Scorpio 2009 - Mysterious Magnetic Water Spirits

by Robert Wilkinson

November accents the water sign Scorpio, where we transcend forms we’ve seen before now and move deeper into the experience of people and activities. We can concentrate power by purifying ourselves of obsolete or stagnant feelings, and going deeper into our mystery to regenerate what we need to get from here to where we're going.

It’s definitely the heart of Autumn, with its focus on harvesting that which is pleasing, socializing and connecting while seeing the end of old forms in our lives. This month is about releasing, letting go, and taking out the old, obsolete waste materials accumulated in the year cycle up to now to make space for the wintering we are about to go through.

Much of life is about knowing what to hold on to and what to release. When we release a thing or person who we once held on to, doing it in the right way can be beneficial. That's what we learn from the Scorpio in our chart. A good approach to letting go, plus being able to hold the empty space that results, ultimately attracts at some future point that which is more appropriate to our evolved Self.

The yearly light force is waning, so conserve energy and concentrate on what you really want. Check out your magnetism, follow through as needed, and push through obstacles, including forms of mental slavery.

Scorpio is a Fixed Water sign. This implies ice, yet this sign shares a rulership by Mars with Aries, a Fire sign. Scorpio is both fire and ice, sometimes extreme but never superficial or light-minded. That's for other Sun signs, but not Scorpio. This sign, easily misunderstood, pierces through forms seeking to get to the essence of things. Scorpio desires an ever more intense union with people, ideas, and experience.

This sign is the death and rebirth all things must go through on the journey between the vision of possible perfection in Libra and the freedom of explore distant regions in thought, feeling, and action in Sagittarius. Scorpio takes the perfect form of Libra and penetrates to the mystery of its transformation into higher and greater truth.

In this phase of the twelve-step evolutionary process that which began in Aries, stabilized in Taurus, expanded in Gemini, consolidated in Cancer, creatively projected in Leo, refined in Virgo and shaped into a new ideal in Libra is given magnetic power. Whatever we know must go will yield the psychic space for our own rebirth on whatever level that takes place. It is an energy of loss and regeneration, the cocoon phase in our process of growing from caterpillar to butterfly, the universal symbol of spiritual rebirth.

Scorpio is associated with the stinging Scorpion, but that is merely the lowest of the four manifestations of this sign. The next more evolved Scorpio is the snake, symbol of wisdom continually shedding old skins and growing new ones. There are three kinds of snake. Vipers, feared by many creatures. Pythons, suffocating in their strength. And the others, eaters of vermin and symbols of fortune. The third type of Scorpio is the Eagle. This king of the raptors with speed and strength sees everything keenly at great distances while soaring through the heights, alone or with its own kind.

The highest manifestation of this sign is the Phoenix, also known as the Firebird. This is the being which is the symbol of continuous transformation, the scintillating magic fire that's alive and only dies to be reborn more gloriously from the egg of its own creation.

Scorpio's keywords are "I desire." This is the sign of penetrating intention to investigate the mystery that confronts the evolving being. Scorpio explores the archetypes of Communion and Faith, Retention and Appreciation, through intensifying and purifying whatever and whoever they touch.

Mars is the ruler of Scorpio, so it will exert a stronger influence than usual every November. All of November 2009 Mars is in Leo, strengthening the Fire influence. Mars, along with the Sun, are the final dispositors of all the other planets. This makes for a very intense power struggle at times, since Scorpio and Leo naturally square each other, creating friction but also dynamic releases.

Of note is Venus in Scorpio square Mars from Nov 11 through 26th, setting our Taurus and Libra sectors in dynamic relationship to our Aries and Scorpio sectors. Wherever these fall in our chart, corners will be turned.

Mythologically, Scorpio is in the axis of the Warrior, or Guardian. This sign (along with its polar opposite, Taurus) confirms the dance of relationship between self and others begun in Aries and formalized in Libra. Scorpio is devotion made manifest, showing us our desire and what we're willing to do to get it.

