Scorpio Season, the Death Card, and Surrender.
The Death card, as depicted by the Smith Rider Waite tarot deck.
As we move deeper into Scorpio season, we see significant planetary moves emphasizing key Scorpio concepts. Saturn is now at 0° Pisces and moving direct, returning us to a journey that first presented itself in March 2023. Our spirituality and faith take center stage with Pisces, and Saturn facilitates (and sometimes demands) structured commitment to the things that we say matter most. The South Node in Libra is also currently conjunct asteroid Pallas Athene at 24°; we could feel a profound inner-stirring to release or otherwise shift old strategies (Pallas), especially around how we relate to others (Libra). What once felt like a prudent approach to conflict may now feel tiresome; a lingering wariness is an invitation to transform.
Death and rebirth are keywords associated with the celestial scorpion, but the underlying energy that drives both is surrender. The Death card in tarot comes to mind visually when I think about this concept. Pictured prominently is a traumatic scene of death, consequence, powerlessness. Death rides a white horse transforming the experiences of all within its vicinity. The struggle is over for those who have already passed in the card, but the ongoing suffering lies with the religious figure trying to plead with Death. It showcases a resistance to that which is inevitable, to transformation itself. The card teaches us that eventually, resistance to surrender is its own form of suffering. I have always appreciated the depiction of this particular figure associated with faith because nothing in our journey requires faith like surrender.
As we find ourselves submerged in imagery of pain, loss, and violence in the world, and as we feel the deafening calls to transform at individual and collective levels, I encourage you to look also to the sun rising in the background of the Death card. We must look at death in order to move through it - we can’t ‘love & light’ our way through grief, that is its own form of avoidance. But we also must find light in all moments of darkness. This is survival as much as it is healing.
“A lingering wariness is an invitation to transform.”
Where are you illuminated at the moment - with insight, creativity, hope, relief, support, possibility? That inner-light will come to light the path out of the chaos and destruction, and faith will be your compass.
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