Sun enters fixed Scorpio on Sunday at about 2:30 pm EDT. This extends and elaborates upon the season initiated when Sol entered cardinal Libra one month ago. It also adds to the growing number of objects in Scorpio. Most of all, the solar ingress to a water sign alters the environment of consciousness, asking us to grow into a new manner of understanding and navigating the world. In your life, the opening days of solar Scorpio will place an increasing imperative on sound and feeling, on both listening and being heard.
Astrology interprets objects in the sky as archetypes of objects and events in your life. In the case of Sun, that expression is both simple and profound. It is day, without which there would be no day. It is the primary source light in the physical world and at the root of light in the metaphysical sense. In abstract, Sun is consciousness, but even with that it is at once obvious and sublime. When you are working with solar astrology the trick is to be capable of integrating the sophisticated while continually differentiating the basic.
When an object moves from one sign to another, it is as if the archetype changes costume, altering the expression of its role in your life. After Sun enters Scorpio, therefore, its form will remain constant but its appearance will be different. On the physical level, the length of day and the frequency distribution of light will change. That will be an obvious, gradual and cumulative phenomena, continuing the trend started by the Libra equinox. On the abstract level of consciousness, the shift indicated by Sun’s transition to Scorpio will probably be more abrupt, of greater contrast and, paradoxically, more difficult to discern. That paradox can be accounted for by the Hellenistic element that makes Scorpio’s makeup, which is water.