Aries | Scorpio Season 2025
The Universal Overlay
Scorpio Season | October 22 - November 21
A descent begins—not as collapse, but as initiation. The light continues its withdrawal, and with it, the veil between worlds grows thin. We move past Libra's negotiated peace into something more primal, more truthful. Scorpio Season strips away the decorative and the diplomatic, asking us instead to meet what lies beneath: the raw, the hidden, the transformational. This is the season of death and rebirth, where we compost what no longer serves and discover what refuses to die.
The air shifts from collaborative to penetrating. Where Libra sought balance through relating, Scorpio seeks power through merging—with our shadows, our desires, our deepest fears. There's an erotic quality here, not merely sexual but mystical: the pull toward intensity, toward truth that burns, toward bonds that transform rather than simply connect. We're no longer observers of our impact on others; we become entangled, enmeshed, fundamentally altered by intimacy.
This season demands we face what Libra's mirror revealed. If autumn's first act showed us our relational patterns, its second act asks: *What are you afraid to lose? What are you afraid to become?* The karmic reckoning deepens. Scorpio doesn't negotiate—it excavates. It finds where we've hidden our power, our shame, our longing, and brings it all into the dark light of awareness. This can feel like crisis, like collapse, yet it's truly metamorphosis. The caterpillar doesn't politely transition; it dissolves entirely before it flies.
As the nights lengthen and Samhain approaches, those attuned to the unseen world feel their power surge. The psychic, the intuitive, the occult—all become more accessible. Those who prefer the surface may feel besieged by intensity, by emotional undertows they can't quite name. Where do you fall? Perhaps you're discovering that you contain both the death wish and the life force, both the detective and the mystery. Scorpio doesn't offer the equinox's compromise; it offers totality. Everything or nothing. Truth or illusion. Transformation or stagnation.
Embrace the depths. Dare to merge with what you fear. Honor your rage, your desire, your grief—they are portals, not problems. Investigate your obsessions and compulsions; they reveal where your soul is demanding evolution. Trust what emerges from the darkness; it has been composting all year. Most of all, surrender to the season's alchemy. Its work is not gentle, but it is sacred. What you release now makes room for the rebirth that winter promises.Your Seasonal Theatre
SUN IN The 8th HOUSE | Earth in the 2nd House
Hidden Empowerment
As the Sun and Earth move through the signs and houses, they trace an axis of reach and depth within you, guiding growth toward a fuller, more balanced expression. Different dimensions of self awaken along this path.
Each season also casts its own lens, shaping how others perceive your natural sign and allowing both you and those around you to see you in a new light. Meanwhile, your sign’s yearly new moon seeds unfold through their phases, grounding the season with added layers of maturity and development.
Together, these movements form the undercurrents of your season—the themes that shape its narrative. At the center, the ruling planet steps forward as the protagonist. Its house reveals the setting, its sign colors the tone and quality of the action.
Woven together, the theme defines the kind of story playing out, while the ruling planet shows where and how it comes alive—the stage of your season’s living theatre.
The Theme
This season is a story of enchanting power and heart. With the Sun illuminating your eighth house, the axis of intimacy and shared resources comes alive, calling you to deepen trust, confront vulnerability, and recognize the potency of what you share. The Earth, grounding your second house, steadies you in your own worth—reminding you that the truest exchanges happen when you bring your full self to the table.
At the same time, Scorpio’s light sees your Aries nature through the sixth house, casting you as diligent, focused, and devoted to the work at hand. You are recognized not just for bold initiative, but for the disciplined fire you bring to service and production. Beneath it all, your yearly seeds are rising from the point of inner alignment toward courage and command, as if stepping into the apotheosis stage of the hero’s journey. You are becoming both braver and wiser in how you hold power.
The Scenes
Enter Mars, ruler of Scorpio and your own guiding planet.
At the start of the season, Mars moves through your eighth house in Scorpio. The setting is subterranean, charged with mystery and intensity. The mood is one of raw magnetism, courage, and confrontation with shadow. This act is about facing what lies beneath the surface—transformations of intimacy, trust, and shared power. Think of Moana descending to confront Te Kā or Harry Potter facing trials beneath Hogwarts: the hidden chamber is where true strength is forged.
On November 4th, Mars steps into your ninth house in Sagittarius. The scene shifts into a wide horizon of quest, vision, and expansive truth. Here the stage opens, the atmosphere turns adventurous, and your story seeks higher ground. After plumbing the depths, you’re propelled into journeys of philosophy, faith, and freedom—charting your own course across uncharted waters, carrying the wisdom you’ve won.
Integration
The season’s theme of enchanting power and heart threads through both acts. First, you confront the underworld of shared depths, where courage is tested and transformation takes root. Then, you sail into the wide-open sky of Sagittarian vision, carrying new clarity and conviction. Intimacy grants you strength, and strength grants you freedom—the cycle of power turning into possibility.
Lyrical Summary
Depth pulls you under,
and there you find flame in the shadows.
Through trust, courage, and trial,
a new command awakens.
When the stage shifts,
horizons open wide—
your heart, your will,
your vision unbound.
Power becomes purpose,
and your path, a quest.
Taurus Full Moon, November 5th
Tend to the depth and care you need around self-worth, voice, and pleasure. What nourishes your love of the material, your need for nature, and your embodied way of feeling appreciated?
Scorpio New Moon, November 19th
Set new goals for life to feel more mysterious and empowered, for more intimacy, and for growth in your ability to entangle with powerful others. Step up to pressures to help new inner seeds activate and honor your past year’s accomplishments in identifying the empowerment you desire.
Your Archetypal Journey | the Hero
Mars in Scorpio & Sagittarius (8th & 9th Houses)
The planet that rules your sign gives you an archetype—a leading character flavor. This planet is a central part of how you show up and your personal agenda. We go on journeys in the skin of our archetypes, like leading characters in books and films. Your ruler, Mars, is the Solar Hero, the Warrior, the Protector, and the Emperor.
While the planet ruling the season may be on the main stage, it only takes center stage for the duration of the season. In contrast, your ruling planet is always active for you, even if as a subplot or a supporting character during a season. I like to track your planet’s journey, much like a hero/heroine’s journey unfolds, by observing its synodic period in relation to Earth.
Stage: Temptation | Cancer-Themed Quest
Visit the Mars Archetypal Journey page to review the journey your ruling archetype is on, as a whole, and learn more about the stage of the journey it will be in, temptation, during Scorpio Season: The Quest for True Home
Be sure to scroll to the end for the by-sign insights as well.