Welcome to Scorpio season! Though this time of year has strong associations to death, darkness, and some of the scariest, spookiest modern cultural traditions, that’s only a surface-level read of Scorpio. Sure, Scorpio’s reputation for intensity is well-earned, and intensity can be “scary” for some people. But I suspect this sign’s potential for deep-level transformation is actually scarier for most.
Overnight Oct. 22 to 23, the Sun entered Scorpio: the sign of “fixed” water in the zodiac. Scorpio can represent both the waters of emotion getting backed up and turning toxic AND the process of flushing out what has stagnated to completely regenerate the emotional body. Water is life-giving when it can flow freely, but can easily turn toxic when it cannot.
The same is true with our emotions. Feelings are temporary states; signals to us about our experiences and the choices we make. But they’re not meant to become identities — even if we have our preferred emotional states, or feelings that come more easily to us (and are easier to express) than others.
This can make the four weeks when the Sun is in Scorpio an excellent time to notice if any part of your life feels like it is feeling stuck, stagnant, or in some kind of stasis. Even just a mood, a daily routine, a point of view, or the arrangement of a room could feel a little stale and be ripe for some circulation.
What is one thing you can clear out, remove, or flush that could help you to transmute some energy and get some flow going again? What’s the first, simplest step you could take right now to begin releasing your hold on it — or its hold on you?
This is a legitimate use of Scorpio energy. It’s also only scratching the surface of what this sign represents.
Scorpio rules the “generative system” of our bodies: the organs, biological processes and actions involved in creating new life…one of the most profound things we human beings can do, yet also one of the most basic and instinctual on a purely biological level.
Yet, at the same time, Scorpio is associated with death: it comes in the middle of autumn, a time in the Northern Hemisphere when the natural world around us is dying or ceasing its growth, and there are more hours of night than of life-giving sunlight as we hurtle toward the depths of winter.
Funny how these things — generating new life and the cessation of growth/life (death) — are so closely tied together by this one sign, Scorpio.
There is no true transformation — growth — without letting the previous form die away.
Consider something as literal as a caterpillar turning into goo before re-configuring as a butterfly. Or something as intangible as letting a bad mood “die” so you can welcome a moment of joy and creativity. Or allowing decades-old defense mechanisms “die” (perhaps through some deep therapy or another process of awareness-building and healing), which then lets you open yourself up to the kind of healthy, intimate relationships that can only be achieved through vulnerability.
If we are not growing, we are participating in a form of spiritual death-by-stagnation.
But before the results of transformation and regeneration can be seen, usually the bulk of the work occurs out of view: in a literal cocoon or behind the closed doors of a therapist’s office; inside our hearts or within our minds.
In short, in the “dark.” Such is the value of Scorpio.
When the Sun entered Scorpio about 9 minutes before midnight EDT Wednesday night, it joined Mercury (the mind) and Mars (desire and action) in mid-late Scorpio, and the Moon which was moving through the last few degrees of Scorpio. (The Moon entered Sagittarius at 11:19 am EDT this morning.)
That’s potentially a lot of depth — a desire to go deep and curiosity about what’s under the surface. But it’s also potentially a little “moodier” than the rest of October has been, when the Libra Sun suggested some lightness and agility to offset the intensity, deeply felt emotions, and determined focus described by Mercury and Mars in Scorpio. (For the next couple weeks Venus in Libra describes access to a softer, more balanced approach to relating before it, too, enters Scorpio on Nov. 6.)
If the shift of gears caught you off guard this week, you’re not alone. And we’re still only a few days past the New Moon, which to me describes a gradual increase of energy. Oct. 24 through most of the weekend, with the Sagittarius Moon, you may notice a sense of mobility and momentum returning if you lost some traction recently. Sagittarius Moons describe ideal conditions for getting out and about, and seeing life from a new perspective.
So don’t be afraid of the dark, including whatever may lurk in the depths of your own shadow. Even with Election Day and a Mercury retrograde looming (beginning Nov. 9), Scorpio season is an opportunity of great depth and potential. You’re wading (or diving) into some powerfully regenerative waters.
If you’re willing to let what’s gotten stuck flow away on the current.
Sometimes that can be the hardest part.
If you recognize you’re attached to something that’s ready to die back this month, remember there are people who can help to hold a safe container for you, so you can more easily dive into the water and rediscover your flow. I’d be happy to get on a call with you to see if what I do is a good fit for your needs in that area.
With love,
Amanda
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