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When the full Moon meets Scorpio, magic is in the air. Ruled by water and the planet Pluto, Scorpio asks us to confront our deepest emotions. In doing so, Scorpio reminds us that we are magicians and healers. We can transform any energy, emotion, or behavior. We can turn darkness into light and tension into relaxation. We can heal from the most painful wounds, turning them into wisdom, and we can navigate any storm with ease. The key to working with this energy is to be willing to feel as the full Moon in Scorpio will be one of the most intense full Moons of the year.
When Is the Full Moon in Scorpio?
The full Moon in Scorpio takes place on April 23, 2024.
What Does the Full Moon in Scorpio Mean?
This Moon asks us to put our logical minds at bay. It reminds us that when we analyze our feelings, we only prolong them. We need to feel to transform, which means slowing down, courageously looking inward, and holding space for any energy to rise from our subconscious, even crying when needed.
What makes Scorpio’s energy so intense is that it brings us face-to-face with the present moment. It asks us to stop in our tracks, let go of our distractions, and confront reality.
In the light of this full Moon in Scorpio, our facades are stripped away. This energy cuts through any exterior and brings us to the heart of the matter. We can not lie to ourselves on this Moon or anyone else. Anything we’ve been sweeping under the rug or pretending doesn’t exist comes out to be seen.
This revelation includes any emotions we’d rather not deal with, including subconscious beliefs and biases along with suppressed feelings we try to project onto others. It’s all up for discovery this full Moon in Scorpio, making us uncomfortable while giving us the opportunity for profound growth.
There are many paths of transformation. They all start with the willingness to look beneath the surface of our conscious mind and become keenly aware of who we are. Transformation begins with confronting what is occurring right now.
Looking honestly at our unconscious tendencies may be challenging, uncomfortable, and downright nerve-wracking. Scorpio points out that what is underneath the surface still controls us even if we don’t acknowledge it. We are puppets and our unconscious energies are the strings that pull us. When we face our deepest fears, triggers, beliefs, and conditioned patterns, we cut the strings and free ourselves. We take control of our lives and our behavior.
Facing the depths of our soul is the work of the full Moon in Scorpio. It can be scary, intense, and full of raw emotions. It can also be incredibly healing and empowering. This full Moon reminds us of our power. Facing our shadows takes courage and compassion.
Shadow work stems from concepts developed by the psychologist Carl Jung. The first concept to understand about shadows is that everyone has one. You are not alone in this work, and there is nothing to feel ashamed of when confronting your shadows. Secondly, shadow work takes courage. It is not easy to address these parts of ourselves.
Our shadow is comprised of emotions that we could not process when they were felt, so we stored them away. We repress these feelings, and with this repression, we cut ourselves off from them. Our shadow contains all the emotions we thought were “bad” and made us feel unloveable or unsafe.
Our shadow is where we store everything we cannot face about ourselves. It is our subconscious that works behind the scenes of our life. When our shadow acts out, we often wonder who is acting. It’s the part of ourselves that says things we’d rather not admit or does things we often regret. These can feel like they’re coming from a distant piece of our psyche.
To begin looking at your shadows, look at your triggers. Our triggers are behaviors in another person that cause us to feel irritated, envious, jealous, or hurt somehow. Feeling triggered by another is the first window into your shadows. What you deny in yourself, you will always see in others. For instance, if you deny anger in yourself, you will feel triggered by someone you perceive as angry.
Keep in mind that shadow work also deals with positive emotions we may have cut ourselves off from. We generally think of our shadow holding negative traits, but it can hold positive ones too. We can cut ourselves off from feeling happy, content, and fulfilled. In this case, we find ourselves being triggered by happy people. At some point, we may have been told that being happy was wrong or that it made other people feel bad. Happiness then becomes our shadow.
As you hunt for your shadows, know they can take on many forms and may surprise you. Finding them, though, begins with becoming aware of your triggers. If you notice yourself becoming emotionally reactive to another person, that’s your first hint you’ve found your shadow. Then, the work begins to unravel it.
What Does the Full Moon in Scorpio Mean With the Sun in Taurus?
While the Moon is in Scorpio, the Sun remains in Taurus, bringing us both of their energies to work with this full Moon. Scorpio and Taurus stand in opposition in the cosmos and on the zodiac wheel. They both, though, ask us to do the same thing: ground our energy in the present moment.
As we work with the power of Scorpio this full Moon, we also work with the power of Taurus. Every astrological energy has a low side and a high side. The full Moon offers us the opportunity to look at each side of the signs involved and determine how we might align with them. We can then release and shift our patterns.
Scorpio and Taurus each want us to become completely absorbed in the present moment. They ask us to set aside our anxiety about the future or pain of the past and feel the moment. Taurus encourages us to connect with Mother Nature and use our senses to find presence. In contrast, Scorpio asks us to connect with our inner world and release emotional reactions to find presence. Both of these signs ask us to align with the rhythms of the Universe—Taurus by connecting with the Earth, and Scorpio by connecting with ourselves.
