Navigating the Depths: Scorpio Season, Self-Tending, and the Promise of New Beginnings
Nov 09, 2023
Navigating the Depths: Scorpio Season, Self-Tending, and the Promise of New Beginnings
How is everybody feeling this week? I’m still exhausted. But for me, this week feels a little lighter. Not necessarily in all the changes we are navigating, but in the fact I feel a little more able to allow myself spaciousness to recover. I feel deeply connected to the idea of recovery, not only due to finally leaving the eclipse cycle, but starting to close out our year of 2023, which has elicited so much change in all of our lives, and on a global scale.
In order to show up as my best self, in order to be able to step into the next version of me that is coming around the corner shortly, this version of me very much needs to stop, to sleep, both literally and metaphorically. In the sense that I need to stop striving and working and trust that my innate healing capacity, which happens in sleep, is functioning and will do so best without my interference of what I believe I should be doing.
Another intuitive I admire- Lee Harris- said that he feels the energy of 2023 is closing out in November, as if this month has more of a closure to it, and December, actually starts to activate 2024 energy. I really resonated with this and it helped me to feel more supported in my need for slowing down in order to prepare for the newness that is on the horizon.
Even though we are out of the eclipse cycle, the astrology is still feeling very eclipse-y. We have strong oppositions in Taurus and Scorpio (where the eclipses were,) creating fast waves between groundedness and simple pleasures versus excavation and depths. As both of these signs are fixed, meaning they can be stubborn and resist change, the push and pull between the two can feel like a tug-of-war.
These two signs are also the self and other axis. While Taurus is being in our body, in our present and engaged with the 5 senses, Scorpio is the second water sign, meaning it is about navigating watery, emotional depths, in relationship. With the lens of Scorpio, this also means navigating how these relationships can be both a mirror and healing opportunity for our trauma, patterns, and more.
Scorpio asks of us to release and rebirth, and as we do this, this inherently shifts our relationships. As we shed and step more into our power, also thematically Scorpio, this also inherently shifts our relationships and we may be seeing transformation play out not only in the self, but between ourselves, partners, and our communities. In all of this, it can be hard to find our footing and, not to mention, what is ours and what is not.
I'm facing this myself. Scorpio is about always digging to the truth, and as I find my own, I have to find my way in expressing that while in connection with other. This is a deepening of intimacy and when we meet that threshold of intimacy, here we may see whether our relations have the capacity to do this- can we deepen and rebirth together or not? Neither answer is right or wrong, but the limin navigating of these waters is painful, either way. This is in romantic relationships, familial relationships, as Scorpio rules our ancestors, as well as our financial relationships and resources. We may be experiencing fear around these things but this week I do feel a hopefulness arriving and a trust that whatever will rise within and with us, is for our highest and best. As we move through Scorpio season, this trust can deepen if we intentionally cultivate it AND allow the spaciousness for it to arrive. This means prioritizing whatever kind of restoration, support, and love we need to move forward. As if you were a baby phoenix, not yet aware of your power and the healership you will one day step into, what will most support your nourishment and growth so that soon you may fly?
I have been resourcing myself with the phrasing- I OPEN UP THE ENERGY. I OPEN TO POSSIBILITIES. I OPEN TO MIRACLES. I OPEN TO ALL THE ABUNDANCE I HAVE PREVIOUSLY BLOCKED MYSELF FROM.
On November 13th, we will have a Scorpio new moon, we will have Mars moving to be conjunct with the sun, which means that our inner archetypes of forward movement, motivation, and ambition, will begin to sync with our inner light and true essence. But while conjunct, there may be moments where Mars is hidden, which mean we may not know what that forward movement is and time will be needed for our core self to illuminate that. This, paired with the fact that Saturn- the ruler of rewards- moved forward and is ready to bring form to our inner work, is why we need to honor the aforementioned spaciousness. It will allow room for the clarity to come in, for the opportunities to arrive (for they won’t arrive if there is not energetic space for them), and so we have reserves of energy to move forward when we are called into our next form of divinity.
I mentioned how Scorpio is about rebirth of relationships, excavation of ourselves within them, and this can be an interesting time to navigate this when the holidays follow shortly after. We have been made raw, we have been made vulnerable once again- Scorpio's biggest strength- but to maintain strength and vulnerability we need self tending so that we may show up knowing our vulnerability is our power. So we may show up, able to witness ourselves, and not let our vulnerability be taken from us again by the provoking aspects of the holidays. Let’s do what we can now to learn how to resource ourselves and separate ourselves from enmeshment, learn what is ours and what is not, so that the next time the waters rise, we have just a bit more strength in our anchor.
It is okay to choose you and your power. Even though relationships are at the forefront, self tending is the best thing we can do for ourselves and for those relationships, because in our truth is when we are also in our kindness. When we are there, in our authenticity and vulnerability, that beautiful scorpionic wisdom within will help us to move forward with what is meant to go with us on this continual journey towards love and self.
Dori
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