The Full Moon in Scorpio Capping off Eclipse Season

Hey, everyone; this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology. Today, we're going to take a look at the full Moon in Scorpio; we're going to look at three details about this full Moon and three things to watch for based on those three contextual factors that are present right now at the time of this full Moon in Scorpio. So, that's our agenda for today. 

 

Before we get into it, as always, don't forget to like, subscribe, and share your comments and reflections. We'd love to hear from you guys if you have a good story to share right now. It's a great time we've had a lot of astrological transits in the past couple of weeks that have probably produced some really good stories in your life. So use the hashtag grabbed named the transit, and tell us your story in the comment section or email us the story #grabbed@nightlightastrology.com. 

 

Just don't share anything that you don't want us to share in a future storytelling episode. You can find a transcript of today's talk or any of my daily talks on the website nightlightastrology.com. We are in the final days of enrollment for Ashley's herbal program. 

 

So you can go over to skyhouse herbs.com. The program starts really soon, April 24. That's this week. So head on over there. Click on the herbal foundation's apprenticeship. You can learn more about it and enroll before the end of the week. You can start with the new apprenticeship classes, which a course that is rooted in plant spirit medicine, which is all about herbal energetics, herbal medicine as healing and treating the plants as vital, animate alive, plant teachers, not just chemicals, right so she pairs both the science but also the energetic and spiritual perspective. So, I think you guys would really appreciate that you've seen Ashley on our channel. If you're in the Roots and Spheres program, you're used to working with Ashley, too. 

 

So, the other thing to check out is the Events page. In May, we have the next series in our monthly talks, Neptune in Aries. We're going to be looking at the meaning of Neptune in the sign of Aries, which is heading next in 2025. So, a good time to look at it right now is Neptune, which is at the final degree of Pisces. You can also check out the outer planets in the Love series. We finished that up last week with Uranus in love. So check out Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in Love. You can pick those up on the shop page. 

 

If you want to download, purchase and download those recordings. In June, I'm doing the 12th house. In July, I'm gonna be looking at Uranus into Gemini. So those big outer planetary movements will be part of what we're looking at in the upcoming live talks and monthly webinars. So then, if you go over to the Courses page in the year program, you are going to find more information there about ancient astrology for the modern mystic, which is our first-year program, and ancient Hellenistic astrology with a kind of archetypal psychological twist. That is starting on June 16. 

 

And at the end of today's talk, if you stick around, you'll hear me talk more about the program in depth and tell you all about it. At the bottom of the page, you will find that the early bird sale goes on until May 15. So you have until May 15. To enroll, the program starts June 16. So you got a little bit of time to enroll at a discount and save some money. If you want to use the early bird installment plan, that saves you money as well. 

 

If you're someone who's on a fixed budget and needs a little bit of help, we appreciate the socio-economic diversity that's out there among people who love astrology and want to practice and study it. So click on the Apply Now link. 

 

We have this new way of doing it, it's actually a lot easier now, where you just tell us the number that works for your budget within the scale that we recommend that we have set up, and then it matches you with the plan. So it's less, I don't know, it's less back and forth. We also have a slightly more automated system where you can just tell the computer or the website what works for you. And then you get a plan set up. 

 

So it's pretty nice. Anyway, check that out. If you guys stick around after today, after the end of the program, you will be able to hear more about that program. The first year class horary. You're also supposed to start in June, by the way, so check those out on the website as well. Okie dokie. So, let's look at this full Moon. 

 

There are three specific things that I want to talk about. So here's the full Moon. It's coming into the evening. This is Central Time, USA, on Tuesday, April 23. You'll be feeling this if we push it out just a little bit all the way until the Moon leaves Scorpio on Thursday, April 25, In the evening. So you know I always give it the usual duration of the whole sign that it's in at least. So you know that you'll be. You'll really feel it coming on tomorrow or today, excuse me, and into tomorrow. So, there are three things about this full Moon in Scorpio that I want us to consider. 

 

Number one is that this is the culmination of the full Moon, the culmination of the eclipse season. The new Moon began with a solar eclipse in Aries. So, the full Moon of an eclipse is always a big deal. And it's easy to forget because we're programmed to think, oh my god, it's the eclipse. And we all know there were a lot of very powerful events around the eclipse, no doubt. A lot of people, including this one in particular, actually went out and viewed it. 

