Full Moon in Scorpio: Our Power of Choice

White Tara Goddess Art by Laura Milnor Iverson

Full Moon in Scorpio: Our Power of Choice

Moon opposite Sun- 5-18-2019 @ 4:13pm CDT

The focus is clear on this Full Flower Moon, even with all the complexity surrounding the current Taurus-Scorpio reflection. What is unfolding now is about power. The dynamics bring up issues of power over others, power under others, hidden power, and the truth of our free will power of choice within. What is intensifying now is our fixed focus on the body and our personal resources and values (Taurus Earth) and our fixed focus on the emotions that we feel deeply and share with others we trust (Scorpio Water).

It may be a surprise for some to consider that what is suggested by all the Earth and Water elements guiding us at this time is not a call to catch fire and heat things up, but to cool down and tap in to our Inner Wisdom. Easier said than done, I know, because what is happening around us is earth-shakingly turbulent. All the more reason to check in with your inner response-ability. How do YOU choose to use the wisdom of this lunar cycle?

Sun-Sedna-Artemis in Taurus 28

Sabian Symbol: ‘A woman, past her ‘change of life’, experiences a new love’

'Awakening Love in 2019' by Jalai Lama

'Sedna' by Germaine Arnaktauyok
The Inuit Goddess of the Ocean and Sea Animals

Sun illuminates this Full Moon opposition while flanked closely with the outer planet, Sedna, and the asteroid, Artemis. This alliance of earthy Taurus wisdom is connected to the Ocean (Sedna) as well as the Moon and Wilderness (Artemis). Archetypes of Mama Ocean and Wild Huntress radiate from the Sun’s beams at this time. They are also in conjunction with Mercury in Taurus, a few degrees away. Mercury brings the Collective Mind and our ability to communicate these Earth lessons into play...and acts as a translator of messages for the energies involved. Guiding all of this is Venus, the Feminine Principle of Love, who arrived home in this fixed earth sign a few days ago. About 5 hours prior to this Full Moon, Venus exacted conjunctions with Pandora and Uranus (working together to move our awareness out-of-the-box).

Anything is possible with this kind of awakening love response. And we will see it outside of us in many different forms, not all of them as romantic as this Taurus symbol suggests. It is important to tap into our own response to whatever ‘new love’ arises in our experience at this time. Uranus in Taurus reminds us to follow our own timing and keep the beat of our own drum. Venus agrees, and attracts new and unexpected experiences of love to celebrate this earthy season.

'Artemis (Diana)' by Catherine La Rose

And yet, what many of us are being faced with in our love for our own earth bodies and our personal choices to share this love with another...is strong opposition to our own abilities to choose these experiences for ourselves. The emotions from the lunar opposition are intense. The opposition can bring up powerful parts of the mythic storyline of these Goddesses illuminated by the Taurus Sun. Sedna’s storyline relates in that she was wronged and wounded by male dominated value systems, but ultimately became the powerful Mother Goddess of the Oceans with choice to offer her gifts to humanity or withhold them. Artemis’s storyline relates in that she chose to be a virgin midwife who honors the choice of each woman to choose motherhood or not. In her storyline, she not only successfully enforced her maidenhood choice on men who disrespected that choice...but she empowered other women to choose their own paths.

As more and more man-made, and ultimately dangerous, laws are being forced on our individual sovereignty...this Taurus Stellium empowers dedication to our freedom of choice. The mature woman in the symbol radiated here is breaking free of false limitations through the rebirth of love. We have the capacity for mature response to our experience of this time. Receptive wisdom is heightened, and we must trust our inner resources for response. The energies of this Taurus Stellium guide us to be open, receptive, and responsive to the Venusian Initiations being offered now.

Moon in Scorpio 28

Sabian Symbol: ‘The King of the Fairies approaching his domain’

'Oberon and Puck Listening to the Sea Maid's Music' by Chris Beetles

Our Full Moon is guided by Mars and Pluto, in both personal and transpersonal expressions. So what is coming up for each of us is guided by our recent experience of out-of-bounds Mars in Cancer (ruled by Moon, so in ‘mutual reception’ between Moon and Mars signs now). And transpersonally, we are guided by the Collective Soul regeneration of Pluto Retrograde in Capricorn (ruled by Saturn, who is also retrograding Capricorn). With this mix of ‘rulerships’ in the energy of this Full Moon, there is a many layered lesson in the symbol of this degree of Scorpio.

Each of us is ultimately the authority of our own lives, the Fairy King shows us. Signs from the Spirit World will be emerging from deep Scorpio waters, revealing the Mysteries beyond the edges of our awareness. As the Mother Moon illuminates this degree, each of us encounters our own lunar reflection of the truth of our hidden power. And Scorpio is about sharing our truth...merging truths together with others to get right to the core of what life means to us.

Some truth does hurt. Some truth heals. Thus, the intensity of Scorpio waters shows us the deepest experience of life's truths. One reflection of this Full Moon is in the power of creating alliances with others as well as aligning with Natural Law. The Laws of Nature are synchronized to Mother Earth’s body. Man-made law cannot restrict her or control her. It can scarcely define her at this point, while it is so heavily controlled itself by those who don’t respect and honor her.

Mother Earth is the Prima Genetrix. She has the ultimate power of choice. Her allied forces among us remind us that within her Natural Law, choice is always necessary...because choice brings evolution to this mix of Spirit-Soul-Matter that we embody.

'Black Butterfly' by Larry Poncho Brown

Many of us, not even just those of us with a uterus, are feeling Mother Earth’s call. We mirror her feelings, as we all feel an organized and invasive attack on the Feminine Mysteries we ALL hold within our bodies from our own lineage of Mothers. We’re picking up more pieces of Truth in this Full Moon phase, investigating the Mother Mysteries together as a shared discussion and discovery. Just as each of us has our own knowledge of these Mysteries within us, passed down through ancestral mothers...there are also other Nature Spirits among us we are increasingly discovering as Allies. They have their own pieces of our Truth to share with us. This expands our Womb Wisdom of the World through the connections in the Mother Mind.

What our Natural World is saying to us, a culture that has become largely enslaved and disconnected to Nature, is that we are connected to something greater than what we’ve been seeing in the human realm. They are guides and allies, championing our rights to make fully informed choices for ourselves. They show us the way to be with others who need allies to clean up this complicated, twisted mess we’re all in globally. In this unified field together, we are protected while protecting each other. We become the Wayshower within.

This Soul level discussion I’m offering here may seem too ‘out there’ for many people, and that’s understandable. We, as modern humans, often come into the teaching that we can’t trust what we can’t confirm with our own senses...even while being conditioned to see Spirit through the eyes of other humans. What we forget is that we all see from the perspective of our own InnerSpace. Scorpio Moon reflects in ways that show us what appears ‘out there’ is really ‘in here’...in the light we carry within our own bodies.

The Fairy King whispers, "Be not afraid of what you cannot always see. Trust that there are forces supporting your enlightenment."

Love and Gratitude,

Felina Lune Kavi