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The Scorpio
Garden
The garden of Scorpio is sometimes
full of brambles, sticks, old thorns, and what seem like
dead tree limbs and fields. This is not because Scorpio
isn't graceful and doesn't like beauty. Instead, the time
of the year in which Scorpio falls is a time of clearing,
cutting, mulching, and preparing the soil to lie fallow
and rest before Spring. Scorpio is about elimination so
that a cleansing can take place. Therefore, during
Scorpio one clears dying foliage, checks for diseases,
regenerates the soil with fava beans, burns fields,
recycles, sharpens tools, protects things made of iron in
the garden, and stores away, puts up, and cans vegetables
for the winter.
Composting is a Scorpio activity.
Rich in humus, compost is organic material that decays
and creates new soil. Moles burrowing, worms digging,
snails slithering, and spiders hanging, are Scorpio
creatures.
Plants that are ruled by Scorpio
include heather, the thorn tree, the herb horehound,
leeks, orchards (perhaps because one can hide in them),
all poisonous plants, pulsatilla (the herb and
homeopath), red, scarlet, and purple flowers and shrubs,
pomegranates, thistles, vineyards, and
wormwood.
Peripherally included in the garden
are mud, caves, deep pools of water, snakes, scorpions,
basements, and ancient ruins. At night sometimes, an owl
can be heard hooting in the darkness. Owls are considered
little eagles in Native American mythology, and the eagle
is the highest attainment one can reach in
Scorpio.
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