Scorpio today
20 September 2026
- ElementWater
- QualityFixed
- LordMangal (Mars)
- Span210°–240°
What the classical Gochara table says about today
3 of the 9 grahas the tradition rates count in your favour from Vrishchika today. The Moon is not one of them, so Chandrabalam is absent today. It is the part that moves fastest. That changes at Mon 11:15.
5 would have counted. Another graha stands in the house the tradition says holds each of them back.
This rates the transit, not you. It is a count of where the grahas stand, and it says nothing about how your day will go.
Ruling planet
♂Mangal (Mars) · Cancer
1°
Sun enters
☉In 58 days
Next annual transit
Tithi
☽Shukla Paksha · Dashami
Waxing Gibbous · Moon in Sagittarius
01 · Today at a glance
Overall status
Where a graha is actually standing in the houses that signify each area, counted from Vrishchika.
Ask for what you want
Ketu sits in your 10th house, which the tradition ties to work, standing and what the world sees. A reasonable stretch to be visible, to put a case, and to start the thing you have been circling.
Ketu · 10th house
Keep the outgoings tight
Chandra (Moon) in your 2nd house touches money, speech and the family you were born into. Worth pausing on the unnecessary spend and checking what is on autopay — not because anything is coming, but because attention is cheap.
Not financial advice. Never an amount, a direction or a date.
Chandra (Moon) · 2nd house
Say the harder thing kindly
Shani (Saturn) in your 5th house touches children, study and what you create. The tradition reads this as friction rather than distance: worth being plain rather than smoothing over, and worth letting the other person finish.
Shani (Saturn) · 5th house
Let the house be quiet
Rahu in your 4th house touches home, mother and peace of mind. The tradition reads this as unsettled rather than unhappy. Not a day to reopen an old argument at the table.
Rahu · 4th house
What to do today
Ask for what you want
The Sun is read as authority and being seen. A good day to put your case about friends and income — ask for the thing, and let people know what you did.
Surya (Sun) · 11th house
What to avoid today
Wait two days
The Moon here is read as feelings running hot. Around money and family, things will feel bigger today than they are. Nothing needs deciding now — the Moon moves on in a couple of days.
Chandra (Moon) · 2nd house
Add time to the plan
Saturn is read as delay and weight. Anything to do with children and study takes longer today than you planned for. Build the extra time in rather than pushing against it.
Shani (Saturn) · 5th house
Keep the plan small
Jupiter is read as making things bigger — including costs. Keep plans around travel and learning to a size you can carry without help.
Guru (Jupiter) · 9th house
Skip the argument
Mars here is read as friction. Arguments about travel and learning start easily today. The one you would win still costs more than it returns.
Mangal (Mars) · 9th house
Today's mantra
The beeja mantra the tradition assigns to Mangal (Mars), the lord of Vrishchika.
ॐ क्रां क्रीं क्रौं सः भौमाय नमः
oṁ krāṁ krīṁ krauṁ saḥ bhaumāya namaḥ
Printed because the texts assign it, not prescribed as a fix. This site does not sell remedies, and it does not claim a mantra changes what the sky is doing.
02 · The working
The working
Vedic · sidereal
Every graha, its house from Vrishchika, and what the classical Gochara table makes of it. This is the computation the cards above are built from.
| Graha | House from you | Transiting | Gochara |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surya (Sun) | 11th | Kanya 3° | Favourable |
| Chandra (Moon) | 2nd | Dhanu 21° | Unfavourable |
| Budh (Mercury) | 11th | Kanya 21° | ObstructedShukra (Venus) in your 12th house holds this back |
| Shukra (Venus) | 12th | Tula 11° | Favourable |
| Mangal (Mars) | 9th | Karka 1° | Unfavourable |
| Guru (Jupiter) | 9th | Karka 23° | ObstructedKetu in your 10th house holds this back |
| Shani (Saturn)℞ | 5th | Meena 18° | Unfavourable |
| Rahu℞ | 4th | Kumbha 4° | Unfavourable |
| Ketu℞ | 10th | Simha 4° | Favourable |
Why some favourable placements do not count
The classical table has a second half. A graha in a house the table likes gives nothing while another graha sits in the paired house — vedha, meaning obstruction. Saturn in your 3rd is favourable, but not while something stands in your 12th. This reading applies that pairing to all nine grahas.
There is a further rule, vipreet vedha, where an obstruction cancels a difficult placement instead. The texts state it as a principle rather than a table. The sources do not agree on one table, so we do not count it here.
This is the sky, not your chart
Everything above is true for everyone with this sign. What makes it yours is where these bodies fell when you were born — that needs your date, time and place.