“I love you so much that nothing can matter to me – not even you…Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

Since the cosmic orchestra is bringing in a dose of taboo, compulsion and obsession, it felt befitting to begin this piece with the quote above. You see the lover is only concerned with obsession, not reality. Not how the other person feels. Everything becomes irrelevant to Scorpio, except, their very own Plutonic cravings of deep passion and obsession. This need not be a lover only; we see this play out in most fields the Scorpio maneuvers through. The snake must shed its own skin…for it to grow another. This is magick!

The glyph of Scorpio is the representation of the Kundalini force, so this is about a spiritual awakening. Welcome to the relams of spirit. The lands of the dead and forgotten and all things you keep hidden.

“Warrior I am and from the battle I emerge triumphant.”

This is a fixed, water sign, so there is the staying power needed to fulfill those obsessions and get carried away. Mars/Pluto can both get carried away. Mars the traditional ruler, the god of war and the masculine. Pluto is Hades, the ruler of the netherworlds or the unconscious. This place is inaccessible to most.

This is where Scorpio stands singular. Being a sign of death, according to EA, along with Aries and Pisces, this is a sign where you must be burned away to resurrect like the Phoenix. This is the ultimate transmutation.

In a NM, the Sun/Moon are together. It means that the feminine and the masculine are joined together in sacred yabyum or sacred sexual union and there is the potential of birth and Scorpio is the sign of birth, only if we remember to die first.

Birth and death are two sides of the same coin. The same energy exposed as two polarities, but do we surely know, what is life and what is death? We just know the awkward moment in between the two. This is our dilemma, for we have forgotten.

Nothing like a Scorpio NM to dredge up the forgotten symbols! But these symbols, they do not always make sense. For they are from the depths of our unconscious! They tend to torment us, make us anxious, and give us grief and worry, for we do not bother deciphering them.

They will forever continue to be our shadow and when we accept our shadows, either we become the hero or we turn to violence and pain because after all life is absurd and everything around us is in fact just a comedy. This is Pluto’s domain. It can make you a saint or the great hegemonic maniac who wants to destroy the world.

Pluto is the atomic power, from which arises great power or it can totally annihilate. This is what this NM feels like. There is so much hidden power within us and in the atmosphere, that sometimes we feel like we’re being pulled away to our deaths by the strong currents of Scorpio. Each moment can be a death; it can also be a rebirth.

Since we have forgotten most of what the symbols mean, it can be very productive to use word-association as we delve into the mysterious of this NM in Plutonic Scorpio. What does the Scorpio season mean to you? What words come to your mind as you contemplate on this moment. You’ve faced this before, so go back into your head and heart to see what words surface.

Let me give it a try…

Bitter chocolate. Black lips. Deep eyes. Early sunsets. Dewali. Red wine. Hidden treasure. Sexual healing. Orange light in the sacral chakra. Rage rooms. Isolation chambers. Salt immersion tubs. Sage and diyas. Clouds in the sky. Sacred chants of Kali. Womb. Love at first sight. Kissing through the nights under the dark sky. Sea breeze. Ginger tea. Cinnamon sticks. Sex Magick. Tantric initiation. Secrets. Hidden agendas. Possessiveness and jealousy. Kundalini yoga. Crosshatch paintings. Rape and revenge. Unknown odors those feel familiar. Obsession. Makeup sex. Angry sex. A Dominatrix and latex. Black see-through lace gowns. Tarot. Psychic for hire. Nude Psychics. Unzipping a tight black dress. The sound of dhak. Penetration. Brothels and red lanterns in those brothels. A lady of the night. Crisis and emergency. Childbirth and menstrual blood. Bengali sweets. The SD.

My list is endless…just a few ideas that popped up as I closed my eyes and began to think of previous New Moons in diabolical Scorpio.

Scorpio is known as the sign representative of the BURNING GROUNDS or the crematorium and it deals with death and places of the dead, I thought it would be apt to mention that Dhumavati, one of the faces of the Great Goddess who rules the charnel grounds can be invoked. Although never at home, only outdoors. She is the wise crone and she helps souls make the passing.

