Your Celestial Soundtrack: A Playlist for Scorpio Season
The music, much like the season, is there to seduce.
Each night is like a different lover. Some nights rake across my skin in blissful torment. Other nights swoon softly into the pillow of my consciousness. Last night, I dreamt that I had to choose and was given a knife to sanctify that choice. I couldn’t just walk away; instead, I had to kill the lover, the night that didn’t belong. To watch their blood run clear during a storm.
In the end, it was all a memory. I was all alone – the final girl. Cue the darkwave soundtrack.
These are the kinds of dreams that tell me Scorpio Season is coming soon. The sultry, tear-stained personal petrichor of a Scorpio Season day is embodied in acts of devotion and demonstrations of bondage to our fears, powers, and perseverance.
Scorpio knows that to suffer is decadence, the heaving anticipation of pain, whether through sex or art, or the inevitable unyielding of a once self-imprisoned broken heart. This is the transformation point. Lingering sadness is the lingerie we don on our date with the night. We show up in a trench coat and leave entrenched in some new obsession.
Scorpio Season music makes me feel possessed, enchanted, and enamored – the dark twilight of my shadow self dreamily mingled with the moody candlelight of power writhing within.
The music, much like the season, is there to seduce.
This playlist was created as a felt-sense experience of astrology. You can learn more about the aspects of Scorpio Season here – the combination of the body-driven and the more intellectual understanding of the stars is the most powerful.
Each part of this almost four-hour playlist glistens with goth gems, sensual covers, and the aching strum of desire. The playlist is meant to become the soundtrack for one night with a stranger who becomes your lover.
The Glimpse is the allure of anticipation. The Seduction is full of songs that are rough-and-ready confessions and dangerous darkwave. The Moment is musical edging – the gritty throb of guitars is the clench of teeth. The Afterglow is full of songs that convey the sometimes Scorpionic feeling of guilt, shame, and heaviness, but also the post-mort bliss: the glow and the shadow of a brief interlude of time. The Morning After is the coffee and cigarettes, the deep sighs and cloud-laden skies in the chilly early morn. The knot has untied itself, and the night is done.
Listen to the playlist via Spotify here.
