Scorpio New Moon Cycle 2025
The Memoirist's Journey: REintegrating in Transformation
How to Read This Guide
The lunar journey is different from solar and synodic journeys. Where the sun guides our conscious aspirations and planetary relationships shape our creative dialogues, the moon reveals what we're reflecting on - the emotional undertones, the memories surfacing, the intuitive knowing beneath our everyday awareness.
The 29.5-Day Cycle: Each new moon seeds a reflective theme based on its zodiac sign. This theme unfolds over approximately 29 days as the moon travels through all twelve signs, creating a 12-stage journey from seed (new moon) to completion (next new moon).
Understanding the Stages: The stages aren't tied to specific dates but to the moon's position in the zodiac relative to the sun's position. Each sign the moon moves forward from the sun represents the next stage of reflection:
Stage 1 occurs when the moon is in the same sign as the sun
Stage 2 occurs when the moon moves to the next sign
Stage 3 the sign after that, and so on
When the Sun Changes Signs: When the sun moves into a new sign mid-cycle, the stage numbers shift. The moon might briefly be in Stage 2, then "reset" back to Stage 1 when the sun catches up. These moments are noted in each journey. Don't overthink this - simply notice which sign the moon is in and count forward from wherever the sun currently sits.
The Draconic Undertone: Each new moon also carries a draconic signature - one sign forward from its tropical placement. This adds a subtle undertone of reintegration, like a second house expression of values and self-worth woven through the reflection.
How to Use This Guide:
Read the overall theme when the new moon occurs to understand what you'll be reflecting on
Check in with each stage as the moon moves through the signs
Use the reflective prompts as journal questions or meditation focuses
Notice the mood and emotional weather of each phase
This is subconscious work - you may not "feel" it consciously unless you're living an examined life
Note Which House the New Moon Illuminates: Look at your sun and rising charts to see which house your reflections are anchored in. This will add individual nuance to each 29-day lunar journey.
1st house: Self, passion, confidence, demolition, clearing space, direction, breakthroughs, assertion, physicality
2nd house: Value, self-worth, beauty, finances, voice, embodiment, pleasure, the 5 senses
3rd house: learning, mental health, community and peers, connection, and intelligence
4th house: home, family, security, depth, imagination, inner world, women, mothers, ancestry, DNA
5th house: creativity, leadership, heart, love, leisure, recreation, romance, kids, play, competition
6th house: work, wellness, well-being, lifestyle, duties, purpose, health, rituals, rhythm
7th house: relationships, design, partnering, tension, harmony, peace, justice, diplomacy, negotiation, accountability
8th house: intimacy, wealth/debt, sharing, control, psyche, empowerment, taruma, vulnerability
9th house: perspective, beliefs, religion, narrative, PR, vision, seeking, boundary-pushing, foreign things
10th house: career, aspirations, status, position, mastery, integrity, alignment, responsibility, recognition
11th house: humanity, groups, friendship, innovation, future vision, contribution, collaboration
12th house: mysticism, art, spirituality, institutions, confinement, isolation, shadow work, illusion, isolation
Scorpio New Moon Journey
November 20 - December 19, 2025
The Memoirist's Reflection: Transformation Through Creation
Reflective Theme: Transformation, depth, power, intimacy, shadow, shared resources, death and rebirth, what we merge with, the alchemical process of becoming
Draconic Undertone (Sagittarius): Reintegrating meaning, truth, and expansion as values. What transformation serves growth? What depth leads to wisdom? How does your willingness to change become a philosophical quest, a search for larger truth?
Literary Reflection: Like Toni Morrison reflecting on the act of creation in her Paris Review interview: "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." But deeper—the recognition that what you create, what you love, what you commit to, fundamentally changes you. The artist discovering she is also the clay. The lover realizing the beloved reshapes the one who loves. This cycle examines what you're willing to be transformed by, what you're brave enough to let undo and remake you.
Stage 1: Seed of Reflection
Moon in Scorpio (Nov 20) / Moon in Sagittarius (Nov 21, Sun enters Sagittarius - brief Stage 2) / Moon in Capricorn (Nov 22, anchoring Stage 2)
The pressure point. What transformation is asking to be noticed?
This cycle plants a seed about your relationship to power, depth, and the profound changes that reshape you. What needs to die so something new can be born? Where are you being called to face shadow? Notice the quick movement as the moon shifts to Sagittarius while the sun follows—there's a glimpse of expansive meaning before the moon moves to Capricorn and Stage 2 truly anchors. What are you being asked to examine about intensity, intimacy, and transformation?
