Scorpio Full Moon

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Scorpio Full Moon
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Preface

• For those of you who are not familiar with
  esoteric philosophy or do not know it well I
  will remind you that all is energy. Thus you
  should simply relax and try to feel the energy
  rather then concern yourself with knowing all of
  the words.
• During the lecture you can ask questions if you
  wish. After the meditation we will gather for
  coffee/tea and you may also ask questions.

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Why are we here?

• The time of the full moon is a time of
  celebration.
• We celebrate the energy of the SUN.
• The reason is that when the Moon is full it is
  the furthest from the Sun, thus the Suns energy
  is the strongest.
• Thus we celebrate the energy of the Sun through
  meditation and reflection.

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Why are we here?

• The time of the full moon there is a direct
  alignment between the energy of the sign the sun
  is in and the affairs of the sign the moon is in.
• Sun - Scorpio - purificatory tests
• Moon - Taurus - release light via speech

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Scorpio Presentation

• The Sign of Scorpio
• The Labours of Hercules
• The Full Moon Chart
• - Short Break -
• Meditation
• - Short Break -
• Coffee/Tea - discussion

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The Sign of Scorpio
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Which sign is the Sun in?

• The Sun is in Scorpio.

And which sign is the Moon in?
The Moon is in Taurus.
The exact full moon is Friday, October 26th at
1253 AM EDT
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Whos a Scorpio?
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But Im not a Scorpio!

• I expect some in the room do not have their Sun
  in Scorpio.
• Still, you may have another planet - or the Moon
  - in Scorpio.
• And even if you do not the Scorpio energy will
  still affect you - and, perhaps, as importantly
  those around you.

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The Astrological Symbol for Scorpio

• Scorpions have two lobster-like claws and when
  a scorpion captures its victims with its claws,
  it inflicts a disabling sting with its tail.
  Scorpios are thought to be rather cunning, and
  sometimes revengeful.

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The Astrological Glyph for Scorpio

• Scorpios glyph, or symbol, looks like a letter M
  with a tail. The curves show the grounded nature
  of the sign, ending in an upward-turned arrow,
  symbolizing the need for action and the striving
  for something higher. Some believe the symbol
  represents the male genitals -- the sign of
  Scorpio is strongly connected to sex.

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Scorpio Constellation
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Mythology of Scorpio

• The myth behind the astrological sign of Scorpio
  focuses on Artemis, who called on the giant
  scorpion to destroy Orion. As a giant and son of
  Poseidon, Orion thought much too highly of
  himself and forgot to show proper respect to the
  immortals. He did something that angered Artemis,
  the worst one to enrage as the goddess of the
  hunt and of revenge. The scorpion stung Orion, as
  Artemis commanded, and killed him. Artemis placed
  the scorpion in the heavens as a reward for
  serving her. Orion was placed in the heavens as
  well (since as a son of the gods he could not go
  to Hades). He can be seen eternally fleeing the
  poisonous scorpion, Scorpio, across the night
  sky.

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How does this myth relate to the Scorpio
characteristics?

• Orion thought much too highly of himself and
  forgot to show proper respect to the immortals.
• What does a Scorpio do when someone wrongs them?
• The scorpion stung Orion and killed him.

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Energy - Preface

• The difficulty in mentioning the energy of any
  particular sign is that each of us has many
  energies influencing us. One energy is certainly
  the sun sign we are born in, but there are many
  other energies. Some of these would be the other
  astrological elements, our karmic history, our
  rays, our heritage, etc. And then to confuse the
  issue more there is the energies of the
  transiting and progressed planets.

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Energy - Preface

• Additionally there is no best or worst
  energy.
• There is no good or bad energy - as there are
  no good or bad tools - or as, for example,
  electricity is not good or bad.
• In astrology we refer to the energies associated
  with the planets, houses, signs, and
  relationships between them as non-challenging
  or challenging.

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Scorpio Energy

• As the eighth sign of the zodiac, Scorpio
  represents the eighth stage in the evolution of
  man and his place in the universe. This stage is
  concerned with an emotional development that goes
  beyond Cancerian concern with home and family.
  Scorpios emotional involvement is not based on
  love or pleasure, but on the control and
  understanding of human emotions and the role they
  play in the mysterious process of life and death.

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Scorpio Energy

• Scorpios are stubborn and impervious to changes
  not of their own making. However they accomplish
  many things in life because of their tenacity in
  sticking with projects when others lose patience
  and stamina. On the surface they may seem
  easy-going, congenial, and gregarious but they
  are also extremely tenacious with a tendency to
  manipulate and control.