 

So, do you think we tend to think of it as a singular event? But it's important to remember, and if you watched yesterday's video, I was kind of alluding to this as well as how we would cover this topic today. The significations of an eclipse are going to play out throughout the duration of a cycle, when you have a full moon following on a new moon that was a solar eclipse. Within the lunar cycle, the full Moon will carry the expression of the eclipse to its; it's like a full blossom. 

 

So you think of it? I mentioned the appearance of the cherry blossoms in DC in yesterday's video, and you know, there's a window within which the cherry blossoms sort of appear every year. However, they don't just appear in one second or one moment; they're there for several days. So similarly with eclipses. 

 

First of all, they have long shelf lives, their effect spread out over time, like, you know, you throw a stone into the water, you think of the ripples spreading out or hitting a gong and the sound waves, you know, rolling out. So eclipses are like that. But then within the actual Eclipse cycle, the new moon solar eclipse will always be amplified and sort of brought to its its full, its fullness around the time of the subsequent full Moon. So, it is important that we think about this full Moon continuing to bring about the effects and results of the eclipse. That means that events and themes should be connected to the themes and topics that we've seen in the past couple of weeks since the solar eclipse, which was back on April 8. 

 

Okay, so there's more to say about this because this is a full moon that is in its fall, the sign of its depression or fall, and it is in Mars's sign. The second thing we're going to mention is that it is in Mars, a sign of Scorpio, and it is in the bounds of Mars. So if we look carefully and work, my pen is gone. My pen, my pen, here we go. Okay, so if we look carefully, you can see that the Moon is in the bound of Mars as well. 

 

 All right, well, anyway, if you look closely, right in, I'm just kind of highlighted here you can see my cursor moving. If you look carefully, the Moon is in the boundary of Mars. That's the point. And it's in the domicile of Mars. So it's a very Marsy full moon. Don't forget that Mars is in its fall in the sign of the moon cancer, and cancer is in its fall in the sign of Mars Scorpio. The reason that this is so difficult is that the Moon, by its very nature, is like a river. You know, think of it like a peaceful, beautiful flowing river. 

 

The Moon, at its best, represents the principle of homeostasis and flow. Now, the Moon was representative of the realm of fortune in ancient astrology. And we know that fortune is full of all sorts of ups and downs. But in terms of the overall view that ancients had of the material world, they saw it as a reflection of the divine world, but they saw it as a reflection of the divine world in motion. As Plato said, Time is the moving image of eternity. 

 

So, Moon as fortune was the Wheel of Time and Space, and change and impermanence came to be in passing away in the material world at its best, though. There's something constant about that. It's like you can't step foot in the same river twice, and yet, the river is always the river. So, the Moon is at its best. You think Taurus, you think cancer wherever the Moon is well dignified. You get this feeling of safety, security, and heart. It's not surprising that the Moon has exalted in Venus, a sign where there's harmony. 

 

So the Moon at its best likes there to be a sense of continuity and flow when one of the things that makes it difficult for the Moon in Scorpio is that it's more like the sudden. And I'm saying this is kind of extreme because it's not always, you know. There are much less extreme examples, but let's just say someone has to be taken to the emergency room. Maybe they're like appendix bursts or something, you know, something terrible. It's like a sudden, sudden interruption, but I try to try to choose an example where, like, I don't think for the most part people, when their appendix is about to rupture or whatever, like, they'll think a lot of people make it through, right, you know, so, oh, it's an ER visit that doesn't end in death. But so you have something like that. 

 

That is, we would call unfortunate, right? Because it happens sort of suddenly. It's frustrating. It's difficult, it's painful, it's scary. It requires immediate, Swift attention, or else something difficult could happen. So, the Moon in Scorpio has that kind of feeling. Because when you place the Moon in the sign of watery sign of Mars, you're, in a sense, talking about things that can thwart, threaten, oppress, afflict that state of fortune, which at its ideal, in its ideal sense, what do we all seek in the world, we seek good fortune, what does that mean? It means some degree of happiness, abundance, safety, peace, security, and happiness. You know, some people can equate that with power and control, but you get what I mean. 

