There is power behind this New Moon conjunct the Sun and Mercury at 28 degrees Scorpio on Thursday, 20 November at 17:47 hours (AEST). These luminaries oppose Uranus at the anaretic degree of Taurus, signalling shocking, surprising, and unpredictable events that force us to create fearlessly new experiences. This echoes a spiritual reverence, pulling us toward being truly alive. The pulse of life is calling. Our current dormant state of affairs, the mundane living, will come to a halt.
Many other elements are at play: Jupiter in Cancer, Saturn and Neptune in Pisces, all speaking harmoniously to these luminaries, while Venus trines the North Node and sextiles the South Node. This is the ultimate alignment for surrendering our preferences through the perception of our spiritual practices.
This energy is uncomfortable, drawing upon all our personal journeys of releasing subconscious patterns, from possession, grabbing, holding, to idealisation of people, places, financial entanglements, and the misuse of power over our lives. We’ll feel the unintegrated parts of our soul demanding expression and balance through sacred commitment. All things keeping us rigid, standoffish, and secretive, disguising our inner turmoil through pretence and facades, will fade to black. We cannot avoid the death, endings, and transformations of our personal journey that held us captive.
This lunar aspect highlights where we hide our ignorance of not knowing the direction of our life and where we’re unwilling to share our vulnerable states. On the flipside, it supports where we honour the time to pause, integrate our relationship to external factors, giving us a different energy that brings spiritual power from the inside. We begin to understand how to move and act gracefully to bring our creativity into manifestation.
A New Moon in Scorpio means we need to have a deep dive into its characteristics. Scorpio is one of the most integral signs of the zodiac. It’s not afraid of going deep into uncharted territory and bringing to surface all that is uncomfortable. It’s associated with death and rebirth, but not of things outside of itself. The animal, the scorpion, has a sting in its tail behind its head. Symbolically, moving through life requires self-reflection, and sometimes the desire to have everything leads us into self-sabotaging experiences.
The lowest octave of Scorpio is possession, power used to position ourselves first, as the fear of not having enough can lead to holding on with grave intensity. It can move the obsessive force towards jealousy, by attaching to something that has overstayed its welcome. Yet, it has the power to create, invest, and merge with others outside of itself. This is essential to understand because we play out these energies when we feel threatened.
This energy has the capacity to evolve into the eagle, another archetypal force bringing strength, freedom, courage, and wisdom, along with a strong spiritual connection and divine guidance. The eagle’s strength lies in its ability to hunt and see things that are camouflaged. Its freedom comes from perceiving a wider perspective, tapping into the wisdom of choice. The fearlessness required to leave the nest for hunting, even if its prey is larger than its physical body, mirrors our own journey.
The spiritual connection is associated with being a messenger from different realms, spirit and earth, which represents divine guidance. The eagle, in many cultures, is a sign of renewal, rebirth, and the need to find balance. These qualities reside in Scorpio when the integration from its own fears has been overcome.
And the third symbolic and powerful archetype is the phoenix. Like the eagle, it has the power of renewal, resilience, and immortality, representing its ability to rise from the ashes, destruction, to achieve a new beginning. This New Moon in Scorpio conjunct the Sun and Mercury retrograde plants a clear seed of transformation we all must go through.
All the retrograde planets speak to this New Moon in Scorpio: Saturn and Neptune in Pisces trine, Jupiter in Cancer also in a trine. Uranus in Taurus is in opposition, and Mercury is conjunct. This is not a New Moon that says move forward with the new; rather, it’s asking us to introspect honestly and respectfully about our personal hang-ups, behaviours, and patterns marinated through fear. We may fear relationships, so we keep our boundaries tight. We may fear losing everything we have and keep it locked up without spending or sharing our experiences. We may fear death or getting unwell, so we get obsessed with our health and physical regime becomes intense. Scorpio energy is infused in our deep subconscious patterns. This energy is asking us to review all our fears, not to let them bleed into the newness awakening in us.
