SCORPIO NEW MOON 

SCORPIO NEW MOON 
November 1st, 2024 at 5:48AM MST 

Symbol: The Sorcerer                                             
Element: Water
Modality: Fixed
Ruling Planets: Mars & Pluto
Ruling House: 8th 
Affirmation: I Transform 

New Moon 
New Beginnings 
Initiation of a New Cycle 
Introspection
Rebirth
Intention Setting 

Themes
Transformation
Detoxification 
Heightened Emotions 
Alchemy 
Depth
Ancestral & Spirit Connections 
Building Intimacy 
Trust 

Scorpio New Moon and Samhain coinciding marks a beautiful and powerful moment of time. Make it a ceremony, make it sacred, make it witchy. Cook, bake, connect with the land, surrender to the death, honor our ancestors and past loved ones, detoxify the body, feel emotions, reflect, make offerings, create, and celebrate. 

On 11/1 at 5:48 AM MST, we have powerful New Moon peaking at 9° Scorpio. This energy feels like a potent portal descending into our internal darkness and meeting our shadows with faith.  Have trust that our pain will fertilize into abundance. This is a time to have reverence in the unseen and believe that when we meet these unseen parts of ourselves, they will transform into magic. Shadows cannot exist without the light shining on them. 

There is a lot happening during this New Moon, and I will do my best to highlight just a couple notable aspects.

This New Moon is ruled by both Pluto and Mars, as Scorpio is one of few zodiac signs ruled by two planets. Both Mars and Pluto are making an opposition to each other during this lunation. 

Pluto is at the final and anaretic degree 29 of Capricorn. This is Pluto’s last hurrah in Capricorn before he moves into Aquarius for the next 16+ years. Capricorn is very much associated to traditions with a steadfast journey toward success. Mars, also at the 29th degree but opposite Pluto in the sign of Cancer. Mars is not comfortable in Cancer, and can be more sensitive, but also intuitively driven by action. This is a head-to-head energy, with potential for ruthlessness. The 29th degree can often bring urgency, and with these two power planets opposing each other, it can feel sensitive, but also like aggressive power struggles. This energy can also be revealing something that urgently needs to change. 

Scorpio is known as an intense sign, but that intensity is often misunderstood, because Scorpio represents death, shedding our skin and the unseen world. It is here to get into the depths of our own internal worlds and have deep faith. Scorpio’s highest frequency is through building intimacy, with their own darkness, the internal world, but also with the world around them and in relationships. The misunderstanding comes from our perception of the darkness. Instead of being afraid of what the darkness holds, shine a light on it. On the other side of fear, is freedom. 

The archetype of Scorpio is the Alchemist, and the Sorcerer, it is a fixed-water sign and invites us to trust our intuition and know that we cannot shine so brightly without the shadows casting their light. Water is such a powerful element, that can shift and transform anything. Our medicine to the whole arrives through the darkness. It is through this pain that we begin to shine and find our own personal power, this is our liberation.

There are a lot of planets in water-element signs right now; the Sun, and the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Uranus, and Saturn are all in water signs now—creating a very deep, emotional, and highly sensitive time. When I say sensitive, I mean we are all a little more in tune with all the sensations—energetically, physically, and emotionally. 

With the heavy water placements this is a good time to get in our physical bodies and move that energy intentionally. Sometimes a heavy water-element chart can indicate an overstimulation of emotions and an overwhelm. That’s why intentional physical movement, including breath work and any other form of movement that resonates with you, it can help shift the energy within our physical bodies and purge intentionally.

This is also a great time to connect with the spirit world if that is something in your practice. 

This lunation is making a trine to Saturn retrograde in Pisces. This is a supportive aspect and Saturn wants to support your long-term manifestations through discipline and boundaries. This can be boundaries with others in the physical, but it can also be spiritual boundaries. This aspect is also providing a component of faith in your manifestations and your journey. Trust the process. 

Scorpio season indicates the halfway point between the Autumn Equinox and the Winter Solstice. It’s a season where we see a lot of change right before our eyes, and where we welcome the season of death. Leaves are changing, falling, and crumbling into the ground, creating a compost for what’s to come in spring. I often think of Scorpio as the bacteria in the soil, but the way we choose to feed said bacteria, is up to you. Feeding it in intentional ways, and releasing any built-up emotions, will shift that bacteria into fertilizer and create abundance come spring, but if said bacteria isn’t fed with care and intention it can turn into fragments that can be left behind. This season is a time where we integrate the awareness of others, including an awareness of Spirit into our own compost pile, and trust the long winter process. 

Now for a personal story…

Almost exactly one year ago I was working on an organic vegetable farm in Colorado. It was my last day on the farm, and I was tasked to plant six rows of garlic, Allium sativum.  