The Sagittarius undertone asks from the beginning: what truth are you seeking through this transformation? What wisdom lives on the other side of this death and rebirth? How does your willingness to change serve something larger than yourself?
Reflective Prompts:
What in my life is ready to die or transform?
Where am I being called into deeper intimacy or shadow work?
How do I relate to power and profound change?
Stage 2: Loosening
Moon in Capricorn (Nov 22+)
Old patterns of control breaking down. Spacious detachment.
Your reflection on power and transformation meets structure. What if letting go didn't mean losing everything? What if transformation could be grounded, sustainable, built into the very bones of your life? There's relief here as you release the need to control outcomes, as intensity finds its proper container. You're finding space between depth work and destabilization.
Step back and observe: which structures in your life are rigid out of fear? What would it mean to build a foundation strong enough to hold your transformation? Control is not the same as mastery.
Reflective Prompts:
What assumptions about control am I ready to release?
Where has my intensity prevented sustainable change?
What opens up when transformation has structure?
Stage 3: Incubating Awareness
Moon in Aquarius
Complex inner work. Feelings and memories gestating.
Something revolutionary is forming beneath your understanding of power. What memories show you that real transformation serves liberation, that depth work can be collective? Your reflection lifts to see the bigger picture. The understanding that personal shadow work contributes to collective healing, that your individual transformation ripples outward, slowly gestating in your awareness.
What's incubating is radical: your private deaths and rebirths are not just personal—they're political, social, evolutionary. When you transform, you change what's possible for everyone.
Reflective Prompts:
What memories show me how personal change affects the whole?
What does detachment know about sustainable transformation?
Where does my reflection want to serve collective evolution?
Stage 4: Recognition
Moon in Pisces
First impulses of awareness breaking through. "Oh, I see what I'm feeling."
Sudden clarity about transformation as spiritual practice. You see it now—death and rebirth aren't just psychological, they're mystical. Your reflection breaks through with oceanic recognition. The boundaries between self and other, between control and surrender, between power and dissolution, all revealing themselves as false divisions. All transformation is returning to source, then emerging renewed.
What breaks through is grace: you realize you've been held all along, that the dissolution you feared is actually sacred, that letting go is a form of faith.
Reflective Prompts:
What am I suddenly aware of about the spiritual nature of change?
What realization about surrender is breaking through?
How does transformation connect to compassion and the infinite?
Stage 5: Sorting
Moon in Aries
Duality emerges. Sorting through feelings and intuitions.
Now you're sorting through what's genuine transformation versus reactive destruction. Which changes actually serve your authentic becoming? Which intensity is empowered versus which is just chaos? You're finding what healthy power looks like when combined with courage and honest self-assertion. The phoenix learning discernment about what deserves to burn and what deserves to be kept.
The duality becomes clear: there's transformation that creates (birth, renewal, evolution) and destruction that merely destroys. Knowing the difference requires brutal honesty about your motivations.
Reflective Prompts:
Which transformations actually serve my authenticity versus just create chaos?
What duality exists between necessary destruction and harmful force?
How do I sort empowered change from reactivity?
Stage 6: Connecting the Dots
Moon in Taurus
Weaving insights together. Patterns become visible.
All these reflections on transformation and power suddenly connect to embodiment and lasting value. You see the pattern: the way profound change must be grounded in the body, the way real depth creates sustainable worth, the way transformation that doesn't consider material reality doesn't last. Your reflection weaves together intensity and stability into coherent understanding.
What becomes visible is that transformation isn't abstract—it lives in your body, in your resources, in the physical reality of your changed life. The phoenix needs a nest.
Reflective Prompts:
How does my transformation need to ground in my body?
What pattern links profound change to lasting value?
Where do depth and sustainability intersect?
Stage 7: Illumination
Moon in Gemini
Peak clarity. What was hidden is now seen. The mirror shows us ourselves.
Full moon energy—the truth about needing to communicate your transformation becomes undeniable. This is where you feel that depth work isn't meant to stay buried—it wants to be spoken, shared, articulated, taught. It's not just about private intensity anymore; it's about finding words for the wordless, making meaning from the mystery, helping others understand what you've learned in the depths.
