New Moon November 1, 2024, 10.46pm AEST  9 Scorpio 35

I recall the last time there was a Scorpio New Moon this close to Halloween – 31 October 2016 (Sydney time). That New Moon fell at 7 Scorpio, and I remember writing about getting rid of waste, eliminating the crap, and banishing the unbanishables.

We were in the process of making a massive decision – one that would see us facing all our fears and packing up and moving out of Sydney. It had been a tough year and the decision we’d made was a drastic solution to a complex problem, but by facing everything head-on, with the hindsight of seven years I can say it’s worked out.

The crap I’m looking at eliminating this time round isn’t associated with packing up a house we’d spent 18 years in, it’s more around habits that are preventing me from moving forward.

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 focused. She is also 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. As the Men at Work song “Overkill” goes, ghosts appear and fade away… a line which is appropriate for this time of the year.

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. Let go of those beliefs, behaviours and people that are doing you no good. 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. Now, if that image doesn’t scream Halloween, I don’t know what does!

Anyways, the chart is below.

Aside from the lovely grand water trine between Mars, Neptune and Mercury, the big thing you’d notice here is the opposition between the two rulers of this New Moon – Mars and Pluto.

This is one tough opposition, and I don’t know about you, but the tension in the air is palpable. Sure, this one is an intense (as is everything in Scorpio) struggle about power, control and domination – and we can all see that being played out on the world’s stage right now. This, however, is a politics-free zone so I won’t say more on that.

On a more personal level, it doesn’t have to be disastrous – even though my Scorpio husband reminds me that revenge is a gift worth waiting for. (I only half-jest…)

The thing is, if you use this energy well (the passion of Mars and the power of Pluto) you can bring about transformation and regeneration. The key to this lies in that grand trine I mentioned earlier. The tension in this opposition is eased by supportive aspects to both warriors by Neptune and Mercury, helping you to find a way to heal and possibly even forgive. It sounds trite to say it, but with the tension building over the next couple of days, choose your actions (and your words) wisely. It might require you to step back off your high horse rather than (as my mother would say) throw the baby out with the bath water or bite your nose off to spite your face (she has many many more of these sayings) to find a solution. This doesn’t have to mean you’re giving away your power, but rather that you’re choosing to use it for good.

Anyways, I’ve prattled on way longer than I intended, so I will leave it there. As you were…