Full Moon in Scorpio, Moon's First Quarter

For May 7 thru 13, 2020

♀  TAURUS and TAURUS RISING
May 07: Full Moon in Scorpio
Something ripens within the seductive tunnels of your close relationships. You may have planted this seed or made a decision to sow around last year’s dark moon on 10/27, and carried out some related initiatory steps on the most recent dark moon 4/22.
May 08-13: Moon’s Third Quarter
Of late you’ve had a knack for oration and dot connecting, and this has struck an easy chord with the most unsettling caverns of your spirituality or lack thereof, with your literal or metaphorical travels. The light of your spirit has been lighting up your whole mainframe, and now beholds the infinite mythical nothingness within your community and audience. Meanwhile, your career will be kind of a slog as you integrate and rework the blueprints, with an added brief spike of harsh engineering. The harshness then moves on to the sea-realm of your colleagues, clouding the surface with chum and attracting the bloodthirsty. It doesn’t have to be bad, but it does have to be energetic. The end of Moon’s first quarter brings your inner curiosity-gossip-accountant and your magnetism-and-feelings to the realm of finance and possessions, and the feels will for a time junk up the works—not necessarily in a bad way, but maybe in an uncomfortable way—with emergence of old flames and sweet and gnarly passions previously buried, lost or repressed. 

☿  GEMINI and GEMINI RISING
May 07: Full Moon in Scorpio
A maze of concealed passages contains tasks to complete order to care for the grounds, the health or the bills. The full moon brings a map of the dungeons, illuminating priorities and bringing to culmination items initiated on dark moons of 10/27/19 and 04/22/20.
May 08-13: Moon’s Third Quarter
Your inner interpreter, spelunking in the musk-scented cave-depths of your own mysteries, happens upon adifferent kind of tunnel that reveals something deeply disturbing or somehow transformational in the realm of shared resources. With it also also comes a blessing, or at the very least, an amelioration. Meanwhile, the same intrepid reporter gets a direct line to your highly principled philosophical conflicts, and the volume is so loud they almost can’t make out the words, if there are any to make out amidst all the rebel yells…After which your inner dragoman-daimon comes home to the familiar circuitry of your own operating system, wherein they can take the wheel and map connections with relative deftness and ease for the next while. Also at the helm is your capacity for invocation and magnetism, your sense of beauty, and over the coming weeks you’ll drive back and forth over erstwhile connections. Meanwhile, the aforementioned rebel archetype clouds the waters of what you give to the world with the gnashing of teeth. It may be possible to partially this energy of there-can-only-be-one into a unified vibration of everything-as-one…  

☽  CANCER and CANCER RISING
May 07: Full Moon in Scorpio
Matters of creative power and pleasure and/or matters pertaining to children reach maximum brightness. The longer arc originates around last year’s dark moon on 10/27, the shorter arc begins around this past dark moon on 4/22. Opposing/complimentary matters of audience and community are the light source for this full lunation, and that realm has begun an era marked by volatility, innovation and surprise. As Moon wanes into a third quarter, our satellite will have two conversations with this catalyst, one easy and one stressful. The magnetism responsible for your colleagues and be found next door in translucent realms of mysterious problems and isolation.
May 08-13: Moon’s Third Quarter
At the end of Moon’s third quarter there will be a dive into the underworld of this hidden place and your heartspace will begin inception levels of defrag here. Olde Trojan horses, buried passionate loathings and olde ghosted sweet feels will haunt this place along with everyone already here, and you may reconsider or exorcise some of the curious emotional spirits who emerge. Meanwhile, a restructuring in the realm of shared resources has begun, and it will feel like a grind for the next few months. In other news, over the coming weeks your warrior spirit works for the temple, or for academia, or maybe makes some kind of voyage a pain in the ass. IN other news, use of pressure and excessive heat in order to create unity is not necessary in the tranquil undersea gardens of your overall reality map, but the energy is there to use lest it use you.

