Scorpio Full Moon Horoscopes

The Power of Facing Uncomfortable Truths

Everyone born with a Scorpio Moon feels wronged in some way. Maybe it was rejection, or neglect, abandonment, the loss of a close loved one or the loss of status or resources. Until this is consciously dealt with, it has a hold over people with Scorpio Moons, and they often live their lives with some invisible hands guiding their decisions, often to an extreme.

I’ll start. As a natal Scorpio Moon (and Sun, Venus and Pluto), I had many wounds to heal from in my childhood, one of which involved the classic case of my high school crush not liking me back. As if part of some cruel joke, we were asked to write in our “Senior Crush” at the beginning of Senior Year, with the answers to be publicly published in our Yearbook at the conclusion of the school year. I wrote the girl’s name down, and so did my best friend at the time. The girl, the entire school came to learn, wrote my friend’s name.

While many things differentiated my friend and I, one aspect that I internalized at the time was our drastically different socio-economic statuses. He had the massive house, well-off parents, expensive cars, elite university pedigree, etc. I had a solid middle-class family in a more urban neighborhood of Minneapolis/St. Paul; in fact I grew up in one of the most urban neighborhoods out of anyone I went to high school with. My parents coughed up nearly half their annual income to send me to a Catholic, private school, which I’m grateful for. The one drawback was that I felt like a bit of a misfit compared to the suburban students who boasted (at least from the outside) comfortable, luxurious lives.

When I pictured my crush and my best friend together, it actually made perfect sense, and I felt deep down that this biological sorting was partly informed by the relative familiarity of pairing up with someone in your same wealth bracket or zip code (whether or not this was ever a conscious factor). Like a crafty Scorpio Moon, I buried seemingly innocuous instances like these and allowed the memory of “rejection” to steer my choices in myriad situations.

Let’s pause here and compare the Scorpio Moon to the Taurus Moon (its opposite). The Moon is exalted (comfortable, strong) in Taurus and often signals a sufficient amount of resources within the family (unless the moon is forming challenging aspects to Saturn, Pluto, Mars, or Neptune). Taurus Moons will often be content with what they have (generalizing here but using this as a comparative device). The Scorpio Moon, by contrast, almost always has to grapple with challenges pertaining to self-worth, whether economically driven or stemming from absent, neglectful, or domineering parents, or parents who tragically passed away. Security is often apparent with a Taurus Moon, and rarely found with a Scorpio Moon at least in childhood.

I figured I could put this insecurity about money and socio-economic status behind me (i.e. I buried it deeper), but once I start college, the game was just beginning. I was stunned and overjoyed to get the acceptance letter from Northwestern University in December ‘08, but once I arrived in the fall of ‘09 it became clear to me that I would have to contend with the same internalized shame and the attachment of self-worth to family income. I gawked at the insane levels of wealth some of my peers came from, and noticed that the university was drawing from a pretty homogenized set of students from the same wealthy suburbs that mirrored the ritzy ones like Wayzata and Edina in Minnesota.

So I resolved to get a corporate job out of college to guarantee I’d be able to climb the ladder and get a taste of whatever my friends enjoyed growing up (and to ideally surpass them). My obsession with finding success in the corporate world and making more than my classmates brought me to New York, the obvious choice. I worked as hard as possible (Saturn in Capricorn), believing every dollar gained went also into the self-worth bank (it didn’t).

As a Scorpio Moon, I explored various other extremes for validation in order to feel like the shame had disappeared. But no amount of alcohol, no amount of sex, or money or applause at my bands’ shows could fill the void. Around the time of my Saturn Return, I realized I had to let go of trying so hard. I had to let go of my attachments to a specific outcome. I wanted to become nothing and no one. As light as the fluttering wind. No longer a musician, nor a data analyst, nor Evan. Just the indefinable, omnipresent spirit.

I finally wrote down something to this effect in my diary in September 2021 as a peace offering to myself. In the 9 months leading up to that moment, I had started doing breath work every morning, began studying astrology and steadily pared back the drinking until I had my last drink on September 7, 2021.

Ironically, once I surrendered the attachment to the narrative I had spun about myself up until that point, I woke up with half a million views on a video I’d just posted on TikTok. Was the universe fucking with me? Would this turn into a new form of the same underlying obsession to win, stand out, look good? But as I built on this success, I remained maniacally obsessed with things that maintained a healthier program than before. Before it was — “my worth is defined by my earnings, by my alma matter, by my zip code, etc”, then it became — “my worth is not measured by a definable external metric but is inextricably linked and part of the divine, which we all emanate from and absorb back into.” I embraced the duality of life (“I am nothing and I am everything”) which has since kept me in a non-linear mindset and has helped me become less attached to particular outcomes.

While of course I still have healing to do and an ego and three-dimensional concerns, I feel like I’ve embodied the higher expression of the Scorpio Moon — rewriting a very repetitive, painful program into one that is peaceful, detached, but still supporting the experience of life at its deepest levels. But it starts with me admitting that there is anguish inside, identifying the root memories and then uprooting those in order to catalyze a transformation.

In the same way, we all should think about a Scorpio Full Moon as a chance to own up to the things that have created turmoil, address the uncomfortable truths and release the energy so we can consciously integrate it.

