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THE SHAMANIC ILLNESS Daily Astrology Wed 11th Nov The Sun in Scorpio is starting to square Mars-Jupiter in Leo, and this will build over the next 9 days. This is a dynamic, expressive combination that can easily turn dark. Sometimes you need to be dark. You need to engage the monster within to defend yourself. There is the saying that we sleep easily at night only because there are rough men willing to do violence on our behalf. Scorpio is realistic about this aspect of life. And it is also realistic about others meaning harm to us. It does not suffer from what has been termed 'suicidal empathy'. That is more a Libran failing: putting harmony before truth, and being unwilling to attribute malevolence to others. But watch out for anger and rage in the coming week. Speak truthfully, and forcefully if necessary, but keep it clean. Mars-Jupiter is dragging the Scorpionic depths into the light of creative expression. There is a saying in the Gnostic Gospels that if you bring forth that which is in you to bring forth, it will save you. If you don't, it will destroy you. That is exactly what this planetary combination is about. It is what is behind the 'shamanic illness' of some indigenous cultures. The shaman-to-be becomes ill, and may even die, unless he accepts the call from the spirits to become a healer. Scorpio is ruthless in this respect. But Mars-Jupiter is there in the bright light of Leo to help you. There is a chapter on The Shamanic Ilness in my book Chaos Shamanism, which came out this year. I broaden it to include those hard-to-treat long term ailments such as ME, irritable bowel, fibromyalgia and multiple sclerosis that are a feature of modern life. I see them as having a soul component, something that needs to be deeply listened to. Scorpio energy can be stuck and hidden, and this Mars-Jupiter can be just the catalyst needed to move it on, to find the calling and passion that is often buried in the illness.