Welcome to the Scorpio New Moon, the time in the lunar calendar when we turn our attention to the many seasons of life. Scorpio is inherently a sign about transition. It also teaches us about intimacy and vulnerability, trust and security, power and control. The new moon is exact on November 13, 2023 at 4:28 am ET. That’s 1:28 am Los Angeles, 9:28 am London, 10:28 am Johannesburg, 8:28 pm Sydney, and 10:28 pm Auckland.
New moons are new beginnings. Every four weeks the page turns and we experience life through a new archetypal lens. After a powerful Libra New Moon solar eclipse on October 14, here we are in a new chapter, but one that builds upon Libra’s themes of relationship and connection. Scorpio reveals that, in fact, true connection comes through the emotional bonds forged through crisis or opening up and sharing the deepest parts of ourselves with others.
Scorpio isn’t an easy sign, but it is a necessary sign. As a “water” sign, which is to say a zodiac sign that is connected to the element water, it deals in emotions — especially our fears and insecurities. Water is an element that prepares us for transition, whether into a new life or to leave this life for the next. Scorpio is death and rebirth. And life cannot exist with out death.
Standing opposite on the zodiac wheel from Taurus, the sign of renewal and the rebirth of spring, Scorpio is the turn of the leaves and the end of a growing cycle. They are the twin forces of life and death and two signs that form the axis of matter in astrology and one half of the fixed cross.
Scorpio is also the alchemy of transformation. If you’ve ever bared your soul or felt yourself raw with emotion, it’s through this that you change. In fact, we can only change when we’re able to connect to an emotional process.
What’s intriguing about this Scorpio New Moon, apart from the fact that it carries the energies of the eclipse season into a new chapter, is that it stands opposite Uranus in Taurus. As you may recall, Uranus is an evolutionary planet, part of a cohort of planets — Uranus, Neptune, Pluto — whose job is to get us to grow and evolve by any means possible. Uranus does this work through awakening, whether shaking us up or getting us to see things differently. Or, for some, a radical break with the past; a liberation from something that was previously imprisoned.
Yes, there is a confrontational energy in this new moon that may play out like a shock … an awakening … or a jolt of freedom.
Uranus, a slow moving planet, has been in Taurus from May to November 2018 and back again since March 2019. We’ve been talking about Uranus’s influence on our lives and even our collective experience the past five years. If you are a Taurus or a fixed sign like Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius, it’s quite possible that your life doesn’t
I know that this is not the case with everyone. This may actually be more of an internal than external process. Or, perhaps a seed has been planted, waiting for the right moment. It is for you to see the story unfolding over the coming days and weeks. And try to link to an ongoing story that has been unfolding since May 2018, March 2019.