MOON IN SCORPIO

The emotional colors of life are amplified here. Moon wants to feel everything intensely in Scorpio, and can have sharp moods and dramatized feeling-states. They get very emotionally bound to people, especially the mother - whom may be a hard chord to cut. Scorpio adores creating emotional dependencies and annihilating themselves in the depths of enmeshment with others. Yet, not just anyone - Scorpio Moon is slow to trust, and will often test people in sneaky ways to establish friend or foe, bloodpact or enemy. It is that lover or friend who gives you all or nothing - if they feel they can trust you, a deluge of TMI will ensue. If anything subtle convinces them you are shifty - access is denied.

This is a sign of extremes. When they are invested in something, Scorpio moon can get into tunnel vision with it, get obsessed, possessive and hypnotically drawn to getting fed by it. They can often struggle with jealousy or envy, and over exaggerate the have and have-nots, seeing other peoples power as a lack of resources for themselves. This is healed as they become more confident and secure in their own power. And often, Scorpio Moon has the spiritual strength to heal because, overall it wants the truth and will investigating its depths - leaving no stone unturned. You often see this in charts of psychologist, researchers or death doulas.

Scorpio Moon wants to devour the mysteries of life and uncover unconscious content. In this way, they often provoke others to share their darkest secrets. Secrets are a bonding practice. Because of this, they are folks who forego small talk and dive right into taboo, mysterious, forbidden topics. This is a litmus test to see who can handle their intensity. It is also a deep need for authenticity, to roll around the more raw, messy parts of existence that others may want to avoid, like death, sex or gore. Moon in Scorpio doesn’t turn away because they are fed by these ultimate truths, these places of extremis in the human psyche.

Scorpio Moon knows that life is constant cycle of growth and decay, they are often drawn to care for dead things or people in transition. Moon in Scorpio is witchy, they have great powers of instinct, often hit with accurate perception about underlying energies. They are also able to emotionally hold space for thresholds, where something is falling apart to become another thing. In this way, they are natural alchemists, seeing the value of something going through a painful process of breaking apart and re-coagulating into something stronger.

Despite these powers, Moon in Scorpio is said to be in its FALL, because the Moon wants to feel and be safe but Scorpio overdoes that mechanism - it feels TOO MUCH and overcompensates for a sense of safety by trying to emotionally control and manipulate. Moon in Scorpio wants to feel secure and protected - it is a Mars-ruled sign, doing whatever it takes to passionately defend against its sense of emotional security. It’s also fixed water and can be stubborn about its emotional needs. This can lead to control issues - where Moon does what it takes to set circumstances up to have home-team advantage. Moon in Scorpio may be hungry to feel a leg-up on others so that no one has the chance to take advantage or pull the rug out from under them.

The thing a Moon in Scorpio will have to learn is that depending on anything externally to make you feel a certain way, will set you up for distress. Moon in Scorpio must learn to hold tightly and lightly at the same time, to love deeply without devouring, to have healthy attachments based on mutual freedom and also trust themselves to grieve and let go when the time is right. This doesn’t mean they have to sacrifice their need for intensity and deep bonding - but they do need to cultivate more courage around NOT being in control. Scorpio after all is the sign of regeneration, and those with their Moon here can become masters of loving and letting go - tasked to purge and reset their emotional lives over and over. This Moon has grit - and when its evolved, it is not scared to feel anything - including the dangers of intimacy and loss - knowing that all things rise from the ashes.