Planets in Profile — The Moon in Scorpio

Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology [https://nightlightastrology.com/].

Today I am continuing my planets in profile series by taking a look at the moon in the sign of Scorpio. If you are not familiar with this series, you can take a look at the playlists on my channel. We have taken Mercury, Venus and Mars through all 12 signs in earlier planets in profile series. This one is dedicated to the moon. And right now, we're on the sign of Scorpio. We still have some signs to go.

It's my intention, after this series is finished, to continue on with the rest of the planets as well. So on that note, I'm really excited. People have been anticipating the moon in Scorpio, a hot, spicy moon. So this should be fun before we get into it. As always, remember to like and subscribe, share your comments and reflections.

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All right, let's go ahead and get into it. Got a little presentation that I use for these, because I think there's some notes that are really useful and maybe some visuals. So I try to make these almost like a little class on each of the planets through the signs. Let's talk about the Moon in Scorpio.

With the Moon in Scorpio, let's, let's start by saying that in order to understand any planet in any sign, you have to start by understanding the nature of the planet. First, the moon, which is the featured planet of this particular planets and Profile Series has what are called universal significations.

Universal significations refer to the broadest philosophical meanings, or broadest symbolic applications for individual souls. As we're looking at the moon in a birth chart. On the universal level, the moon represents the realm of fortune, the material world itself, the daily flow of events, the constant changing of the environment, of mood, emotions, mind, body, circumstances happening around us.

The moon was really the planet that was used day by day to map out the unfolding events and circumstantial changes. In something like horary astrology, the moon is the planet that is tracking the kind of moment by moment unfolding of an event that's being inquired about in a divinatory context.

So the moon's broadest meaning is the ruler of the realm of the body and the material world. It is the sublunary world. The world below the moon is the world of human beings and life on Earth and day to day unfolding of destiny.

Now, the moon also has topical significations, which means that, by contrast, the moon can represent very specific individual things, concrete people, places, things on the topical level. For example, the moon represents the body, mothers, women, home and family, ancestry, tribe, village, clan, culture.

The moon can represent marriage, pregnancy and childbirth, but also anything that we devote or nurture, things like food and cooking. So there are many, many specific things the moon can represent as well.

Now, once we've understood the significations of the planet, when we're creating an analysis of a planet by sign, we then want to understand how the significations of that planet are modified according to the sign that the moon is traveling through at any given time, or at the time of birth as a natal signature.

The meaning of a sign is primarily related to its host and then secondarily by the various qualities of the sign. Everything is about planets in ancient astrology, so the Moon in Scorpio should be primarily understood as the moon in the feminine temple of Mars. It could be just the Temple of Mars as a starting point, but this is Mars's feminine temple in particular. It's a water sign and a feminine sign.

So the Moon in Scorpio. Primary way of thinking about it is, first understand the moon, then understand that we're taking the moon and we're placing it in the temple of Mars. In particular, the feminine temple of Mars. Now more specifically, we add in the secondary qualities of the sign. For example, Scorpio is a solid Yin water sign. Those are its secondary qualities.

Primarily, the way we want to think about Scorpio is to think about it as the Temple of Mars, feminine Mars, and then secondarily, as a solid Yin Water Temple. It is, for example, the sign of the Scorpion constellation that was originally correlated with this section of the mathematical, mathematically defined Zodiac.

It is the second sign of zodiacal autumn, or fall. This is the sign in which we are on the dark half of the year, so there's more dark than light in a 24 hour period. That's happened since Libra, but now in the sign of Scorpio, the sun is steadily descending into the underworld as the Yin, or darkness, is steadily growing in power and prominence.

And so this is a sign in which darkness is steadily gaining power. And that has many different meanings, archetypally, metaphorically, symbolically, that we can utilize to understand some of the essence of this sign within the solar year.

And that is what leads us to understanding, if we take some time with it, why Mars was given the rulership of this sign, the feminine rulership, in particular, we don't have time to get into all of that today, although, if you like that kind of stuff, that's what all of the curriculum at Nightlight is about in our programs.

Now, the Moon in Scorpio can thus be understood as a watery, Yin marsy kind of moon. So that leads to the following themes that typically correlate with the moon in this sign, one quality of the moon in this sign, given the association that the moon has with the realm of fortune, the body, feelings, and, you know, the kind of feminine significations of the moon and this feminine, marsy place, you will often get very intense, passionate, smoldering, emotional moon.

