Full Moon in Scorpio: Release + Renewal

Welcome back to The Essential Astrocast. I am your host, Veronica Perretti, and this is the podcast that you tune into when you want to know what's going on up in the heavens, so that you can dictate your fate down here on Earth. So happy belated Mother's Day to all the moms, the moms of human babies, fur babies, other people's babies. We had a wonderful but unexpected Mother's Day, which makes sense 'cause we were in the lead up to this full moon in Scorpio.

So the full Moon in Scorpio is upon us. I am. Recording this on May 12th in the evening. The Full Moon perfected earlier today at 12:56 PM Eastern Time on Monday, May 12th. So. You are catching this after the full moon, but you still have time to do a full moon ritual. you can always do a full moon ritual. You can do it this whole week, frankly. and I often feel that what's most important is being in alignment with your intention and what you are wanting to align with.

Create, let go of, et cetera. Full moons are a time of celebration, of expressing gratitude for your blessings, of feeling satisfied and full and whole and complete. So full moons are often associated with letting go, and the truth is it's not really letting go. It's a time of your. Apex of energy. When something finally fully blooms, like you see the tulips, they are fully, open and alive and standing tall. That is the full moon. So it's a time of celebration, but it begins the waning cycle.

And if there is something you want to release, it is a nice time to set an intention to release that thing that might be blocking your growth.

This is a particularly potent full Moon, for really honoring what needs to be released, and that is because it is a full moon in Scorpio. Scorpio is the sign that is associated with the depths of our subconscious. It is associated with sometimes trauma or pain or things that we hold onto tight. The sun is in the sign of Taurus. It's the fixed earth sign. The opposite sign is Scorpio, the fixed water sign. Both of these signs really know, how to hold onto a grudge.

So if you've got some old grudges, some old resentments, some old pain, some old emotional patterns, thought patterns, ways of talking to yourself, ways of thinking about yourself, your self-worth, ways of operating in your relationships. That are not working, that are outdated, that are stale, that are making you feel stuck, that are making you feel held back, that are making you feel like you're in the muck, then this is a good full moon to write it on paper and say, I wanna let it go.

I wanna release it. I am now including my New Moon and Full Moon Journal prompts in my newsletter. So if you're not on my email list, you're not part of my email community, I don't know what you're waiting for. Go on over to my website, veronica perretti.com. Perretti is two R's and two T's, and you can sign up for my email newsletters and I send about one a week I will be including the Full Moon Journal of Prompts I used in my ritual today, in my email.

So you'll have them and you'll be able to do your own ritual, whether it's, the 13th or the 16th or the 18th or whenever you decide to do it, whenever you feel in alignment with doing it. So the next week of the moon cycle, we're going to be, releasing Experiencing the, fullness and the blessings that have come from the work of the moon cycle. the next week is really a week of celebration and, seeing how things have come to fruition and the last week of the moon cycle, which will be, coming up.

Next week, that will be that time of real release of really being like, I'm putting this down on a piece of paper. I'm ripping it up, and I'm putting in the dirt, or I'm burning it. So honor the things that make you feel full and satisfied, and from that place of feeling full and satisfied, just notice what's keeping me from. Really fulfilling whatever the intention is that you've been working on and cultivating and trying to manifest, and how can you adjust?

Because full moons give us an opportunity to see clearly. It's a full moon. It's illuminating the darkness. It gives us an opportunity to see what's going on so that we can make the adjustment, and that's the beauty of full moons. So the full moon in Scorpio occurs every tourist season, every spring when the sun is in Taurus and the moon enters that sign of Scorpio exactly opposite the sun. The moon reflects back the sun's light and full moons. By nature because they are an opposition.

There's going to be an opportunity to understand something from the other person's perspective sitting on across the table from you. So this Full Moon in particular has an opportunity to help us be enlightened about something, to bring light to something that we were not understanding before. Okay, so let's get into the astrology of the full moon, because all the things that are in the full moon chart are going to be in the heavens this week.

So just because the full moon's on Monday doesn't mean that all these aspects that make up the full moon chart are not impacting us. We'll be working with them for the duration of the week. So even if you're listening to this podcast on the 16th or the 18th or whatever, it's still going to be pertinent to you. So just a reminder, I'm recording this on May 12th. It's Monday night. I did my full Moon Scorpio ritual earlier today. I taught the Full Moon.

Scorpio Ritual for my Cosmic Yoga Club members. so I am really vibing with the Full Moon right now. one of my favorite things about this Full Moon is that it is.

Conjunct Uranus. if you've been with me or you've been listening to other astrology podcasts, you know that Uranus is, I call Uranus the real housewife of the Zodiac because it is always a shitster. It can be like the best thing ever, or it can be the thing that totally throws a wrench in your plans, but it always likes to keep you on your toes. So Uranus is in Taurus. It has been there for a long time, seven years since 2018.

