Our skies offer us a dynamic new moon seed to sow at 4 degrees of Scorpio on October
27 th . The great awakener, Uranus, stands directly across Sol-Luna in steady Taurus,
injecting an unexpected, liberating, or perhaps disruptive influence into your life.
This external force of change initiates you into the polarity of Taurus-Scorpio: should
you hold on or let go? Save or spend? Protect your personal boundaries or merge in
vulnerability with another? Trust your sense of values or allow yourself to be altered by
another person’s perspective?
Pay attention to how you consume and expend resources during this lunation – be they
financial, emotional, sexual, or physical. Money, feelings, intimacy, and vitality can each
be used to strengthen our own positions in life, to help other people, or to manipulate
others.
Mars as the ruler of this new moon is in particularly challenging circumstances. In Libra,
Mars is far from home and forced to weigh the needs and desires of others instead of
speedily fulfilling his own desires as they emerge. This compromised position of our
instinctual nature emphasizes the dynamic tension and complicated webs that
relationships weave within our lives.
Cutting someone loose and moving on isn’t so simple this lunation. There are pieces of
information to collect and difficult conversations to have. Powerful emotions gurgle
under the still surface of Scorpion waters. The Uranian influence does indicate liberation
is possible, but there is a process involved.
Themes of collecting, analyzing, feeling, sorting, integrating, and discussing is amplified
by Mercury’s impending retrograde station, which occurs on Halloween a few days after
the new moon.
Mercury’s retrograde begins alongside Venus in the final degrees of Scorpio, a region of
the sky that teaches us about loss and detachment. Here is where we disentangle
ourselves from relationships that threaten our personal sovereignty; we do this by
removing our life force energy from these attachments and draw it deeply back into
ourselves, much as the barren trees do through the cold season.
Mars is also in a very close and very tense conversation with Saturn-Pluto, suggesting a
clash between our personal goals and desires with larger systems of power and
authority. Saturn can help Mars though, as Capricorn energy has affinity with both of
these planets.
Saturnian assistance might appear in the form of receiving stern but ultimately useful
guidance or instruction from a competent elder. Given the challenges faced by Mars this
new moon, and the influence of retrograde Mercury and disruptive Uranus, it should be
a strange, frustrating, mystical, and ultimately freeing, lunation.
Surrendering to the strangeness and compassionately attuning to what emerges
through our struggles could be fruitful. You might ask yourself the following:
Where are your weak spots, especially in terms of correct use of energy and right
relations with others? How does being shaken out of your ‘normal’ urge you to confront
these weak spots? What kind of feedback are you receiving from other people?
Generally, a great challenge this month is to remain flexible, as there is much energy
through the fixed signs all month and anyone who is too rigid might ‘break’ when the
Uranian influence blasts through our lives.
On a final note, consider honouring Mercury’s ancient role of psychopomp, he who
carries departed souls to the next realm, by connecting with your people on the other
side. A Mercury retrograde through Scorpio on Halloween could not be a clearer
invitation to expand our sense of relating to those who have come before us.
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