Scorpio Full Moon
- Lori Barnes
- May 9
- 10 min read
Reset, Reflect, and Evolve
Monday, 12 May 2025
9:56 AM, West Coast USA
12:56 PM, East Coast, USA
6:56 PM, Rome, Italy
22 Degrees Scorpio
Scorpio Full Moon Overview
The Full Moon on May 23 lights up the Taurus–Scorpio axis, illuminating themes of security, evolution, and emotional depth. With the Moon in Scorpio and the Sun in Taurus, this lunation brings the familiar tension between what is comfortable and what is evolving. Taurus seeks steadiness, predictability, and connection to the tangible world. Scorpio, its opposite, pulls us toward what lies beneath the surface, toward symbolic meaning, inner truth, and the power of shining light on our deepest fears.
Full Moons are natural points of culmination and awareness. They offer a chance to release what no longer serves us and recognize what is ready to come full circle. This one arrives just as we begin emerging from a rare period when Mars, Venus, and Mercury went through overlapping retrograde cycles over the past six months. These personal planet retrogrades invited deep reflection, especially in how we act, relate, and communicate. Now, with Venus’s post-retrograde shadow lifting on May 16, the path is beginning to clear.
At the same time, May’s astrology bridges bigger changes unfolding. We’re entering the final stretch before Uranus changes signs, Neptune is initiating a new 14-year cycle, and Pluto is now retrograde in early Aquarius. These outer planet shifts begin to activate the early stages of the Great Sextile, a rare alignment that signals long-term transformation between now and 2028.
This Full Moon invites self-reflection and a willingness to look beneath the surface.
What inner themes are coming up for deeper exploration?
Where are you being guided to understand something more fully, even if it's been hidden or complex?
How can increased self-awareness support the next step in your personal or professional growth?
Scorpio Full Moon Aspects
Sun opposite Moon
The Full Moon expresses its energy through the sign of Scorpio with the Sun in Taurus. These two fixed signs express emotional and physical security. Taurus finds stability through comfort, routine, and connection to the tangible world. Scorpio seeks depth, meaning, and catharsis by exploring what lies beneath the surface. This opposition highlights the tension between maintaining what feels safe and familiar versus diving into what is emotionally rich, complex, and evolving.
Sun conjunct Uranus, Moon opposite Uranus
The Sun is applying to a conjunction with Uranus, exact on May 18, and the Moon opposes both on the day of the Full Moon. Uranus brings disruption, insight, and the potential for sudden awareness.
This aspect may stir emotional breakthroughs, shake up stuck patterns, or bring something unexpected or hidden into full view. Scorpio wants to understand the deeper truth, and Uranus can jolt that truth into consciousness. This Full Moon may feel like a wake-up call, one that reveals something meaningful beneath the surface.
May Fast Moving Aspects
Mercury square Pluto: May 12
Mercury at 3 Taurus squares Pluto at 3 Aquarius. Ruminating thoughts may surface, with Mercury seeking practical solutions based on past patterns, while Pluto agitates those ways of thinking. We can’t always maintain the same approach. Evolution is part of life. This is a good time to release negative thought loops and replace them with self-compassion and intentional focus on what you want to manifest (not what you don’t).
Sun conjunct Uranus: May 18
The Sun merges with Uranus at 27 Taurus, in the late degree of the sign. These late degrees signal a time for completion and preparation for change, asking us to wrap up the work we have been doing in one part of your chart in preparation for new energy in another part (Gemini) of your chart. This aspect may bring a burst of energy that helps you wrap up a project or gain new insight. You’ll get the best results by combining fresh, innovative ideas with steady, reliable methods.
Mercury square Mars: May 18
Mercury at 13 Taurus squares Mars at 13 Leo. Watch for quick tempers and reactive words. If you tend to speak before thinking, try to pause before responding. If you’re usually more reserved, this aspect may give you the courage to speak your truth. Use this energy constructively for honest communication without burning bridges.
Jupiter sextile Chiron: May 18 and 20
Jupiter at 25 Gemini forms a harmonious sextile to Chiron at 25 Aries. This is a meaningful time to explore healing through learning, teaching, or sharing ideas. Insights may arise that help you understand something personal with greater wisdom. This can be a good day to explore alternative treatments and health care.
Sun sextile Saturn: May 20
The Sun in Taurus makes a harmonious sextile to Saturn in Pisces. This is a productive day to begin something that benefits from structure and steady commitment. Projects with clear timelines, milestones, or goals are well-supported by this grounded, focused energy.
