Scorpio wants you to dive deep - but with Jupiter and Venus - it doesn't want you to stay under for too long. It wants to give you the time and space to see what stirs under the surface so you can bring your awareness there .... and you can continue to rise with patience with what wants to emerge.
Have you ever been scuba diving? When you go diving, you have to ascend at a particular rate. You have to have time coming up to the surface so you don't get decompression sickness. It doesn't take a lot of time, but it does take awareness.
You could just rise until you reach the current of the surface, but this physical law says WAIT. It says that when you dive deep, your body needs time to REGULATE the changes that are going underway.
It says:
Rise, wait. Observe, wait. Rise, wait. Observe, wait.
Right now we have the watery taboo realm of Scorpio, here to confront us with what might have been hidden or lurking under the surface, but we also have Jupiter and Venus in the mix, bringing a sense of beauty and widened perspective to ourselves, what we've been through and what we're moving into.
Venus, the planet of love, beauty, fertility and feminine power is paired with Jupiter which brings expansion and blessings and Scorpio follows the same transformative cycles as the Feminine: birth / life / death / rebirth / transformation.
This moon we have SHAKTI in her essence: the divine Feminine force of creative potential, expressed within creation, energy, power, empowerment, movement, change, nature and liberation.
So to say this is a powerful moon is an understatement. There is incredibly powerful Feminine alchemy at work.
I personally love Scorpio (no surprise there with the taboo breaking work I do in the world) but a lot of people find it too intense.
If you feel the intensity; know that it is meant to be felt and observed so it can show you what might need to rise to the surface for healing, growth, transformation or expansion.
If you don't feel what you need to feel it will likely manifest into anger or get further shoved under the surface where it's suppression will distort even more - but if you have the courage to admit how you feel - there's are big alchemical possibilities afoot.
The fruitful darkness we have of this Scorpio New Moon brings us the true opportunity of rebirth. Deep, true, lasting rebirth and re-emergence into who we are to be.
The kind that you don't have to suffer through.
The kind that can just HAPPEN if you allow it to.
Not to say it wont be uncomfortable, painful, wrenching or leave you feeling like Kali just ripped off all your skin.
But it might not.
If you're the mind that change requires pain ... let yourself experiment with the fact that it doesn't have to.
Of course you do have to actually be real with what you feel and if you've been avoiding feeling, been avoiding your wounds, been avoiding the truth, then this might be a really uncomfortable or confronting Moon.
But it wants to remind you that this life is your choice. You get to choose what's best for you, who you want to be and what needs to happen in order for you do become who's ready rise up from within.
Scorpio allots you the opportunity to move into the next cycle, into something that might of felt impossible or unattainable, before, with a sense of rapidity, realization and power.
So know that if you do need to dive deep, you have accelerated energy on your side. What might have take you a month or months or years to get through could be as swift as catching your breath once you come back up for air.
This New Moon might be one of my favorite of the year, rarely do the stars come together in such a benefit and fertile way. We all have the opportunity to literally just decide to be done. To let go. To rise up. To alchemize.
Wherever you're at, the more deeply you let yourself be there and move through it to create space to welcome whats ready, the more you'll be able to transition with the awareness, clarity, optimism and integration Sagittarius has to offer you next month.
Keep trying to go of the notion it has to be hard ... breathe ... rest ... wait ... observe ... wait ... and stay open to the notion that anything could happen :)
Xx.
Ashly
