October 30, 2025 • 26 mins
What if the parts of you that feel messy, mysterious, or misunderstood are holding the exact wisdom you need next? We lean into Scorpio season’s deep water to explore honest release, brave shadow work, and the quiet alchemy that turns pain into clarity without bypassing the truth.
Key talking points:
• Scorpio as a water sign stirring emotional depth
• The fixed sign paradox and sustainable transformation
• Hidden truths, taboos, and honest self-examination
• Mercury retrograde as mental rewiring and clarity
• Personal pivot from performance to introspection
• Three practices: release with water, shadow work, alchemy
• Moving from projection to presence and self-trust
We close with emotional alchemy: discerning what to release, what to keep, and how to bring love into places that once felt off-limits. No denial, no gloss—just clear seeing, strong boundaries, and a return to heart coherence. If you’re ready to stop projecting old wounds and start living from an integrated self, this conversation offers a map through Scorpio’s depths to your own steady light.
If this resonated, follow the show, share it with a friend who’s doing the inner work, and leave a review—what truth are you choosing to speak this week?
Tune in next week for a new episode to support and empower your light
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SPEAKER_00 (00:13):
Aloha, and welcome to Your Heart Magic, an
illuminating space wherepsychology, spirituality, and
heart wisdom meet.
Here's your host, Dr.
Bethane Kapansky Wright, author,psychologist, and spiritual
educator.
SPEAKER_01 (00:33):
Aloha everybody.
Welcome to Your Heart Magic.
This is Dr.
Bethane Kapansky Wright.
And happy Halloween and alsohappy November to everybody.
We are talking about thearchetype of Scorpio season
today.
Scorpio season is now in fullswing, and I've been having such
a good time doing the archetypesof the Zodiac series.
(00:58):
Last year we did the tarot.
That was a two-year journeythrough the major arcana.
And this year we moved on toastrological archetypes and have
been following the Zodiac wheel.
And we are now full swing, as Isaid, into Scorpio season.
So we're going to talk a littlebit about today what is Scorpio?
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What might this archetype haveto teach us?
And how do we tune into theenergy right now to help support
our individual process in livingwith more peace and presence and
heart coherence?
So Scorpio is an interestingsign.
It's perhaps one of the mostmysterious signs of the zodiac,
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probably the most mysterioussign of the zodiac.
And it's really a sign that Ithink of as a sign of
psychological depths and divinginto our deep, diving into the
deepness of who we are andexploring things and really
penetrating for truth.
Scorpio is a water sign, andwater signs always stir up
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emotions.
They usually invite us to diveinto our emotional waters, to
get more in touch with ourfeelings, our psychic sense of
things, our sensory experience.
Water signs usually help thingsthat have been lingering on the
edges of our subconscious andtrying to emerge into our
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consciousness.
They usually help shake thosethings up and bring them out
into the open.
And each water sign has aslightly different emphasis on
it.
Cancer tends to be more aboutself-love and nurture and
focusing on matters of the heartand home and things that
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probably speak to our hearts,things that nurture us, things
that invite us into a deeperrelationship with loving
ourselves and loving others.
Pisces, the other water sign, isone that asks us to dive into
our intuitive depths and to lookat more of our mystic-mindedness
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and our interconnection, ourcreativity.
And Scorpio has theseinteresting associations on a
very basic level.
If you just look it up, it saysScorpio is associated with sex
and death and taxes.
I saw that somewhere on theinternet today, and that made me
laugh.
I thought, well, that's quite alist of what those three have in
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common under the sign ofScorpio.
But Scorpio is often known as asign of hidden things, things
that can be more taboo to talkabout, things that are
uncomfortable to talk about,things that we might not
dialogue about with as muchease, and can sometimes cause us
some feelings of discomfort whenwe confront them in our lives.
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They are things that we oftenmight not have as many
constructs around or socialconditioning around, or maybe we
do have social conditioningaround them.
And that's one of the reasonsthey feel taboo and a little bit
harder to dive into.
So Scorpio is a sign that asksus to confront difficult truths
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and hidden truths.
And I want to put the caveat outthere that I really like the
sign of Scorpio.
So it's not a bad thing toconfront hidden truths.
I suppose if we have neverexamined those things, this sign
might be very uncomfortable forus and some really deep, hard
stuff might come up duringScorpio season.
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But I'm going to operate underthe assumption that if you are
tuning into your heart magic,you are already on your path of
self-awareness and trying tolive more open-mindedly, living
in your heart, have probablygone through some form of an
awakening process or somethingthat helped invite you into
deeper awareness.
So you're probably pretty usedto confronting hidden truths.
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So Scorpio season might be lessdisruptive if you've already
been doing the inner work andmight be more of an invitation
to explore things inside of youthat you want to shine a
brighter light on.
And that ultimately is whatconfronting Things in the
Shadows is all about.
