Here we are, Friday night, upcoming holiday, all is not well and all hell is breaking loose. We can tell by the increasingly irate tone of the tweets and the weird FB postings from nowhere featuring porn and skinned animals. It’s Scorpio all right!!
The legacy of Scorpio is that it is time of the Fall; not autumn, I mean the Big one, the one where we listened to the advise of a serpent (Serpens sits on the first decan of Scorpio, right on the ecliptic) and got whacked right out of the Garden by its poisoned tail. If we are of a more scientific bent, we can put our fingers on the craters of the moon, the half-frozen and half-scorched moon Iapetus, or on Chixsalub, and know for a fact that Something Awful happened here. The lunar holiday of Halloween, which celebrates the dead, or Death, occurred under Scorpio. When the Pleiades cross the sky meridian under Scorpio we know that we are safe from destruction, for another fifty-two years; tradition tells us that the Seven Sisters withheld their light as Atlantis sank, that Halloween night, 10, 000 BC. In the sacred Tarot Scorpio is Death, the all-conquering skeleton on a white horse with his scythe. All that is dark, damned, doomed, decaying or damaged belongs to Scorpio.
So no wonder the shit is hitting the fan double time!!
I like to point out that without death there is no new life in the spring, no rebirth, no chance of resurrection. But, I am an overly optimistic Pollyanna.
This year, of which we will long recall recession, and resurgent marxism, and swarming streets stinky of pot and human pee, Scorpio is serving up a triple threat to our sense of well-being. Many of us have already felt this, hence, the irate tweets and FB trashings. Thank God for the edit and delete buttons though; you may want to hit them repeatedly as Mercury, the orb of communications, goes retrograde in Scorpio this Wednesday, Thursday morning on the east coast.
Mercury retrograde in Scorpio is a dangerous trend; not only do we say things which we will profoundly regret, but things we have already said in the past do come back now to haunt us. Sometimes it’s a well-intentioned lie; sometimes a promise never intended to be kept. Sweet nothings uttered in the deep quiet dark erupt into cold hard daylight. Secrets, skeletons, and dirty laundry sweep themselves out of closets, and every murder will out, even if it happened in 1963. As Scorpio is a financial sign, and Mercury is fleet, our money disappears down a drain!
Simultaneous with the retrograde, our delight of the zodiac, Venus, shoots away from Scorpio and her erstwhile companion into straight arrow Sagittarius. She wants to get as far away from this foul-mouthed screamer of secrets as she can!! With the Golden Girl in the sign of foreign affairs, schooling, and the Law, romance and friendship seems to flounder. Relations which had been going pretty well suddenly explode; betrayals rip apart old alliances. Worst, our pockets are always in hock in the generous sign.
The next day is Thanksgiving, our own Jovian holiday. Saturn will balance itself into Libra the Scales just as the sun rises in Scorpio. It almost seems that this could be a test on our capacity for gratitude!! I expect some interesting turns of events in connection with the Karmic Judge presiding in Libra, dispensing Divine Justice. That this begins under a Mercury retrograde in Scorpio lets us know that the least word, the lightest deed, even the best hidden, are open for weighing.
As always, there is a bright side to this. The retrograde, the fleeing of Venus, and Saturn sitting down to our Thanksgiving feast coincides with the new moon, of course in Scorpio. At 1010PM Pacific, or 210AM eastern Friday morning, we can light a scarlet and black candle, wearing chain mail, or a decorative pin in a pinch, and etch in black ink those traits of Scorpio we wish to develop in our soul garden.
Why the hell would we want to plant such seeds in our soul??
Scorpio is strong, physically and tough mentally; Scorpio is intense, determined, persistent, independent, and innately strategic. Scorpio manuevers for the best possible shot and thinks ahead. Scorpio is motivated internally, and Scorpio achieves his end, no matter the pain, no matter the sacrifice, no matter how long or hard the challenge. Scorpio wins. Scorpio is a leader of power-hungry people and manager of powerful forces, most of them subterranean, or subconscious. Scorpio is intuitive enough to navigate the dark waters and avoid the predators, whose hungry nature Scorpio knows. Laying fallow, unused, unlovely, unkempt, Scorpio develops perceptive abilities and sensitivities that some would describe as terrifying. Scorpio survives, and rises again, and again.
A grand lesson, that! Scorpio teaches us to survive all the chaos and meanness and hardness of heart which we ourselves have generated. There is no better time to seek forgiveness, make atonement, research the past, read history, investigate past life regression, explore Otherwhere, experience survivalist training, reconnect with old friends and former residences, delve into the mystic arts, or root out the hidden causes of what ails us, personally or as a Race.
Hidden underneath it all, Scorpio has a priceless jewel of a heart.
