Genevieve writes a horoscope designed for your Moon sign for Planet Waves called Moonshine. We run them twice per month, for each Full and New Moon. You can read them as part of the Planet Waves membership that features Eric’s horoscopes and astrology articles. — Amanda
Later today (Thursday), the Full Moon takes place at 3:57 pm EDT with the Moon in early Scorpio and the Sun in early Taurus. This alignment will form a partial lunar eclipse, kicking off a busy three-eclipse season (usually eclipses occur in pairs). Eclipses are pattern setting events, opportunities to leave behind old patterns or habits and begin new ones. This eclipse offers us an invitation to live more emotionally present lives, while also remaining grounded mentally and physically in the here and now.
Full Moons can often come with inner tension, or the feeling of a high-energy push for resolution. With today’s Sun-Moon opposition occurring as an eclipse, the emphasis is on letting go of what has not been working or what we’ve grown beyond. Rather than getting stuck in feelings of frustration, we can more easily let them slip away.
What’s left is an opening: a fertile space in which to build new emotional patterns and habits. Eclipses are good times to be mindful in what we do and how we act. Consciously act, think and feel to help establish the kinds of habits you would like to strengthen or build.
In fact, it’s great to get the ball rolling a few days before an eclipse and continue a few days after by devoting some time each day to doing what you most love. As you consciously offer up what you wish to release, what you wish to foster receives your focus and fills the void.
A number of important planets are also involved in this Full Moon. Mars is conjunct the Sun in Taurus and, on the opposite side of the wheel, the Moon in Scorpio is only a few degrees away from Saturn. Sun-Mars is bringing additional heat, desire and drive to the equation. There’s a push outwards for expression, especially in the physical form.
The Moon in Scorpio is deep feeling, at times potentially so deep it seems like there’s no bottom or end to our emotional body. Saturn conjunct the Scorpio Moon provides us with a structure through which to understand and work with these intense feelings and passion. It gives us a container to hold them and some traction to better communicate what we are experiencing.