The Scorpion
October 23 to November 21
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Element: Water |
Glyph: Scorpion's tail |
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Quality: Fixed |
Anatomy: Reproductive system |
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Polarity: Yin/feminine |
Colors: Burgundy, black |
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Planetary Ruler: Pluto (Mars) |
Animals: Reptiles, scorpions, birds of prey |
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Meditation: I let go of the need to control |
Myths/Legends: The Phoenix, Hades and Persephone, Shiva |
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Gemstone: Topaz |
House: Eighth |
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Power Stones: Obsidian, garnet |
Opposite Sign: Taurus |
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Flower: Chrysanthemum |
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Key Phrase: I create |
Keyword: Intensity |
The Scorpio Personality
Strengths, Spiritual Purpose, and Challenges
You are definitely one of the more complex souls rummaging around on the planet. The reason? You live life at the extremes. Here are a few examples: You are highly perceptive yet, at times, insensitive. You are profoundly aware of the complexities of being human, yet you see your own life as black and white. You are extremely trustworthy yet not very trusting. You are intensely involved yet oblivious. And those are just the highlights.
You definitely are a conundrum, even to yourself, although you aren’t always as aware of yourself as you are of others. After all, you know better than anyone that it’s not easy to navigate the subterranean waters that lie just below the surface. However, you are compelled to dig deep, because that is your spiritual purpose: to know life, with all its mysteries, paradoxes, and ambiguities, inside out. It’s one of the reasons that you often ignore the obvious. There’s nothing more to know, nothing that is mysterious, nothing to pique your interest. This puts you at odds with the rest of the world, who, to your amazement, are caught up in believing that what’s on the surface is all there is. Meanwhile, your inner radar is loudly whispering in your ear, letting you know what’s really going on. The result? A struggle to make sense of what you are told versus what you know is going on, creating an inner dissonance that affects you deeply, plaguing you constantly and leaving you unable to trust in yourself—at least until you learn to listen to yourself first and honor your own experience. Then you know your inner radar is rarely wrong and you are free to engage in life with all the passion that exists at your very core. No halfway measures or gray areas for you. Just one of two speeds: zero or 180. You are all in or missing in action. Yes or no. Simple as that. Is there any other way to live your life? Not if you are a Scorpio.
Relationships
You are fond of telling anyone who will listen that you don’t need anyone. And that is the truth, because need is not what drives you. It’s desire and sometimes fascination. They are much more likely to draw you into relationships. The irony is, it doesn’t really matter what motivates you to connect to others. You always have to face your deepest fears: rejection, abandonment, and smothering. It’s just that you believe that, if you need someone, they have the power and you are more vulnerable. The truth is that desire and fascination offer the same pitfalls; they are just more attractive to you because the initial feeling buoys your spirit rather than dragging you down.
By nature, you are curious—or is that suspicious? Either way, you love plumbing the depths of what makes people tick. This makes you an expert in what motivates others. There probably isn’t a single thing anyone could do that would be a surprise or a shock to you. After all, you are well acquainted with both the most beautiful and the ugliest aspects of human nature. This is why people often reveal their deepest secrets to you. On the flip side, those around you often feel like they are under a microscope because you are always probing everyone’s reality, whether you realize it or not. Not for any nefarious reasons but more so you know where people are coming from. That way you can protect yourself—which you absolutely believe you must do. Your biggest challenge is to embrace your vulnerability. This will make you stronger than you can imagine.
Career and Work
The worst thing you can experience is feeling like your work is a death warrant. No going through the motions for you. No hanging in there to get a paycheck and finding yourself doing that for thirty years. Whatever you choose to do, it must pass the litmus test: would you do this for free? That doesn’t mean you want to do it without recompense. But the most important reward for you is doing something that stimulates you. Something that you feel deep in your soul is your calling. Something you feel is an imperative as much as a choice. Something that, if you didn’t do it, you might wither away and disappear. Sounds extreme, but then that’s the Scorpio way. The challenge is creating some wiggle room, because there are days when you are going to feel it’s just a job. And that’s okay. Your unparalleled commitment and your incomparable focus are your tools for slogging through any temporary swamp. As for success, once you’ve charted your course, there are few obstacles that can stop you. In fact, you view those as a sign that you need to keep going. So you redouble your efforts and, almost magically, things turn around in your favor.
