October 26, 2011

12:57 PM PDT / 3:57 PM EDT / 7:57 PM GMT

3 Scorpio 03

Going deep is always part of the Scorpio New Moon. This year’s takes us into even deeper waters than usual.

Emotions, perceptions, intuitions and fears are heightened right now -- all the sensations that come without tangible evidence or reason. Call it X-ray vision, sonar, hunches or feelings; everyone’s got an extra dose of sensitivity at their disposal.

Pay attention to it. Go with immediate reactions, before your brain kicks in and edits, censors or rationalizes.  Honor the tingling of your physical radar -- a tightening in your stomach or solar plexus, nervousness and uneasiness, headaches out of the blue, even excitement and exhilaration. (Radar doesn’t only pick up warnings!) Ground yourself, sit quietly and see where your attention goes. Its stops aren’t likely to be trifles or coincidences.

We’ve got fearlessness to the nth power now, too. This is an optimal time to investigate matters that can be scaring or intimidating. (Discuss joint finances with your spouse; stand up to a creditor or someone you view as more powerful; look into that surgery or will you’ve been putting off.) To dive into the subconscious, or into union with another person. To plunge through the dark and murky aspects of situations and expose truth. To confront mortality, move through loss and grief and connect with the dead. To apply a scalpel to your psyche, your surroundings, your relationships or your life and boldly cut away diseased, withering or dead areas.

Hardly the makings of an Elmo and Disney princess Halloween, are they? Watch the costumes. They’ll reflect that the holiday is more dark, macabre and potentially real than usual this year.

Several factors in the sky are amplifying the Scorpionic intensity available to us now. The Sun and the Moon are in a harmonious aspect with Pluto, the ruler of Scorpio. While this link does not necessarily make the waters of Scorpio comfortable, it does make them easier to plumb -- and also drop the floor far below our reach.

At the same time, the New Moon’s properties are being heightened by a direct link to Jupiter, which expands every influence it touches. And, completing the circle, Jupiter and Pluto have their own direct link, the free-flowing channel of a trine, which is intensifying structural renovation, razing and rebuilding on all levels.

A lot of what happens now will involve cleaning, clearing and purging, with the ferocity and thoroughness of a lifetime’s worth of spring cleanings combined.  Some will feel familiar, or like a follow-up round in a project that’s sat for a bit.

That’s because the same Jupiter/Pluto link colored July. Some of what surfaces now will have a tie-in to that time and could involve returning to and doing another, deeper round of reworking of issues and themes from then. Some of what happens now will undergo reworking in the spring, when Jupiter and Pluto trine once more, in March.

Nothing’s trivial now. Much of what is surfacing is profound and ready for transformation. Tools and motivation are at hand to put ancient baggage to rest, to bury the walking dead and to snip the vines and tendrils that tie us to dead, dying and damaging relationships. Be brave and dive in. Your garden will flourish all the more come spring.

© Kathy Biehl 2011. All Rights Reserved. You may forward this article as long as the copyright notice is intact. No part may be used or reprinted without my prior written permission. Karma, ya know.

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