Love, Death + Robots

Scorpio Full Moon Deep Dive

“We are part of a constant, interconnected cycle of birth, death and regeneration. Our bodies decay into the earth to bring forth new life, our energetic mind is returned to the universe to be repurposed.” -Rick Rubin

The planet Pluto is making moves.

Not only is Pluto the ruler of Scorpio, making it the planetary ruler of this April 23rd’s Scorpio Full Moon, but Pluto has also officially set up camp in Aquarius until September 1st of this year.

As the God of the Underworld, Pluto brings large-scale cycles of death, rebirth and resurrection— symbolized perfectly in the sign of Scorpio’s three manifestations: the scorpion, the snake, and the eagle.

Pluto’s presence in Aquarius— and in this month’s Full Moon— is accelerating our individual and collective transformation in ways unseen since the American and French Revolutions.

You see, for some time Pluto had been taking up space in Saturn, the planet of Capricorn and earth-based industry and commoditized currency prior to his latest adventure. In Greek and Roman mythology, Saturn, aka Cronos, famously ate his children (the Olympian Gods) and gelded his own father, Uranus, which just so happens to be the planetary ruler of Aquarius.

Saturn, aka Cronos, eating one of his children

So, this move from Capricorn (Saturn) to Aquarius (Uranus) signals a major shift in Pluto’s allegiance: the God of the Underworld is moving from the child-eating, dad-mutilating, money- and time-loving materialistic energy of Capricorn to the side of the dad he mutilated, a figure I like to refer to as “Sky Daddy”.

And Sky Daddy is big mad.