Money and Possessions
You see money as an agent of transformation. It isn’t necessarily something to be valued all by itself. If you can use it to relieve the pressures of life, giving you more space to be and do, then it is something to be cherished. Otherwise, you don’t see it as a measure of who you are or how accomplished you are. It’s a reward, not a reason for being. The same goes for possessions, with one proviso: if they are deeply meaningful, you hang on to them. Otherwise, whether you have them or you don’t is not at the top of your list of priorities.
The Light Side of Life
Your intensity often convinces people that you and joy are not well acquainted. It really comes down to what you define as lighthearted. And for you, those things are obvious: anything that increases your passion, challenges your desire to break through obstacles, explains things you want to understand deeply, and gives you a break from the mundane. And last but not least: alone time on a daily basis. You are quite happy entertaining yourself.
Scorpio Keywords for 2019
Vulnerability, trust, imagination
The Year Ahead for Scorpio
The key to staying on top of life in 2019 is making sure you don’t lull yourself into a false sense of security, which isn’t your usual style. It’s hard to take you by surprise, simply because your radar is almost always on high alert. However, after seven years of constantly being knocked off balance by Uranus in Aries, 2018 gave you a bit of a chance to regroup, as Saturn in Capricorn calmed things down considerably. You took full advantage and regained a sense of security that had disappeared almost completely. It’s not that you weren’t able to respond to the turmoil Uranus kept on introducing into your life, but just that you found yourself exhausted by the need to rise to life’s constantly shifting landscape. Especially since Uranus seemed particularly able to avoid your radar, leaving you with no inkling anything was about to go sideways. So you spent much of 2018 recharging your batteries and thinking you were essentially out of the woods. That’s fine. Everybody needs a break and you’ve had yours. Time to get back in the flow in 2019. Otherwise, your break turns into a choice to be complacent. And that only leads to a series of missed opportunities and the failure to sense the consequences of some surprising upheavals you won’t see coming. Yes, Uranus is still going to be stirring the pot. The truth is he really never goes away. The only question is, what method is he going to use to turn things upside down?
So make sure that you take the messages from Saturn that all is well with a certain degree of skepticism. After all, he always thinks he’s in charge, because his job in your life is to give you a sense of stability. However, it’s you who is required to use what he offers to take charge of your own reality. There’s absolutely no way he can guarantee anything, and part of you already knows that. Besides, you would be utterly bored if you thought everything was so secure that life was 100 percent predictable. Welcome to the paradox known as your life. You want both emotional safety and ongoing transformation.
In 2019 you get the opportunity to find a way to bridge what appear to be opposite requirements, and it promises to be a fruitful and mind-altering journey as long as you choose to fully engage. The biggest stumbling block is undoubtedly your fear of being vulnerable, which is the one thing that consistently hijacks your desire to plumb the depths of your soul. It’s time to recognize that it’s really okay to lay yourself bare to the one person you can absolutely trust: you. Nothing that you uncover has the power you fear it does, which is to extinguish your essence.
Saturn
Now that you are aware of Saturn’s agenda—to make you believe that anything and everything he tells you is a bulwark against the insecurities of life—you can take advantage of what you know and use the best parts of his tool kit to solidify a deeper understanding of how you want to create your life going forward. All the inspiration in the world is of little or no use without some way to manifest it. That is Saturn’s gift: turning dreams into reality, creating ways to put things into practice, making ideas accessible in physical form. This is not only powerful but necessary. And this year Saturn knocks on your door, ready to put all of this at your disposal. The key is to remember he is not the vision. He is the conduit to actualizing what you envisage—which is exactly what you need him to do in 2019 because there’s a wealth of possibilities swimming around in your brain and they’ve been hanging out there for so much longer than you anticipated. Finally the timing is right to discover if any of them can actually become something more than just a wish. First, let go of the frustration you accumulated dealing with life’s vicissitudes instead of following your passion. Saturn’s message here is that delays are his way of letting you know it’s not the time to proceed, which doesn’t always suit your need to accelerate the process, not slow it down. Well, get ready. In 2019 you get to push the launch button.
