I love this archetype. It is so powerful, so tragically misunderstood. And so timely!! We are heading into an 18 month Lunar Node cycle with Scorpio at the south and Taurus at the north. So get ready, folks. If ya thought 2020 and 2021 were intense!! Ha. Next years theme? DEATH AND REBIRTH. It's gonna get deep.
So let's take a moment, at this New Moon of Scorpio, to explore the archetype.
Tomorrow at 5pm EST Moon joins Sun at 12 degrees Scorpio, opposite Uranus at 12 Taurus. In today's video I explain what this means and how to work with it. I also explain what the ESSENCE of Scorpio is, from an evolutionary and esoteric lens. The video is 21 minutes... but you can likely get the gist if you commit about 12. I know everyone's time is limited. Have a look if inclined. If not, please read on and I'll piece out a bit of this archetype.
“Only if we venture repeatedly through zones of annihilation can our contact with Divine Being, which is beyond annihilation, become firm and stable. The more a man learns whole-heartedly to confront the world that threatens him with isolation, the more are the depths of the Ground of Being revealed and the possibilities of a new life and Becoming opened. "
–The Way of Transformation, Karlfried Graf von Durckheim
Scorpio is about initiation. Alice Bailey calls this archetype the place where we are 'reborn' onto the path of discipleship, ready to move to into soul alignment in Sagittarius. In Scorpio, we engage in tests that allow us to merge our soul and personality, and ultimately to have a right relationship to power, within our self and with others.
But getting to a state of union between higher and lower self? That takes work. And testing. We need to PROVE ourselves, again and again. That we are strong in the face of temptation.
Scorpio is where this battle is waged, these tests are taken.
I had an initiatory dream in June. It speaks metaphorically to the Scorpio archetype, so I would love to share it. (I run a lot of Scorpio process, in my natal chart... which is why I am a Plutonic astrologer.)
Okay, the dream.
Essentially, I came face to face with Satan. This may sound strange, but it is the 2nd time it has happened. The first was in 2010. 11 years ago I was too scared to face evil. I literally woke myself up in a cold sweat, more afraid than I had ever been. But this past June? Something was different. A part of me had become so strong that meeting pure evil didn't phase me for a second.
There I was, in the dream, and this force that I knew was the Devil tempted me with literally everything I have ever desired. We're not talking fast cars and fancy houses. We are talking karmic things. Cravings that go on deep in my inner self, that only I know. My inner weaknesses and the places I fall down. 'Satan' offered to sooth these raw wounds, to fulfill them, to satisfy their hungers. He kept showing me scenarios, granting every wish my lower self could concoct. And through the whole thing, all I kept doing, again and again, was repeating the name of God. Literally over and over and over, for what felt like hours, I simply stood in alignment with Source, affirming it with my Word, and trusting there is nothing I need and no more I want, than that.
At one point a demon merged with my body and showed me what it would feel like to be possessed. Though it felt disgusting, I still did not succumb to fear. I powered on, my intention ferociously on Source. My will force, completely and absolutely 100% aligned to higher Truth.
It was like an archetypal battle with evil.
And I won.
The integration of that experience is ongoing. Every day, I am more strongly aligned with what my HIGHER self wants, rather than my lower. It's like I am being asked to lead with absolute faith. And when I need something? I go IN, I deepen, and I talk to the Universe. We have a conversation about it. Me and my soul. We negotiate, and come to an agreement. There is no need in my body for lust, desire, jealousy, anger, fear, shame. Though these reverberate in me, I work with each emotion as it comes and hold it to the light. I share it with God. I love it. I love myself. I deepen into simplicity, into humility, and into Grace.
Like Hercules, holding up the Hydra into the light of the Sun, I offer my darkness upward.
This is Scorpio work. This is alchemy. All of us do this. ALL OF US BATTLE OUR DEMONS. ALL OF US BATTLE TEMPTATION. ALL OF US ARE TESTED. EVERY SINGLE DAY.
This has NOTHING to do with Christianity. Though this was the way these archetypal forces played out, in my dream, please don't get hung up on the symbols. Go to the PRINCIPLE. The energetic Truth.
This is about choice, and Scorpio is where we make it. Where we CHOOSE what part of our self we want to give power to.
It's all Self. And it's all a choice. This is simply how we evolve. Whenever you choose to break a habit, an addiction, an obsession, a thought form, a belief? You are engaging in alchemy. You are DYING and being REBORN. You are playing in Scorpio territory.
The New Moon tomorrow is an invitation into this process.
These are the questions I would ask:
What does my soul want me to CHANGE? To TRANSFORM? What in my life is ready to DIE?
How can I engage with my higher self, with my SOUL, to focus my powerful intent toward moving beyond limitation and growing into MORE? More authenticity, more alignment, more joy, more health, more abundance... whatever it is, tomorrow is an opportunity to engage with that potential inside. To ask VERY HONESTLY what is in your highest good. And to faithfully declare your seed of transformation!
This New Moon, and this Lunar Cycle, will support you.
