While the sun is still shining generously from Libra, and we’re waving goodbye to the last of summer, the night is gaining territory.
Libra, in her shadow expression, is very good at keeping up appearances. This season, however, she struggles. Because even though the sun doesn’t move into Scorpio until October 23, something is brewing beneath the surface.
Venus retrograde in Scorpio
Venus, goddess of love and beauty, wrapped herself in her Scorpio cloak on September 10, and since October 3 she’s been moving retrograde through this sign of depth and everything we’d rather not look at.
Over forty days and forty nights she transforms from her sparkling light as the evening star into her reborn form as the morning star. Dragging us along with her into the underworld.
This is where we get to feel what’s truly of value to us, and where the loose ends of our relationships and connections, the ones we so carefully tucked away, are put right in front of us, whether we like it or not. This can bring all kinds of doubts: about others, about yourself, and about what’s really worth having in your life.
So often we push these uneasy feelings aside, buried under the busyness and bother of daily life. But in this season, the unbearable emptiness of a full life can suddenly overtake you: is this really how you want it?
Down to the basement
During the night of October 15, after almost half a year, Pluto started moving forward again. A careful first step toward movement on a collective level.
But Venus is still on her way down, digging around in a basement full of what no longer rings true in her life, looking for the light.
I had to go down there too. Facing old and new pain has thoroughly churned up my life lately.
And how wonderful is it to have that basement cleared out? To look honestly at what no longer rings true, and to step away from it with brave honesty or give it a different shape?
Pay attention to your dreams. So much of what’s down in that basement comes to light while we sleep.
Look. And change what needs to change.
So you can fill your life with the fullness of actually living your own life. And start to shine again from within, like the sparkling light of the morning star announcing a new day.