Transformation isn’t a crisis — you are awakening, November 20, 2025, New Moon 28° Scorpio

On November 1st, I stood inside Half Moon Yoga teaching astrology and health — a contribution to the Wellness Workshop exploring where body, psyche, and spirit meet inside the birth chart. It felt like a ceremony, like an initiation, as if the room was preparing us for something deeper. Two weeks later, the New Moon in Scorpio arrives to echo the same medicine: the alchemy of descent, the truth beneath the surface, the healing that begins only when we are willing to see what lives in our own depths.

There are seasons when we shape change with intention — choosing new rituals, shifting relationships, adjusting how we nourish our body and spirit. And then there are seasons when change chooses us. It enters like a flash of lightning, sudden and undeniable, cracking open what we thought was settled. This New Moon belongs to the second kind. It does not ask permission. It awakens.

Why this New Moon feels like a Full Moon

The Moon and Sun join at 28° Scorpio, tightly opposing Uranus retrograde at 29° Taurus — a celestial tension between what clings and what must break free. Scorpio rules the hidden realms: unconscious emotions, generational wounds, psychological attachments, sexuality, power, vulnerability, and the truths we keep beneath our own skin. Uranus erupts like a cosmic alarm clock, shaking loose what has been suppressed, denied, or quietly aching for release.

Under this sky, insights can arrive like thunder. Emotions may surge. Long-buried truths can surface, especially within relationships. What felt secure may wobble; what felt distant may suddenly stand before you. Vulnerability refuses to stay quiet. Conversations take on the tone of transformation rather than comfort. The call for honesty — with others and with ourselves — becomes impossible to ignore.

Scorpio holds tight; Uranus pries open. Fixed water must move. What resists will break; what surrenders will purify.

The Totems of Scorpio: Descent, Death, and Rebirth

Scorpio is the only sign with three sacred forms — three faces of transformation.

The first is the Scorpion, a creature of survival and instinct. It protects what is tender with its stinger — sometimes too quickly, sometimes from fear rather than truth. Here we learn boundaries, but also encounter the shadow of control, defensiveness, and emotional armor.

The second form is the Phoenix, the firebird that dies to rise again. Here we are asked to release what we grasp too tightly — old identities, outdated roles, inherited pain, emotional toxins that clog the psyche and body. Scorpio discovers that true power comes not from holding on, but from surrendering to transformation.

And then comes the Dove — sometimes envisioned as the Eagle, sometimes as the White Dove of peace and spiritual clarity. After the burning comes purity; after descent, illumination. The heart softens, vision sharpens, and what once felt unbearable becomes sacred. This New Moon invites us to travel from Scorpion to Phoenix, to burn what no longer aligns, and to trust that what falls away makes space for our truest self.

Where Healing Begins

In medical astrology, Scorpio governs intimate and transformative systems: the reproductive organs, hormonal balance, detoxification and elimination pathways, lymphatic movement, the deep parasympathetic nervous system, and the somatic places where trauma and memory hide quietly inside the body. When Scorpio energy stagnates, we may experience hormonal disruption, pelvic tension, lymphatic congestion, chronic inflammation, or autoimmune flares born from emotional suppression or secrecy held too long.

This New Moon invites emotional, physical, and energetic purification — not through force, but through willingness. It calls for breathwork that softens the depths, tears that cleanse, movement that frees stuck feeling, massage that brings circulation to held places, and the courage to name what aches for release. Scorpio asks us to detox body and soul, to unclench the places fear has lived, to speak what has been swallowed.

Healing begins where truth emerges.

Guidance from the Skies

Though Uranus shakes the ground, we are not cast into the storm alone. Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune lend sacred support — a trine that feels like divine scaffolding around the soul’s reconstruction. In the midst of intensity, there is grounding; inside upheaval, a widening of faith; through emotional depths, a quiet knowing that the path forward is opening.

Breakthroughs come not by avoiding discomfort, but by honoring what rises. In every release, a doorway. In every unraveling, the start of re-weaving.

Poe’s Whisper

No voice captures Scorpio’s haunting beauty like Edgar Allan Poe. From A Dream Within a Dream:

Take this kiss upon the brow!

And, in parting from you now,

Thus much let me avow—

You are not wrong, who deem

That my days have been a dream;

Yet if hope has flown away

In a night, or in a day,

In a vision, or in none,

Is it therefore the less gone?

What slips through our fingers teaches us where real strength lives — not in holding on, but in trusting what is meant to remain.

This New Moon does not break you. It unmasks you. It frees what was trapped. It purifies what was heavy. It initiates rebirth. Let what rises move through. Let what is ready to die fall away. The Phoenix already knows what comes next.

Transformation isn’t a crisis — it’s your awakening.

Much Love,

Lisa

Curious where the New Moon lands in your own chart-and what themes of release and rebirth it’s activating in your life? 

Join us at Half Moon Yoga in Medina for a New Moon Circle on November 8^th. This is donation-based, and those who would like a personalized chart insight are invited to register in advance and provide their birth date, birth time, and city of birth before the workshop.