Part I is HERE.
OK, down to business - let's unpack the chart!
We have the Moon at 27 degrees Scorpio and the Sun at 27 degrees Taurus. Mercury is approaching his conjunction to the Sun. Mars, the ruler of Scorpio (along with Pluto) and ruler of this lunation is freshly minted in Cancer (1 degree). Pluto and Saturn are retrograde and conjunct around the South Node (not shown). Venus is conjunct Uranus for the first time in Taurus in about 80 years. The only air in this chart is Pallas (retrograde) in Libra.
There is lots of earth here. Lots of water. Sounds muddy, huh? Our emotions are heavy.
Full Moons (the part of the monthly cycle when Sun is opposing Moon) bring things to light and to a culmination.
Scorpio Full Moons are some serious sh*t. Through Scorpio, it becomes clear to us we are either living life or we are getting ready to die and since there are about a million things that can kill us these days - we had better make a commitment to being here if we really want to be here. Or else we won't be.
Fence sitters are falling over (another reason to hate plastic fences, fence sitting used to be quite comfortable).
After TWO Full Moons in partnership focused Libra - we should be aware by now of how our friends/partners/tribe/job/house/town/family - wherever we are feeling any lack of intimacy - are simply reflecting us back to ourselves.
The Moon is opposing Mercury, and remember Mercury has just trined the Cappy planets including Full Moon ruler Pluto. Something needs to be/will be talked about. Maybe something not so pleasant because Scorpio rules alot of complicated, unpleasant stuff. And with the only air being a retrograde Pallas in Libra - our mind won't be much help here. Like Mars in Cancer - we are feeling our way through this thing. We need to be open. We need to be honest.
The Sun is exactly conjunct dwarf planet Sedna.
Named for an Inuit Sea Goddess her story is of a woman betrayed by her husband and then her father whose death birthed the sea creatures she later ruled/protected. She wanted so much to believe in the promises of a comfortable, easy life (from the trickster bird she would marry) she didn't look too closely at the fine print. When she called to her beloved father to bail her out of her predicament, he came to her, but then later, when his own life was threatened, betrayed her also - in a most gruesome way by chopping off her fingers as she clung to their boat before drowning.
(There is a devastating story in the news now of a woman and daughter who tricked and then strangled a young pregnant woman in order to cut out/steal her baby. When the pregnant woman was able to get her fingers between her neck and the cable as the mother strangled her, the daughter peeled the woman's fingers from the cable one by one. As happens when the Sun meets a planet, there is often a powerful story in the news/brought to light reflecting the story of the planet being illuminated, in this case, Sedna.)
So the Sun is bringing to light our stories/histories of loss and betrayal - even soul memories of cataclysmic events.
Our fingers are being pried from something. Maybe there is some kind of sacrifice needed. Something has to die - figuratively, I hope - so something else can be born.
The Sun can also bring to light any tendency we have to go unconscious in seeking the simpler/easier/more comfortable path (Taurus) as Sedna did when she didn't look too closely at the bullshit story her suitor was peddling - the spaces where we haven't wanted to see what we don't want to see (Scorpio). It could even illuminate a situation where we have betrayed someone to save ourselves. Or where someone is tricking us/hiding something from us; they somehow benefit from our ignorance.
Keep in mind Sedna's death birthed all the creatures of the Sea - so the release of whatever we are clinging to now creates equally FERTILE space.
Scorpio doesn't provide easy answers because it rules complicated issues (other people's money, other people's resources, loans, debts, inheritances, life/death/rebirth, reproduction, sex, intimacy - the ways and things we merge with other people) - the stuff we don't always want to look at/talk about.
