Understanding the Full Moon in Scorpio
The Full Moon in Scorpio plunges you into the depths, revealing hidden truths and demanding authentic transformation. This intensely powerful lunar phase illuminates secrets, shadows, and everything lurking beneath the surface of your life and psyche. It's a time for death and rebirth, deep intimacy, and reclaiming your power from the darkness. On the Taurus-Scorpio axis, this moon highlights the balance between material security and emotional depth, between holding on and complete surrender.
Ruled by Pluto, this Full Moon typically occurs in April/May.
Emotional Energy & Themes
The Scorpio Full Moon brings the most intense emotions of any lunation. Feelings run deep, dark, and transformative. You may experience jealousy, possessiveness, rage, grief, or profound longing. This is the moon of the underworld, so don't be surprised if shadow material surfaces—this is meant to be faced, not feared. Intimacy needs are heightened; you may crave deep connection or feel threatened by surface-level relating. This moon often catalyzes necessary endings, revelations, or transformations. Trust the process.
Shadow Work for This Moon
The shadow of the Scorpio Full Moon reveals the darkest aspects of human nature: revenge, obsession, manipulation, and destruction. Ask yourself: Where am I trying to control what I can't? Am I using intimacy as a weapon? Is my secrecy actually shame? Do I destroy things (or people) when I can't have them my way? This moon may illuminate how you give your power away to others, or how you abuse power when you have it. The invitation is to transform poison into medicine, to let ego deaths make way for soul rebirths.
What This Full Moon Illuminates
- ✨Hidden truths and secrets ready to surface and be seen
- ✨Shadow aspects of self that need integration and healing
- ✨Shared resources, debts, inheritances, and intimate bonds
- ✨Power dynamics in relationships and where you give power away
- ✨The balance between control and surrender, having and releasing
What to Release
Full Moons are powerful times for letting go. During the Full Moon in Scorpio, consider releasing:
- •Control issues, manipulation, and power games
- •Deep resentments and grudges you've been carrying
- •Fear of vulnerability, intimacy, and being truly seen
- •Obsessive attachments to people, outcomes, or the past
- •Shame, secrets, and burdens that keep you imprisoned
Full Moon in Scorpio Ritual
Focus: Shadow integration and transformational release
Light a black or deep purple candle for transformation and Pluto's energy
Create sacred space in darkness, with only candlelight illuminating
Write your deepest fear, shame, or secret on paper
Read it aloud, acknowledging the power it has held over you
Safely burn the paper, releasing its hold as it transforms to ash
Write what you are becoming in its place—the phoenix rising
Journal Prompts
What truth am I avoiding that desperately wants to be seen and acknowledged?
Where do I hold resentment that's actually poisoning me?
What am I ready to let die so that something new can be born?
How can I embrace vulnerability as my greatest strength?
What would my life look like if I released this one burden I've been carrying?
Body & Health Focus
Areas to pay attention to during this moon:
- ♡Reproductive organs—creative and sexual energy
- ♡Elimination system—letting go of toxins
- ♡Genitals—intimacy, vulnerability, power
- ♡Hormones—intense emotional and physical fluctuations
Best Activities
- ✓Deep therapeutic or shadow work
- ✓Cleaning out emotional closets and releasing secrets
- ✓Having honest conversations about difficult topics
- ✓Intimate connection with trusted partners
- ✓Investigating mysteries or doing research
- ✓Rituals of death, release, and transformation
What to Avoid
- ✗Acting on jealousy or revenge fantasies
- ✗Snooping through others' private information
- ✗Emotional manipulation or power games
- ✗Making threats or ultimatums
- ✗Refusing to let go of what needs to die
How This Moon Affects Your Sun Sign
Scorpio Sun/Rising: This is your personal full moon—transformation and power peak. Taurus Sun/Rising: Focus on shared resources, intimacy, and what you're ready to release. Leo/Aquarius: Look at tensions between personal power and collective dynamics. Water signs (Cancer, Pisces): You'll feel deeply and transformatively. Fire signs may need to slow down and go deep.
Guided Meditation
Create a dark, quiet space. Light a black or deep purple candle. Close your eyes and breathe deeply into your lower belly. Visualize descending a staircase into the earth, going down, down, down into the underworld of your psyche. At the bottom, you find a locked door. You have the key. Open it and see what's been hidden. Meet your shadow—the parts you've rejected, denied, or hidden. Ask: What do you need? What gift do you carry? Embrace this part of yourself with compassion. Visualize integrating your shadow, becoming more whole. Ascend the stairs transformed. Affirm: I am not afraid of my depths. I transform pain into power. I am whole.
Moon Correspondences
Crystals
Obsidian, Black Tourmaline, Smoky Quartz, Garnet, Labradorite, Malachite
Herbs
Wormwood, Myrrh, Blackthorn, Chrysanthemum, Mugwort, Dragon's Blood
Colors
Black, Deep Purple, Burgundy, Crimson, Dark Red
Element
Water
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