Full Moon at 22 degrees 12’ Scorpio at 17h56 UTC on 12th May 2025

Scorpio is a sensitive and emotional sign, brilliant at unearthing what others are trying to hide and seeing what lies beneath the surface. However, whilst it easily divines the motives and weaknesses of others, it is usually able to remain contained and focussed, playing its cards close to its chest.

Scorpio is also about purging and resetting, about transforming emotionally and physically. This Scorpio Moon offers the potential for an emotional clearing out, and perhaps a physical one too. 

Full Moons are the culmination of a cycle, an opposition. This Full Moon opposes the Sun across the sky in stable Taurus. Both are Fixed signs – unyielding and determined.

Taurus/Scorpio is the axis of exchange, of retention and elimination, of what’s mine and what’s ours. What must I give up or share? And what do I keep?

When the Moon is at its fullest and brightest, we often have clarity. We may see that we need to break out of a cycle that has been emotionally challenging and appreciate everyday pleasures symbolised by the Sun in Taurus. Oppositions are about finding balance. 

The Scorpio Moon is an opportunity to consciously unpeel ourselves from our dependencies and the emotional ‘stuff’ we are clinging to. Whether this is dependency on our partner or perhaps on our relationship with food, alcohol, or money… or it may be something else.

This is about acknowledging the existence of our security blanket and putting it consciously aside. None of the things we think we depend on, whose support we crave, can give us what we actually need. 

What we need is to let go of our fear and stand alone and strong on the bridge between transformation and security. We need to acknowledge that nothing can stop our life shattering into tiny pieces if that is what the universe has planned. And we need to believe that we can survive it and remain strong, resourceful and rooted in the joy of every day, of sunrise and birdsong.

With the opposition we reach a point of full consciousness. We may come to a decision around this Full Moon, or at least an understanding, of what we need to hold on to and what we must purge and get let go.

With this release, comes liberation.

Uranus is in the mix so there maybe sudden change or surprises around this Full Moon – or, as I’ve mentioned before with Uranus, the intervention of science or technology. 

How it impacts you will depend on the area of life that the 22 degree Scorpio/Taurus axis falls in your chart and whether it touches planets or angles. And 20 – 24 degrees of any of the fixed signs – Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius – will be feeling its power.

It may be connected with something that kicked off around the New Moon at 20 degrees Scorpio on 13^thNovember 2023.

As the week continues, we’ll have time to process the emotional evacuation, as it were, of this Full Moon, and the implications of any decisions we may have made or clarity that it may have brought. It’s a time to slowly reboot our energies ready for the next phase.

Check out my YouTube channel @AlisonsAstrology for weekly insights, and, if you’re a fan of Timothée Chalamet, have a read of my article on Astrodienst. https://www.astro.com/astrology/aa_article250505_e.htm