Like Taurus, it shows us the lessons of “mine and thine” as we interact with others. It is the part of us willing to hold the line on what we want and how we wish to possess others. This sign deeply merges into shared values with others, yet also knows how to draw clear and definite boundaries between the values and desires of each.

Scorpio, when freed of the traps of perpetual dissatisfaction, stubbornness, excessive desire, and not knowing when to stop and turn away from destructive attitudes, demonstrate a consistency and reliability in sustaining the collective effort. They are devoted warriors that will hold the line unto death if need be, hanging in there when everybody else has bailed. Scorpio, like Libra, is highly socialized and needs people, but are less likely to compromise as they strive to get closer and closer to the object they are attracted to.

Sometimes too impulsive, they persist in rhythmic activity that flows from icy calm to fiery intensity, movement to rest to movement in an unending spiral of evolution. When Scorpio learns to let go of possessiveness, jealousy, suspicion, and any tendencies to be domineering, dishonest, or violent they become a living miracle of trustworthy, heroic courage. They are master healers, creative and inspiring, one-pointed and tenacious in their mission of service with the power of absolute attraction when they get clear about their magnetism.

In Scorpio we see the detective searching for the clues to the mystery and a reformer relentlessly pursuing truth beyond boundaries. Scorpios are scientific investigators who have the power to reshape their world. Think Martin Luther, who defied the absolute power of the Pope to found one of the world's major religions. Another Scorpio, St. Augustine, reformed the early church doctrine (and changed it forever) by merging it with Greco-Roman philosophy.

One of the greatest Scorpio servants of humanity of all time was the legendary medical researcher Jonas Salk, M.D. This true humanitarian saved the world's children from polio while giving the monetary rights to the world, and was exploring meta-biology up to the point of his death.

Scorpios have cut a very wide wake across in the political world, which makes sense given the ambition this sign can harbor. However, it also seems that many suffer difficult fates. Two famous political figures of great power include Leon Trotsky, whose original intention was to reform Czarist Russia and the world, but was exiled (cocooned) at the height of his power and influence and later assassinated, and Chiang Kai-Shek, who reformed the Chinese government, only to lose his country and found another.

Other political Scorpios include Charles DeGaulle, uncompromising and independent leader of France, the legendary Bobby Kennedy, also assassinated before his prime, and Prince Charles, seemingly cocooned as a Prince forever while his Taurus mother, QEII, endures on the throne of England. Nehru and his daughter Indira Gandhi, both Scorpios, were leaders of India. Nehru presided over the "death through partition" of greater India, while Indira was assassinated as a result of her authoritarian ruthlessness.

Four more contemporary political figures are Veep Joe Biden, UN Ambassador and Governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first woman to head an African country, King Hussein of Jordan, and Wilma Mankiller, Chief of the Cherokee Nation for many years. First Ladies include Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush, and Maria Shriver.

Scorpio figures large in the US Presidency. We find James A. Garfield and Warren G. Harding, presidents who used a middle initial and died while in office. Garfield was known for being able simultaneously to write in Greek with one hand and Latin with the other, and found a new proof for the Pythagorean Theorem, not small accomplishments. Harding, on the other hand, was known for his corruption, sexual escapades, and ineptitude, and ushered in the Roaring '20s and 12 years of incompetent Republican presidents whose policies led directly to the Great Depression.

We have had three other Scorpio Presidents. There was John Adams, second president and bitter political opponent of Jefferson. Another was James K. Polk, who swore he only wanted one term and was true to his word. Through treaties with Canada and war with Mexico, this manifest destiny expansionist got us land stretching to the Pacific, aggravating the festering divisions that would explode into the Civil War.

Culminating this list is Teddy Roosevelt, considered among the top 5 presidents of all time. He was a relentless reformer, trust-buster and conservationist who gave us our National Park system. He won the Nobel Peace Prize, making him the first American to win the Nobel in any category.

Scorpio, though exceptionally strong, sometimes does not have an easy life. Russell Means, director of AIM, led the Wounded Knee protest put down by our heavy handed government. Marie Antoinette met an unfortunate end, as did Vice President Spiro Agnew, who was forced to resign in disgrace due to crimes committed when he was governor of Maryland. And we all know the disgrace Senator Joe McCarthy brought down on himself at the peak of power, and on a related note, Scorpio Alger Hiss was branded as a Communist spy by Nixon.

