But here’s a chance to change your mind, `cuz I’ll be gone a long, long time.
— Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
The Scorpio Sun spends this week approaching a square with Neptune in Aquarius. That will provide a practical opportunity to actually feel the astrology. This particular opportunity will not repeat again in your lifetime. It will be easy. It may even be important. All you have to do is observe yourself and take note as the week goes along. Since the issue you will be tracking is the direction and level of your energy, it would be appropriate to start with the source.
Sun is the actual light of day. In astrology it is the archetype of consciousness. In both cases the simple is also pervasive. Right now, Sun is in Scorpio. The solar tenure in Scorpio is likewise plain yet profound. It is a threshold between seasons. When Sun first entered Scorpio three weeks ago, the sign’s fixed quality revealed the preceding transformations while only hinting at manifestations yet to emerge. Now, the trend has inclined the other way. You can see it yourself. With each day the season approaching is more evident than the season passing. As Sol enters its last week in Scorpio, the gradient of divergence will become ever more steep, simultaneously demanding and depleting your energy. That’s what happens at the end of a sign, but it serves a purpose.
Finnish astrologers Kirsti Melto and Raimo Nikula have discerned in the late, or anaretic, degrees of any sign “the possibility to purify the soul so that a new life experience is possible.” That’s the demand and it would appear to be more than enough, but there is also the requisite that “first you may have to face those things which rise from the unconscious.” That’s where the depletion is, and it’s no wonder many of us feel a certain fatigue as Sun approaches the end of a sign. As if that were not enough, Neptune appears ready to double down on that bet.