Dear Friends,

It has really been fun writing this newsletter. Each sign seems to take on
a life of its own. I just want to let you know that this one is 15 pages
long. There are 12 pages on Scorpio's path, 2 pages on a meditation to do
while the Sun is in Scorpio and one page of Scorpio Key Words. Plus
references.

Have fun and please share your experiences with me.

Gururattan Kaur "Rattana"
rattana@...

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Scorpio
Copyright by Gururattan Kaur Khalsa, Ph.D.


NEW MILLENNIUM BEING

Newsletter No. 5
October 23, 1999

SCORPIO-BORN AGAIN AND AGAIN

By Gururattan Kaur Khalsa, Ph.D. "Rattana"


In its quest for wholeness, the New Millennium Being uses and benefits from
the energy of all the signs of the zodiac. Each sign is one aspect of our
spiritual quest. This is the third article in the series which began with
"Virgo's Path to Perfection" and "Libra's Balancing Act." This is the fifth
issue of the New Millennium Being Newsletter, which started out an article
on the August 11th Solar Eclipse. The Eclipse initiated a gateway to the
new millennium. It has also served as a wake up call for each of us to
align with our Soul purpose and path.

The Sun passes through the Scorpio sky from October 23rd through November
21st. This is the best time to access Scorpio energy and learn its lessons.
The New Moon is in Scorpio November 7th. The New Moon in any sign is the
opportune time to set goals and intentions for that area of our life for the
following year. Scorpio provides us with profound, life-changing options.


MYSTERY OR MASTERY

No sign confronts us with more mystery than Scorpio. But no sign offers us
more possibilities of mastery than Scorpio either. Every sign of the Zodiac
symbolizes a specific aspect of the human struggle towards greater
consciousness and the eventual manifestation of Love in the human form.
Every sign embodies a specific energy that both provokes and assists us on
our journey.

Scorpio is a Water sign, which means that it embodies emotional energy. It
differs significantly from he Earth signs-Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn-which
embody physical energy that can be seen and recognized as material objects
and results. The emotional energy and the motivations of the Water
signs-Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces-lie below the surface of the consciousness
in the unconscious.

The energy of the Water signs is elusive and mysterious. One is too often
unaware of the emotional frustrations, desires and needs that propel one's
actions. It is the Water signs that teach us that we must get in touch with
our feeling nature in order to access the instinctual nature of our
behavior. We must develop a relationship with our emotional body in order
to overcome feelings of isolation and vulnerability and to develop an inner
sense of security and safety.


DEATH AND REBIRTH

Scorpio is the only sign of the zodiac that has transformation built into
its symbology. Scorpio is represented not only by the scorpion, but also by
the spider, the eagle and the phoenix. Each of the later three represents a
phase in its spiritual path. As I explained in "Libra's Balancing Act"
(Issue 04) there are three general stages of evolution of the Soul in the
human body. Alan Oken refers to these three levels of consciousness as (1)
Personality-centered, (2) awakening to the Soul-personality relationship,
and (3) Soul-centered. *1 I refer to these three stages of evolution as (1)
Asleep, (2) Awakening or waking-up and (3) Awake. Scorpio has these three
stages vivified in its symbols.

Scorpio discards the old, so it can let in the new. But it does not let go
lightly. Scorpio is a Fixed Sign, which means that is tenacious and does
not change easily. It must penetrate to the very core of the issue at hand.
It must not only get to the bottom of matters, it must expose the cause and
thus the Truth. Scorpio penetrates to the Zero Point-the place where death
has already occurred and creation has not yet begun. Scorpio must make sure
it is really dead before it is ready to be reborn. Scorpio insists on
beginning with a clean slate.

Scorpio is destructive only from the point of view that it is inherently
transformational. Asleep Scorpio must die or it will suffer a slow, painful
death. Scorpio's issues are in its face all the time. Some of the other
signs seem to have moments of reprieve. Not Scorpio. Its intensity is
seldom, if ever, lowered. The good news is that as it is reborn, its
intensity is transmuted to magnetism, charisma and internal power.