We turn the light on in a roomthat was dark inside of us, or
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we find a dark corner inside ofourselves, something that
represents our fears, anuncomfortable feeling, a truth
that we're not exactly sure ofwhat the truth is around it.
We just know we have thesethoughts or inklings about
something and we're not entirelysure of what our bottom line
truth is.
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And we walk into that space andwe light a candle or we turn on
a lamp or we find a way to shinea light on that part of our
awareness and we bring it outinto the open.
And we do that throughjournaling about it, reflecting,
contemplating meditation work.
We might talk to somebodytrusted, a friend, a therapist,
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some form of a caring individualin our life, a mentor, a coach,
somebody that we trust thatmight have some wisdom to
contribute to the topic.
And as we do those things, webring what was hidden out into
the light.
We bring it into ourconsciousness and we get a
better handle on what's there.
We become unafraid of looking atit because we have found the
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courage to explore it.
And when we have the courage toexplore something, we get to
figure out so what do I do withthis?
What does this mean?
How do I apply this to my life?
And those action steps areperhaps what might come from
Scorpio season.
It's the act of exploring thosetruths and the act of what I
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think of as deep sea diving thatreally marks the essence of
Scorpio season.
Interestingly, Scorpio is afixed sign.
I always get a little bitconfused on which signs are the
cardinal signs.
Those are signs that are theinitiation and sort of that fire
energy that helps us ignite ourorigin something, which signs
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are the mutable signs, and thoseare the signs that usually
signify the ending of something,a transition, a change, some
kind of movement.
And then the fixed signs are theones that are about stability
and creating an infrastructure.
So in the zodiac, Aries is acardinal sign, it's the
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initiation, and then Tauruswould be the fixed sign.
That is the sustainability,because Taurus comes after
Aries, and then Gemini is amutable sign, and that is the
sign of change and a transition.
And then we go back into cancerseason and we start over at a
cardinal sign again.
And so it follows that patternof cardinal, fixed, mutable, all
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the way through the 12 differentzodiac signs, and Scorpio falls
in a fixed position, which is sointeresting to me because I
think of Scorpio as this verychangeful, transformative
energy.
I think of it as energy that canbe disruptive and shake things
up and helps us release things.
Scorpio is an invitation toletting go.
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And yet the essence of the signis a little bit contradictory.
It's really aboutsustainability.
And how I interpret that isultimately, no matter what
hidden truth Scorpio brings tothe surface, it's here to help
create systems and emotionalways of processing things that
truly serve us and help create ahealthier foundation of self.
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So I find that contradictioninteresting and yet not because
I feel like Scorpio is a bit ofa contrary sign.
As I said, it's a water sign.
And I think a Scorpio energy isa little bit more fiery and more
passionate than that.
And yet it's about emotion andthe water.
And so working with that tensionof opposites, working with
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finding that balance betweenthings that are slightly
contradictory, I think is also alovely hidden gift in Scorpio
season.
Something else that I think addsa fun flavor this month is
Mercury's going into retrogradeon November 9th through November
29th.
And it's actually retrogradingfrom Sagittarius back into
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Scorpio.
So while Scorpio season is goingon, it sounds like Mercury will
be back into Scorpio for alittle bit.
And Mercury is aboutcommunication and truth.
It's about not only how wecommunicate, but how we think.
Before we can speak somethingand express something into being
and communicate, we have tothink it and have an idea around
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it.
And so when Mercury goes intoretrograde, I often think of
that as a time that we are doingsome rewiring of how we think.
Epiphanies and breakthroughs andmindset shifts and those kinds
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of good things can often comeafter Mercury retrograde.
And so that emphasis on truthand thinking about what is my
truth, what is hidden, what isit that I've been maybe circling
around, but not quite thinking,not quite saying, I'm not quite
getting something, and bringingthat into our awareness and
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crystallizing our position orour stance or our heart's truth
on something, again, are very inkeeping with the theme of
Scorpio season.
For myself personally, it'sinteresting.
I just finished my what I'llcall my musical season this last
weekend.
And for me, musical season isdoing choreography for musicals
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on the island.
And I usually will do a show inthe summer.
The last two years I did a fallshow.
And so we just finished RockyHorror Musical this last
weekend.
And that was that was anexperience.
That shows a real trip for thoseof you that are Rocky fans.
And it's always a wild ride andreally fun in such a unique and
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weird and expressive way.
And we wrap that up.
And I came home this weekend andhad this moment of really
feeling that shift from more ofthis external energy that I
always bring to that role ofchoreographer and not just
external in the sense of beingcreative and working with others
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and teaching dance, but italways requires a lot of
movement on the island, not justthrough the literal act of
dancing and moving my body, butthe physicality of driving into
town to go teach and drivingback.
I live far away from where itis.
So it's a little bit of a driveand it's always a commitment
when I do it.
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And there's such an interestingprocess around it for me because
when I'm not in musical season,it's really hard to get me off
the North Shore.
