The Full Moon in Scorpio comes exact on Sunday, May 3 at 11:42 pm EST
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All that we aspired to during the Taurus cycle now comes to culmination. This particular full moon is known as the Flower Moon or, according to The Farmer’s Almanac, “Mother’s Moon, Milk Moon, and Corn Planting Moon, mark[ing] a time of increasing fertility with temperatures warm enough for safely bearing young, a near end to late frosts, and plants in bloom.” The Moon will rise at sunset, peak at midnight and set at sunrise.
The Sun and Moon are now in total opposition between fixed earth Taurus and fixed water Scorpio: form vs. formlessness. What I feel most viscerally when I visualize this axis is day vs. night – Taurus basks in the visible light spectrum, Scorpio peers through the darkness with acute night vision. You may recall that we had a Full Moon in Taurus last November 2014. We have now reached the other end, a reversal of the Taurus-Scorpio opposition. Any themes/conflicts that predominated then will now resurface.
Venus vs Pluto
The Taurus-Scorpio polarity presents a wonderful opportunity to work on achieving balance between the senses and intuition. Let’s meditate for a moment on the ruling planets of each sign, Venus and Pluto respectively. Venus rules pleasure and leisure – she lounges in bodily luxury: sensual, sexual, hedonistic. Pluto is the part of our soul that yearns for rebirth. What I’d like to elucidate with this comparison: we cannot “break through” our own personal darkness without first cultivating health, conscious awareness and self-love in the body and immediate surroundings.
Whereas Taurus abides peacefully and effortlessly in the raw forms of physical space, the Full Moon in Scorpio yearns to transform that physical reality in order to see through it, to understand all that is intangible. Opposite signs on the zodiac wheel have inherent differences, but they also have a lot in common. Taurus and Scorpio both want to live a life of quality rather than quantity. The bull and scorpion equally desire total connection, whether that means skin-to-skin or soul-to-soul.
Simplicity vs complexity
Unlike the bull, Scorpio is attracted to crisis and volatility. This makes the imbalanced scorpion quite unpredictable. The bull lives primarily in the external environment, the scorpion below, investigating mysteries within. The conflict here is ultimately between simplicity and complexity. Our greatest challenge is, as always, to recognize the supreme importance of the spectrum. Are you connected to the au-delà? Or, alternatively, do you spend so much time wandering the cosmos that the present moment is neglected?
The endings and beginnings rendered by this full moon are likely a result of spiritual growth. Scorpio lives in the subconscious, particularly in the caverns we avoid. As such, this full moon has a reputation for intensity. Scorpio is the master of metamorphosis. Every time we reach a major turning point in life or make huge, life-altering decisions, scorpion energy is present. The Full Moon in Scorpio represents shift: changeover from one realm to another. Through Scorpio we are symbolically destroyed and renewed.
Your body contains the entire cosmos
Scorpio is more comfortable than Taurus exploring what lies beyond the horizon. Scorpios are often very interested in deep space, spirituality, abstract art, mysticism and the paranormal. However, too much Scorpio energy creates a whirlpool, trapping us in the recesses of the psyche, the past, obsessions, fears. And yet, too much Taurus energy cements us to the false idea that all we can see is all that is. Scorpio reminds the bull that conquering our fear of the unknown is an inevitable task; the bull reminds the scorpion that it’s perfectly acceptable to make sure that our bodies and physical environment reflect inner peace. Taurus molds, sculpts, shapes, builds, fortifies; Scorpio inquires, understands, knows, feels, desires. How can we reconcile this dilemma between that which is visible and invisible? By abiding in the knowledge that the entire cosmos can be known simply be meditating on the power of your very own mind and body.
The Full Moon in Scorpio reaches deep within the soul to understand our truth and purpose. It’s time now to ask: what does it all mean? However, to reach a certain level of understanding, we are forced now to examine even our “ugly side.” This full moon will not allow you to evolve without seeing yourself as you really are, flaws and all. Scorpion energy is often associated with death. In many ways, this is accurate. The lessons of the Full Moon in Scorpio are so all-encompassing and irreversible that it often feels like a part of us has died in the process.
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Mantra: I am powerful