The Sun has entered the fixed waters of Scorpio, a feminine and nocturnal sign traditionally associated with the eighth house, a shadowed and inactive region of the zodiacal wheel, without pitagoric aspect to the Ascendant. The diurnal and radiant principle is now in an underground spot.
After leaving its fall in Libra, the Sun has improved its condition, but remains dormant. It is now peregrine, without dignities, under the rule of Mars, who also occupies Scorpio, at the height of his domiciliary power, following a four-planet stellium.
The Sun is now crossing the first decan, one that is also ruled by Mars. It is the most iron-bound zone of Scorpio, where solar gold submits to the iron forge. This initial stage concentrates the weight of will, severity, and internal combustion. The decan corresponds to the Five of Cups in the Tarot, a symbolic image of Geburah acting in Briah. Or, in other words, the cutting force of Divine discipline within the creative and receptive world of waters.
It is a first phase doubly forged in iron: Sun and Mars fused in the same element. But this symbiosis will change soon. Within a week, on November 4, Mars will leave Scorpio to enter Sagittarius. From then on, the solar ruler loses his domicile, becoming peregrine in mutable fire, an the element opposite to the fixed water where the Sun remains. The dignities of Mars weaken and with them the structural strength sustaining the solar work.
II. Symbolic
The Sun is the Christic consciousness that illuminates and Scorpio is the matter that conceals. When gold descends underground, consciousness learns to boil in silence. It is the archetype of regeneration: the solar spirit dissolved in the aquatic uterus of Mars.
The absence of a pitagoric aspect to the Ascendant indicates that this operation is neither visible nor public. It is an inner, alchemical act in the soul. Geburah in Briah is precisely this: Divine severity working in the womb of creation. The Five of Cups shows the mourning required for the reconfiguration of will. The cups that have fallen are the old desires; the two still upright are the pure core of intention.
While Mars remains in his domicile, the work is surgical and fertile: the iron cuts to make space for rebirth. But once Mars enters Sagittarius next week, the blade will lose focus. Mutable fire tends to disperse the power that was formerly concentrated in fixed water. The operation continues, but its heat becomes errant, a moment when we must restrain the impulse to project outward what is still being forged within.
III. Operative
During this solar cycle, human consciousness is called to descend into its own depths, looking upon what has been lost, turning pain into potency. It is a time to silence the outer world and listen to the inward murmur of the waters. This tends to translate into events that demand the surrender of control, the acceptance of loss.
Relationships, alliances, or projects reach the point where they can no longer continue in their previous form. Something must die to release vital energy. Scorpio also governs shared resources, debts, inheritances, and accounts to be settled, either material or emotional. It is common to see the redefinition of dependencies and boundaries.
In the early days of the transit, while Mars still reigns in Scorpio, the energy is precise, accurate, with emotional purification. It is time to seal decisions, to release psychic residues, and to accept mourning as an act of lucidity. What was hidden comes to the surface: truths, secrets, repressed impulses. Mars in domicile gives the courage to face what was previously avoided.
Then, when Mars passes into Sagittarius, the tone changes: the liquid iron becomes flame. The risk is dispersion; the task is to maintain the concentration of the Spirit. Consciousness must remain withdrawn until the gold emerges purified once again.
This is the period when nights grow longer and days shorter, the season of Samhain and All Souls’ Day, when the world remembers that light visits the dead to learn from them. The lesson of the Sun in Scorpio is simple and inexorable: only those who consent to die to their own form rediscover the original splendour of life.
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