The New Moon in Scorpio today has commenced its cycle with an opposition to Uranus in Taurus, this saturnian aspect to the electrifying ‘Breaker’ planet like a preamble to the third and final Saturn-Uranus square of 2021 coming up in December.  

The narrative of Saturn and Uranus this year has often held a tension between hard limits and forward-pushing breakthroughs.  It has asked us to reconcile back-to-basics approaches with the ever-confounding torrent of technological utility and distraction alike — the need to sink one’s hands into the earth, into something lasting amidst the glaring of screens and the teetering of preeminent social structures.

Old paradigms of immediate, material ‘worth’ and the valuation of ‘conventional work’ are pitted against rapidly evolving digital powerhouses that seek to further monetize human beings as much as they provide new means of articulating identity or usefulness.  A meme of a meme of a meme, emblazoned with an existential dread both liberated and reinforced.

Some of the slight coldness present in the astrology of even just several days ago has now been given its uranian ‘aha!’ moment — there seems to be a new spark illuminating the psyche, and giving us a more immediate way forward amidst the collective struggles for similar momentums.  Uranus in Taurus might say ‘rootedness is the revolution’, but the answer of late will likely differ for each.  Scorpio asks us to go deeper, to peel back layers, to examine the underbelly of fears and desire amidst the swirling lights and mess of circuitry.

While my last writing materialized with a focus on Mars’ ingress into Scorpio, I had already penned the following observations of the Sun in Scorpio’s square to Saturn in Aquarius, which exacted on October 30th.  Some of these energies endure right now, while others will articulate themselves differently as Mars in Scorpio comes to oppose Uranus in Taurus on November 17th.  Dimensions of the past few days echo with these Sun-Saturn dynamics — the solar centrality of personal identity coming up against hard limits, the light which reveals ambushed by the cold one who negates.  There is a friction of hunger and contrary forces at arms.

Recent tensions of the psyche may have manifested in conflicted pairings such as:

* presence and distance
* passion and alienation
* intimacy and disassociation
* directness and oblivion
* immersion and exile
* alignment and avoidance
* plans and poor timing

Having a desirable prospect within one’s grasp, but not quite feeling like committing to it… not finding the help one needs with a task, but knowing that no one can really help you right now anyway and that’s that; obstacles that feel poorly timed for the poetry of the moment, but the sense that the poetry will fade by the time the roadblock has lifted… these are just a few of the prevalent (or residual) narratives from the Sun-Saturn square last weekend that this New Moon’s opposition to Uranus in Taurus might liberate.

The outsider that defines themselves in terms of loss and transformation; the trauma or defeat that is ‘raised from the dead’; the buried wrongs that come back to haunt — such images are given a fresh lens of examination and path ahead.  One might see their landscape presently lit up with:

* change and suddenness
* desire and ingenuity
* needs and communication thereof
* deviation, but to regain course
* familiarity with a kink in the plot
* layers of security accepting constant flux
* quick escapes from time-binding pressure

Look to the houses of your chart ruled by the Taurus-Scorpio axis for emergent clues about which arenas of your life this lunar cycle may just speak most deeply to.  Along with the Aquarius-ruled, these will both endure and morph as Mars in Scorpio comes into revelatory dialogue with Uranus and Saturn.  Swim well, stargazers~

—A.B.

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