Who is the ruler of Scorpio: Mars or Pluto?

Question

I've seen both:

Mars is the god of war
and
Pluto is the god of the underworld.

Being two different types of gods, also seems kind of strange.

Answer 1

Scorpio

Your ruling planet: Pluto

Your element: Water

Symbol: The Scorpion

Your gemstone: Topaz

Life Pursuit: To survive against all opposition

Vibration: Resilient

Scorpio's Secret Desire: To triumph

Pluto is considered a higher octave of Mars.

The keyword for Pluto is "transformation". Pluto was the god of the underworld, ruling over the dead. While the god, Pluto, was not a god of death, which was determined by the Fates, he was concerned with the transition from life to death. The planet Pluto, however is associated with death, mainly as a transformation from life, in one form, to death, or rebirth, in another form. Life and death can be considered a transformation from one state to the other. "Life and death" should be taken as an allusion to a process whereby something is completely destroyed and is transformed into something new and usually better.

This is made clearer by another keyword for Pluto, to regenerate, that is, create anew, in a better way. This can mean changing from being an unethical person to an ethical person, as in spiritual regeneration.

Pluto the planet is associated with hidden and secret things, often deeply buried, perhaps in the mind. It is associated with psychoanalysis and similar deep therapies. It is also associated with atomic energy, which often involves the transformation of one element to another, with the release of vast amounts of energy. Pluto, like the atom, tightly holds onto its secret energy, but when it is released, it occurs suddenly, unexpectedly and powerfully. Not surprisingly, Pluto is associated with sex and the orgasm. The sudden explosion of energy naturally associates Pluto with aggression, passion and conflict.

To understand the secret matters which Pluto is concerned with, we need to remember that, for instance, much of science deals with uncovering secrets of nature. As Pluto is associated with life and death, some of these secrets refer to understanding how to create life and transmute events in the biological cell. It is also concerned with life prolongation (death).

Of course, Pluto's secrets are also secrets of the mind. Areas where we might have hidden shame or guilt, the skeleton in the cupboard. But really these are areas that we cannot own or have because they are considered bad or they are considered too good. We hide both the saint and the sinner within us. When Pluto digs up any of these, it causes serious conscious conflict, and the good may horrify us more than the bad! The personal secrets also include areas of possibility and potential that we dare not even dream about (except symbolically). Normally, such areas are only made manifest when we are ready to receive them and to transform. Pluto also gives us this ability.

In a natal chart Pluto indicates how a person will cut through the veneer and get down to life or death, sex and survival matters. The expression, "cut the crap" is Plutonic because Pluto is concerned with elimination and cutting through to the cause or basis.

Pluto is considered by astrologers to be neither good nor bad. For instance, where the keyword "annihilation" is used, it is probably only half the truth. Pluto does destroy the old, but it does so to create the new, and the better new (regenerate).

Some more keywords related to Pluto are: elimination, purification, exposure, intensity and extremes.

Pluto rules over the basic conflict between spiritual development and worldly living. While Uranus will change the old into the new, Pluto will destroy the old to make room for the new.

Pluto is the ruler, or co-ruler (with Mars), of Scorpio.

Love & Blessings
Milly

Answer 2

For a long time, Mars was considered the ruler of Scorpio, and it kinda fit pretty well... but when Pluto got discovered in 1930, slowly astrologers realized Pluto and Scorpio were a better fit... so they kept Mars, 'cause it still made a lot of sense, but added Pluto,

There are a few signs with dual rulers ships, and they all involve newly discovered planets.

Aquarius is ruled by Saturn & Uranus
Pisces is rules by Jupiter & Neptune

Answer 3

Mars.

The general consensus among new agers is that Pluto is a very high octave of energy that transmutes sexual stimulation into a transcendent form of selfless expression of love. The general agreement among new age astrologers/philosophers is that humanity is not there yet.........and nowhere close.

Answer 4

I've read that it's Pluto

Answer 5

Neither, it's your uranus!