Sun into Scorpio; shadows illuminated.
The Sun moves into Scorpio on October 23rd, at 5.51am UK time. The season of Samhain here in the northern hemisphere, of darkness and reflection and depth. We talk about the veil being thin around this time but I’m wondering if it’s not so much that the veil is thin but that we can see beyond it better. Like the stars, which are always in the sky but only visible to us when it gets dark, perhaps what’s beyond the veil is simply harder for us to perceive in the bright, active season of the year when our energy is focused out into the world. Either way, now nature is in retreat, sinking down into dormancy and the shorter days encourage us to turn inwards too. At Samhain, or Hallowe’en, we honour the ancestors and remind ourselves of the deep cycles of death and rebirth to which we are all subject.
The chart for this Scorpio ingress brings just a little unsettled energy so that we might find ourselves holding on just a little too strongly, or focusing on our material selves at the expense of buried emotions that are seeking our attention. With the Sun in Scorpio, what is normally hidden is illuminated and this can feel challenging, bringing resistance. We push it away, immersing ourselves in social plans (where those are possible) and the run-up to the season of consumption which midwinter so often becomes. Scorpio can be a heavy sign, pulling us down into our own depths further than we might want to go, especially with Mars also moving into Scorpio on October 30th.
The local deep waters where I swim - what will you immerse yourself in this Scorpio season?
But Scorpio is also a powerful sign, bringing courage, resilience and endurance. Scorpio embraces life, welcoming the challenges and the depths just as much as the lighter moments, knowing that we can’t have one without the other. Scorpio reminds us that all of our experiences are valuable and that we can embrace life with passion, tuning into the Scorpio strengths of regeneration and transformation.
If we do lapse into resistance or clinging on, the new moon in Scorpio on November 4th is directly opposite Uranus in Taurus - so we might just get jolted out of it, like it or not! Uranus brings flashes of insight, moments of awakening. Interesting that the new moon happens halfway through COP26 in Glasgow when the UK hosts the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties. For me, Uranus in Taurus is very much about our connection with the earth and her resources so perhaps the Conference will bring some much-needed awakening, a drive to act beyond the usual greenwashing and empty words. The day after the new moon, Venus moves into Capricorn and Mercury arrives in Scorpio - diving deep into understanding and feeling whilst also valuing the practical. The full moon of this cycle on November 19th is a lunar eclipse, in awkward aspect with Venus in Capricorn, so something around resources and structures may come to a head around that time too.