This Week’s Focus

Scorpio: Breakthrough or Breakdown?
Issue 44 Volume 8 03 November 2025

You’re probably asking, “How do I know what is the right thing?” 🤔

Scorpio is the sign that takes no prisoners; either you embrace its mystical qualities and make breakthroughs towards understanding who you really are and what makes you tick, or you find yourself in the looney bin of karmic consequences bounced around like a tennis ball during Wimbledon season. One reason is because you struggle to make the right choice at the right time. Here are some hints to get you started:

Hints form Eckhart Tolle, author of Power of Now

With awareness there comes choice. And so you are able to say: “I allow this moment to be as it is”. And then, suddenly, where before there was irritation, there is now a sense of aliveness and peace. And out of that comes right action… Ask yourself what problem you have right now. Not next year, tomorrow or five minutes from now. You can always cope with the now, but you can never cope with the future. Nor do you have to. The answer, the strength and the right action will be there when you need it. Not before or after.

Hints from Sadhguru, author of A Yogi’s Guide to Joy

Whatever you wish to do, you must bring yourself to a moment of joy and clarity within yourself. Why I am saying joy is because when you are happy you are not compulsive. When you are very happy and clear, at that time if you look at things and see that ‘Yes, this is what is more sensible for me’ – just do that… When your emotions go up and down, your mind says many things… When you are in different states of compulsiveness, if you make decisions as to which way to turn, you will be endlessly lost.

And if you are simply too petrified to choose, then you can follow this advice:

Theodore Roosevelt, commonly regarded as one of America’s greatest presidents said,

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”

Dear wonderful neighbour and fellow traveller;

In 1990 at a small gathering for guest speakers, self-realised master Gurumayi Chidvilasananda told us, “People ask why they don’t have meditation experiences. It’s because they are not kind.” These simple words stayed with me and was a wake-up call about how everything we do has consequences which can prevent us from having the success we seek, even something as seemingly inconsequential as whether we practice kindness to ourselves and others.

In the following passage form her wonderful book My Lord Loves a Pure Heart published in 1994, Gurumayi plainly urges us to point the finger of failure where it belongs — at oneself. This is an especially apt reminder as we read today’s headlines and as the Sun (our authentic nature) traverses mysterious Scorpio. Authenticity only thrives in a mind that is free of judgment, either towards oneself or others. Although Scorpio is the sign of spiritual breakthrough, blaming others or ourself always leads to the difficult consequences so often associated with Scorpio and the 8th house…

Most people act with great fierceness to show how right they are and how wrong others are. They want to prove how good their intentions are and how destructive or self-serving everybody else is. So there is no purity in their action. It is tainted by a holier-than-thou attitude. Have you ever performed an action like this? Whether the action itself is right or wrong, good or evil, generally speaking, people strive most of all to get the upper hand. Does this ring a bell? People who behave like this—and most do—are living by the law of the jungle.

Survival of the fittest. Whoever speaks the loudest wins. And therefore, though many of their actions may turn out well at times, you cannot say that they are established in yoga.

Yoga is skill in action, remember? What exactly is this skill? It is the wisdom to separate your lower self from your higher Self. It is the skill to distinguish your own motivation, to be able to tell whether you are performing an action for your own glorification or for the benefit of the world you live in. It is the power to struggle with your own darkness and keep your eyes on the light. It is the ability to keep temptations at bay and act with integrity.

Of course, all sorts of obstacles are bound to arise. It’s practically a law of nature—the moment you decide you are going to get up early every morning and meditate, a million emergencies come up. If you are not steadfast in yoga, then you never develop the knack, the subtle ability, of warding them off and fulfilling your highest dharma, no matter what. It takes tremendous stamina to perform spiritual practices. Things don’t always go the way you plan. Actually, they almost never do. So you must be vigilant. You cannot rely on your good karma or the merits you have inherited from your ancestors. You must learn to rely on your Self alone. That is why you practice yoga.

A wonderful writer once said, “If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.” Now that is yoga in action. It is not what most people do. They toss out two cents’ worth of advice and expect millions of favours in return. They perform one kind action and wonder why the universe isn’t grateful. Isn’t it amazing what people do and what they expect in return, what people don’t do and what they expect in return? No one wants to put in a sustained effort to make his or her life a paradise, but everybody wants other people to put themselves out. “Why didn’t you come? I waited so long. Why didn’t you phone me? Why didn’t you write to me on my birthday? Why? Why didn’t you do this? Why didn’t you do that? Why don’t you say something sweet to me? Why don’t you? Why don’t you ever sing me a song?”

It’s always somebody else who should be doing all these wonderful things. Some other people commonly referred to as “they.” Actually, while they’re at it, “they” ought to develop all these great virtues, too. After all, you tell yourself, “they” are the ones who need them, isn’t that so?

Swami Chidvilasananda, “Steadfastness in Yoga,” chap. 3 in My Lord Loves a Pure Heart: The Yoga of Divine Virtues (South Fallsburg, NY: SYDA Foundation, 1994), pp. 35-36.

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Warm thoughts and many blessings,

David 🙏🏻
astrologyofjoy.com

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