This all means Venus
is the star of Scorpio season as well. We’ll be reviewing all the material in
the “discard pile” when it comes to partnerships, creative projects, and our
finances. Yep, Venus rules our values, which include our material possessions
and assets. Scorpio represents that “discard pile”; all the issues we consider
dead and buried, undesirable, or even poisonous. It’s all the stuff we put in
our psychological, physical, emotional and literal sewers.
We all have sewer.
That’s where the waste goes, whether it’s actual waste or useful stuff that feels too
gross and scary to deal with. But that stuff never goes away. It just moves to
our cesspool. We need to acknowledge what’s in there and include it as a
necessary part of our lives. We don’t need to live there, but to avoid it is to
invite stagnation and toxicity. This is why we need Scorpio. Scorpio sees in
the dark, talks to the dead, and isn’t afraid to dumpster dive. Scorpio
intrinsically understands that death feeds life and our most powerful medicine
resides in our most lethal poison.
When Venus visits
the underworld we visit our darker sides and redefine, if only temporarily,
what sweetness means. Venus wants us to understand the value of a little pain
in our pleasure, and that being elbow deep in shit today is the promise of rose
petals and perfume tomorrow…if we work with it. It’s time for Venus to visit
all the places that are off limits and retrieve what it needs to evolve. It’s
time to get in there.
Join MargheritaTisato and I on Wednesday October 24th at 7PM at Juniper as we call
in all that is regenerative, transforming and true into our bodies. It
should be an especially deep dive this evening due to the full moon! Enjoy all
the fall festivities and here is a guide for all your Scorpio season
meditations. XOC
EMBODIED SCORPIO
Body
parts:
reproductive system, sexual organs, bowels, bladder,
excretory system and rectum
Key
words:
It’s all about sex, death, taxes. But
seriously: depth, transformation, birth and rebirth, renewal, merging,
intensity, power, secrecy, taboo, mystery, loyalty, betrayal, extremes, vengeance,
toxins, medicine, healing, intuition, absolutes, truth, compost, magnetism, resources,
obsession, psychology, persistence, piercing, occult, desire, passion, control,
debt, recycling, purge, digging
Polarity: Yin. Scorpio magnetizes
resources to itself from sources outside itself. It pulls in.
Modality/Element: Fixed Water. The deepening
of fall. Emotional security, solidifying resources, finalizing experiences, laying
to rest dead matter, allowing the spiritual, intuitive, psychic to emerge.
Finding the nutrients in what’s decomposed.
Ruled
by Mars and Pluto: Mars rules both Aries and Scorpio. We can think of Scorpio
as the feminine manifestation of Martial principals. In place of war, division,
individuality, frank action, physical surgery, and animal sex we have strategy,
power, merging, subterfuge, psychological surgery, sex as emotional bonding.
Pluto is the modern ruler of Scorpio lending the archetypal energies of
transformation, alchemy, and the “underworld.” The symbols are the scorpion,
the eagle, the serpent and the phoenix.
Embodied
explorations:
Somatic or breath meditation on the pelvic floor
or sphincter.
Noticing the breath when its engaged or
released. Strengthening and relaxing pelvic floor and sphincter.
Examining the places in breath, movement or
thought where one thing transforms into another, i.e. the inhale turns into the
exhale, a beginning turns into an end turns into a beginning…
Corpse pose. Commit to letting go. Surrender.
Feeling the intensity of “loading” muscles and
letting them go. Imposing the will onto the body, then receiving.
Sending attention and breath to the intimate
body parts (the sex parts and bathroom parts).
Exploring taboo movement. Are there movements
that our society or our families have told us are off limits?
Talk, physical, or somatic therapy.
Emotionally safe and intimate sex.
Learning movement sequences from others and
making your personal contribution to create something new.
Creating new movement out of discarded movement.
Review financial investments. Pay off debts.
Great time for a space or body cleanse. Exfoliate!