Scorpio II: The Poison Cure

Fixed water: nostalgia, symbiosis, healing

• Atmosphere: Poison Cure

• Sign: Scorpio

• Plant: Rosemary

• Planet: Sun + Jupiter

• Dates: 3 - 12 November

• Tarot: 6 of Swords

The Sun is a golden zombie, a deathless thing, running a track made of animal bodies over and over and over.

– Maeg Keane

Scorpio II is a poison cure. A chalice full of a molten sun both dark and brilliant, as in Kening Zhu’s glorious illustration above.

It is a place where a therapeutic dose is quite close to a toxic one.

A little can be enlivening, a spur to creativity, but a lot can be paralysing or dangerous.

Everything valuable has the potential to be a poison cure – we can’t have one part without the other.

The Sun itself, co-ruler of this decan, is a poison cure – all life on earth relies on its heat, but it can poison our skin with its rays.