Uranus
It may be difficult to imagine or, for that matter, believe, but Uranus moving into Taurus on March 6 is likely to make him easier to deal with. Not because he is going to be any less challenging or upsetting but because he will be right out in the open, where you can see him. While he was in Aries, he always stirred things up from a place where you couldn’t see what was coming until it was on top of you. This left you in the position of mopping up messes, which, in your mind, didn’t serve any useful purpose. However, his intention then was to stir things up so much that you’d have to make the kind of adjustments that fundamentally changed how you processed life internally. Now he is turning his attention to shaking up how you can apply that knowledge in your outer life, most specifically in how you relate and connect to other people. But before that shift happens, there are still some final hurdles to deal with as you complete your inner growth. Remember, you are clearing a path to a new beginning that promises to create the best of everything, provided you are willing to truly follow through and not just make the motions of change. Uranus never shows up in our lives to tell us we are wrong. He is far too detached for that. He simply wants us to recognize what no longer contributes to who we really desire to be.
Neptune
Here is the source of all those strange dreams, magical possibilities, and whimsical but seemingly impractical notions that have been occupying your consciousness since 2012. Sure, they are fascinating and entertaining, but are they nothing more than ephemeral torture? After a while, you begin to think that your dream state, whether awake or asleep, is just teasing you. After all, if there’s no chance of actually creating what you visualize, you are left with only one outcome: extreme frustration. Why? Because, if your passion gets awakened by anything, you need to be able to do something about it. Well, 2019 promises to give you the opportunity to finally explore the potential of at least one of these imaginings in the real world as Saturn connects with Neptune to give it form. Go for the gusto and don’t overthink it. The best things in the world come from following the stirrings of the imagination. So don’t let your focus on what you are able to do on a practical level take up all the oxygen in your life. Keep on dreaming. It fuels your passion in more ways than you understand.
Pluto
Since 2008, the overhaul in what you think, how you think, and how you apply the conclusions that result has been so revelatory that you are astounded by how easily you once accepted what you were told was the truth. Under Pluto’s guidance, you’ve pushed yourself to actually examine any and all ideas and perceptions that cross your conscious mind to see if they hold any value for you. In this process, you had to acknowledge how much you dislike two of the most-used phrases humans employ and how often, ironically, you’ve uttered them yourself: “Just because” and “That’s the way things are.” They always make you see red. First, they simply don’t answer the most fundamental question in your world, which is why? Without that, what’s the point? Second, they are mindless and evasive, both of which insult your intelligence. All this made you realize how often you collaborated in avoiding your own awareness and accepting the obvious, something that is counterproductive, not to mention damaging, to your very essence. In 2019 it is imperative that you not allow Saturn to override your newfound commitment to being truthful to yourself by dragging you backward into old thought patterns, triggering a bout of analysis paralysis. Instead, use his need for structure to apply this profound shift in your thinking in a practical way.
How Will This Year’s Eclipses Affect You?
Eclipses signal intense periods that highlight major growth opportunities for us in the process of creating our lives. They are linked to the lunar phases—specifically the New and Full Moon—and involve the relationship between the Sun and the Moon and the Earth. A Solar Eclipse is a magnified New Moon, while a Lunar Eclipse is a magnified Full Moon. Eclipses unfold in cycles involving all twelve signs of the zodiac, and they occur in pairs, usually about two weeks apart.
In 2019 there are five eclipses, three solar (two in Capricorn and one in Cancer) and two lunar (one in Leo and one in Capricorn). The first Solar Eclipse arrives on January 5 in Capricorn, creating an immediate contretemps between what you say out loud and what you actually believe. The root of this issue is an old pattern resurfacing, and some things fall out of your mouth that surprise you. After all, you were sure you had dug out and destroyed those immature, rigid attitudes that really didn’t and don’t reflect who you are at the most fundamental level. Again, it’s an opportunity for you to see how your subconscious hangs on to old perceptions and beliefs, no matter how much time and energy you’ve put into transforming them.
The purpose of this experience—and there is one—is to recognize that what is held in your subconscious never really disappears. It’s always there. For example, if you believe you were rejected at birth, that belief is a profound part of your life experience and, as such, cannot be changed or erased. It’s both a blessing and a curse, although, given your temperament, it may be hard for you to recognize the blessing part. The gift in it is the capacity to recognize difficult or even dangerous situations, because being rejected at birth is so complicated, painful, and very much a life-and-death experience. So the subconscious holds this belief in place, as it does many other perceptions, as a measure of self-protection. The key is to accept that, which will allow you to understand that transformation is not a form of eradication as much as a process of using all of who you are and your life experiences to shift how you respond to and what you do with what life dishes up. This creates a new way of being, fueled by awareness instead of reaction.