Scorpio Moons will reveal to us the emotions that are embedded so deeply that we can’t pry them out in one go. They are wired into our nervous system in many ways. This is why I always recommend consistent forms of release like breath work, saunas, sweating in general, screaming out loud, dancing, playing music, etc.

For me personally, daily breath work is my rock. It was absolutely the first brick layer to building the life I have now. Even if you don’t have a Scorpio Moon natally, you should still expect to wrestle with some intense feelings on the 12th, some of which may arise out of nowhere.

Every sign will have to take a close look at something their conscious mind may have considered “off limits” before, but which the subconscious mind is all too familiar with. These forbidden emotions or feelings are living rent-free in the nervous system, but by destigmatizing those feelings, we can introduce them to our conscious mind and finally deal with them and transmute them into something more positive.

I would urge you to take a look at your life story and take some time to sit with the moments that maybe seem quaint or harmless to your conscious mind, but potentially not to your autonomic nervous system.

Maybe you too had an unrequited crush in high school. Maybe they’re not at all your type at this point and you’re glad you didn’t end up with them. But examine any connecting threads between that experience and later behaviors — did it wield a quiet but powerful influence? Or was your father’s accident such a long time ago that you can now mention it to someone without flinching? Okay, but how does this live in your psyche? Do you tell someone that it was common in your era for parents to tell their child they wish they’d never been born, so it’s not a big deal that they said it to you?

We all find ways to rationalize the hurt we experienced. The Scorpio Full Moon challenges us to confront those deepest traumas and realize that there is a powerful energy lingering there—a power that can be alchemized into something that has an empowering effect on us. For example, perhaps a parent rarely expressed their love, but this gives you the motivation to love those close to you evermore fiercely now.

Scorpio as a sign reminds us that energy is neither created nor destroyed, but is merely transformed into something else. So let’s all transform our pain into our power on this full moon with gratitude, compassion and a sense of solidarity in knowing others are also making this incredible transformation happen from a place of earnest vulnerability.

Scorpio Moons also teach us that we can never win if we’re fixated on power or domination. To dominate, to seek vengeance or to harbor jealousy is like swallowing poison. Instead, we’re meant to stop playing the game entirely and to surrender to the most uplifting sensation of unification with the divine.

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Understanding the Purpose of a Full Moon

A Full Moon marks the emotional and energetic climax of the lunar cycle. It’s when the Moon is fully illuminated by the Sun, symbolically bringing our hidden emotional landscape to light. While the New Moon invites us to consciously embark on new beginnings, the Full Moon highlights subconscious feelings, intuitive insights, and emotional truths that lie beneath our awareness.

This illumination often surfaces emotions or patterns we've ignored, suppressed, or simply weren't aware existed. Thus, Full Moons are powerful windows for emotional release, intuitive clarity, and letting go of what no longer aligns with our deeper selves.

This Full Moon at 22 degrees of Scorpio is occurring May 12, 2025, at 9:55am PT

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Contextualizing this Scorpio Full Moon: Final Sun-Uranus Conjunction in Taurus

After wading through those dark, murky waters of the subconscious, there is a big payoff! Five days after the full moon, the Sun meets up with Uranus, initiating a new synodic cycle with Uranus in Taurus for the last time in this century (more about the planets and their synodic cycles in my latest astrology course).

The Sun clarifies and elucidates the best way to express the energy of the planet that the Sun is forming a conjunction with. In this case it’s giving us an outlet to express the radical changes and reinventions we’ve been through dating back to May 2018 when Uranus originally entered Taurus in this cycle.

Uranus is fallen (uncomfortable, weaker) in Taurus, which makes sense because Taurus is the Fixed Earth sign and therefore the most immovable, which doesn’t gel with Uranus’ goal of sparking shock & sudden change. But we’ve had seven years to grow accustomed to this energy, and now we can coherently express our authentic values and our resilience in the face of unpredictability. Our resilience is in fact a result of our ability to bend but not break and to be amenable to change. This is something the Fixed signs (Scorpio, Taurus, Leo, Aquarius) have had to adjust to the most.

The point is that whatever you let go of and release on this full moon can set you up for a moment of liberation and unbridled self-expression once Uranus and the Sun conjoin on May 17. You can start to live a life of minimal resistance.

It’s as if an accountant stood up from his or her desk one day and quit their job, realizing they’d been obsessed with meeting their manager’s arbitrary expectations as a direct result of answering to a stern parent growing up. In this example, the realization about the connection between the manager and the parent would arise during the Scorpio Full Moon, and the walkout would occur by the time of the Sun-Uranus conjunction.

Ultimately, the more you wake up to and release, the better you will feel in a week’s time.

Health Implications of this Full Moon

Scorpio rules the reproductive organs, and during Scorpio Full Moons it becomes even more important to take care of this region of the body. This makes the contraction of an STD more likely, hence why I told everyone to use protection in my video the other day. Pregnancy also becomes more likely during this full moon.

It’s also important to take these things seriously because this Full Moon is happening at the critical 22nd degree, a Capricornian degree ruled by Saturn, which deals with long-term consequences.

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