How’s your inner fire these days? With Mars in Cancer opposite Pluto, we’re invited to confront whatever feels like it threatens our safety. This Scorpio New Moon enters on a grand water trine with Mercury in Scorpio, Mars in Cancer, and Neptune in Pisces. Meanwhile, Mercury stands opposite Uranus in Taurus, aligned with Algol—a fixed star tied to the idea of “losing one’s head.” These cosmic alignments remind us how essential it is to feel we can navigate the world with a sense of security. Anger, a natural response to feeling hurt or fearful, often helps us draw boundaries. This New Moon illuminates how we do so.
With water influencing us so strongly, it’s important to remember that it’s not the facts themselves that guide us, but how we feel about them. Mercury in Scorpio opposite Uranus lends penetrating insight, allowing us to zero in on what wounds or unsettles us, while Mars in Cancer nudges us to tend to these feelings. Add Neptune in Pisces, and the call becomes clear: go beyond justified reactions and consider the ripple effects of our responses. I call this the “shooting flies with cannonballs” effect—where we address the original issue but risk creating unintended consequences far beyond it.
Hint: When you find yourself in intense emotions, you may be picking up on the collective emotional current. Not every feeling is solely yours. One of the best definitions I’ve heard for anxiety is the sense that our resources don’t feel adequate to meet the situation. So it’s invaluable to discern which emotions are truly yours and which might be a shared “tide pool.” Remember, you can’t have enough resources to solve everyone’s problems. Focus on what’s immediate and present.
You have choices. Reassure yourself as often as needed that whatever arises, you can handle it—and you have support. This helps ease the instinct to act hastily or overcorrect. Applying that Mercury-in-Scorpio lens, we can see where we might misjudge the situation, ourselves, or both. This is a good time to pause, reflect, and examine what we feel and why. Talking with a trusted friend can offer a safe space to voice darker thoughts or feelings; sometimes, a neutral witness is all the support we need.
Recently, a friend and I shared some unvarnished truths. I admitted my strong dislike for someone I thought I should like, while she confessed to briefly imagining harm toward someone who endangered a loved one. Just voicing these thoughts in a safe environment softened our self-judgment and intensity, allowing us to integrate these feelings into actions better suited to the circumstances. I find it helpful to filter my thoughts through this screen: Is this helpful? Is it useful? By peeling back layers of judgment, I move more freely within an energizing current.
To be human is to embrace a spectrum of emotions, from dark to light. How we express them shapes the world around us. When we choose love over fear, we honor everything we feel without needing to act out to relieve helplessness. Balancing these responses allows us to engage with dignity and maintain harmony with others.
Even when Mars in Cancer opposite Pluto stirs “life or death” feelings around less drastic situations, we must examine these impulses. Trauma often means a lack of choice, where something happens to us without consent. Reclaiming power involves choosing what we want and need in the present. Stay grounded here—this moment is where your power resides. It’s the antidote to past wounds and fear.
A story for you: After a major earthquake in Los Angeles, I moved to a neighborhood near Dodger Stadium. This tight-knit community had lived through the Rodney King riots, and I learned something remarkable about them. During the unrest, the residents, from grandparents to young adults, formed a line at the end of their street, calmly barring any rioters from entering. They didn’t fight, didn’t wield weapons; they simply stood together, meeting the eyes of those in pain and anger, silently conveying, Not here. And it worked—the rioters moved on. Their boundary was clear, dignified, and rooted in a united stand to protect their home. Living there with them was the safest I’d ever felt.
This Scorpio New Moon echoes this message: find where you can stand firm with those who share your values. You don’t need to overpower anyone; instead, set and hold your own boundaries based on present needs, free from past traumas. The old saying rings true: a boat doesn’t sink because of the water around it but because of the water that gets inside. Check for leaks within yourself and focus on patching them. Stand alongside those who manage their own leaks as well.
Lisa Greenfield
Astrological research done by Mike Lacey, AstroDaddy.com
Mind: King of Wands – Unifying opposite Interests
It’s very tempting in this polarized world to think in black and white terms. Good and bad, right and wrong are concepts we use to shore up what we personally believe or desire. This King reminds us that we can all move towards a common horizon from very different places. We have all that support for deepened understanding of what motivates us, especially around power dynamics. So instead of wasting time shoring up support for our rightness or goodness, we can better spend that time seeing any challenge or obstacle as a test for our inner strength and resolve. When you want something or believe in something enough to overcome obstacles to achieve it, the process of doing that determines who you are.
It’s easy to get sidetracked demonizing whatever stands in your way. I’ve done it. Except that gives momentary relief and doesn’t move me any closer to the goal. This King can bring seemingly impossible differences to resolution in time. Which is where the clue for our mindset is this Moon cycle. The mental seeds we plant the next few weeks will bloom next spring. Can you embrace the idea that everything, absolutely everything that happens can be part of what brings about your happy ending? Even if it is debris that needs you to clear it from your path, the effort you apply helps move you into being the hero in your own story. Mistakes made are just part of the colorful display when you look at life through the long lens. What you do with those mistakes can be endlessly creative opportunities.
Play with that the next few weeks. I’ll bet if you think back over your history you’ll find evidence of resourcefulness or resilience in there. Dig a bit deeper. See yourself more clearly. Any place where past events added to a feeling of helplessness or worthlessness is a makeover moment. Perhaps they were waiting for you to reach the place you are now to turn them into something better with all the wisdom and resources you have here where you are. Let the long arc of time work in your favor. See the horizon and trust the Universe wants you to reach your own personal spot on it. Then enjoy more of the journey while you head your own particular way, sure that it’s not only possible, but that you make it more real with every empowered choice.
