Scorpio – Adepts of Shadow & Rulers of the Esoteric 🌹 ☾

The most prolific works are revelatory in nature and emanate from a wellspring of clandestine force (shakti) beyond the limited, congested personality, made intelligible only by experience. As iconoclastic maelstroms of regenerative, life-giving heat and corrosive, life-consuming shadow, Scorpios are natural votaries of the hidden, chthonian dimension of Reality. Scorpio skillfully reveals and conceals the nocturnal nature of Reality through the human avatars born under this sign of titanic depth. As if by trance or reflexive compulsion, Scorpios often channel mysteric materials, hiss clandestine, cosmic secrets and warm latent, slumbering crystals within the caverns of our Soul into wakeful, operative forces. In ancient lore, it was a hallmark of valor to traverse the underworld. Mystically speaking, this implies making contact with the subtle, inner planes by mantra, Shakti-Sadhana and fiery Tantric love-rites with an initiated Priestess (adept, Bhairavi).

‘Descending into the depths’ therefore implies excavation of the unconscious, activation of subtle forces and reversal of the natural flow of energies by yogic technique. This is not simply a mental process, but actionable and physical (Kriyā). Tantrism involves ‘reversals’ of many kinds to decrease processes of degeneration and increase life-force (prana, shakti), as Adepts affirm it is infinitely more convenient to perform karmas in one lifetime than to abide the Saṃsāric wheel, catapulting mindlessly into infinite births and deaths. Scorpio thus naturally illumines the dualistic nature of darkness, which functions to bind, delude and induce sleepy, tamasic ignorance (avidya)—or remove impurities through acts of ‘devouring,’ thus stimulating vidya (sacred wisdom) through magic, sexual congress and meditation. By ‘devouring’, we implicitly mean burning impurities of the subtle body, ego and limited personality into the infernal firepit of Night (Yoni), which ‘devours’ the offering and in turn augments mystical vision, perception and clarity, and quite literally facilitates spiritual rebirth and the ‘overcoming of death’ (mrityun javate).

Once again, profound gratitude to the following sources for deepening and strengthening my understanding of astrology, Tantric and Vedic concepts, notably Claire Nakti and Vic DiCara for their rich, fertile content, which is particularly relevant to this contemplation. I have been studying astrology for many years, but their insights have been markedly beneficial and illuminating, so I am very thankful 🌹:

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