For those on a soul journey of healing, Scorpio season brings a powerful invitation to release deep-seated shame, build boundaries between selflessness and humble selfishness, and empower sovereignty by self-acceptance. In a time when liberation is likened to the Plutonian process of deconstruction, repressed shame quietly shapes one’s sense of self-worth, and external events can cause a crisis shift to energies in motion to better the soul journey narrative.
My story with Scorpio’s ruler, Pluto, began amidst Middle Eastern conflict, where life, psychological death, and rebirth were alchemical. From gas masks to homelessness and hiding internalized shame—a similar silent weight of empty pockets and bank accounts of those seeking refuge from national security—I understood and transformed these emotions as energies in motion under my psychological astrologer mentor, Margaret Gray. I explored my solar path and the narrative blueprint of my birth chart, highlighting Pluto on my Ascendant.
In the astrology framework tied to one’s psyche, shame may correspond with Pluto’s hidden, intense, yet ultimately freeing influence. In 1994, as Pluto moved through my second house, the impact on my values and self-worth forced me to face and shed old layers of fear and shame.
This season offers a chance to bring awareness to hidden parts of the soul, allowing for self-acceptance and courage to guide us toward more incredible healing. Whatever way you choose to explore it, use Scorpio season to meet your inner shadows for black tea with compassion and curiosity. Embrace your unique path of transformation, knowing that each planetary influence in your chart guides the journey to wholehearted oneness with the universe. Through Scorpio season, focus on your inner world and societal boundaries to transform shame into wisdom, resilience, and inner peace.
Scorpio season is similar to mushroom intelligence, illustrating qualities of experience from layers of the Earth and Ether that bring the cycle of life and death into Oneness – One that emphasizes one’s window for transformation to occur, prompting us to confront and transmute inner darkness to outer light. As the ruler of Scorpio, Pluto transits through different Houses, influencing our journey: in the first house, Scorpio’s energy drives self-discovery; in the second, it challenges our values; and in the third, it reshapes communication. In the fourth, Pluto profoundly transforms family ties and roots; in the fifth, one’s intense creative sense of fun or flirting; and in the sixth, one’s act of service, mental and psychical health. Scorpio governs the eighth, causing a profound change in sharing, intimacy, and bonding, which rebirths belief, higher learning, and worldly view in the ninth. In the final quadrant, Pluto transforms the tenth house of career and public image, and in the eleventh, enacts powerful changes in the community, societal networks, and goals; where finally, in the twelfth, its forceful change brings inner healing, spiritual rebirth and shifts in the depth of one’s subconscious awareness.
In my experience of Pluto transiting through the second house, self-worth and security became areas of intense scrutiny and growth. In many ways, they still do, yet I’ve learned to share this experience positively with others in my soul tribe and material worldly life.
In all our stories, Pluto’s power of deconstruction reflects Scorpio’s true essence, which is to grow into Eagle and Phoenix form alchemically. A lack of physical security, emotional and financial resilience, as well as internalized shame, were confronted by Pluto to conspire spiritual wealth and financial stability during a series of transiting conjunctions: it aspected my natal planets over 28 years – the amount of time it can take Pluto to transit through any of the zodiac signs. Scorpio’s transformative process shapes the solar path in one’s soul journey narrative. Pluto and Scorpio peel back layers of hidden motives and unresolved issues, inviting us to rebuild with honesty and strength.
Therefore, in Scorpio season, the transformative arc sees shame not as a burden but as an invitation to a more profound soul journey experience. Through nature’s intelligence and the natural flow of astrology, patterns form in our local habit of the universe, our solar system. One can locate these dimensions and qualities of experiences in our charts, and instead of viewing them as crises or painful changes, learn to welcome them as opportunities for healing and empowerment. Your solar path takes you from internalized shame to a renewed sense of self-worth reflected by the alchemical process of Scorpio. So, this season, remind your soul-self that even hidden struggles can fuel growth, resilience, and integrity.
Text/Images from Kim McKayed
