On May 5, 2023 a powerful Lunar Eclipse is happening! This Lunar Eclipse is a continuance of the Solar Eclipse that happened on April 19. Solar Eclipses often open potential for new beginnings, and then Lunar Eclipses reveal energy that helps us to complete a journey or shift our course. Both will make changes happen in our lives!
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During this Eclipse, you may find yourself learning something that changes your entire perspective on something. Something could happen that changes your life! Career changes, big moves or anything that changes your direction.
Challenges may come to relationships. Realizations about a person or relationship can emerge. We might question relationships that have been addicting, but ultimately not satisfying. There could be a moment that you realize the relationship is progressing to the next level. There can be an event that stimulates the urge to commit or the urge to break up.
The information brought from an Eclipse can shake you up, but don’t have to be negative. It can bring you inspiration and encouragement to shift your life. It's an opportunity to release energies, emotions and even people who don’t serve you. Hold space for yourself and give yourself time to process what comes to you on an Eclipse. Don’t rush decisions, but consider the best way to let things go or make necessary moves to propel you forward. Change can be scary and uncomfortable, but once you cross that bridge, the result will bring you closer to your higher self.
Trust your intuition and do what’s best for you. Stay mentally and emotionally flexible. Create space in your schedule for old feelings or memories to surface. Whatever burdens you’ve been feeling that are too heavy can be let go. Allow necessary endings to occur. Consider the new life that emerges from decay.
Eclipse Cycle of Scorpio-Taurus
Eclipses represent a time of change and transformation. These shifts might not take place all at once, because Eclipses occur in a series. This change could start or continue through the Eclipses that happen in the same set of signs. This Eclipse is part of seven taking place on the Taurus and Scorpio axis from November 2021 through October 2023.
Eclipses always occur in cycles, and the first Scorpio Lunar Eclipse of this series happened on May 15, 2022. The second occurred on October 25, 2022. This third Eclipse on May 5, 2023 represents the finish line.
While Eclipses can bring sudden events, the themes or events that come up during the time might not be so surprising. This particular Eclipse is concluding a story that you’ve been living for the last year or more. This Eclipse could be helping you resolve a change that emerged during one of the last two Scorpio Eclipses.
This is the last Scorpio Eclipse of its kind for decades, solidifying the theme of something coming to an end. The worst is behind you, so relish in that. No matter what surfaces, you’re an expert now. You have what you need to move through it.
Ruled by water and the planet Pluto, Scorpio asks us to dive into our emotional depth. You may find yourself swimming in the darker depths emotionally. Ride the waves of the emotion that you’ve been holding in.
Shadows come out to be seen in the full light. Unprocessed emotions come out to heal. Suppressed memories are awakened. It will become obvious how we project our wounds onto others. This emotional revelation can make us feel like we’re on a downward spiral of negativity against ourselves. It’s important to know when shadows are revealed, it’s best to accept them and try to understand them. It’s through love, compassion and acceptance that our shadows come forward and meet us in the light.
There is transformative energy present with Scorpio. This is a potent time for revelation, change and immense psychological breakthroughs. It also reminds us that we can transform energy, behavior or emotions. We can heal from painful wounds, turning them into wisdom and weather any storm.
There is a disruptive influence with this Eclipse. When we relate this to the transformative energy, we can expect there to be a loud and obvious influence. We might have unexpected feelings that show up, but this can be necessary to work through the transformation process.
This energy is so intense that it will bring us face to face with the present. It asks us to stop in our tracks, let go of distractions and confront our inner reality. This brings us to the heart of the matter. We can’t lie to ourselves or be lied to during this Eclipse.
It can be challenging and uncomfortable to take an honest look at your unconscious tendencies. What’s under the surface is controlling you, whether you acknowledge it or not. When you face your fears, triggers, morals, and conditioned patterns you will free yourself. You take control back of your life and behavior. It can be scary, intense, and full of raw emotions. It’s also incredibly healing and empowering! This Eclipse is here to remind you of your power.
As you shift through your deepest layers, remember to love all of them. They are part of you and your story. They need love and acceptance to heal or change. Remember you are only human! You’re not perfect, and that’s great. Only knowing your whole self can help you reach your full potential.
Lunar Eclipses are about relationships and polarities. With this Taurus-Scorpio axis involved, we need to find balance between the Taurus and Scorpio ruled areas of life. The Moon in Scorpio wants us to find emotional fulfillment through complexities, intangibles and mysteries while the Taurus Sun draws our attention to the need for the simple, tangible things in life. Neglecting either end will backfire on us.