SCORPIO'S PATH

Each astrological sign has its own unique evolutionary path in its quest to
move from darkness to Light. Scorpio's path from death to Immortality is
one of the most intense because Scorpio is resolutely committed to redeeming
its lower self and embodying its Higher Self. Scorpio has chosen to fight
the war and to win it. Scorpio's path is to achieve Harmony through
Conflict. *2 Scorpio's triumph comes when it successfully integrates its
Soul into its personality and uses its resulting powers for the benefit of
humankind.

Asleep Scorpio uses its energy selfishly and destructively. Since it does
not experience its own light and vitality, it must take life from others. It
uses its magnetic energy to attract others into its web so that it can use
their resources for its own ends. In its darkness, it seeks the destruction
of others. But its dance of death eventually ends up being
self-annihilating. When it has created enough self-inflicted pain, it is
obliged to wake up or die.

Scorpio's awakening path begins when it realizes that it is standing in its
own way. Scorpio's spiritual journey begins when it looks into the mirror
and declares, "It is my unconscious self and no other that is impeding my
progress. I invite the tests and willingly engage in the battles that will
free me from my ignorance and unite me with the Truth." Awakening Scorpio
self-initiates its tests and trials. It creates circumstances where it is
confronted with unavoidable and inevitable challenges. The purpose of its
tests is to oblige it to sacrifice its lower to its Higher self, its ego, to
its Soul. *3 Conflicts must be created, battles must ensue and the darkness
must be exposed so that Scorpio can emerge triumphant in the light of its
own consciousness. *4

Much of this article is about Awakening Scorpio. With the patience and
inner brilliance of the Eagle, it realizes the futility of ego-centered
battles and commits to the tests and trials that will lead it to its own
liberation.

Awake Scorpio has transformed itself from an Eagle to a Phoenix. Out of
adversity it has found Love. Through unavoidable conflict, it has achieved
peace. From the battle, it has reclaimed its life force and higher
consciousness. It is now ready to dedicate its magnetic and healing powers
to work with others for the common good and a new world order.


SCORPIO'S ENERGY

One of Scorpio's secrets is its ability to direct its energy and to focus on
its purpose. Its unequaled power of "the eye of the eagle" allows it to
clear its path, to wisely use every atom of its energy and to go for its
envisioned goal undeterred. Because Scorpio is a water sign, its energy is
always flowing. It flows around, wears away or seeps through any obstacles.
*5 Scorpio is a deep river whose will is set and current is fixed. The
waters of its the emotional body are resolutely devoted to dealing with
every challenge. It will win the battle within its own consciousness and
emerge as a One-Pointed Disciple ready for the teachers and the teachings of
Sagittarius. *6

Scorpio by its very nature attracts environments that engage its personality
in battle. It is a battle within itself to recognize and eliminate limiting
thought forms and beliefs that keep its emotional energy chained to false
desires and illusions. As Scorpio individualizes and separates itself from
mass consciousness, it plays an important role in clearing and preparing the
collective consciousness for greater harmony and conscious evolution.

Scorpio exemplifies how the personal psyche must be transformed in order to
prepare for collective transformation. The new social archetypes and
inventions that Aquarius works to create can only be put into place if they
can be held in the consciousness of the individuals that comprise the
collective. Scorpio is the internal battleground between the old and the
new order. It is in Scorpionic territory and through Scorpionic tests that
the wheel is reversed and the dynamics of a more evolved consciousness are
put into place.


SCORPIO'S TERRITORY

Scorpio's territory is the psyche, the unconscious mind and the emotional
body. Scorpio spells deep, dark secrets, wounds and therapy. In the human
body, its territory is the second or sex chakra and the solar plexus.

Asleep Scorpio lives in an overlay of fear. Like a fish in water, when it
is asleep, it is not aware of the all-pervasive psychic trauma that inhabits
every cell of its being. It knows it is tormented, but it knows not why.
Awakening Scorpio's path is to bring the WHY into conscious awareness. Each
time it becomes conscious of one of its controlling fears, that fear dies,
is transmuted into power and a new self is born. This process of
confronting and befriending its emotional dragons is a lifetime process for
Scorpio. But no sign is meant to suffer forever. Awake Scorpio's healing
is as dramatic as its tests, as claims its gifts from the garbage and soars
to victory.


