🌕 Full Moon 2026
Full Moon in Scorpio
The purge — buried truths erupt as Scorpio's relentless honesty meets Aries fire and demands transformation.
What This Full Moon Brings
The Full Moon in Scorpio on May 1 at 11°20' is not polite, not gentle, and not interested in your comfort zone. Scorpio is the zodiac's surgeon — precise, unflinching, and willing to cut into what's infected so that genuine healing can begin. When the Moon is full here, everything hidden demands to be seen: secrets, desires, debts (emotional and financial), power dynamics, and the control patterns running silently beneath the surface of your life.
The Aries stellium opposing this Moon pours gasoline on the fire. Mars energy — raw, impulsive, forward-charging — clashes with Scorpio's deep, strategic intensity. The result is a lunation that feels volcanic. Anger you've been sitting on erupts. Desire you've been repressing announces itself. Financial entanglements that have been quietly draining you become impossible to ignore. This is not subtle. This is the emotional equivalent of ripping off a bandage.
But here's what Scorpio knows that other signs sometimes forget: destruction and creation are the same process. What burns away under this Moon was already dead — you were just keeping the corpse warm. The relationships, habits, financial arrangements, and self-concepts that don't survive this lunation were already hollow. Let them go. What remains after the fire is whatever is genuinely, unshakeably yours. That's the treasure Scorpio's been guarding all along.
Astrological Analysis
As any Scorpio energy, this full Moon indicates culmination of very powerful emotions. If such were stifled and suppressed, now they
can explode like a volcano. If you notice people around reacting more extremely, irritably or threateningly than normal, it is the
purging energy of the Scorpio Moon, fired up by the stellium in Aries, which makes the period even more Martian- reactivity, brute
force or final decisions.
On the positive, so much Mars energy (Scorpio and Aries) gives us more will power and motivation to get things done, transform
unhealthy situations, remove toxic people and habits, finish unfinished tasks, confront people or situations that frustrate us.
Wonderful time for elimination and detox procedures.
How It Affects Your Sign
Select your Sun, Moon, or Rising sign for a personalized reading.
Aries
The Full Moon activates your 8th house of shared resources, debt, and intimate transformation — while a stellium of planets sits in your own sign, supercharging your energy and impatience. A financial entanglement demands resolution: joint accounts, debts, or someone else's claim on your resources. The deeper reckoning is about control. Where have you been giving your power away? Reclaim it — but without scorching the earth.
Taurus
This Full Moon illuminates your 7th house of partnerships from the most intense sign in the zodiac. A relationship is reaching its breaking point — or its breakthrough point. With the Aries stellium in your 12th house of hidden things, there's something your partner doesn't know, or something you don't know about them. The truth will surface tonight. Better to be the one who speaks it first.
Gemini
Your 6th house of health, work, and daily habits is activated by Scorpio's purging energy. A health issue you've been ignoring can no longer be deferred. A toxic work situation reaches critical mass. The Aries planets in your 11th house suggest that friends or colleagues are catalysts for change. This is the Full Moon where you finally quit the thing that's been slowly poisoning your daily life.
Cancer
The 5th house of creativity, romance, and children is flooded with Scorpio's intensity. A creative project undergoes radical transformation — what you thought it was about reveals a deeper layer. A romantic connection becomes consuming. If you have children, a situation involving them demands your fierce protective instincts. Don't prettify what needs to be confronted.
Leo
Your 4th house of home and family is where this volcanic Moon erupts. Family secrets may surface. A parent or family member could trigger a deep emotional confrontation. Property or living situations undergo forced change. The Aries energy in your 9th house suggests that your evolving beliefs are clashing with your family of origin. You're outgrowing a foundation — and that's terrifying, but necessary.
Virgo
The 3rd house of communication is transformed by Scorpio's truth-telling intensity. Words you've measured carefully for months explode out of you with raw, unedited force. A conversation with a sibling, neighbor, or close contact turns unexpectedly deep. Information you've been withholding — or that's been withheld from you — surfaces. Speak the truth, but remember: once said, these words cannot be unsaid.
Libra
Your 2nd house of finances and self-worth is activated. A financial reckoning is here — debts called in, values reassessed, spending patterns exposed. But the real purge is internal: Scorpio in the 2nd house asks what you've been tolerating because you don't believe you deserve better. The Aries stellium in your 7th house means a partner is directly involved. Money and power are never just about money and power.
