Full Moon of November 5, 2025

What this lunation colors

This is one of the most bodily full moons of the year. It arrives in November, when the Sun drops into Scorpio, the sign of depths and sheddings: facing it, the Moon in Taurus holds the ground of the tangible, of earth, of the body. The Taurus–Scorpio axis sets the second house against the eighth, what I own outright against what I move through with others, security against metamorphosis. Under this light, what you’ve built since spring shows its real solidity: some things hold, and you can finally lean on them; others were holding only out of habit, and the full moon makes that hard to ignore. Because Taurus is a fixed sign, what ripens here often touches attachment itself: an object, a comfort, a sum of money, a routine, a way of reassuring yourself that has turned into deadweight. Tradition reads this opposition as a question of the pantry: what still nourishes, what is only taking up shelf space? The mood is dense, almost tectonic, with that gentle Taurean obstinacy that wants to keep and that Scorpio insistence that wants to transform. Releasing, here, doesn’t mean throwing everything out: it means loosening your grip, finger by finger, on whatever no longer needs holding. The body often knows before the head does: notice where it tightens.

The full portrait of this lunation, to read before the day: full moon in Taurus.