Astrology for Sunday, 27 October 2019:

Today is the New Moon in Scorpio, but before the Moon moves into Scorpio, it first moves through a square to Pluto in Capricorn and a sextile to Jupiter in Sagittarius. The square to Pluto continues the story from the Moon’s trine to Pluto on October 25. As we move through this cycle of transformation, we must confront how power operates on and through our bodies. How has your relationship to your felt sense of your body been challenged to transform throughout this lunation cycle? Where can you observe the forces of regulation, normalization, and control shaping your perceptions or expectations for your body, and how might you interrupt or subvert those processes in favor of liberation? Mars in Libra perfects its square to Saturn in Capricorn, and it may feel like driving directly into a wall of stone. The momentum or acceleration that you’ve been experiencing in the place that Libra occupies in your chart may feel like it comes to a sudden halt, as if your circumstances are refusing the action that you are trying to take. The Moon then ingresses into Scorpio—the sign of its fall or depression—and conjoins the Sun at around 4º, in a tight opposition to Uranus in Taurus. The New Moon marks the start of a new cycle, a new process of growth and change. Opposing Uranus, this process may require breaking down in order to break through into new ways of being in the world. We all have established patterns of behavior for when we meet ourselves in the dark, for when we face our own hidden places. Sometimes we repress or avoid, sometimes we run away or act out aggressively. Shame has shaped us all, but in the dark of the Moon, we are being shaken. We cannot continue to live with our shame in the ways we have until now. Something must change, and that is the process of healing that we are being brought into during this lunation cycle.