FULL MOON IN SCORPIO ✨🌕♏
May 12, 2025
“Always darkest before the dawn.”
We are approaching one of the most mystical and alchemical moments of the year. The most intense and cathartic Full Moon in Scorpio, the sign of strong intuition, shadows, catharsis, death, and rebirth.
This is a Moon that doesn’t simply illuminate, it strips away and reveals the truth behind the masks.
It’s here to change the rules of the game and invite you to dive deep into the depths of your soul, uncover what can no longer be sustained, through fear, insecurity, attachment, conditioning, and to recognize what no longer belongs on your soul’s path of growth and evolution.
The Full Moon takes place on May 12, 2025, at 21:30 Greece time, at 22°12’ Scorpio, casting light on the subconscious and bringing to the surface fears, unfulfilled desires, passions, secrets, and truths we may have avoided, repressed, or thought we had forgotten.
If you have personal planets or points between 19°–26° of the Fixed signs (Taurus, Scorpio, Leo, Aquarius), this Full Moon will touch you directly, surfacing what you can no longer be denied, repressed or bypassed. If you’re under the weight of a painful story, a loss, a trauma, this lunation will help you deconstruct what needs to end and transform pain into a portal, loss into a teacher, and darkness into an ally.
This Moon is a tug of war between the Taurus Sun, which seeks safety, and the Scorpio Moon, which calls us to release illusions of permanence, confront the depths, and rise through transformation.
As the Sun approaches a conjunction with Uranus, there is an electrifying call for awakening, and the desire to see and do things differently. This alignment offers insight, a new perspective, and the potential to break the chains of safety and habit, to choose what is truer and more aligned with your soul.
Uranus, moving through 26° Taurus since July 2024, has likely already shown you in this area of your life what radical changes are required. However, his presence in this Full Moon can also bring sudden, shocking events that destabilize us. Its exact conjunction with the malefic fixed star Algol, linked with the myth of Medusa, challenges us to face our inner demons, ushering intense experiences, symbolic “beheadings,” and deep metamorphosis through crisis.
Yet amidst the chaos, there’s also a promise of grounding and spiritual anchoring thanks to the trine between the Moon and Saturn, a stabilizing influence helping us stay grounded, find support, and face endings with stoicism and wisdom.
Additionally, the harmonious link between the Moon and the North Node in Pisces calls us to step into the unknown with faith, aligning with the higher path and evolutionary purpose. Meanwhile, Jupiter in Gemini squaring the Nodes, reminds us to trust our intuition and follow synchronicities, releasing the need to rationalize the soul’s journey.
The traditional ruler of this Full Moon, Mars in Leo, in a trine with Venus in Aries, promises reconciliation in relationships that may have fractured, offering a way to bridge gaps through true connection, emotional generosity, and heart-driven action.
However, the modern ruler Pluto, in disharmonious aspect with Mercury and Lilith, brings a fated undertone to unfolding events. Thoughts may become obsessive and colored by suppressed desires and fears. Conversations or news might be harsh and shocking, revealing the darker facets of life, what we feared, ignored, or avoided. Vulnerable groups—young people, children, and small animals—might also be involved in hazardous situations.
But liberation lies in voicing even the darkest truths, no matter how uncomfortable they may be. The challenge is not to retreat into fear or shadow, but instead to protect what matters and move forward with courage and honesty.
With the Moon forming a Yod—or “Finger of God”—with Jupiter and Chiron, the Teacher and Healer archetypes, pointing toward a soul choice: Will you remain attached to your old story and wounds, or open your heart and mind to more authentic versions of yourself that set you free?
And if you don’t fall into the trap of believing that your trauma is your curse, instead of the starting point for your ascent into light, then the path of healing and redemption is open before you.
When you realize that you are not just what you’ve endured, suffered, or lost, but the light that learned to be born through darkness, you become the sacred promise made before your birth: to love with your wound and to overcome through your truth.
This is a Full Moon of upheaval, detoxification, and emotional empowerment. And within the turmoil and darkness it brings, lies the light of healing and the seed of your rebirth.
On a collective level, this Full Moon shines like a cosmic spotlight on humanity’s unhealed wounds, lluminating what has been silenced or suppressed.
It brings awareness to abuse of power and the urgent need for deep transformation. Patterns of control, scandals, hidden agendas, and issues tied to natural resources, energy, technology, and systemic corruption may all come to light pushing us toward purification and restructuring.
The Sabian Symbol for the Moon’s degree, “A rabbit metamorphoses into a nature spirit,” symbolizes the transition from primal survival instinct to a higher state of being.
The rabbit here may represent your wounded inner child, your fearful, vulnerable side that hides. Yet this creature transforms into a fairy, an entity of inner power, intuition, and connection to the invisible spiritual world.
And the Scorpio Full Moon, which seeks ultimate inner truth, asks you:
How can you stop fighting fear and begin to see it as a bridge to something transcendent?
Here, trauma can become a portal, your vulnerability, your magic, and the part of you that fears can finally learn to fly.
The Sabian Symbol for the Sun in Taurus, “A jewelry shop filled with valuable gems,” speaks to your soul as a treasure vault, where your gifts, experiences, and even your wounds are sacred jewels.
You are invited to recognize your value and share your light as a healing force in the world.
These two symbols, in contrast, reveal a soul that longs for authenticity, union, and transcendence, while also needing protection, survival, and material security.
But the little rabbit, a soul that has endured so much, is now ready to shine.
The symbolism invites you to: Honor your fear, that brought you this far.
Open your heart, that holds something precious.
Allow yourself to become light, to remember who you truly are.
Become what you are afraid to be, and you’ll discover you’ve always been a gemstone, only needing darkness to shine!
Wishing you all a blessed and deeply healing Full Moon! ✨🌕💫🕊☮
With love💓💓💓
Sofia Semeli