New Moon in Scorpio: Sotto Voce
Still from Julia Jacklin video for “Body”
Astrotoolkit™ for the NOVEMBER NEW MOON in the sign of the serpent, the spider, the eagle and the dove
sextile Jupiter-Pluto conjunction [orgasm of the wilderness and the wind, dark force entering your energy field]
semisextile Venus [obsessive-compulsive symmetry]
There is a whispering in the pines and a deep sense of knowing in your body this month. The New Moon in Scorpio is cleansing you of sloughed emotional tissue and allowing you to scrape to the bone on the bullshit you complain about and the changes you talk about making but never do. You are pushing yourself out of the nest, baby birds, and starting fresh with a new model or even a complete paradigm shift. There’s no room for the extraneous in the Badlands and there’s no time or reason to carry everything with you that you’ve been dragging since May. What’s cool is that this cast-off is entirely of your own accord. You’re ready for more and aching for a clean slate.
November is a hard reset for you and the abundant energies surrounding the lunar phase are encouraging you to grab what you want unapologetically. Soft voice and repetition can lure us into an ASMR-style semi-hypnotic state. The New Moon in Scorpio works in the same way by creating a prickly feeling on the back of the neck and a sense of engaging more deeply with reality. Your nerve endings are fired up, your senses are amplified, and you’re hearing more under the radar of what’s going on. There’s a vast network of hormones guiding every one of your decisions and your synesthetic interpretation is subtle yet explosive right now.
Frozen animation is always a component of Scorpio season. A thaw and freeze cycle may wax and wane more than once this month before the lunar eclipse on the 30th. You are noticing the ways you have been hypnotized and persuaded into believing that things must go on as planned in order to work out the way you want them to. Making magic takes a catalytic pathway and does not always follow the regularly scheduled programming. You are loosening your grip on your life and gaining perspective. It can be as brutal as watching one animal killed by a larger one. As terrifying as it sometimes is to allow nature to take its course, not everything requires your intervention.
You are entering the abyss this week, darlings—where nothing is sacred and the soul abandons itself to the wilderness of what might be. This is a hyper-feminine as well as hyper-sexual time. You’re receptive and having psychic moments of intimacy that derail any linear threads of time or conversation. With the darkness as your guide, you’re opening to the Scorpionic moon by finding yours and others’ inner light. Much like the silence after the curtain drops and before the applause, you are learning to feel the fluorescent energy of the void.
xoxo,
Hayley
Listen: “Body” - Julia Jacklin
Watch: Moonlight
Read: “Look at Me” by Jennifer Egan