The truth is dying - New Moon at 28°11' mins Scorpio, on 20th November at 06:46 am GMT

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The New Moon occurs on 20th November, 2025 at 06:46 am GMT, when the Sun and Moon conjoin at 28°11' Scorpio.

Scorpio themes

💡 Scorpio is the zodiac’s deep-water sign: magnetic, private, and oriented toward transformation. Where other signs shy from endings or the darker edges of experience, Scorpio leans in, curious about power, taboo, secrets, and the forces that catalyse profound inner rebirth.

🌟 A deep alchemist; this is fixed water energy that seeks transformation through intensity, secrecy, and emotional excavation.

🎁 Scorpio’s gifts include emotional acuity, capacity for radical honesty, fierce loyalty, strategic resourcefulness, and an ability to hold spaces for deep healing and regeneration. It spots where energy is stuck, can steward crises into renewal, and often acts as a guardian of what must be transformed rather than merely managed.

🌟 Scorpio operates through intensity and selective intimacy. It rewards emotional bravery: telling the truth about needs, owning shadow material, and engaging in regenerative rituals that transmute fear, emotional trauma and old resentments into clearer capacity for desire and devotion.

🦅 Mythic stories and symbols tied to Scorpio — the scorpion, the eagle, the phoenix, subterranean waters — describe stages of descent, death, and rebirth: a movement from survival and sting to higher vision and transmutation, which explains Scorpio’s appetite for confronting taboo, power, and the unseen forces that shape life.

As per all New Moons, this is a beginning/seeding event.

The shadow side of Scorpio

On the shadow edge Scorpio can become controlling, secretive, obsessive, jealous, and vindictive. Fear of vulnerability can harden into manipulation or power plays; unprocessed grief and rage may calcify into emotional withholding or sabotage.

Power-plays and emotional manipulation, betrayals, jealousy and to get even

The sign’s intensity can also foster binary thinking (clean break or total fusion) and a fixation on outcomes that sacrifice nuance and consent.

How the shadow shows up in relationships and work

Shadow Scorpio often surfaces as boundary violations dressed as protection, a tendency to test loyalty through crises, or to hoard information and resources as leverage. In work it can look like clandestine manoeuvring, obsession with control over outcomes, or a refusal to delegate because of fear that others will misuse what’s entrusted to them.

Ruler Pluto at (1°) Aquarius

Now the blog title will make sense! Pluto wants the 'blood n' guts truth' and Aquarius is the sword of truth (relates to authenticity and morals).

We see TRUTH. Truth isn't always pretty. This is the ugly cry truth. This is the 'I betrayed you so bad' truth. This is the 'I've killed someone' truth (Ok, that one might be a tad extreme, unless you're talking about yourself). Scorpio 'kills' metaphorically over and over, releasing a transformed self. Scorpio has a penchant for darker aesthetics and finds soul-shaking honesty a turn on. It seeks out the 'why' in itself and others. Piercing all the onion-like layers until it finds the root. The ultimate truth.

With Pluto in Aqua, we see radical transformation, disruptive volcanic change and an increase in smarts at the psychological-emotional level (EIQ). We are energised with the ability to step back, apply logic and rise above our human reactions.

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Let's look at the chart for the New Moon in Scorpio

New moon and aspects

Aspects for the moon AND for the ruler Pluto (for podcast listeners)

New Moon in Scorpio aspects to other planets

Conjunct Mercury (cazimi) RX (28°) Scorpio

This New Moon forms a close conjunction with retrograde Mercury (making communication and internal narratives a focus). With Mercury in retrograde, this signature links to a 're' - re-think, re-plan... or - in Pluto tongue it's re-cover, re-search, re-analyse, re-visit (shadow), re-feel. This is suggestive of the new moon conjunction being part of a longer process and perhaps linking to a previous communication/thought.

Any RX involvement benefits from a pause in action or decision. As this one is a cazimi - where Mercury is 'combust', the effects of the Sun weaken the impact of Mercury. Even more reason to sit tight and see where your thoughts and interactions go when Mercury moves direct.

This aspect points to deep and intimate conversations. Bullet-truth exposure, uncomfortable honesty, secrets being wrangled free and soul discussions that create movement of your personal soul journey.

Grand water trine with Jupiter at (25°) Cancer, Saturn (25°) / Neptune (29°) Pisces

If you intuited that the Scorpio stellium would wrack a powerful punch and tease the deep emotive waters.... then prepare for a tidal wave with a grand water trine side-show including said stellium in a six planet formation (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune.) Plus Venus is in Scorpio.

This is a startling amount of water energy! Umbrellas and tissues required.

With trines we get an easy flow between planets, yet this flow may not be positive. It really depends on what triggers the emotions and how they are handled.

Jupiter in Cancer will amp up the ego, expand family experiences and the most private self.

