Virgo on the inside, Scorpio on the way in.
Your sun in Virgo (earth, mutable) is the engine — what grounds at the centre, what adapts when you are at home in yourself. Your Scorpio rising (water, fixed, ruled by Mars) is the door — the way you arrive in a room, the first read the world takes of you, the body you walk in.
Strangers tend to assume you are sensitive and tidal — that is the Scorpio arriving first. Then they get to know you and discover the Virgo earth underneath, which can be a layered second read — they have to update their first impression.
Reads as Scorpio until you trust them; then Virgo comes through. The mutable-fixed mix means you adapts on the inside while holds on the outside — internal and external rhythms are different, which is its own work.