Scorpio New Moon Solar Eclipse: Instant Transformation
I’ve often believed in the power of instant karma, the idea that what goes around can (relatively) instantly come around, makes sense to me. I trust that life ultimately fair, while knowing I may not fully understand what that means yet. But instant transformation is a harder sell. Excepting a temporary, superficial makeover, the work of true, deep change is a slow process. I guess it’s the psychologist in me: I am suspicious of shortcuts. I want the real.
Yet some changes appear instant. In a blink, we can be light years ahead of where we were last week. I stumbled upon this when I began meditating again. I had been trying so hard to rest in a place of physical and emotional balance, when one evening I heard the voice: just sit, listen to your heart. Equanimity bloomed. After months of feeling my mind and body were at opposite ends of the room (transiting Uranus has been opposing my Ascendant, and joining my Aries Moon – aspects known for creating body-emotion disturbances), I instantly morphed into someone grounded and in touch with her mind-body -an accomplishment for one such as me, with no earth in her chart!
The thing is, I didn’t want to do it. I had been resisting meditation for so long but when it was suggested to me (again) something in me jarred loose, and surrendered, and when it did it was like returning to an old friend, one who had been waiting years for me, and that old friend was me. She had never gone anywhere. Like the clouds that hide the Sun that is always there, shining on no matter the weather, she had been obscured by noise and thoughts.
What is transformation? Many of us think dramatic change involves cross-country moves, career changes, lottery wins, luck or an epiphany that will change everything. Yet true, inner, transformation isn’t a material event. We’ve all known people whose biographical lives have changed, and yet nothing changed. Not really. A new lover arrives, and we celebrate that, but down the road the same old problems come up again. True transformation happens when we remove the obstacles and resistance to what is true, and always right here.
I have a friend and client who has been delivered a bill from Saturn in Scorpio- a financial wake up call of sorts. Because her spending habits are causing problems in her family, she has committed to a budget and feels stuck for progress. “I’m paying a vast amount every month and I’m still at the bottom of the mountain.” Good for you, I cheerlead, for getting clear and honest and doing the hard, right work (Saturn). A beat later, she mentions she has a friend who can manifest anything she wants, but that she herself believes ‘some people are just born lucky’. With this New Moon in her third house, transformations occur in her mind: by listening, discarding untrue thoughts.
The Scorpio New Moon brings with it the potential for metamorphoses, and Solar Eclipses have the mysterious and magical ability to move us forward ten paces. At this New Moon, transformations can happen instantly. Though we may need to take off our kid gloves, drop our resistance and stop sheltering our self from hard truths; we may need to scratch a few feet beneath the surface to discover the treasure awaiting us. Where does this New Moon Eclipse fall in your chart? In this area of life, let go, open up your mind, let go of your resistance and your grievances, forgive, and surrender your tired old arguments and attachments to having things be a certain way. To get what you most want, throw away something no longer useful to you. I love what Elizabeth Gilbert posted on her Facebook page recently, an image of the sea, with big, bold words: Transformation=Liberation + Loss. So true. I doubt I’ve ever gained anything of value in my life without giving up something (even if it was just an idea about myself), first.
Venus in Scorpio joins the Sun at this eclipse, adding money, relationships, self-worth, and joy into the heady Scorpio brew of revelations and metamorphoses. In love and business, people are getting engaged, joining forces. “We” are merging. Pleasure is featured. If you’re wondering whether the Scorpio Goddesses have passed you by, ask for what you want, let go of something you don’t want, and be open to the many ways in which your desires can be answered. Change may be an inside, and long-term, job but for the moment let’s all enjoy accelerated transformation.
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image: Landscape with Butterflies by Salvador Dali
