Haumea Enters Scorpio 2022-2050

Sunday, November 13, 2022 2:12 AM EDT

When it comes to dwarf planet astrology, navigation may be tricky at times because we are talking about bodies discovered recently, most within just this century, and legitimate research/study can be hard to find.  You may see various blog and opinion pieces on them, but sorting out what is valid and what is pure conjecture may be difficult.   Before I offer my own personal take on Haumea, it bears stating that I have been personally observing her impact in transit for two years now, this isn’t something I am just rehashing here, and you’ll see that my take on this is a bit different than some other things that you may see.  My take on Haumea is garnered from both the mythology and the experience in observation, as well as the astronomical considerations from which we may make inferences about the nature of this dwarf planet of birth and rebirth.  

Haumea is a small and dense body that behaves rather dramatically and is in perpetual motion, turning end over end in rotation every 4 hours, a strange and oblong force of constant motion whose orbit is rather long and elliptical.  Her perpetual motion is rapid, and fascinating, we consider that she’s constantly end over end at a pace that would make our heads spin.  We don’t get to physically perceive the rotation of Earth, the strange rotation of Haumea would feel like a constant sensory amusement park of gravitational FORCE to us.  It’s interesting to me as I contemplate her nature, birth and rebirth, and as a mother of 5 the primal experience of birth is something to which I am no stranger, this gravitational force and incredible, inexhaustible power that Haumea projects is intense and almost overwhelming to dig in and try to feel.

It takes Haumea 283 years to orbit the Sun, making its journey through the Zodiac take longer than Pluto.  As such, this is a strongly generational-themed influence, which will be felt most deeply, of course, when it makes aspects in transit.  Haumea was in Libra from 1992 until now, so as you can see, this is an energy that operates in the background, influencing our experiences of birth and rebirth, of gestation, and of protection and not just of children.  Haumea is the mother of Pele, the creator of the Hawaiian islands upon which these deities reign, and the Goddess of volcanoes.  Haumea doesn’t just attend to matters of birth like a midwife…in the mythology from which she was born, she created the creator, she birthed the world itself in its perpetual cycle of volcanic creation.  And in so doing, we see that such an emergence through hardening magma is a cycle that does not only entail fertility, it also is an embodiment of death when the mountain erupts.  Haumea symbolizes birth through the journey of gestation unto eminence and emergence, this is where ideas and the necessity of our creative drive is guided into fruition.  The islands themselves were the world in the context of her mythos, and they were born of her daughter, this creatrix of the creatrix is a powerful image to behold.

Digging a bit deeper into the mythology, there are other interesting themes to contemplate as well.  We see that Haumea once turned into a tree in which her husband, Wakea (space) may hide, safe in her bounty in order to escape certain sacrifice. This in turn is a voluntary sacrifice of her own body, a theme that we experience in motherhood and birth repetitively, the mother gives up SELF completely in order to create and to nurture, and this birth and rebirth extends to self-sacrifice for her PARTNER in creation as well in the mythos.  Haumea doesn’t continue to perpetually create without Wakea, therefore she protects him just as she nurtures and protects her children at all costs.  This is the feminine requirement of sacrifice…and it’s important to remember that THE GODDESS DOES THIS ON HER OWN TERMS.  This is not a demand made of us, this is not a creative experience that is required…this is birth and rebirth BY AND OF OUR OWN SACRED WILL.  This sacrifice of the body in order to create, and to beget, is made with primal understanding and primal instinct.  Haumea is unwilling to sacrifice her autonomy and her body for anyone who doesn’t deserve it here in Scorpio, and boundaries will be set accordingly.  Libra boundaries may be steamrolled, but Scorpio boundaries are seething with contempt if crossed. Scorpio is the sign of death, and this powerful ingress certainly may mark endings as we end this era of appeasement and enter one of taking the psychological upper hand. 

Haumea in Libra was primarily concerned with relational matters, a drive to accommodate and trying to shift the collective further toward balance.  Now we stand with Haumea prepared to wade into the dark and regenerative Waters of Scorpio for the next 27 years.  This is the first shift of ingress to a different sign since Haumea’s discovery in 2004.  When we consider the transition from Libra to Scorpio, this is a deeeeeeeep immersion.  Haumea in Libra was an appeasing and easily sacrificing energy, her nature of giving self in order to nurture others was easily channeled into TAKING THE PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE.  Haumea in Scorpio, however, will have a dramatically different sense of rebirth…and Scorpio is a sign of REGENERATION.  The skin we’ve all shed?  That which we’ve outgrown?  Haumea here doesn’t allow us to forget its constraints, and Scorpio is a sign that doesn’t CARE about resistance.  Scorpio is growth at all costs, it’s regeneration after a time of withdrawal and the primal need for SELF-PRESERVATION.  This is still a dwarf planet that is one of sacrifice and one of instinctually driven creation, but now we are in a sign that lies in wait, choosing divine timing, patiently allowing obstacles and resistance to take care of themselves as we strip their power by Scorpio psychological force rather than by moving in Libra compromise.  Libra energy may like to pretend the scars don’t have a backstory, but Haumea in Scorpio will be the birth of whatever we’ve become in spite of our scars.  

Given that this ingress is happening while we have the Lunar Nodes here in the Taurus/Scorpio axis, I anticipate heavy Scorpionic growth patterns and emergence of latent intuitive capabilities for many people who are now experiencing a sense of growth and awakening to which they are unaccustomed.  This is not an ingress of taking our power back, it is one of reemergence of power that was always ours with which to begin, we’ve just denied it, and set it unceremoniously aside.  This is reclamation.  This is a time to pay attention to your instincts, and to not deny your impulses.  Birth and rebirth is an archetype that doesn’t just apply to the physical, though it certainly may.  This applies to all creative endeavors, all methods of expression and connection.  It’s time to get primal.  Light the sacred fire, lose yourself in the drums.  The vigil as we prepare for birth begins here, a long, dark night of volcanic ash rain, heat driven wind amidst fiercely crashing waves.