Intense and passionate has that marsy quality, and yet it is kind of smoldering. It's like a slow, long burn. And that's the kind of marsy Feminine Water Temple that the moon finds herself in. You will find that this is a place where the moon has emotional depth and likes to penetrate and go below the surface. That's Mars.

The penetration and the emotional depth is the deep, watery part of the sign, the need for authenticity, for depth, for intensity, for passion, for emotions to take on a cathartic, intense and passionate quality. This is a sign for the moon in which the moon will often be very magnetic and compelling in the way that it conveys or communicates through emotions, through the body, through physical, instinctual presence, but it can be a little dark and edgy, because this is a Mars world sign that can be very provocative, sometimes a little overpowering and sometimes a little destructive.

This is also a moon, as the moon tends to be nurturing and devoted and committed to things like protection, like a mom, a mama bear, this is therefore a placement for the moon that tends to be both protective, loyal and fierce, all at the same time, that can also lead to things like jealousy and possessiveness, as let's call them shadows.

But these are quite strong and dramatic qualities for the Moon in Scorpio, perceptive, intuitive, psychologically attuned. This is natural for the moon to be perceptive, intuitive and psychologically aware, but it gains tremendous depth and intensity and focus, like a razor sharp awareness.

When you take the Moon who has these qualities naturally, and you put it into a feminine Mars ruled sign. It becomes sort of like a super keen, perceptive feminine detective, or a super keen protective feminine destroyer goddess, who's just like has like that super razor, sharp level of awareness.

Sometimes that can also lead to things like paranoia or suspicion or worst case disaster thinking all the time. Those again, can be like shadows. The Moon in Scorpio loves depth and secrecy and privacy and intimacy that is not super visible, like it loves Shadow Play eroticism.

But it can also mean that there are dimensions to this moon sign that are sort of secretive and out of view, and sometimes that lends itself to things that are corrupt, or things that have happened, that have been traumatic, that no one else saw, that were being taken advantage of in some way that no one else saw in the workplace by a boss, and then you couldn't say anything because you thought you'd lose your job.

Things like that also tend to be very Moon in Scorpio. Well, the extremes of possessiveness, jealousy, controlling, defensive, protective to a fault, scared of worst case, things happening. Those tend to be extremes.

But this moon sign, the moon was traditionally in its fall in Scorpio, because the Moon and Mars make an awkward pairing. Mars is in its fall in the moon sign of cancer, and so the tendency for the conflict orientation of Mars is to create instability, emotionally, physically, psychically, for the moon, which is things like emotions, home, safety, body, nurturance, is there, and that can be problematic.

It is a moon that is transformative, resilient, like moon and Scorpio people. If I'm in a pinch, if something is going down, I love having some moon and Scorpio folk around, just Scorpio folks in general, right? The ability to be resilient and to do well in crisis and moments of peak transformation, or peak alchemizing moments of intensity, like when things go nuclear, it's nice to have a Scorpio around.

They survive, and they help you survive, too, if you're lucky enough to have one near you, transformative, resilient. Often the catalyst themselves. A Moon in Scorpio will often be the catalyst for something willingly, unwilling, intentionally, unintentionally, whatever, consciously, unconsciously. Be a little bit careful of that, because sometimes it's like moth to the flame when it comes to drama, but also, again, transformative, resilient, etc.

The Moon in Scorpio tends to be oriented toward themes of power and intimacy. Mars is about explorations of power, and yet the Moon is about connectivity. And so for example, moon and Scorpio when it comes to intimacy, sexuality, intimacy, emotionally or physically, will often be about explorations of power, power dynamics.

It's an important part of pleasure and eroticism, but it's also part of how we feel safe and how we feel protected and how we feel needed and wanted. So watch for those things, for the moon and Scorpio, for sure, there can be a way in which experiences of trust and betrayal, loss and regeneration, the need to merge and attach, versus the fear of being too vulnerable.

These kinds of themes tend to constellate around the Moon in Scorpio because we have the Moon who loves to bond, who loves to trust, who loves to merge, along with a planet in Mars that often severs bonds through things like betrayal, who can sever attachments through things like loss, and who can, you know, bring up the fear that something isn't trustworthy.

