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.
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
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.
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.
Sitting or lying down, begin to turn your attention inwards by closing your eyes and focusing on your body and your breath.
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.
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?
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.
Move with what comes up and allow yourself to emote as you can, if it arises.
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.
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.
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.
What emotions wish to be witnessed and honored within me?
What topics have I been avoiding that want my attention?
What’s ready to be grieved within me?
How does this full moon want to support me in honoring my emotions and grief?
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
Understanding the Energy of Scorpio Season
Welcome to Scorpio season! Our fixed water sign, this archetype is here to help us transform darkness into light. Whether you have Scorpio placements in your birth chart or not, we’re all feeling into this energy during this season. In this blog, I’ll share what Scorpio is all about, the planetary and tarot associations of Scorpio, and how to understand Scorpio in your chart.
Welcome to Scorpio season! Our fixed water sign, this archetype is here to help us transform darkness into light.
Whether you have Scorpio placements in your birth chart or not, we’re all feeling into this energy during this season. In this blog, I’ll share what Scorpio is all about, the planetary and tarot associations of Scorpio, and how to understand Scorpio in your chart.
SCORPIO ENERGY + RULING PLANET
Scorpio has a reputation as being intense and…a little scary. Scorpio energy is definitely intense but scary only if you’re afraid of depth, shadow, and transformation. It’s no accident that Scorpio season takes place in autumn when things are shedding and dying in n nature around us. So it is in nature, so it is in us.
Mars is the traditional ruler of Scorpio, and it lends the archetype its fiery intensity. Pluto, the modern ruler of Scorpio, brings the death and destroyer energy to this sign. Most millennials (born late 1983 to late 1995) have Pluto in its home sign of Scorpio, making this generational energy a very present one at this time on the planet.
At its most soul-centered and deeply rooted level, Scorpio is here to take us into the depths and transmute darkness into light. Associated with topics generally thought of as taboo like sex and money (some of my personal favorite things to talk about, but maybe that’s thanks to my Scorpio stellium!), Scorpio gets right to the heart of the matter.
All signs have a shadow energy and expression, and in its shadow, Scorpio can tend towards power games, secrets, betrayal, and fear. But when fully integrated with its polar sign, Earth sign Taurus, Scorpio finds a steady foundation from which to transmute, a rooted power, and a sturdiness the watery emotions of this sign need to flourish.
SCORPIO IN THE TAROT
In the tarot, Scorpio is associated with Death, Judgement, and the King of Cups. Each of these cards speaks to a different aspect of Scorpio energy.
Featured decks are the Waite-Coleman Tarot Deck and Starchild Tarot Deck.
Death is the card in the tarot that deeply speaks to shedding and letting go. What was dies and takes new form - becomes compost for the Earth from which newness can be birthed. This is the continual process of Scorpio and a critical one in nature.
Judgment, ruled by Pluto, surfaces that which is hidden from the underworld and brings it to the surface to be seen. What could be more Scorpio than that! This card speaks to the dealing in secrets, dredging from the depths, and shadow work that this archetype does so well.
The King of Cups, fixed water in the court cards in my tarot practice, teaches us emotional mastery. We learn how to feel the depths of our feelings and use them to create change. We lead the way with love and compassion for others. A card associated with healing, it speaks to the healing potential around feelings, change, and shifting identities that Scorpio can offer us.
UNDERSTANDING SCORPIO IN YOUR CHART
To understand Scorpio in your chart, you’ll want to look at a couple of pieces:
Any planets in Scorpio
The house that Scorpio rules in your chart. Whatever house Scorpio rules indicates the area of life where you are meant to continually find death and rebirth.
Your 8th house. Scorpio traditionally rules the 8th house. The sign that rules your 8th house can add another layer indicating how Scorpio themes show up in your life.
Another way to understand Scorpio energy in your life could be to ask your oracle or tarot deck: how is Scorpio energy showing up in my life right now?
Want to connect more deeply with Scorpio energy? You can work with rhodonite to stabilize emotions, moonstone to support you through emotions and transformation, or smoky quartz to help release negative energy from the body. Check out crystals to support you during Scorpio season in the shop here.
