The transits of the Sun and the Moon are something we might take for granted each day. We rise and expect the sun to rise with us. We gaze up to the moon each night and note its shape:sliver, crescent, full circle… we note its light or absence in dark. I’m learning, the older I get I grow more sensitive to the subtle changes represented by the planets and luminaries. It’s as if the lessons they hold bring an even greater wisdom than before. I would even go so far to say that I am much more sensitive to the energy itself as much as the lessons unfolding. My body cycles through clear and evident transitions and transformations along with the fullness and darkness of the moon and the shifting of the seasons. It draws me to take a close look at this one. These last two days of the Moon entering in Scorpio joining the Scorpio Sun have felt like an ocean wave pummeling me towards the shore. My awareness is heightened and my need to be alone overrides all other.
Scorpio is the time of year from October to November when we are drawn to change. Cleaning out closets, organizing and re-prioritizing seem to be forefront on our minds. We metaphorically try to find ways to shake loose of our excess and discard the dead parts that must fall from the proverbial trees of our lives.
Scorpios lessons are of power. How to attain it, how to be integral with it. How to use it wisely and for purposes of “good.” There are degrees of understanding within Scorpio and I am suggesting that with age comes the opportunity to explore its depth. In youth we must search for our power, as women we look outside of ourselves to find the authority we feel we need. We feel the “power” our physical bodies possess and assume its limitations, negotiating for it and at times giving it away. In our middle years as wives and mothers we often find power in our ability to give and support life. We nurture and give to others often selflessly and we know, many end up depleted and often empty. These are necessary aspects of growing and maturing. The lessons learned through self-reliance and self-nurturing bring about the empowerment we seek.
In our aging years there is a deeper sense of power that comes from knowledge and wisdom. It is the power of the magician. In the past we might have called them witch, sorceress or priestess. Today I call it magician. And it is the power that lies within ALL women. Our true power is our ability to act. To make things happen in alignment with our visions. To dream things into reality from our imaginations. In these years of going within and seeking the wise counsel of our inner crone we are capable of incredible things.
Scorpio is the cauldron of magic. The place where transformation occurs and the elements unite. Ruled by Pluto, the symbol of our greatest changes, change we must. Change is integral to future growth. Without the balance of death and decay nature cannot exist. We see it in the leaves as they drop to the ground. In the skies as the light grows increasingly lower touching the horizon. We feel it in ourselves as we naturally begin to focus on releasing and letting go. We feel compelled to brew something, be it a little apple cider or a fabulous new idea.
In our youth we might not notice so much the changing skies as we move from day to day. We do find ourselves responding as the seasons change or to the fullness or emptiness of a night time sky, often less tangible. The energies are subtle, the teachings more evident in our daily living. Even the messages the body sends in response to those changes can often go unnoticed. Our attention so fully captivated by life and often by survival There are so many things to occupy our minds while we are young. Our bodies are full of energy to reproduce and everything we need to care take the results. We bind ourselves to the tasks of sustaining the lives of those we care for and often have created. So much energy goes into these times that we are quite often unaware that we are being so greatly affected on a physical level by transitions of day into night or months into seasons. The new and full moons usher in energies to grow and change. Seasons slip in sometimes gently sometimes with great force. Our responses while we are in that state of survival are instinctual and automatic.
The overpowering wisdom of our bodies takes over as we grow past these times of the procreation and lactation of our lives. We are gifted through the transitions of peri-menopause and menopause with the knowledge to sustain the lives we have created, to nurture the products of our creativity. However, it is beyond the means of simple survival, beyond the suckling of whomever we’ve agreed to care for. It is the next step. We are meant at this time to stir the cauldron of our own personal lives and use the magic we have at our disposal. You can attach meaning to those words of past connotations of witches and brews and black cats about. Or you can look deeper into the metaphor and see that the maturing energy of scorpio calls you to stir something. Stir the cauldron of your life. Allow yourself access to your great mystery and create something from it.
This time of life in which the very hormones of our bodies are transforming. It is not, I believe, a death but a ritual of transformation. And as it occurs so we become more sensitive. More sensitive to the movement of the world and the astrology that supports us. Let this Scorpio Sun transit draw you into its light. Spend some time with a ritual of power. The ritual of your power. The ritual of letting go of the woman you were for the last 40-50 years and be the woman that you are becoming for the next 40 or 50.
It can often feel to us as women that when the time of procreating and lactating (literally and figuratively of course) is over that we have completed our tasks. That this honorable place of growing life was our purpose for being here. Some do this physically and become mothers to children. Others find ways to fertilize and nurture the world around them. It is the very essence of women. AND yet the “crone”, a wise woman fully vested in her soul and spirit are far more POWERFUL than we would lead ourselves to believe. She is what the world is waiting for. Her wisdom needed now more than ever. Let your wise woman out and let yourself see what she is capable of. Her creations more alive than ever, her contributions making their mark.
What possibilities are in your magic pot?
What wisdom do you hold that its time to impart?