Over this full Moon, we have the opportunity to feel one with everything around us and know that we are part of the magic in the Universe. We can feel how we are made of the same energy as the trees, the oceans, the mountains, and the stars. We can feel the vastness of life and become inspired by our own power.
While Scorpio and Taurus each connect us to the infinite rhythms of the Universe, they differ in their perspective of resources. Scorpio focuses on energetic resources, like the time to transform, space to feel, and courage to travel inward. On the other hand, Taurus focuses on tangible assets, like a physical space to feel supported, external comforts to soothe, and food for the body.
Both of these signs give us tools that help us ground our energy, transform what we need to through healing, and step into unknown territory. They each want us to feel our power and our oneness with everything in the Universe. They simply have a different method for getting us to this place.
This full Moon in Scorpio brings us great opportunities to do shadow work, which helps us understand how we limit ourselves out of fear and insecurity. Our shadow is where we store all of our unprocessed emotions, including those from childhood. It forms the basis of our unconscious reactions. It also represents our deeper wounds that forced us to store emotions that the conscious mind could not understand when they occurred.
Our shadow works behind the scenes and often undermines our conscious efforts to manifest our dreams. We can begin to understand our shadows by looking at the lower frequencies of zodiac signs on the full Moon. They can help us understand how we may act on our shadows and, in so doing, bring light to unconscious patterns.
Scorpio’s and Taurus’s low sides bring us away from our power and place it outside of ourselves. The full Moon in Scorpio allows us to look at our shadows around our self-worth, fear, inner reliance, and overall power.
When we align with the low side of Scorpio, we don’t allow ourselves to feel. We distract ourselves with external preoccupations, which leads to anxiety and obsession. We also find clever ways to avoid the internal work we need to do to transform ourselves and our lives. We blame others, project our feelings onto them, and ignore our internal cries for help.
Instead of facing our deepest fear, wounds, and pain with courage, we avoid these places in ourselves. We also mistrust our intuition and instead look outside ourselves for validation of our self-worth. We may obsess over money, loved ones, and our place in the world.
In this lower frequency of Scorpio, we avoid our true feelings, forgetting that they are a place of power and allowing them to control us subconsciously. They pull our strings and sabotage our intentions to build our visions. They can make us feel helpless. Instead of owning our power, we slip into a victim consciousness, where we feel everything is being done to us and we are helpless against it.
This low, or shadow, side can make us feel we don’t belong anywhere and are alone in this world. Without inner reliance on ourselves, we may feel we have no rock to stand on and that the ground will slip out from beneath us at any moment. We are then triggered when issues come up around security, revealing our shadow of feeling unsafe in the world.
We can also become stuck in a transformational loop, never accepting our perfection. We may also look for the next shift we need to make in our lives, never appreciating what we have already accomplished. This is the part of us that self-sabotages so we may build again, transform again, and do it better next time. Scorpio is the rising phoenix, but sometimes the phoenix does not need to rise. She just needs to fly.
Taurus holds a similar low side in regards to resources. When we align with the low side of Taurus, we also feel insecure. We may obsess over material possessions and finances, thinking they define us. We forget our ability to create abundance through inner reliance and creativity and instead seek it externally. We move away from stillness and peace only to become preoccupied with the figure in a bank account. We may even compete for resources, taking on a scarcity mindset and forgetting that abundance is everywhere.
Taurus’s low side is full of anxiety and thinking about future scenarios. Instead of staying in the moment, we go to the future in fear, thinking we might lose everything. We become triggered by others who appear successful, and we experience jealousy or envy. We forget that we can never lose our most valuable resource: ourselves.
The low sides of both signs relate to questions of security, worth, and underlying fear. When we align with Taurus’s shadow side, we place all of our value on the goods we can collect. When we align with Scorpio’s, we lose touch with our power and rely on others to tell us our worth, often continuously altering ourselves to meet their standards. Both low sides lack understanding of their oneness with nature, and both find it impossible to stay grounded in their power moment to moment.
If you find yourself aligning with either of these low sides, know that is okay. You are seeing your shadows. It’s challenging to become aware of your shadow sides, but it is essential if you are going to shift them.
The first step in confronting these lower frequencies is to sit still and allow yourself to feel. You may cry, journal, laugh, or experience a roller coaster of emotions, but feeling is the way through. You must travel through the depths of your body and the stories that you live with each day. You may not want to read them, but they are always there. It’s best to take control of them so they don’t control you any longer.
In working with this full Moon in Scorpio, ask yourself if you have become preoccupied with things outside yourself as a means to distract you from what’s within. Have you felt obsessed about resources and untrusting of your ability to create abundance? Have you looked to others for security instead of owning your power? Furthermore, have you forgotten your connection with the Universe?
