Scorpio Full Moon: Chaos Illuminated

Update: I love how Uranus has surprised me once again with the announcement of the new Pope, an American who's chart is tightly connected to this Full Moon in Scorpio: Pope Leo XIV. He's also a perfect illustration of The Priestess showing us the opposites of Leo energies, American Values, Power, and the Christian faith. I do a quick delineation of his chart and how it connects to Donald Trump's chart here.

This month’s full moon in Scorpio has its spotlight shining on the father of chaos, Uranus. Uranus supports the desire in each of us for a fundamental shift in reality, but our dreams of quick bold moves remain deadlocked in a very fixed environment.  It’s time to dig deep and question where the roadblocks actually exist. Is it ourselves or is it the other? Is it both or is it neither? Are we all locked into the polarity of duality or can we break free from these extremes of our fixed positions to ride the middle path like the Priestess? Raven Kaldera calls the Scorpio Full Moon the Priestess Moon: 

Scorpio loves dualities. In fact, no one is quite as good as Scorpio at attempting to divide everything into piles of black and white, good and evil, with her and against her, something to be loved passionately and something to be hated passionately. The Priestess sits between the pillars because she has made a breakthrough that is one of the most difficult for Scorpio: Understanding that there is no great gulf between one and another, no matter which great and terrible duality it may be. She has learned that really, it’s all shades of gray, and no end is any better than the other, and where we sit is in the middle. In the middle, where there is no clean black and white, and that’s just the way it is.

I have been watching a variety of viewpoints analyzing the precariousness of the United States' economy. We don't have a lot of margin of error for big risks (fixed environment). Combined with the magnitude of changes that this administration is trying to implement all at once (bold moves), it seems to spell impending disaster. But will the revolutionary energy of Uranus throw us a curve ball?

As astrologer Rick Levine recently pointed out, we’ve been like a frog on a slow boil and now we are turning it up to a fast boil. Which is worse depends on your perspective. Do you prefer the slow boil because you were hoping someone or something would eventually save us? Or is it better to be shaken awake to face the reality of a situation? Then at least we have a chance to empower ourselves to take determined action? Maybe Aries self-empowerment will be better than the Pisces trance we've all been under. Saturn joining Neptune in Aries on May 25th might be exactly what is needed.

So here we are, we’ve pulled the tower card where any wrong move can pull the whole structure down. Can we more easily rise from the ashes when we are free from the shackles that bind us? Or will we wake up to realize we’ve simply put ourselves in a worse type of prison?

Pluto stations retrograde on May, 4th, a week before the full Moon in Scorpio setting the stage for an emotional dive into the underworld with Uranus, the planet symbolic of chaos. What was seeded during the New Moon in Scorpio on 11/13/2023 is now coming to fruition. If you have personal planets in fixed signs near 22 degrees, you will feel this full moon more intensely. It also activates the charts of those who were born during the last Pluto-Uranus conjunction in Virgo. Both Uranus and Pluto have been flavored by the sign of Pisces since Libra's full moon but they are much closer this month and joined by Jupiter.

Will we see an expansion of the dark enlightenment revolution during this time? Will the Priestess rise to the occasion to show us alternate paths than the one we are on now?

Check out my full moon video for a quick delineation of both the Pluto Retrograde and Full Moon in Scorpio charts.