The deep, intuitive waters of Scorpio season are perfect for “seeing through,” which, according to James Hillman, is “an intuition into what is invisibly going on.” It’s like a “third eye” and shows us what is “within and behind events.” This was especially evident on election day last week and its continued aftermath.
I began election day by arriving at the polling location at 6:30 a.m. to serve a several hour shift as a volunteer poll worker. Even though it rained all day, there was 85% turnout of registered voters. As I carefully reviewed paperwork, and matched dozens of faces to photo IDs, I had no idea how each person would vote. But they all showed up and I saw many of them: wet from the rain, children sometimes in tow, patiently waiting in line.
I thought about how Hillman said, “Politics is psychology: depth psychology is also a depth sociology; to go truly deep is to go to the soul of the world” ((Psychological Citizenship and Democracy).
A “blue wave” was predicted by many beforehand, but not the “blue tsunami.” Seeing through was a struggle among those trying to make a prediction. It wasn’t until the polling places were closed that the results started trickling, and then crashing, in on countless livestreams and news programs. But sitting here today under the dark Scorpio New Moon, I’m reflecting on how, in the polling room, there was a quiet patience and absence of drama. Just like a tsunami, Scorpio’s energy builds from underneath the surface, hidden from view, with its dramatic waves not appearing until the wave is near the shore.
I keep returning to the early afternoon of election day when I walked out of the polling place after my shift was over. It was cloudy, and the Scorpio rain was still falling, but there was a brightness in the sky.
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