Scorpio New Moon
Scorpio New Moon conjunct Mars opposite Uranus.
new moon template : Radical Mystic
Anne Hamilton Studio draw, 2003
warm—up
For this new moon, grab a pen (a martian tool) & paper, the bigger the paper the better. a sketch book, markers, deep tones. write, scribble, draw. Let the pressure of your hand press into the pen, marking words and shape that call your attention to the connection between yourself, the tool, and the mark.
Feel something. Feel something that is yours, and yours alone. Let it make meaning which can only be understood through the direct experience of it being made.
This is a private practice, a felt-tip prayer, an inner vision. Mark the page with a stream of your own information running from the center of your heart into your hands. Let the sensation of your deepest desire spark possibilities in the heart, cascade down the meridians of the arms. These sparkling ideas flow down into the fingers and pen pressing ink onto cotton. Carving precise fluctuations of the sensations in your body like ribbons to the page.
Notice the words or shapes that leave heavy marks. notice the space on the page that flows & opens to something unexpected. Make note of how you are, here, in this moment, in the breath. This is the beginning of a slow burn, a simmering cauldron brews with nuance and vibration.
Peony, personal collection, 2022
The New Moon in Scorpio November 13 offers an opportunity to streamline the density of transformation through the eye of the needle. This is the sutra, the thread, pulling a new stitch of time. revealing a surge of flow after the south node moved through Scorpio over the past two years and cleared the pipes for pressurized force. Though we may not see the transformation yet, the seed is cycling beneath the soil, planted & poised.
so it goes with new moons… the light empties in the heavens & the space becomes fertile ground for intention.
On November 18, Mars & the Sun will meet for a cazimi. This marks the ‘new moon’ phase of mars as it travels in relationship to the sun. The portal of the double Venus eclipse series closes and we begin to assess the opening of a new chapter. This is one where mars will ask us to become brave in forging a path at the edge of what we know.
As the stars whisper wisdom, we must learn to sense & perceive the most subtle forms of information in order to navigate this terrain. No one knows where thing are going. Poised, drawn into the clear channel of the self (cleansed from the South Node transit), any and all energy alchemizes to serve passion and purpose. There’s a sense of dissolving one’s own delusion into a useful expression. release any force now, what is meant for you is in concentric orbit to you, like the air that fills your lungs. to open, you must first exhale.
Can we feel into the fog, letting it lead us back into a place of inner knowing? As the North Node transits Aries through 2025, this Mars Cazimi suggests we learn to understand our own information, the senses which fire from the bodily awareness… & make sharp, tactful choices on what best serves the most substantial goal. melt the rest into gold. That way… when the time comes… we won’t have to think about what to do or how to do it. We will have muscle memory, and liminal reserves. What we dedicate to now (between November 13-18 and the time & space around this moment) will serve a story unfolding for the next two years, alongside the nodal timeline. Prepare yourself, pierce the veil of what no longer serves the depths of your desire, dissolve what isn’t true into the cauldron. Strategy will be key for transformation, this time around. Earth school in full force.
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love & blessings
Charts
New Moon in Scorpio Conjunct Mars 22° & opposite Uranus 21° Taurus
Sun & Mars Cazimi 25° Scorpio trine Neptune 24° Pisces