THE EMOTIONAL BODY

Scorpio must find out what is going on in its emotional body. Then it has
to become consciously at peace with its emotional body. This is a daunting
task for several reasons. (1) Our culture teaches us to ignore, suppress
and condemn our emotions. (2) Traditional spiritual paths are similarly
useless at best and destructive at worse. The emotions are relegated to
such derogatory categories of false desires and Maya inducers. In sum, we
are taught that the emotions get in the way of our spiritual path. What
gets in our way are the distortions of our primal energy and the stories we
make up about what we think will make us happy.

The idea that our emotions could be an integral and indeed critical part of
our spiritual path is generally a foreign concept. Emotional energy is our
life force! Gary Zukav, author of The Seat of the Soul, says that the
emotions are the force field of the Soul. He also states that our spiritual
path starts when we begin to feel our emotions.

(3) Emotions are nonverbal. I repeat NONVERBAL. If we are thinking about
our emotional upsets we are intellectualizing our emotions. We must learn
to distinguish between the energy of emotions and mental trauma-dramas.
Understanding Scorpio is an emotional, not a mental process. A deep (it has
to be deep for Scorpio!) understanding of our emotional traumas is an
essential element in our healing process. But explaining the root causes is
not sufficient for our healing.

Mental explanations can lead us into victimization complexes,
rationalizations of dysfunctional behavior and other destructive mental
trips that only dig us into deeper holes and add to our torment and
confusion. Many (perhaps all) spiritual paths have some aphorism that
translates-Understanding is the booby prize. The point is that if we stop
at the level of explanation, we never get to the emotional component. If we
stop at the level of the mind, we never get to the experience. If we stop
with our thoughts, we never experience our instinctual self.


EMOTIONS ARE FELT

No matter how much we meditate, swim, run or exercise, our emotions are not
going to go away. And we wouldn't want them to! The above activities help
us manage our emotional energy and bring us to a state where we can
integrate them into our consciousness. However, the only way to develop a
relationship with our emotions is to FEEL them in our body. In the process
we connect to our primal, instinctual, Soul energy.

Emotions are not thought about. Emotions are experienced. Emotions are
felt. Emotions are sensed. Emotions are integrated into our consciousness
through feeling the sensations in our body. The basic problem is that
feeling our sensations in our body is at first a very scary and
uncomfortable experience. We avoid it at all costs. And the cost is very
high. When the costs are more than we can bear-mental torment, physical
illness, financial ruin, emotional estrangement from others-we submit
ourselves to the inevitable journey into the pit of our own psyche. When we
come to the realization that whatever misery we have attracted is of our own
doing, we are humbled enough to begin the Scorpionic path to liberation.

What we do not feel is both our tormentor and our teacher. What we feel is
both our power and eventually our peace. Our emotional energy, expressed as
frustration and stress is potential power. Our anger is potential light that
propels us to action. Our fear is potential energy. Our sadness is
potential bliss.

Sooner or later awakening Scorpio realizes that it is suffering from
emotional, not physical, exhaustion. Uncovering the source of its
emotional pain becomes imperative. Healing the emotional body becomes its
mission.


EMOTIONS ARE THE SUBSTANCE OF THE SOUL

The emotions are the substance of the astral realm. The astral realm lies
in between the physical and the spiritual planes. If we want to bring the
goodies through, we have to become friends with the astral, which is ruled
by Scorpio and Pluto, God of the underworld. Scorpio and Pluto teach us how
to spiritualize matter and how to manifest spirit. We can hang out in
spiritual bliss for short or long periods of time. We can absorb ourselves
in physical plane activities. But we can't have both, unless we master the
astral, which is bridge between the two worlds.

Did you ever wonder why you couldn't maintain that blissful feeling that you
achieve during meditation? Did you ever ask why it is so difficult to hold
the Light in your mind? Why the place you want to be is so ephemeral? You
know the sun is shining, but you can't seem to pull up the shades and let it
warm your hungry heart. And no matter how hard you try, darkness seems to
prevail. Blame Scorpio and your emotions. Better yet, befriend Scorpio and
your emotional body.

