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In Praise Of Sun In Scorpio

Scorpio does not particularly care about your preconceptions. Forget that “ruled by Pluto” nonsense. Mars has always been ruled by Mars. Mars, red in tooth and claw, the planet that rules cutting things away and drawing blood. And Scorpio is a “feminine” Sign.

What happens when you hand The Feminine Principle a knife?

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“Whoever believes that any creature can be changed for the better or the worse, or transformed into another kind or likeness, except by the Creator of all things, is worse than a pagan and a heretic.”

“God punishes by means of bad Angels, as He often punished the People of Israel with various diseases, truly and actually visited upon their bodies.”
­―Malleus Maleficarum (1471)

Witches were keepers of forbidden wisdom. They were seen as the enemy to the Establishment, spreading heresy and sin. In fact, the witches were mostly those who paid attention to the old knowledge: how to heal, and how to work with herbs. This, of course, gave them a certain kind of authority over The Establishment — who had The Bible on their side and thus should always come out on top.

When you got a toothache, The Authorities of the time would encourage you to pray and ask God how you had failed Him. The Witches? They knew how to make willow bark tea to help with the pain. And they did so, even knowing the risk to themselves.

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“It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.”

“Suffering isn’t ennobling, recovery is.”
― Christiaan Barnard

In late 1967, Dr. Christiaan Barnard (a Scorpio) performed the world’s first human heart transplant. His patient only survived for 17 days afterwards, but it was 17 days on Earth that he would not have gotten otherewise. It may seem ridiculous to us now, but many at the time were horrified. The name “Frankenstein” was invoked to make the concept horrifying. The Book of Leviticus was used a a source to condemn the proceedure as “unholy.”

Nonetheless, Dr. Barnard went on to revolutionize medicine and to save many lives… and yet by all reports, he always winced a little whenever he made that first incision.

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Scorpio is not a cartoon Halloween spook trying to haunt you. Scorpio is not staring into your Void. Scorpio sits at the edge of the tribe while the others sleep, staring out into the moonless night, always watching for the predators, who are never far away.

This is what happens when you hand The Feminine Principle a knife. Once you’ve wrapped your head around that… and only then… are we ready to talk about “Pluto.”