So the pairing of the Moon and Mars together, moon in the temple of Mars will often bring up experiences that constellate around the tension between trust and betrayal, loss and the ability to trust and see something regenerate and be born again through loss, the need to merge, versus the fear of being vulnerable, etc.

Here's some examples, just to kind of put a bow around today's exploration of the Moon in Scorpio. Bjork, I think she's a fantastic, you know, example of an artist, and not that we know her privately or personally, and I can't say so much about that level of things, but what I do know about her as an artist, she's born with a balsamic Moon in Scorpio, and that sense of depth and mystery and intensity and tenacity and the destroyer Goddess is so much a part of her persona as an artist that I can't help but notice, oh, look, she's got a balsamic Moon in Scorpio, not to mention the sun and Neptune in Scorpio as well, for that kind of smoldering, intense, passionate depth, mysteriousness, but, you know, maybe a little destructive.

Think of James Dean. Think of the characters he played, the roles he played, and represented the kind of wayward, rebellious, smoldering intensity that he embodied as like a Hollywood icon. So I don't know what he was like in his personal life, but you can grab a lot in terms of how an artist or actor conveys like what they're known for and the archetypes of their chart.

Nelson Mandela, a great example of someone, and I don't, I can't remember if this is a rectified chart or not, but moon in the 12th or someone who's in prison, by the way, would make a ton of sense. But this is someone who stood up to apartheid, who was imprisoned, who went through tremendous experiences of loss and betrayal and regeneration, and the person who advocates for the minority, the underdog, the disenfranchised, the people who so that that kind of Mama Bear.

I'm a I am a protector moon, but a fighter. That's very common, actually, for the moon and Aries as well, sometimes, but moon and Scorpio here, if you think about the depth of what he saw and experienced psychically, emotionally and what he cared and bled for, so to speak, very moon and Scorpio. That's why I say you when you want, if you want someone who can survive, right? Get yourself a get yourself a couple of Scorpio friends. All right.

Anyway, Nostradamus famously with the Moon in Scorpio. What I love about this is just that level of depth and acute intuitive ability that is a hallmark of the Moon in Scorpio. For a famous sort of mediumistic psychic astrologer, Alan Rickman, I think famously, to me, like all of his roles, but especially Harry Potter, like, is there a better Moon placement to depict the dark sorcerer and intense, magical, emotional, mysterious, smoldering quality that Alan Rickman brought to the stage, to the theater, into to film.

I mean, just legendary, right? You could feel it in the role. I forget what his name was in Harry Potter, but that really stands out to me. You know, if I was trying to teach my kids what is a Moon in Scorpio, I would use this character from Harry Potter.

Beyonce to me, she's got the moon with Uranus, at least in this version of her chart that I've found. And I tend to resonate with the sense of being provocative and original and deep and intense and like she is a real to me, like a Uranian destroyer goddess who has all of these, just like magnanimous qualities, but they're, they're also, like, shrouded in the mystery of night.

To me, I just, I think there's almost no better artist to encapsulate the power and depth and intensity, you know, so kind of like Bjork. She honestly, like, very different in a way, but similar. Lady Gaga, actually very similar too. She's got the moon with Pluto. And I also think of her as just carrying that torch of feminine power and depth.

And like, be careful, because she will burn your tower down. You know what I mean? And I love that about her, like there's something she's not afraid to set something on fire. And that's common with Moon and Scorpio men or women, you know, or however people identify.

But the motif here of having this ability to harness the power of emotions and the language of the body and the instinctual nature of the body and to channel it through art. I mean, of course, she's got a couple planets in Aries, another Mars world sign that really helped that.

And then, of course, in her chart, what's really interesting is Mars itself is with Neptune that gives it that kind of other worldly, almost like sci fi space quality, but regardless the depth, the passion, the intensity. Lady Gaga. You can feel it in these artists, Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Bjork, you know, quite, quite powerful.

Now, I use this example Mark Zuckerberg, just to show that it can go in different directions. I will admit I'm not like a huge fan of Mark Zuckerberg. I don't sit around having holding judgments about humans, I don't know personally, right? But from all indications, he is someone who's rise to power, and development of power, fame and success has had some real cutthroat things happen around betrayal and trust.