Like the Odisha Oya, who also rules over cemeteries? If you are metaphorically stuck in this place of death unable to conjure up your rebirth then you might work with these energies.

Oya and Dhumavati both rule over the SHADOW, yes, the great Jungian shadow. It is always good when we do the shadow work, but sometimes it can become a malevolent force. When the Joker faced his shadow, he realized that life was not a tragedy, it was a comedy and he then saw no point in holding up the sanctity of life. For everything became a part of his act.

That is why Shadow work must be overseen by a competent facilitator. Sometimes people hurt other people when they realize the absurdity of human existence. But embracing the shadow should have a healthy individual become more compassionate and empathic, finally embarking on her true soul journey where there is zero fear of change.

In Yoruba, the name Oya means “she tore.” Pluto also tears through the soul as it guides us through the depths of the unconscious.

A prayer to Odisha Oya..

You are the Goddess who helps Spirits transition to the next Lifetime. You clear the way for new growth. You are beautiful, strong, radiant, full of life, dancing and twirling. Goddess of the Dark Moon, Keeper of the Winds and Tornadoes. I can see you all around me when I see my past, present, and future. Please watch over me as I go about my day. Ase! Ase! Ase! O!

The best way for me to meditate this month has been listening to ocean sounds and visualizing waves cascading in the deep blue sea and why not? The celestial drama requires of us a deep baptism or immersion in the element of water.

Five planets and two astrological points are now in water and Scorpio brings the fecundity and the fixedness.

The Sun which is our soul’s vitality, Venus is our inner most attractions and desires, our mind and communicative desires are all together in one sign and this means that there is a rare alignment between them fostering unprecedented soul growth. You get this NM only once a year.

If you’re suffering deeply, then I beg you to look at the patterns in your life. Something there needs to be changed. That is why Scorpio is represented by the Death card in the Tarot.

If you find yourself playing out the Scorpion archetype of Scorpio, then maybe you need to lift off (raise your vibration) to see things from a vantage point like the eagle which is the second totem of Scorpio.

Ultimately when you make the changes, coming from a place of secure understanding and deep investigation and reflection, then you will see that you are experiencing what will feel like a death. Enjoy it. It is the death of your old self. Now you are ready to soar higher than the eagle. Now you are the mystical Phoenix.

Reflect and journal. Dream and consult the tarot. Doodle and meditate. Listen to music and touch yourself deeply.

Venus is in Scorpio and here she is Persephone the lover of Hades. She has now chosen to embark on her descent and make love to her dark lover. Hades is forever open to Persephone and wants her above anything in his life. Here Venus plays with Hades. It can be devilish, but if she heals his shadow, she’s healed a part of the divine masculine.

Organs of the body activated by this Scorpio NM are the genitals, rectum, anus, urethra, genital glands, ovaries, prostate, pubic bone, genes and these genes connect us to our ancestors. The veil thins…

Scorpio governs the sexual organs. Scorpio is the house of Mars, the planet of war, and in sex is the root of the great battle between white and black magicians, between the solar and lunar forces.

The lunar race mortally hates everything that has the flavor of the Maithuna (Sexual Magic), White Tantra, the sacred cow, etc.

The natives of Scorpio can fall into the most frightening fornication, or totally regenerate themselves. ~Gnostic teachings

Mars is in mutual reception to Venus as they are both cohabiting, in each other’s houses. This brings about an easy flow between the masculine and the feminine energies. But Mars is in fall in Libra. Libra is about us and Mars rules its polar opposite sign of Aries which is about ME or I.

Tons of people can feel a sorta resistance to the change ahead. Maybe no one accepts their deep sexual likings or maybe no one accepts their compulsive nature.

It is time to go deep inside this resistance you’re feeling like Pluto goes inside anything it investigates. After all, Scorpio is the sign of the detective. Once you go deep inside you will find the point of discomfort and you will see from where all this resistance is popping up.

Without judgment, release the pain. Say I AM SORRY. PLEASE FORGIVE ME. THANK YOU. I LOVE YOU…resistance will fade away and a deep peace will envelope your whole being. Shanti!