And it feels like such a longjourney to go to Costco or do
some of the things that are inthe town of Lahue here on the
island.
And I always laugh because whenit's musical season, I make the
drive all the time.
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I do it several times a week andI just get used to it.
We do what we have to do inorder to serve a passion or do
what we love when we've made acommitment to something.
But once it's over, I becomemore insular.
And it's this really interestingprocess that I've observed in
myself.
And it reflects this almostparallel process of what I would
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call being.
I'm not sure if I'm anextroverted introvert or an
introverted extrovert.
I think it's probably more ofthe first one, an extroverted
introvert.
I am an introvert at heart.
I need lots of alone time andlots of solitude to not only
fill myself back up, but myreflection time, my time in
nature, my time running alone,running as a meditation, all of
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the practices that I have, somany of my creative practices, I
can't hear my soul and my innervoice without having that alone
time and being nurtured in thatspace.
When I do those alone processesand invite spirit into the mix
and listen to my heart, thosethings really sustain me.
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They're such a part of my soulcare.
And when I go too long withoutthem, I get really dysregulated.
And I notice that coming out ina lot of ways.
So in my heart of hearts, I aman introvert, but I do have a
part of me, and perhaps this ismy Leo sun shining through that
loves to dance and just comes tolife when I'm getting to do what
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I love.
And I'm in that performancespace, and that feeds something
inside of me too.
And being able to be creativeand to choreograph and then take
that choreography and give it toothers and have it become
something bigger than me.
It fills something up in me, andit's this valuable part of my
process as well.
So I recognize that asmultidimensional beings, that
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part of all of our heart magicis diversity and having
different things that fill us upand having different aspects of
self.
And I embrace all of that, but Ifind my personal process kind of
marked by the end of musicalseason.
And that always coincides withthe fall season here in Northern
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Hemisphere.
It might not really feel likefall on the island, but it will
always be fall in my heart.
I just spent way too many years,I think, in Alaska to not have
an internalized experience offall in the air when we start
getting into September, on intoOctober.
And during that time, I findmyself wanting to turn inwards.
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And so the season is over.
I am home.
And I'm looking forward tohaving more space for reflection
and introspection and some ofthose inward practices.
So I love Scorpio season forsupporting that for myself
personally.
And no matter where you're at inlife, whether your rhythm
matches what's happening thisseason and your external rhythm
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matches it or not, all of us canbenefit from working with the
archetype of Scorpio.
So I want to share three simpleideas for how we might tap into
Scorpio energy this season.
First, Scorpio is an invitationfor letting go.
And that idea of doing releasework and letting go of what no
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longer serves us is somethingthat is, I think it's a forever
truth.
That's just part of our growth,is that we are constantly asked
to reassess what's working forme, what's not working, to make
course corrections.
Part of our growth is therealization that who we
understand ourselves to be, orperhaps something we once valued
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or believed, or something thatwe thought.
It does change as we change.
We have new experiences, and ournew experiences bring new things
into our awareness.
We have unmet parts of ourselfor uncrystallized parts of
ourself that we might have alittle bit of an awareness of,
but until we give ourselvesspace to explore the unmet self,
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the uncrystallized aspect ofself, and get a better sense of
what that part of ourself mighthave to teach us, we might not
know something to be true forus.
And then perhaps we allowourselves that exploration.
And what comes from that ischange, change in how we might
identify, change in how we thinkabout something, change in how
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we might understand something.
And so the idea of letting go isletting go of anything that no
longer supports the truth of whoyou are and who you're becoming.
And that can happen in ways thatare very obvious.
We might be called to let go ofsomething very tangible.
For example, I just let go ofmusical season and I had some
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feelings around that thisweekend.
And I had this really unexpectedsadness of wow, okay, it's
coming to an end.
And for now, I hang up my danceshoes, so to speak, and I move
into other aspects perhaps of mylife and my creativity, but I'm
done with this particular seasonof creative and the theater and
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all of that until the next show.
And that absolutely will not beuntil next year sometime.
My girlfriend needs a break.
But having said that, there wassadness that came with that and
sadness in letting go, sadnessin seeing a show end and seeing
something through to completion.
There was some integration workthat I needed to do.
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It feels like so much of ithappened so fast.
And I took some time thisweekend to kind of list out my
experiences this year in thetheater and what I learned and
all sorts of things from bigpicture lessons to tiny minutiae
details that would only bemeaningful to me to help me do
that integration work and tosupport me in being able to let
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go and recognize that part ofwhat makes life beautiful and
part of what gives it meaning isthat it is transient.
Things do not stay the sameforever.
We do not stay the same forever.
And it's okay to allow forrelease work and to recognize
the sadness from that and grieffrom that, and also the beauty
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of potential and a newbeginning.
So this is a really good seasonif you've been working on
releasing, letting go, sheddingsomething, this will support it.
I'm not sure that there'sanything super active you have
to do.
