trekking through the tail end of scorpio season, it’s incredible to glance back and witness the progress, change, or wreckage that lies smoldering at your feet. friday’s upcoming lunar eclipse in taurus ushers us into uncharted terrain, and it’s soul-revealing spotlight is sure to show us a thing or two about the cost of safety, security, and sensuality- with either a grip too tight or too loose.

scorpio season always looks to trim the fat, to fixate your focus on the weak points, to destabilize what desperately needs destabilizing. It asks you to hone in on the nagging behaviors, hand-me-down feelings, and tiresome patterns that need sacrificing. renewal is the end goal, but painfully tender is the process.

the past few months, I’ve felt like astrology was a dead weight in my life. It felt like someone had tied an anchor to my feet, and worse, I felt compulsively drawn to being thrown off the plank. It drove me mad that I was plagued with a distaste for something I’ve poured all my passion into the past decade. It wasn’t until I finally confronted what was actually dead around my approach to astrology that I was able to cut the ropes and find fresh air. They say the truth will set you free, and Scorpio is always willing to whisper the next move to you. Thing is, you just might not like what you hear.

I think this is the thing with the Scorpio/Taurus axis, and particularly with the nodes and eclipses moving into this set of signs. You’ve gotta be willing to make psychologically-threatening, phoenix like moves (Scorpio) with what’s been tried, tested, true, and TIRED (Taurus). Cause sometimes the very same thing that’s granting you security is suffocating you, like an unsuspecting smoke seeping into the room. This eclipse, be willing and prepared to confront what’s worth killing and what’s worth keeping around. if you feel buried, grab a shovel and trade places with whatever’s crushing you. if you’ve burned it all down, start thinking about what you’d like to begin to build.