Turning now to the literary world, we find the tribe of Scorpio has given us such brilliant historical figures as Dostoevsky, Voltaire, John Keats, George Eliot, Ezra Pound, Dylan Thomas, Steven Crane, Robert Louis Stevenson, Zane Grey, Kurt Vonnegut, Nathaniel Benchley, Raja Rao, and Andre Malraux. All of their works are penetrating, intense, and definitely not superficial! In art we find Scorpios Monet, Jan Vermeer, Rodin, Roy Lichtenstein, Georgia O'Keeffe, Rene Magritte, and Bill Mauldin. A special nod goes out to my dear friend, aerial dance performance artist extraordinaire Sally Jacques.

There are many legends of film in the Scorpio tribe. We start with directors Moss Hart, Mike Nichols, Louis Malle, Martin Scorsese, Claude Lelouch, Peter Jackson, Harold Ramis, and Danny DeVito, and proceed to immortals Burt Lancaster, Vivian Leigh, Ruth Gordon, Ed Wynn, Richard Burton, Grace Kelly, Claude Rains, Dick Powell, Burgess Meredith, Leo G. Carroll, Jackie Coogan, Rock Hudson, Charles Bronson, Ruby Dee, Hedy Lamarr, Pat O'Brien, Jean Seberg, Brian Keith, Veronica Lake, Billy Barty, Rosemary DeCamp, and Joel McCrea, among the brightest stars of old Hollywood.

Contemporary bright shining lights include the best Sherlock Holmes ever played, the immortal Jeremy Brett. We proceed to other intense and awesome talents Kevin Kline, John Cleese, Leo DiCaprio, Rodney Dangerfield, Martin Balsam, Owen Wilson, John Candy, Joaquin Phoenix, Cody Linley, Sam Shepard, Ethan Hawke, Ralph Macchio, Roy Scheider, Matthew McConaughey, Richard Dreyfuss, F. Murray Abraham, Oskar Werner, Bob Hoskins, Wally Shawn, Jon Heder, Cary Elwes, Dolph Lundgren, and Sinbad.

Scorpio women have an intensity and magnetic beauty that can be extraordinarily attractive and draws us all into the depths of the roles they play. In this group are such amazing beauties as Julia Roberts, Jamie Lee Curtis, Demi Moore, Parker Posey, Kate Capshaw, Elke Sommer, Goldie Hawn, Bo Derek, Aishwarya Rai, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Jody Foster, Meg Ryan, Tilda Swinton, Sally Field, Tatum O'Neal, MacKenzie Phillips, Whoopi Goldberg, Estelle Parsons, Brenda Vaccaro, Carrie Snodgrass, Tara Reid, Bibi Andersson, Gemma Ward, Anne Hathaway, and Elizabeth Perkins.

Scorpio has given television some icons, many of them very funny people: Johnny Carson, Jonathan Winters, Art Carney, Imogene Coca, Paul Ford, Dick Cavett, Henry Winkler, Ray Walston, Esther Rolle, McLean Stevenson, Ed Asner, Ken Berry, Daws Butler, Richard Dawson, and Dick Smothers. Other tv hall of famers are Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Barbara Bel Geddes, Michael Landon, Nanette Fabray, Marlo Thomas, Pat Sajak, Judge Joe Wapner, Alistair Cooke, Joseph Campanella, Juliet Mills, David Nelson, Kaye Ballard, and Dean Jagger.

Contemporary stars include David Ogden Stiers, Loretta Swit, Dennis Franz, Calista Flockhart, Ellen Pompeo, Linda Evans, Stephanie Powers, Kate Jackson, Markie Post, Sam Waterston, Chris Noth, Dennis Miller, Roseanne Barr, Doris Roberts, Jaclyn Smith, Ellen Pompeo, Daphne Zuniga, Peta Wilson, Cody Linley, Lisa Bonet, Harry Hamlin, David Schwimmer, Daisy Fuentes, RuPaul, Jenny McCarthy, Lou Ferrigno, Josh Peck, Tracy Nelson, Mary Hart, Jimmy Kimmel, Judy Reyes, Jason and Jeremy London, Mischa Mandel, and Victoria Hamel.