This, in turn, allows you to take the energy of the Lunar Eclipse on January 20 in Leo and continue your growth by embracing a level of vulnerability that still feels like foreign territory to you. This is necessary if you are to make use of the Solar Eclipse on July 2, the Lunar Eclipse on July 16, and the Solar Eclipse on December 26 to find a way to move beyond the rigid boundaries you’ve set for yourself in how you think and communicate so you can speak from your deep-feeling nature and your heart. There’s no doubt this is scary. However, if you resist this process, you are choosing to shut yourself off rather than open yourself up. Time to trust yourself unequivocally.
Scorpio | January
Overall Theme
Every time you turn around there seems to be another obstacle in your path. This confuses you because you’re sure your intuition told you there’s no time like the present to get things started. So why aren’t things going more smoothly? Welcome to the ongoing conundrum that you face throughout 2019: When is the right time to act?
Relationships
You aren’t really sure why everyone misinterprets what you are saying. Perhaps it’s because you aren’t being as clear as you think you are, or perhaps you’re leaving out pertinent details, assuming everyone knows what you know. As hard as it is to accept, you often think you’ve told someone a piece of information because you planned to. Find a way to keep track of what you’ve said and to whom. It saves a lot of time and angst.
Career, Success, and Money
The first Lunar Eclipse of 2019 shines a light on your career aspirations and sets the tone for what is going to be a year of unexpected accolades and success. The only thing standing in your way is timing. Instead of getting frustrated, get everything in order and wait for the green light. It will come.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
Rather than being annoyed, irritated, and exasperated (and yes, you are all three), refocus all that pent-up energy flooding every cell of your body and find a new target for all that desire. Because you have more than one thing you intend to accomplish. You may not want to make this adjustment, but let it go. What’s waiting in the wings has just as much potential, or maybe more, than your original goal.
Rewarding Days
4, 5, 21, 22
Challenging Days
12, 13, 27, 28
Scorpio | February
Overall Theme
Your natural inclination to retreat into yourself takes on special meaning, as you spend much of February focused inward, trying to figure out just what gives your life meaning and structure. It’s a delayed response to last month’s eclipses and it catches you off guard. Don’t make the mistake of assuming this is an issue for your mind to resolve. It’s all about your deeper feelings.
Relationships
Make sure to include those you love in your world. It will balance all the deep soul-searching you are doing and give you some much-needed perspective. Granted, you believe you can sort everything out on your own. However, you need to recognize your tendency to be so absorbed in your own reality that you find yourself going in circles. This leads to obsession rather than clarity.
Career, Success, and Money
You feel a lot like you are on autopilot. Nose to the grindstone and all that. The only challenge is taking time to check in with those around you for any updates. Otherwise, you miss some important information connected to what you are working on.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
Your capacity for being able to block out the whole world and everyone in it when you are immersed in digging up and examining whatever is sticking in your craw is legendary. Sometimes it takes you so far off the beaten path that you completely disconnect from your life. That definitely could happen this month. The answers you seek aren’t ready to reveal themselves yet.
Rewarding Days
11, 12, 23, 24
Challenging Days
8, 9, 21, 22
Scorpio | March
Overall Theme
Life takes on a lighter tone and you release yourself from the never-ending mental and emotional circles you couldn’t quite avoid in February. Instead, you commit yourself completely to just having some fun and letting your imagination run away with you. The result is a much-needed vacation from contemplating all of existence.
Relationships
You feel obligated to apologize for being missing in action for a while. It’s like you came out of a trance you weren’t even aware you were in. Rather than apologizing, just spend time with all those you feel you may have disappointed. That’s a far more effective way of connecting to people, because it’s fun and it demonstrates that your commitment is real instead of perfunctory.
Career, Success, and Money
Things in the workplace remain steady and consistent. No major issues or challenges to deal with. But you’ll need to keep on eye on your discretionary spending. No opportunity this month is worth adding more to your debt load than you can manage, no matter how good it looks or feels. There is definitely the potential to act in haste and repent at leisure.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
While you are busy enjoying life, you feel some unsettling energy percolating just below the surface. Say hello to Uranus moving into Taurus. Don’t worry about what that means or what’s going to happen. All of that will be made clear at some point in the next seven years. For now, be in the moment and celebrate your life.
