Starcodes October 20,2023 Heather Roan Robbins

Help us steer this world through an astrologically tricky month, this is not the new normal. Direct any unusual circumstance towards a healing outcome whether it unfolds in international politics or over dinner conversation.

We enter Scorpio season with a bang this weekend as both the Sun and Mercury square intense Pluto on Friday and bring our thoughts to the dire and the dark, but also to the transformation possible beyond. By Monday the Sun and Mercury join Mars in Scorpio and trine seriously competent, organized and stabilizing Saturn. The Scorpio influence stays strong and the aspects stay tricky through mid-November, so let’s find a way to navigate it.

Scorpio gets to the point; it represents the highest and the lowest of the zodiac and can help us solve mysteries, focus, transcend, and evolve on a good day. On a bad day brings relentless and unforgiving focus. Scorpio at its core encourages us to get strong and deep, get to the roots. In its more surface form, Scorpio energy feeds our suspicions which can distort the truth as much as blind faith.

To use this deep curiosity well, rather look for confirmation bias, we have to bring our dedication to the truth. It’s easy to spot that confirmation bias- that search for facts to support our opinion rather that find out what’s really going on- in someone else; it’s harder to spot in…