It is important to note that garlic is often planted in the Fall, after the Autumn equinox, to optimize its growing season. Garlic matures in the longest days of the year but takes about 8-10 months to grow. While it can be easy to grow, it takes some time. 

So, planting in the Fall gives garlic the jumpstart it needs for when Spring rolls around. 

How to Plant Garlic,  Allium sativum

• After the Autumn Equinox 
• Separate cloves less than 48 hours before planting – to avoid them from drying out 
• Prepare well-draining soil with 2 inches of compost. 
• Plant individual cloves, peels still on, with flat part down in the ground, ~2 inches deep, and ~6 inches apart. 
• Optional to add a few inches of seedless straw over the garlic, as it will pack down over the winter and help prevent the weeds. 
• Early in the spring you will then start to see little green shoots pop through the soil as the ground thaws. 
• Around Summer Solstice it will be ready for harvest 

*Please note this may not necessarily relevant to the growing season here in Phoenix. This is applicable to where I was growing vegetables in Colorado and most other places in the the U.S. 

The Farm I was working on was with a lovely family, who had been farming for 11+ years, and they had always purchased garlic cloves from a garlic farmer. I remember Farmer Tim telling me it was his goal to grow enough garlic of their own one day, so they wouldn’t have to purchase garlic to plant anymore. 

It was sometime around Halloween last year and my final day on the farm, I was in the thick of grief from a heartbreak that caught me off guard. I was also a day away from packing up all my things in my car and leaving Colorado, indefinitely. I remember my last day on the farm being cold and gloomy, just like my mood. I was extremely sad to leave Colorado, but hopeful for the possibilities. I was feeling uncertain and heartbroken from shifting my now expired relationship. It felt dark at the time, with a smallest tinge of hope. I didn’t know exactly where I was going to live, I figured I’d drive to Phoenix and see how it would go.

So, while I was planting this garlic, I was moving through deep emotions. I was in the thick of grief, it was that visceral pain in the chest kind of grief. So much change had already happened, and more was coming, and I wasn’t sure I could hold it all. I knew a major chapter of my life was ending; and I was *trying* to be hopeful for the uncertainty that was right in front of me. 

Well, as someone who deeply resonates with Scorpio season, I decided my final day on the farm, I was going to give the soil, the Earth, the plants all my grief, my pain, and my uncertainty. I gave my hurt, but I also gave my trust to the soil. I was the only one planting the garlic, and I remember thinking I was moving too slowly, and I wasn’t going to finish planting the garlic alone, but alas, I did. I planted six rows of garlic, with trust in the transmutation and gratitude for my time on the farm and getting my hands dirty in the soil every day. Farming was something that always felt so deeply aligned for me, it was a synergy for my soul.

Well, fast forward to this year, and in the last month I heard from the farmers I used to work for.  They told me they had 60 pounds of garlic this year!! It was by large, the most garlic they have ever grown! For the first time, they did not need to purchase garlic from the garlic farmers, they could use their own garlic plant. They also had been giving garlic to their CSA (community shared agriculture) members since mid-July and also selling it at the Farmers Market. They had an ABUNDANCE of garlic this year. And when they went to plant the garlic for this year, they planted 12 rows, which means it doubled from last year! 

I share this story because it’s exactly what Scorpio energy brings. The Earth and this season will take your pain and the unseen parts of yourself and transmute it into gold if you allow it.

It is the death before the rebirth.  I have never been so proud of something, and this felt like the validation in knowing that hurt brought me to absolute magic. It reminded me that abundance can arrive out of the mud when we give it a little love and attention. Our bodies, and Mother Earth want to heal, they want to transform, and evolve and offer the opportunity for our greatest power to shine through. And often our personal power arrives by journeying through the darkness. Don’t look away, lean in, because it’s through the shadows that we find the light. It’s though our pain that we create magic. Having faith that our hurt can transform into abundance is the magic of this season. Having undeniable reverence for what is taking place below the surface and in the dark shadows, is not something to be afraid of, but something to look forward to. 

The seeds planted now will come to fruition in the Spring during Taurus season, what seeds do you want to see grow? 

Rituals:
Do some divination work – connect with your ancestors or past loved ones. 
Light a candle.
Do some shadow work.
Write a stream of consciousness.
Reflect on the last 6 months / 1 year. How have you grown? 
Make nourishing soups, or foods with herbs or seasonal produce.

Questions to Ponder: 
What are you afraid to look at about yourself? 
Where am I hiding my light or playing small? 
What are you manifesting, long term?
What can be transformed in your life right now?
What painful experiences have I been through in my life, that have turned into abundance or medicine or gifts I now offer (or can offer) to my community? 
How can I get more intimate with myself? With Others? 

Written by Stephanie Lorenz