22° Scorpio 12'
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May 12, 2025 — A Scorpio Full Moon arrives on Monday, triggering a climactic turning point. As the Sun illuminates the emotional Moon, it brings to light long-simmering tensions, inviting us into profound emotional release. Scorpio governs the underworld of transformation—the hidden layers, psychic shadows, and old attachments we’ve been gripping too tightly. What has been suppressed or denied can no longer remain obscured.

This Full Moon evokes necessary chaos—not destruction for its own sake, but catharsis that brings clarity and empowerment. Emotional breakthroughs may feel disruptive, yet they ultimately lead to deeper understanding. With Uranus opposing the Moon, we can expect awakenings and sudden shifts that interrupt stagnant patterns. Fortunately, Saturn’s steady trine offers grounding tools to help us integrate all that arises. By confronting our fears, we transmute them into strength and resilience, finding stability in the process of transformation.

These planetary influences reverberate through the collective experience. We may witness challenges to established power structures, revelations of truth, or flashes of insight guiding us toward more authentic paths. Saturn reminds us that breakthroughs create lasting change when we use them to reshape long-term strategies. Rather than remaining shocked or overwhelmed, we may actively work with these energies to redefine our commitments—to our selves, relationships, and service to the world.

Karmically, this lunation represents culmination. Many of us have been engaged in extended cycles of release and recalibration. Now, we’re poised to turn a significant corner. Where we once felt trapped in repetition, new pathways are emerging. Scorpio reminds us that true transformation is never superficial—this is the time to dive deep, alchemizing our pain into wisdom and courage so that we emerge with stronger hearts and steadier resolve.

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On this Scorpio Full Moon, may we honor our depths and face our fears in order to embody greater wisdom and wholeness. May we harness the courage to embrace truth, however painful, knowing it is the path to liberation—a pivotal shift in a long journey of healing not only from this life, but from all that we’ve inherited from parents, ancestors, and lives that came before.

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