Full Moon in Scorpio, Monday May 19, 10:11pm EDT

Welcome to the second Scorpio Full Moon in a row. Intense much? You can count on it. Don’t you feel like something is just going to POP? This Moon happens to sit on the final degree of enigmatic Scorpio. And the Sun sits opposite Moon on the final degree of tenacious Taurus. Final degrees speak of the end of a cycle. If you know where the Scorpio sector of your chart is, have a look to see what is culminating for you. This is a cosmic test to determine what kind of mastery we have achieved with the Taurus-Scorpio energy, which deals with wealth and resources. Wealth and resources tend to highlight power and sex issues, which Scorpio loves to wrestle with. Digging in our heels, or throwing a tantrum are possible pit-falls, with the fixed energy of Taurus-Scorpio contributing to a fixed grand square. If you’re embroiled in emotional drama, breathe and remember that the drama is not permanently attached to your psyche – it is not who you are – and let it pass through you. The benefit of all this fixed energy is the ability to see results with effort. With some focus and determination (Taurus) we have the power to make our dreams a reality.
In the meantime, you are invited by the cosmos to chew on the idea of power, in all its various manifestations. How do you deal with power? It doesn’t matter who you are, what your job or income is, who you live or work with, or where you are on that ladder of success: each of us has personal power – but how to use it without blowing ourselves and everyone else away? How not to abdicate our power in an attempt to not rock the boat? If you’re not comfortable with power, Sun quincunx Pluto may feel like a wake-up call to adjust the power dynamics in your relationship with yourself and others. And then there are those inner demons (Scorpio) calling your attention to your current financial situation (Taurus). Saturn in square aspect to Moon insists we get real about our available resources. Look back over the past four weeks: What have you been able to fortify, and what has demanded release and purging? Can you let it go? Tonight’s Full Moon will reflect your situation and what you’ve created.
Venus – planet of values – unites with Sun, as if to help illuminate who and what you truly value and desire. What have you done to promote your dreams? Mercury and retrograde Jupiter shuffle awkwardly with a quincunx that highlights whether you work to achieve your own goals, or dismiss your dreams in favour of everyone else’s. It comes back to inner power and faith in yourself. Now is the time to make the necessary adjustments if you’ve been back-benching your wishes. And taking ownership for where you’ve let the ball drop, versus blaming others will help avoid falling into the victim or martyr complex that Sun and Venus square Neptune can coincide with.
Conditions aren’t completely right to green-light all of your dreams and schemes, with so many planetary retrogrades on the horizon (see “Hurry Up And Wait“), but capturing your ideas on paper and working them through over the next few weeks provides a foundation to build on when the time is right. At the very least, journaling provides some relief for a busy mind, as signified by Mercury square Uranus. Fortunately, Venus and retrograde Jupiter each sextile Uranus, signalling opportunities that let you utilize your unique gifts to promote the life you wish for yourself and your community. Pay attention, see beneath the surface, and stay open if you’re bursting to make a change. Structure-seeking Saturn and transformative Pluto are in a co-operative trine in the earth element to motivate us and strengthen long-terms goals.
Though we are somewhat anaesthetized by the various factors of daily living, each of us truly contains within us all of the knowledge of this benevolent universe. We receive guidance, support and answers in many forms: dreams, flashes of intuition, timely words that are spoken or written – you name it. May we all be blessed by the internal illumination we receive by the light of this Full Moon.