Scorpio season has arrived and the clocks are falling back at the end of the week so we are truly headed into the dark months of the year. The tarot card called The Hermit is linked to the time of year approaching more darkness, (in the Northern Hemisphere).
The staff that the hermit is holding can represent the human spine and the lamp that he’s holding our inner light. These dark months remind us that we do have an inner light inside
of ourselves. The pumpkins 🎃 which we are already seeing in the supermarkets are linked to this inner ‘sun’ inside of ourselves.
I have 3 family constellations workshops booked in before Christmas. Family Constellation workshops are a wonderful opportunity to honour our inner light, including the inner lights of our ancestors. The workshop creates a field and using factual information, for example places where we or our ancestors were born, numbers of siblings in each family as well as any ‘missing’ family members because of war, early death, shame or other traumas, a constellation of our family is constructed in a gentle and exploratory way. Rupert Sheldrake explains the patterns and emotions that arise during the workshop, with the aim of balancing the system as ‘morphic resonance’.
Workshops:
Saturday November 4th, 10am-5pm at Hope Sussex, Netherfield, East Sussex
Saturday November 25th, 10am-5pm at The Friends Centre, Littlehampton, West Sussex
Saturday Dec 2nd, 10am-5pm at Hope Sussex, Netherfield, East Sussex
There are two significant events in this weeks astrology. There is the North Node Lunar Eclipse in Taurus on Saturday 28th October, and the alignment of Mercury and Mars in Scorpio on Sunday 29th October.
Keywords for Mercury conjunct Mars:
Cut telephone wires, Curse Words, Destroyed Roads, Corrupted Networks, Steely Tongued Insults. This is a verbally combative energy and the warning is that it is not a time for casual criticism. Whatever is said WILL be heard!
The Lunar eclipse is a time of high tide, both literally with the ocean but also high tide for our emotions. This is a hard time to balance, Mars is opposite Jupiter. This could be a fierce lunar eclipse. Lunar eclipses, like full Moons, are revealing. They convey the truth in an often dramatic way. They are also much more emotionally charged compared to a solar eclipse, as they affect the emotional body to a greater degree.
The lunar eclipse and the month that follows it are an opportunity to detach from energies, emotions, and even people who do not serve your evolution. Eclipses are the time to break through the barriers, in whatever form they take, that prevent you from reaching your potential.
One suggestion linked to the lunar eclipse and to the Irish celebration of Samhain which are both very close to Halloween is linked to honouring your ancestors. Taking a few minutes to ask them anything or let them know anything that is important to you.
Apparently eclipses are times when our ancestor’s energy is close to us. My dad died in April 2020 on an eclipse and it was then that an Astrologer told me eclipses are special times when our ancestors can make themselves more felt, apparently the veil is thin between the physical and spiritual. Eclipses signify endings- my dad certainly chose a powerful time to end his time in hs physical body and go who knows where? But he is still present in my dreams occasionally.
Eclipses do not of course always signify death, just as the card for Scorpio season does not traditionally represent death of a person. It can represent death of bad patterns, of certain relationships that do not help us, of behaviours that are not helpful. And with endings of course come new beginnings. I hope we all find some lovely new beginnings after honouring our ancestors, because without them and all their challenges we wouldn’t be here! (It looks as though the people in the card below could be giving offerings to their ancestors?)
Sources : Astrologyking.com, Michael Tsarion, Rupert Sheldrake, The Astrology Podcast. Astrobutterfly. Fiona Aedgar