“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have it.” ~Alice Walker

I was captivated by that quote, so appropriate for this time of year when the Sun transits through the dark recesses of Scorpio. Pluto ruled Scorpio, after all, is all about power. It’s also about purging, cruelty, and eventually healing and transformation. And in the process, the energy of Scorpio allows us to push the boundaries that separate the physical from the spirit.

So it is no coincidence that so many mediums, intuitives, and psychics have a heavy dose of Pluto, the 8th house, or Scorpio in their birth charts.

Scorpio’s gift is to look death in the face and not flinch. In doing so, he can see beyond death to the essence of what makes us unique yet connected; our inner light, our soul… This is where we find our connection to the Divine, and to each other.

But sometimes we can’t access it until we’ve been stripped naked. In other words, it is not until we are faced with severe challenges and difficulties that we are forced to give up our external trappings of status, wealth; or it is the loss of someone or something very dear that forces us to go inward. It is when the outside world fails us that we have no choice but to find our inner light.

It is through such experiences that we become wise and connect with our personal power. That doesn’t come without going through the purging and the pain. But that’s how we find out how strong we really are.