Astrolabia: Horoscopes for the Vagina
Expect a monthly horoscope series that releases on the New Moon each month, covering topics about relationships, sex, reproductive health, and self-care. The New Moon is the start of the new lunar cycle, and as such, a time that’s perfect for setting intentions, manifesting, and starting anew—unless there are eclipses happening, in which case, the New Moon becomes a time of reflection and personal growth.
Right now, we’re entering Scorpio Season: a time of transformation, depth, sex, death, deep feeling, and intimacy, and this upcoming one features **two** eclipses: The New Moon in Scorpio/Solar Eclipse on October 25th and the Full Moon in Taurus/Lunar Eclipse on November 9th. Expect change, which can be scary, but expect growth, too. Scorpio season doesn’t take it easy. It’s a time for intense feeling, transformational sex, and shadow work. Let’s see what Spooky Season has in store for your vagina:
Aries
Scorpio season does well for fiery Aries, which makes sense since both share influences from Mars, the planet of sex and war. If you’re single, enjoy the fierce magnetism this season provides you. Just be careful if you’re only looking for a fling - Scorpio season is a time to catch feelings! Regardless, sparks are going to fly, so expect Scorpio season to be an active one for your yoni. Treat her with extra love and attention: keep her exfoliated, lubricated, and loved.
If you’re cuffed, that magnetism will allow for major bonding time with your partner over these next few weeks. You’ll appreciate the love and connection when those two eclipses show up and toss a grenade into your garden.
Taurus
The eclipses of this season, particularly the solar eclipse in the Taurus Full Moon on November 8th, could cause some upset to Taurus’s stability within intimate relationships. A lot is said about verbal communication, which is crucial, but another way to work through these issues, to get to your deepest truth, is through the language of sex. Be prepared for epiphanic sex this Scorpio season.
Because the eclipses of the season might have you feeling a little emotionally unsure at times, make sure to ground yourself in your body. Do what makes you feel the best in your skin: long, hot baths, soft, cozy fabrics, and walks through nature will all bring stability, through sensuality and pleasure, two things important to the Venusian Taurus.
Gemini
Both Gemini and Scorpio know how to reel in a dark stranger in a dark room by using only eye contact and pure charisma. This Scorpio season, go forth and seduce, Gemini—but make sure to communicate intentions and manage expectations. The wrath of scorned lovers knows no better season than that of possessive, intense Scorpio.
When the eclipses appear, chaos in hand, this is your time to shine, Gemini. You’ve always known how to navigate a life of contradiction and multitude. You know better than any how to hold multiple, simultaneous, seemingly juxtaposed truths. Where others will get knocked off course by these eclipses, you are uniquely positioned to get by unscathed. Wield that power wisely.
Cancer
Emotionally intense, sensitive, and intuitive, the signs of Cancer and Scorpio have much in common: for instance, both fear vulnerability but crave the intimacy that comes from it. Cancers, use this Scorpio season as a time to open up and show yourself fully to a lover, to dive deep into your primal self and share your fears, kinks, dreams, and desires. That kind of trust takes your sex and love to the next level.
With two eclipses coming up during the emotional season of Scorpio, Cancer needs to be careful not to lose themselves in nostalgia, regret, and yearning. These eclipses will have you examining the darkness within you, but that’s nothing to be afraid of.
Leo
While Leo and Scorpio both share a loyalty and regal nature, Sun-blessed Leos can sometimes feel their light dimmed during the dark days of Scorpio season. If Leos can let themselves cuddle up to their inner demons this Scorpio season, they open themselves up to finding partners who practice their favorite kink: emotional connection. Remember Leos, our shadows give us depth, they round us out to make us more human, more imperfect, more open to learning.
This month, get in touch with your needs and desires: practice self-pleasure in the mirror, wear lingerie for yourself, write down your dreams, wants, and crushes in a little black book.
Virgo
Virgos are often chaste-seeming on the the surface, represented as they are by an Archetypal Virgin who devotes herself to service, sacrifice, and care. But Virgos have a private side, one that is often very physically affectionate, curious, and for many, open to BDSM or other types of power-play in the bedroom. There’s no better season than Scorpio season to let your inner freak fly, Virgos, so go forth and transgress boundaries with care, consent, and joy.