Emotions are almost, but not quite physical. Like the astral plane, they
are less dense than physical energy and denser than spiritual energy. Their
density makes them more tangible. Because they are experienced in the
physical body, we can access them and experience their different qualities.
Because they are personal, we can develop an intimate relationship with
them.

Distortions of our emotional energy trap our Soul in the astral plane.
Whatever is not cleared in the astral will draw us back to the earth plane.
This is often referred to as working out our karma. Our human challenge is
to liberate our Soul into the Light of Spirit. Only then do we free
ourselves from the earthly cycle of birth and death. The more we befriend
our emotions, the easier it is to find the Light and the Love we seek within
ourselves. In fact, we discover that our emotional energy is the rich
substance of our Soul. When we achieve peace within ourselves and "die" in
peace, we have achieved our own immortality.


THE CAUSAL LEVEL

"Understanding is the booby prize" not only because if we remain in the
mind, we miss the experience, but because the emotional body is the causal
level of manifestation. Manifestation begins with a thought, but it is the
emotional body, the desire energy that furnishes the juice to bring it into
being. Ideas seed an event or circumstance. Emotions provide the charge or
the "motion" for the action to happen. Our inner desires and feeling nature
are the cause of what we create in our outer world.

The problem is that since we often do not recognize and honor the power of
our feeling and desire nature, it is pushed deeper into the unconscious.
Operating from a subterranean position, our hidden emotions cause us to act
in ways that we do not own and to attract illnesses and circumstances that
we do not understand. If our psychic energy is not released through the
expression of our feelings, it will express itself through the physical body
and disturbing events. This disguise is of our own making because we are
blocked by the fear of owning our own vulnerability and sensitivity *7 and
claiming our internal power.


THE WATER SIGNS

The path of the water signs is to develop an inner sense of security and
safety. To do this we must first discover what is making us feel insecure
and unsafe. We must bring our fears into the light of day in order to deal
with them consciously and constructively.

The path of Cancer is to build a base within itself. It must learn to
withdraw its unconscious projection to the external world and replace it
with a firm sense of its own identity. Its goal is to create a solid sense
of inner security on the feeling level, which becomes a permanent feature of
its conscious personality. *8 Cancer's focus is the individual
personality. Scorpio must apply this emotional maturity to personal
relationships. Cancer is about nurturing one's self. Scorpio is about
nurturing relationships and building teams with the end goal of creating
something together.


SCORPIO CREATES WITH OTHERS

Scorpio's domain is what it creates with others. It is through emotional
stability that it creates and is able to maintain business and personal
relationships. The nature of the crises that Scorpio faces deal with its
emotional ties to others and how it uses its emotional energy in
interpersonal relationships. Scorpio is constantly forced to examine and
purify its emotional nature in order to attract and keep the relationships
that it desires.

Scorpio seeks self-understanding and self-mastery through constant crisis.
At every turn it must recognize that its inadequacies are emotional, not
physical or even mental. It is its emotional, not its physical values that
will carry it through. Scorpio experiences what it perceives as let downs
by others until it no longer let's itself down. Its emotional wounds are
deep and slow to heal. They are intense because the involve others, not
just itself. For it is transformative union with others that it seeks. To
achieve this level of intimacy, Scorpio must transform itself. This
transformation requires no less than the mastery of its own unconscious and
its rebirth into higher consciousness.


MONEY, SEX AND POWER

In daily human life, Scorpio's territory is money, sex and power. Some
people have sufficiently mastered denial enough to naively claim that they
have no desire for one or more of the above. However, this usually false
claim does not exempt one from the Scorpionic tests. It may delay it. It
may make is more unconscious. But it does not eliminate it. And Scorpio
will bite us until we are in enough pain and our lives are in enough
disarray that we have no choice but swim with, not run away from, this pesky
creature.

Let's take these areas of intense interest one at a time. It is wise to
keep Scorpio's motivators in mind as we jump into the ring. Scorpio's gifts
include emotional safety and stability, financial security, magnetism and
charisma, spiritual powers and tantric union. If you are interested in any
of the above, please continue reading.