 

So, when you place the Moon and Mars signs, it can get a little bit tumultuous. And then when you place it in the bound and domicile of Mars, a place where it's already debilitated, that's when you get this feeling that okay, this full Moon could be like, punctuated by difficult or rather intense emotional experiences are things that come up that just, they throw a wrench into the wheel somehow, you know, and it and it somehow makes the circumstances arise, that are difficult or that feel threatening, at the very least threatening and this could be something as simple as like I was trying to get work done today and my kids home sick from school, okay, it can be very mundane. 

 

Now, on the other hand, what's so beautiful about the Moon in Scorpio is that the Moon in Scorpio is also very, very good at defending against protecting and bringing some kind of vigilant protectiveness to spaces where there's some degree of uncertainty or instability. So that piece can be retained; for example, there's probably, in many ways, there's no one better to have at your side when you're going through a crisis than someone who's got a Moon in Scorpio. You know what I mean? 

 

Or, like, if you think about who you want in the ER when you go there, do you want a Scorpio? You want someone who has been able to locate some degree of stability. And there's a sense of being protected and stable amidst or in the midst of something that's more turbulent and difficult. Confrontational, circumstantially intense, right? 

 

So that's why Mars in Cancer, for example, can be a wonderful placement for people who are very protective of, you know, like, for example, you know, women and children or the weak and vulnerable or, you know, Mars in Cancer can be a sign of someone very similar to the Moon in Scorpio, where you have someone who's very protective, among many other great qualities that are there. 

 

For example, Mars in Cancer, I've seen in the charts people who performed surgery because the sign of cancer may be associated with the Moon and the body; the Moon was the ruler of the body. And so sometimes Mars and cancer is literally just knowledge about it, like analytical or scientific knowledge about the body. In fact, the guy, my like trainer, who writes the programs that I use at the gym, has Mars in cancer. That's interesting. It's interesting. 

 

Anyway. So the point of all of this, at the first two points, really was that we had the culmination of eclipse season. And we have it from a fallen moon in the bound and domicile of Mars. Remember that that new Moon that solar eclipse in Aries is like we're starting something new, but it is born of conflict almost immediately because we had the ruler Mars conjoining Saturn, right? And so this has been a turbulent cycle where there's a revolution on the horizon. We've got Jupiter Uranus coming off from an Aries Solar Eclipse. So it's it's a season of revolution, but it is born of some conflicts and some twists and turns of fortune and maybe some years distance to change that has been difficult clashes of values, differences, or disagreements that have had to be worked through frustrations and roadblocks, obstacles, you know, we've had to deal with and maybe even develop a more mature Mars, you know, we'll force anger looking at those qualities. 

 

It's really interesting. And this has been somehow all of it in service of the Jupiter-Uranus dynamic as well, this idea of a radical breakthrough that is ultimately devoted to Venus to peace, ease, security, wealth, luxury, enjoyment, and pleasure. And now we have the culminating of this process we've just had Jupiter and Uranus conjoin. But don't forget, I mean, this is so important. 

 

Look at how closely Jupiter and Uranus are separating right now. On the day of this full Moon, we have Jupiter separating from Uranus, which is just half a degree off. You've got three full degrees of engagement for ancient astrologers with any aspect within which you know; the cherry blossom trees are the cherry blossoms showing as I was using that image, right? So we're still within the space in which people are going to see the blossoming of these celestial trees. The Jupiter-Uranus tree is in full blossom right now. It happened to blossom right off an Aries solar eclipse, which was ruled by a Saturn-Mars conjunction. So that's quite a revolution. That's a revolutionary space that has had some really intense moments so far. Well, here we are at the culmination, where the moon cycle is fruiting. 

 

Now, it's bringing the moon cycle, which started with the solar eclipse, to its little cherry blossom moment at the same time that Jupiter and Uranus are blossoming. And now we're reiterating Mars stuff. That's difficult. We've got Venus in Aries, you know, she, Venus is in her detriment and Aries, but a full moon bound up with Mars. So this makes it really, really important to have an understanding of what Mars and Neptune are doing. Because they're going to have a huge influence over the full Moon, the effects of the full Moon. 

