Scorpio full moon

Many people have been asking lately why things have been so intensely, sometimes overwhelmingly, emotional. Tonight's full moon is the peak of what's been building.

Scorpio, mid-autumn, is an intensely emotional point in our seasonal cycle, the peak water sign, where the magnetism of spirit is most concentrated. This year, just as the sun (soul vitality) moved into Scorpio for the month, expansive Jupiter moved into it for the year, reinforcing the power of the experience. On the opposite side of the sky, adding charging tension to this building emotion, Mars, the action/expression influence, is in the middle of months of being retrograde, backtracking, internalizing, in Taurus, the peak earth sign of mid-spring. Action internalizing in earth power, pulling opposite the expansive soul being drawn into the emotional vortex. At the same time, Saturn, the grounding/aligning influence, is in Leo, the peak fire sign passion of mid-summer, while Neptune, the pull of deepest feelings, is in Aquarius, mid-winter's peak air sign isolation in awareness. All four seasonal and elemental mid-points are anchored, in what is called a Grand Cross. And we are in the middle, enduring the moody intensity of rising emotional power. It's been building since the Scorpio new moon on Wednesday, November 1, peaking in charging intensity with the full moon tonight, Tuesday, November 15. It will begin shifting into full release, after a few more days of anxious mentality, this weekend. A defining moment in the magnetism of spiritual experience.

What does it mean? I don't know. I'm just a tide watcher. But it sure feels like something is about to break into the open, even more than we've seen so far. California earthquake? Bush karma collision in Asia? Desperate hearts finding perfect soul bonding in the shadow of apocalypse? Beats me. I just want everything to work out nice for everyone. And chocolate milk in all the drinking fountains.

Mercury has gone retrograde. Nothing wrong with that. Quick mind turning inward for a few weeks. Uranus, deep, wise mind, has just finished its retrograde and begun flowing outward again. See, it's always something. There is no bad astrology, just energy tides we may not like or understand. The universe unfolds beautifully, including the room for resistance, distortion, and all the ugliness that comes when tensions play themselves out. This is a moment of intensified isolation in feeling. It's probably good for us. Let's accept it and see what happens.