{"id":6514,"date":"2019-10-27T13:29:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T18:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/priestessyourlife.com\/?p=6514"},"modified":"2019-11-26T14:14:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T20:14:10","slug":"new-moon-in-scorpio-tending-to-the-depths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/priestessyourlife.com\/new-moon-in-scorpio-tending-to-the-depths\/","title":{"rendered":"New Moon in Scorpio: Tending to the Depths"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the New Moon in Scorpio, which was exact on:
\nSunday 27th October, 10.39pm (CDT)<\/em>
\nMonday 28th October, 3.39am\u00a0(GMT)<\/em>
\nMonday 28th October, 2.39pm\u00a0(AEDT)<\/em><\/p>\n

The Water sign of Scorpio represents our need for deep\u00a0involvements and intense transformations<\/strong>\u00a0(this is a definition from traditional astrologer\u00a0Demetra George<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n

Scorpio is the\u00a0Healer<\/strong>, the\u00a0Sorcerer<\/strong>, the\u00a0Detective<\/strong>, ever seeking that which lies beneath. These folk live the knowing that\u00a0everything is connected to everything else<\/strong>. 🧙‍♀️<\/p>\n

Scorpio is us, kitted up with breathing apparatus (or perhaps even free-diving), jumping into deep, icy(?) water,\u00a0boldly journeying into the Dark<\/strong>, knowing we will be\u00a0Changed\u00a0<\/strong>by the experience. 🤿<\/p>\n

The intensity of Scorpio takes\u00a0guts<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

Skillfully expressed, this energy is all the promise of\u00a0Regeneration<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Unskillfully expressed, this energy is all the damage of\u00a0Abuse of Power\u00a0<\/strong>(because we are vulnerable in the depths)<\/p>\n

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Tending to the Depths<\/h2>\n

I\u2019ve had a new understanding, this New Moon, of this human need for\u00a0deep involvements and intense transformations<\/em>, which felt worthy of unpacking here in words, even though I feel this \u2018New Moon moment\u2019 is running away from me, and I am \u2018late\u2019 with this missive!<\/p>\n

Very recently my husband and I instigated a\u00a0fortnightly space of ‘deep involvement’\u00a0<\/strong>to tend to ourselves and our family. We take 70 minutes, bookended by a 5-minute meditation and some candle-lighting, and use this time to talk through questions, conflicts, future plans, and the subtleties of our emotional experience in this relationship.<\/p>\n

The last two \u2018gatherings\u2019 we\u2019ve talked a fair bit about my\u00a0menstrual cycle<\/strong>\u00a0and the\u00a0lunar cycle<\/strong>. I find the day before I bleed, and the day before and day of the Dark Moon \u201cemotionally challenging!\u201d<\/p>\n

Wondering if you can relate?!<\/em><\/p>\n

Anyway, what I\u2019m finding fascinating is that these intense menstrual\/dark moon experiences have rolled around every month for the entire fifteen years of our relationship, and yet we\u2019ve never brought this kind of\u00a0shared curiosity<\/strong>\u00a0to them \u2013 both in terms of a desire to understand the other\u2019s experience, and a desire to live these times with more Grace (haha, or maybe less of me, not sure!).<\/p>\n

Emerging from my \u2018menstrual lament<\/a><\/strong>\u2019 last month, we\u2019ve been dialoguing what\u00a0extra support during my bleeding time<\/strong>\u00a0might look like. For example. the possibility of my husband cooking dinner on Day 1 or 2, even if it\u2019s my \u2018turn.\u2019<\/p>\n

What seems crazy is I\u2019ve journeyed this menstrual\/cyclical space consciously for years now, and yet this feels like a\u00a0brand new conversation<\/strong>. The ‘story’ that I need to do it on my own runs so very deep.<\/p>\n

What is also crazy yet understandable is that, in living the possibility of being more supported during this time, I was\u00a0immediately in tears<\/strong>\u00a0with a ‘why me?’<\/i>\u00a0feeling. I felt my female ancestors stretching back in time,\u00a0making do<\/strong>, coping, getting on with things.<\/p>\n

Who am I to mark this time on the calendar, setting it apart from \u2018regular life,\u2019 and requesting more support?<\/em><\/p>\n