I am particularly fond of the Sierras and Taurus because I actually began reading people's charts. In 2018 when Uranus entered Taurus, and that was also right after Uranus went over my ascendant, 'cause I have a late Aries ascendant. So it was particularly profound for me and I have really enjoyed Uranus being in Taurus. I was reading something from Christopher Renstrom today who's a wonderful astrologer and he was talking about how Uranus. Transits often bring us back to where we started.

But when we return to where we started, we are maybe doing the same thing, but we are a different person. And I thought about that today and it's been interesting 'cause I've been playing with the idea of opening up more. Slots for readings and keep going back and forth on that. I do have some spots open, so if you do wanna do a reading with me, you can always email me veronica@veronicapreti.com. or if you're in my email community, I send out a link with my openings, every few months.

So I will be sending that out this week. So make sure you're on the email list. Okay. So Uranus transits often bring us to where we started, but we are coming back to that place as an entirely new person. We are coming back to that place having experienced a whole revolution, right? So revolution meaning, the planets go around the sun. That's one revolution, but also a revolution. personally.

It's interesting that idea that Christopher Renstrom had, and I wanted to share it with you 'cause I thought it was profound and it was interesting and it was making me think about my own experience of Uranus and Taurus. So Uranus is sitting with the sun, they will conjoin on Saturday, May 17th, but we are feeling the lead up and we're certainly feeling it with this full moon and Uranus flavoring the sun sitting opposite that.

Illuminated Moon, is certainly giving us an opportunity to shift, to change, to invite in a new way of doing things. So if you've been feeling like, I've gotta break through this, I've gotta break through this haze, this muck, Uranus is helping us do it with the sun coming and You know, shining its light on Uranus. And of course we'll be feeling that all week and certainly on the 17th when it perfects.

So I love that for us, it's good timing because we just finished out that very long, very arduous transit of.

Mars opposite Pluto. We've been living with that in one way or another since October, and we're finally done with it. The Cliff Notes version is that Mars opposite Pluto makes us want to fight. It makes us angry, it makes us frustrated. It was this sort of simmering. Energy that underlied and was a current underneath everything that's been going on since October. Thankfully, Mars is now in Leo out of his retrograde shadow.

He is fully powering forward in the sign of Leo where he feels confident and you might be noticing that your drive is coming back. So I noticed in the lead up to this full moon that I have been in a major decluttering phase and I'm just so excited to be getting to all of these house projects. My husband and I both this weekend, were like, I'm doing this and I'm doing that and he's doing this one and I'm doing this one.

Decluttering all of my son's toys and giving them away, and we're just doing a lot of house things, but I'm particularly doing a lot of clearing. I'm doing a lot of decluttering. I'm doing a lot of making space, and I think a lot of other people are feeling that too. Not only because it's of course, spring, spring cleaning. We're preparing for, you know, fun summer months when we need less stuff and we want less stuff weighing us down.

But I think part of it is that we were so in the muck the past few months with the retrogrades, which often are a time of clearing, but we just felt stuck. It was hard to make decisions. And when you're clearing, you need to be able to be decisive. You need to be like, we don't need this, we don't need that. This doesn't fit. I'm gonna release this. There's a lot of. decisions that have to be made.

So one of the things that's lovely about this Full Moon is that we have that Uranus Conjunct to the Sun, which is offering us the excitement about making the change. It's also exciting because it's the last time that the Uranus and the Sun will be together in the sign of Taurus. For a long time and many of us won't see it again 'cause it takes about 80 years for Uranus to go around the Zodiac. So Uranus will be moving into Gemini in July, get ready. The summer is going to be wild.

So you wanna do your decluttering this week. You wanna make sure that you've made your space. 'cause we've got a lot of fresh energy coming in this summer. But the other thing is that we have Jupiter. Squaring the nodes, and when Jupiter squares the nodes of fate, it gives us the faith and the self-confidence we need to make the decisions to make the choices that are gonna lead to the next thing that possibly have long standing impact or even are faded. So. That is part of this Full Moon story.

Of course, Jupiter scoring the nose is happening, regardless of the full Moon, but it's part of this full Moon story. It's part of this feeling of, all right, I feel full. I feel complete. I feel whole. I can finally make decisions about what I'm going to get rid of for my closet or.

Finally make decisions about what I wanna do with the garage, or what I wanna do with this room, or what I wanna do about this relationship, or what I wanna do about this job, or what I wanna do about this, thing that's been hanging over my head and I just haven't dealt with it. So I think that's really helpful. Part of what's going on this week, and I encourage you to lean into it Trust your intuition, trust your gut. Have faith in your own intuition and your knowledge of yourself.

No one knows you like you know you. Okay? So Jupiter is also sextile and Chiron and Jupiter and Chiron are both making an in conjunction or quincunx to the moon. That is an aspect pattern that we call a Yad or a finger of God, and so that finger of God, it is pointing to the moon and saying, Hey, pay attention to that full moon in Scorpio. It's really important. There's something. Pretty important going on here. And the universe is trying to tell you something. Jupiter's sex, tele Chiron.