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Scorpio Energy

• Scorpios react emotionally to everything they
  experience in life. Before they take physical
  action, before they sort out the practicality of
  what they are doing, and before they reason
  things out intellectually, they express their
  feelings. Though their emotions are the strongest
  motivational factor in their behavior, unlike the
  emotionally oriented Cancerians and Pisceans,
  Scorpios are not apt to wear their hearts on
  their sleeves.

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Main Challenge

• The main challenge, as with each of the astrology
  energies, is to use the energies in a positive
  way. To think above the belt. To be the
  enlightened being. To turn the challenging
  aspects into non-challenging ones.

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Scorpio Non-Challenging Energies

• Passionate
• Tenacious
• Complex
• Clever
• Investigative
• Magnetic
• Brave and Loyal
• Social
• Intuitive

• Determined
• Good Memory
• Protective
• Deep
• Sensual
• Resourceful
• Self-Reliant
• Dynamic
• Totally Hypnotic

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Scorpio Challenging Energies

• Volatile
• Obsessive
• Demanding and Jealous
• Suspicious
• Brooding
• Moody
• Shrewd
• Compulsive

• Hot-tempered
• Overbearing
• Cunning
• Intense
• Lustful
• Impenetrable and Secretive

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The Exoteric and ExotericRuler is Mars

• Mars is definitely the planet which rules and
  controls the physical vehicle.
• In Scorpio, the result of all the struggle
  carried forward during the pilgrimage around the
  zodiac is brought to a point of climax through
  the activity of Mars.
• The disciple has now to demonstrate the strength,
  character and quality which he has unfolded and
  developed within himself during his long
  pilgrimage.

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The Exoteric and ExotericRuler is Mars

• All aspects of the lower nature are involved in
  this crisis, and the tests applied involve the
  form nature--gross and subtle, integrated and
  potent.
• The effect of Mars is largely mass effect and
  group results, producing great struggles but
  leading finally to great revelation....
• In Scorpio, it is the revelation of the vision of
  liberation and service .. . It must never be
  forgotten that Mars establishes relations between
  the opposites and is a beneficent and not a
  malefic factor, as is so often supposed.

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The Hierarchical Ruler is Mercury

• We shall find that Scorpio rules and governs the
  fourth Creative Hierarchy, the human, from the
  angle of the soul and not from the angle of the
  lower nature.
• The final struggle in Scorpio only takes place
  when the point of balance between soul and body
  has been reached in Libra and it is in Scorpio
  that the preponderance of spiritual energy is
  imposed upon the lower personal forces.
• Scorpio governs "the initiates", which is the
  true esoteric name of man, and through its
  hierarchical planetary ruler, the Sons of Mind,
  the Messengers of Deity are revealed, but it is
  through Mars and the Martian activity that the
  revelation comes about.

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Ray Ruler for Scorpio

• The fourth ray of Harmony through Conflict is
  associated with Scorpio.
• It is through such conflict that the real task
  of Scorpio rising takes placetransformation!
• And while Scorpio is transforming herself, she
  is also encountering those life experiences which
  bring her into contact with the opportunities to
  be an agent of transformation and renewal for
  others.

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Who are some Scorpios?

• Pablo Picasso
• Hillary R. Clinton
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Emily Post
• Bill Gates
• Truman Capote, Grace Slick, Dan Rather, Larry
  Flint, James K. Polk, Michael Dukakis, Marie
  Curie, Billy Graham, George Patton, Kurt
  Vonnegaut, Jonathan Winters, Whoppi Goldberg,
  Mamie Eisenhower, Prince Charles, Martin Luther,
  Ted Turner, Alistair Cooke, Stan Musial, Goldie
  Hawn, etc.

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The Labours of Hercules
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The Labours of Hercules

• The Labours of Hercules is a book by Alice Bailey
  written in 1936 wherein Hercules needs to
  complete 12 tasks one in each sign.
• Each sign represents a different aspect of mans
  development.
• This the story of the individual Christ,
  crucified upon the cross of matter, and
  incarnated in each human being, God, incarnate in
  matter.

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The Labour in Scorpio

• When a drought occurred in Argos, Amymone called
  upon the aid of Neptune, who commanded her to
  strike a rock, from which, when she did, gushed
  out three crystal streams. But soon a terrible
  hydra came to live there and a plague spread over
  the whole countryside. Hercules must now destroy
  this monster with its nine heads, of which one is
  immortal. His teacher warns him that conventional
  methods will not work for destroying one head
  causes two to grow in its place. The only help he
  can offer Hercules is to remind him, We rise by
  kneeling we conquer by surrendering we gain by
  giving up.