 

So here are the themes that we can take from all three of these points and sort of put them together. Look at what's happening by the end of the Moon stay. In Scorpio, we have Mars now within two degrees of a conjunction with Neptune in Pisces. It's interesting because the way that I would put this is we have to look very carefully at our at desires, hopes, aspirations, or desires or visions, the kinds of new things that, through the process of our lives, we've come to realize it is time for it is time for this new thing. It is time for this new activity. It is a season in which you know I need to make changes and start moving forward on a path. 

 

This is the Aries energy, and the Jupiter Uranus dynamic is saying yes, let's revolutionize, and let's do so in the name of beauty and peace and greater stability and ease and maybe greater wealth or something like that. But as that's happening, you know, we have some really, there are some curveballs that have come; it's been like, well, in order to make these changes, I keep using this kind of revolutionary imagery, but it's like, you know, in most revolutions, there's some bloodshed, and this can be I mean this metaphorically, I'm not a proponent of violence, obviously. But I just mean that sacrifice plays a huge role in the manifestation of this revolutionary moment. 

 

Sacrifice means we have to let go of people, or we have to let go of things that we've been doing, or we have to let go of an old way of thinking about something or someone. We may have to make tremendous sacrifices, but one of the great Mars Neptune significations is that of sacrifice. What am I willing to lay down? What am I willing to surrender? What am I willing to let go of on behalf of something greater than myself, on behalf of a greater vision, on behalf of a season of revolution? 

 

So one of the things that is meant by this Full Moon in Scorpio is we're going to get an even clearer picture of what work we still need to do, what sacrifices still need to be made, or what kinds of qualities of surrender to the greater mission are still required of us. There's a kind of crusade and quality to Mars and Neptune that are behind this full Moon. Maybe the message is, hey, look, you're you're getting fanatical. 

 

Or, look, your drive for greater independence has become, at this point, reckless because of how you have neglected abandoned key relationships that really could have helped you. Or were there positive things in your life? So, you know, the impulse to evolve and change and revolutionize. At this point, we might be realizing that there's been something a little fanatical about it, and who and what we've been willing to sacrifice on behalf of the change, is that, like, has it been too much? Do we need to pull it back a little bit? 

 

On the other hand, flipping the jewel keeps turning the archetypal jewel in a different direction. Maybe there's more that we have to sacrifice and let go of. I mean, what kind of growth and evolution and what kind of revolution don't require us to take some big risks? Mars Neptune is like the, you know, if you think, I think quite frequently of the, you know, Mars Neptune in terms of the kind of mindset you would have to have to do what some of these people have been doing around the world in recent months. 

 

Well, historically, it's happened before too, obviously, but where they set themselves on fire for a cause, you know, no, that's to me, that's like, I just can't even fathom that. Do you guys remember the Rage Against the Machine album cover? I think it was; maybe it was a Vietnamese monk who had set himself on fire. I can't remember if I'm getting that right or not, but the call of anyone to die on behalf of a cause, whether they're an activist or, you know, maybe that's like a soldier or a religious martyr or something like that. I don't think that this energy, this astrological combination, is saying, hey, look, you need to go die for something. 

 

But I think it is saying it might be saying something like, there's a there's a real sacrifice that is needed for real revolution and change. And how serious Have you been about this? How willing are you to do the difficult work of changing? I would also say, though, to be fair, that, you know, Aries can be hot-headed, and there's been a lot of like tempestuous forward, moving energy. 

 

 

Let's go, you know, like banging the war drum. Venus has been in Aries, the solar eclipse in Aries-Mercury retrograde in Aries. And one thing that Mars represents in both Aries and Scorpio is the force of desire. It's interesting. I heard this very recently, and I've heard it before, but I haven't remembered it for so long. And so I was like, okay, you know, it's let's just go into it. Desire to wish or long to express a wish to obtain. And it comes all the way back from, I think, the Latin day solidary, which means something like a wait for what the stars will bring from the phrase de solidary, which is from the stars. And so, you know, there's a long connection to this etymological sense of the word desire and ecological roots of looking at the stars and hoping that they will some of the gods or the forces of fate will somehow bless us with what we want the outcome that we want. I don't think this has been a cycle recently, nor do I think Jupiter Uranus is the kind of transit that, you know, we're sitting around feeling neutral about; I think probably most of us have; the wheels are turning on some big things, either inside of us or outside or both. It's like there are some things that I want. There are some things that I need. 