I think it just happens as youdo your inner work and trust
your intuition.
But if you do feel called to dosomething with water, take a
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cleansing bath, do your ownwater ceremony, work with water
in some way.
That is a beautiful element thatsupports cleansing and release
and renewal.
Another way that we can workwith Scorpio season is through
exploring our shadows and facingour fears.
It's interesting.
Why is it so uncomfortable forus to sit in the nothingness and
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to be in a place of unknowing?
We feel like maybe we're doingsomething wrong.
We wonder if we've missed a stepon the path.
Sometimes we feel like we havetoo much space to be in our own
thoughts.
And certainly if we are prone toa lot of anxious thinking or
circling around things thatdoesn't get us anywhere, we
might want to find constructiveways to redirect our energy.
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But outside of the anxiety mindrunning us in circles, if we can
focus on what it is we'reanxious about or what it is
that's uncomfortable for us, orwhat it is we might be avoiding,
it helps us go into spacesinside of ourselves that can be
harder to explore.
Our shadows are the parts ofourselves that are in our
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unconscious, our old patterns,our old wounds, old ways of
being.
And I don't think we have tospend all of our time in them.
I think there's a really healthybalance between being present
and positive and forwardthinking and actively developing
new neural pathways and new waysof being and holding space for
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the parts of ourself that we arestill healing, still
transmuting, still transforming,still bringing into the light so
that we truly can have changefrom the heart.
And as we change our heart andchange our relationship to an
old wound in us, we heal it.
And as we heal, not only doesthat help us create a new
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pathway forward, but it's reallydeeply integrative.
And so we feel not only moreequipped to teach it to others,
but we're not afraid of thattrauma or that wound inside of
us.
We have faced it with courage.
We know what's there.
Whether or not it feels entirelyhealed.
We at least found what we neededto turn the lights on in that
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space so that we have brought itinto our awareness and we're
able to move forward with morepresence and more wholeness and
more inner peace.
And it's through that that wecan shift some of those things
that might feel uncomfortable tous and we can find higher
wisdom.
If we skip the step where we tryand find a more positive
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perspective or try and findhigher ground when there's
actually something of value toexplore and that more raw human
place that might feel a littlebit lower in our emotional
range, oftentimes we not onlycan get to higher ground, but we
take something with us.
We take a gem of insight orsomething that we can learn from
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that kind of muddy, shadowyplace of the things that make us
feel uncomfortable, things aboutourselves that we don't always
like.
And so there is such value inthat work.
And Scorpio season is verysupportive of that work.
And again, the emphasis is nothanging out in that part of
ourselves in order to tormentourselves or to stay stuck in
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trauma, stuck in victimhood,stuck in an old story.
That is not what Scorpio seasonis about.
It is about finding the heartcourage to confront the kinds of
things within ourselves thatsometimes are hard to examine
and look at because they make usuncomfortable.
And then do some work aroundthem and figure out how do I
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work with this in the mostconstructive way?
What's the challenge here?
Am I being challenged to learnto love myself through this, to
integrate an uncomfortableaspect of me?
Is there a difficult truth thatI want to look at?
And when I really process myemotions on it, what comes from
that is the invitation to make achange in my life.
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We go into the shadows in orderto develop the courage to bring
what's hidden into the light.
And in so doing, we bring itinto our awareness.
And when it's in our awareness,we stop projecting it onto
others.
We stop acting from the wound,we stop being afraid or avoiding
what might be inside of us.
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And we're being invited to seeso we can have a transformative
process that ultimately servesus in a beautiful and magical
and light-filled way.
And so that is the finalperspective of Scorpio season,
is that it's an opportunity totransmute shadow into light, to
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take something that feelsunhealed or raw, and to have
that alchemical process wherewe're able to bring light into
something.
And we bring light intosomething when we become
conscious of it, when we chooseto find the love in the
situation, when we choose tofind a hidden gift of wisdom in
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the situation, we don't have totake something that ultimately
is not a good thing in our lifeor is harmful or hurtful and
paint it with roses and call itsomething it's not.
That's denial.
That is not what this is about.
And so I really want to be clearon that.
We are called to be wise anddiscerning.
And if something's reallyhurting us or is bad for us or
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toxic, we don't have to call itgood or not take a stand for
that.
We can see it for what it is.
But we are called to take whatmight feel younger, unhealed,
still more ego-invested insideof ourselves, what's more
reactive, what is an old patternthat we learned in the family,
learned from society, ourancestral line, things that we
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might be called as a soul towork with to help bring healing
on behalf of the collective.
That's the stuff we're called towork with and transmute it and
bring it into the light andfinding peace with it, finding
ways to build a bridge withinourselves to those darker places
so we don't have to be afraid ofthem.
And when we're not afraid, wecan bring love into that space
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and self-love andself-acceptance.
And so that ultimately is theinvitation of Scorpio season.
