Astrology of Now: Spellcasting
Autumn is here. There is magic in the air. After the high winds: still, dull skies, yellow-leaved birch, bronze beech. Delicious fall smells: woodsmoke, rot, mushrooms, apples.
The nights are reaching into the hours of day, here in the north. But everywhere, the season of magic opened today. The Sun moved into Scorpio, Mars moved into Libra. In a couple of days, the Sun will conjoin mighty Jupiter in this, the sign of what lies beneath, shining a light down there, maybe lighting a bonfire this year.
Traditionally, of course, this is the time when the veil is thin. The mouth of the underworld opens, the dead speak — and we listen. Our ancestors seem closer now. In some parts of the world — Mexico, Europe — preparations are under way for celebrating and honouring the dead at the start of November. Skulls are being sugared, pots of chrysanthemums shipped on trucks Holland south.
But before then, we are in a dangerous moment with the Sun preparing for the darkest part of his journey through the Zodiac. This is the week before All Hallows Eve, when the dead walk.
Scorpio is the sign of fixed water: emotional focus, ice. Maybe its association with witches, the uncanny, the occult should tell us something. For what is a spell but distilled intentionality, desire honed to sharp point.
Oh. Not the best week to have a birthday, then? :/
It’s the day after the luckiest day, 26th. Will I still be lucky?
Yes, and so powerful this year.
Maybe I should have explained that, personally, I love this week and the month of November. But then I also love magic.
Oh 🙂 I got scared because you said dangerous. I love magic too. Ok, fingers crossed…
That is lucky! 🙂
I don’t know what to dare hope or wish for. I think a change of government, so I feel safe, for sure. And anything else, I’ll let the universe surprise me.
Yesterday, a Piscean friend got a big job opportunity just as the Sun trined her Sun at 0°. That’s lucky.
Mmmm ghosties.
When Jupiter moved into Scorpio and exactly squared my natal Jupiter, I went on my first ever ghost hunt/vigil …
Bloody hell, I wont be doing that again in a hurry. Very interesting, but unerving and for some a literally hair raising experience [video evidence] and phantom dogs [video evidence], sighs on the stairs, strangulations, unsanctified corpses, EMF machines going haywire, tables falling over, large orbs of light in pitch dark rooms [video evidence] sensors kicking off in empty spaces etc etc
Hmmm
Yikes! Would love to know more.
Ill give you a bell and fill you in.
And just to say I didnt time it – it just happened to be when the opportunity arose.