Saturn and Neptune in Pisces very much relate to eroding boundaries. While this could free fixity and restriction, it can make you prone to abuse, illusions and clouded reality. Keep your feet on the ground and fact check.

Sun, Moon and Mercury in Scorpio are focused, penetrable, intense, strategic and keep emotions under wraps (poker players).

Uranus 29 Gemini sextile Neptune 29 Pisces sextile

A notable aspect happening alongside this New Moon, is Uranus sextile Neptune - both at the aneretic 19th degree with expresses the fullness of the energy. This indicates that the two planets will support each other during a peak of energy. Expect both to feature in some form.

Some Uranus themes include: Tech, the internet, electromagnetism, AI, VR, augmented reality, dimensions of reality, higher mind downloads, the authentic body (DNA), aliens, outsider, space, winds and sudden destructive weather, volatility (risky/sudden), moral truth, breakthroughs, the nervous system, the lungs.

Some Neptune themes include: Water, flooding, poisons, burst pipes, deceptions and illusions, fantasies, dreams, spiritual connection and oneness, forgiveness, compassion and unconditional love.

Deep Dive Scorpio

• Soul connection, evolution, transformation

• Depth, intensity, soul desire, emotional 

• Secrets, things unsaid, the deepest root truth

• Big business, strategic and magnetic

• Power and control (Misuse, giving away, power plays, empowerment)

• Analysis (with Virgo), detective behaviour, psychological empathy, psychic ability

• The genitals

• Underground activities (crime, dealing)

• Shared resources and those given by others (alimony, taxes, loans, inheritances)

• Intimate, deep, sexual

• Penetration, laser focus, bottom line, black and white thinking

• Genetics, DNA

• Cancer (cell mutation)

• Genocide, war (with Mars), earthquakes (with Uranus), volcanic eruptions, bombs, famine (with Taurus) 

• Manipulation (emotional, psychological)

• Obsession, over-absorption, stalking, vigilance, observation, distrust

• Psychological contemplation - insecurities, fears, death, loss, trauma / Psych therapy

• Betrayals (Sexual (affairs), emotional, spiritual)

• Taboos, sexual impulses (especially darker styles like BDSM, pornography, bondage)

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Questions for reflection

Shadow and inner truth

• What secret fear am I avoiding by staying busy or controlled?

• Where do I withhold myself and why?

• What recurring emotional wound still shapes how I react in crisis?

• When have I used silence as a weapon rather than protection?

• What truth about myself am I unwilling to speak aloud right now?

Power, control, and boundaries

• Where in my life am I trying to fix results instead of letting processes unfold?

• What power dynamic do I tolerate because it feels familiar?

• What would it look like to release a little control and test trust?

• Which relationship needs a clearer boundary to allow both people to grow?

• What do I hoard (time, money, attention) and what would happen if I shared more?

Intimacy, desire, and loyalty

• What does loyalty mean to me and how do I expect others to prove it?

• Which desire have I hidden as “too much” or “too dangerous”?

• How do I show care when I’m afraid of being vulnerable?

• Where do I confuse intensity with intimacy?

• If I let someone see my full inner self, what is the worst and the best that could happen?

Transformation, endings, and regeneration

• What needs to end in order for something vital to begin?

• Which grief or rage is asking to be witnessed rather than acted out?

• What ritual could help me mark a genuine ending?

• How has a past collapse revealed a necessary resource or strength?

• What small death (habit, belief, attachment) can I practice releasing this month?

Practical integration and next steps

• What one practical step honours the inner change I want (small, measurable, visible)?

• Who can I invite into a trustworthy conversation about my shadow material?

• What pattern recurs across relationships, money, and work that points to one root change?

• When I imagine myself healed around this issue, what specifically is different in my daily life?

• What promise to myself can I keep for 30 days that proves I’ve shifted?

Rituals to connect with the New Moon in Scorpio

• Ritual: Quiet initiation. Sit with a single candle, breathwork for five minutes, then write one thing you need to let die and one practical boundary you’ll set to protect what you want to grow. Burn or safely bury the “let die” paper; fold and keep the boundary note in your wallet.

• Ritual: Resource audit. Make two columns: “Where I invest energy” and “Where I receive return.” For two days, track micro-investments (time, attention, money). On the new moon, commit to one shift that rebalances toward reciprocity.

• Ritual: Deep-vision bath. In a dim room, take a salt bath with a small bowl of water beside you. Whisper one intention into the bowl, then pour the water into a plant or soil outside to symbolize planting the intention into life.

Looking at the aspects to planets and points in your own chart will help you see what may effect you - Look at 24 - 29 of the fixed signs (Scorpio, Taurus, Aquarius and Leo) and 0 - 3 of the mutable signs (Sagittarius, Gemini, Virgo and Pisces). If you don't have access to a chart, you can create one here: Create a Natal Chart | Heart Horizon Astro. You'll need your date of birth, place of birth and the birth time.

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