Wednesday morning, the biggest, brightest supermoon of the year arrives. If you were out Monday evening with a clear sky, you’ve already seen this gorgeous Full Moon. It’ll be amazing tonight, and Wednesday night too.
It’s also meteor season, the Taurid meteors. The Full Moon’s light will make smaller, more distant meteors disappear, but I’m hoping night photographers get dramatic photos of a golden Full Moon with meteors.
This is the Taurus Full Moon. A Taurus Moon is calm and content. She’s inviting us inside on a chill night, handing us our favorite beverage as she leads the way to a kitchen redolent with herbs and warm, fresh bread.
Venus at the end of Libra rules this Taurus Moon. Venus is a calming presence, supporting the peaceful Taurus vibe with grounded pleasure.
The Full Moon chart, though, is complicated. The most dramatic, unpredictable aspect of the month is here, planets are stationing for retrogrades with all the back-and-forth challenges planets can bring.
First, the Full Moon.
Always, at a Full Moon, the Sun and Moon are exactly opposite. The Moon at 13º 22’ Taurus opposes the Sun at 13º 22’ Scorpio.
By our Sun calendar, we’re in the season of Samhain, celebrated most often today as Halloween, a night of costumes and scary, ghostly neighborhood decor. The modern calendar marks this as October 3, the eve of All Souls Day on November 1.
But western calendars were all thrown off back in the 1500’s when Pope Gregory changed them. The new Gregorian calendar was more accurate, but everyone had to jump ahead ten days, which led to the Calendar Riots and lots of confusion.
Ancient holidays were longer linked to traditional dates–or, rather, they moved to new dates, creating a time slip with the Earth’s calendar, the seasons.
The zodiac did not change, though. The four great Fire festivals of the Celtic calendar, which are Imbolc, Beltaine, Lughnasadh, and Samhain, fall astrologically at 15º of each of the fixed signs of Aquarius, Taurus, Leo, and Scorpio.
Which means this Full Moon, large and bright in our skies, brings the Samhain Sun face to face with a Beltaine Moon.
These two are the key transitions of the Celtic calendar, which divides time into dark and light halves in a very Daoist way. Beltaine is the bright half of the bright half. Samhain is the dark half of the dark half. Bride, or Bridget, the spring maiden and the Cailleach, the old woman of winter.
In Taurus, sign of Beltaine, we welcome abundance that comes with security, stability, and living with the cycles of the Earth. The Moon is exalted here and rules this middle decan.
In Scorpio, sign of Samhain, we look beneath, beyond, and within, as if to say, I am a child of Earth and starry sky, but my home is the sky.
These two are not opposed to each other, but linked as day and night, Sun and Moon, life and death, each essential, completing the other.
The strong, steady presence of the luminaries in these fixed signs gives us an anchor in shifting tides.
We need an anchor, because the most challenging aspect this month, the Mars–Uranus opposition, is happening now. The exact opposition is Tuesday, with the aspect still very strong at the Full Moon.
Mars at 0º Sagittarius opposes Uranus at 0º Gemini.
This Mars is fired up. The opening of Sagittarius is all about speed. Mars in a Fire sign moves fast without much discernment. Ready, fire, aim.
In a world already on the brink of too many disasters, this is not optimal.
If this Mars aspects your birth chart, you might feel fiery. If you’re quick to anger, short-tempered, or slipping into outrage, loop back to the Taurus Moon and Venus in Libra for some chill. Slow breaths.
Uranus at the beginning of Gemini is part of the Big Change we’re experiencing, but now, this Uranus is on pause.
Uranus first entered Gemini on July 7 for the first time since 1942. The last four months brought new Uranus in Gemini previews.
Uranus in “fast” signs signals political instability. We got it. We’ve seen the US government moving fast and breaking things by design, without caring what gets smashed along the way.
We’ve seen a massive surge in the use of AI in the form of Large Language Models, showing up everywhere, doing all the things, at top speed with limited skill or discernment.
Uranus stationed retrograde September 6 and reenters Taurus November 7. He won’t come back into Gemini until April 25. The revolution will be on pause until spring. But that means whatever Uranus does now, during this transition, is worth paying close attention to.
Mars + Uranus brings acceleration and anger. This can show up as violence, as face to face conflict, social media flame wars, and heightened tension.
If Mars aspects your birth chart, this Uranus will too, since they’re connected. This heightens the need for each of us to be aware. What’s going on inside our own psyches? What’s going on around us?
The Full Moon in calm Taurus creates safe space. We can slow down a bit.
The Sun in Scorpio sharpens our ability to sense what’s happening, and then wait, not taking action until the situation has been mapped and there’s an exit plan.
These two aspect patterns, the Full Moon and the Mars–Uranus opposition are both present, both strong, and operating outside each other’s awareness. in adjacent signs, they are what’s called “averse.” They can’t see each other.
This means we’re in a both/and rather than an either/or. We can have tension in one area of our lives, and lovely calm in another. Work might be insane but home life is good. Our significant other flips out, but our friend group is stable and supportive. Could go either way, or both ways, depending.
Mercury’s also doing something interesting. They’re slowing down for their third and final retrograde of 2025.
We’re already in the preview period, which began October 21 with Mercury at 20º42’ Scorpio conjunct Mars. Mercury’s retrograde station will be November 11 with Mercury at 06º51’ Sag, again conjunct Mars.
The direct station will be November 29 with Mercury back at 20º42’ Scorpio. Mercury leaves their review period December 16 when they again reach 06º51’ Sagittarius, completing the loop.
Mercury will cross over two of the adjacent (and therefore averse) signs key to this Full Moon chart. They catch up to Mars in late Scorpio, all very mysterious. Then they station retrograde, again with Mars, in early Sag.
Mercury can help us understand and, if needed, rein Mars in before he goes off the rails. Mercury the psychopomp conducts us from the depths of mysterious Scorpio, into the light and fire of let’s-go Sagittarius, then back into Scorpio, then out.
We’re getting an in-depth experience of the differences of mind (Mercury) and action (Mars) in Scorpio and Sagittarius. Mercury is our tour guide. What can we learn, if we pay attention?
Now let’s bring in Jupiter, still strong in late Cancer, giving out hugs and emptying his pockets for those in need. He is exalted here. He loves Cancer so much, he’s stationing retrograde too, just two days after Mercury does.
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Any slow, stationing planet gives intense, close-ups into how it functions. With Jupiter, we can to see what it means to sustain hope in tough circumstances. To hold on to our best versions of the future. To focus on what we’re doing right, where we find and sustain mutual support and community.
Jupiter continues to square the Chiron–Eris conjunction. Our path forward will be built on personal healing and on healing the world.
Jupiter trines Saturn retrograde in late Pisces. Have we given up on our dreams? Do we need to create new ways of seeing, planning, and building for a good future? If so, Jupiter is here is infuse generosity and hope into any dreams that have become worn or tattered or just seem too much
So it’s a complex Full Moon. With so many movings pieces, several high energy and unstable, it’s good to come back to a Sun and Moon in fixed signs that represent the balance inherent in everything.