MONEY

We live in an abundant universe. How do we tap this abundance? We pull in
universal energy through our emotional body. We can put our energy out
there through mediation and chanting. There are an abundance of prosperity
meditations that help us create a universal bank account. However, this
wealth just sits there until we learn how to bring it in to the physical
plane and draw it to ourselves. Scorpio teaches us how to do this. (Are
you getting more interested in Scorpio?) Scorpio teaches us how to connect
with the Source. The Source is Self and Universal energy. It is through
the Self that we become a channel for Universal energy. The Self is
accessed through the emotions. Sorry, I tried too, but there is no way
around this formula.

Scorpio teaches us that there is a direct relationship between money and
prosperity and emotional generosity. Emotional stinginess, restriction and
tightness translate into monetary problems, debts and limitations.


SEX

Scorpio has three chances to get our attention. If money doesn't do it, sex
might. Tantric Sex is the domain of Scorpio. The goal of Tantra is to
achieve union with the Divine. This can be done alone or with a partner.
The trick is that it can't be achieved with a partner unless one can do it
alone. Sexuality may be used to reach this state, but it is only possible
if one is able to stay with and contain one's own emotional energy.

Sexual relations are one of the quickest ways to bring to the surface our
intimacy, security, boundary and other emotional issues. Our subconscious
projections too often attract to us partners often personify our worst
fears. Then we create situations to avoid intimacy because we are unwilling
or not ready to face our own fears and resistance to change. We create
excuses that allow us to escape confronting our own issues and insecurities.
The boundaries of real emotional intimacy are circumscribed by our ability
to face and change the programs and patterns that keep us from merging.

If we are separated from ourselves, we will feel separated from our lover.
We can only get as close to another as we can get close to ourselves. We
can only merge with another, if we can merge within ourselves. If we feel
something is missing in ourselves, something will also be missing in our
relationships. When we can sustain a connection with our own emotional
energy, we can sustain an energetic connection in partnerships and in all
our interactions.

By the way, if you are waiting for your Divine Beloved to show up, may I
humbly suggest spending the interim cultivating an intimate relationship
with your emotional body. To quote a Chi Gong master, "Waiting is wasting."

We too often search for partners to give us energy. We do so because we are
losing our own energy, through stress or outwardly directed attention. Our
goals are to not need anyone else's energy and to not give away our own. We
can accomplish this awesome feat as we learn to contain our own emotional
energy. We want to be able to enjoy our own energy, take it with us
wherever we go, and share it without losing it or giving it away.

We avoid and shut out others to avoid having our buttons pressed and to
avoid feeling wounded again and again. The problem with this scenario is
that we are shutting off our own emotional energy. People will always press
our buttons until we have no buttons left to press. It takes a huge amount
of energy to be annoyed by others all the time. Our emotional reactions can
ruin our life. Awakening Scorpio's tactic is to feel the internal response
and be with it's own energy.

If we learn from Scorpio, eventually we won't react and we won't lose
energy. Then we will be in possession of ourselves. Then we will be in
charge of our own energy and our own life. Instead of being a victim of
ourselves, we will have a deep and meaningful life!


POWER

If nether money, nor sex get our attention, power might. Through Scorpio we
can access our own internal power to manifest, to heal and to create. By
following Scorpio's path, we can achieve inner peace. For Scorpio peace =
power. We each have a certain amount of energy. This energy can be
consumed by mental torment, emotional stress and physical illness. This
energy can also be used to attract resources and relationships, to propel us
through our daily activities and to heal and enliven our physical body.

By default, our energy is too often bound up in physical and emotional
stress. Much of our life force is blocked in old thought patterns and
wounds. The destructive patterns create a slow death and keep us from
tapping our full potential and expressing our unlimited creativity. The
mathematics are pretty simple. As we free up the energy that is being used
to sabotage our well being, it is available to live life more fully.

Scorpio is a no fluff creature. Scorpio means serious business. Scorpio
has a purpose which it will accomplish. Scorpio has an intention that will
not budge. Scorpio has a commitment that is unchallenged. There are many
reasons, but start with-its life, livelihood and peace of mind depend upon
its full dedication to its own liberation. To escape constant internal
turmoil, it must make peace with its dragons. There will be no peace until
it does. And perhaps no financial stability and no fulfilling relationships
either.

Scorpio's path is truly a life or death matter. Scorpio realizes in the
most organic way that a slow painful death through self-inflicted
destruction is worse, much worse, than jumping head first into the Ring of
Fire.

