The Sun-Moon opposition perfects on the 1st at 10:22 AM PDT at 11 Scorpio 20, with the Lunar component also acting as apex to a Finger of God with base of Venus in Gemini sextile Saturn in Aries, catching the Solar sphere at their midpoint in Taurus. The Finger configuration asks us to facilitate the cooperation of the base energies–in this case, Venus and Saturn–in order to ‘receive’ or create the apex results, which here are those offered by the Scorpio Full Moon. Culmination of Luna in Scorpio brings the Truth to the surface, uncovers what was buried, reveals what’s hidden or obscured, and lets you know exactly how you feel about it, in a flood of feeling that can be overwhelming. Reduction of all matters to the emotional level can bring forward overreaction or can disorient, which may tempt us to act or choose precipitously, thanks to all that Aries energy flexing in our faces, especially that Chiron-Mercury conjunction that could make us brood on our wounds, though it’s separated enough from Mars that it’s (less) likely to trigger acting on those hurt feelings alone–it’ll take something more, and that something may be the base sextile of the Finger.

How you combine Venus and Saturn is up to you. Venus is in Gemini, boosting pleasant, profitable, or worthy ideas or communications, ones in the best interests of relationships, our bottom line, our assets, or what we value, tangible or intangible. This can involve sexy talk, Arty concepts, profitable networking or information sharing/ exchange, collaboration with like-minded others for everyone’s benefit or advantage, ‘pretty’ words, the unspoken power of beauty or Nature and what it communicates, and Saturn in Aries says our own Will, actions, choices, and drive can make that Venus focus manifest in concrete terms or forms, that it’s our own initiative that takes Gemini-flavored Venusian energies from the mind to the real world–or, in few select cases, that takes Venus concepts like jealousy, envy, and greed and shapes them, blocks them, contains them in a more acceptable form, or completely stops them from manifesting.

The result of this Venus-Saturn interplay is the Full Scorpio Moon; it brings an intense, deep, ripe experience of feeling, possibly made up of emotions steeped in thoughts, beliefs, and passions we didn’t know we carried. That’s the thing with a Scorpio Moon: between its depths and its watery nature, we’re bound to discover something in us, some sentiment or urge, we were to now unaware of. Scorpio’s a sign of sensation-tinged contemplation and reverie, offering us a glimpse into our own depths, our own personal inner workings–just take care, as Saturn’s presence can be powerful, both for potential denial of possibilities, and for its ability to make those Venusian thoughts or concepts take solid form, right before our eyes.

The Sun is necessarily at the midpoint of Venus-Saturn, suggesting that our attention during the Lunar episode may be drawn in the exact opposite direction than ‘where the action is’–that is, into Taurean areas like comfort, security, dependability, and the satisfying of appetites, with an emphasis on taking a hands-on, artisanal approach that could make us think we must carefully craft our emotional reactions to Scorpio Moon events rather than simply let them wash over us, experience them, and in so doing, discover ourselves.

A few other notables: the North Node point currently sits in Pisces at the midpoint of the ongoing Neptune-Pluto sextile=at this time what we choose to destroy, and what we choose to create, will very strongly and overtly shape the life direction, much more directly than usual, through a kind of Universal alchemy, that makes synchronicities, creative visions, spiritual goals, and the entanglement of all things extra responsive to both positive and negative expressions. Chiron and Mercury are tucked together at 27 degrees of Aries=difficult to sort out hurt feelings, especially hurt ego, from pure thought–don’t mistake one for the other. Mars in his own sign of Aries is square Jupiter in Cancer and trine the Black Moon Lilith point in Sagittarius=the tension is between charging ahead with what we want and being considerate of others’ needs–which side of the equation we come down on is determined by what we’ve ignored or denied, and how willing we are to acknowledge it. And lastly, Jupiter is conjoined bodies Hades and Kronos. We’re talking about the guy who feared losing power so much he ate his own children, and the guy who runs the Underworld. The social arena (Jupiter) is full of these types right now, and that may make us feel there are more of them than there really are. That can be discouraging, if we see opportunity (Jupiter) overrun by bullies, mobsters, the unscrupulous, and the Self-interested, but never fear–as distorted as things can become, the Universe is all about balance–Karma takes care of the rest.

The Sabian for the Moon is, ‘An Official Embassy Ball’. Sounds a lot like the visit of King Charles and Queen Camilla of Great Britain just this week–a visit that should remind all Americans how much we need, and owe to, our allies. On a personal level, that suggests that concepts around diplomacy and the honoring of those ‘Others’ with whom we interact may be a good thing to keep in mind over the next two weeks (through the next Lunar event). For the light-giving Sun the Sabian is, ‘A Young Couple Window Shopping’. ‘Young’ and ‘Window Shopping’ both suggest to me a potentially low-level of resources. It may be that we’re all feeling depleted right now, shining simply because we have to, forced to carry on when we could use a chance to re-charge, recuperate, gather resources for what we really want to go after. I think many of us feel like we have to keep all the balls in the air, that we don’t have a choice; maybe what we need is to let a few things we genuinely don’t care about drop, and let others who might think they’re owed our efforts handle it as they may.

Have a great weekend, my friends!