The light reveals: your transformation becomes real when you can name it, share it, teach it. Silence keeps you in the underworld. Speaking brings you back, changed.
Reflective Prompts:
What does this reflection reveal about the need to speak my truth?
How do I feel about articulating what I've faced?
What truth about transformation and communication is illuminated?
Stage 8: Integration
Moon in Cancer
Taking root with what we've learned. Stepping into emotional leadership.
You begin to integrate this understanding of transformation into nurturing and emotional safety. The insights about depth become capacity to hold others through change, to create sanctuary for shadow work. You own your power differently now—as the ability to tend what's tender, to protect what's vulnerable during the molting process. Leadership becomes being the container for transformation, yours and others'.
The wisdom embodies: you become home for your own becoming. You learn to mother yourself through death and rebirth with tenderness, not just intensity.
Reflective Prompts:
How does this wisdom change how I hold space for change?
What does it mean to embody transformation as caregiving?
Where am I being called to lead through creating safe depth?
Stage 9: Purpose
Moon in Leo
Finding duty in our awareness. What is this reflection asking us to honor or tend to?
Your reflection finds its purpose in creative expression and authentic radiance. What if your transformation wants to be witnessed? What responsibility comes with your depth? The duty is to let your shadow work fuel your creative power, to shine with what you've learned in darkness, to create from your changed state. How does your intensity serve your capacity for joy and generosity?
The purpose becomes clear: transformation isn't just about becoming deeper—it's about becoming brighter, more generous, more able to create and celebrate and lead with your whole, complex self.
Reflective Prompts:
What practice makes transformation fuel for creative power?
How does my depth work serve my authentic expression?
What duty do I have to let others see what change has made possible?
Stage 10: Sharing
Moon in Virgo
Bringing our insights into relationship. Cooperation with what we've learned.
Your private reflection on transformation enters daily practice and service. What happens when you bring your understanding of depth into useful work? Cooperation means recognizing that shadow integration is practical, that transformation serves others through devoted action, that profound change manifests in small, careful choices. The alchemist becoming the craftsperson.
The sharing is humble: you don't announce your transformation, you demonstrate it through how you show up, how you serve, how you attend to detail with newfound clarity.
Reflective Prompts:
How does my transformation make me more useful?
What becomes possible when depth work is practical?
Where does my reflection seek to serve through what I've integrated?
Stage 11: Alchemy
Moon in Libra
Communal integration. Transformation through shared reflection.
Collective transformation of what power means in relationship. When your understanding of depth merges with partnership and beauty, something alchemizes—intensity becomes intimacy, control becomes cooperation, power becomes shared resource. What transmutes when you bring your changed self into balanced relationship? What dies so true partnership through vulnerability can emerge?
The alchemy is relational: when two transformed people meet, when shadow work becomes the foundation of connection, when beauty includes what's been through death and emerged more alive.
Reflective Prompts:
What needs to die in my understanding of power?
How does partnership transform my relationship to control?
What becomes possible when transformation is shared?
Stage 12: Wisdom & Completion
Moon in Scorpio
The harvest of understanding. Releasing back into mystery.
Full circle. Your reflection returns to Scorpio, but now you carry the wisdom of the entire journey. What have you learned about transformation and depth? What truth has this cycle revealed about power, intimacy, and what it means to die and be reborn? There's completion here—not that all shadows are integrated, but that you understand more deeply the necessity and gift of darkness, the courage required for real change.
The wisdom is this: transformation is not a one-time event but a practice, a continuous dying and being born. You are both the crucible and what's being transformed within it. And that's exactly as it should be.
Reflective Prompts:
What has this cycle taught me about transformation?
What wisdom about depth and power am I carrying forward?
What am I ready to release back into the mystery of death and rebirth?
Closing Reflection:
This Scorpio new moon has asked you to examine what it means to transform—truly transform, not just change circumstances but let yourself be fundamentally reshaped by what you face, what you create, what you love, what you're willing to let die.
The draconic Sagittarius undertone has invited you to see your transformation as a quest for meaning—every shadow faced is philosophy lived, every death endured is wisdom earned, every rebirth is expansion into more truth than you could hold before.
As you move forward, carry this wisdom: transformation is the point. The discomfort, the darkness, the dissolution—these aren't obstacles to your life, they're how you become more fully alive. What you're willing to let transform you determines what you become. Choose wisely. Choose bravely. Choose the changes that serve not just your comfort but your evolution and, through you, the world's.
