Full Moon in Scorpio: Navigating Your Depths

What themes have been swirling within you that have felt too emotional or challenging to be with? The Scorpio full moon asks you to enter your depths intentionally. Scorpio energy lives in the subconscious, encouraging curiosity about all those emotions and topics you’d rather avoid. This is the beauty of working with the moons: there’s a time and place for everything. 

Working in the subconscious creates fertile ground for profound changes and transformations. For any transformation to occur, something needs to be grieved and let go of. Death is an innate part of transformation. 

Full moons are ideal for working with themes of acceptance, grief, and letting go because they offer energetic support to bring what’s ready to be honored, grieved, and released to the surface. 

Grief and death (big “D” and little “d” deaths) are a natural part of life, and you don’t have to wait until your emotional landscape is at capacity or you’re on the verge of a meltdown to access these parts of yourself. Working with the energy of the moon phases provides natural times to access the depths of your emotional realms and tend to your grief cyclically.

After anchoring into a new season with the Taurus new moon (spring for the Northern hemisphere and autumn for the Southern hemisphere), the watery depths of this Scorpio full moon invite inner transformation. 

Find themes, ritual support, and prompts below to support you during this Scorpio full moon. 

Full Moon in Scorpio Themes

Themes: transformation, grief, death, emotions, the subconscious, sex, shadow work

Corresponding Planet: Pluto

Element: Water

Modality: Fixed

Full Moon in Scorpio Ritual Support

For this ritual, you’ll guide yourself into your watery depths to excavate something that wants to be worked with and possibly grieved this full moon. 

The best time to perform this ritual is the day of or the day after the full moon. Working with this full moon on the waning side is particularly powerful for working with themes of grief, release, letting go, and acceptance. 

As always, modify this ritual as needed! This is a template for creating meaningful rituals aligned with your practice. 

For this ritual, you’ll need:

• 20-40 minutes 

• Quiet and comfortable space

• Something to write with

• Optional: a candle, water or tea, music, and any other items that would feel supportive

1. Prepare your area and create a sacred space. This might include lighting a candle for yourself and this practice, clearing your space aligned with your practice, and calling in any supportive guides or allies as you sit with this practice. 

2. Prepare yourself to journey inwards. You’ll need a quiet and comfortable space for 20-40 minutes. If you want to listen to soft drumming or music while you journey, turn that on now. 

3. Sitting or lying down, begin to turn your attention inwards by closing your eyes and focusing on your body and your breath. 

4. Within your mind’s eye, begin to visualize or imagine what it would feel like to sink into the center of a deep, warm body of water. Imagine what sinking lower and lower into the water would feel like. 

5. Continue with this guided visualization of sinking into the water for as long as feels appropriate for you. Imagine you hit the surface or find a natural place to stop and be. When you do notice what this space looks and feels like. Notice if any light is coming through the water. What sounds are present? How does the water feel on your skin? 

6. In this deep and quiet watery space, invite in your emotions. What’s present in your emotional landscape? What wants to surface? Can you allow it to surface fully with the support of the element of water? If this feels hard, consider asking the element of water to assist you. 

7. Move with what comes up and allow yourself to emote as you can, if it arises. 

8. When you feel complete, slowly imagine yourself rising out of the water. As you move up through the water, visualize yourself releasing and leaving anything in the depths that wants to stay and bringing up anything that wants to return to the surface. 

9. When you return to the surface, thank the water and the moon. Slowly come back to your body from this journey. Have some tea or water to ground yourself. 

10. Consider writing down your experience or moving through some of the prompts below. If it feels better to simply be and rest, do that. 

Full Moon in Scorpio Prompts

Here are some prompts to further support you during this full moon. Use them as journal prompts or questions to work with your tarot or oracle cards. 

1. What emotions wish to be witnessed and honored within me?

2. What topics have I been avoiding that want my attention? 

3. What’s ready to be grieved within me? 

4. How does this full moon want to support me in honoring my emotions and grief?

5. How will honoring my emotional landscape and grief support myself and my community?

May you feel the support of this watery full moon to honor your full range of emotions. Your emotions, even the hardest ones to be with, hold wisdom and purpose. Let them flow.

Blessed full moon!  
Cassie