It is to bring love into thosespaces.
It is to have a transformativeprocess where we go beneath the
surface to find our diamonds ofinsight, our gems of light, our
hidden pearls, and to bringthose up to the surface of our
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life so we can live as a fullerexpression of self, a more
authentic expression of self.
Happy Scorpio season, everybody.
As I said, happy November, happyHalloween, happy All Souls Day.
Have an amazing week.
I will be back next week with anall-new Your Heart Magic.
And as always, in the meantime,be well, be love, be you, and be
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magic.
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Tune in next week for a newepisode to support and empower
your light.
Aloha, and welcome to Your Heart Magic, an
illuminating space wherepsychology, spirituality, and
heart wisdom meet.
Here's your host, Dr.
Bethane Kapansky Wright, author,psychologist, and spiritual
educator.
SPEAKER_01 (00:33):
Aloha everybody.
Welcome to Your Heart Magic.
This is Dr.
Bethane Kapansky Wright.
And happy Halloween and alsohappy November to everybody.
We are talking about thearchetype of Scorpio season
today.
Scorpio season is now in fullswing, and I've been having such
a good time doing the archetypesof the Zodiac series.
(00:58):
Last year we did the tarot.
That was a two-year journeythrough the major arcana.
And this year we moved on toastrological archetypes and have
been following the Zodiac wheel.
And we are now full swing, as Isaid, into Scorpio season.
So we're going to talk a littlebit about today what is Scorpio?
(01:18):
What might this archetype haveto teach us?
And how do we tune into theenergy right now to help support
our individual process in livingwith more peace and presence and
heart coherence?
So Scorpio is an interestingsign.
It's perhaps one of the mostmysterious signs of the zodiac,
(01:39):
probably the most mysterioussign of the zodiac.
And it's really a sign that Ithink of as a sign of
psychological depths and divinginto our deep, diving into the
deepness of who we are andexploring things and really
penetrating for truth.
Scorpio is a water sign, andwater signs always stir up
(02:03):
emotions.
They usually invite us to diveinto our emotional waters, to
get more in touch with ourfeelings, our psychic sense of
things, our sensory experience.
Water signs usually help thingsthat have been lingering on the
edges of our subconscious andtrying to emerge into our
(02:26):
consciousness.
They usually help shake thosethings up and bring them out
into the open.
And each water sign has aslightly different emphasis on
it.
Cancer tends to be more aboutself-love and nurture and
focusing on matters of the heartand home and things that
(02:47):
probably speak to our hearts,things that nurture us, things
that invite us into a deeperrelationship with loving
ourselves and loving others.
Pisces, the other water sign, isone that asks us to dive into
our intuitive depths and to lookat more of our mystic-mindedness
(03:07):
and our interconnection, ourcreativity.
And Scorpio has theseinteresting associations on a
very basic level.
If you just look it up, it saysScorpio is associated with sex
and death and taxes.
I saw that somewhere on theinternet today, and that made me
laugh.
I thought, well, that's quite alist of what those three have in
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common under the sign ofScorpio.
But Scorpio is often known as asign of hidden things, things
that can be more taboo to talkabout, things that are
uncomfortable to talk about,things that we might not
dialogue about with as muchease, and can sometimes cause us
some feelings of discomfort whenwe confront them in our lives.
(03:51):
They are things that we oftenmight not have as many
constructs around or socialconditioning around, or maybe we
do have social conditioningaround them.
And that's one of the reasonsthey feel taboo and a little bit
harder to dive into.
So Scorpio is a sign that asksus to confront difficult truths
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and hidden truths.
And I want to put the caveat outthere that I really like the
sign of Scorpio.
So it's not a bad thing toconfront hidden truths.
I suppose if we have neverexamined those things, this sign
might be very uncomfortable forus and some really deep, hard
stuff might come up duringScorpio season.
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But I'm going to operate underthe assumption that if you are
tuning into your heart magic,you are already on your path of
self-awareness and trying tolive more open-mindedly, living
in your heart, have probablygone through some form of an
awakening process or somethingthat helped invite you into
deeper awareness.
So you're probably pretty usedto confronting hidden truths.
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So Scorpio season might be lessdisruptive if you've already
been doing the inner work andmight be more of an invitation
to explore things inside of youthat you want to shine a
brighter light on.
And that ultimately is whatconfronting Things in the
Shadows is all about.
We turn the light on in a roomthat was dark inside of us, or
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we find a dark corner inside ofourselves, something that
represents our fears, anuncomfortable feeling, a truth
that we're not exactly sure ofwhat the truth is around it.
We just know we have thesethoughts or inklings about
something and we're not entirelysure of what our bottom line
truth is.
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And we walk into that space andwe light a candle or we turn on
a lamp or we find a way to shinea light on that part of our
awareness and we bring it outinto the open.
And we do that throughjournaling about it, reflecting,
contemplating meditation work.