☉  LEO and LEO RISING
May 07: Full Moon in Scorpio
Home or family energy reaches maximum brightness, with long arc roots in last year’s dark moon on 10/27, and shorter arc roots on this year’s dark moon on 4/22. The evergreen quality of this realm is one of deep emotional fixity and intensity, so the energetic fullness of the lunation can bring either maximum toxicity or just maximum light of consciousness. The energy is there, and available for use, with contextual clues in the past.
May 08-13: Moon’s Third Quarter
The light of your spirit is also at a kind of annual maximum, presiding over your life through what it is you give to the world. It now beholds aquatic infinity in the realm of shared resources, or perhaps a special kind of death-imagination. A new restructuring of your close relationships will feel like hard work over the coming months, and patience and discipline are constructive uses of the quality of this time. The aforementioned realm of shared resources gets a new guest over the coming weeks, a spear-wielding warrior come to overheat the waters. It doesn’t have to be deadly, but it has to be vigorous. At the end of Moon’s first quarter, your capacity for magnetism capsizes into the upside-down of your community and audience, meeting voluntarily or involuntarily with olde sweets and olde hates, performing deep scans of areas forgotten accidentally or on purpose, and carrying on in this fashion for 40 days and 40 nights.

☿  VIRGO and VIRGO RISING
May 07: Full Moon in Scorpio
A culmination of the past six months and, in a different way, the past fortnight: in regards to emotional control around neighborhoods physical and digital, and your down and dirty timetables.
May 08-13: Moon’s Third Quarter
Your Bureau of Information right now acts as philosophical sommelier, and during this moment there is a happy confluence between that garden of spiritual delights and earthshaking initiatory ordeals deep beneath your ambitious structures of earthly pleasures. Atop this mountain, a happy hand offers something similar in appearance to a blessing—clearing away a small amount of potent darkness. Meanwhile the same Info Dept. clashes with your upkeep and admin—a sober realm of late, whilst managing to also feel like a war zone—then transforms into your inner professional science writer, highlighting for the next while matters of what you give to the world. From this fresh vantage point comes a cold beam of actual support from the aforementioned dour GTD zone. Your heart has been skipping around the realm of career for the past while, and over the next forty days and forty nights the picture painted is one of old gossip and feels, stale old hurts and forgotten deep sweetness. You might just say no or you might mull things over. In other news, over the coming weeks the ineffable waters of your close relationships evoke two angry sharks chained together at the mouth…it doesn’t have to be bad, it just has to be vigorous.

♀  LIBRA and LIBRA RISING
May 07: Full Moon in Scorpio
Maximum brightness, visibility, depth and intensity around personal finance and possessions, matters initiated in part on last year’s dark moon 10/27, and in a different and smaller way, this past dark moon of 4/22.
May 08-13: Moon’s Third Quarter
Your mind, however, has been on other people’s money or energy, or perhaps your mind has just been on death. No matter your mind’s exact position in the symbolic stack of what’s-shared-and-what’s-owed, it strikes a pleasant earthly pitch with deeply rooted matters of home and origin, your hearth and the ghosts that gather round. A bright beam, again from the position of shared resources, conjures a pleasant little sine wave with the unified field that keeps fogging up your glasses when you come to address matters of upkeep and admin. A new and methodical restructuring of creativity, pleasure and romance will start to feel like a total grind over coming months. Patience and discipline is the best route through these cold hinterlands. Your warrior spirit has been charging through the same fun/not fun middle of nowhere, and butts heads with that aforementioned mind of yours…or maybe with a collaborator’s skills or resources. The main event for the next while will be your capacity for magnetism, feels, invocation and artistry, and her backslide through olde agonies and ecstasies…

♂  SCORPIO and SCORPIO RISING
May 07: Full Moon in Scorpio
Your operating system just completed all the updates you probably began around dark moons of 10/27/19 and 4/22/20. Now you can access new emojis like adronitis and more blood shapes.
May 08-13: Moon’s Third Quarter
A librarian or massage-therapist you hold dear gets into a point-counterpoint war with the overly combative spirit of your house, after which studiousness and dexterity turn to your shared resources, debts and collaborations, and the warrior spirit moves on to slowly bring your creative pursuits to a rolling boil. Over the coming weeks in the aforementioned realm of what’s shared, olde games of telephone will haunt you, you’ll turn and return olde turns of phrase, and forgotten passions will echo back.

♃  SAGITTARIUS and SAGITTARIUS RISING 
May 07: Full Moon in Scorpio
This full moon for you would offer peak isolation energy no matter what; something inside in the invisible real or your emotional blindspot reaches culmination; the short story arc having begun around dark moon 4/22, and the long arc near dark moon 10/27/19.
May 08-13: Moon’s Third Quarter
While task mastering around the house or around the body, your inner temporary secretary discovers something hidden in your money or your stuff, and it’s luckily either a good thing or not as bad as it could be. The eye within your to-do list beholds a befuddling unified field where you live or where you come from. Meanwhile, the aforementioned desk temp morphs into the VIP tour guide who’s calls you always answer. For the next few weeks you can’t seem to add enough chum to a sudden bathtub sanctuary for sharks. In other news, for the next few weeks you’ll reconsider your phone favorites list.

