Scorpio New Moon, 2025

Hi friends,

This letter is late. It kind of fits the theme though so I’ll send it anyway. 

Last night at 10:48pm PST, we had this year’s new moon in the sign of Scorpio.

But this new moon was a threesome! As you are probably aware, based on how much it’s been absolutely messing with all of us, Mercury has been moving retrograde since the 9th. Last night marked the halfway point of the retrograde, which means that as the sun and moon took up the same part of the sky, Mercury joined in as well. 

So let’s just—pause on that for a moment. Because these two things happening at the same time makes a tricky little scenario for us. Typically, a new moon is the best time to start a new venture or create new intentions for our lives. But during Mercury’s retrograde, we don’t want to start new things, because it means backtracking later, it means scrapping our plans, it means that things don’t really have the longevity that we typically want from our shiny new intentions. 

So what are we left with here? Is there anything to be done with these two opposite significations? Can we make new intentions when we know we will have to come right back to the drawing board?

Of course! It’s okay to make a new plan, get to work, run into an obstacle, throw it out, and start from scratch. If that sounds stressful to you, welcome to an annoying new moon. I’m sorry.

Let’s zoom out. It gets better. Right now, Jupiter and Saturn are both retrograde as well, and they are at a happy aspect to each other and to this new moon. And, across the zodiac entirely, Uranus in his last visit to Taurus is standing exactly opposite to the new moon. Who knows what he’ll get up to. 

To say that less-astrologically, we have help here and available to us. Likely, whatever we wish for now won’t come about in the way that we think it might. But I suspect that, if we go ahead and ask for the help offered, and follow the path that is revealed by a happy accident, we will find something worth having. 

I would like to remind you about the last Saturn station in Pisces (where Saturn will slow down, change direction, and move forward again). That’s happening next week on the 27th. I mentioned recently to look for placements near 25 degrees of Pisces in your chart. Did you look? Do you want help finding out? Let me know. If you have something close, this will feel personal. Even if you don't, well, we all share the whole sky don't we.

Whatever comes up, this will be the last lesson of Saturn in Pisces. Luckily for us, this happens with Jupiter’s blessing and we are well supported to take in the lesson and learn what we need to learn. Mars will be involved in this too, so if you feel that it’s time to take action, do it. And tell me about it, I want to know how it goes! 

Something I’ve been thinking about lately is that this Saturn-in-Pisces story has coincided with the last three years of our Neptune-in-Pisces story. Neptune has been in Pisces since 2011, so there was 12 years of Neptune in Pisces before Saturn came in to burst that bubble. Neptune is about dreams and delusions—so since early 2023, we’ve had a lot of our own idealisms and illusions fall apart under Saturn’s deducing gaze. 

I don’t have the time or the juice in my brain to write prompts for everyone this time. Maybe I’ll blame the mercury retrograde, or maybe I’ll just be kind to myself by not choosing perfectionism. Either way, I want to encourage you to find your own prompts. I’ve always wanted these letters to be a bit of learning and not just reading what I think anyway. 

So first, find what house Pisces is in in your chart (look up your "whole sign" chart, and then find Pisces). Then look up that house and see what it is all about. I like cafeastrology.com. I also like The Astrology Podcast’s episodes about the houses, Part 1 and Part 2. But you can find this information from whatever source that calls to you. The best thing to do is to read a few different descriptions and let yourself gravitate towards the things that feel the most real. 

And then don't push yourself to find words yet, but just let it simmer. Let yourself sit with how this house has been such a confusing mess for you for a decade, and then kicked your butt for two years. It’s okay if this is hard. It’s okay to explore this slowly. Be sweet to you. Ask yourself—What have you been deluding yourself about? What have you been imagining to be real that isn’t real at all? What have you had to learn the hard way recently? And what do you want to do about that now?

I would love to hear about how this goes for you.

Sending you so much love,

Until next time,

Alanna