We might talk to somebodytrusted, a friend, a therapist,
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some form of a caring individualin our life, a mentor, a coach,
somebody that we trust thatmight have some wisdom to
contribute to the topic.
And as we do those things, webring what was hidden out into
the light.
We bring it into ourconsciousness and we get a
better handle on what's there.
We become unafraid of looking atit because we have found the
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courage to explore it.
And when we have the courage toexplore something, we get to
figure out so what do I do withthis?
What does this mean?
How do I apply this to my life?
And those action steps areperhaps what might come from
Scorpio season.
It's the act of exploring thosetruths and the act of what I
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think of as deep sea diving thatreally marks the essence of
Scorpio season.
Interestingly, Scorpio is afixed sign.
I always get a little bitconfused on which signs are the
cardinal signs.
Those are signs that are theinitiation and sort of that fire
energy that helps us ignite ourorigin something, which signs
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are the mutable signs, and thoseare the signs that usually
signify the ending of something,a transition, a change, some
kind of movement.
And then the fixed signs are theones that are about stability
and creating an infrastructure.
So in the zodiac, Aries is acardinal sign, it's the
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initiation, and then Tauruswould be the fixed sign.
That is the sustainability,because Taurus comes after
Aries, and then Gemini is amutable sign, and that is the
sign of change and a transition.
And then we go back into cancerseason and we start over at a
cardinal sign again.
And so it follows that patternof cardinal, fixed, mutable, all
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the way through the 12 differentzodiac signs, and Scorpio falls
in a fixed position, which is sointeresting to me because I
think of Scorpio as this verychangeful, transformative
energy.
I think of it as energy that canbe disruptive and shake things
up and helps us release things.
Scorpio is an invitation toletting go.
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And yet the essence of the signis a little bit contradictory.
It's really aboutsustainability.
And how I interpret that isultimately, no matter what
hidden truth Scorpio brings tothe surface, it's here to help
create systems and emotionalways of processing things that
truly serve us and help create ahealthier foundation of self.
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So I find that contradictioninteresting and yet not because
I feel like Scorpio is a bit ofa contrary sign.
As I said, it's a water sign.
And I think a Scorpio energy isa little bit more fiery and more
passionate than that.
And yet it's about emotion andthe water.
And so working with that tensionof opposites, working with
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finding that balance betweenthings that are slightly
contradictory, I think is also alovely hidden gift in Scorpio
season.
Something else that I think addsa fun flavor this month is
Mercury's going into retrogradeon November 9th through November
29th.
And it's actually retrogradingfrom Sagittarius back into
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Scorpio.
So while Scorpio season is goingon, it sounds like Mercury will
be back into Scorpio for alittle bit.
And Mercury is aboutcommunication and truth.
It's about not only how wecommunicate, but how we think.
Before we can speak somethingand express something into being
and communicate, we have tothink it and have an idea around
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it.
And so when Mercury goes intoretrograde, I often think of
that as a time that we are doingsome rewiring of how we think.
Epiphanies and breakthroughs andmindset shifts and those kinds
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of good things can often comeafter Mercury retrograde.
And so that emphasis on truthand thinking about what is my
truth, what is hidden, what isit that I've been maybe circling
around, but not quite thinking,not quite saying, I'm not quite
getting something, and bringingthat into our awareness and
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crystallizing our position orour stance or our heart's truth
on something, again, are very inkeeping with the theme of
Scorpio season.
For myself personally, it'sinteresting.
I just finished my what I'llcall my musical season this last
weekend.
And for me, musical season isdoing choreography for musicals
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on the island.
And I usually will do a show inthe summer.
The last two years I did a fallshow.
And so we just finished RockyHorror Musical this last
weekend.
And that was that was anexperience.
That shows a real trip for thoseof you that are Rocky fans.
And it's always a wild ride andreally fun in such a unique and
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weird and expressive way.
And we wrap that up.
And I came home this weekend andhad this moment of really
feeling that shift from more ofthis external energy that I
always bring to that role ofchoreographer and not just
external in the sense of beingcreative and working with others
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and teaching dance, but italways requires a lot of
movement on the island, not justthrough the literal act of
dancing and moving my body, butthe physicality of driving into
town to go teach and drivingback.
I live far away from where itis.
So it's a little bit of a driveand it's always a commitment
when I do it.
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And there's such an interestingprocess around it for me because
when I'm not in musical season,it's really hard to get me off
the North Shore.
And it feels like such a longjourney to go to Costco or do
some of the things that are inthe town of Lahue here on the
island.
And I always laugh because whenit's musical season, I make the
drive all the time.
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I do it several times a week andI just get used to it.
We do what we have to do inorder to serve a passion or do
what we love when we've made acommitment to something.
But once it's over, I becomemore insular.
And it's this really interestingprocess that I've observed in
myself.
And it reflects this almostparallel process of what I would
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call being.
I'm not sure if I'm anextroverted introvert or an
introverted extrovert.
