October 23 Zodiac Sign

October 23 by year

Find your year first. Libra-only and Scorpio-only rows are rare; a row with a time means Libra up to that minute and Scorpio from it.

Faster: enter your year above and you get your answer without the table.

Shown: 2021 to 2030. Born earlier? Tap Show all years under the table, then jump to your decade.

Times are clock times of that year in New York and Los Angeles, from the astronomy-engine ephemeris, rounded to the minute, with the daylight saving rules in force at the time. Central and Mountain time fall between the two columns.

Libra and Scorpio: the two signs of October 23

Libra, a cardinal air sign under Venus, is read as the sign that opens a project by asking who else should be in the room. Astrologers credit it with taste and tact, and with a feel for what a team will accept. They charge it with putting off a call until every option has been weighed twice.

Scorpio, a fixed water sign, is held by Mars in the old scheme and by Pluto in the modern one. Fixed signs finish what they begin, and the Scorpio version is described as research done out of sight: it studies the problem alone, decides once and does not reopen the decision. Where Libra wants agreement before moving, Scorpio is read as ready to carry a plan through on conviction alone.

On this site: Moon in Libra, Moon in Scorpio, Venus in Libra, Venus in Scorpio, Mars in Libra, Mars in Scorpio, Mercury in Libra, Mercury in Scorpio.

Each sign in full: Libra zodiac sign · Scorpio zodiac sign; how the two get along: Libra and Scorpio compatibility.

The year ahead for both sides of October 23: Libra horoscope 2027 · Scorpio horoscope 2027.

How often Libra and Scorpio come up among birth dates from 1930 to 2025, and why websites name different signs for the same day: zodiac sign statistics.Scorpio is one of the three water signs, with its own section on how much water a chart holds: water signs.Libra and the two other signs of its element: air signs.

Libra or Scorpio on October 23: what do the years show?

Both, in most years. Scorpio averaged 51.7% of the date.

The Libra-only years were 1931, 1935, 1939, 1943, 1947, 1951, 1955 and 1959. Each came the year before a leap year, and none after 1959.

Born at noon on October 23: two certificates compared

Picture two birth records stamped October 23 at noon, one from 1990 and one from 2000. In 1990 the crossing came at 12:14 p.m., so the first baby was a Libra by minutes. In 2000 it came on Oct 22, 2000 at 10:47 p.m., and the second baby was a Scorpio.

Sorted by the clock, the crossings split 15 / 24 / 24 / 15 across the four quarters of the day, beginning at midnight. The first came 12:44 a.m. into 1988's date and the last 11:28 p.m. into 1963's.

October 23 next to the 22nd and the 24th

The 22nd is almost always Libra and the 24th almost always Scorpio. The 23rd is the one where the clock usually decides.

If you were born from 1960 through 1991, start with the clock time on your birth record: each of those years had its crossing inside October 23, so the minute is the only thing that decides.

Questions about the October 23 zodiac sign

Other cusp birthdays

Every date where the zodiac sign depends on the year or the hour, grouped by the change of sign:

• ♓︎ Pisces to ♈︎ Aries: March 19 · March 20 · March 21
• ♈︎ Aries to ♉︎ Taurus: April 19 · April 20
• ♉︎ Taurus to ♊︎ Gemini: May 20 · May 21
• ♊︎ Gemini to ♋︎ Cancer: June 20 · June 21 · June 22
• ♋︎ Cancer to ♌︎ Leo: July 22 · July 23
• ♌︎ Leo to ♍︎ Virgo: August 22 · August 23
• ♍︎ Virgo to ♎︎ Libra: September 22 · September 23
• ♎︎ Libra to ♏︎ Scorpio: October 22 · October 23 · October 24
• ♏︎ Scorpio to ♐︎ Sagittarius: November 21 · November 22 · November 23
• ♐︎ Sagittarius to ♑︎ Capricorn: December 21 · December 22
• ♑︎ Capricorn to ♒︎ Aquarius: January 19 · January 20 · January 21
• ♒︎ Aquarius to ♓︎ Pisces: February 18 · February 19

Written by The Zodiac Atlas editorial team with the help of AI and edited by a person. Every time and count on this page comes from our own run of the astronomy-engine ephemeris (tropical zodiac) over the years 1930 to 2030, with historical US time zone rules. Astrology is a symbolic tradition, not a science.