In the related area of television news, we have several greats: Walter Cronkite and his successor Dan Rather are both known for their sincerity and directness, as are Morley Safer and Jane Pauley. Scorpio Lorne Michaels also is a tv icon, as are Ted Turner and Larry King.

Music gives us some major talents. Scorpio legends across time include Richard Strauss, Georges Bizet, Aaron Copeland, John Phillip Sousa, William Gilbert, Tommy Dorsey, Mahalia Jackson, Sonny Terry, Ethel Waters, Benjamin Britten, Al Hirt, Duane Allman, Hamilton Camp, Cleo Laine, Patti Page, Jo Stafford, Eugene Ormandy, Tim Rice, Doug Sahm, Keith Lockhart, Joan Sutherland, J.P. Richardson ("the Big Bopper"), Minnie Pearl, Brill Building hitmaker Ellie Greenwich, and the awesome pair of multi-talented songwriter-producers, Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio. In this latter category a special nod goes to the legendary Hank Medress.

Newer luminaries include one of the few blues guitarists (arguably) as good as Jimi, the immortal Peter Green. Other major talents include Art Garfunkle, Glenn Frey, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Bonnie Raitt, Jason White, Bryan Adams, Jon Anderson, Kevin Eubanks, Grace Slick, Tom Fogerty, Mary Travers, Gordon Lightfoot, Lyle Lovett, Gavin Rossdale, Scott Weiland, k.d. lang, Sean "Diddy" Combs, Susan Tedeschi, Kevin Jonas, Frida Lyngstad, Jeff Buckley, Kirk Lee Hammett, Chris Joannou, Travis Barker, Larry Mullen Jr., Adam Schlesinger, Charlie Daniels, Yanni, Ben Gillies, Dan Peek, Mike Diamond, Amit Paul, Fieldy Arvizu, Isaac Hanson, Sara Lumholdt, Tila Tequila, Davey Havok, and Monica.

Some other Scorpios who made their mark in their own unique way were Will Rogers, universally loved social-political satirist with humor like an icepick, Pablo Picasso, whose dark intensity in both his artistic and personal life was legendary, and Marie Curie, who unlocked the secrets of radiation.

In this eclectic group we also find sports legends, featuring James Naismith, inventor of basketball, tennis icon Billie Jean King, golf legend Gary Player, soccer legend Pele', baseball hall of famers "the Big Train" strikeout king Walter Johnson, Joe Campanella, Stan Musial, and Tom Seaver. Among Olympians we find Scorpios Bruce Jenner, Nadia Comaneci, Oksana Baiul, Kerri Strug, and Laura Wilkinson (no relation!)

Finishing this list of unique and intense beings are George Patton, perhaps the greatest General America ever had, pioneer Daniel Boone, Supreme Louis Brandeis, first US astronaut Alan Shepard, Jr., evangelist Billy Graham, theater icon Lee Strasberg, designer Calvin Klein, Ziegfield Follies star Fanny Brice, pornographer and First Amendment warrior Larry Flynt, video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

Finally, a big happy birthday to the the countries of Algeria, Korea (trad.), Morocco, Norway, Paraguay, and Syria. Happy birthday to the states of Montana, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Washington, and the cities of Baltimore, Boise, Charlotte, Denver, Fairbanks, Fez, Morocco, Fresno, Ghent, Belgium, Halifax, Little Rock, Liverpool, Milwaukee, Newark, New Haven, Nova Scotia, Philadelphia, Providence, Queensland, St. Louis, St. Paul, Trenton, and West Palm Beach.

© Copyright 2009 Robert Wilkinson

Comments

[chickie]

Your Higness,

Truth be told, with Mars on my 3 solar Leonine planets in the 5th squaring my Scorpio moon and the current sun, I've literally tied a gag around my la boca grande to stay out of trouble! I've been doing breath work to keep my face from spliting in half.

