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Full Moon @ 14 degrees Scorpio 58'
May 5, 2023
10:34 AM PDT
1:34 PM EDT
This month's Full Moon is also a penumbral lunar eclipse in tropical Scorpio, the final eclipse of the first eclipse season of the year. Beyond this eclipse, we gradually move out of this more intensified space that often correlates with deepened emotion, greater awareness of the shadow, and a quickening or acceleration of current situations and processes.
Alongside Mercury's retrograde cycle, there is a collective and personal process of intensified revision and reconsideration, where we take some steps back, open our minds, and see our current life path from a renewed vantage point. And sometimes, the overlap of eclipses and an inner planet retrograde correlates with some dramatic changes in navigation, some difficult and some potentially positive.
Lunar eclipses represent potentized Full Moons, with more dramatic than usual culminations, breakthroughs, and completions. The Scorpio archetype highlights the need for honesty, authenticity, and realness. Thus, the unveiling of shadows that tends to happen alongside eclipses becomes more pronounced and intensive.
With this Full Moon, we are invited to peer more directly into the heart of certain matters and issues we've been dealing with, a time to attune more emotionally to the reality of our internal responses to external experiences. Uranus' opposition to this Full Moon and conjunction with the Sun adds an element of a sudden break, shift, or change with those unseen dimensions within life and ourselves.
This shakeup to our internal reality and subconscious currents can feel uncomfortable, but as always, with the emergence of what is hidden lies an opportunity for integration and a return to wholeness. So also, these quickening changes and micro-revolutions are clearing the way for a more authentic path, purpose, and direction to come forward.
Lastly, while Uranus is a planet of emancipation, it is also a planet of individuation. One of the hardest Uranian lessons is the inherent tension that exists when we choose to honor who we are, or to pursue a path that better fits us but might contradict what society, other people, or a conditioned ideal anticipates. With this eclipse, think about that balance between staying true to yourself and meeting the world halfway. Where on the spectrum do you fall, and what needs to shift to bring you in better alignment? A slight or significant shift is likely showing up, and how will you respond?