Scorpio
This is YOUR Full Moon, and it is as intense as you are. Your 1st house is illuminated — this is personal, visceral, and transformative on an identity level. Something about who you've been is dying so that who you're becoming can be born. The Aries opposition insists this transformation is not private — others see it, react to it, maybe resist it. Let them. You answer to the deepest part of yourself, not to anyone's comfort.
Sagittarius
Your 12th house of the subconscious, endings, and hidden patterns is activated. This is the most psychologically intense Full Moon of your year. Buried material — trauma, grief, rage, desire — surfaces for processing. Dreams may be disturbing and revelatory. Therapy or deep journaling is strongly favored. The Aries energy in your 5th house suggests that reclaiming your joy requires first confronting what stole it.
Capricorn
The 11th house of friendships, community, and future vision is transformed. A friendship may undergo a profound shift — an honest conversation that either bonds you permanently or reveals an irreconcilable difference. Group dynamics you've tolerated become intolerable. The Aries stellium in your 4th house means family pressures are influencing your social world. Separate what belongs to each.
Aquarius
Your 10th house of career and public reputation is activated by Scorpio's unmasking energy. Something about your professional image is shifting — a truth about your work comes to light, a power dynamic with an authority figure reaches its climax, or you realize that the career path you're on requires you to sacrifice something you're no longer willing to lose. Public facades crumble productively.
Pisces
The 9th house of beliefs, travel, and higher meaning is activated. A belief system you've held for years may undergo violent revision. A teacher, guru, or philosophical framework that once served you reveals its limitations. Travel plans could be disrupted by intense circumstances. The Aries stellium in your 2nd house ties this to your material reality: what you believe directly shapes what you earn and what you're worth.
Release Rituals
Full Moons illuminate what needs to be released. Try these practices to let go.
Scorpio Purge Writing
Set a timer for 20 minutes. Write everything you're angry about, afraid of, ashamed of, or secretly wanting. Do not censor, edit, or make it presentable. When the timer ends, read it once — acknowledging every word — then burn the pages safely. This is Scorpio's medicine: transformation through unflinching honesty.
Detox Bath with Intention
Fill a bath with Epsom salt and a few drops of eucalyptus or rosemary oil. Before entering, state aloud what you are releasing — a pattern, a relationship dynamic, an outdated self-concept. Submerge fully at least once. When you drain the water, visualize the released energy leaving with it.
Debt Clearing Ritual
Scorpio rules shared finances and debts — both literal and karmic. Make one concrete financial move: pay off a balance, settle a debt, cancel a draining subscription, or have an honest conversation about money owed. The act of clearing even one financial entanglement under this Moon carries disproportionate energetic power.
Ancestor Acknowledgment
Light a candle for your ancestors. Scorpio connects us to the lineage beneath us — the patterns, gifts, and wounds we inherited. Speak their names if you know them. Thank them for what they passed down that serves you. Release — out loud — what they passed down that no longer serves. You can love your lineage and refuse to carry its burdens.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is the Full Moon in Scorpio considered so intense?
Scorpio is ruled by Pluto, the planet of death, rebirth, and transformation. When the Moon — which governs our emotions and instincts — is full in this sign, it illuminates everything we normally keep hidden: fears, desires, power dynamics, and unprocessed grief. This year's Scorpio Full Moon is additionally charged by the Aries stellium, adding Mars-fueled urgency and impulsiveness to an already volcanic mix.
What kind of transformation can I expect?
Scorpio Full Moons specialize in endings that create space for new life. You may release a relationship, a job, a financial arrangement, or a self-concept that has outlived its purpose. The transformation is rarely comfortable in the moment but is almost always recognized as necessary in hindsight. Pay attention to what feels intolerable around May 1 — that's where the change needs to happen.
How does the Aries stellium affect this Full Moon?
The Aries stellium (multiple planets in Aries) opposes the Scorpio Moon, creating a dynamic tension between impulsive action (Aries) and strategic depth (Scorpio). This can manifest as arguments that suddenly excavate buried issues, or bold moves that trigger profound personal transformation. The energy is combustible — channel it consciously through physical activity, honest conversation, or creative intensity.
Is this a good Full Moon for letting go?
This is arguably the best Full Moon of the entire year for releasing what no longer serves you. Scorpio is the zodiac's master of letting go — not gently, but completely. Whether it's a habit, a relationship pattern, a financial drain, or an emotional burden you've been carrying, this lunation provides the intensity and the courage to cut the cord. Trust the process, even when it hurts.
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