I have to acknowledge my vulnerable edge around receiving this kind of love, and my deliberate shying away from it.<\/p>\n

This fortnightly meeting has also been a space to hear more of my husband\u2019s experience of the\u00a0predictably unpredictable<\/strong>\u00a0terrain we walk during these times of the month. I can commiserate with him having to negotiate a highly sensitive, inflexible, easily offended person a few times a month (at least)!<\/p>\n

Where are the gifts, the creative possibilities, in these spaces?
\nAnd how can we both care for each other, during these times?<\/i><\/p>\n

In these \u2018watery depths<\/strong>\u2019, diving together into the ‘dark,’ our courage to even ask these questions is being rewarded with many\u00a0creative possibilities\u00a0<\/strong>and I come away feeling hopeful, which is a shining gift in itself!<\/p>\n

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Safe Containers for Deep Diving<\/h2>\n

It has been nourishing, enlivening and inspirational to tease out these subtle, nuanced threads, to\u00a0tend to our living with deep attention<\/strong>, in order to transform our experience.<\/p>\n

To the point that our gatherings are now referred to as\u00a0foreplay<\/strong>, haha!<\/p>\n

And like I said, it\u2019s given me a new insight into this Scorpionic need that is part of the human experience, to be deeply engaged with.<\/p>\n

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My husband is not a deep-diver by nature<\/strong>, not unless the fun is guaranteed. Whereas I am, can’t help myself.<\/p>\n

I have a (bad) habit of failing at surface conversation<\/strong>, or yanking it down to a level I\u2019m more comfortable with.<\/p>\n

(And my father was a diver with the Navy reserve, so maybe I come by it honestly!)<\/p>\n

For me,\u00a0deep engagement = love<\/strong>. But at the same time, I shy away from it, cos it can be intense.<\/p>\n

It’s like I want to feel deeply known in the form of a subtle sideways glance or fleeting hand on the shoulder. What a conundrum!<\/p>\n

Wondering if you can relate?!<\/em><\/p>\n

So, I feel the generosity of my husband’s willingness to be ‘deeply involved’ with me in a way that isn’t his preference. I don\u2019t take it for granted.<\/p>\n

I also hope and know that he is being unexpected nourished by these depths.<\/p>\n

To continue the diving analogy, perhaps the underwater surveyance of our\u00a0sunken shipwrecks<\/strong>\u00a0is more life-giving and less dangerous than he expected.<\/p>\n

What has made the difference is the creation of a\u00a0safe enough container<\/strong>\u00a0in which to dive deep together. We are aided by the\u00a0‘weight-belt’\u00a0<\/strong>of a set time, ceremony and intention<\/strong>, and the\u00a0‘oxygen tank’ of deep abiding love<\/strong>\u00a0for each other that is true underneath all the waves.<\/p>\n

I share these parts of my own life to illuminate the gifts of the Scorpio archetype, and given we just had a Scorpio New Moon, these are\u00a0gifts of depth and connection<\/strong>\u00a0we are invited to explore\u00a0all this month<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

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New Moon in Scorpio journal prompts<\/h2>\n

What parts of your life are calling for your focused, \u2018intentful\u2019 gaze?<\/em><\/p>\n

What safe containers or support could you create in order to explore a little deeper?<\/em><\/p>\n

What aspects of life are you ‘diving’ into?<\/em><\/p>\n

How are your relationships inviting you to transform?<\/em><\/p>\n

What inner alchemy \u2013 what process of \u2018lead into gold\u2019 or \u2018worthless to valuable\u2019 \u2013 are you priestess to, this month?<\/em><\/p>\n

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Welcome to the New Moon in Scorpio, which was exact on: Sunday 27th October, 10.39pm (CDT) Monday 28th October, 3.39am\u00a0(GMT) Monday 28th October, 2.39pm\u00a0(AEDT) The Water sign of Scorpio represents our need for deep\u00a0involvements and intense transformations\u00a0(this is a definition from traditional astrologer\u00a0Demetra George). Scorpio is the\u00a0Healer, the\u00a0Sorcerer, the\u00a0Detective, ever seeking that which lies beneath. 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