Rewarding Days
10, 11, 27, 28
Challenging Days
5, 6, 12, 13
Scorpio | April
Overall Theme
Exactly what is going bump in the night? You’d really like to know, but not because it frightens you. After all, you do love the dark. It’s more that it’s getting in the way of dealing with practical issues demanding your attention in the waking hours. You need sleep that is both restful and inspirational, not this really weird stuff that startles you awake. The solution? Do something to empty your mind before you go to sleep. Your consciousness is in overdrive.
Relationships
You need to be practical about your relationships. Why? You simply don’t have a lot of extra energy right now, yet everybody is clamoring for your attention. Instead of tuning them out or grinding your teeth, make a schedule for brief consultations and stick to it. Yes, it sounds businesslike, but if you don’t do it this way, you’ll be exhausted and no one will be satisfied.
Career, Success, and Money
The demands in your work life grow exponentially in the blink of an eye. An important facet of a project you are working on is totally overlooked until the eleventh hour. And who gets the call to wave a magic wand and pull a rabbit out of a hat? You, of course. What’s more, you succeed in saving the day.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
It’s not that you don’t enjoy being the hero, the person who understands life’s complexities, the person who always has time to listen to people’s deepest fears, etc. You do. Until you don’t. This in one of those times when you wish you were truly invisible. Do the next best thing: Think of the most unlikely place to go and head there. Peace and quiet await.
Rewarding Days
1, 2, 6, 7
Challenging Days
3, 4, 17, 18
Scorpio | May
Overall Theme
How many different ways can you be irritated? Well, you are about to find out. If it’s not people talking endlessly and not getting anywhere, it’s the turmoil of constantly changing plans. Doesn’t anybody know which end is up? Usually you’re the one who can see through the sea of complications and find a solution. This time, you bow out. It’s that or scream, and not silently either.
Relationships
There’s only one thing you require to be happy this month, and that’s accountability—in others. You are aware that finding solutions for other people’s life crises comes dangerously close to enabling them, if you aren’t clear about your boundaries. Where to begin? Listen to them unburden themselves and then tell them you trust they know what to do.
Career, Success, and Money
The opportunity to meet new people with the potential to have a significant impact on this part of your life arrives unexpectedly, and just at the point where you wondered if May was going to be an ongoing train wreck. This boosts your spirits and gives you something delicious to get excited about.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
Your equilibrium may be difficult to locate, but you need to do everything in your power to find it and maintain it. The number-one way to do this is to really listen to what your radar is telling you about the true nature of what’s happening around you. You’ll realize most of it doesn’t constitute anything close to a crisis. If you stay centered on that, you’ll weather the tempests in other people’s teacups.
Rewarding Days
12, 13, 26, 27
Challenging Days
1, 2, 14, 15
Scorpio | June
Overall Theme
The first hint of summer uplifts you. Suddenly you feel alive again, instead of overwhelmed by the detritus of everyday life. It really is easy for you to get bogged down by stuff that feels meaningless to you. In order to nourish this emotional rebirth, go on holiday. It doesn’t matter where you go, as long as it’s a place that feeds your soul.
Relationships
Torn by desire. That’s you in a nutshell. Even when you are able to identify what you desire, you often fight it or try to control it. Recognize it’s what drives you and you’ll be fine this month, whether you are hanging with all your favorite people or spending time in solitude. Or both. It really doesn’t have to be one or the other. In fact, a bit of both is just what you need.
Career, Success, and Money
You feel a deep yearning or a calling. You aren’t sure which, but you do know there’s something pushing you toward a new beginning. By turns, you are exhilarated and stubbornly resistant. A fresh start would be wonderful. But why would you abandon everything you’ve already built? Understand that no decision is required right now. You are in a gestational phase.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
This month provides some much-needed relief from feeling that life is always shoving you to and fro, with no visible signposts to guide you. Enjoy. Take it easy. And ignore the small stuff, and the big stuff too, for that matter. Anything that truly requires your input can wait.
