New Moon in Scorpio: The Corpse, the Likeness
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Moon opposed Uranus - absolute upheaval
Moon Trine Saturn - guarding behaviors
Moon Trine Jupiter - pure abundance
Moon Trine Neptune - your mind is too open to them
Moon Conjunct Mercury (copresent with Venus) - intimacy, forgiveness, empathy
Mercury is retrograding into Scorpio, conjuncting the New Moon and adding a penetrative gaze and an audience with death to an absolutely feral sky formation. With retrogrades we classically see returning, redoing, renewing…all manner of “re,” and “archival” tissue. You’ll notice that a lot of memories come up to be truly relived right now; you’re viewing your past with fresh, honest, compassionate eyes, like you would look at a child. With Neptune, your old self feels like an in the flesh out of body experience. With Mercury Rx opposed Uranus, something imperceptible in your mainframe is calling in a cast of past characters to pay visitation to the mausoleum of your old selves. You will experience returns from longggg ago. You may be one of those ghosts for someone else. The Moon in Scorpio holds on deeply to whatever until it absorbs all nutrients to the point of putrefaction. You’re turning over pearls from tiny shards of resentment and grief. It takes time.
Doppelgängers, self-hauntings, poltergeists of projection. Expect to receive confrontations from outside yourself reminding you of who you are and who you used to be, as if confronting points on a continuum that exist simultaneously. With Neptune and Jupiter trining Moon/Mercury, your impressions are fluid and more about what isn’t said. You’re reading inversions and translating. Nothing is clear but it makes sense to you this way right now.
The clarity that comes up around this time is due to the immense empathy you have access to, the tenderness of Venus coupled with Mercury in Scorpio creates a preternatural patience with others that you can’t really quantify. You’re forgiving even if you’re annoyed. Memories remind you of the good in a hated person. You’re present and attentive. Unbroken eye contact waiting for someone to tell their story. Crying in a quiet room. Remembering again and again, a helix. Dreams that feel real but you wake up with only an emotion. There’s braille and darkness and a feeling of warmth. You’re waiting to see what bobs to the surface with vulnerability.
Feelings may seep up through the floorboards, holographic blood stains/telltale heart vibes. You can’t outrun your fate or what you’ve done; you have to engage with it right now. In some ways, the mirrors and echos of yourself at this new moon are horrifying yet familiar. You feel oddly brave enough to handle the projections of others and confront who they think you are. With Mercury in Scorpio, you’re curious and unafraid. With Neptune, your mind is unsealed and merging naturally. There will be lots of synchronicities, fluid boundaries, soft bodies. You are more affectionate. Even as Saturn cautions you to draw a line and protect your heart, it’s holographically already broken in front of you. Time is never more an illusion than when all these retrograde planets collide in a mega-trine formation. Mercury is like an aperture allowing you to see to the very end of the horizon.
Uranus causes static. Surprises, shocks, unexpected breaks in the signal. Artificial intelligence running programs in your brain and allowing calamity to strike briefly to draw your attention. Like a room that is too quiet, every break in the noise of your life creates a fuzzier din of silence that follows. You can almost hear it. The eternity will wait for you to feel it.
Listen: Tender Buttons by Broadcast
Read: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
Watch: Annihilation // Black Swan (basically all those fucking Gemini movies with Natalie Portman)