Scorpio Season Forecast: Games without Frontiers

Scorpio Season is always a trip into the Underworld, an opportunity for us to evaluate our inner darkness and communicate with our shadows with clarity and purpose. But this has not been an average year — for many of us, 2020 has been a year-long deep dive into shadow work, staring down fear and guilt, stretching into our depths. How do we handle Scorpio Season when our typical 8th House work has been the larger theme of the year?

Scorpio is one of the few signs of the zodiac with a name directly reminiscent of its symbol — the Scorpion — which is ironic considering nothing about Scorpio can be seen at the surface. It’s the sign of Fixed Water: if Cancer is the internal wellspring and Pisces is the ever-changing sea, Scorpio is a pool of still water, capable of bending light, creating and destroying illusions, all the while hiding its own depths. But Scorpio has another symbol used to express its highest qualities — the Eagle. And with Scorpio’s associations, this easily undergoes yet another transformation: Scorpio as the Phoenix.

As master of the 8th House, Scorpio allows us to experience sex, death, and magic, encounters that touch the depths of our souls and leave us changed. Scorpio reminds us that through destruction comes transformation: through the fires, we emerge reborn. This transformation is inevitable. We cannot hold it…