Rewarding Days
13, 14, 22, 23
Challenging Days
11, 12, 25, 26
Scorpio | July
Overall Theme
You don’t care if you have to push, pull, or drag the whole world with you. This month you are forging a new direction, complete in the knowledge that you are ready to shake things up. You may not have formulated just what that’s going to look like, but that isn’t as important as taking the risk. So fly by the seat of your pants and trust your instincts. You’ll be amazed at the results.
Relationships
In your haste to move your life along, you find yourself exasperated by the demand that you slow down and explain yourself. Neither is your cup of tea when you are totally focused, which leads to some very tense moments. So count to ten and share the excitement you feel about what’s ahead, rather than biting people’s heads off at their ankles. The input you receive in return inspires you.
Career, Success, and Money
You really do feel like a kid in a candy store. There are so many directions you can go in, most of which you never really considered because you were totally absorbed in doing the stuff already on your plate. But you now realize it’s getting a bit stale. Time for a complete change of pace. Start your engine.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
You always have more than enough passion and drive to accomplish anything you put on your list of priorities. The challenge you face right now is an ongoing one: you get so single-minded that you ignore everything else in favor of the one thing that is currently charging your battery. Take time to consider all the ramifications of the shift you are going through. It saves you considerable time and energy.
Rewarding Days
10, 11, 25, 26
Challenging Days
2, 3, 16, 17
Scorpio | August
Overall Theme
Expect to experience the full range of your profound capacity to feel everything from complete joy to overwhelming terror, as you begin to comprehend just how big a change you are embarking on. You can see it all: the heights of accomplishment and the black hole of failure. None of this deters you. Ready, set, go!
Relationships
As you ride the rollercoaster of emotion, you aren’t alone. All those closest to you come along for the ride, except they aren’t as adept at dealing with extreme swings in mood and emotion as you are. You go from start to stop and back to start in the blink of an eye. It’s natural to you but unsettling to others. Make sure to let them know when you return to equilibrium. You need their support. Yes, you do.
Career, Success, and Money
Nothing of long-term value ever comes to fruition on the back of passion and inspiration alone, or even determination. There needs to be a plan. And part of that plan is recognizing that you still need financial stability while you prepare for the future. Maintain your current source of income; you need the security to move forward.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
The change you are planning is so monumental that you really can’t do it alone. Of course, you absolutely and without reservation believe the opposite. Time to recognize that it’s not a sign of incompetence, weakness, or stupidity to get input, support, or inspiration from others. Not only does it reduce the bumps in the road and create deeper connections, but it’s also fun. You don’t always have to do everything by yourself.
Rewarding Days
6, 7, 30, 31
Challenging Days
11, 12, 21, 22
Scorpio | September
Overall Theme
A critical part of your plan going forward falls into place out of the blue, providing a much-needed burst of enthusiasm at the exact moment you need it. It’s not that things are difficult; they’re just slow. Take heart. Everything starts to pick up speed toward the end of the month. The right time has finally arrived.
Relationships
You actually feel quite a bit more grounded and capable of engaging with other people now that the changes you intend to make are taking shape. Don’t be surprised to discover that the people who matter most are a little cranky from a lack of attention. Rather than insisting you weren’t ignoring them, make plans to do whatever they desire. And recognize that their perspective of what transpired is as valid as yours.
Career, Success, and Money
Now that you are firmly on your way in a brand-new direction, you find that many of the things about your job or career that were getting on your nerves no longer matter. It really doesn’t surprise you. What astonishes you is how long you ignored the obvious and the reasons why. So you aren’t always as aware of yourself as you think.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
There is a strong need to exercise some restraint. Yes, things are moving ahead. Yes, the timing is right. Yes, you know what you are doing. The problem, as always, is that things never accelerate fast enough for you, causing deep frustration, not to mention unnecessary consequences. So trust the plan you set in motion, and stop watching to see when the kettle boils.
Rewarding Days
3, 4, 7, 8
Challenging Days
10, 11, 20, 21
Scorpio | October
Overall Theme
Put all those insecurities and fears bubbling just below the surface in the proper perspective. They signify the usual stuff you put yourself through just before you step across the threshold into the big shifts in your life. Consider it cleaning out the closet and getting rid of anything that doesn’t fit anymore. And there’s a lot inside you that doesn’t mesh with where you are going.
