By Len Wallick
…all of the laws of man working in nature and history and evolution say for all human beings to come always closer and closer together.”
–Woody Guthrie
The Scorpio Moon exacts its opposition to the Taurus Sun tomorrow morning (7:09 AM EDT). That’s a Full Moon and it is neither “super” nor ordinary in any way, shape or form. It symbolizes a unique and special opportunity to examine and overcome the darkness that keeps people apart. It is also the gateway to a rare and powerful series of eclipses that will bracket the Cancer solstice.
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Taurus and the implied second house represent the integration of life with matter, both in the animated body and what that body identifies as its own. This principle has been gradually accumulating momentum while a lengthy, complex and powerful collection of planets in Aries held energetic focus.
First and fittingly it was the Sun that left the cardinal fire of Aries and its theme of initiative for the grounding of the fixed earth of Taurus just over three weeks ago. Then the New Moon — a conjunction of the luminaries — at the Beltane mid-point between seasons got the current lunation rolling. Now as that lunar cycle is reaching its peak, the personal planets Mercury, Venus and Mars have joined with the Sun in the sign where self-awareness ascends to self-possession.
Scorpio and the associated eighth house is where personal resources are shared with others. The consequences of that sharing have generated social conventions that govern the exchange. Those conventions often involve confidences and financial responsibilities. Family, community and government have an avid interest in the transfers and transformations attending issues like sex, death and taxes. Paradoxically, those collective processes inhibit individual examination of the inevitable — death. That acquired inhibition, in turn, often keeps us separate and alone in the dark about what we need to know and understand in order to live whole and be free. That separation has, of course, been exploited by those who seek power and control.
The Full Moon in Scorpio symbolizes a light brought to those dark places. The question is whether we are willing to look. In the case of this particular opposition, the opportunity for illuminating the social shadows is magnified, having been preceded by an extended opportunity of self-discovery afforded by the Aries stellium. Because these particular shadows are a collective phenomenon, however, we will be required to build on self-awareness and go beyond.