DivinationA divination practice
♏Scorpio
23 October – 21 November · Water · Fixed · ruled by Mars
Reading for the current moment…
Every day
One reading per planetary day.
- SundaySun
- The Sun asks you into the open, which you resist on principle. Show one thing you would normally keep back. The exposure is survivable and the privacy was costing more than it protected.
- MondayMoon
- The Moon brings something up from underneath. Do not interrogate it before breakfast. Let it sit in the room with you; by evening you will know what it is about.
- TuesdayMars
- Your ruling day. Intensity with a target is your best condition and intensity without one is your worst. Give it the difficult task, not the difficult person.
- WednesdayMercury
- Mercury asks the direct question you have been approaching sideways for a week. Ask it. The indirect route has already told them you are asking; the only thing left concealed is what you actually want to know.
- ThursdayJupiter
- Jupiter offers trust from an unexpected direction. Your instinct is to test it first. Test it less than usual — some of what you call discernment has become a way of never arriving.
- FridayVenus
- Venus asks for tenderness without strategy. Not a negotiation, not an exchange. Say the warm thing plainly and do not manage what happens next.
- SaturdaySaturn
- Saturn asks what the grudge is for. You are entitled to it and it is also a tenant that has stopped paying. Decide, today, whether it stays another season.
Every week
One reading per quarter of the moon.
- New moonthe dark of the moon, the start of a cycle
- The dark moon is your natural light. Begin the thing privately, tell nobody, and let it develop where nothing can interfere with it. You work best unobserved and this is the week for it.
- Waxing moonfirst quarter, the moon filling
- The build is where your fixed quality earns its keep. Nobody sustains concentration on one subject the way you do. Choose the subject deliberately, because you will not let go of it for a while.
- Full moonthe moon at its brightest
- The full moon drags something into the light that you had arranged carefully in shadow. It is less damning in daylight. Most things are.
- Waning moonlast quarter, the moon emptying
- Release is the whole of your tradition and the part you practise least. One thing, deliberately, this week. Not forgiven, necessarily — just set down.
Every month
One reading per solar month.
- January
- Capricorn season gives your intensity a structure to run inside, which is the safest possible arrangement. Set a long objective. You are one of the few who will still be pursuing it in November.
- February
- Aquarius season is cool, distant and impersonal, and squares uncomfortably against you. Something in a group is not working. Say so once, plainly, and then let the group decide.
- March
- Pisces season is deep water and easy swimming. Your defences are lower than usual, which is not a vulnerability this month, it is an opening. Let someone in.
- April
- Aries season shares your ruler and turns the heat up. Aim it at work. Mars unaimed in April has cost you a relationship before and the pattern is avoidable.
- May
- Taurus season sits opposite and offers the plain, unhidden, uncomplicated version of things. Take it at face value. Not everyone has a second layer, and reading for one is its own kind of blindness.
- June
- Gemini season is light and quick and asks you to keep things brief. Try answering a question without the full history. The short answer is sometimes the honest one.
- July
- Cancer season is your element at its gentlest. Family, home and old wounds, handled softly. Something you assumed was permanent turns out to be negotiable.
- August
- Leo season demands display and you would rather not. Compromise: let your work be visible while you are not. That distinction is available and people respect it.
- September
- Virgo season turns your depth into precision. Excellent month for research, repair, and finishing the thing that requires solitary concentration. Take the meeting-free week if you can get it.
- October
- Libra season is the quiet before your own. Settle accounts — literal and otherwise. You want a clean start in November and this is the month that buys it.
- November
- Your season. Everything is at full strength: focus, appetite, loyalty, suspicion. Spend it on one thing that deserves that much of you. It will have all of you regardless.
- December
- Sagittarius season scatters what you had gathered and insists on cheerfulness. Let it. A month of not being the deepest person in the room is genuinely restful.
Written for this collection in the idiom of a modern astrological column. The other signs.