The Full Moon in Scorpio is on May 7th at 3:45am PST at 17 degrees of Scorpio. The Sun is very close to Mercury, which is exactly sextile to Neptune, which is square to Venus. Pluto, which rules Scorpio is at 25 degrees of Capricorn, still quite close to Jupiter.
While Taurus season has us attending to the material, sensual, tangible aspects of reality; Scorpio takes us deep into the mysteries: the subtle, psychological, energetic, and mystical. Both signs relate to resources: the material, energetic, and psychological resources that we bring to bear in our lives, that fuel all manner of work we do in the world; our knowledge, skills, and capacities; the people, organizations, and knowledge bases that we have access to; our emotional capacities; physical resources derived from the Earth; our ability to make and create; community resources; money, credit, financial resources.
Taurus refers to our individual resources, what we value, and the value that we bring to the world; our self-worth; the resources that we draw into our lives; income, possessions, assets. Scorpio refers to the way resources are shared and distributed between partners, family members, friends, room-mates, citizens--all the ways our resources are shared and garnered as help, gifts, loans, etc. As well as the personal forms of support we may receive, Scorpio governs institutionally distributed resources like tax returns, grants, loans, government support, scholarships, etc.
But Scorpio, always, goes deeper: the sharing of resources reaches beyond the material, and includes the subtle, energetic exchanges between beings. And deeper still: our ability to resource our spiritual natures for transformation; birth and death, both metaphorical and literal; a power more real than material dominance.
The shadow side of Taurus (when unintegrated with Scorpio) is materialism, greed, hoarding: a fixation on the physical plane and denial of the subtler forces at work; the fallacy that we are only responsible for caring for ourselves. Scorpio, when unintegrated with Taurus, can show up through toxic, codependent relationships, where fraught energetic entanglements maintain unequal resource flow; where energetically one individual or group vampirically syphons energy from another, usually through psychological manipulation.
Most of us have received the message over and over that we are not deserving (and others have received the reverse, equally toxic, message that they deserve more than others). Most of us have received the message that we are flawed, wrong, mistaken, broken, imperfect. Whether an intentional manipulation or not, this deeply ingrained lack of self-worth reinforces the current toxic structures of energy extraction.
Every being is equally worthy. We are all part of this magical, divine Universe, and so how could we not each be divine ourselves? One of the more subtle ways that we can work to right injustices in the world is by coming to know our worthiness, and by cutting the chords of toxic and manipulative relationships that don’t honour ourselves as such.
In the collective, of course, these themes are up in a big way as many governments are offering funding packages and bailouts to support people and businesses through the crisis we are in, and we are forced to consider who is deserving of how much support. Who and what do we value and why? The toxic system of extracting as much labour as possible at the lowest cost possible is even more obvious as we consider that those services deemed “essential” are very often those that are the lowest paid.
Scorpio presses on, wanting to go deeper still. We might consider all resources as stemming from the fertility and abundance of nature; life’s ability to reproduce itself--to be productive. As sexuality creates human life, and can be understood as the energy of creativity itself, in a mythical sense, we might understand sexuality, or the erotic, to drive all abundance and productivity, and all of creation itself.
Taurus refers to fertility, the productivity and plenitude of nature, and sensual pleasure; Scorpio to the invisible, psychic chords of sexual interest and fantasy, and to potent, transformative passion. Sexuality is the original resource: the creative; the source of all life and the energy that fuels all creative acts, and thereby underlies all other resources. Sexual energy then is a primary resource, not some secondary thing that happens to exist in the world; but substantive of the cosmos itself, as recognized by the ancient Greeks.
While Eros eventually evolved into Cupid, the cute god responsible for inspiring love and romance, in the earlier mythologies of ancient Greece, Eros was one of the primordial Gods. Alongside Chaos, the original void from which all else emerges; Nix (Night); and Tartarus, (The Abyss); Eros was imagined as one of the original elements responsible for the birth of all else in existence, a non-gendered, procreative force spurring the creativity of the cosmos itself.
As sexuality is repressed and contorted, as the fertility of Earth is objectified, and seen as an object at our disposal, an object from which we may extract resources as we wish, a thing rather than a being; the original relationship between human and Earth, between human and cosmos, is collapsed into a solipsistic one-way extraction. The Earth is no longer seen as a being, but a thing. And so the norm becomes to objectify the other in all exchanges. An underpaid, undervalued labour force is a natural extension.
As Full Moons bring light to the night, may we better see these subtle energetic exchanges, may we honour ourselves and each other, may we remember our own and others’ divine worth. May all give, and may all receive, in freedom and play, rather than servitude and dominance. May we all have plenty.