 

There are some things that I desire, and I'm wondering if the forces around me will conspire to help make it happen. I suspect that for many of us, it has not been exactly easy to move forward with some of the things we've been wanting to, again, think about it from, you know, it's like the solar eclipse in Aries. There's a strong impulse to act and start based on what I desire. And then and then we immediately have Mars hitting Saturn; there's an impediment. There's a block, there's a frustration. There's a hitch in the giddy-up, you know.

 

Now we have a Full Moon in Scorpio. And now Mars is hitting Neptune, we may have to sacrifice something of what we wanted, we may not be able to get it, we may have to revise or rethink or reconsider have some kind of an attitude of compromise or renegotiation, recognizing that there are some things that are bigger than our desires that we have to sacrifice or compromise on. Or maybe the, again, Mars Neptune can be like, how far are you willing to go? What kind of sacrifices are you willing to make so that you can really change, like, deeply change? 

 

So, it's interesting to look at this: we could easily be working, crusading, sacrificing on behalf of our desires, or we could find ourselves deceived by our wishes and desires such that we're crusading and making sacrifices on behalf of something that's empty, that's hollow, it's vain, that superficial. We could be trying to create a revolution, but we're deceived by the strength of our desires for the revolution and are creating some degree of illusion, and that's where the kind of fanaticism can creep in.

 

So anyway, I'll leave it there. These are some of the themes that I see from these important things to watch for combination of the eclipse season and Jupiter Uranus, the fact that Mars and Neptune are toning this Full Moon, and the signification of the dignity of the Moon in Scorpio in general and the moon Mars relationship. 

 

The last thing I'll say about a full Moon in Scorpio is the stuff that's coming up during a full Moon in Scorpio, whether it's just intense emotions or deeper and heavier material. I think given Mars and Neptune in Pisces, the one thing that strikes me as really interesting is that there's probably something of, like, there's there's some kind of wisdom in all of this now. I mean, there's wisdom and everything. But when Mars and Neptune are conjoining, Jupiter is ruled sign, right, and Jupiter is conjoining Uranus. It's like, yeah, there's breakthroughs. 

 

There's revolution, there's sacrifice on behalf of desires, all these things I've been mentioning. But I wonder if there isn't also the coming together of somebody of wisdom or kind of understanding that we're reaching. It's like, this cycle, for many of us, has probably been very educational. And you might find that you're starting to form some kind of new understanding or belief or that you're growing in wisdom somehow. And that's maybe one of the most exciting sort of subtle things that I've been thinking about as well. 

 

All right, well, that's what I've got for today. I hope that this was useful. I have useful thoughts on the Full Moon in Scorpio. Let me know what you think about it and if you have any other insights. I'd love to hear from you. 

 

As you guys know, my new course is coming up on June 16, Ancient Astrology for the Modern Mystic, my first-year program, first-year course in Hellenistic astrology, studying astrology in depth, the tapestry of ancient hermetic philosophy and spirituality, and learning to read charts, in-depth understanding where this language comes from, it is truly life-changing. 

 

I mean, one of my favorite things is to see people come into the program. And literally, the study of astrology reaches into all these other areas of their life. They find that the influence of astrology and studying it has the power to change many other dynamics, relationships, job trajectories, and so on and so forth. 

 

Of course, a lot of people go professional, but some people just take it for themselves because it's, you know, it's so valuable to be able to be your own astrologer in addition to having trusted sources of wisdom in astrology in the astrology world that you trust. 

 

So anyway, we'd love to see you in class. Check out the talk that I do right after I sign off, where I go in-depth about what the program includes. Don't forget that we have need-based tuition, and just reach out if you have any questions. It's info at nightlightastrology.com. All right, you guys take it easy. Have a great full moon today. Bye