(I know so many people who tell me they don't watch the news because they don't want to see any bad news and I get this and there are certainly times to turn away, but this can be exactly the way of thinking that brings this bad news to our door so we can see it when Scorpio/Pluto is activated. This isn't to punish us. Everything in life is showing us our connection to every other thing - the wheels are set in motion for all of us. We can barricade that door and spend weeks, months, maybe even years holding at bay what we think is out there - it is absolutely coming in anyway - or we can open that door ourselves)
The Full Moon's trine to its retrograde co-ruler Pluto tells us there is a re-making/transformation of a Scorpio situation - see the list above - or a re-structuring of something within the theme of the house that holds 27 degrees Scorpio in our natal charts.
The Sun/Mercury conjunction (their exact meeting will be in 2-3 days, so this situation could come to light/culminate THEN) tells us we learn something. The Venus/Uranus conjunction tells us we learn something DISRUPTIVE. This will involve a Venusian theme - love, relationships, money, our values, self-esteem, beauty.
The Scorpio Moon is a secret keeper, but Mercury conjunct the Sun will let the cat out of the bag.
Your natal chart would give the best indication as to whether this will be a good surprise or something challenging. Either way with Pluto there is a before and after feeling to things. Like, we used to own this and now we don't. Or we used to value this and now we don't. Liberation. A change of fortune.
Keep in mind the nature of any Full Moon is to bring things to a culmination/conclusion.
So, here we are - having been through all the days since the day we were born until today - with intensified emotions as the Sun and Moon oppose each other - striving for/seeking a DEEPER CONNECTION WITH LIFE.
The only way to get out of here alive is to truly BE ALIVE.
Intimacy/sex/money/power issues between people could come out of the shadows now. Our watery Moon in watery Scorpio is very empathetic. At its point of fullness we could be full of the energies of other people.
This Moon will carry in HIGHER levels of consciousness when we are prepared to let go of what is complete for us (that dead stuff we are dragging around).
In Scorpio things feel more intense and maybe this feeling is appropriate to the circumstances and maybe it is over the top. Like we are losing something not that important, or something we never actually really had, and it still feels like a death. Honor your feelings with this. There is a reason this energy packs such a punch for you.
Also keep in mind the Pluto/South Node/Saturn conjunction, very much alive all year - we are being made aware of the ways we have given our power away to family, to relationships, to "the man", in order to simply stay alive (in this lifetime and many prior lifetimes and you don't have to believe in reincarnation to believe in the idea that more than a tendency toward brown eyes is carried in our DNA) - these obligations have expired. It's like we have a 30 year mortgage and are continuing to mail in our monthly payments in year 37 or we are still paying our parents' mortgage and they have retired and moved to sunny Fort Lauderdale.
So, what do we do?
We don't have to really do anything (Mars is in Cancer - we are feeling our way through this, our body will KNOW what to do) - although our current situations will need to be attended to, of course. We get what we need to get just by being on planet Earth and having experiences. We just have to allow ourselves to feel what comes up.
Don't judge ourselves as weak or crazy (yes, Full Moons can make people look crazy!) and allow other people the same gift of non-judgement. Just hold the space for the emotions to come up and out. Tears, sweat, being in or near water can help release lunar emotions.
Transformation is offered by fully experiencing the Moon - by NOT CLOSING OURSELVES OFF from whatever life is showing us now - what life has been showing us for the last couple weeks. This is an introspective Moon. It's an emptying kind of experience. The emptying creates the space for something new.
Imagine those parts of ourselves we have exiled off to Elba being welcomed back.
What old beliefs about what is not possible for ourselves are we ready to tenderly love away now?
Just sit with yourself during this Moon. Take a long walk in it. It doesn't matter if the sky is cloudy. It's there. It doesn't matter if you think you don't know what you want. You do. You came in with a plan. It is fail-safe.
If we've emptied ourselves at the Full Moon, in the days following we will find signs and answers coming in. Nature abhors a vacuum.
Mars (Scorpio's traditional ruler) and Pluto (Scorpio's modern ruler) add strength, courage and intensity to the Full Moon.
Whatever dragons we are facing now - we have the power here to slay them. Dead.
xo all
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