So hubby and I have been wearing one of those glucose monitoring thingies on the back of our arms over the last week. It’s something a visiting medical friend suggested last week. Hubby, you see, has been in denial about things like that – what you can’t see blah blah blah. Nothing I could say would convince him to face the issue so I was happy when he listened to our friend. (He’s a Scorpio and, you’ll be shocked by this, can be … gulp … a tad on the stubborn side.)

Hence the back of the arm thingies.

I forget mine is there most of the time and have nearly knocked it off when showering each day. It is, however, showing that my blood sugar is behaving itself – something which considering how overweight I am is testament to how careful I am about sticking to a mostly low GI diet.

Hubby’s however, is as we feared so off to the doctor he goes. We’ve had the talk about removing food from our (actually, pretty healthy) diet that is no longer doing either of us any good. He’s lamenting the loss of the occasional treat and I’m reminding him how much weight he’s already lost and just how much I must lose. It’s a perspective thing.

The little back of arm thingies and the data they’ve produced have helped both of us confront both our fears and our truths. It’s now up to us whether we’re prepared to do anything about it.

It’s appropriate that we’re doing this confrontation and elimination work at the Scorpio New Moon. Scorpio is, after all, the sign that rules getting rid of waste – in the body it looks after the elimination of the crap that doesn’t do you any good.

Scorpio is that shadowy place where we pack away all our deepest fears and our deepest desires. It’s everything we repress, keep a lid on, hide away, yearn for. Scorpio is pleasure and it’s pain, with a very fine line between the two. It’s grudges, grievances, and anything else we’re not prepared to release.

Scorpio is where we go below the surface to find meaning, solutions, healing and transformation. Scorpio is also about power, control and fear.  It’s here where Scorpio comes undone. The idea of losing control, of allowing anyone to see the fear behind the defences is abhorrent.

So, you stay safe, you say no, you build boundaries around yourself – to stop people getting in and to stop yourself from getting out. And all the while you fool yourself that in doing so you have control. Until you don’t.

The Moon, in Scorpio, is in the sign of her fall – in a place where she doesn’t operate in a way she feels comfortable. In fact, it is exactly the opposite. Rather than being nutritive and emotionally comfortable, in Scorpio she is penetrative, paranoid and divinely focused. She is also ravenously hungry. Hungry for desire, hungry for passion, hungry for power, hungry for control, hungry for revenge – hungry.

Sometimes it might feel like more than you can handle, that the temptation is just too…tempting. The hunger keeps you awake at night. You dream it, you replay missed opportunities in your head – things you should have said and done, things you wish you hadn’t said and done. The implications, the complications of diving in too deep.

We can do two things with this appetite:

• Bury the feelings deep down. Dig a big hole in the middle of your soul, throw in the stuff that scares the crap out of you but that you want so much, heap in 6 tonne of soil and secure it with a big, heavy wrought iron lid…and a key. Then sit back and try not to think about what you have missed out on. Let the discontent fester as you feed it from the fridge or the wine cellar – feeding all the gaps that were left when you locked your desires away. Create a few excuses – a few logical reasons why you haven’t fulfilled your potential, grabbed those opportunities, told that one person how you really feel about them.
• Strip Fear of the power you have given her and use it to fuel your courage to do the things that fear has stopped you from doing in the past. Reclaim that power for yourself. Eliminate those beliefs, behaviours and people that are doing you no good. Let them go – sure you may miss them, but not for long. Look deep into yourself and see the truth – you can handle it.  Then get out there and do it – all of it. Seriously, how hard can it be?

Which leads me to my final point about Scorpio and the energy of the Scorpio New Moon – death and transformation – and the life, space and possibility created by the death or complete letting go and elimination of what needs to be let go of.

Wow, that’s all a little philosophical and astro-guffy, but do you get my meaning?

Essentially this New Moon is asking you to either do the stuff that scares the shit out of you or bury it. It’s that simple. Just remember – whatever you do bury has a habit of getting dug back up – and then it’s all decayed and manky and even more scary and unpleasant than when it went in the ground. Your call.

New Moon 13/11/23 7.25pm AEST  20 Scorpio 43’