Thank the goddess for a new local songwriter's workshop every Tuesday where I a remove the gag and sing out all my freak'n expletives!!!

Grazie mello bello to you and all your children, my brothers and sisters on this site who help each other!

[Morvah]

Chickie, love to you too - your sun always shines!
Please pray for those caught in the floods in Cumbria, without homes tonight.
Shanti.

[Catherine]

Hi Robert,

If you have time to respond, what is your take on a Scorpio male with a Gemini Moon, Aries rising, and all of the Scorpio planets -- Sun/Neptune, Mercury -- in the 7th house? I "get" his intensity and strong willfulness -- guess he is probably still at the stinging scorpion stage -- not much self-awareness or self-reflection or interest in growth or deeper things. Behavior and general attitude seem superficial and flighty. Tendency to overwork and be excessively busy/distracted. Dependency on alcohol and on quite a bit of self-delusion/fantasy/escape. Perhaps most of the Scorpio, in this case, is not (yet) owned/internalized and is projected onto the partner?

And what would waking up possibly look like in this case?

Just curious...

Thanks!
Catherine

[chickie]

Morvah,

Got my candles all lined up..not to worry!!!

[WarriorLady]

Will do, Morvah!

Waters. Had a dream about floods and a tsunami and then oceans spinning as if I were watching a cycle in the wash, last night. I got away from them in the dream. Might have just been symbolic...

I really enjoyed this article. I'm a Libra with three strong Scorpio planets, so I resonate a lot with it. Thanks!

[cam]

on oct 29 watching sherlock holmes and they have a villain named C.A.M

charles augustus mirenelli Holmes takes a particular distate to...Episode named

The master blackmailer

I almost puked, my name is cam

and ceres at 7 scorp the midpoint between moon and chiron (supposed to
be revealing of our shadow they said..)
and again, one helluva a scorpio full moon God help us all

I am beginning to hate astrology, really, really hate it... wounds incurred
thereby are not really recoverable... we are too frail as humans.. can only forget... drink... and forget (but you never forget really)
It wouldn't be so bad if there were some hope of recovery... but nowadays
everthing depends on money and thats it.
(but the esoteric knowledge must go on and not be lost however)
but not by me... not anymore..

[Robert]

Hi Chickie - Well, sometimes all we can do is wait the storm out, and do what we must to make progress while not making it worse. And yes, songwriting is a very good outlet! Make them funny and it's even better!!

Hi Morvah - Too many people without homes everywhere, while giant buildings are empty except for cleaning crews. I suspect in the new era we won't allow those made homeless by Nature to remain at the mercy of the elements. But of course, that will mean the race realizing it is one Life, and therefore interdependent. Something about "what you do to the least of these you do to me...."

Hi Catherine - I can't really comment on this, since there are other factors of which I have no knowledge. Projection is a universal defense mechanism, I suspect because of an inner emptiness or craving that the Being is unwilling to fulfill on their own. All awakening is an awakening to the falsehood of the separate self, and a realization of a greater Oneness with what is.

Hi WarriorLady - The world is awash in floodtides and other phenomena of Nature, from firestorms to ice blizzards to supertypoons. I believe we've messed with Mother Nature and She will do all She can to restore homeostasis. But I suspect we have one wild ride ahead! Nature's version of Scorpio energy tends to sweep away that which is obsolete or unregenerate, whether people are there or not. Very unfortunate for those who have built homes on fault lines, many coastal zones, and so forth.

Hi cam - Don't know why you'd take personally what some UK television writer did 20 years ago. I doubt you have anything in common with a character created over 100 years ago by the great occult investigator A.C. Doyle. Please do not take anything you see on television personally, especially dramas written decades ago by those you do not know. I once knew a Cam, and he was a brilliant attorney of great conscience in persisting in fighting for those who got screwed by our legal system. And I do love the Holmes that Jeremy Brett brought to life! A truly gifted actor who died too young.