Virgos are more concerned with health and body than any other sign, and Scorpio season relates to a very specific part of our bodies: the reproductive organs. That’s a good reminder to make sure your yoni health appointments have been made and to get up-to-date on STD testing.
Libra
The last day of Libra season, Oct 22nd, ended with Venus Cazimi in Libra, an incredibly auspicious transit for lovers and romantics everywhere, but especially for Libra. Whether you used it to cuff a cutie or to flirt with everyone and their next door neighbor, use that momentum to get you through Scorpio season, whose heaviness and intensity might seem to weigh you down. Let the lift of connection and that little dose of oxytocin see you the through the dark days ahead.
Find the light in the dark, Libra: cover everything in glitter, get glammed up for Halloween, whip out your finest autumnal fashion, and get cozy with a cutie next to the fire. Hang on; Sag season is coming.
Scorpio
Scorpio, it is your TIME, please ascend your throne made up of the skulls of former lovers and and friends who dared betray you. Your dark power is strong, but the upcoming eclipses of your birth season might bring moments of vulnerability. Use those times to get in touch with your deepest feelings and then come back up to the surface with that knowledge. Scorpio uses the transformative power of sex as a path toward self-awareness and enlightenment, and you’ll do well to remember it as a source of healing, as well.
Since this is your birth season, one filled with history, ancestry, inheritance, reflection, I want you to nurture your mental health this season, tender Scorpio. It’s okay to need rest, to take a break, and to ask for help when you need it.
Sagittarius
You can find a Sagittarius patiently biding their time during spooky Scorpio season, waiting for their time to shine. Scorpio season always feels a little drudge-y and dark for fiery, feisty Sagittarius. While a Sag can summon intensity if they need to, they greatly prefer their mode of glib optimism. One word, though, Sag: Scorpio season is a good time to learn something new about yourself from your sex, and we know that acquiring knowledge is your favorite kink.
During your sexy escapades with your likely multiple partners this season, don’t be afraid to try new things. Or more to the point, don’t be afraid to ask to try new things. Your enthusiasm is infectious, after all.
Capricorn
Capricorn and Scorpio are THEE bosses of the zodiac, in case you haven’t been reminded by one today. They wear power and wield intensity like no other, and it shows through their legendary, epic sex. Capricorns will find it second nature to seduce during Scorpio time, so get to it, Goats, cast that intense stare and reel ‘em in.
When Mars goes Retrograde on October 30th, it ushers in a time that might frustrate productive Capricorn a bit: projects take longer than you think they they should, progress is made at a slower pace than you’d planned for. It’s okay, Cap, for the time that Mars is Retrograde until January, you’ll have some breathing room, and time to double-check your work.
Aquarius
Aquarius and Scorpio are both Fixed signs who hold fast to their much-considered ideas and philosophies, and similarly, both can easily ice out a (perceived) enemy in mere moments. For Scorpio, it’s often about power, whereas for Aquarius it’s often about control. Aquarians can use this Scorpio season to consider how control plays into their sex lives: where can it be wielded, sure, but also where might it be surrendered, to delicious effect.
Aquarius has respect for the Scorpio’s use of transformation and penchant for reinvention. Use this upcoming time to transform something yourself, starting with your sexual essence, your yoni: perhaps a new shape or color for your pubic hair, a new scent, a whole new attitude?
Pisces
Pisces finds solace in the watery depths of Scorpio season. Both signs know when to use language versus when to keep quiet, relying instead on vibes and body language to communicate. In the bedroom, this increases intuition, sensuality, pleasure, and presence with a partner. Let this Scorpio season silently seduce you into deep, mysterious, hidden pleasures.
When the eclipses come, gentle Pisces might duck for cover or try to pull their quickest disappearing act, running from the messy feelings and chaotic vibes. Instead, I encourage you, Pisces, to stay in difficult moments, taking time to understand them, and then to wash yourself clean of them. Use the abundant water magic shared by Pisces and Scorpio to cleanse yourself in baths, showers, pots of tea, cauldrons of soup, a splashy walk in the rain.