Are YOU ready to jump? If so, you may ask, "Where is the Ring of Fire?"
The answer is, "You are already in it!" Every human experience in every
person's life is a Ring of Fire. We can train ourselves in whatever
situation we have attracted. Opportunities are available 24 hours a day,
any time, any place. Whatever gets our attention is a prime opportunity to
feel our emotions, to be aware of how they impact our physical body and
thoughts. Our goal is to become aware of where our energy is blocked and to
work with it until it flows smoothly and effortlessly.


SCORPIO'S DUALITY-IT IS ALL ABOUT ME!

Scorpio's touchstone is -It is all about me! It is all about my reactions,
my energy and my power. Scorpio's wake up call comes when it realizes that
it is a victim only of itself.

Scorpio's inherent duality is that it is simultaneously both scary and
irresistible. Scorpio is intimidating. But it is also enticing. Scorpio
feels the deepest pain. But it also experiences the deepest satisfaction.

At the conscious level Scorpio's emotional fears may appear irrational. But
at the deepest level of the psyche they are very real. Scorpio teaches us
that what we might like to deny, we cannot escape. Where we do not want to
go is our ultimate destination. The trick is to honor, but not be
manipulated by our deepest fears.

Many people have said it in many ways-we are most afraid of our own power.
Scorpio is about owning our own power. Scorpio reminds us- There is no
stability or sanity without being master of your own emotional energy. There
is no peace and no power without conscious connection to your instinctual
self. *10


THE ROOT CAUSE AND SOLUTION

Scorpio is driven to get to the root cause of its pain. Scorpio teaches us
that permanent healing requires one to penetrate to the core of one's
dysfunctions. The original cause is found at the moment and in the
circumstances where we abandoned ourselves. The "original sin" is when we
turned our inward attention outward---when we began to look to others for
approval, recognition, and permission and to get our needs met. Our initial
soulful pain commenced when we jumped out of our bodies into our minds, when
we started to try to figure things out instead of listen to our intuitive,
instinctual guidance.

The zero point is when we rejected ourselves and disconnected from our own
heart and feelings. Personal rejection is the root cause of our suffering.
Self-rejection began when we were very young (usually between the ages of
2-5). The healing of our inner child takes place as we recognize when and
how we cut ourselves off from our feelings and energetically reconnect to
our deepest emotions. This is an organic process whereby we actually access
our wounds as feelings in our body.

One of the goals of therapy (Scorpionic territory for sure) is to uncover
the reoccurring patterns and underlying belief structures about ourselves,
others and the world that lock us into recreating the same dysfunctional
scenarios in our lives. These scenarios play themselves out over and over
until they get our attention, we realize what we are doing, understand why,
and choose to change.

Transformational change happens when we (1) identify what caused us to turn
our attention outward, (2) take responsibility for what happened, (3)
forgive ourselves and others, and (4) actually alter our beliefs, attitudes
and behavior. Personality-soul integration takes place as redirect our
attention towards ourselves and establish an energetic relationship with our
emotions and feelings. "Homecoming" is when we come home to ourselves and
fill our inner void with our own self-love.


CASE OF SCORPIONIC HEALING

All astrological signs attract the situations they require to empower
themselves. Scorpio's choices are often the most painful, the most
relentless and the most penetrating. Scorpio is determined that we get a
fundamental point of all healing-It is all about ME. Scorpio is a master at
upsetting us until we realize this basic truth-- I am the one that needs to
change. Scorpio stings us with confrontive and disturbing circumstances and
relationships until we get the point it is trying to convey-why waste your
energy trying to do the impossible task of changing others. Get smart and
use your energy to change yourself!

Scorpio liberates itself by taking the gifts from the garbage. Scorpio
reclaims its wings by discarding the garbage. Scorpio earns its freedom by
rising above and far beyond the old problems.

Scorpio is lurking somewhere in everyone's astrological chart. Yet few
understand, let alone have done the work to master, Scorpio's lessons.

