It’s Scorpio season. Welcome to sexy time. Let’s get it on while we’re getting off. Let’s go and come. Let’s merge and purge and regurge cuz it’s sexy time. Scorpio is by far the most disliked and most attractive of all the Signs. Certainly it is the most misunderstood of them all. Scorpio brings up everyone’s shadow, their bowels, their root chakric sex and violence, the violate good/violate bad game. Scorpio is the poster child of the shamanic. It goes deep. It goes hard, with a yin softness that is very attractive. It goes direct. The world is essentially nothing like this. People are horribly indirect and squishy without much passion, skittering at the surface of their experience. Scorpio wants to kill that. Unfortunately, people think that Scorpio wants to kill them. Scorpio wants you to want and then Scorpio flips into sheer denial, cutting off what seems to be life itself. It’s the Mystery, girls and boys. Not to be understood. Be with it and let it flow and let it go.

With Scorpio, you’re fucked, positively and negatively. You love what all that means for you; and you hate it. Compassion and cruelty come together, right now, over thee………. Scorpio’s glyph (symbol) is M shaped with a flippant cock tail on the end. It’s sister Virgo has the same M shaped glyph, but she crosses her legs demurely. Really they are made for each other, though a lot of processing takes place before that can be realized. We are all madonna/whore. We are all innocent rapists. But Scorpio takes the flak for all, ala the shaman. Praise be to Scorpio. There’s been enough trashing of Scorpio! (disclaimer: my Mars is in Scorpio in the Eighth House, which it rules, and Mark is derived directly from Mars)

Scorpio feels bad, for itself and for others. Healing is its domain for that very reason. Scorpio carries the world’s guilt. It attempts to redeem itself by magical, powerful intercessions in other’s lives. Often this is successful and then the Scorpio gets trashed by those that it had assisted. The loop completes and Scorpio is back to feeling bad again. I suggest that you claim your consciousness and clear your karma to end those loops. The higher mind teachings of spirituality only maintain the problem. You unfuck on one side of the veil and then refuck on the other. Clear all of it. The Union of the Opposities – Tantra – is the Mobius strip clubbing of the dilemma. You are not a separation that longs to be reunited. That’s all an artifact of the software of Creation. You are your own being that is caught in the Matrix of splits that want glue, but are not you, ever. End the Game and realize the delight, peace and freedom of your being. You will live passionately but not be sucked into identifying in the passion play of yinyangery. Don’t go fuck yourself. Unfuck yourself.

I could write a whole book about dear Scorpio. Pluto co-rules Scorpio. It crashes and phoenixes regularly, but that’s just the game eating its own tail/tale. The transformation of Pluto and Scorpio requires that you face the shadow, the unconscious so that you can realize your own being instead of running from the bad and chasing the good on the gerbil wheel. Scorpio wants to get to the bottom of it all. I encourage that. In2light encourages that. Bring whatever is unconscious in to light so that you can realize that it is not you too. Ho. And ho ho ho. Remember that the wonderful humor of Taurus is the alter ego of Scorpio. A Scorpio without a sense of humor is in trouble and is trouble. We shall leave the details of our phoenix friend and take a look at the month at hand.

It’s mostly Grand Water Trine month: Uranus in Pisces, Mars in Cancer and Sun and later Mercury returning to Scorpio. Feelings will flow. Let them, let them, let them. They are not you. They can be your friend. Feelings get stuck when we are hurt and are not allowed to let them flow. The very makeup of a human personality is a cult of unprocessed feelings. I dove very deeply in my youth and onwards into these encrusted feelings to get the buggers off of me. It is of course and endless process. I was blessed by the teachings and community of Re-Evaluation Counseling which is a form of highly practical, direct, peer counseling. I highly recommend it. It’s affordable and effective like nothing else.

As the Water flows, it can seem like you are eroding. You are not eroding. Who you are, your consciousness, can never be lost. All the rest will come and go. So let it be. Let the feelings come up. Don’t believe them and don’t project them out on to others. Let them breathe and you will breathe. For the first eight days of the month, Mercury in Libra and Venus in Virgo are in mutual reception. This means that they are in Signs that the other rules. The effects can be great misunderstandings if you haven’t faced your emotional baggage. You can excorsize your anxiety at or on someone else. Not a good idea, but it’s about all that people ever do. Stop picking at your self and others. Pick what you want instead. Get over the loveitis of having to take care of everybody else in great hope that they are going to take care of you. It hasn’t worked ultimately and it never will. Love comes and goes like air.

Instead, be, with yourself and with others. Be with what is as it is. This is a month that offers tremendous insight at every level, if you are paying attention. If you just masturbate the old feelings unconsciously, you get the same old same old old that leaves you wishing for the new, which will be the regurgitated reheated same old same old anyways. It’s called karma. The sparkle is your being, not the new and improved tidal shifts. It’s all iPhoney in the Dream anywho. So claim who you are and play with what is not you, delightfully.

Saturn is opposing Uranus along with Jupiter at the mid point forming a T-cross. Jupiter is moving on from that point, but in the latter part of the month, the Sun chimes in as it moves through Sagittarius. The effect is still prosperous. The difficulty is that we have so often been prospering at the extreme expense of others. That’s not really prospering now is it? Capitalist greed is natural and naturally corrosive. Wisdom is what is obviously missing in the human suckcess story as we wallow in supposed power. When ole Pluto goes into Capricorn next year for fifteen years, all that is powerful, divine to mundane, will come crashing down on the weight of its own karmic ignorance. Lots of people are and will be dying along with all the myriad species that have been extincting. Having more - growth - is also known as cancer, which is why it is the poster child of our era in the first world countries. I reckon consumption, aka tuberculosis, will be marching in right behind to bury us under a mound of gurgling unexpressed grief. Weep and carry on. Be and let go. Be and be with the ones you want to be with. Be and see and express what you see and let that go too. The Jesus is sliding off the Crackers in Armageddon. Heaven help us less and to hell with the notion that you can be a wrong that can be gotten right. Unright and unwrong your shit and play with life as you find it. Enjoy your dear and wonderful self. Let go of power and exercise your inherent choice in a Dream that is not you. Unsects and enjoy sexy time.

This week is generally mellower than it has been. There's readjustments as Mercury just went direct, plus hangover from all that's been shifting. Remember to change your clock on the 4th, fall back. Let things be easy. 11/8 Venus goes into Libra at 1:05 pm PDT. Lovely is as lovely does.

xoxoxoxoxo,
Mark