Scorpio Season 2025: Into the Depths—What Your Nervous System Needs to Know

Welcome to the Deep End

On October 22, 2025, the Sun enters Scorpio, beginning a month-long season of transformation, truth, and going beneath the surface. While Libra season asked us to balance and harmonize, Scorpio season asks us to feel deeply, face our shadows, and transform what no longer serves.

For highly sensitive people, empaths, and those already feeling emotionally raw, Scorpio season can feel intense. But intensity doesn't have to mean crisis. With the right tools, this season becomes a portal to profound healing.

What Scorpio Season Brings

Scorpio is ruled by Pluto, the planet of death and rebirth. This isn't morbid energy—it's the energy of necessary endings. The Sun's journey through Scorpio brings the spotlight on areas of life we normally avoid, asking us to transform by engaging with darkness while making sure we don't get stuck in it.

Scorpio Season Invites:

• Going beneath surface explanations to find root causes

• Facing emotions you've been avoiding

• Releasing relationships, beliefs, or identities that have expired

• Discovering hidden power and resilience

• Experiencing emotional catharsis

• Deepening intimacy with yourself and trusted others

Scorpio Season Challenges:

• Obsessive thinking patterns

• Difficulty trusting or letting go of control

• Emotional intensity that feels overwhelming

• Shadow material surfacing unexpectedly

• Power struggles in relationships

Neptune Returns to Pisces: The Final Cycle

On the same day Scorpio season begins, Neptune retrogrades back into Pisces for one last cycle (until January 26, 2026). This is a space of cycles—both collective and individual, conscious and unconscious—drawing to a close.

Intuition may become sharper. Illusions that have been shaping your perspectives come into awareness. Past patterns of escape may arise so you can consciously choose whether to continue them or bring them to a close.

Translation for HSPs: Your already-heightened sensitivity intensifies further. You might feel everything—yours and others' emotions—more deeply. You need extra boundaries, more rest, and creative outlets for processing.

Art Therapy for Scorpio Season Intensity

Shadow Work Mandala: Create a circular drawing representing what you keep hidden—the parts of yourself you judge, the emotions you suppress, the desires you deny. Use dark colors, hidden spaces, symbols that feel shadowy.

Then, using light or bright colors, illuminate one shadow at a time. What would it mean to bring this into the light?

Death and Rebirth Series: Create three pieces: What is dying in my life? What does the transition feel like? What is being born?

You might actually destroy the first piece ceremonially (safely burn or tear it), allowing the destruction to be part of the healing process.

Depth Journaling Through Art: Rather than trying to "pretty" your feelings, create messy, raw, honest art. Paint your rage. Sculpt your grief. Collage your confusion. Scorpio season gives you permission to express what's usually too intense.

Mercury in Scorpio: Truth-Telling Season

Mercury spends most of Scorpio season in Scorpio as well (through October 29), intensifying the call toward honest communication. This transit challenges us to deepen our introspection, have more profound conversations, uncover secrets, and face potentially uncomfortable truths.

Use this energy to:

• Have the difficult conversations you've been avoiding

• Journal about what you're really feeling (not what you think you should feel)

• Ask probing questions instead of accepting surface answers

• Name patterns in your relationships or internal life

• Speak your truth even when your voice shakes

For Fixed Signs: This Season Is Especially Potent

If you have Sun, Moon, or Rising in Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, or Aquarius, you'll feel Scorpio season more intensely. You're more likely to experience significant changes and turning points in your inner and outer life. If you've been resisting change, this season will push you to let go of what no longer serves.

You're being asked to:

• Release control and trust the transformation

• Feel emotions you've been managing or suppressing

• Make changes you've been postponing

• Face truths you've been avoiding

Somatic Support for Scorpio Season

Your nervous system needs extra support during this intense time:

Grounding Daily: Touch earth, work with grounded materials like clay or stones, practice earthing (bare feet on ground)

Pelvic Floor Awareness: Scorpio rules the pelvis and reproductive organs. Gentle yoga, conscious breathing into your lower body, and pelvic release work support you

Emotional Discharge: Cry, scream into pillows, shake your body, punch cushions—let intense emotions move through rather than staying stuck

Extra Rest: Transformation is exhausting. Sleep more. Cancel non-essential commitments. Honor that deep work requires energy

The Gift of Scorpio Season

While this season asks you to go deep, it also offers profound gifts: You discover inner strength you didn't know you had. You release burdens you've been carrying for years. You step into authentic power. You transform what felt permanent.

Scorpio season reminds us that death isn't the opposite of life—it's part of the cycle. What's ending is making space for what wants to be born.

You Don't Have to Navigate This Alone

If Scorpio season feels overwhelming, if the intensity is too much, if you need support processing what's emerging—I'm here. Art therapy provides a container for Scorpio's depth work, helping you transform without getting lost in the darkness.

Book a free 15-minute consultation to explore how therapy can support you through this transformative season.

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