You have turned the cor­ner of the Astro­log­i­cal Year, you have round­ed ’round and met the oth­er in those airy realms of Libra; you have tak­en one anoth­er by the hand and agreed to the begin­ning of “I and thou”, you have thought it through with one anoth­er and come to a mutu­al under­stand­ing or agreement…But it is not enough, not near­ly enough, and so it is that fol­low­ing every Car­di­nal Sign, those eager Signs of Begin­nings, comes this Fixed phase of the Four sea­son­al cycles…And, it is this part of your jour­ney that will take you down into your deep­est depths, where you will face the great­est chal­lenges and reap the great­est rewards.

And, it is said, there is no deep­er depth, no greater mys­tery, than the one you will face and reap in your time of Scor­pio. You move back into Water here, you move with feel­ing and emo­tion, but dif­fer­ent than in Can­cer which was about find­ing your cen­ter with­in, of secur­ing your­self to your Self.

Now you are mov­ing out, out to the oth­er (and inward to your­self). You are seek­ing to con­nect, to join, to sup­port and be sup­port­ed, to over­come that great­est pain in your jour­ney, of sep­a­ra­tion and alone­ness (which is, after all, your great­est illu­sion and comes from your “real­i­ty” of being encased in your mor­tal shell).

You feel the long­ing to become more than you alone; you seek to be two togeth­er who will act as one and so form the greater we. It is here you that you enter those realms of mys­tery, of mov­ing beyond the world of shad­ows of sep­a­rate selves to the greater truth, the hid­den (occult) real­i­ty. You must move beyond your own bound­ed space so to form that sacred shared space of “us”. This deep­est depth excites you and scares you like noth­ing else; and it requires noth­ing less than Courage, Faith and Sacrifice.

Courage is first, for you must dare to extend your­self to one anoth­er. To express your need and offer to meet their need, takes courage. For you have been here before, you “remem­ber” the pain, that they may say “no”, and what we might have won was answered with rejec­tion. Or it might be you who holds back, who dares not enough, who acts out of fear and there­by, in effect, rejects your­self. So from those old mem­o­ries of fail­ure and loss, you might hold back and miss the promise, you might not cre­ate the gift of “we”. Courage is there to move you beyond and into the greater…

Faith is need­ed to cre­ate the foun­da­tions for your courage; Faith is need­ed to form that sacred space of “us”; and Faith is that spe­cial “gift of the Spir­it” that makes it pos­si­ble for you to move beyond the pain and doubt of those count­less attempts and believe, to real­ly believe that maybe this time might be that time. Faith is your spir­it extend­ing itself into the space beyond your­self, to give birth to, to co-cre­ate the shared space that is wait­ing for you and the beloved. Your faith is revealed by the exten­sion of your trust and your will­ing­ness to take a risk, to put your­self in that space of vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty, which is part of the third step you must take to open the way to becom­ing one with another…

Because as much as Courage and Faith may bring you to the thresh­old, you will not pass, you can­not find your way, with­out Sac­ri­fice. For every tran­si­tion, every step in your jour­ney has required a sac­ri­fice. This word is a most beau­ti­ful word for it sim­ply means “To Make Sacred”. To make a sac­ri­fice means that you give up the less­er in order that you may hon­or and so move into the greater. And there is no greater gift than this, to break the illu­sion of alone­ness, to come to clos­er to the truth that All are One…this fun­da­men­tal truth will now be reflect­ed in the mir­ror of you and you who become the “we”.  

To move into the union, to be one with anoth­er, requires the giv­ing up, (con­stant­ly and con­tin­u­ous­ly) of the less­er things in your life…but you will gain so, so much more. For you will find that in this com­bi­na­tion, in the con­junc­tion of I and Thou, there comes the pow­er of trans­for­ma­tion of your­self and your world. And, won­der of won­ders, you will come to know what is tru­ly you and what is not or no longer you. So that in the end, as you move out to meet the oth­er, to join with the oth­er in your cre­at­ed, shared space, as you do this you encounter the deep­er gift, the pearl of great price now revealed…you meet your “Self”.

You enter Scor­pio, the wheel has turned, the days are get­ting short­er, the light of day is wan­ing, (so that the light with­in may be more eas­i­ly found). Turn to that light with Courage, Faith and Sac­ri­fice as you move into your becom­ing, as you quick­en your ascent in the jour­ney that is Life-Consciousness-Spirit.