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Hercules completes his task

• In the stench of the Lernean swamp, Hercules
  tracks the foul beast to its lair and is forced
  to resort to firing arrows, dipped in burning
  pitch, to draw it out into the open. Provoked,
  the raging monster attacks Hercules and battle
  commencesthe hydra growing stronger, not weaker,
  with each assault. Then, recalling his Teachers
  advice, Hercules throws away his weapons, drops
  to his knees and raises the hydra aloft. In the
  pure air and sunlight, the monster looses its
  power and its nine heads drop, lifeless. Then
  Hercules is able to perceive the mystic head that
  is immortal. He cuts it off and buries it, still
  fiercely hissing, beneath a rock.

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Interpretation of the myth

• Scorpio has been described both as a turning
  point for the individual and in the life of
  humanity. In the hydra, we have depicted the
  serpent of desire and all the unredeemed aspects
  of human nature and in the associated tests and
  trials are illustrated the formidable problems of
  self-mastery. Its symbolism is particularly
  appropriate in our contemporary way of life in
  the ethos of a consumer society that feeds
  selfish desire with little regard to the
  consequences or the pressing material needs of
  others.

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Interpretation of the myth

• If we aspire to reconnect to the wellspring of
  spiritual life, we must free ourselves from the
  prison of clamoring desires. Like Hercules, the
  disciple must first recognize the existence of
  the hydra, search for it with patience and
  finally, with humility, destroy it. The concise
  reminder, given to Hercules by his Teacher, is
  revealing We rise by kneeling, we conquer by
  surrendering we gain by giving up. As long as
  Hercules fights the hydra in its own environment,
  representing the unredeemed aspects of human
  nature, his task is impossible. When he raises
  his problems above the slough of the subconscious
  into the light of that wisdom we call the soul,
  he can view his dilemma from a new angle of
  vision, overcome the hydra and bury its immortal
  head beneath the rock of the will. Rightly
  controlled and channeled, it now becomes a source
  of power.

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Interpretation of the myth

• In Scorpio, Hercules becomes the triumphant
  disciple. He demonstrates to himself that he can
  rise above the thrall of matter and stand, for
  all time, in spiritual being. The same test
  awaits each disciple and humanity, the world
  disciple. But all who work in Scorpio to overcome
  the Great Illusion in their own personal lives
  contribute to the good of the whole and the
  progress of the group disciple.

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Scorpio Hercules Question

• Here is Hercules and the Hydra

What do each of the nine heads present?
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The three tests in Scorpio concern the three
aspects of the human being as they fuse and blend
upon the physical plane.

• Tests of appetite/physical plane
• Sex--the relation of the pairs of
  opposites.--These can be selfishly utilized or
  divinely blended.
• Physical comfort--life conditions, selfishly
  appropriated.
• Money--selfishly cornered.
• Tests of desire/emotional plane
• Fear--which conditions activity today.
• Hate--which is a factor in conditioning
  relationships
• Ambition--conditioning objectives.
• Tests of lower critical mind/mental plane
• Pride--which is intellectual satisfaction, making
  the mind the barrier to soul control.
• Separativeness--which is the isolated attitude
  and which makes the mind the barrier to right
  group relationships.
• Cruelty--which is satisfaction with personality
  methods and which makes the mind the instrument
  of the sense of power.

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Scorpio Full Moon

• Full Moon
• Friday, October 26, 2007
• 1253 AM EDT
• Sagittarius Full Moon
• Saturday, November 24, 2007
• 931 AM EST
• Sagittarius Full Moon Meditation
• Friday, November 23, 2007
• 700 PM EST

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A mystic rectangle which includes the
Pisces/Virgo Nodal Axis and Saturn in Virgo.
Basically, this is the total spectrum of bodily
experience meeting the total potential of
spiritual experience. The Sun/Saturn Sextile
opens the doorway to breaking down the barriers
to seeing reality as it is. The sextile from the
Moon to the North Node is an invitation to drop
into a realization of oneness of all manifest
existence.
Mystic Rectangle - Sun - Moon - Nodes - Saturn (
- Pallas)
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This aspect should stimulate the con-sciousness
of the planet and should encourage spiritual and
scientific interests.
Sextile - Jupiter - Neptune
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In our meditation this evening, let us visualise
a common goal for humanity. Groups of men and
women of goodwill bonding together to support
right-human values. Let us use our magical powers
of manifestation, and see this happen. Leaders
and ordinary people alike, afire with goodwill
and humanitarian vision, acting in concert for
the good of mankind as a whole.
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Seed Thought for Scorpio

• Warrior I am, and from the battle I emerge
  triumphant.