Once a year we do something strange. We take the things that scare us most, ghosts and skeletons and darkness and death, and instead of hiding from them, we put them on. We walk around in the dark wearing them and we knock on doors and laugh.

That is not an accident. It is one of the oldest instincts we have. At the darkest turn of the year, you face the thing you fear, you give it a shape, and you take its power back.

This year Halloween lands in the middle of Scorpio season, with Mercury retrograde in Scorpio and a waning Moon. The sky is doing the exact same thing the holiday does. It is asking you to look at what you hide.

Because the veil is not only thin between worlds. There is a veil inside you too, the line between what you let yourself see and what you pushed out of view. The feelings you decided were too much. The desires you decided were not appropriate. You did not destroy those parts. You put them behind the veil. And Scorpio season is when that veil gets thin.

Here is what almost nobody tells you about the shadow. Your shadow holds whatever you could not afford to be, and very often what you could not afford to be was powerful. If anger was dangerous in your home, you buried your anger, and with it your ability to say no. If ambition made you seem selfish, you buried your drive. If sensitivity made you a target, you buried your intuition. The part you hid to stay safe is so often the exact part you need to create the life you want.

I walk you through what the veil actually is, where Samhain comes from, what your shadow is really holding, what happens when you suppress a feeling versus name one, the sky this week, what you inherited that was never yours to carry, and the releasing ritual I have been promising you for weeks. Release the fear. Keep the power.

Topics Covered:

• Why we dress up as the thing that scares us, and why that instinct is ancient
• Samhain, the end of the harvest, and the start of the dark half of the year
• The veil inside you, and the line between what you let yourself see and what you pushed out of view
• Why Scorpio season is when that veil gets thin
• What you inherited: the beliefs and habits handed to you before you could choose them
• Honoring your ancestors, and giving back what was never yours
• The three part releasing ritual: honor, name, release
• The page you keep, and why you write the power down before you let the fear go
  
  

Journaling Prompts:

• What feeling have I been hiding, and what is its exact name?
• What quality did I hide to stay safe, and what power was it protecting?
• Who annoys me most right now, and what quality in them was I told I was not allowed to be?
• What am I carrying that was handed to me before I could choose it?
• What is the cost of holding this down, and where do I feel it in my body?
• If I released the fear and kept the power this weekend, what would I do differently on Monday?
  
  

Timestamps:

• [00:02] Welcome, and what Samhain is
• [00:31] Scorpio season, the waning Moon, and the release window
• [01:08] Why we dress up as the thing that scares us
• [02:48] Where Halloween came from: Samhain and the cross quarter day
• [04:19] The veil between the worlds, and connecting with your ancestors
• [06:28] Gratitude for what you inherited, and what you no longer want to carry
• [07:19] Retrograde season as a time to review what was handed to you
• [08:14] The veil inside you, between your conscious and subconscious mind
• [09:21] The survival patterns you picked up as a kid, and the ghosts running your life
• [10:40] The releasing ritual: your altar in the west
• [11:33] The three things you write down
• [13:39] Burning what you release
• [14:10] The power you keep
• [15:15] Watching your dreams, memories, and signs this weekend
• [15:58] Scorpio season, the New Moon in Scorpio, and taking your power back

Resources:

• Get the Scorpio Season Workbook for the New Moon in Scorpio practice on November 8
• Get your Free Natal Chart to find where Scorpio and your eighth house fall
• Listen to The Only Sun Sign Episode You Need
• Listen to The Two Most Powerful Days of This Retrograde: Venus and Mercury Cazimi
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