Fresh Possibility

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In cultures around the world it is said that  on November 1 and 2 the portals open between the living and the dead allowing us on Earth to mourn the one in celebration of the other. What makes this November 2 an even more potent celebration of life is the Scorpio Full Moon; the annual Full Moon of death and transformation. Every month the milky-white luminosity of a Full Moon reflects the life force of the Sun beaming sweet nourishment to our soul. Every autumn when the Sun enters Scorpio we experience a breaking down of our individuality, and when the Sun in Scorpio opposes the Moon in Taurus we begin breaking down the hollowed, inauthentic aspects of ourself that have starved our soul. The Moon is exalted in Taurus creating enduring change and growth, and when the Moon is  full in Taurus the promised growth becomes our reality when we understand that material security comes from the deepest roots of our being.

Easier said than done. Making no mistakes the journey to our eternal being is mined with unimagined traps of every distortion, inventions and manifestations of our fears, meant to prevent our growing in a deeper self -awareness. Our greatest fears reside at the side of death but oddly so not so much our physical death as the death of our knowledge of what we think is real. This is a fascinating conundrum that human consciousness has created for itself, suggesting that knowledge is a dead thing, if we consider that knowledge comes from past experience and past experience is something that has  already happened hence it is dead and gone.

Our attachment to what we think is emphasized this Full Moon both by Mercury in Scorpio and the challenging aspects the Sun and Moon will make to Jupiter, Chiron, and Neptune in Aquarius. This month illuminates our resistance to change highlighting our determination to build security by holding onto what we think,  what we feel, and what we own.  It seems likely that one of our greatest lessons this month will have something to do with trusting our inner authority and building a permanent alter in respect of our self-worth.

The last aspect the Taurus Moon makes before leaving sign is a trine to the North Node in Capricorn pointing an authoritative finger in the direction of our future growth; letting go of our dependency on the past and accepting personal responsibility and leadership in creating our personal security from the inside out. Saturn recently entered Libra shifting our sense of personal responsibility away from health toward relating with one another. Our relationships  with one another truly foster our greatest growth and if we consider that this month is our time to die to what we know about ourself, in the spirit of Krishnamurti’s immortal words, “freedom from the known”, we have a wonderful opportunity to relate to one another with fresh possibility.