Scorpio New Moon

Scorpio New Moon — Crossing The Bar

"It's life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all."

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
The Idiot

The dramatic shifts that begin to unfold following this Sunday evening's Scorpio New Moon (11:01 PM PST 16° Scorpio) reach a level that almost seems to represent the revelations of the elusive, intangible 'Will Of God'. We may feel that there has been little warning or preparation. However, what is initiated under this 'dark of the moon' has actually been developed deep within our own consciousness. The New Moon signals the beginning of the shifts although we may not immediately realize what is happening. By Friday, both Venus and Mercury station direct. The direct stations of Mercury and Venus produce significant challenges — perhaps similar to 'crossing the bar' of a wide river as it meets the ocean. Perseverance is required to navigate these 'shifting currents'. Venus is stationing in an ongoing, extended square to Ceres while also making sextiles to Mars and Jupiter, providing remarkably encouraging opportunities for initiating new growth and development. Ceres is slowing to turn retrograde next week (November 21st) which keeps the Venus-Ceres square in place through the rest of the month, suggesting an extended, crisis-driven imperative to produce life sustaining new growth. Next Monday's 1st quarter lunar phase (November 17th) will help us to gain the traction that we need in order to take decisive steps toward the production of that new growth and development. Mercury's direct station — in a square to Juno — doesn't initially offer us much much traction. There is a strong sense that we have more investigating to do in order to establish a firm level of confidence in the information that we have been gathering. Nonetheless, there is also a highly idealistic tone that begins to build this week, as the shifts become more and more apparent. Mars in Leo heads into a slowly developing alignment with Jupiter and the lunar South Node. The building idealism is both activating and inspiring. However, there is also a tendency towards exaggeration and extravagance. We are especially susceptible to overlooking or discounting obvious weaknesses in our idealistic 'visions'. The ongoing sextiles of Venus to Mars and Jupiter also leave us vulnerable to seeking the most optimistic perspective and ignoring flaws in our overall approach. With the South Node involved in this environment, we may find ourselves wasting our resources on 'vanity projects' or other short-sighted pursuits that don't serve our overall idealistic 'vision'. By the end of the week, there is an increasing need for detachment. Mars completes the conjunction with the lunar South Node (following Wednesday's exact Jupiter-South Node conjunction) and fully activates the three-way alignment of Mars, Jupiter, and the South Node. At it's most intense, this destiny-driven alignment is both highly ambitious and dangerously exhausting. A quincunx from the Capricorn Moon on Saturday afternoon increases ego sensitivities to extreme levels. As noted above, we aren't likely to gain real traction or any sort of balanced detachment until after next week's 1st Quarter Moon. In this week's environment, it is especially difficult to be patient with ourselves as we try to determine our 'next moves'.

Sunday's activating atmosphere begins a process that will lead us into entirely new territory that feels quite 'fated' and impossible to alter and may seem to 'come out of nowhere'. However, the seeds that begin to sprout have already been planted by our own insights and intentions. Although there are strong ego factors at play on Monday, we aren't likely to have enough individual confidence to act decisively upon on our intuition. Our patience is growing quite thin and self-discipline isn't easy to maintain but we would very much prefer productive dialog to open conflict. Tuesday's idealism is activating and inspiring but there is also a tendency towards exaggeration and extravagance. We are especially susceptible to overlooking or discounting obvious weaknesses in our idealistic 'visions'. There is increased spontaneity on Wednesday that may have us feeling that we lack any control. It is likely that we are trying too hard to find more information than we really need in order to understand what needs to be done 'next'. There are few clear explanations or 'facts' on Thursday that might provide us with some basis to simply 'stand back' and 'go with the flow' — confidence in our information is where we seem to fall short. We realize that we have reached an extremely fluid situation. Perseverance is required on Friday in order to navigate the 'shifting currents'. There is a strong sense that we have more investigating to do in order to establish a firm level of confidence in the information that we have been gathering. Saturday's destiny-driven environment is both highly ambitious and dangerously exhausting. Ego sensitivities increase to extreme levels.