Astrology of October 18 - 23, 2020 -- Mercury is retrograde in the sign of Scorpio, where still waters run deep, dark, and intense. At the same time, Mercury opposes Uranus, the electric light parade of enlightened, disruptive, and sometimes-dangerous ideas.

Our thinking turns inward, and our salty, electrified emotions get pulled into the logic centers -- corrupting them with anger, joy, addiction, ecstasy, nitpicky judgments -- or worse: fears of betrayal, tears, distrust, and a sense of danger.

As we feel against Scorpio's wall of frozen, dark emotion, cold bites at our fingers. It could hurt.

Now is the time to remember why we're here. Scorpio is the alchemist who turns the darkness into light -- but to do this, she must allow the ice of her frozen tears to melt. It starts with a single drop of relaxing tension, a willingness to be vulnerable, the braveness to feel without judgment. Then, with the warmth of a loving embrace, the frozen sea of emotion can flow -- and the more it flows, the more we discover that it's a gushing torrent of love.

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Here's an image:

Now is the time to be the ferocious Eagle who soars overhead in a nighttime thunderstorm. She is getting pummeled with sharp hail, wind, and rain -- and she is in pain -- but the eagle waits for a lightning flash (with focus and determination), fully trusting that it will come. At last, in the brightness of the strike, she uses her keen eyes to find the vulnerable nest below.

By the time the thunder booms, the Eagle has quietly perched herself at the lip of the nest. Her sharp, penetrating claws are ready to defend the defenseless. Her soft wings are open wide in loving protection. The future is secure. The baby eagles are safe.

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The goodness. The hope. The purity. It's there -- if you are alive enough to read these words. And, like a lightning flash -- even when the memory of hope is lost -- we find it illuminated for an instant in the darkness -- out of nowhere. That's when you can reclaim it -- with fierce, loving protection.

Until then, we wait for the perfect moment to strike.

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