953
The fairy king flying home to his kingdom ours
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Scorpio 29 · degree 239 of 360
A Native American woman pleading to the chief for the lives of her children Jones, 1953, reworded here
A mother on her knees before the chief, pleading for her children ours
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Scorpio 30 · degree 240 of 360
The Halloween jester Jones, 1953
A Halloween jester beside a grinning pumpkin ours
Jones’s images are quoted from Marc Edmund Jones, The Sabian Symbols in Astrology (New York: Sabian Publishing Society, 1953), first printing; public domain in the United States. Ours, and every drawing, are this house’s own, worded and drawn from that text alone.