Fixed, and what it counts
The zodiac is divided by quality into cardinal, fixed and mutable, four signs each, and the division tracks the seasons. Cardinal signs open a season, mutable signs close it, and fixed signs sit in the middle of one. Scorpio occupies the middle of the northern autumn, so it is fixed.
That is the whole of the definition. The interpretive gloss, that fixed signs hold a position and resist being moved off it, follows from the seasonal picture rather than preceding it. It applies to Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius equally, which is a reminder that quality is a coarse filter and never a portrait. It sorts the twelve into three groups of four and says nothing that distinguishes one Scorpio birthday from another.
Water, and the triangle it belongs to
The elemental division sorts the signs into four groups of three, spaced a third of the circle apart. Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces make the water triangle, and any two of them stand a hundred and twenty degrees apart, which is the trine aspect.
So the element is really a statement about geometry. Signs of the same element are in easy aspect to each other, and that is the structural reason the tradition treats them as compatible. The familiar descriptions of water as feeling led or private are attached to that structure afterwards. Worth keeping the two apart, because the geometry is checkable and the description is a reading. The elemental triangles are also the reason the same handful of compatibility claims turn up in every popular account, since they all rest on the one piece of structure.
The degree, which is where the date actually helps
At noon on 6 November the Sun sits close to fourteen degrees of Scorpio, running from about 13.1 to 14.5 across 1930 to 2035. That figure holds steady because the leap year rule keeps the calendar and the orbit in step, so the position on a fixed date cycles inside a narrow band instead of drifting. The extremes of that band are about a day and a third of solar motion apart, and most birth years land nearer its middle.
Fourteen degrees falls in the middle face of the sign, the band from ten to twenty. The Chaldean order of faces gives that band to the Sun, and the triplicity scheme gives it to Pisces, so it carries a warmer attribution than either the sign name or its Mars and Pluto rulerships would suggest. That contrast is the layer that separates this birthday from a Scorpio born ten days earlier, and it is the layer most pages omit.
What quality and element cannot do
Between them, quality and element identify a sign uniquely, since no two signs share both. That is a neat piece of structure and it is also their limit. They describe the slice, not the position inside it, and not the rest of the chart.
The Moon on this date could be in either of two signs, and in some years it changes during the day. The Ascendant could be any of the twelve and turns over about every two hours, so it needs the hour and the birthplace. Anything said about a person from the date alone is being said about a thirty degree slice of the ecliptic shared with roughly a twelfth of everyone alive. The widget above is the way past that, since it works from a year, a time and a place rather than from a calendar square.
Questions people ask about this
What does fixed water mean?
Fixed means the sign falls in the middle of a season, and water names its elemental group, which is Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces. No two signs share both terms, so the pair identifies Scorpio exactly.
What degree is a 6 November Sun?
Near fourteen degrees of Scorpio. At noon across 1930 to 2035 it runs between about 13.1 and 14.5, and your own value depends on the year, hour and birthplace.
Which face of Scorpio is that?
The middle one, from ten to twenty degrees. The Chaldean order assigns it to the Sun, while the triplicity count gives it to Pisces and so to Jupiter or Neptune.
Why are same element signs called compatible?
Because they stand a third of the circle apart, which is the trine aspect. The description follows from that geometry rather than the other way round.
Is 6 November near any boundary?
No. Scorpio runs to about the twenty second of November, so this date has more than two weeks of the sign left and is a similar distance from the Libra edge.
Does the element say anything about my chart as a whole?
Very little on its own. A full chart has planets spread across several elements, and the balance between them is a different question from the element of the Sun.