Venus trine Mars: May 22
Venus at 15 Aries trines Mars at 15 Leo. Both in fire signs, this aspect brings energy, charisma, and spark to all types of interactions. Whether in romance, collaboration, or creative exchange, connections today can feel passionate, fun, and energized.
Sun trine Pluto: May 24
The Sun, newly in Gemini at 3 degrees, giver of light and life, makes a flowing trine contact with depth-oriented Pluto at 3 Aquarius. You may feel compelled to sink into a project today where you prefer to be undisturbed. There is a deep well of energy to tap into. What you put your energy into can make an impactful and lasting change.
Mercury makes a series of fast-moving aspects: May 25 – May 27
May 25: Mercury at 27 Taurus conjuncts Uranus at 27 Taurus. Quick-moving thoughts and flashes of insight can inspire fresh approaches. Stay open to new ideas or perspectives that break from your usual routines.
May 26: Mercury at 0 Gemini sextile Saturn at 0 Aries. This is the first aspect both planets make after changing signs. It’s a great day to bring structure to your ideas, develop a plan, or move forward with discipline.
May 26: Mercury at 1 Gemini sextiles Neptune at 1 Aries. This adds a creative layer to the earlier aspect with Saturn. Inspiration and imagination flow more easily, helping you channel intuitive ideas into something tangible and meaningful.
May 27: Mercury at 3 Gemini trines Pluto at 3 Aquarius. Now Mercury carries the energy of Uranus, Saturn, and Neptune. This is a powerhouse of mental energy. These three days are ideal for organizing your thoughts, grounding creative ideas, and using new tools or technology to bring them to life in a powerful way.
Mercury conjunct Sun: May 30
Mercury catches up with the Sun at 9 Gemini. This conjunction brings mental clarity, focus, and a boost of vitality to communication. You may feel ready to share ideas, launch something you've been working on, or gain a fresh perspective with renewed confidence.
Long-Term Aspects
The outer planets reflect slow-building changes that describe collective shifts, long-term evolution, and cultural direction. In May, Uranus continues moving through the late degrees of Taurus, approaching its sign change into Gemini in July 2025. Expect a significant shift in how innovation and change are expressed.
Neptune, newly in Aries for the first time since the 1800s, begins a fresh 14-year cycle but will retrograde back into Pisces later this year before fully committing to its transit of Aries.
Pluto in Aquarius stations retrograde in early May, highlighting the deeper undercurrents of transformation already underway.
These three planets are moving toward the early stages of the Great Sextile, a rare alignment between Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. The first exact configuration occurs from August 20 to September 14, 2025, when all three planets align at 1° of Gemini, Aries, and Aquarius, respectively.
This pattern will be active from 2025 to 2028, reflecting a collective push toward significant evolution of the planet, progress, and reimagined systems.
Planet Sign Changes
Mercury enters Taurus: May 10
Mercury, the planet of communication, brings a slower, steadier thought process while moving through Taurus. This is a time for practical thinking, down-to-earth conversations, and making decisions that hold long-term value.
Sun enters Gemini: May 20
The Sun’s move into Gemini brings a shift in energy toward versatility, curiosity, and connection. This season supports engaging with new ideas, staying adaptable, and approaching life with a lighter, more playful spirit.
Saturn enters Aries: May 24
Saturn, the planet of discipline, structure, and long-term commitment, begins a new two-and-a-half-year cycle in Aries. This marks a shift in focus to a new area of your chart, where effort, boundaries, and responsibility will be required.
Aries brings a drive to start something new, but Saturn asks for patience, accountability, and follow-through. Look at the Aries house in your chart to see where this new energy is arriving. Remember to build slowly and intentionally, even when the urge is to move fast. The work you begin now may take time, but it has the potential to last.
Mercury enters Gemini: May 25
Mercury enters one of its home signs, bringing quick thinking, mental clarity, and an increase in information flow. This is an excellent time for writing, speaking, teaching, and sharing ideas with agility and confidence.
In Your Chart
By looking at your natal birth chart, you will get more information on how this energy can show up for you. The twelve astrological houses describe all of the human life experiences. Look at your chart and find the houses occupied by the signs the planets are traveling through.
The topics and themes associated with the astrology house of the signs in your chart will give you details on what’s likely to get your attention:
If you would like help understanding how this energy may show up in your chart, click below to schedule a consultation with me.
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Scorpio Full Moon Inspirational Quote
'Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.' -Sigmund Freud
Scorpio Full Moon Ritual: Transform an Outdated Pattern
Reclaim your power through reframing emotional memory patterns.
