{"id":62125,"date":"2012-10-22T00:01:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T04:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=62125"},"modified":"2012-10-22T07:39:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T11:39:35","slug":"sun-enters-scorpio-monday-kisses-saturn-hello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/sun-enters-scorpio-monday-kisses-saturn-hello\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun Enters Scorpio Monday; Kisses Saturn Hello"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sun enters the fixed water sign Scorpio on Monday just past 8 pm EDT. The fixed signs are the ones that come at the peak of the season. In Northern Hemisphere spring we have Taurus, in summer, Leo and in winter, Aquarius. These are the signs that host the cross-quarter days — the high Sabbaths of the Pagan calendar.<\/p>\n

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Old drawing of Saturn in 1666, by Robert Hooke.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For those in the United States, you’re about to have a presidential election, one that looks like it’s going to be packed with mystery and intrigue. As I suggested in my recent article about Mercury going retrograde on Election Day, it will help all of us if you pay attention, save documentation of anything strange that you see, and make a conscious point of taking part in the political process any way you can.<\/p>\n

Read alternative sources of news, rather than just paying attention to the big money points of view. If you have a question, pay attention and check the facts yourself. It’s not as dangerous as you may think — except to any point of view you may have that is not based in reality. Go beyond what you think is expected of you, stretch your mind and invest some energy. If you are learning something, you are ‘doing it right’.<\/p>\n

Scorpio time is also a reminder that Halloween is near, which is our contemporary version of Days of the Dead. Costumes and parties are fun. I suggest that you plan to make a trip to a cemetery and visit the graves of your ancestors. Dust off their pictures and remember who they were, and who they are to you today. Call on their support — they may prove to be helpful and will be grateful that you’re paying attention to them.<\/p>\n

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When the Sun ingresses Scorpio, it will join Saturn, which arrived earlier this month. This will be the first of just three Sun-Saturn conjunctions in Scorpio, before Saturn moves on to Sagittarius in 2015. So these are rare and special events, which will help us better understand the nature of this transit.<\/p>\n

To my thinking, Saturn in Scorpio means getting real about the three things that Scorpio represents most prominently. One is sex. Another is death. Last is the exchange of resources and karma between people. These conversations happen in layers, which tend to be layers of increasing honesty, with the intent to heal what you encounter as you go deeper into yourself.<\/p>\n

These three topics are among the most important to humanity, and the most taboo. The combination does not go well. When we ignore it, we end up with situations like the suicide of Canadian teenager Amanda Todd, who killed herself the week before last after being stalked and blackmailed on the Internet. It’s not enough to be ‘against bullying’, or ‘against slut shaming’, both of which led to her death.<\/p>\n

When the Sun ingresses Scorpio later today, it also makes a conjunction to a minor planet called Arachne, an asteroid. This is a point that carries what you might think of as Spider medicine. There is something here about the stories and myths that we tell ourselves about our lives, and with that, a need to check them against some objective factor.<\/p>\n

There’s also the aura of conspiracy. For most people sex and relationships have many properties of a covert operation; secrets must be kept, yarns woven, connections kept under the table. Arachne calls attention to the spy-novel quality of our erotic lives, and the Sun conjunct Arachne calls attention to the truth behind the tale, the myth or the cover story.<\/p>\n

In all these aspects of life, there must be a creative and healing angle, and this is what the charts are describing. With Sun + Saturn in Scorpio, there’s a reminder that this is not a luxury; it is a necessity. As you move through these aspects, remember that existence is not a criminal conspiracy, and you are not a criminal. Therefore you don’t need to feel like one. Yet to get out of the emotional sink of shame and victimhood, it’s necessary to speak out about your truth. Mercury in Scorpio is making that option available. No matter how heavy the topic may seem at first, it will be a lot lighter once you get it out into the open air and daylight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These three topics are among the most important to humanity, and the most taboo. The combination does not go well. When we ignore it, we end up with situations like the suicide of Canadian teenager Amanda Todd, who killed herself last week after being stalked and blackmailed on the Internet. It’s not enough to be ‘against bullying’, or ‘against slut shaming’, both of which led to her death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1734],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}