It is letting go of old resentments and turning them into new wisdom. 'cause Jupiter is that faith. Jupiter is that knowing that if you take the next step, eventually the staircase will appear So. Letting go of the old pain, letting go of the old trauma, allowing it to be composted and turned into the food that will nourish that new wisdom that's coming, that new knowledge that you've been waiting for. Scorpio is really the co, the cosmic compost bin.

It is where we take our old pain, our old trauma, our old hurt, the things that are really, really deep in the muck of our consciousness or subconscious. The things that are hiding at the very back of the dark hall closet that you never deal with, that is ruled by Scorpio. So a full moon in Scorpio is always gonna have us looking at the deep, dark stuff that we'd normally. Skillfully ignore, and the full moon makes it so that we can't ignore it. And that's not necessarily a bad thing.

It can be a healing thing, it can be a freeing thing. And Uranus being so close to the sun really lets us know that this is indeed a freeing thing. Uranus, while he might be unsettling. To say the least. He's also working for our liberation. Okay.

So it's the last week of tourist season. we've got some big astrology coming in the weeks ahead. We do have Mercury Square Pluto the same day as the Full Moon on Monday the 12th, which means that you might be getting messages and information that you didn't know about.

You might be expressing something and someone else goes, you've never told me that because you know, mercury, Pluto, it does bring up the unknown or gives us words to express what we've been feeling that maybe we weren't able to express. But there's not a lot of transits throughout the week until we get to Saturday the 17th, that's the sun conjunct Uranus. And then on Sunday we will have Mercury Square, Mars. Mercury Square. Mars is really motivating. It can help us get the message out there.

It can help us have the conversation. It can help us just do the damn thing already. So that is really useful on Sunday the 18th, if there's something that you just gotta do already. Mercury and TAUs Square, Mars and Leo Mars and Leo is nice and confident. It might help us to do the thing. Jupiter is going to be sextile and Chiron on Sunday to be exact. Of course, we're feeling it all week and it does play into the full moon chart, but that is the day that it will be exact.

So, you know, we'll be composting those old wounds throughout the week and. On Sunday, really allowing them to become our new wisdom. one of the other things going on is next week, on Tuesday the 20th. So jumping ahead a little bit, the sun is gonna enter Gemini. So this is our last week of Taurus season and it's offering us some time to ground our energy and decide how we wanna move forward into summer.

Knowing that the astrological landscape is pretty wild for the summer, we're gonna have a lot of new phases starting. So if there's stuff you have to wrap up, let this week help you do it. Let that mercury square Mars on Sunday the 18th, be the thing that clears your desk so that you are ready and available to see what is coming. I am excited about this. I'm feeling really motivated and sort of.

Rejuvenated after the past, I feel like this Full Moon is kind of bringing some energy back to me, at least after being in the muck, all of 2025, it's felt like such a trudge. And we've got all of these planets moving into Aries. So later this month we are gonna have Saturn move into Aries. It's gonna be beginning of a new 30 year Saturn cycle. All of you. Saturn and Aries babies, you will be having a Saturn return. All of you Saturn and Pisces babies. You can say goodbye to your Saturn return.

Kind of Saturn will come retrograde back into Pisces for a short time later this year. But mostly, you know, Saturn is wrapping up his time in Pisces and it will be very interesting to have Saturn and Aries. I'm going to be talking about that. In the coming weeks, but I'm also going to be teaching a workshop on Saturn and Aries, as well as Saturn throughout all the signs and the Saturn cycle.

So every seven years we get a little message from Saturn, we get a little knock on the door, we get what people might call the seven year itch. It's the seven year Saturn itch. So every seven years we get a. Challenging or, you know, responsibility, encouraging aspect or transit from Saturn. So I am excited to talk about Saturn. It's going to be on, I think May 31st. I was deciding between May 31st or June 1st. But May 31st is Saturday, and Saturday is Saturn's day.

So I think I'm gonna teach it on May 31st. So again, you wanna be on the email list because then you will know when that link is posted and you can sign up for the Saturn workshop, which I am playing with the title. Rings of time 'cause Saturn rules time and Saturn has rings. So I think that is what I'm gonna go with. stay tuned. I'm excited to teach my Saturn workshop. And what else? We've got cosmic conversation next week.

That is a free offering every other week about, I get on Zoom and we talk astrology. I love the group that comes. We have a very consistent group that comes every other Monday at 5:00 PM Eastern. last time we talked about Pope Francis' chart and did a little preview of the conclave. now we have a new Pope, Pope Leo. we're gonna look at his chart next week and I am excited about him. Pope Leo has some Leo placements in his chart. Go figure.

he also is a Virgo, so I am excited to talk about Pope Leo. And his transits and what was leading up to him becoming poop. So we'll talk about that as well as whatever you guys wanna talk about. 'cause it's a collaborative space. You come, you bring your astrology questions and we get into it. So you can get the link in my email or go to my site and sign up under events, veronica pertti.com/events.

And I will leave it there. I hope you have a wonderful week. I hope that you are basking in the glow of this full Moon and Scorpio. I hope that you're feeling grounded and really allowing yourself to take care of yourself and know your worth because the Sun and Taurus will not have it any other way. And I'll talk to you next week. Bye.