November’s New Moon in Scorpio and Major Arcana 13, Death
“A farewell to my shadow is not my death; it’s my rebirth in darkness.” -Munia Khan
We begin this month’s moon cycle with the New Moon in Scorpio. We entered into Scorpio season on October 23rd and we will remain here until November 21st. Scorpio is a fixed water sign, meaning it asks us to go deep into our dreams and our primal desires.
When we tap into this energy, it’s like tapping into 250 million-year-old groundwater. We can drink from the energy that has always been present, and in so doing, we are replenished.
Death is the 13th Major Arcana card in the Tarot and is aligned with the Zodiac sign of Scorpio.
In this card, we see the figure of death as a skeleton astride a white horse in full armor carrying a flag with a white rose. Like death, the color black absorbs all and like death, the color white as a prism includes all.
Life and death are both eternal, and so it is only the ego that fears death. The ego imagines itself as a personality, somehow separate from all of life, and in that way, superior to the order of the universe.
The Death card does not represent the moment of transformation and rebirth, but rather, the moment we surrender to change and give…
