by Silvianne K. Delmars | May 9, 2025 |
On Sunday, May 12, we reach the culmination point of the process seeded at the Taurus New Moon, with a potently initiatory Full Moon at 21 Scorpio 13, sharing in the energies of last week’s Beltane cross-quarter, the halfway point between the Aries Equinox and the upcoming Cancer Solstice.
At this pregnant cosmic moment, we are invited to leverage our appreciation for the great beauty of this earthly existence into a whole new level of conscious creativity.
The Sabian Symbol for this degree is “A bunny metamorphosed into a fairy.” In his Pleiadian symbol set, John Sandbach re-imagines this word picture as “In twilight a forest alive with all sorts of creatures, some physical, others denizens from other planes.”
In the Sabian symbol, we see the baser instincts of visceral Scorpio transformed to a higher plane. This degree asks us to enter deeply into the intensity of Scorpio and its obsession with going to the heart of the matter, ferreting out the energy signature at the core of any experience. Making judgments, or attempting to suppress the extremes of emotion, is not useful to this process. The salient question is, just how deeply alive and aware can I be to the currents of the present moment?
If we can go deep enough, perhaps we will be fortunate enough to touch into the radically primal energy that fuels life itself. We can then take the generative power of that essential passion to support our own fuller awakening to the truth of who we came here to be.
The Pleiadian symbol reminds us that there are many planes of existence. The limited world view of modern consensus reality has left us with a paucity of resources, leading us to believe that the only world is the one we can perceive with our sadly curtailed, “rational” senses.
But there are many other worlds, and we can be granted access to them. In the twilight forest of our inner perceptions, opened to us through following the pathways of Scorpio’s instinctive enchantment with life’s most powerful currents, we can encounter previously unimaginable, other-worldly creatures.
These denizens of this twilight landscape may terrify, inform, surprise or even inspire us. In Scorpio’s world, what matters is that we come to feel more alive as a result of the encounter. In the words of John Sandbach, the gift this degree holds is an “intuitive awareness of the vast spectrum of forms that consciousness takes.”
With communicator Mercury in earthy Taurus squaring metamorphic Pluto in Aquarius at this Full Moon, there is a possibility for bringing our own creative perceptions into form in a way that can be deeply healing to ourselves and others – if we are willing to go deep while also dreaming large.
We are in an ongoing season of great change, here on planet Earth. Old paradigms of control over and attempts to create illusory stability by rational understanding simply cannot function in the new reality descending rapidly upon us. We have no choice but to plunge into the fluctuating currents, tapping our own deepest essential nature for navigational clues. We are being radically impulsed to spend more time being led by our heart, rather than our head.
The assignment from this cosmos at this Scorpio Full Moon moment is to take the plunge and create the landscape of our life in congruence with our own instinctual nature taken to its highest essence, if we truly want to be of benefit to ourselves and those around us in the pivotal moments of this great Turning of The Ages.