Avoiding Scorpio potholes

With the south node of the moon in Scorpio (which it is later today), it's going to be easier than ever to accidentally wind up in a vortex of drama that's likely not your personal drama. The south node of the moon is an energy-draining influence, meaning that you can pretty easily waste a bunch of energy doing Scorpio shit. Which means that the first rule of having the south node in Scorpio is "mind your business." It's going to be so easy to not mind your business. But I suggest you do it.

I have a gift and a curse of being able to feel other people's feelings louder than my own--it's not something I can turn off and it is something I've had my entire life. So this means that I'm a ferret for drama because I can FEEL it on some level. No one has ever surprised me with feelings announcements, but I've been shocked by the details of why they're feeling what they're feeling when I've learned them. When I was younger and more stupid, I was determined to find out why I was picking up specific feelings from the people around me. In some cases I'd be really persistent to try to get people to admit to things I knew were true. These weren't my finest moments.

It took a catastrophic series of events in my life to get me to stop doing this. I was super-stressed and people were telling me their secrets left, right, and center, and I was drowning in a sea of their feelings. So I basically stopped asking, and in some cases, explicitly told people "I don't want to know the details." or "That's none of my business." or "It's entirely up to you what you want to tell me."

So let's apply this idea of detaching from drama to how you can personally not fall into the Scorpio south node pit of other people's despair. Let's say your next door neighbors are a married couple that seem to have a lot of money, though you're not sure where it all comes from since...let's say one is a nurse and the other is a teacher. You come home at the end of a typical day and find the nurse crying their eyes out, and upon asking if they are okay, they tell you that they just found out that the teacher's been cheating. The nurse says "divorce" 11,000 times in that conversation. But then nothing happens. The teacher DOESN'T move out. They don't seem to be breaking up. You see them together, and time passes. One day, you and the nurse are taking out the trash at the same time, and you make meaningful eye contact. What do you do next?

The Scorpio energy-wasting impulses would be to be nosy and get the rest of the story about why they're still together. (They would also have been gossiping about the neighbors to others for the last several weeks.) (They would also have been speculating about the financial picture, too, which is why I included that nugget.)

The Taurus energy to embrace (that’s where the north node is, and that’s good energy) would say something like "good morning. I've been thinking of you. I hope things are better now. Have a great day!" Or maybe say half of that and put the other intentions out there and then go back inside and resume minding your own business.

It's going to be really easy to wind up in someone's business, and you'll know it when you see it. I'm not saying don't support people who are in crisis, but you can do that with a casserole or a thoughtful card, neither of which puts you in a drama-adjacent place.

XO,J