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11/20/2025

11/20/2025

Hexagram 18: Gu (Work on What Has Been Spoiled)
Aligned with the Scorpio New Moon

The Oracle Speaks

You stand at the threshold of deep transformation. Hexagram 18 arrives bearing the image of decay that calls for renewal—the bowl that has sat too long, the patterns inherited but no longer serving, the wounds that fester in darkness. The Scorpio New Moon amplifies this message, casting her penetrating light into the shadows where you've been avoiding necessary work.
This is not destruction for its own sake. This is the sacred work of composting—turning what has rotted into rich soil for new growth.

The Poison and the Medicine

What has been spoiled: Look honestly at what you've inherited or allowed to decay. Old family patterns. Relationships built on outdated foundations. Parts of yourself you've neglected. Scorpio's energy demands you name the poison before you can transmute it. The New Moon asks: What are you ready to let die?

The Chinese character for Gu depicts worms in a bowl—corruption, yes, but also the breakdown necessary before rebirth. Scorpio understands this intimately. Death is her teacher, and she knows that nothing truly transforms without first touching decay.

The Three Stages of Repair

Before the work: There is hesitation, even shame. You may feel you're betraying ancestors, abandoning what once was. But honoring the past doesn't mean preserving its mistakes. The son corrects the father's errors; the daughter breaks the mother's chains. This is love, not betrayal.

During the work: This New Moon phase demands you enter the underworld of your own psyche. Scorpio energy is surgical—it cuts away precisely what must go. You may uncover painful truths. You may grieve. The work is messy, like cleaning out a wound. But suppuration must be released before healing can begin.

After the work: Hexagram 18 promises that diligent attention to what has been spoiled brings supreme success. The New Moon's dark face will soon wax toward light, and what you plant in this fertile darkness will grow stronger for having roots in transformed soil.

The Scorpio New Moon Blessing

This new moon carries the phoenix's promise: what burns away is what no longer serves; what remains is essential, powerful, true. Scorpio asks you to:
• Face what you've been avoiding with courage and clear eyes
• Trust the process of breakdown as necessary preparation for breakthrough
• Claim your power to transform inherited patterns
• Set intentions rooted in deep authenticity, not surface desires

Divination for Your Path

The work before you is not easy, but it is necessary. You are being called to tend to what previous generations left undone, to heal what has festered, to break cycles that no longer serve life. This Scorpio New Moon offers you her transformative power—use it wisely.

In three days, movement begins. In three months, you'll see the first fruits. In three years, you'll understand why this moment of decay was actually the beginning of your most profound growth.
Persist. The compost becomes the garden.

Your New Moon Ritual: Write what must be released on paper. Bury it or burn it safely, returning the old pattern to the elements for transformation. Then plant something new—a seed, an intention, a commitment to the work of restoration.

11/20/2025

I wanted to share my journal entry I wrote tonight in hopes that it will encourage some of you to give it a try.

Scorpio New Moon
Wednesday Nov. 19th, 2025

Journal Entry: Cooking Down My Anger

Today I’m noticing something intense simmering inside me — anger. Not a loud, explosive kind, but a slow, steady boil that lives in my body like a pot left too long on the stove. I don’t like how it feels, even when it’s justified. I get almost afraid of it, like it will swallow me whole if I let it bubble up too much.

Anger shows up before I even have the words for it. My stomach knots, my jaw tightens, my shoulders crawl up toward my ears. Sometimes it feels like my body remembers anger before my mind catches up. And honestly… that scares me. Because I can feel how anger changes me. Not just my mood, but my breathing, my thoughts, my presence. I don’t feel like myself when I hold onto it.

For so long, I thought pushing anger away made me a better person — calmer, more spiritual, more “in control.” But I’m realizing something: burying anger doesn’t dissolve it. It buries me with it. It spills into my nervous system, my sleep, my energy, like a heavy fog that refuses to lift. Holding onto anger doesn’t punish the people who hurt me. It winds itself around my nerves and squeezes tight.

It’s like drinking poison and hoping the bitterness stains someone else’s tongue.

I don’t want to let anger rule me, but I don’t want to pretend it isn’t there anymore either. Anger isn’t the enemy. It’s a messenger. It’s trying to show me where I’ve been silent too long, where my boundaries cracked, where something in me is asking to be protected. Maybe anger is not here to make me hard… but to help me stand up for myself without losing softness.
So today, I’m choosing to listen to what anger is trying to say — without letting it scorch me from the inside. I want to feel it honestly, speak from it responsibly, then let it move, breathe, and eventually simmer down, instead of burning me alive. I want to let peace rise in the space where old anger no longer needs to stay.
Today, I’m not trying to “fix” anger. I’m trying to let it teach me, then release me.

“I let anger speak without letting it stay.”

07/09/2025

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05/27/2022

When a woman awakens and starts to own all of herself, letting go of the need to cover up or defend herself and instead accepts all of her idiosyncrasies, fears, wounds, false programs, flaws, icky moods, fat thighs, sweaty armpits etc and supports her unique imperfect self instead of judging, rejecting and wishing that she were different or like somebody else, she has entered the promised land of freedom and self empowerment.

She starts to drop the posing, defence mechanisms, competitiveness, jealousy and all the false gods that she previously used as crutches, false images or places to hide parts of herself... What is left is a Woman of Strength, courage, fortitude and a woman that is compassionately understanding towards others because she is able to give to others what she has given to herself... She becomes fearlessly authentic, she finds her Voice, there is no longer shame, therefore she no longer needs to hide or change any part of herself... She's able to overcome any fears of rejection for being true to herself.

Ironically, when a woman claims and accepts her shadow, that which she rejected and suppressed about herself transforms from being dysfunctional to being a strength and the energy that it was previously draining from her becomes available to her. Such a woman gives others permission to accept themselves as they are, her own freedom becomes contagious.

Through being openly relaxed in her Power she empowers others.

Author : Caroline de Lisser

Artwork: Barbara Glatzeder

08/12/2021

Stumbled onto this one, I promise it is worth the listen. It’s really made me think.

My ultimate goal is to be simply willing. I am closer then I have ever been and more aware of why I am feeling as I do. Now to simply remember it’s about me and resetting my mind set on the daily.

At the end of the day it’s not about being the best, popular, keeping up to others image of you, and the list goes on and on. I too am guilty of this, allowing ego to steer my feelings towards self doubt, taking things so personal, allowing anxieties to take over.

I am ready for change, to find my soul people and really be willing !!!

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