Body: Judgement – The Phoenix Rising
It’s fitting that this Phoenix-like card aligns with our Scorpio New Moon, both symbolizing rebirth. Because Scorpio and it’s association with Pluto carries the same theme. But let’s look at what goes into the fire that burns away limitations so you can rise again renewed. Mars in Cancer opposite Pluto in Capricorn for the last time in 248 years has a lot to say about the power of our governing bodies. Be it church, state, legal, community or any authority you recognize, their role is being transformed. These structures are evolving; they’re giving way to something more suitable for the times. They need a makeover too. Particularly when change moves us into bigger space and all these structures try to hold on to the old space.
We resist change because it feels threatening. Yet staying the same is a far greater threat to our well being. When we stop growing we die. Which is why every 248 years Pluto brings down old systems and ushers in the seeds of the new. What helps is to realize that our own judgement needs an upgrade too. As researcher Brene Brown reported, ‘we judge what we ourselves struggle with, we are just doing better in that moment”. So pay attention to how and what you judge in others. It is a red neon sign to highlight what you also struggle with and where you need to be kinder to yourself, first. When we accept ourselves as we are and add where we know we can do better, you let the heavy weight of history burn off you and rise to new heights.
Remember the planets act like lighted maps for the roads in life. Some are straight paths with amenities on them and while others are more unpredictable and possibly dangerous. You choose your adventure with the roads you travel. None of this is happening to you. They don’t cause problems they illuminate where they are on the road you travel. Think of it as a travel advisory for your trip.
You are in uncharted territory precisely to discover for yourself who and what you are made of now. Everything you’ve been through is fuel for the fire that lights you up. If you are tempted to dig in and hold on, the river of change will batter you. Whereas when you steer yourself with every deliberate decision it quickly carries you forward. Find your unquenchable fire as you are carried by the current to unknown places. The world is yours to explore.
Heart: Temperance – Self Governance Is Key
Impulses acknowledged, impulses managed. This is the key for the Scorpio New Moon. Prepare to feel a great deal as the grand water trine ushers in waves of emotions. Both Judgement and Temperance prioritize balance. Judgement looks to find harmony between our past and future selves. Whereas Temperance takes us right to the heart of the matter to find harmony between all the different parts of ourselves. When the two show up together it lights up a time for centering amidst upheaval and change.
In order to do that you must manage your own impulses. Both the past and the future pivot on what you do with this moment. When life destabilizes you what you do then is the building block of the world you create for yourself. Be aware that when you blame anything or anyone you aren’t engaged with the resources and the power you have within and without. Lousy things happen. The key to those upsetting, disappointing and uncomfortable moments is what you decide to do with it. The key to resilience is when we take back the power to do respond.
There is within you a unique harmony that governs responses to current events, relationships and feelings, even when they rush like the river at the present moment. A sense of humor heals incredibly and adds a steadying touch as the currents pull you down stream. It’s normal to want to grab onto something substantial when you are out of the familiar and in the unknown. But right now, the most substantial ground is within you. Train your eyes inward, find that solid space that comes from what you desire and your ability to go after it. Move through whatever stands in your way, with respect, but keep moving with the flow.
This card is an invitation to find beauty and strength within the motion, a way to keep steady no matter how swiftly the river flows. It’s your sweet spot. You have it, even if you aren’t aware it’s there. As you experience big feelings, wild thoughts and the temptation to act on them take command over and over again. Every moment, you can choose to balance your responses, building the life you desire with each calmer, intentional choice. The still place inside of you waits for you to reach it. From there, authentically powerful choices create the world where you thrive, no matter what.
This Earthy King follows the Temperance card as a caution to let results unfold in time. Humanity is in a time of great change so trying to measure how well you are doing too soon is not helpful. It’s more likely to put unnecessary pressure on you and motivate you in the wrong direction just to hit a milestone in order to bring down your fear. This card promises there are great rewards, measurable ones over time. The heavens themselves encourage us to hold the transformational tension of this unfamiliar territory without rushing to decide anything yet. We don’t have enough information, we still don’t have the full picture. All you need to do to succeed is show up fully for the moment in front of you.
It’s no accident there has been such a big push for mindfulness the last few years. We require all the tools we can get not to rush through these big changes. Because how you behave is literally creating a whole new world. Each action, reaction shapes your world at the very least. It colors how you interact with others. The giant crossroads from the last Aries Full Moon paints a picture for equitable exchanges. It highlights more horizontal interactions to acknowledge we are all in this big change together. No one person’s struggle is more or less valuable than any others. When you invest your energy wisely you ensure a level playing field for all.
Notice when you try to get other people to think, feel or act the way that you want them to behave. It’s a dead giveaway that you are not centered. We try to control our surroundings in order to feel safer and that’s a losing proposition. We need to spend more time right now on the horizontal power chain, not the vertical one up. The more you practice self governance, the more you build confidence to take unfamiliar paths with unexpected company. There is strength in numbers building there. Because you each become masters of your inner world.
You miss that bonus when you divert your time and energy to trying to control outside circumstances. By all means ask for what you want, be persuasive even. But as Pluto prepares to leave Aquarius, force is less and less effective, even as it gets louder. You quite literally make your dreams come true with every fully met moment in front of you. Even if you can’t see it yet. The future you imagine is closer every time you deliberately choose your actions or circle back when you react and choose again. There is real power in your hands every single moment of every day. So why not slow down and savor these decisions. One at a time, no need to rush through. It’s so very precious, each and every moment.
Thank you,
Lisa Greenfield
TruthinHand.com with support from Mike Lacey and AstroDaddy.com
