Scorpio season 2024: Everything you need to know about this zodiac sign

Can you smell summer receding and hear winter approaching through the comforting crunch of dead leaves underfoot? That can mean only one thing: Scorpio season hath arrived in its customary puff of theatrical smoke, psychological warfare, and leather accents.In her poem “Elm,” famous — and famously suicidal — Scorpio Sylvia Plath writes, “I am terrified by this dark thing / That sleeps in me; / All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.” That same dark thing beats in the tender goth hearts of all Scorpions, but the best and brightest among them learn — through a lifetime of trial, trauma, and error — to transmute that darkness into luminous survival.Scorpio season begins this year on October 22nd and reigns through November 21.

There is perhaps no zodiac sign more maligned or misunderstood than Scorpio.Scorpio is a fixed sign, making those born beneath it passionate and goal-oriented at best and obsessively ruthless at worst.

As a water sign, Scorpio is associated with oceanic emotion, psychic intuition, and profound transformation. The gift of an actualized Scorpio is being able to show others that there is a way through the dark and that what awaits you on the other side can be better than anything you may have shed to get there. Scorpio intrinsically understands that death is the currency that gives life value.It is thus no coincidence that Halloween, the ancient Celtic festival Samhain, and the Mexican holiday Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) — occasions that revere the life cycle — fall during Scorpio season.

These observances and Scorpio season at large create a collective atmosphere of grief and remembrance.This time is, in essence, an invitation to honor our ancestors, practice uncompromising love for the living, and praise the pain we are dealt as evidence of our fugitive existence. In ancient astrology, Mars was the ruling planet of Scorpio.

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