A woman recently shared the following story, which powerfully exemplifies
Scorpio's path to power. Circumstances pushed this woman to teach herself
to contain her own emotional energy. This woman is, by the way, an Aquarian.
Her Jupiter (what expands her) and her Neptune (her dreams and fantasies)
and her Ascendant (how she projects herself to the world) are in Scorpio.

Here is her story----I was "trying " to have a "sincere " relationship with
a person whom I could feel no warmth toward. I see now that the best I
could have done, and which I finally chose to do, was to give her, and
myself, the space to be ourselves. We live in the same house, which proved
particularly difficult in the beginning to distance myself from her verbal
attacks. Our interactions always left me in tears and emotionally
distraught for days afterward. My emotions ran away with me and I could
not concentrate on other aspects of my life, as this always seemed to take
up most of my time and energy.

What I have done is to be honest with myself as to the fact that she rubbed
me the wrong way continually and that I had to be the one to change my
feelings. I did so and due to my daily meditation and practicing peace
within myself I have been able to discipline my feelings & emotions so that
I can think before I allow myself to feel. I have also realized that I can
contain those same feelings without them running off before I have time to
contemplate my reactions.

Sadly I came to realize that I was feeling " bad" not being able to relate
to her. But I have come to respect her as a separate person with her own
life to live. We do not a have to have a close relationship simply because
we are family. Her reactions toward my desire to be close was one of the
first times in my life I experienced such rejection. I was confronted with
a completely new situation. I continually "tried " to make something out of
our times together, but this was wasted time as two people can only relate
to each other when both have this need.

I have since forgiven her within myself for what I felt during that time and
have moved on in my life. After learning to keep my emotional body within
myself, I have found it easier and easier to handle my emotions as they
arise. I have often wished that I could flee such situations. But that
would mean that every time somebody said or did something which affected my
emotions, I would have to try to escape. I would have to continually be on
the move. So I decided to work with my feelings and become more aware of
the patterns that she was touching within me.

I have since let her go and be her own self and I appreciate the lesson that
I was taught by her behavior toward me. It has been very challenging to go
about this conflict in this way, which I chose for myself. It has been a
time of great intensity and I have needed much strength to keep at it until
I felt I was through. To any body who chooses to go on this path the
rewards are incredible, as to find inner peace of such depth is worth all
the pain.


SCORPIO'S LIBERATION-THE PHOENIX RISES

For Scorpio, the stakes are high and so are the collective fear,
superstition and fascination with all the domains that Scorpio rules.
Scorpio must descend into Pluto's underworld. It must confront all the
demons in its own subconscious hell. Scorpio's journey is arduous but it
offers the greatest gifts. Each successful confrontation unearths a
treasure. When Scorpio rises from its own ashes, it takes with it the occult
powers. The phoenix liberates itself by reclaiming all parts of its Soul.
Awake Scorpio embodies the life-giving powers to heal itself and others. Its
final prize is its own immortality.

At last, the Phoenix has realized its Truth and found the Light within its
own being. It can now practice living the Truth. It can hold the Light of
its Soul alone and with others. At last, it can enjoy its Light and share
its love. The journey has been worth and it and another has just begun.
Scorpio will continue to be reborn again and again.


SCORPIO SOLAR PLEXUS MEDITATION *11

TUNE IN

With hands in prayer pose, tune in by chanting 3 times

ONG NA MO
GURU DEV NA MO

DIAPHRAGM BREATHING TO CONTAIN THE EMOTIONAL BODY

To maximize the effects of the following meditation, prepare by breathing
long and deep at the solar plexus. Engage both the navel and the heart. Be
with the rising and falling of the diaphragm. Expand the back as well as
the front of your body by expanding, filling and emptying the kidneys. Slow
the breath down to 4 or less per minute.
Breathe this way for 5-11 minutes.

The goal of the diaphragm breathing and the following meditation is to learn
to contain our emotional energy. Our emotional energy is one of our subtle
bodies. Cultivating a relationship with it is a slow and personal process.
There are no shortcuts. Physical exercises helps wake up, dislodge and
balance our emotional energy. But there is no substitute for simply being
with the energy that we feel.

One of the secrets is to gently allow this energy to do what it is doing (or
not doing.) Allowing facilitates acceptance. Acceptance cultivates love.
It this through allowing our energy that we eventually connect with
Universal Love and establish self-love.

