Poetry Hour: Happy Halloween!

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all my readers and followers a very happy Halloween!

As usual for this time of year we have a lot of planetary activity in Scorpio.  Mars has only just left its sign to enter Sagittarius finally bringing some much needed Fire and energy into situations.  Mercury still remains in Scorpio, as does the Sun and a retrograde Venus.  The powerful conjunction of the Sun and Venus during this week was quite a seminal moment, bringing relationship values and financial obligations to the surface.  Scorpio is a water sign - a signature of emotional depth, power and loss, instinct and survival.  Intensity and digging deep to expose core truth has been the watchword, and continues to be until we see a gradual shift into Sagittarian action during November.  For now, its Halloween and celebration time of the great cauldron that is Scorpio.  Here is a poem just for this moment.

Great Witch

Coming, simply and swollen like early morning.

She writhes in the mirrored follies of the vain.  Impenetrable.

Licking the lips of dawn with her sullen hues.

A one track mind on an unfathomable lurch.

Smiling, beguiling - her myriad conundrums

blank; open as a mime, yet the deepest,

darkest swim in her treasured breast

with their odd legs and pinned expressions -

gawping - dragging in and out - getting nowhere.

And the queen on her blanketed throne

is everywhere - elder - treacling the gaps with her silvery lips.

The Sun is in love with her.

Comes with his childishness,

rigid limbed and hopeful on his chariot.

She humours him, offering his reflection.

Cavorting with the Moon she bays;

whips her elemental furies

at all that refuse to bend, shape shift, flex.

Great witch - the stories she must have.

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