On October 25, 2022 at 6:49AM EDT, the Moon meets the Sun in dark, deep, powerful and intimate Scorpio, giving us this month's New Moon - our annual New Moon in Scorpio. Happening on the Moon's Nodes (widely conjunct) makes this New Moon a partial Solar Eclipse.
Eclipses are a kind of cosmic reboot. Like when we download new software and have to turn our computer off and back on for the newly downloaded material to function properly. Except in this case, we are the computer, and our connection to a changing cosmos gets "reset".
The New Moon in Scorpio is an excellent time to commit (Scorpion energy is fixed and committed) to goals that express the POSITIVE use of Scorpio energy. Focus. Courage. Passion. Plutonian Scorpio learns and grows through loss. We go down into the underworld, and in the end, it's not so much about what we have brought back with us as it is about what we have left behind ....
Scorpio rules our collective 8th house of intimacy - of other people's values, other people's money. Here is where we take the time to understand other people's motives. It's through the constructive traits of Scorpio - focus, resourcefulness, passion, probing, deep perception - that we experience real intimacy. We merge with other people physically and materially.
Scorpio is our fixed water sign. The space our emotions get stuck/stagnant. It is the space of our merged karma. Lunar events here create potent energy portals for making deep, lasting and permanent changes. We will be feeling what we've left behind and what we need to leave behind. Mars, the ancient ruler of Scorpio is slowing, preparing to station retrograde in just a few days, so although this chart's Mercury/Mars trine will be helpful to getting things accomplished, the upcoming Mars retrograde speaks of the need to prepare for a slower pace. When trouble arrives with Mars in Gemini, there will be a need to lighten the conversation, stay versatile and look for the 'source' belief/idea that is likely to be creating the problem. How does our thinking need to change?
Now, let's unpack the chart!
The Moon/Sun are conjunct with Venus at 2 degrees Scorpio. They inconjunct a retrograde Jupiter in Aries. Pluto, ruler of this lunation as the modern ruler of Scorpio, has recently stationed direct at 26 degrees Capricorn and squares the Sun/Moon/Venus (out of sign). Mars, the modern ruler of the lunation is parked at 25 degrees Gemini, about to station retrograde. He also squares the lunation, out of sign. He is moving off his square to Neptune, trining Saturn (also unwinding) and inconjunct Pluto.
The Moon and Sun meet at 2 degrees Scorpio, conjunct Venus. Venus is considered in her fall in Scorpio since she rules Scorpio's polarity sign of Taurus and she is blown out by the Sun. But she is still Venus (!) and still the ruler of our North Node - way forward. Even in Scorpio, Venus wants to cooperate/reach out to others/connect. Pulls those orphaned spaces/our scapegoat stories home. If we have 'over-invested' in something we could be feeling it now.
The conjunction of Venus speaks of a new beginning (in Scorpio, so it comes through a death/ending) with our relationships, finances, values, beauty or self-esteem. Venus rules the point opposite the Solar Eclipse, but she sits with the Eclipsed planets. Something here about our Venusian energies - what we love/what we want/what we have being starkly VISIBLE now. Naked. There is still something in our blind spot, but also an opportunity here to see/feel what is really happening underneath. The stuff we don't normally want to look at about ourselves, our relationships, our money, etc.
Other than the conjunction with Venus, which the Moon makes immediately following her meeting with the Sun, all the other aspects are separating. Have already happened. There is something here about 'dealing with an aftermath'. We might be feeling very nostalgic. Tired.
The square to modern ruler Pluto is separating, but still important and can be harsh. Power imbalances. Big money situation. Merged money situations. Life and death (which isn't always life and death, of course, but sometimes is). Squares are tension/frustration, create/enable situations that require us to take action and to make changes. It is a potent time to let go of resentments.
This Scorpio Eclipse is powerful. Ends merged karma. This can happen suddenly, but most often over the next 6-18 months. Sometimes when the karma ends, so does the relationship/the resource, etc.
It can feel like a bad thing, but it is creating a space for something new. Something deeper/more intimate. Our natal Venus is being transformed, so we can attract different people, things, situations now and over time. Remember where we are in our chapter - things started last spring (and they may have only started then as a longing/an idea) are going to CATCH FIRE/take off in 2023. The things that are leaving now are part of this process.
There is another Eclipse in two weeks. The next one in Taurus on the North Node and conjunct Uranus. Looks like BIG changes with some of the same themes we talked about with this Eclipse and Eclipses are 'times out of time' so events can happen before or after. We could be dealing with the next one now.
Mars is trining Mercury, so we can get alot done. We just need to keep in mind Mars is already slowing to station retrograde. The pace will change. Certain things will need to be pared down in November to lighten our load as we move toward 2023.
We are in the early days of a 200 year air cycle. The beginning of the beginning. This is kind of our 'seed life' for what comes next. It matters what we do now. What we release. What we hold onto. What we start. It matters how this life goes and it matters how this life ends. You are charged with transforming the energy of "enter your birth-date here". You are transforming your ancestors' story/your past lives. Beginnings matter. And, yes, beginnings and endings can be all squished together and sometimes all we can see/feel is the ending. Especially with all the Scorpio. BUT that Venus tells us the beginning is RIGHT HERE, too.
So, we get a cosmic reset, much like a computer being turned off and back on and the program that uploads at restart is a little bit (or quite a lot) different than the one we ran on before. Eclipses change us, and we (vibrating differently) change our circumstances by attracting or repelling what our new self lines up with.
One tricky thing with eclipse energy that I have found from personal experience as well as other people's charts is they often work backward. The thing the eclipse is "eclipsing out" or "bringing to light" or "covering up" can happen days or weeks before the physical Sun is overtaken by the Moon. Often almost exactly one week or one month (or two months) before (or after).
I don't set New Moon intentions during Eclipse New Moons - I think it's a good time to trust life/God/the Universe. These times are fated. The
fears/habits/memories we stuffed under some sofa somewhere, so we
didn't have to deal with them are the very things that evolve us into
butterflies through Eclipse experiences that we would often not choose
for ourselves. We hold on loosely and go with the flow. Eat less. No drugs or alcohol. Inhale nose/exhale mouth to reset our nervous system. Seek quiet. Go within. It's not a time to be making plans or creating strategy. It IS a time to honor our ancestors because we ARE them and carrying their stories forward.
The part II of this - the Lunar Eclipse in Taurus in two weeks - looks rather gnarly and is already in play, too (we will look at that after the Mars retrograde post next). All the pieces we talked about in the weekly post HERE are part of this New Moon cycle, too.
xo all
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