Tomorrow’s Scorpio Full Moon features some underwater steam vents and subterranean rumblings looking to open up the territory. Exact at 3:16 pm EDT, it looks like it is offering some kind of transformational experience — but it’s doing so fixed-sign style.
That is, both the minor planets lined up with the Sun and Moon as well as a simultaneous major-planet aspect speak to the kind of resistance and fear of change fixed signs are often known for — even when one’s own erotic power is the driving force.
This Full Moon is the first since the recent series of eclipses; the last eclipse was at the Taurus New Moon two weeks ago, so tomorrow is an energy peak for whatever began then, even though the eclipses will keep developing for months. Tomorrow the Moon will be at 24 Scorpio, opposing the Sun at 24 Taurus — and the Taurus-Scorpio axis always evokes deep sensual and sexual themes.
Taurus and Scorpio are fixed signs, however, so even when the planets and aspects involved are speaking of change, there’s a visceral undercurrent of resistance to dissolve first.
Lined up with the Sun and Moon are about nine or so minor planets. Collectively they suggest that this Full Moon could be a transformational experience, particularly involving erotic energy. These minor planets also underscore themes of power dynamics, especially what we do with power and the fear that accompanies power — all facets of sexual encounters.
In Scorpio we have Huya (named after a Venezuelan/Colombian rain god, getting the Moon even wetter and more fertile, and washing away the dust); and Siva (Hindu god Shiva The Destroyer, The Transformer, The Cosmic Dancer).
Directly across the wheel, flanking the Sun in Taurus, are: Osiris (Egyptian god whose scattered pieces were put back together by his wife, who had to fashion a golden phallus to replace his missing member so they could procreate before he died again); Dionysus (Greek god of ecstasy, wine and ritual madness, and the protector of those who do not fit into conventional society); Sedna (whose severed digits and limbs created the large sea mammals in Inuit myth); and Heracles (Greek hero known for his strength, courage, ingenuity and sexual prowess).