♄  CAPRICORN and CAPRICORN RISING
May 07: Full Moon in Scorpio
A culminating force energizes your brooding audience of colleagues. The small version began on the dark moon of April 22, and the large version began on the dark moon of October 27.
May 08-13: Moon’s Third Quarter
For a moment you’ve unlocked info from hell, or just from the depths of your operating system, and it’s laced with subtle golden veins of blessing and opportunity. In other news, the secretary of fun is at brief and strifey odds with your inner bounty hunter. For the next few months, this financial rebranding is kind of a slog, but maybe you can kind of enjoy your own grit. The secretary of fun transforms into the secretary of latent health issues and task mastering, and this somehow supports the coffers. The bounty hunter shape shifts into a sort of mystical handyman/hot-tempered psychic friend. The end of this period unlocks a longer time of rehashing curiosity and feelings about your lists of perennial to dos—upkeep at work, around the house, and around your human body.

♄  AQUARIUS and AQUARIUS RISING
May 07: Full Moon in Scorpio
Career energy spikes, the shallow roots are of the dark moon 4/22, the deeper ones are of the dark moon 10/27.
May 08-13: Moon’s Third Quarter
You’ve watched so much ASMR in bed that you’ve somehow unlocked a portal straight to the underworld. To your delight the terminus of this lava tube holds a pot of shimmer powder wth the power to make these spaces of your mind mildly pleasing or a little less sucky. Now you enter the middle of phase 1 of your operating system redesign, wherein your inner Darth Vader may force you to reconsider the palette or even the overall theme. Meanwhile, your capacity for disturbing harshness or just energized gumption crashes your living room party of earthly delights. You can ameliorate this by aggressively crowning them an honored guest and serving something spicy. After which surveillance cam pans for the next while to the curiosity fun zone, already piqued with embodied intellectual pleasures, and somehow this supports the rebranding. Meanwhile that grating guest of honor takes their crown and heads to the Dept. of the Treasury, where they will christen it psychic shark week for the next two months. Thus begins a separate handful of weeks wherein deep feels related to use of your creative gifts will be netted, scanned and some things possibly trashed.

♃  PISCES and PISCES RISING
May 07: Full Moon in Scorpio
The full moon injects study or philosophical position with maybe too many cubic centimeters of go-go juice dot edu. Trace back to the April 22 dark moon, or to last year’s October 27 dark moon for small and large clues, respectively.
May 08-13: Moon’s Third Quarter
Your conscious mind, on neighborhood tasks and daily timetables, strikes a helpful chord with the unsettling, subconscious-exposing underworld portal that can be found somewhere amongst your colleagues or your icy audience. Your friendly spiritual neighborhood watch beholds the various enigmatic conjunctions of your own branding. Meanwhile your inner registrar-recorder/county clerk takes their shoes off and comes back home to your private life. Either this or Rita Skeeter is your new house guest or ghost. Ward off proton pack explosions over the coming weeks by keeping your spidey sense carefully trained on your own sure-to-reach-boiling ectoplasm temps, and in the same vain handle locomotion, heavies and sharps with gentle care because your default state is likely more hot and brusque than usual. For the next while feels around town/schedule/shared things/memento mori will set up shop around your hearth to construct a new sitemap for the heart.

♂  ARIES and ARIES RISING
May 07: Full Moon in Scorpio
Maximum super deep borehole energy in regards to emotional control and joint resources/collaborations/debt/taxes/or any resource shared with our home planet. Look back to last year’s dark moon on 10/27 and this past dark moon on 4/22 for contextual clues.
May 08-13: Moon’s Third Quarter
A grating racket between your money and possessions and community or audience. After which the Secretary of the Treasury morphs into Neighborhood Council Representative. The tranquil sea of your own inner mysteries is mobilized all at once as a migratory event horizon for teeth-gnashing predators, just a novel way to practice making conflict constructive, as those without your strength may eventually benefit from from a champion. In other news, over the coming weeks you’ll unlock a subterranean layer of your mental/physical/digital daily routes, annotated with olde forgotten strifes and deep longings, each to ultimately be kept safe or skipped across the river of souls, never to be seen again.

In this entry I gender some planetary archetypes for economy of language, however, in my heart and mind I do not silo planetary functions to the exclusive purview of any traditional gender polarity.