As Spooky Season has grown in popularity, Halloween—October 31st—has become synonymous with Samhain as a fixed date for the ease of a modern witch’s busy schedule. The times when Samhain falls on Halloween naturally is rare, as the Cross-Quarter Day is not truly fixed. This year, the actual date of Samhain—falling between the September Equinox and the December Solstice—is today, Friday November 15th.
Whether you celebrate the Scorpio Cross Quarter Day as Samhain in the Northern Hemisphere or Beltane in the Southern, one truth prevails—the Veils between worlds are thin.
This year, the Veil’s thinness is not only prominent, but pliable as the Full Moon illuminates the Taurus-Scorpio axis at 4:29 pm EST, drawing our consciousness and attention towards the Sun in Scorpio and our sub-consciousness and intuition opposite to the Moon in Taurus.
The veils separating realities stretch between Taurus and Scorpio representing empowerment, value and resource where energy loops between the comforts of Taurus and the mysteries of Scorpio. Balancing both sides of this axis allows us as individuals and as a collective to transform and grow.
The Cross Quarter Full Moon radiates supportive energy to change, grow, transform, and evolve both the individual life as well as the collective reality.
The Sun
The Sun focuses our energy and consciousness on the sign it transits through. For a Scorpio Sun, our attention and awareness is drawn towards mysteries, magick, taboos, resources, nightmares to be faced, uncovering secrets, transformation, and empowerment.
In traditional astrology, the Sun is known as a minor malefic—a celestial with negative energy when overexposed—while Mars and Saturn are the greater malefics. The Sun’s minor malefic trait is often overlooked or forgotten because of the warmth, vitality, and attention it brings to the sign it is in. When it stands without conjunctions though, that malefic tendency is easier to observe.
Overexposure to the Sun leads to burns, Carrington Events—intense solar flares and storms that knock out the power grid here on Earth—drought, and desert like conditions. Energetically, the Scorpio Sun can cause hypersensitivity and hyperfocus on the mysteries, secrets, magick, taboos, and the like. It will be up to us as individuals and collectively to avoid fixating on any of these and instead turn some of our interest towards the opposite, the Taurus Moon.
The Moon
New Moons see the Sun and Moon conjunct in the same sign while Full Moons have the two celestials in opposition where they can face each other to have dialogues and clear conversations. This Moon gently draws subconscious energies and intuition towards Taurus, what we value, what we find comforting, and the power we can find there.
Retrograde Uranus in Taurus conjuncts the Moon. Uranus spends about seven years in any one sign, bringing evolutionary and revolutionary energy to that area, especially when it retrogrades. The optical illusion stimulates our need for change when reexamining and reanalyzing our lives and realities. In Taurus Uranus has been shaking up and evolving our values, our comforts, our relationship with the environment and with food, as well as currency.
This conjunction between the Moon and Uranus helps us adapt instinctively when what was once valued or comforting no longer provides us with what we need. It revolutionizes our understanding of value and comfort and evolves them to continue our growth as individuals and collectively.
Harmonious Aspects
The Thin Veil Full Moon presents another unusual circumstance—it’s a full moon without Squares.
The square aspect occurs between two celestial points at 90° from each other. They energy is considered hard and sharp. They present challenges to force change and growth into a situation so things don’t get stagnant.
When squares are absent, like this Thin Veil Full Moon, there are no obstacles to derail manifesting desired results and realities—unless we get in our own way.
The lack of squares places more prominence on the harmonious aspects with Mars, Neptune, Ceres, and Pluto as they support the Sun, Moon, and Uranus from their positions.
Mars in Leo prepares to enter retrograde in about three weeks. The red planet has—briefly—escaped Cancer where it had to tread through the tides and shallow waters or else move like crustacean. By sign, Mars should square the Full Moon and Sun since Scorpio, Taurus, and Leo are all fixed, but it’s position at 3° Leo leaves it within a trine aspect with the Sun and a sextile with the Moon and Taurus.
The out-of-place harmony Mars in Leo supplies our consciousness and our sub-consciousness with confidence to act with a calm knowing that change cometh and things are going to be alright. We don’t know how—Mars isn’t the planet for that—but confidence in ourselves, our talents and skills, and our power will lead to good things.
On a side note, Vulkan—the noncorporeal celestial of crafting and forging our realities—is conjunct the Leo Mars, but makes no aspects to the Sun or Moon. Usually, if celestials aren’t making direct aspects to the luminaries, I leave them out of these articles. Including them would turn these articles into pamphlets or manuals. Vulkan’s conjunction adds to Mar’s leadership and confidence with the understanding and ability that we can forge a path ahead, crafting tools and skills when necessary.
Neptune in Pisces denotes the spiritual awareness about illusions, imagination, lies mistaken as truth, glamour, fantasies, and creativity. This psychic abilities helps the Sun, Moon, Uranus, and even Mars cut through the bullshite—the we tell ourselves as well as what external sources are attempting to tell us—to better act and manifest the dream reality we’ve been pursuing.
Ceres in Capricorn brings the responsible and disciplined parental energy to nurtures us to stay on tasks and finish the boring chores first. Taking care of ourselves and our realities starts with the boring mundane tasks like grocery shopping or cleaning the bathroom and doing the laundry. If our mundane lives are chaotic, the reality we are trying to manifest will be unfocused and easily distracted as well.
Pluto at the Critical 29°
Two of the most significant degrees of a sign include the 0°, the very first degree otherwise known as the Zero Point and Initiatory Degree as well as the 29°, the very last degree of a sign known as the Critical or Anaretic Degree. The first degree is the undiluted energy of a sign while the last is the accumulation. The 29° also represents the threshold of new experiences as celestials are poised to move forward and initiate new experiences and knowledge in another sign.
Since 2008, Pluto has been moving through Capricorn, dipping in and out between Sagittarius and Capricorn at the beginning and Capricorn and Aquarius towards the end of its16 year transit. Pluto won’t see Capricorn for another couple of centuries as it takes 248 years to orbit the Sun.
Pluto at 29° Capricorn trines the Taurus Moon and Uranus and sextiles the Scorpio Sun, supporting the Thin Veil Full Moon.
In modern astrology, Pluto co-rules Scorpio with Mars influencing the Sun as it transits Pluto’s domicile. This suggests our consciousness seeks and is focused on exhuming the hidden, buried, forgotten, lost, and secret. If there is something to expose, Pluto wants to pull it up to the bright, shining Sun. Ultimately, Pluto and the Sun, especially in aspect, do not follow the motto: “What you don’t know won’t hurt you.” Hiding our truths, our talents, and our abilities only hurts us in the long run, and Pluto demands we stop hiding those from ourselves and from the world.
Over the past 16 years, a lot of corruption, decay, and ruin has been brought to our attention. One of the benefits is knowing what needs doing, even if the how is still unclear. Pluto in aspect to the Moon and Uranus supports transformation of those things and ourselves through the evolution of our comforts and values.
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