Vrishchik rashi (वृश्चिक) is Scorpio in English, the eighth sign of the Vedic zodiac. It is ruled by Mars, belongs to the water element, is fixed (sthira) in quality and is symbolised by the scorpion. In Vedic astrology Vrishchik is your rashi only if the Moon was in it when you were born; the Sun crosses it 16 Nov – 15 Dec in 2026.
Mangal owns Vrishchika and Chandra is debilitated in it, the combination that gives the sign its depth and its difficulty. This is the rashi of what is hidden: research, occult study, surgery, and everything held back rather than said. A Vrishchika Moon feels privately and intensely, and forgets nothing that was done to it.
The classical meaning of a rashi comes from its lord, its element and its quality taken together: Mars ruling a sign of the water element and fixed quality. Read as shorthand, a Moon in Vrishchik leans towards the four qualities above. Treat them as the sign's raw material rather than a portrait of a person: the planets that sit with the Moon, the house Vrishchik falls in from your lagna and the dasha that is running change the picture a great deal.
The name letters of Vrishchik rashi are To, Na, Nee, Noo, Ne, No, Ya, Yee, Yu. Each is the naming syllable of one of the nine nakshatra padas that fall inside the sign, so a name that begins with one of these sounds has Vrishchik as its naam rashi. The naam rashi is a naming convention; your Moon sign still comes from your birth time.
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Vrishchik rashi holds Vishakha (4th pada), Anuradha, Jyeshtha. A rashi is 30 degrees wide and a nakshatra 13°20', so a sign holds two and a quarter nakshatras and shares the padas at its edges with Tula and Dhanu. The nakshatra your Moon sits in inside Vrishchik decides your Vimshottari dasha and much of your marriage matching.
Only if the Moon was in Vrishchik when you were born. Western horoscopes use the tropical Sun sign, which sits about 24 degrees away from the sidereal zodiac every Indian panchang uses, so a newspaper column and a Vedic chart often give different signs. The Moon crosses a rashi in about two and a quarter days, which is why the date alone cannot settle it and the birth time is needed. Calculate your Moon sign, find your birth nakshatra, or make the full kundli to see the lagna and all nine planets.
Short answers about Vrishchik rashi: its English name, lord, name letters and dates.
Your own rashi is your Moon sign. It takes a date, a time and a place.
Find my Moon signVrishchik rashi (वृश्चिक) is Scorpio in English. It is the eighth sign of the sidereal zodiac, spanning 210° to 240°, and its symbol is the scorpion. The Vedic and Western Scorpio share a name but not dates: the sidereal zodiac sits about 24 degrees behind the tropical one, so the Sun reaches Vrishchik about three weeks later.
Mars is the lord of Vrishchik rashi. The lord, or rashi swami, is the planet that owns the sign, and a reading of the sign always goes through it: where Mars sits in your chart, how strong it is and when its dasha runs matter more than the sign alone. Mars also rules Mesh rashi.
The name letters of Vrishchik rashi are To, Na, Nee, Noo, Ne, No, Ya, Yee and Yu. They are the syllables of the nine nakshatra padas that fall in the sign, and a name that begins with one of them gives a naam rashi of Vrishchik. The naam rashi is separate from the Moon sign, which comes from the birth time.
Vrishchik rashi holds Vishakha (4th pada), Anuradha, Jyeshtha. A rashi spans 30 degrees, which is two and a quarter nakshatras, so the padas at either end of the sign are shared with the neighbouring rashis. The nakshatra your Moon occupies inside Vrishchik decides your Vimshottari dasha and much of your marriage matching.
In 2026 the sidereal Sun is in Vrishchik rashi from 16 Nov – 15 Dec. The day it enters the sign, the sankranti, moves by about a day across the leap-year cycle, so it is computed for each year. Western horoscopes give earlier dates because they use the tropical zodiac. Your own rashi is your Moon sign, which these Sun dates do not decide.
Your rashi is Vrishchik only if the Moon was in Vrishchik when you were born. Vedic astrology reads the Moon sign, not the Sun sign, and the Moon crosses a rashi in about two and a quarter days, so the date alone is not enough. A Moon sign calculator finds it from your birth date, time and place.
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