Relationships
You are feeling mad love for all the people in your world who not only backed you up as you prepared yourself for a big unknown, but let you know how much they admire and respect you. Not used to all this adoration, even though you know it’s warranted, you fake modesty. And it shows. Just say thank you. That’s all that’s required. Plus it’s truly how you feel.
Career, Success, and Money
Not everyone in your world is excited by the opportunities you are creating for yourself, so be prepared to deal with some nastiness and insults disguised as compliments. Don’t waste your time even acknowledging these immature outbursts. After all, these people aren’t showing you anything you haven’t seen before.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
It never fails. You are always shocked when you stumble across the complexities of your own nature. That’s because you prefer to believe that your world is black and white, with no gray areas. Well, the shift that’s going on inside demands that you understand that complexities are not the same as complications. Accepting that frees you from a set of very rigid expectations you’ve trapped yourself in.
Rewarding Days
9, 10, 27, 28
Challenging Days
4, 5, 21, 22
Scorpio | November
Overall Theme
This is the happiest you’ve been in your own skin for such a long time, and the source is obvious: you’ve reignited your passion for life and you are seeing life in color again. Gone is that fear that the best of your life is behind you. No more dull, monochromatic days for you. No more feeling stuck and bored. Quite the opposite.
Relationships
It’s that time of year when you struggle to balance what you desire with what other people want. And this quite often leaves you bewildered, because you never seem to get it right. What to do? First, take time to define what relationships mean to you. Then ask your partner and the rest of your posse the same thing. It’s just a starting point, but it offers clues on how to create equilibrium.
Career, Success, and Money
So much is happening—and all of it good—you can barely keep up with it all. And you love it. Your dream became a purpose and then a plan, and now it’s all coming to fruition. Each and every step is as much fun as the anticipated end result. Who knew you could be this delirious during every itty-bitty bit of this process?
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
Well, the problem this month is that there are no big hitches, nothing much to get in your way. This, in itself, is a challenge for you. Part of what makes you tick is anticipating problems so you can solve them. Relax. Enjoy the results of your intensity, creativity, and determination.
Rewarding Days
3, 4, 20, 21
Challenging Days
8, 9, 15, 16
Scorpio | December
Overall Theme
Navigating the last month of 2019 promises to be a bit of a rollercoaster ride, not because anything is going wrong in your external world but because the magnitude of all the changes you’ve made hits home. You are exhilarated and exhausted simultaneously, which is to be expected. What you’ve done is like moving a mountain. Celebrate this and then rest.
Relationships
You are busy processing all the feelings and insights that surfaced last month in examining both how you see relationships and how others see them. It’s all been rather revelatory. You aren’t sure exactly what the next step is. However, you feel freer and more able to create what will actually be satisfying. For that, you are grateful.
Career, Success, and Money
Expect a lot of internal dialogue about your financial situation as 2019 comes to a close. You are feeling particularly generous because things are going so well. However, resist the temptation to express yourself in ways that impact your bank account. What’s required is moderation. Exhausting your financial resources drains all your resources—mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
The year comes to a close with a strong reminder that you’ve taken the first few steps toward moving beyond what is expected of you to what you truly desire. But they don’t represent the whole journey. Celebrate what you’ve accomplished, secure in the knowledge that you have the courage to see this shift through to completion.
Rewarding Days
3, 4, 17, 18
Challenging Days
5, 6, 25, 26
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Scorpio Action Table These dates reflect the best—but not the only—times for success and ease in these activities, according to your Sun sign. |
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JAN |
FEB |
MAR |
APR |
MAY |
JUN |
JUL |
AUG |
SEP |
OCT |
NOV |
DEC |
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Move |
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3, 4 |
4, 5 |
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27, 28 |
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Start a class |
9, 10 |
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12, 13 |
30, 31 |
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Seek coaching/counseling |
21, 22 |
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26, 27 |
28, 29 |
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Ask for a raise |
14, 15 |
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30, 31 |
28, 29 |
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Get professional advice |
19, 20 |
1, 2 |
12, 13 |
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Get a loan |
10, 11 |
15, 16 |
3, 4 |
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New romance |
1, 2 |
9, 10 |
3, 4 |
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Vacation |
11, 12 |
4, 5 |
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15, 16 |
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16,27 |
8 |
20 |
27 |
31 |
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