This week's New Moon in Scorpio is considered one of the decade's most transformational New Moons. Its close conjunction with Mercury and Venus, both in Scorpio, places a powerful focus on transformation that aligns with our soul purpose, relationships, and financial matters. The grand water trine with Saturn, Neptune, and Jupiter offer the emotional clarity to ride the waves through it. Overall, there is an urge to cultivate a more intentional relationship with change, new beginnings, and personal evolution.
We recently found inner stability and peace in what grounds us during the last Full Moon in Taurus. Now, under the intense energy of the Scorpio New Moon, we are pushed to welcome the necessary endings required for true metamorphosis to occur.
New Moons always occur when the Sun and Moon are in the same zodiac sign, aligning our egos and identities (Sun) with our emotions and instincts (Moon). The Sun shines its life-giving light on the moon, making the subconscious, conscious. The sign of Scorpio is associated with death, rebirth, and deep transformation, making this a profoundly potent time for inner work that can lead to major life changes.
Receiving influence from multiple planets in water signs, this New Moon shines a spotlight on the natural cycles of life: with every ending comes a new beginning; with every death, a rebirth. But this particular New Moon conveys this meaning on a much more expansive scale. This is not about aimlessly throwing a few seeds in the ground and hoping something will sprout. This is the complete eradication of a garden. This requires digging up the dirt, testing the pH level, finding contaminants, and amending the soil. Only then can we plant the seeds for something new to grow and offer a sustainable harvested for years to come.
Other Planets Influencing this New Moon (there's a lot)
This New Moon is wonderfully supported as it harmonizes with Saturn, Neptune, and Jupiter forming a grand water trine. Your emotional intuition will flow confidently and naturally as you navigate this New Moon.
Saturn in Pisces says,
Neptune in Pisces says, healing doesn't need to feel like drowning.
Jupiter in Cancer says, growth begins with nourishment.
New Moon conjunct (super close to) Mercury and Venus
This alignment with both Mercury (communication, thought, mental processes) and Venus (love, finances, personal values) amplifies the themes of renewal and deep change in these aspects of life. You may find yourself confronting a relationship dynamic that has run its course, or a financial habit that cannot continue into the future. We are asked to ensure our choices align with our core values. You may experience a moment of clarity (Mercury brings truths to light), finally seeing whether a certain relationship or financial matter is worth committing to, allowing you to move forward accordingly.
The Sun & New Moon in Scorpio opposes Uranus retrograde in Taurus
Both the Moon in Scorpio and Uranus in Taurus sit in the final degrees of their currently occupied signs, signifying an intense, transformative merging of energies that yearns to bring a conclusion or new beginning.
Final degrees are seen as a point of culmination, amplifying the combined qualities of the planets involved and indicating a sense of urgency or fate. In this alignment, Uranus dismantles outdated structures or identity patterns, urging to create new systems and break any repetitive cycles being kept on a loop. This brings disruption that leads to realization, potentially showing itself in a conversation, a change of plans, or a song lyrics.
How to Harness this Energy
In Scorpio, we are urged to peel back our darker layers to see what's been hiding at our core. We face the shadows and truths that want to be seen. We fearlessly look into the eyes of what we perceive holds power over us and the heart becomes braver in its truth. When we take the time to do the work--engaging in meditation, journaling, or whatever activity helps connect with our inner self--we open ourselves to realizations, cosmic downloads, and higher messages that can give us direction and open our eyes to what needs focus and what needs letting go.
There is depth and tension with this New Moon. Any fears, resistance, or shadows are showing you the parts of yourself that need shedding or owning. This time offers opportunities to evolve beyond your current limitations.
It's worth noting that discernment is crucial with so many retrogrades shaking up this lunation. Give yourself time, stillness, and a willingness to sit under this New Moon and process your current emotional state and any aspects of life that lack confidence and luster. Epiphanies during retrogrades should always be subject to revision, and major decisions should wait until Mercury goes direct on November 29th. However, rest assured this New Moon is helping you hear subconscious whispers. Sometimes the right path is impossible to ignore. Change is constant, whether we are open to it or not, and when we fight the fates of destiny and change, we are guaranteed to feel the consequences.
Questions to reflect on:
What was I never meant to settle in?
Have I been listening as much as I've been speaking?
When I look back on the past am I longing for it or trying to heal from it?
What is blocking me from transforming into the version of myself I desire to be?
What small act can I commit to today to improve my current circumstances?
Sending love and insight,
-Kendra
This New Moon in Scorpio peaks on Thursday, November 20th at 1:47 AM ET/Wednesday, November 19th at 10:47 PM PT
