The Full Moon at 2 degrees of Taurus will face the Scorpio Sun on October 25 at 9:11 p.m. Pacific (early October 26 in the eastern US.) This is the October Hunter’s Moon, time to stockpile food and fuel as winter is on the way. We’re also in spooky season, with Samhain and the Day of the Dead coming, October 31 and November 1.
Scorpio is our fixed water sign. Taurus is fixed earth. Signs of the fixed mode are ways of being that are stable, reliable, or stubborn, as the case may be.
The Moon is said to be “exalted” when passing through Taurus, the sign of the bull. The Moon is understood as our emotional home base, and astrologically, the Moon’s placement signals where and how a person seeks nurturance. Taurus seeks physical pleasures and comforts, like having a well-stocked fridge or saving for a rainy day.
Scorpio’s approach is to dive deep into emotional waters, however murky or even stagnant and unsavory they may be. At the bottom of a dark lagoon, where bugs and worms and algae live, that’s where to find fertile substances, vital for regeneration.
When the Moon is full in Taurus, it opposes the Sun in Scorpio. One might feel tension between a desire for staying comfortable, versus growing. There’s a paradox in that lasting emotional safety takes hold with willingness to probe one’s shadows: those uncomfortable areas of the psyche that are resistant to change and yet, must change.
The guiding planet of the Taurus Full Moon is Venus, which travels in retrograde motion for about six weeks every 18 to 19 months and is now in one such retrograde period. At the October 25 Full Moon, Venus will have just moved from a conjunction with the Scorpio Sun back into Libra, Venus’ home air sign of diplomacy in partnerships.
Venus will travel in retrograde motion until November 13. These coming weeks are optimal for reviewing and readjusting patterns of relationships and values, including how to allocate precious resources like money and time.
Not just Venus but Mercury, too, will be in retrograde motion at the October 25 Full Moon. Both Mercury and Venus travel close with the Sun, never more than a couple of signs apart. Mercury’s domains include what we think and know. During Mercury’s retrograde period in Scorpio (October 24 to November 13), introspection is the name of the game.
At the October 25 Full Moon, the key transiting aspect is a t-square formed by the Sun and Moon, opposite each other, making 90-degree angles with Pluto at 3 degrees of Aquarius. Pluto is the slowest moving of astrology’s three major “outer” planets. They’re called “outers” because they travel in orbits exceptionally far from the Sun and are invisible to the human eye. (The other two are Uranus and Neptune. These are transpersonal forces, reflecting collective consciousness.)
Pluto’s sojourn through Aquarius, from 2023 to 2044, is a generation-length transit, correlating with pivotal questions about whether humanity will live in freedom and equality. Will forms of democracy survive?
As the focal planet of the October 25 Full Moon t-square, Pluto is symbolically pressuring—and under pressure from—the Taurus Moon and Scorpio Sun. Again, there’s tension—and also the potential for balance—between desires for comfort (Taurus) and/or decay leading to growth (Scorpio).
Powerful dwarf planet Pluto squares the Taurus/Scorpio axis at this full Moon. At worst, Pluto represents subterranean power dynamics that can erupt seemingly out of nowhere. At best, the underworld power of Pluto is precisely what drives growth—or, to use another overworked term, transformation.
Which will it be? Power directed outward, over and against others? Or power within, like a humming engine, ready to move forward? The planets don’t make anyone do anything. They reflect. Nothing is fully fated, because of choice and agency. Many worlds are possible.
Blessings for the Taurus Full Moon!
~ Sara
Sara R. Diamond, an astrologer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is a life-long student and practitioner in several esoteric paths. Her style of astrology combines modern-psychological astrology with insights from traditional astrology. Sara is also an estate planning attorney. In addition, she has published four books on right-wing movements in the United States and earned her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. You are invited to contact Sara via her website at www.SaraDiamondAstrology.com.
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