Scorpio

October 21-November 22

Now if you are a Scorpio, you are probably saying at this point="I'm neither!". Like any other sign, you work at a wide range of occupations. But you find yourself not satisfied with superficial approaches to life's questions, and share an awareness that these subjects are serious and essential. You neither negate its presence or presume a disembodied approach to the same, pretending there is no body attached to the head. Holidays during a Sun/Sign illuminate what a Sign is about, and Scorpio is no exception.

Halloween is a big laugh at the darkside, a whistle in the dark. As a child you get to eat candy and dress like the boogy man you are afraid of. And it was fun to be able to go out after dark and knock on doors for that mysterious loot. But rumors of needles in candy and people snatching up kids made Halloween a late-afternoon observance now. Lat observance on Sunday, that is. Our Halloweens were still on school nights, and a few daring people actually do go out on the actual night. Around here there's the night before, called "penny night" where I supposed people used to beg for pennies.

As an adult, the laugh at the dark side is Tarot Cards and Horoscopes, the psychic brought in for the party. It's naughty French maid costumes and good liquor at the party, and blind dates in costume. Its' the office party that breaks up a day that's otherwise dull, the store clerk who dresses up for the day. It's an all day horror movie festival that makes you shiver even though you are at home with the doors locked.

Election Day in the United States often includes a sense of rebirth and death. The old political configuration dies, and a new one is born every election day. Rebirth in the framework of our politics, and the search for national renewal.