Interweaving Scorpio Moons
Weaving what is woven The ephemeris tracks something ephemeral though it’s only the Moon can claim that diurnal modality, unless we count the Sun’s daily awakening (from our perspective). A neighbor periodically starts a saw of some kind interrupting the tufted titmouse (according to the app) and reminding me that I need to vacuum, another grating sound to add to the cacophony. Thus far I have refused hybridity though it infuses everything. Yesterday we bought lemon steeped oil for low fodmap. I used to say seep for fun, as in the tea is seeping, as if I could become ceramic. Sabian Raine for May 1, 2026
As we approach Friday’s Full Moon, we might ask: what have we taken in or been consumed with since the Scorpio New Moon? How have we been transmuted?
Scorpio is a fixed sign, but in contrast to Taurus, fixed in water rather than earth. The urge is to go so deep in the well that you merge with the moss on the walls or the water that will be consumed. This is Pluto’s territory, the realm of the Soul. In traditional astrology, Scorpio is associated with Mars. In Evolutionary Astrology, Mars represents the Soul’s agency. What is your Soul calling you toward? How are you being asked to move? How have you moved through what has been stagnant since November?
Pluto in Aquarius is disposited by Uranus, recently ingressed to Gemini. It is interesting that the November 20 Scorpio New Moon (1:47 am EST) occurred during the onset of Uranus’ brief return to Taurus. What was the tone of the Uranus in Taurus years for you (since May of 2018)? What needed to be retrieved from the well in order for you to move forward with a new script? What needed revising?
Taurus is magnetic in a different way than Scorpio. Taurus draws energy inward. Scorpio attracts, repels, or consumes others (or oneself). If you found yourself going more deeply within this winter, there was a reason. What was your reason? What did you need to consume from within?
Sometimes it can be useful to compare the New and Full Moon charts. In doing so, we may receive insight about what is illuminating. Here is the chart from the Scorpio New Moon’s perspective for November 20 located in Asheville. (For those in other locations, we are focusing on the aspects rather than the houses.)
What is striking is the conjunction between the Moon, Sun, and Mercury rx in gibbous opposition to Uranus rx. A gibbous opposition necessitates an internal adjustment before we can arrive at a synthesis. Mercury stationed retrograde in the 7th degree of Sagittarius on the day that Uranus stepped back into Taurus. The New Moon then required us to get to the bottom of the ways in which we allow the needs of others to overshadow our truth, to dictate our emotional well being and deplete our vitality. Support was on hand from the grand water trine between the Scorpio Moon, Jupiter rx in Cancer, and Neptune/Saturn rx in Pisces. This is a lot of retrograde energy in water. From our current perspective, it looks like sink or swim.
So, how did we do? And more specifically, how did you do? I can say that our household struggled. The winter months took a physical toll. My partner and I are just now realizing the degree to which we both in our own ways have allowed ourselves to be subjected to others’ desires and in some cases manipulations.
What does the Full Moon chart offer? Where might we find illumination in the depths? What old ways needed to die? What if the person who actually died demonstrated both an inability to fully free himself from others and the capacity to go his own way?
How can I benefit from the lessons my father leaves in the interstitial spaces of my own body? My dad’s North Node is conjunct Uranus rx in Gemini in the 12th house. He was adept at framing a narrative but walked a fine line between optimism and denial. What in the Full Moon chart shows me a way to adjust my story without abandoning my truth or conceding to others?
The key may be in the last quarter square between the Moon and Pluto/Juno and in the Taurus Sun as the release point for the yod between the Moon and Mars/Saturn + Venus. Juno new phase to Pluto opens us to new Soul commitments. Pluto in Aquarius calls on the Scorpio Moon to broaden our perspective, to seep out of the well, to evaporate, to allow the cycle to begin again. After rejoining the blue sky, the clouds will gather to cover the Taurus Sun, and we return to the ground again as spring rain, nourishing young sprouts.
The new story is revealed through the truth of one’s own body, in the co-emerging of language and movement. In a gesture or a hug or a wave goodbye. In the flowering of each of us.