Venus in Scorpio invites us to reexamine our personal values that cause grief, loneliness, and isolation. Scorpio is not about doing life on its own. It holds a great power of togetherness and connectedness. We don’t force the change when dealing with Scorpio. As we review the characteristics of both the eagle and the phoenix, we know that through their journey of survival, they evolve into something greater. We cannot have a rebirth if we’ve not understood our personal strength nor integrated our experiences into wisdom. This energy brings all things that don’t hold these qualities to the surface. As this is an activation point of the New Moon with new seeds, we cannot plant them until we’re ready to do the real work of self-reflection, observation, release, and acceptance.
The things we may face, other than our deepest fears coming to haunt us, is the energy of dullness. Scorpio is exciting, intriguing, and powerful. It’s alive. It’s raw from a very private setting. Anything that doesn’t have this our life, relationships, projects, or people, we will want to end. Saturn in Pisces is slowing down to its direct motion on 28 November, and we will feel this energy. It can make us paranoid, question our ability and choices, bring doubt because we won’t be able to move forward with the new until we’ve resolved our spiritual blocks. We’re almost at the end of this powerful year of endings. The symbolic power of this moon is uncanny to the events that unfold. An opposition to Uranus in Taurus is asking for us to create a world that is in alignment with our experienced values. While Venus in Scorpio is illuminating questions that need answers or integration. Perhaps we’re holding on to old dreams, pains, wounds where the ego has attached its energy to prove a point.
Scorpio is fixed water ruled by both Mars and Pluto. These are malefic energies helping us to travel through our own darkness. What’s deeply hidden that no one can know now needs a voice. We must give permission to allow the tap of uncomfortable emotions to rise. There will be dramatic endings and changes only orchestrated by the universe. We don’t need to do anything or force things to speed up as key integration points are at play. If we’re attempting to control others and how they relate to us, then we’re not in a place of evolution. It’s easy to fall away from all the spiritual work we’ve done because desire seduces us from the uncomfortable energies.
True strength lies when we face our fears unapologetically without making a song and dance about it. We embrace the changes not through reaction but gracefully integrating the energies we’ve suppressed for so long. We can move into new spaces of transformation, even if we’re not interested in the change, there is a pressure to move differently because we know we cannot go back. The phoenix doesn’t transform into the eagle and the eagle into the scorpion. There is a natural law and order that follows in a series of events leading us to transform. We cannot transform if we’re still bleeding old patterns that have no room for our newness. This will only delay the true power of transformation and renewal.
Ultimately, we’re not going to understand this energy until it begins to reveal our subconscious patterns of fear, jealousy, anger, revenge, deception, secrecy, and obsession. Until we face our addictions and how desire leads us in different directions, not always the best destiny point, we cannot begin afresh. The truth of this energy is the hard work involved in order for us to follow the order of events that follow. It asks for maturity. Mars is currently in Sagittarius making its way to square the nodes of the moon. This is where we make the choice of either perfecting everything through worry (South Node Virgo) or we move into new energies that put the pressure of change in motion (North Node in Pisces). Pluto is in Aquarius moving out of bounds in a few days, revealing to us if we’re connecting with the energies, we want to embody rather than holding on to the old.
This energy asks for a silent commitment to Self. Mercury retrograde will be disclosing information that has been hidden in plain sight. This is a critical New Moon that activates the very intensity we need for life transformations. The downside is we want to move into the change without the uncomfortable journey. It’s a time of stillness. Quiet the inner world and listen to how we operate. Jupiter in Cancer is asking is it emotionally ethical, Saturn is asking for patience and testing if we have what it takes to mature into the new paradigm. Our Soul is leading the path of true change, because we have 2025 to do the most powerful work of clearing. Relationships, situations, people, and places that are not spiritual or integral will fade to black. Our job is not to hold on, question, or work things out, but to, as the French would say, laisse tomber, let it go.
Happy releasing for new beginnings.
10 Key Questions for the New Moon in Scorpio
- What am I holding onto that no longer serves my highest good?
- Where in my life am I resisting transformation out of fear?
- How can I honour my emotions without letting them control me?
- What subconscious patterns are ready to be released?
- How can I embrace vulnerability as a strength rather than a weakness?
- What relationships or situations have I outgrown?
- How can I align my actions with my spiritual values?
- What does true power mean to me, and how do I wield it?
- Where am I still trying to control outcomes instead of trusting the process?
- What new beginning am I ready to welcome with open arms?
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