Scorpio ~ Clean Up Your Bathroom November 5, 2009
Posted by cjwright in Planets and Signs, Scorpio and Pluto.Tags: auntie moon, bathroom renovation, cjwright, scorpio
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Early Stage of Renovation
About this time last year I started renovating my bathroom. Actually, I’d peel a little bit of the 35-year-old wallpaper off a spot and then stare it for a few days. Then I’d repeat the process in another spot ~ peel, stare for days, peel, stare for days. That went on for several months, and then one day I peeled off almost an entire wall. I had committed. An ugly peeled-off wall meant there was no going back. I had crossed the Rubicon. Transformation was eminent.
Okay, so…what does all this have to do with Scorpio? Well, a few things. Scorpio and Pluto rule bathrooms, toilets, urinals. Pluto holds the sceptre over plumbing. Scorpio is a water sign. The organs of elimination are related to Scorpio. That all makes sense. So, renovating your bathroom is a Scorpionic transformational event. It certainly was for me!!
The whole house and part of the garage was a huge mess during the renovation. I knew that would be the case ~ which I why I spent so much time staring at the wall instead of doing anything about it. Stupidly, I started this mess around the Thanksgiving holiday and it dragged on into the New Year. That’s not a particularly good time to have your house torn up, but it eventually paid off.
I scraped, I sanded, the toilet paper went missing. Dust was everywhere. Little snippets of old gooey wallpaper jumped out from who knows where to stick to the oddest places on me. The floor was gross because I didn’t cover it before I started scraping the old paper off ~ even though I had the thick brown floor paper made just for that purpose! It’s still rolled up out in the garage. Scrubbing out the corners of a bathroom floor covered with old wallpaper paste is not fun. Put the paper down.
Sometimes you have to make a mess to clean things up. And that’s certainly the story of my bathroom renovation, any renovation actually. In many ways, that’s the crux of a Pluto transit activating a point in your chart. A lot of nasty stuff has to get demolished and hauled off so that the corners of life get a little cleaner.
I have to stop here and say what a great job my husband did on making it into a beautiful room. He’s a very talented carpenter and painter with a discriminating Virgo eye, and without him, I would probably still be in the throes of the mess trying to decide what to do next ~ stuck forever to my own gooey-pastey wall, like a human fly-paper trap.
Oh! And to make things a little more difficult for us, we had to replace the drain under the bathroom basin while we were in the middle of the renovation. It decided to dissolve before our very eyes. Nice, huh?
If you’re wondering what all this has to do with you ~ simple. First, and least important, clean up your bathroom. Second, don’t just stare at what needs to be renovated in your life. Pluto is waiting heavy-handed with a wrench and hammer. If you don’t take care of the do-it-yourself renovations you need to make ~ in your bathroom or anywhere else in your life ~ he’ll step in as your contractor. And that’s a bill you don’t want to get.
Very helpful in getting me in tune with Pluto. What I don’t like is having it in my 7th house! Guess I have only been picking at the problems there and now is the time to finally get it finished. Ugh.
And, does the Saturn Square mean that is what I am resisting? Maybe it is all coming to me now. Saturn is in my 4th and from what I read, it is about my inner self…so I am seeing the connection.
All change is about the inner self, even if it’s outer circumstances that are instigating the change. Saturn can indicate something you’re resisting, but it can also indicate something that you handle quite well ~ playing by the rules, being upstanding and responsible. Think about the issues that are popping up now around your 4th. What’s out of control (if anything)? Saturn harnesses in and puts boundaries around situations that are out of control. We interpret that as “bad luck” because it feels restrictive or we fail to get personal satisfaction.
We have to watch Saturn, too, so that he doesn’t become miserly. He’ll sneak that in.
Interesting. My boyfriend and I just fixed leaks in two bathrooms and replaced our hot water heater- though, we did it closer to the Taurus Full Moon.
Full Moon would bring an emphasis on balancing out those kinds of Scoprio things. Auspicious timing!