Embracing the Shadow: A Scorpio Season Guide to the Underworld

Like Persephone descending into Hades' realm, we all must journey into our personal underworld during Scorpio season. As the veil between worlds thins and autumn leaves spiral downward, we're called to explore the depths of our psyche – where our deepest fears, most potent desires, and transformative powers reside.

Scorpio's ruling planet Pluto governs both destruction and regeneration, we must first acknowledge our shadow aspects. These are the emotions we've labeled as "dark" – rage, jealousy, obsession, grief. They lurk in our psychological underworld, growing stronger in their exile. But Scorpio energy teaches us that there is no light without shadow, no rebirth without death, no power without pain.

You may have already started to feel the shadows of the past creeping up pleading to be addressed, if you have now is the time to follow my 4 Step formula, Understand, Accept, Release and Rebuild. There is nowhere to hide anymore. You have to let go of the old for the new to come through, this blog is going to give you the tools to navigate your way through with grace and ease!

Navigating the Shadows

As you traverse your emotional underworld, consider these waypoints:

1. The Chamber of Mirrors

- Sit with your reflections, even the ones that make you flinch or even cringe. Write them down on a piece of paper and burn it or even through it into a body of water (even the toilet!)

- Ask yourself: What emotions am I avoiding? Sit with them then release them! Even speaking them out will help, although be mindful who you share with as Scorpio season brings out peoples true nature!

- Remember that awareness itself is a form of alchemy. I always say Self Awareness is the key to Self Mastery, when we can become aware of ourselves especially or shadows, is when we can make more beneficial choices for our highest selves.

2. The River of Grief

- Allow yourself to feel the full depth of your losses. This is all losses, death, people you had to cut out, old friendships and even ex’s. We are in a societal bubble that forces up to be over something, but, if you try to override your feelings or push past them in a bid to progress in life, it will only rear its ugly head again. (Like now in this season!)

- Let the current carry away what no longer serves. You don’t need to act, push through, just feel it and allow it to be released. Even saying to yourself before you go to sleep something like “I know release the pain of my past and make space for the abundance of my future”.

- Trust that your tears are purifying. Please Cry!! Cry it all out! I surpassed my tears for too long, you will always feel better after a good cry!

3. The Cave of Secrets

- Examine the truths you hide, even from yourself. Often we are in auto pilot, we go to the gym everyday because we enjoy it but why do we really go? I had to sit with this myself not too long ago and for me it came down to being productive and ‘doing’ when actually you can move your body in other ways. Make sure you are doing things because they feel good as apposed to, you have to or its validating you!

- Challenge your self-deceptions. Just like the gym analogy, are you convincing yourself that you don’t like something about yourself like unmotivation and calling yourself lazy or is the old toxic masculine in you rising and wanting to be seen because it doesn’t know how to ‘Be’.

- Recognise that vulnerability is strength - This with bells on! I have had a number of conversations about this over the past few days and what I will say is the moment you can accept it all, everything happening in your life, the good the bad and the ugly and share that with another, you in turn give others the permission to do the same. This isn’t about off loading and creating a pitty party, this is about owning the reality of a situation. When you share your vulnerabilities you actually create deeper and more meaningful connections, which is exactly what Scorpio wants - Depth!

The Alchemical Process

Scorpio's power lies in transformation. Like the scorpion shedding its exoskeleton, we must break open to grow. Here's how to transmute shadow into light:

1. Embrace the Darkness

Your pain is not a punishment – it's raw material for transformation. Every wound contains wisdom. Every scar tells a story of survival. Ask yourself, what is this teaching me, how can I move through this differently?

2. Extract the Essence

Within each difficult emotion lies a gift:

- Anger reveals where your boundaries need strengthening

- Jealousy illuminates your deepest desires

- Fear points to what you most need to heal

For the love of the universe write it down!!

3. Transform the Energy

Channel intense emotions into:

- Creative expression - draw, cook, dance whatever feels good to you!

- Physical movement - Run, walk, Shake it out, dance, exercise something anything

- Purposeful action - Intention is everything, what is actually going to support you going forward, I for one through away old things to symbolise clearing out the old to bring in the new!

- Deep healing work - This is where I come in through my 1:1 journey Ignite Accelerator I will hold your hand and guide you into your light. 6 calls to support you in understanding what happened to you- your childhood, toxic relationships, bullies. To accept it so you can release it with love and from there rebuild yourself worth on the most solid foundation ensuring you never crumble again and if you were too you would have the tools to rebuild again and again for yourself! DM here to discuss further.

Rising from the Depths

Like the phoenix (another Scorpio symbol), you'll emerge transformed. The power you seek was never in the external light – it was in the power within you waiting to be claimed.

Remember: This season isn't about escaping your darkness. It's about learning to dance with it, to harness its power, to let it teach you its secrets.

The Scorpio Promise

As you complete this underworld journey, you carry new gifts:

- Deeper self-knowledge

- Enhanced intuition

- Emotional resilience

- Authentic power

The most profound transformation happens in the dark. This Scorpio season, dare to descend. Dare to face your shadows. Dare to emerge reborn!

In the words of Carl Jung: "One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."

And in the words of Albus Dumbledor “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light”. - You are the light!

If you are finding this season difficult, know it shall pass, but please harness it. If you choose to ignore it it will only gain more force and come back when you least expect it! True empowerment is when you integrate every part of you and scorpio season is encouraging you to face it all! I am here to guide you in this journey. Drop me a DM, you don’t have to go it alone. I’m here.

Love and light,