MEDITATION TO GET IN TOUCH WITH YOUR DEEPEST EMOTIONS

Hand Position
Hands in front of, but not touching, the solar plexus.
Finger tips and thumbs touching those of the opposite hand, forming a
pyramid.
Thumbs are separated from the fingers and pointing toward the heart.
The fingers are an inch or so apart.

Breathing
Inhale in 8 parts through the mouth.
Exhale in 8 parts through the nose.
One sequence takes about 15 seconds. Do not rush. Make the breathing
comfortable.
Pump, or pull the navel point towards the spine, with each part of the
breath, both on the inhale and exhale.

Eyes are focusing inward at brow level.

Time
Do for 11 minutes.

To end
Inhale deeply through the nose and hold the breath as long as you wish.
Repeat two more times.
Sit quietly and meditate within. Be present to and become one with the
sensations in your body.
Hold your emotional energy as you would hold a child.

Benefits and Explanation

Our Ring of Fire, our pit, is in our solar plexus. We don't want to go
there. But we can't open our heart and keep it open unless we do. We have
to pass through the terrain that closed our heart to open it and keep it
open.

This meditation helps us get in touch with the deep emotions that lie hidden
in our subconscious. Our emotions hold us captive until we establish a
relationship with them. Be with whatever you are feeling as though it were a
substance. As mentioned above, emotions are denser than thoughts. With
practice, you can identify their different qualities and even textures in
your body and energy field. Hold your emotions like you would hold a baby.
Like a baby, simply paying attention and honoring them calms them down.

It is important to keep returning your attention to the sensations in your
body. Thoughts will inevitably try to grab your attention. To redirect
your focus, simply ask yourself "How does this make me feel?" This
question can be a pathway back to your body. Feel the energy that you are
experiencing in your body at the moment. The goal is to make this into a
full body meditation.

The more we can hang on to our sensations, the more present we are. The more
present we are, the more magnetic we become. The more magnetic we are, the
more we attract to us. This is one of Scorpio's secrets to prosperity.

In your daily life, practice turning every situation toward yourself. Use
every opportunity to monitor your own reactions, responses and feelings.
Make every encounter about your energy and how you use it or how it uses
you.

The key is to be NONVERBAL. The pure, deep Truth within will reveal itself.


SCORPIO KEY WORDS

ASLEEP - WAKING UP - AWAKE -
SCORPIO/SPIDER EAGLE PHOENIX

Selfish desires Dualistic desires Selfless desires
Hurts Heals Transforms
Kills Sustains Revitalizes
Degeneration Regeneration Resurrection
Urge for death Battle with life Immortality
Hides in darkness Soars in the air Abides in Light
Enslaves Ensouls Enlightens
Stings Penetrates Elevates
Destructive Cleansing Purifying
Mean Purposeful Transformative
Provokes Confronts Resolves
Frustration Breakdown Breakthrough
Sneaky Deep Causal
Irritating Cathartic Charismatic
Disquieting Destination Destiny
Manipulative Mindful Magnetic
Will to die Will to heal Will to live
Deception Mystery Mastery
Sharp Directed Liberated
Unsettled On the move Soaring
Secretive Truthful Alchemical
Defense Purpose Power and Peace


REFERENCES AND FOOTNOTES

*1. Soul-Centered Astrology, Alan Oken, The Crossing Press, Freedom, CA,
1990.

*2. Oken, p. 208.

*3. Oken, p. 208 and 211.

*4. Oken, p. 212.

*5. Oken, p. 208.

*6. Oken, p. 209.

*7. Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil, Liz Green, Samuel Weiser, York
Beach,
Maine, 1976, p. 17.

*8. Green, p. 24.

*9. Oken, p. 214.

*10. See "Kriya for the Instinctual Self" in Sexuality and Spirituality,
Gururattan Kaur Khalsa and Ann Marie Maxwell, Yoga Technology Press, San
Diego, CA, 1989, pp. 26-27.

*11. Your Life Is In Your Chakras, Gururattan Kaur Khalsa, Ph.D. Yoga
Technology Press, San Diego, CA , 1994. The Solar Plexus is treated as a
separate chakra in this book.


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