Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
What’s the thing in your life that is keeping you stuck?
Where do you keep trying to do the same thing, operate within the same systems, or follow the same processes, only to end up exactly where you are?
On May 12, the Full Moon in Scorpio (12:55 pm ET, 22º12’) shines a spotlight on a place where you’ve been holding back and invites you to create some chaos that can finally free you from the patterns, attachments, systems, and structures that have been keeping you stuck.
This is a disruptive full moon, but it might be exactly what we need to catalyze a change.
Chart is from the Honeycomb Almanac.
Full Moon Dynamics: Security vs Change
Full moons happen when the moon sits directly opposite the Sun. The Full Moon in Scorpio comes when the Sun is in Taurus, and brings focus to the Scorpio/Taurus axis.
Scorpio is a fixed water sign that seeks to plunge the depths of emotions. Taurus is a fixed earth sign that revels in material pleasure. Both signs can hold on for too long and resist change.
Scorpio seeks transformation; Taurus seeks security and survival. Herein lies the tension: no transformation comes without some change, and change threatens our sense of security.
The Scorpio Full Moon highlights this tension and reveals the ways we have been holding ourselves back from embracing change.
Taurus finds comfort in the tangible resources: money, food, land, housing. The real estate and financial industries are both associated with Taurus.
As uncomfortable as it is to feel stuck, the uncertainty of change can feel more threatening. The more we feel losing our resources, the tighter we cling to them. We resist change — even when we desire it, and even when we know it’s in our best interest.
Moon in Scorpio: Diving Into the Well
Relentless positivity — and our discomfort with the “darker” emotions like fear, grief, and anger — can keep us from fully feeling the emotions that would actually stir us to action.
Maybe you dip a toe in and then take it out. You convince yourself it’s not that bad.
But if we want different results we have to uproot the status quo. That means embracing our Scorpio energy: sitting in the darkness with the shadows.
When the moon is in Scorpio, we become more attuned to what we usually try to avoid. And during a full moon, what’s been hiding in the dark gets illuminated — especially the things we’ve kept secret from ourselves.
This full moon also has some help in bringing secrets into the light.
Full Moon Opposite Uranus: Catalyzing Chaos
This full moon is sitting within five degrees of an opposition to Uranus—the planet of disruption and rebellion. After opposing the Sun, the Moon in Scorpio will move on to directly oppose Uranus in Taurus (10:35 pm ET, 27º00’). That signature is baked into the full moon’s energy.
Uranus brings sudden changes, breakthroughs, and revelations. In its process of uprooting the status quo, it reveals what’s been hiding underneath the surface.
When Uranus opposes the emotional Scorpio moon, it can create tension between our need for emotional security and the need for radical change.
Even though its chaos may be uncomfortable, Uranus energy is intended to liberate us from what is keeping us stuck.
By the end of the week (May 17, 7:32 pm ET), Uranus will meet up with the Sun in Taurus (27º17’), initiating a new cycle of disruption.
Full Moon in Scorpio: Disrupt Yourself
Astrology doesn’t tell us what to do; it is a mirror of the energy we are living in — energy that we might not yet be feeling.
The areas of life where we tend to get stuck often involve security, resources, and material comfort. We repeat patterns because we find safety in the familiar, even when the familiar keeps us from growth.
The Full Moon in Scorpio asks:
What would happen if you deliberately disrupted your own patterns?
What if, instead waiting for external change, you created internal chaos first?
The signature of this full moon reflects a need to disrupt the status quo in ways that might be uncomfortable, but are absolutely necessary.
But to catalyze the type of change that will truly set you free, you first must go deep into the wound. You must sit with the emotions of what’s uncomfortable and what you don’t like.
You can’t sugar coat it.
You can’t sweeten it.
You can’t bypass it.
The Full Moon in Scorpio encourages the deep work of introspection necessary to initiate your revolution. It shines a light on the dark secrets we are holding from ourselves, the broken systems that are no longer supporting us, and the unconscious fears and beliefs that are keeping us from catalyzing change.
If we attune to its energy, the Full Moon will show us exactly what we need to disrupt.
By the time the Sun and Uranus meetup in Taurus, we will be ready to take action and embark on new experiments.
To be sure, our Taurean parts are likely to have resistance — naturally framed as cautious risk-aversion (very Taurean)
Will this work? Will it be successful? Will it pay off?
The truth is, we won’t know until we try.
Change for the Sake of Change
Sometimes you don’t know where something will lead or whether it will pay off. Sometimes you just need to do something different; to make a change for the sake of making a change in order to disrupt the habit of the status quo.
This doesn’t mean you have to go scorched earth.
We can keep what works from the old systems while also experimenting with new approaches.
Chaos is the breeding ground for opportunity. We can wait for external forces to dictate our new direction or we can be the leaders of our own revolution.
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