I think it's probably more ofthe first one, an extroverted
introvert.
I am an introvert at heart.
I need lots of alone time andlots of solitude to not only
fill myself back up, but myreflection time, my time in
nature, my time running alone,running as a meditation, all of
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the practices that I have, somany of my creative practices, I
can't hear my soul and my innervoice without having that alone
time and being nurtured in thatspace.
When I do those alone processesand invite spirit into the mix
and listen to my heart, thosethings really sustain me.
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They're such a part of my soulcare.
And when I go too long withoutthem, I get really dysregulated.
And I notice that coming out ina lot of ways.
So in my heart of hearts, I aman introvert, but I do have a
part of me, and perhaps this ismy Leo sun shining through that
loves to dance and just comes tolife when I'm getting to do what
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I love.
And I'm in that performancespace, and that feeds something
inside of me too.
And being able to be creativeand to choreograph and then take
that choreography and give it toothers and have it become
something bigger than me.
It fills something up in me, andit's this valuable part of my
process as well.
So I recognize that asmultidimensional beings, that
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part of all of our heart magicis diversity and having
different things that fill us upand having different aspects of
self.
And I embrace all of that, but Ifind my personal process kind of
marked by the end of musicalseason.
And that always coincides withthe fall season here in Northern
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Hemisphere.
It might not really feel likefall on the island, but it will
always be fall in my heart.
I just spent way too many years,I think, in Alaska to not have
an internalized experience offall in the air when we start
getting into September, on intoOctober.
And during that time, I findmyself wanting to turn inwards.
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And so the season is over.
I am home.
And I'm looking forward tohaving more space for reflection
and introspection and some ofthose inward practices.
So I love Scorpio season forsupporting that for myself
personally.
And no matter where you're at inlife, whether your rhythm
matches what's happening thisseason and your external rhythm
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matches it or not, all of us canbenefit from working with the
archetype of Scorpio.
So I want to share three simpleideas for how we might tap into
Scorpio energy this season.
First, Scorpio is an invitationfor letting go.
And that idea of doing releasework and letting go of what no
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longer serves us is somethingthat is, I think it's a forever
truth.
That's just part of our growth,is that we are constantly asked
to reassess what's working forme, what's not working, to make
course corrections.
Part of our growth is therealization that who we
understand ourselves to be, orperhaps something we once valued
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or believed, or something thatwe thought.
It does change as we change.
We have new experiences, and ournew experiences bring new things
into our awareness.
We have unmet parts of ourselfor uncrystallized parts of
ourself that we might have alittle bit of an awareness of,
but until we give ourselvesspace to explore the unmet self,
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the uncrystallized aspect ofself, and get a better sense of
what that part of ourself mighthave to teach us, we might not
know something to be true forus.
And then perhaps we allowourselves that exploration.
And what comes from that ischange, change in how we might
identify, change in how we thinkabout something, change in how
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we might understand something.
And so the idea of letting go isletting go of anything that no
longer supports the truth of whoyou are and who you're becoming.
And that can happen in ways thatare very obvious.
We might be called to let go ofsomething very tangible.
For example, I just let go ofmusical season and I had some
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feelings around that thisweekend.
And I had this really unexpectedsadness of wow, okay, it's
coming to an end.
And for now, I hang up my danceshoes, so to speak, and I move
into other aspects perhaps of mylife and my creativity, but I'm
done with this particular seasonof creative and the theater and
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all of that until the next show.
And that absolutely will not beuntil next year sometime.
My girlfriend needs a break.
But having said that, there wassadness that came with that and
sadness in letting go, sadnessin seeing a show end and seeing
something through to completion.
There was some integration workthat I needed to do.
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It feels like so much of ithappened so fast.
And I took some time thisweekend to kind of list out my
experiences this year in thetheater and what I learned and
all sorts of things from bigpicture lessons to tiny minutiae
details that would only bemeaningful to me to help me do
that integration work and tosupport me in being able to let
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go and recognize that part ofwhat makes life beautiful and
part of what gives it meaning isthat it is transient.
Things do not stay the sameforever.
We do not stay the same forever.
And it's okay to allow forrelease work and to recognize
the sadness from that and grieffrom that, and also the beauty
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of potential and a newbeginning.
So this is a really good seasonif you've been working on
releasing, letting go, sheddingsomething, this will support it.
I'm not sure that there'sanything super active you have
to do.
I think it just happens as youdo your inner work and trust
your intuition.
But if you do feel called to dosomething with water, take a
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cleansing bath, do your ownwater ceremony, work with water
in some way.
That is a beautiful element thatsupports cleansing and release
and renewal.
Another way that we can workwith Scorpio season is through
exploring our shadows and facingour fears.
It's interesting.
Why is it so uncomfortable forus to sit in the nothingness and
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to be in a place of unknowing?
We feel like maybe we're doingsomething wrong.