As I've noted elsewhere, this last Full Moon marks the externalization of the energies of the previous Wesak Festival, offering us all a chance to bring more "Buddha wisdom" into manifestation. As for "hating astrology," I cannot imagine a more useless thing, since all our craft does is show the timing on the tides of life. "The fault, dear Brutus, is never in the stars, but within ourselves..." as the Wise Bard wrote many centuries ago.

All wounds can be healed and turned to wisdom and strength. Our supposed frailty is to be transformed into perseverance, resolve, clarity, and ability to understand this dualistic reality so we may be of service to those who suffer. We only "forget" when we are no longer trapped in the illusion. I've never been quite clear about what "recovery" looks like, except for knowing many who fear slipping out of "recovery." I do not believe healing and recovering from wounds should lead to fear. Fear is a very dangerous disease and useless if we would become our Divine Estate. We may all need a lifeline from time to time, but fear is not a good lifeline. Something about turning a problem that is wrecking our lives over to a Higher Power, which is always within us, is one possible solution.

I believe we can all be restored to health and sanity if we're willing to do the work and stop feeding unhelpful human illusions, including the illusions of frailty, attachment to sensation, or that our "recovery" depends on money or any other external thing. Given our ability with the right training to know things and do things beyond our wildest imagination, how can we believe we are "frail?" Though we are vulnerable and can be wounded as a function of the human need to learn connectedness and compassion, we are Eternals having a human experience. How frail is that???? We are the living manifestation of Power, Love, Wisdom, and Intelligence to the degree we have trained ourselves to demonstrate these. Doesn't sound like we're "bad," or "weak," or any other illusion we humans get attached to.

The Ageless Wisdom will never be lost, though we can "get lost" from time to time in both the Wisdom and the Illusion. The trick is to know which is which, and not give the Illusion any more power than it deserves, which is zero.

[caliban]

Love this Scorpio profile. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I was hearing all this stuff about Scorpios being secretive. I think I discovered the secret about Scorpios: there is no secret, it is what it is.

[Mike]

Scorpio here!! Wow, what a crazy month... Normally, I am recharged the whole month during this time, radiating as the intense being that I am; however, this month was... well, intense - to say the least. What a time for reflection and clearing out the old neurons... Things are happening internally... It is strange and fascinating all at the same time. I wish for some peace; however, I look to get back into the fight again some day; though, I hope to do so taking all the personal lessons I have learned over the course of my lifetime, which were, again, all crammed into this past month's mind-frame... Reinvigorated is how I feel, stronger and more keen - yet behind and needing to catch up. Though, we have little control over the future, yet total control over our personal evolution in each given season. How far I have come, and how behind I am from where I should be.

Thanks Robert!

[CC]

I am a scorpio. Born on Halloween...I just read about living with the human illusions...which I have been stripped of by now, and so I stand naked in the middle of all of this wondering where I stand. In a real life pergatory. I read the list of famous people who have done things like make movies or write books and think I belong somewhere amongst the mentioned...after 41 years of this scorpio business I think I was Hitler in my last life come back to pay. With the amount of venomous lovers I have attracted, the knives in my back, the Great Thunderstorm during childhood, the emotional pain, and the continual drama in my life even when I run from it and cut off 30 year friendships or say NO NO NO. The intensity of being a scorpio will never leave me. I wouldn't trade it, yet I still do wonder where I stand. I am too wise for illusions yet not quite an eagle or zenlike enough to be let go into spirit. The intensity burns as the desire for material things has died and I can't sleep with anxiety over WHY. I can't focus because of mental activity keeping me busy with WHY. I want to know my purpose. It looks like I am supposed to do what everyone else is but that is uncomfortable so I wait and watch and quietly think. I can not move forward without material desire in this world we have created- there seems no purpose in this life unless you want a boat, jetskis, a house, lots of television, UFC and things that keep us busy so we don't have to have anxiety over WHY. So we settle on ITS ALL GOOD and just continue the material life and hope it is. I am somewhere between it all, between desires, between friends, between knowing, between jobs, between between between.
I am writhing in my snakeskin.
-scorpiosout

[Robert]

Hi Caliban - You're most welcome. Scorpios can be secretive, as that is a quality of Water (which we all have somewhere). The "secret" to Scorpio is that like their related tribe Aries, they penetrate into mysteries, and cannot be fooled for any length of time. Mars always takes the initiative to get to the core of what is. Truly, withy Aries and Scorpio what you see is what you get.