Taurus encourages us to connect with nature and use our senses. Taurus focuses on more tangible assets, like physical space to feel supported and nourishment of the body. Scorpio asks us to connect with our inner world and release emotional reactions to find the present moment. Scorpio focuses on energetic resources like transformation and courage to travel inward. Both signs want us to align with the rhythms of the Universe. We can feel the vastness of life and become inspired by our own power. Both give us the tools to ground our energy, transform through healing and step into unknown territory.
Both of these signs want us in the present moment. They ask us to set aside anxiety about the future or pain of the past and connect to this moment.
If you choose to hold onto energies that no longer serve you, you can be met with frustration.
When we align with the lower sides of Scorpio we don’t allow ourselves to feel. We distract ourselves with external preoccupations that lead to anxiety and obsession. We find ways to avoid internal work that we need to do. We blame others and project our feelings. Instead of facing our fear, wounds and pain with courage, we avoid these places within ourselves.
We mistrust our intuition and look outside ourselves for validation. We can obsess over money, loved ones and our place in the world. Taurus’ low side is also in alignment with feeling insecure and obsessing over material items. We forget that we can create abundance through inner reliance and creativity. We become preoccupied with our resources and forget that abundance is everywhere.
By not facing true feelings, we forget that they can control our subconscious. We might accidentally undermine our conscious effort to manifest our dreams. They can make us feel helpless. We slip into a victim mentality. It can make us feel like we don’t belong anywhere and are alone. We can become triggered by issues around security and feel unsafe.
We can also become stuck in a transformational loop, never accepting our imperfection. We might always be looking for the next shift without appreciating our accomplishments. This makes us feel like we must always try to do better next time, instead of being proud of ourselves and taking a moment for the present. We will get anxiety over future scenarios, fearing what is to come and thinking we could lose everything. We might get jealous over people who appear successful.
These lower sides question security, worth and underlying fear. If you find yourself aligning with the shadow sides, know that it’s okay. You are seeing this part of yourself. It’s challenging to become aware of these sides, but it’s essential to shift them when they are not serving you.
This Eclipse is also in opposition to Mercury’s Retrograde in Taurus. Retrogrades are unpredictable on their own. It’s often seen as a time when things slow down, so take this as a sign to remember to be still with all of the things that come up during this Eclipse. Retrogrades often allow the past to resurface to be re-evaluated. This ties in with healing from old wounds and letting things go.
There might be a lingering feeling with this Eclipse that lasts a few days. Just because something doesn’t happen the moment of the Eclipse, doesn’t mean it’s not going to happen. Things will reveal themselves in time.
Working with the Eclipse Energy
You might want to check on old calendars, journals, or emails from May and October of 2022. Notice what is coming up now as a release, wrap or closure.
Pay close attention to your feelings, intuition and signs. Embrace emotional release.
Some say not to do typical Full Moon rituals during an Eclipse, but trust yourself.
Allow yourself to sit still and feel your emotions. You might cry, laugh, journal or experience a roller coaster of emotions. But feeling them is the way through. As your feelings start to arise, let them run through you. Journal to learn more about them. Ask yourself what you’re feeling and what this feeling helps you to understand about yourself. Notice your reactions and triggers. The Eclipse can show you something that’s essential to your evolution. Give yourself time to process whatever arises. Don’t make hasty decisions. Allow your transformation to unfold naturally. Be kind to yourself and know you are where you need to be right now.
The key to working with any Scorpio energy is the willingness to feel. Slow down, look inward, and hold space for energy to rise from the subconscious. This intense energy will give the power to transform anything you need to in your life right now. It won’t always feel good in the moment, but it will ultimately open the door for your full potential.
This is a potent time for shadow work. It starts with the willingness to look below the surface of your conscious mind and become aware of who you are. Shadow work helps us understand how we limit ourselves with fear and insecurity. All of our unprocessed emotions and deeper wounds are stored in the shadows. When we begin to understand our shadows, we can understand how to act on our shadows and bring light into unconscious patterns.
You can even write a list of what you want to release and rip it up or burn it!
Ask yourself:
Have you looked to others for security instead of owning your power? Have you felt obsessed about resources and untrusting of your ability to create abundance? Have you forgotten your connection with the Universe?
What needs to metaphorically die in your life?
What are you clinging to?
Have courage and compassion with yourself. Release what you can during this Eclipse and know that even becoming aware of these things is enough to be a catalyst for a great transformation.
Make time to rest. Get extra sleep. Give yourself time to integrate the changes that are happening internally and externally. Take a warm bath or shower on Eclipse day to help cleanse.
This will be most prominent for Scorpio, Taurus, Cancer and Leo - Sun, Moon or Rising. Scorpio will feel it the most.
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