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Scorpio New Moon 'Scope
What wants to grow this cycle? Your sympathy and compassion. These two words don’t usually come to mind with Scorpio. We think first of its brooding traits, like the clutching, blood-red fingernails of the wicked queen in Snow White – Scorpio’s jealousy, its vengeance, its need to control the show, its underlying fear, suspicion and distrust. But with Neptune squaring this New Moon in Scorpio, the transforming agent for this lunar cycle is compassion. We can dissolve the dark stuff that wants to plan our negative futures by showing our own (or others’) negativity some compassion. Tibetan Buddhists have a technique designed to effect this transformation: tonglen. In this practice, we breathe in the dark and toxic smoke of our own or others’ negativity, and we exhale white mist or moonlight, sending out happiness, joy, security, and ease. We do this for our enemies and we do this for ourselves. We take on pain and suffering, and we send out positive energy. It might seem like we’re trying to be saints to do such a thing, but the real blessing of the practice is that it works a powerful transformation on ourselves. It’s for our own good. The magic lies in short-circuiting the way we usually go about things – which is to hold onto all the good and juicy feelings and push away all the bad ones. That habit keeps our world the way it is. Of course an easier way to compassionately lighten up is to follow the advice of Nancy Drew: “Don’t ever let your troubles get in the way of enjoying a leisurely and delightful lunch,” (from The Secret of the Old Clock). In other words, take time to smell the roses, or the steaming carrots, or the sweet essence of your being. How can you be successful this month? Astrology typically answers
“what” questions by looking at houses. Look to the house of
your birth chart where the New Moon falls: here’s your personal
seed bed. This is the place you usually “do Scorpio.” Every
year at this time, you transform something. This is the area of life
where you can be focused, resilient, tenacious, and incredibly perceptive.
This is where you are your best detective. Each year, during the
Scorpio New Moon cycle, you have a unique opportunity here… to release
something old… to solve a mystery… or discover a secret that only you know.
(If you’d like to explore this is greater depth, you may enjoy my seasonal/new
moon workshop, Twelve Moons. Email
me if you’d like more information!)
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Dana
Gerhardt
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"As the ancients intuited, now is a propitious time to seek the support of our otherworldly allies: departed ancestors, soul guides, and the spirits of the planets, stars, oceans, trees, and all of nature. In other words, it is a time to open and receive from the magical realms that encircle and surround our material world with a powerful field of magnetic energy. The living beings of these spiral realms are always there, ready to guide and inspire us - yet our senses have become dulled to their presence. . ..." (New Moon Meditations) "I often enter the Scorpio season likewise unsettled. This can happen after the explorations of intimacy during the previous Libra month. With Libra’s greater sensitivity to outer feedback, we more readily see just how our lives are in--or out of--balance. We want to get newly organized, make the right changes. Autumn is the time to call back and re-organize the loose, outward-flowing patterns that flourished in the warmer months. As the natural world draws its energy into the ground, we are likewise shifting our focus, to what matters at our roots. ..." Season Teachings
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