New Moon in Scorpio 2025: Soul Initiation

New Moon in Scorpio: Endings and Beginnings

New Moons are fresh starts: once a month, the Sun and the Moon meet on the same degree of the Zodiac, beginning a new lunar cycle. Every New Moon reminds us that life is cyclical, that the wheel keeps turning, that opportunities to start fresh are available.

As the Sun and the Moon meet in Scorpio, we enter a lunar cycle focused on deep emotional and psychological self-exploration. The days leading up to this lunation, we are likely to go through some sort of death and rebirth process. The Dark Moon in Scorpio asks us to introspect, face something we would rather avoid, and let go of what is meant to end. During the three and a half days when the Moon is invisible from Earth, we are invited to turn inward and nurture our inner and spiritual life before moving forward and externalizing our focus again.

In Scorpio, the New Moon reminds us that endings are as important as new beginnings, and new beginnings aren’t truly possible without endings: it is an invitation to make space for the new by releasing our attachment to what has run its course. This New Moon brings our attention to the inevitability of life cycles and emphasizes the need to descend before we can ascend.

Growing Past our Limitations

Ruled by both Mars and Pluto, Scorpio is a Fixed Water sign connected with processes of transformation, metamorphosis, and death and rebirth cycles. Scorpio is all about evolution: this sign asks us to empower ourselves by challenging our existing limitations and growing past them.

During the upcoming lunar cycle, we will have opportunities to get to know ourselves on a more profound level. We will be asked to work on discovering the unconscious patterns that shape our lives and spend time reflecting on what power is and what power is not. This New Moon asks us to break free from attachments that don’t let us grow, release our need for control, and make space for the new by welcoming the endings that need to take place now.

This New Moon asks us to embrace radical emotional honesty and invites us to become aware of what we have been avoiding or repressing. The upcoming lunar month will be focused on finding out the unconscious needs and fears that drive us, the deepest Soul desires that move us, the true motivations and intentions that determine our choices.

New Moon opposite Uranus

The Sun and the Moon in Scorpio are exactly conjunct retrograde Mercury, also placed at 28º of Scorpio, and tightly opposing retrograde Uranus at 29º of Taurus. The oppositions to Uranus marks a surge in our desire to break free from restriction, rebel from unfairness, and follow the path that is unique to us. Uranus’s activation highlights the need to move toward the future and create new systems and structures instead of relying on obsolete ones.

The Moon-Uranus opposition helps us access objective insights into our emotional reality and the patterns that are manifesting in our lives. In a distorted way, the Moon-Uranus opposition can increase the tendency to dissociate from our emotional reality and find refuge in the mind, floating above our bodies. However, denying our humanity and the messy nature of human experience is not the answer. The true invitation is to become more skillful in navigating emotional intensity with presence and awareness, learning to stay with what we feel rather than detaching from it.

Due to the activation of Uranus, there are higher probabilities of experiencing breakthroughs, flashes of insight, sudden downloads, and quantum leaps to the future. Unexpected changes, surprises, and unforeseen turns of events are likely during the upcoming lunar cycle, which could ask us to adapt to change before we feel ready for it.

New Moon conjunct Mercury and Venus

The Sun and the New Moon’s conjunction with retrograde Mercury in Scorpio suggests that, during the upcoming lunar cycle, the process of emotional and psychological self-exploration we are undergoing will be front and center. Mercury’s presence here, in retrograde motion, also opposing Uranus, emphasizes the necessity to radically transform our mindset, challenge habitual thinking and communication patterns, and look at our reality from a drastically new perspective.

The New Moon is also widely conjunct with Venus at 16º of Scorpio: this indicates that romantic and financial matters could be in the spotlight throughout the upcoming lunar month. The activation of Venus and her upcoming conjunction with Mercury and opposition with Uranus will bring significant changes in our values, relationships, and finances during the upcoming days. These alignments will offer us opportunities to explore new ways of relating to both ourselves and others and ask us to make sure the choices we make are in alignment with our core values.

Pluto is sextile to the New Moon and trine Uranus

As the New Moon in Scorpio occurs, Pluto, the modern ruler of the sign, is in the early degrees of Aquarius and forming a harmonious sextile with the Sun, the Moon, and retrograde Mercury. The activation of Pluto supports our willingness to embrace transformation rather than resist it. This configuration supports our capacity to be flexible and adaptable and approach change with curiosity rather than fear.

Pluto’s harmonious alignments with the Sun, the Moon, and Mercury help us let go of existing identities, attachments, and narratives, and invite us to relate with change as a natural process of evolution rather than a loss of security or control.

Pluto is also trine Uranus, an aspect that has been active for the entire calendar year and will continue to be active for several months, as Uranus will return to Gemini in January. This trine is marking a period of accelerated collective transformation and innovation. Together, these planets are stimulating us to explore alternative systems and structures to rebuild the foundations that were dismantled during Pluto’s time in Capricorn. The Pluto-Uranus trine reminds us that change can be liberating, inspiring, and refreshing, and it is possible to adapt to it with ease.

Mars is squaring the Lunar Nodes

Mars is the traditional ruler of Scorpio: as the New Moon takes place, he is in the sign of Sagittarius, squaring the Lunar Nodes in Virgo and Pisces. The Nodes of the Moon are connected to karmic issues from this and other lifetimes and point at our collective evolutionary assignments: with the North Node in Pisces, we are being asked to surrender our need to control and micromanage life and see the perfection of the present moment as it is.

Planets squaring the Nodes point at skipped steps in our evolutionary development: they are connected with qualities that need to be integrated and expressed in conscious and intentional ways. During the upcoming lunar month, we have an opportunity to explore how to build a new relationship with Mars’s energy.

With Mars in Sagittarius squaring the Nodes, we have an opportunity to reflect on what we are fighting for and why we are choosing certain battles and not others. This configuration is an invitation to renew our relationship with masculine energy, regardless of our gender, and observe how we are drawn to expressing anger, taking action, and beginning new endeavors. Mars squaring the Nodes is an opportunity to discover new ways of asserting ourselves, become clearer on the direction we are taking, and strengthen our trust in our instinct and in the wisdom of our desires.

New Moon in Scorpio: Soul Initiation

The Scorpio New Moon is an invitation to cultivate a more intentional relationship with change, death, and loss, and to recognize their value in the grand scheme of things. Through endings, we create more room for beginnings, through loss, we are initiated into deeper wisdom, through letting go, we open up to receive.

The New Moon in Scorpio is a Soul initiation that reminds us that change and transformation are not something to fear but something to be honored. Change is constantly happening, whether we want it or not, whether we participate in it or not, it is happening with or without our cooperation. 

These days, we have an opportunity to discover new ways to relate to both the changes we are going through and any resistance to change that may come up. During the upcoming lunar month, we are invited to question our existing ideas, the narratives we live by, and rigid expectations that shape our choices, and instead adopt an attitude of openness and curiosity and allow life to surprise us.

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