We wonder if we've missed a stepon the path.
Sometimes we feel like we havetoo much space to be in our own
thoughts.
And certainly if we are prone toa lot of anxious thinking or
circling around things thatdoesn't get us anywhere, we
might want to find constructiveways to redirect our energy.
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But outside of the anxiety mindrunning us in circles, if we can
focus on what it is we'reanxious about or what it is
that's uncomfortable for us, orwhat it is we might be avoiding,
it helps us go into spacesinside of ourselves that can be
harder to explore.
Our shadows are the parts ofourselves that are in our
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unconscious, our old patterns,our old wounds, old ways of
being.
And I don't think we have tospend all of our time in them.
I think there's a really healthybalance between being present
and positive and forwardthinking and actively developing
new neural pathways and new waysof being and holding space for
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the parts of ourself that we arestill healing, still
transmuting, still transforming,still bringing into the light so
that we truly can have changefrom the heart.
And as we change our heart andchange our relationship to an
old wound in us, we heal it.
And as we heal, not only doesthat help us create a new
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pathway forward, but it's reallydeeply integrative.
And so we feel not only moreequipped to teach it to others,
but we're not afraid of thattrauma or that wound inside of
us.
We have faced it with courage.
We know what's there.
Whether or not it feels entirelyhealed.
We at least found what we neededto turn the lights on in that
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space so that we have brought itinto our awareness and we're
able to move forward with morepresence and more wholeness and
more inner peace.
And it's through that that wecan shift some of those things
that might feel uncomfortable tous and we can find higher
wisdom.
If we skip the step where we tryand find a more positive
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perspective or try and findhigher ground when there's
actually something of value toexplore and that more raw human
place that might feel a littlebit lower in our emotional
range, oftentimes we not onlycan get to higher ground, but we
take something with us.
We take a gem of insight orsomething that we can learn from
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that kind of muddy, shadowyplace of the things that make us
feel uncomfortable, things aboutourselves that we don't always
like.
And so there is such value inthat work.
And Scorpio season is verysupportive of that work.
And again, the emphasis is nothanging out in that part of
ourselves in order to tormentourselves or to stay stuck in
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trauma, stuck in victimhood,stuck in an old story.
That is not what Scorpio seasonis about.
It is about finding the heartcourage to confront the kinds of
things within ourselves thatsometimes are hard to examine
and look at because they make usuncomfortable.
And then do some work aroundthem and figure out how do I
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work with this in the mostconstructive way?
What's the challenge here?
Am I being challenged to learnto love myself through this, to
integrate an uncomfortableaspect of me?
Is there a difficult truth thatI want to look at?
And when I really process myemotions on it, what comes from
that is the invitation to make achange in my life.
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We go into the shadows in orderto develop the courage to bring
what's hidden into the light.
And in so doing, we bring itinto our awareness.
And when it's in our awareness,we stop projecting it onto
others.
We stop acting from the wound,we stop being afraid or avoiding
what might be inside of us.
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And we're being invited to seeso we can have a transformative
process that ultimately servesus in a beautiful and magical
and light-filled way.
And so that is the finalperspective of Scorpio season,
is that it's an opportunity totransmute shadow into light, to
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take something that feelsunhealed or raw, and to have
that alchemical process wherewe're able to bring light into
something.
And we bring light intosomething when we become
conscious of it, when we chooseto find the love in the
situation, when we choose tofind a hidden gift of wisdom in
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the situation, we don't have totake something that ultimately
is not a good thing in our lifeor is harmful or hurtful and
paint it with roses and call itsomething it's not.
That's denial.
That is not what this is about.
And so I really want to be clearon that.
We are called to be wise anddiscerning.
And if something's reallyhurting us or is bad for us or
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toxic, we don't have to call itgood or not take a stand for
that.
We can see it for what it is.
But we are called to take whatmight feel younger, unhealed,
still more ego-invested insideof ourselves, what's more
reactive, what is an old patternthat we learned in the family,
learned from society, ourancestral line, things that we
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might be called as a soul towork with to help bring healing
on behalf of the collective.
That's the stuff we're called towork with and transmute it and
bring it into the light andfinding peace with it, finding
ways to build a bridge withinourselves to those darker places
so we don't have to be afraid ofthem.
And when we're not afraid, wecan bring love into that space
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and self-love andself-acceptance.
And so that ultimately is theinvitation of Scorpio season.
It is to bring love into thosespaces.
It is to have a transformativeprocess where we go beneath the
surface to find our diamonds ofinsight, our gems of light, our
hidden pearls, and to bringthose up to the surface of our
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life so we can live as a fullerexpression of self, a more
authentic expression of self.
Happy Scorpio season, everybody.
As I said, happy November, happyHalloween, happy All Souls Day.
Have an amazing week.
I will be back next week with anall-new Your Heart Magic.
And as always, in the meantime,be well, be love, be you, and be
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magic.
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