Scorpio is not just about the nether regions of your body or hell itself. It's also about the nether regions of your psyche and your heart. At this full moon light is shed on the things we hide from ourselves and others. We have conversations about the things we never wanted to talk about. We face desires we wish we didn't have. But, there they are.
It's a time when we get stripped down and scrubbed sparkly—a big, sexy slough of old identities, fake smiles, and toxic secrets collects at our feet.
It's a time when we get stripped down and scrubbed sparkly—a big, sexy slough of old identities, fake smiles, and toxic secrets collects at our feet.
We step out into the world, exposed.
Personally, I like a good scrub. Inspect my bathroom and
you’ll find all manner of exfoliant, loofah, and body brush. Once in a while
I’ll treat myself to a microdermabrasion facial. It’s just a very deep
exfoliation that’s done with a diamond-tipped wand (doesn’t hurt). This wand
removes dead skin cells and makes microscopic cuts in the skin that cue the
skin’s own regeneration process (it lives!). The removal of dead cells reveals
brand new skin that can breathe and absorb whatever it comes into contact with
more deeply (so hopefully you’re putting good, nutritious stuff on your skin).
I know, not exactly a conversation for the dinner table…dead
skin, clogged pores, and all. But, that’s Scorpio. Scorpio has no use for
anything superficial; it wants to know what’s underneath. It has the stomach
for all the gory details, and always wants to “go there.”
“The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because
the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”--Hunter
S. Thompson (Mars in Scorpio 8th house trine Sun-Pluto conjunction,
moon 8th house. That’s a lot of Scorpio)
A Scorpio full moon is always opposite a Taurus sun and
sheds light on this dynamic:
| Taurus | Scorpio |
| Amassing | Sharing |
| Control | Release |
| My $tuff | Our $tuff |
| Accept at face value | Nothing is as it seems |
| Leave well enough alone | Intervene |
| Preserve | Transform |
| Holding | Elimination |
| Constipation | Diarrhea |
Yeah. I went there. Couldn’t help it. It’s such a perfect example
of the extremes between Taurus and Scorpio. Everyone can relate to these body
functions, and the metaphors can go on ad nauseam. Poop is also fitting because Scorpio
rules the waste disposal process and reproductive organs. Yeah, all that “down
there” stuff. Most people think of Scorpio as the sexy sign, which it is, but we
forget it also rules forensics, investment banking, psychology and death. Believe
it or not, these things have EVERYTHING to do with the KIND of sex Scorpio
wants to have.
There are a million ways to do sex that are healthy and fun,
and may or may not involve physical penetration (jeez, do we as a culture get
hung up on phallic penetration as the defining act of sex or what), and may or may not involve other people. There’s recreational
(Leo) sex, sensual (Taurus) sex, affectionate (Libra) sex, animal (Aries) sex,
and on and on. The kind of sex Scorpio wants to have is going to cost you
something. Now before you get all proud of yourself because it’s so easy for
you to share, chances are that if it’s that easy, it’s not actually costing you
anything. When something costs us, we’re talking about loss, our sense of
security—being vulnerable. Scorpio wants the parts of you that are hardest for
you to part with. The price is high
because what Scorpio offers in return is new life and higher power. I think
that’s fair. Except when it’s not. Unchecked Scorpio energy manipulates in the
name of absolute power. It can become obsessed with power, and boy is it
shrewd and ruthless.
There must be stakes or else Scorpio is not interested. If Scorpio
doesn’t walk out of an interaction a different person with a whole new
perspective on life---if they didn’t leave a chunk of their soul behind or take
a chunk of your soul with them, don’t expect to see them again. Anything short
of a religious experience won’t be worth the effort. The Scorpio sex-perience
needs you to invest---give up a precious part of yourself in the name of a merger
that’s transformative. Through this merger, Scorpio is scrubbed clean with
diamond blades. It dies unto itself so it can regenerate with tender new skin
and be penetrated. Scorpio sex is alchemical. It is the penetrator and the penetrated—the
scalpel and the incision.
Scorpio also has x-ray vision and wants what you got. The psychotherapist
needs YOUR deepest feeling/thought material to create new solutions, the
investment banker needs YOUR hard earned assets to turn them into something
bigger, and a detective would be out of job without YOUR secrets to uncover. In
the wrong hands, this ability to work with other people’s stuff can lead to
ttrademark Scorpio jealousy.
Hence, typical reactions to Scorpionic people and situations:
“You see right through me. It feels so good to be seen,
warts and all. It feels so good to trust. I want to bare my soul to you. Tell
you all my secrets.” Or, “You see right through me. Get the fuck away
from me. That’s not for anyone to know but me. You’re intrusive and
creepy.”
Where might you fall on the possession/power axis that is
Taurus-Scorpio? Right around this time
we’re likely to go to one extreme or the other. This full moon should reveal
how much exposure you can stand (emotionally, financially, psychologically) and
how close you’re getting to the edge. There’s no tightrope walking during a Scorpio
full moon. You either jump into to the abyss or retreat into familiar
territory. All or nothing. High stakes.
This full moon chart speaks to the closing of a chapter. The
full moon (fruition) in Scorpio (death/rebirth) sextiles Pluto (modern ruler of
Scorpio), and is accompanied by the changing of the lunar nodes on the
Virgo-Pisces (final rest) axis. We’ve been exploring our capacity wake
up-and-deal and retire-and-heal for 18-months. We’re sure to feel a palpable
shift as the nodes move onto the Leo-Aquarius axis. The nodal shift and the
apex of the full moon happen within 24 hours of each other. Something in you or
your life is wrapping up. Can you feel what it is? And, no. You are not exempt
from Scorpio. It’s represented somewhere, to greater or lesser degrees in
everyone’s chart.
We’re all made of the same stuff…just put together
differently. It’s YOUR job to find how your relationship to the world works.
It’s YOUR job to uncover all the ways you’re similar to your fellow humans,
animals, plant life, and cosmos.
That’s astrology. It’ll
cost you some effort---maybe a leap of faith and imagination. The rewards are
plenty.
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