New Moon in Scorpio — November 20, 2025
New Moon in Scorpio — November 20, 2025
Moon–Sun–Mercury Rx Stellium at 28° Scorpio
Opposing Uranus Rx at 29° Taurus
Water Trine: Scorpio – Cancer – Pisces
Moon Phase & Sign: New Moon in Scorpio
Element: Water
Modality: Fixed
Polarity: Yin
Ruler/Dispositor: Mars (traditional), Pluto (evolutionary)
Keywords: Regeneration • Depth • Honesty • Purification • Psychological rebirth • Shadow integration • Composting the past
A Scorpio New Moon dredges material from the psychic depths — what Marion Woodman calls the “body’s truth,” the somatic memory that reveals what the mind often hides. Evolutionary astrology frames Scorpio as the terrain where old identifications, soul contracts, and energetic entanglements must be shed so the soul can reclaim its power.
This lunation marks a threshold moment — a descent into the underworld of instinct, intuition, and cellular memory. Scorpio does not ask for prettiness; it asks for honesty. What is real? What is rotting? What is ready to regenerate?
Emotional Landscape
• Strong intuition
• Heightened sensitivity to undercurrents
• Release of outdated attachments
• A pull toward privacy and introspection
• Desire for truth — not theoretical, but visceral
Real-Life Expression
You may feel called to purge old patterns: clearing a space, rewriting a relational dynamic, admitting what you’ve avoided, or recognizing where your energy has been leaking.
The Stellium at 28° Scorpio (Moon, Sun, Mercury Rx)
The Alchemical Burner
The Moon, Sun, and Mercury Rx come together at 28° Scorpio, forming a Scorpio stellium — a concentrated psychological field where instinct (Moon), conscious identity (Sun), and the retrograde mind (Mercury) converge into a single alchemical point. Within this stellium, the Sun–Moon conjunction forms the core, pulling Mercury Rx deep into its gravitational field.
This is a deeply combust stellium with an intensely inward Mercury, fused into the Sun–Moon conjunction and operating through the intuition, memory, and shadow material of Scorpio.
Archetypal Blend
• Moon — emotional memory, felt truth, instinct
• Sun — identity, purpose, vitality
• Mercury Rx — retrieval, re-evaluation, the resurfacing of what was previously unconscious
At 28° Scorpio — a charged, threshold degree — this stellium becomes a site of karmic excavation. Something long-cycled reaches its culmination. Something long-held is ready to be unearthed, understood, and integrated.
Depth Psychology Lens
This is a convergence of ego (Sun), instinct (Moon), and the psychopomp (Mercury). Mercury Rx behaves like Hermes descending into the underworld — retrieving lost narrative threads, buried truths, or fragments of self frozen in earlier survival strategies.
Evolutionary Astrology Lens
The stellium calls forth memory from the soul’s backlog: attachment patterns, emotional defenses, and formative experiences imprinted in deep time. The aim is not catharsis alone but integration — reclaiming the material that fuels transformation.
Opposition to Uranus Rx at 29° Taurus
Truth that Shakes the Ground
Uranus Rx at the anaretic degree of Taurus electrifies the stellium, creating a destabilizing polarity between Scorpio’s depth and Taurus’s structures. This marks Uranus’ final sweep through Taurus before turning direct and shifting into Gemini for the next seven years.
Archetypal Tone
• The Awakener
• The Liberator
• The Disruptor of False Stability
• The Breaker of Illusion
Themes of the Opposition
• A revelation disrupts a long-held pattern
• Emotional or financial foundations shift
• A truth fractures denial
• Resistance intensifies before release
• A karmic pattern shakes loose
Uranus opposite the Scorpio stellium says:
“What you uncover must be lived differently.” This is revelation that arrives like lightning — disruptive, liberating, and illuminating.
Water Trine: Scorpio – Cancer – Pisces
The Deep Inner Tide
Beneath the intensity lies a water trine that offers emotional intelligence, ancestral support, and spiritual clarity.
Archetypal Signatures
• Jupiter Rx in Cancer — ancestral wisdom, emotional nourishment
• Saturn Rx in Pisces — compassionate boundaries, karmic refinement
• Neptune Rx at 29° Pisces — dissolution of old spiritual narratives, completion
Themes of the Trine
• Emotional clarity through slowing down
• Re-patterning inherited attachments
• Ancestral integration
• Sobering spiritual maturity
• Release of outdated idealizations
• A deeper inner compass for what is true
This trine initiates the “alchemical melt,” thawing emotional truth that has been locked in the body. This is a moment of clarifying energetic contracts — what must be released, what must be honored, and what must shift to remain in integrity.
Gifts & Challenges
Gifts
• Emotional precision
• Psychic insight
• Courage to confront truth
• Transformational clarity
• Deep intuitive knowing
Challenges
• Fear of exposure
• Resistance to change
• Projection
• Emotional overwhelm
• Grieving an old identity
Archetypes & Tarot Symbolism
Scorpio Archetypes
The Alchemist • The Phoenix • The Sorceress • The Shadow Worker
Tarot: Death — purification, release, rebirth
Taurus (Uranus Opposition) Archetypes
The Builder • The Stabilizer
Tarot: Hierophant — inherited values, old structures challenged
Water Trine Archetypes
The Mystic • The Dreamwalker
Tarot: The Moon — intuition, truth rising from the depths
Practical Tips & Rituals
Ritual Ideas
• Shadow journaling by candlelight
• Burning or composting symbols of outdated attachments
• Grounding somatic practices: breathwork, intuitive shaking, warm bathing rituals
Crystals
• Obsidian
• Black Tourmaline
• Aquamarine
• Moonstone
Essential Oils
• Vetiver
• Patchouli
• Frankincense
• Clary Sage
Affirmation
“I meet the discomfort of emerging subconscious material with honesty and patience. What once protected me can now be understood, honored, and transformed.”
Personal Reflection — Natal Chart Connection
Reflect on:
• What house contains 28° Scorpio in your chart?
• What is being unearthed or rewritten there?
• Where does 29° Taurus fall? What structure is shifting?
• How do Cancer and Pisces offer guidance within your emotional landscape?
Sacred Insight
This New Moon invites a return to what is essential — truth stripped of pretense, identity stripped of performance, connection stripped of illusion.
The Scorpio stellium excavates.
Uranus cracks open the false ground.
The water trine dissolves, softens, and reveals the deeper pattern.
Rebirth is not a single moment; it is the willingness to meet what is real.
If you’re feeling stirred, unsettled, or unusually reflective, that’s how Scorpio invites the deeper layers to open. Discomfort can be a sign that something true is beginning to surface. Take it at your own pace — you have the capacity to meet what’s unfolding.
If you want to explore how your own chart reflects these deeply personal themes, you’re welcome to reach out for a personalized astrology session.