Insights for Scorpio
As the World Turns and Keeps Right On Turning
Here are some insights which, through time, might become contemplations: Each one fashioned using the astrological aspects of the moment. Astrology is the most ancient kind of sky writing. It invites the muse. No two perceptions are exactly the same but any of us can find insight through the images if we look. These are mine, happily offered for you to reshape and fashion into something of your own.
October 23
Sun enters Scorpio: 12:51 AM EDT
It’s easy to blame Scorpio for just about anything. I mean we all know “what Scorpios are like”. Or do we? Maybe Scorpio doesn’t even know itself at least half the time. Scorpio can be mysterious and deep. It invites us to look beneath the surface. It can also be deceptive, manipulative and remorseless. Possibly the connecting factor is the inevitability of loss which Scorpio feels so intensely. We cannot know the true motivations of another but there is a way to cultivate awareness of who can and can’t be trusted. Which is, of course, to know how it is you really feel about another person. To do that requires a kind of honesty that can be uncomfortable. We often don’t want to know what we feel. Maybe the true Scorpio questions these days are things like, ‘How is it we have come so far from knowing our own truth?’ ‘How is it we cannot bear our own feelings?’ When did watching other people feel in made-up situations become preferable to the more real feelings of others: Our partner, our parents, the bus driver, the patient, a child, not to mention ourselves. In a week the Sun will square Saturn and Mars will enter Scorpio. Perhaps it’s time to work on Scorpio themes for a while. If you’re experiencing this year as the ‘rock and the hard place’ this could be a key for moving the energy: To explore the murky and mysterious realm of feelings.
October 26
Venus square Neptune
Sometimes we see potential and possibility in people or situations that will never come to be. If this bugs us and makes us critical or judgy we are perfectionists. But we might just allow for the fact that it is enough to see and appreciate possibilities even if they don’t come to pass. Our reach can and often does exceed our grasp.
October 28
Venus sextile Jupiter
Perfectionist or not today is a time for love and freedom to join together. If there is a game, a quest, a challenge that has something to do with the human capacity for loving kindness, carpe diem!
Love is greatest when it is freely given. Freedom is most precious when it allows us to love fully.
October 30
Sun square Saturn
Mars enters Scorpio
Maybe it’s innately human to want to understand what can only be felt. It can be compelling and lead some to deep investigation while it leaves others frustrated, angry and alienated. Consider that surrender is not the same as capitulation. To accept reality as it is does not mean that we do nothing to make it kinder, safer, wiser than it seems to be. Perhaps we need to dive deep into what seems unresolvable and see what might be learned. There is no definitive truth when it comes to feelings. Feelings are always true for the person who feels them.
November 1 & 2
Mercury trine Jupiter and square Pluto
This kind of sums up the most recent Mercury retrograde period (September 27 – October 18). Remember? You might reflect upon journal entries you made or your date book. You could go back over the news of those weeks. What did you learn or witness that left an impression? How has it changed your perspective? What do you think is possible that you didn’t back then? What do you despair of in a world so heavy with seemingly intractable problems? Jupiter is UP, Pluto is DOWN. Mercury, in the middle reminds us that we need not get attached in either direction. It’s a constantly shape-shifting landscape.
November 4
New Moon: 12 degrees of Scorpio: 05:14 PM EDT
Sun opposite Uranus
Some say, ‘She changes everything She touches’. Others say, ‘This too shall pass’. And of course there are those that speak of impermanence and the great web of interdependence which is always being created and which connects us all. Each of these wisdoms may open to a different (religious) path yet there is no mistaking that these great wisdoms are grounded in the same notion. No point railing against it. You are better off making an intention for this New Moon that embraces the notion of change as the only constant: No despair, no expectations.
November 5 & 6
Venus enters Capricorn
Mercury enters Scorpio
Mercury sextiles Venus
We have a kind of long and agonizing way to go, collectively, till our overarching values are genuinely sustainable. Human impulses toward greed and domination, violence and revenge are difficult to reign in. Might as well start where we are, with ourselves: to observe these impulses from within. Consider how to subdue them by using them in other ways:
Greed becomes the ability to manage resources.
Domination morphs into the notion ‘for the good of all’.
Vengeance turns into truth and reconciliation.
Violence becomes assertive action.
This may not be easy but it’s quite possible, especially on an individual basis.
November 7
Daylight Savings Time ends. We are restored to a time which is more in synch with celestial time.
November 10
Mercury conjunct Mars, square Saturn
Mars square Saturn
Here is a reminder of the rock and the hard place year we are in. You could say that during this time (last week, next week) Mercury and Mars are asking or showing us where that place between rock and hard exactly is: which is to say, the frustrations we have at the chaos (change) we see and don’t see happening.
November 12
Sun trine Neptune
If you’re on this ride: using astrology as a navigational tool, let today be a time of deep diving for pearls of psychological or mystical wisdoms. Pull the plug on the usual hyper-mental pursuits. Think less, feel more.
November 13
Mercury opposite Uranus
Shocks of awareness, thunderbolts of truth are sparking till the Full Moon on the 19th. Revelations can be sharp and disruptive as well as anchoring us to deeper levels of truth; the kind that isn’t exactly supported by facts but that doesn’t lead to violence. The shock of the obvious, an invitation to see the moment as it is. Stillness would help as it feeds our sense of presence.
November 15
Venus square Chiron
Sun square Jupiter
Real but not true. True but not real. We are easily unbalanced by assumptions, judgments, blaming. It’s best to assume that everyone is suffering in some way. This helps us slow our reactions, quiet our fears and act out of kindness rather than projection.
November 16
Sun sextile Pluto
Enjoy the sensation of mastery, yours or someone whose mastery over powerful feelings makes you happy. Somewhere between suppression and acting out is real power. What the world needs now…
November 17
Mars opposite Uranus
The greatest barriers are the ones we build to keep out fear. Those of us living in the world where we take privilege for granted have what seems like a lot to lose. But only if we think of it as a limited resource. Actually these privileges we take for granted, things like health care and education, free elections and housing don’t belong to us. They are human rights that belongs to all. Privilege hoarded is fearful, shared it becomes something else: The better world we all long for.
Perhaps the challenge of Mars opposing Uranus is how it can be that this is not obvious to all.
November 18
Mercury trine Neptune
Let your dreams of a better world carry you toward the Full Moon. This dream of shared resources, of connection to all that lives is more poignant as the season here in the north reminds us that every living thing will, someday, die.
November 19
Full Moon: 27 degrees Taurus 03:57 AM EST Eclipse
Venus trine Uranus
Sharing is a two way street. We give something and we receive something for the giving. Otherwise it’s patronizing. Charity is hierarchal and by now we know that it is also a way for Winners to Take All. Donations to wildlife funds while your product is responsible for burning down forests or polluting the waters doesn’t help the planet or her sentient children. It matters what we give and also how we live.
November 20
Mercury square Jupiter
The basic rule is simple: If judgment devoid of kindness is useless, saying more about the judger then the judged. To judge wisely we must also seek to understand the other person which naturally generates kindness as it requires patience and a calming of the instinct to point and blame. Slowing down the reaction time twixt thought and thunderbolt can only make for a better interaction even if it causes some discomfort in the moment.
November 21
Last day of Scorpio, first day of Sagittarius
Mercury sextile Pluto
At the cusp of the transition from one sign to another, we are reminded of the indisputable truth that change is, that it is more powerful than you and therefore requires alignment (not resistance). Scorpio leaves us with this awareness: Before we look ahead, which Sadge loves to do, might we consider where we have been, what we have learned, and what meaning we might make or take from the somewhat precarious journey from there to here.