As you look at some of these lower aspects of Taurus and Scorpio in yourself, have compassion and courage. Release what you can this full Moon and know that just becoming aware of these energies is enough to be a catalyst for great transformation.
It all starts, though, with your willingness to look deeply at yourself as you stay grounded in the present moment. Align with the Sun in Taurus to feel held by the Earth as you align with the Moon in Scorpio to feel into the deepest places of your soul. Enjoy the journey of learning about your whole self.
Other Astrological Influences on the Full Moon
Looking at the current sky on this full Moon, we see the Moon and Sun forming a square aspect with Pluto in Aquarius, another fixed sign. Squares can bring up some tension that eventually gives way to a breakthrough. Pluto in Aquarius helps us understand where we need healing to align with our energetic potential this lifetime fully. This healing may concern the present or the past, including our past lives. Scorpio is a natural healer and helps us transmute our pain into something productive.
As the full Moon squares Pluto, feel where you need healing. Then, look at how your pain prevents you from owning your power to create your life. This may be uncomfortable initially, but it will open the doorway to a new level, where your wounds no longer contain your expansion. You do not need to contract or shrink from life out of fear.
This full Moon also occurs during an intense Jupiter-Uranus conjunction. This transit brings significant, unexpected changes. It can also help you break through levels of resistance and energy in your mind. If you feel challenging emotions, especially around expansion, become curious. Ask yourself where these emotions originate and if you are playing into your comfort zones somehow.
This conjunction can potentially propel you into a world of abundance in all forms. It’s a time to look at how you spend your time, energy, and other resources then ask why. This transit is all about return on investment. Go for significant returns in anything you do.
Your Invitations
The full Moon sheds light on our shadows, making it the perfect time to begin this work. Additionally, with the help of the Sun in Taurus, we can stay grounded in our bodies as we do this work.
Throughout this full Moon in Scorpio, remember to feel. This energy will begin about two days before the full Moon and last for about two days after. If you have the urge to cry at any point in this window, do it. If you want to scream, do that, too. If you need to hit a pillow with a bat for an hour, go for it.
Avoid distractions, though. When something begins to come up, do you grab your phone? Or find some errand to run? Do you use vices to suppress your emotions? Notice your reactions to your feelings. If you tend to distract yourself from feeling, take the opportunity to choose differently.
Instead, on this full Moon in Scorpio, sit, be uncomfortable, feel and grow. Open your heart to yourself, gather your courage, and find what’s preventing you from being your highest. Follow your emotions without question.
Shadow work is best done from a grounded place where you feel connected to your body, centered in your mind, and open in your heart. Self-compassion and acceptance are key for resolving your shadows. Practice meditation beforehand to feel centered in your body and mind.
Know this is a lifelong process. It may take many Moons to understand and integrate your shadows. Take your time with these questions, and remember to give yourself plenty of love and compassion through this process. Also remember to be kind to others, as they are also going through these intense energies.
As feelings arise, sit with them and let them run through you. Journal to learn more. Ask yourself what you are feeling and what this feeling is helping you understand about yourself. Focusing and altering our breath is one of the other tools of alchemy we possess. Breathwork is relatively easy and can be done anywhere.
Ruled by water, Scorpio reminds you to move your body with ease and grace. You can move stagnant energy and release blocks against your own evolution through the easeful opening of the body. Practicing yoga can put you in touch with the natural rhythm of your energy and encourage it to flow evenly through your whole being during the upcoming full Moon.
Although shadow work may be challenging, it is imperative for growth and development. Integrating and owning your shadows will make you feel lighter, more energized, and whole. Your relationships with everyone around you will improve, and you will move through life with more ease.
Shadow work is intense. If you need support or help, please reach out to a professional for guidance. Most counselors are well-versed in shadow work, as it is a core of psychological training.
This is not a time to play small. It’s a time to break through the limitations that confine you and stop shrinking from your brilliance. Align with the full Moon to conquer your fears, feel your power, and own your full potential. It’s all waiting for you, all you have to is allow yourself to claim it.
As you shift through your deeper layers this full Moon, remember to love all of them. They are all part of you and your story. They need love and acceptance to heal. As you discover hidden pieces of yourself, shine a light on them. Know that you are only human. You are not perfect—and that is okay. You are full of both darkness and light. The important part is that you learn about both sides of yourself. Only through knowing your whole self can you reach your highest potential.
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Learn more about the new Moon in Pisces, including additional astrological insights and journaling prompts, in the Scorpio Full Moon Workbook, from which the above is excerpted. You can also learn how to harness the power of Taurus season through the 28-day Abundance course.
About Our Contributor
Jill Wintersteen is the founder of Spirit Daughter, a lifestyle brand devoted to helping you live your best life through understanding the energy of the Universe. She also writes workbooks on each full Moon as well as other astrological events. Follow her on Instagram @spiritdaughter.