Somewhere we will be acutely aware and mystified by the sheer power that resides within us. Scorpio is usually very insistent on personal integrity and can be a force of great self-regulation only if the compulsion within them is aligned to a higher soul purpose.

Scorpio can be dictatorial and controlling. If you feel the need to control others, then you might need to go deep within. Take a step back, although it is not easy to do so. Scorpio does not know about the step back.

Mercury has already stationed retrograde and within a few days of this NM, exactly on Halloween, the Psychopomp turns retrograde and Mercury or the way we communicate will now becomes more reflective and introverted. Yes the usual tech fuck ups can happen, but this is the time when Mercury goes retro to bring us back messages from spirit and our ancestors. This is Thoth/Hermes or Mercury as the Psychopomp.

“You become what you think about all day long.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson MERCURY RX IN SCORPIO

Whatever you obsess about and keep replaying in your mind will play out in the 3D world, so be very, very cautious. Think of how runners crouch back before they sprint, this is kinda like the Mercury retro, you’re gathering more power before you finally sprint.

Think of how the archer draws back the bow in a moment of total concentration. Think of how the boxers sit down for a moment to listen to their coaches before the match. This is the archetypal energy of the retrograde.

You can expect the unexpected! The wild card Uranus is sitting bang opposite the Scorpio stellium of planets and brining us back electrifying and shocking ideas, news and the whiff of revolution.

The ruler of this NM is Pluto, but also Mars according to traditional astrology. Pluto is in earth and Mars is in air being challenged by Saturn who is like five degrees away from Pluto.

Pluto and Mars are also in a challenge and this can only add to the uneasiness we feel as individuals and as a collective. Squares can be mindnumbing. And we must remember that the South Node or Ketu is also very close to the dangerous malefic duo of Saturn/Pluto. Ketu is ridding us of our stagnant ancestral karma. Cleaning out the epigenetics. It affects fourteen generations.

Mars can be superficial in Libra, but under the darkness of this Plutonic NM, there is no place for superficiality. Strip down to your soul. Take off that mask and feel. Feel raw. Feel vulnerable. Feel angry….but feel…slowly with the help of Uranus things will make sense. Uranus in Taurus is ultimately about making sense in this physical world.

Reclaim your power. This is what is bring said by the celestial heavy weights. Saturn is not your foe, he is your greatest ally. Believe me.

This NM is happening on the 4th degree of Scorpio in the ist decan of this sign which is ruled by Mars. Which is why things can feel Martian, steeped in testosterones.

This is a bit of a paradox since this is the most Scorpio section of Scorpio using the triplicity system. The dark edge to this decan really comes from carrying the weight of the crucifix. The Cross represents one having to bear the responsibility of psychic or prophetic ability. The constellation of Crux is listed as having an ability for divination and two of Scorpio decan 1’s major stars reside in this cross. Being able to tap into other dimensions gives one power that can be used for good or ill. With Scorpio decan 1, it’s either black magic or white magic. They don’t do grey.. DARKSTARASTROLOGY

Now you see how this vibe is so psychic and mystical, yet, the heaviness of the metaphoric crucifix prevails and the Tarot Card for this decan is the FIVE OF CUPS…

Don’t get pissed as I am not suggesting you’re not grateful, but could it be that you closed your heart because of some heavy loss? Maybe death? Are you regretting your path? Your words? Your actions? Are you feeling alone?

No matter how you look at it, there is an all-pervading sense of loss!

Yes the vibe is impossibly erratic, so there is a call to ground ourselves in this fixed, water energy. With steadfast determination, we can get to the crux of the problem and heal forever.

The SABIAN SYMBOL is A Massive Rocky Shore Resists The Pounding Of The Sea…

We have to stand firm and strong in the face of life’s absurdism and all the adversarial energy we face.

All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”

― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

Let the madness dance through you. Feel is and dance with it. Exorcise this madness demon, smudge it away with Palo Santo, embody the cycles of life and death and you will see that the adversaries have faded away. You stood the test of time…much love and blessings.

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