A Scorpio Full Moon of Power and Awakening

The Scorpio Full Moon of May 12, 2025, 9:56 AM Pacific Time at 22° of the sign, and opposite the Sun at 22° of Taurus, brings the deep stirrings and potent currents that Scorpio is known to symbolize. Scorpio dives into the depths because it longs to live, to dance with, and to uncover the realms usually hidden, mystical, beyond the light of our conscious minds. Ruled by Mars traditionally and Pluto in modern astrology, Scorpio derives its penetrating quality from Mars and shares its regenerative, cyclical intensity with Pluto. These are energies of embodiment, power, and depth that can tune us in with internal issues that it could benefit us to contemplate.
 
As the Moon reaches fullness and illumination, we may find ourselves glimpsing shadowed places within and around us. This light filters into the territories where taboo resides: the occult, sex, death, unseen energies, etc. These are all things we are often discouraged from speaking about, and that the age of rationalism and materialism has attempted to dismiss or diminish. It’s into the mystical, the magical, the unseen and energetic – the metaphysical undercurrents of reality – where the light is being shone.
 
This Full Moon Sun forms a conjunction to Uranus at 26° of Taurus. Intuitive revelations and awakenings are in the air and may not be subtle. They will likely be tangible, physical, and embodied. The Sun/Uranus midpoint of 24° Taurus is in partile or same-degree semi-sextile with Chiron, the Wounded Healer, at 24° of Aries, conjunct Eris, which could additionally emphasize inner wounding.  This is a powerful time to listen to your senses, to the messages of your body, and to the felt experience of the world around you. Uranus acts like an electric current, filled with brilliant intelligence, seeking expression into grounded, manifest form, while Chiron references hidden complexes within, the likely residue of early childhood trauma. This could emerge as sudden awareness about the nature of your shadow or your relationship to power, especially the parts of your power or self-worth that have been disowned or buried. It could also be a moment of deeper expansion into your own potency, a reclamation, a realization of how powerful you are as an energetic being. One way or another, this Full Moon brings revelation, and it does so in the name of liberation, of truth, and of brilliance.
 
We are all learning how to live in alignment with our truth and our power, and this is a process we are figuring out together. It’s often not easy, but it is deep and meaningful work.
 
As far as Mars and Pluto, the ruling planets of this lunation, these two potent planetary archetypes are just coming out of their third opposition, which was close to exact at the Taurus New Moon that initiated this cycle. Mars-Pluto at that time formed a T-square to the Sun and Moon, bringing to the surface issues around agency, authority, and autonomy that are still with us now, in the culmination of the Full Moon. There was – and is – the potential for stirred-up anger, especially in places where we’ve been silenced or disempowered. This current configuration invites us to be the authors of our own lives, which requires stepping out of a victim narrative and into the role of creator, of crafting our world from within our own evolving authenticity.
 
Another striking feature of this Full Moon is the position of Saturn and Neptune, which are currently straddling the 0° Aries point. Saturn will cross into Aries in about two weeks on May 24, where it joins Neptune by the month’s end, and the two planets will spend the summer and early fall in close proximity. Saturn is currently sextile Uranus and conjunct Ceres. There’s a tone of finality here; a chapter is ending. And with prominent Saturn we are reminded to take responsibility – for our spiritual beliefs, our practices, our devotion. We might be called to double down on what is truly nourishing to our growth and let go of any energetic clutter taking up precious space and energy. The invitation is to soften our grip, allowing there to be space for something new to emerge.
 
This conjunction between Saturn and Ceres in Pisces speaks to transcendent states and mystical experiences that actually nourish and ground us. It’s about opening the heart to deeper compassion and recognizing both the beauty and the suffering of humanity. And from that place of awareness, finding a way to trust life, to allow life to move through us. To surrender the grip of control born from fear, and instead let the deeper intelligence of life guide us into forms of embodiment more powerful and beautiful than we can yet imagine. This moment invites us to lean into something greater than ourselves, something loving, generative, and deeply real. That’s the prayer: may we lean into what nourishes our essence and brings true spiritual sustenance.
 
One more fascinating layer to this Full Moon: it sits at the focal point of a Yod between Jupiter at 23° Gemini and Chiron/ Eris at 25° Aries. The Sun/Uranus midpoint, at 24° Taurus, directly between, opposes the Moon and forms a Yod Kite to the Moon. This creates subtle pressure that seeks resolution through the focal point – in this case, the Moon. This configuration suggests the possibility of rewriting narratives, especially those connected to wounds and healing. It invites us to lift something out of old, entrenched places, to give it breath and movement. There may be disruption here, but it’s a disruption that opens a new path. There is potential for transformation that is not merely conceptual, but embodied, a new story, felt and lived, one that arises through claiming our essence and life force.
 
You probably don’t need an astrologer to tell you that we’re living through very challenging times. My hope for meeting this challenge on all our parts is that we make good use of the energies available to us, those that are truly helpful and sustaining. May we continue doing the good work we’re already doing in the world. May we confront challenging inner truths and keep humbly growing. May we lean into trust in an active way, participating in creation more than consumption, shaping the world we long for, even in the smallest of ways. Whether it’s making your bed with quiet intention, sprinkling love into breakfast for yourself or your family, or offering kindness to a stranger in the grocery store – these small, deliberate choices matter. Through them, we knit and weave the fabric of the society and world that we want to see, to embody, and to live within. That is my prayer for us all.