Hi Mike - Happy belated Birthday and Solar Return! Yes, very intense time. Saturn square Pluto with planets in Scorpio squaring Mars and then the Aquarius stellium. Just remember that "crazy" is a fairly normal state during this period of The Grand Irrationality. Definitely good for eliminating garbage and useless things while regenerating what needs renewing. Did that myself around these parts. "Strange and fascinating all at the same time" describes Scorpio energy to a T! What you describe you're going through EXACTLY mirrors the experience of a Scorpio friend of many years who came to visit last week. Just one thing - we have more "control over the future" than we suspect due to our "total control over our personal evolution." The present is prologue to the future, if you know what I mean. What seeds we kill and what seeds we sprout show potential future forms.

Hi CC - Think onions when dealing with life illusions. One layer gets peeled off revealing a deeper layer, which may or may not be "an illusion." That's the nature of Mystery. Standing naked in Spirit is a good metaphor for snakes shedding their skin, or the spirit of the Firebyrd in the heart of its transmutation.

We only suffer results of past errors until we lift our consciousness into higher enduring realms. Then while not suffering we have the privilege of chewing up old karmas to stand clean of blowback from denser frequencies in the eternal Now-future. The fact that all forms pass away, whether likeable or unlikeable, creates the need for detaching from our tendencies to suffer or create dramas.

A Sun in Scorpio is illuminated by losses creating emptiness that is filled through authentic magnetism and addressing areas of decay requiring the regeneration of whatever. Often we'll only understand the deeper and larger "whys" of existence when we're no longer limited by our 5 senses and our mind. You will find your purpose as your commit to walking the walk one step at a time. Find your heart's intention, and you'll flower into your purpose (Leo is the 10th of Scorpio.)

We can never do what others do. We are not them. Please go back to the article "A Time to Remember" if you want a useful meditation for these concerns. It helps to see it as process and not form. Desire is a part of the human condition. The trick is WHAT to desire, and without attachment, aversion, or illusion follow the productive patterns in action, thought, and feeling while de-magnetizing those tendencies which only lead us into a ditch. Standing in "the in-betweens" allows us to see process while giving forms their proper due.

[Bill Millet]

KLRN Ch-9 San Antonio, TX will be airing the Texas Music Extravaganza Saturday, December 12th at 10pm.
The extraordinary impact of some of South Texas’ most celebrated musicians is the focus of this documentary musical journey. Filmed in High Definition, the Texas Music Extravaganza includes performances from a pivotal concert on Aug. 27, 2009 in San Antonio, Texas that featured alumni of the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados with Augie Meyers, Flaco Jimenez, Shawn Sahm, Jack Barber, Ernie Durawa and others. The concert benefited the March of Dimes organization, and also featured dynamic performances by Grammy Award winner Raul Malo, The Krayolas, West Side Horns and Adam Aguilar. The event marked the debut of the highly anticipated supergroup the Vato Valley Boys, featuring Augie and Flaco with Bluegrass legends Byron Berline, Dan Crary and John Hickman.

Produced by Bill Millet and directed by award winning Latino film maker AJ Garces, the Texas Music Extravaganza Film also delves into the legacy of Doug Sahm, Augie Meyers and Flaco Jimenez.

More info can be found at Texas Music Extravaganza's Website.

www.texasmusicextravaganza.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgjNRzRdZS0

[Robert]

Hi Bill - Usually this stuff must be cleared with me ahead of time, but given the nature of this one, good stuff. Any astral ghost remaining of Sir Doug the Scorpio is no doubt going to join the party. I wish I could pick the SA station up out here in the Twilight Zone.... From a former producer of many musical events in Austin, as well as an access gonzo, thanks for keeping the flame alive!