New Moon in Scorpio: Break Your Stubbornness!

IIn the morning hours, we will experience a new moon in Scorpio. The new moon will show us what it means to hit rock bottom while soaring high, and to suddenly become 'nothing' while insisting on 'everything'.

As we let go of what slips through our fingers, it will remind us to hold tightly to the ground we stand on, to trust life just a little bit, and to surrender to an inevitable cycle.

This new moon speaks of stripping away and purifying ourselves from all the pretenses of 'as if'. It will return both what we lean on and what we carry in vain back to their places; perhaps we will gain clarity by falling to the ground from high above. We will learn to break that inner stubbornness of always having to be the 'winner'.

At the moment of the new moon, the ascendant ruler Jupiter is conjunct the new moon's dispositor Mars; both are in Leo and conjunct the South Node. The new moon forms a square aspect to this grouping in Leo:

It points to the hidden arrogance behind Leo's desire to dominate, Scorpio's desire to control, and the attitude of both, 'unable to give up simply because they are terrified of losing'!

Like a cell attacking its own system, if you get caught up in the ambitions of the ego that you once adopted as armor to protect yourself, and insist on continuing a game that is now harming you, know that you will lose.

While Uranus forms a quincunx aspect to Mercury—which is currently retrograde—it says, 'there are things you do not know yet, and I will bring them right in front of you all of a sudden.'

As Saturn passes through the bottom of the chart, it strikes the table saying, 'this cannot go on like this.' Its quincunx to Mercury says, 'you know that truth very well, don't you? Well, just knowing it is no longer enough; I want you to take action,' adding, 'otherwise, I will put you on the right path by force if necessary.'

Retrograde Venus, currently in a painful reckoning with truths she ignored in the past simply because 'she couldn't handle them at the time,' faces the deepest cut in her heart and the owner of the knife as a result of her opposition to Chiron.

Mars, the ruler of the new moon, is on Pherkad, the most troubled fixed star on the Leo line, portraying someone who inflicts harm on themselves with their own hands, tripping and falling while chasing their pride and ambition... It is as if this new moon is illuminating the blind spots we fail to see: it says, ‘Whoever or whatever you believed would always be there for you, always remain loyal, keep their word, has finally changed, or will get better one day—and most dangerously, that you could manage them—I will make you question them one by one!’ Mars’s conjunction with Jupiter further swells this mechanism that is blind to the truth right in front of it. Our obsession with being right and that unwinnable bet we entered just to never lose pulls us in like a vast, endless whirlpool!

Right at that moment of intoxication when we think we have seized the knife and regained control, the real fall begins. The moment we view ourselves as the most virtuous and untouchable, and the other person as the most helpless and easy prey, we get struck right in the heart. ‘Be doubtful,’ says the Scorpio new moon, ‘be doubtful…’ But first of yourself, of your own power, or what you assumed to be power.

In periods like this with so many retrogrades, everything happens all at once. Secrets are revealed, the heart faces the truth. Suddenly lightning strikes, a book falls to the floor, a lightbulb pops, and we wake up. While we burn with the grief of a shattered order, even if a thin ray of light appears on the horizon, we cannot see it yet—who knows, maybe we don't even want to see it.

“Sometimes the hardest thing in life is knowing which bridge to cross and which to burn.”

Sometimes, snow falls on the mountains we relied on, and we find ourselves at the edge of a cliff.

Sometimes, the arms into which we safely throw ourselves willingly roll us down the cliff.

Sometimes we lean on a solid wall; after a while, that wall we thought indestructible collapses onto us, leaving us in ruins.

In our hardest moment, we grab onto a rope and cling to life, but if that rope wraps around our neck, we can no longer breathe.

That is when, instead of sinking deeper by stubbornly insisting ‘I will not lose’, we must realize: we are betting on the wrong horse.

Life is the only refuge we can safely fit into. Life is the supreme source that will nurture us in its arms forever. But life demands that we stay awake and maintain self-awareness at all times. It does not want us to cling to temporary security and comfort zones, to matter, emotions, words, and the mind to escape from the truth.

That is why we are always tested through what we trust the most. What we feel most certain of having slips right through our fingers. Because for the sake of trust, belonging, and love, we give up on ourselves. If you notice, lightning strikes above us when the sky seems bright and sunny: life always finds a way to remind us of its own plans.

Venus, shining with Spica, the most magnificent star in the sky, lovingly reaches out to the North Node, casting a lasso toward a hopeful future we will create by drawing strength from our own roots. The light of Spica encourages us to move toward a new life narrative by purging ourselves of the exhaustion of any relationship/situation that lacks pure love and demands constant one-sided struggle. By trusting yourself and the possibilities life will bring, without being indebted to anyone, leaving behind what no longer belongs to you with a clear conscience, free from the palpitations of restless nights, you can now choose to move forward by saying a fifteen hundred percent ‘yes’ to this future. You will choose either to get stuck in this swamp or to reach for the stars. There is no middle ground.

So welcome, new moon; welcome, the dissolution of our blind beliefs; welcome, the awareness of what we endured just not to lose; welcome, that destruction and transformation necessary for something better; welcome, forgotten truths and realized lies.

Welcome, the pleasure of falling from high above only to finally awaken to the truth.

Let go of what is in your palm, forget what you know, break your stubbornness, not your wings! Surrender to that inevitable birth/death cycle of relationships and life. Make room for new possibilities so that those thin rays of light may be born inside you, one by one.

In freedom, with love and light..