Set the Scene
Choose a quiet time and space where you can reflect without distractions or interruptions. Light a single candle or use a soft red or purple light to create a mood that invites depth and focus. Scorpio energy favors solitude, emotional honesty, and symbolic ritual.
Identify Patterns that Disempower You
On small pieces of paper, write down 5 to 10 emotional memories or recurring situations that feel unresolved, uncomfortable, or carry unwanted activations (triggers). These could be moments when you felt exposed, dismissed, misunderstood, powerless, or overwhelmed.
Focus on experiences that continue to shape how you react, protect yourself, or hold back in a way that leaves you feeling disempowered, down, and self-defeating. These are patterns that may have served a purpose before, but no longer serve you now, and naming them is the first step toward transforming them
Look for Patterns
Spread out the papers where you can see them and read each one. Are there similarities in how you felt or responded? Ask yourself:
What do these experiences have in common?
What do they reveal about my emotional needs or protective patterns?
Where did I lose power, and how did it happen?
This isn’t about analyzing everything or feeling bad about your past. It’s about facing the emotional memories and underlying patterns that need to be dredged up, called out, and transformed into new patterns that serve your needs now and in the future.
Find the Common Thread
Now that you've identified the memories, patterns, and experiences that disempowered you in the past, take a step back and look for the common thread. Look at all of the pieces of paper in front of you.
What is the repeating pattern that runs through these experiences?
How does it tend to show up in your thoughts, emotions, or reactions currently?
You don’t need to fix it or analyze it too deeply. Just observe it with awareness. Recognizing the pattern is what gives you the power to begin transforming it.
Transform the Pattern
Choose how you want to work with the pattern you’ve uncovered. I have some suggestions for you below, but feel free to come up with your own. The goal isn’t to erase the past but to shift how it lives within you, to reclaim your power, and to give the pattern a new perspective as something you’ve grown through and learned from.
You’re reframing the pattern so the memories become lessons that support your growth, experiences that shaped you and made you stronger, allowing them to transform and regenerate you from deep within.
Choose one of the following approaches, or create your own:
Tear up and release: Tear the papers into small pieces and dispose of them. You can bury, compost, or burn them while imagining the negative emotional charge dissolving and transforming into a new shape, just like the paper transforms into ash.
Create a vision board: Use words, images, or colors to visually express the version of you who no longer lives from that pattern. Let it represent the shift you’re ready to embody. The visual represents how you have transcended the pattern, incorporating its lessons inside of you in a way that makes you stronger and empowered.
Rewrite the pattern: In a journal, describe the pattern as if it were a story you now understand differently. Write a new ending, one that reflects your current awareness and strength.
The power lies in giving the pattern a new form. One that reflects your growth and restores your sense of self-purpose, meaning, and evolution in this lifetime. You’re not erasing the past, you’re changing the narrative of how it lives in your story.
Anchor the Shift in a Song
Choose one song that makes you feel strong, powerful, and emotionally calm. Play it and move in any way that feels natural, dance, stretch, sway, or simply sit with it. Let your body absorb the shift you just made. This is how transformation becomes embodied.
Listen to that song anytime you want or need inspiration, comfort, or a boost to face old recurring patterns and respond in a strong and empowered way.
About Full Moons
Full Moons are a time of release, culmination, and powerful energy. They bring things to a peak, inviting us to let go of what no longer serves us and to make clear choices. The Full Moon illuminates the qualities of the sign it occupies, bringing those energies to the forefront.
In the days before and after the Full Moon, the atmosphere is charged with intensity and insight, offering us wisdom and the opportunity to see things in a new light.
Scorpio Full Moon Wrap-Up
This Scorpio Full Moon invites you to work with what’s hidden, not by pushing it away, but by meeting it with honesty. With the Sun in Taurus and the Moon in Scorpio, there’s a call to balance the familiar comforts of stability with a willingness to explore what lies beneath the surface.
The Full Moon's opposition to Uranus may bring sudden insight, emotional activation, or surprising breakthroughs, especially in areas where change has been brewing for some time. This lunation is part of a larger turning point as we move out of months of personal planet retrogrades, Mercury, Venus, and Mars, and begin applying what we’ve learned through those cycles of inner review.
At the same time, the slow shift of the outer planets is beginning to reshape the collective landscape. The Great Sextile forming between Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto signals a long arc of change already in motion, not just externally, but in how we navigate meaning, innovation, and transformation in our lives.