And when you think about, I remember watching the social network about how the whole thing came about. And, you know, there, there, there was a lawsuit around stealing someone else's idea. And again, just to highlight the urge or thirst for power, success, wealth, and the way that some things are done, underhandedly or invisibly, think about data mining and privacy and things like that, been big, swirling controversies around his legacy as a tech, tech dude.

All right, before I say too much. And all right, Penn. Actually I got to meet Penn years ago. I hosted a show called the Ayahuasca monologs in New York City, where we had often at least a few celebrities, among other people, come and share riveting, amazing stories from Ayahuasca ceremonies.

And Penn was one of the storytellers I got to work with as the director one year. He was awesome, super sweet, amazing. And I will say one thing that stands out to me about Penn is, if you've seen one of his, I mean, there's Gossip Girl back in the day, but the show, what is it called? You? I think it's called it's either her or, you know, it's you. I think it's called you. Is it called? Anyway he plays like, basically like a stalker serial killer.

Joe Goldberg, I think is his name, and this is one of the probably roles that he's been most famous for, and it's super Scorpio moon, the intensity, the depth, the passion, the dark, smoldering qualities that Penn has really embodied on the screen. He played Jeff Buckley in a movie that was absolutely amazing, by the way.

In Gossip Girl, he's sort of like the bad boy and Joe Goldberg, he's like a stalker serial killer that everyone falls in love with. You get the Moon in Scorpio vibes, though, for sure, it's profound how he just exudes Scorpio energy with what five planets in Scorpio, no less. All right?

Alfred Hitchcock, great author of so many murder mystery movies, so many suspense thrillers, kind of early genre of horror, moon and Scorpio, you know, the interest in the depth of what humans are capable of, the exploration of evil and the subterranean elements of human, human instinct, let's call it and darkness, so good at exploring and illuminating those things, so good at creating suspension or suspense and that sort of edge of your seat thrill.

The whole horror genre, in many ways, owes a debt to him, and he was moon and Scorpio kind of person. Julian Assange, I think this is interesting, just because of that tendency towards secretiveness or things that exist behind the surface, then obviously he's associated with WikiLeaks and all of that whole seems like that was a long time ago now.

But anyway, moon and Scorpio, I think he was, I don't know I remember who, or if he was classified anyway, as like a spy or espionage or but all that stuff came up around him is the point.

Now some movies that I feel like wonderfully represent the Moon in Scorpio, in case you wanted to watch a movie that was like moon and Scorpio, first one that I've got for you is Silence of the Lambs, where Hannibal Lecter, played by Anthony Hopkins, has to be tapped into psychologically as a kind of expert witness in helping her, Jodie Foster as a detective track down another serial killer.

So it's like one serial killer helping a detective with another. But then there's all these psychological games that he starts playing with her that become really fascinating part of the story, the intensity, the depth talking to a killer to understand another killer. All of that very Moon in Scorpio.

The Godfather explorations of family and power and the mafia and family legacy and darkness and power and things that are hidden and secretive. Great. I mean, a whole Godfather series, very Moon in Scorpio.

Requiem for a Dream which explores addiction and the slow sort of dissociation of the body through self destruction and that sort of destructive other worldly quality of this movie is very Moon in Scorpio.

Fight Club. Here's something that's secretive. You don't talk about fight club. There is an element that has to do with getting in touch with the most raw, primal instincts and emotions of human beings, not avoid them, not deny them, but get together in the underworld cellar and let them out. See that's Moon in Scorpio.

And there's something authentic about that that I think is part of why the movie was so resonant. And finally, Twin Peaks, for me, it's just as macabre and otherworldly and dark and mysterious as it gets, and yet it's also it's exposing the dark underbelly of this, like, very sweet High School. It's like, very melodramatic, and it has a, Let's expose the dark side of like a small, little American town.

So that is the power that the Moon in Scorpio often conveys. Anyway. That is it for today. I hope that you enjoyed this little crash course in the Moon in Scorpio. I really enjoy doing this series. It's fun to just visit each planet in and through the signs.

We'll keep going, and next we'll have the Moon in Sagittarius as I continue the series, probably in the next couple of weeks. I hope, all right, I hope you're having a great day today and a great rest of your weekend. We'll see you again soon. Bye.