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The Decan of Transformation

* Co-rulers: Venus and Moon

* Element: Water (Fixed)

* Tarot: 7 of Cups

* Wild Way Oracle: Transformation

* Keywords: Unfulfilled Desires, Loss and Decay, Decomposition

The Burning Question for this New Moon is: What must we relinquish to reclaim our deeper power?This new moon in Scorpio invites us to surrender, release, shed or exfoliate our outdated forms and stories, the hidden emotional debts, unfulfilled desires, and ghost-stories we carry. Who are we, under all that weight?

This is a New Moon that plunges us into deep, dark, warm and still waters and shines a reflective light on the secrets held within. The Moon is in its fall here, a place of secrecy, and hidden (or unacknowledged) desire.

In the fixed, yin or feminine water sign of Scorpio, the Moon navigates shadowy terrain, where feelings run deep and transformation arises through symbolic cycles of death and rebirth.

Picture dark caves or maybe you prefer hot springs, the secrets and unique life that flourishes within murky swamp water or the soggy ashes after the fire. This is the spirit realm of the serpent, the compost heap, the scorpion and the phoenix.

It is ruled by Mars, but here we are offered a battle-weary side of the dusty warrior planet, the fire of conflict has been dampened by inner reflection and growth. This is the watery moat trench, or the hot bath easing aching muscles, where reflection allows old identities to dissolve and obsessions to rot away and transform into fertile soil to nourish the new.

Fixed, Feminine Water: A Scorpio Container

Scorpio is a fixed-water sign, ruled by Mars. In Scorpio, we come face to face with intensity and the underworld of psyche.

Currently, ruler Mars is travelling through Sagittarius, this is an outgoing fire sign which asks to expand and explore rather than digest internally. This means the Scorpio terrain is being stirred from outside, rousing what lies beneath to the surface.

Scorpio is a fixed water sign, deeply yin and subterranean. The water here is still and reflective, it stews, it seeps, it remembers. The water holds intense feelings, depth, and emotional currents.

The fixed modality offers endurance, an inner persistence, willpower and signifies things that can take root and hold. The feminine nature gives it receptivity, together with the Mars rulership, this gives it resolve and the ability to transform whatever it finds.

Rather than flow around obstacles, Scorpio waters are more likely to dissolve them. They hold grief, passion, memory, and metamorphosis.

When the Moon is new here, you may be unaware of the deep emotions being stirred up as the past rises unbidden. It will take time before the Moon’s full light reveals the secrets held within those waters and below the surface. Scorpio teaches us how to contain power, hold pain with dignity, and importantly, to alchemise endings into thresholds of renewal.

The Scorpio New Moon is placed in Decan III, a place of nostalgia and profound release. This is the last and a complex decan of Scorpio, co-ruled by Venus and the Moon, two soft, yin and reflective inner planets of the Night, attempting to soothe and heal the waters of Mars’ domain.

The mood could be said to hold a nostalgic, dreamlike, and longing quality. The shadow is that it can also turn to a harsh side as well, love can turn sour, and bitterness can become a welcome guest. I imagine that Miss Haversham from Great Expectations would have had placements in Scorpio *.

Old desires, hopes and dreams may refuse to die quietly and could come up unexpectedly for re-examination. Release is an important lesson to master here.

It is here we are asked