The Full Moon for May — known as the Flower Full Moon — rises in Scorpio on May 12, 2025, and this one packs a punch.

Scorpio, the zodiac’s most intense sign, is already deep. But with Mercury squaring Pluto and the Sun approaching Uranus, things are heating up and on pace to boil over if you’re not careful.

This lunation delivers power, pressure, and the potential for major emotional revelations. But here’s the thing: you’re not meant to fix, solve, or force anything right now.

✨ You’re meant to notice.
✨ You’re meant to stay present.
✨ You’re meant to become aware.

How to navigate this May 2025 Scorpio Full Moon

In this week’s episode of The Moon Method, I guide you through:

• The energetic story playing out across the November 2023 Scorpio New Moon, the August 2024 First Quarter, and this May 2025 Scorpio Full Moon

• What to expect emotionally and energetically from this Scorpio Full Moon energy

• Why this Moon is not for “release” — and the real time to do that work

• How to navigate the tension of Mercury square Pluto and the wild-card vibe from Uranus

• Real-life examples of how this energy might show up — and how to stay grounded and make wise choices

This is Full Moon astrology for real life. What’s hidden may rise to the surface, but with self-awareness, you’ll be able to move through it powerfully and calmly.

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Full Transcript

[00:00:00] We have a full moon in Scorpio. The sign of intensity is getting a full moon this year that matches it with the planetary lineup that we have. All I can say, folks make good choices. Alright, I’m Laura Kusto. I’m the moon phase astrologer, and each week, I share the message from the moon and I show you how to use it to slow life down, claim your focus and find your power. Alright, if you haven’t yet, hit that subscribe button so you never miss your weekly message from the moon. Okay, this is the week of Friday, May 9th, 2025. And again, we have a full moon this week. It is in Scorpio, the sign of mystery and depth transformation and power.

It’s a lot. It’s heavy. If you know a Scorpio or you have a lot of Scorpio energy, you probably get it. Okay, so this full moon is happening on Monday, May 12th at 10:56 [00:01:00] AM Mountain Standard Time. Now, this full moon, like all full moons, is the culmination of a story. Now, this particular story is happening in Scorpio, and it started back on November 13th, 2023 with the New Moon that we had in Scorpio that week.

Now the other key date that you’re going to want to look back to will be the first quarter that we had in Scorpio on August 12th, 2024, November 13th, 2023, and then August 12th, 2024, brings us now to May 12th 2025. And these are different phases of the moon, but they’re all happening right around the same degree in Scorpio and that’s what links them together.

Okay? So as you look back to that new moon, what you wanna look to see, if you kept a New Moon journal, then you can see your intentions, but if you didn’t, you’re going to want to look in your calendar. You’re sent and received emails, your photos, there’s all sorts of places you can look for clues and you want to see, you know, what were your goals and [00:02:00] dreams, but more so what you want to unearth is your energy.

How were you feeling? Because the energetics that you have are sending a signal out to the moon just as much as what you’re, saying you want. And then you can look in those same places on the first quarter. But on the first quarter, what was the energy around the things that you were doing with other people, the external actions that you were taking, and specifically, did you make any commitments around that date?

That first quarter date commitments are akin to showing the moon what we want, which is what we do on a first quarter. Okay, but once you’re in this full moon… now, the only thing you need to do on a full moon really is be present, participate in life… stay aware and notice what’s happening. Pay attention to the realizations that are coming up.

Okay? So if you want some simple, straightforward guidance on how to work with the moon phases, I know there’s a lot of information out there, but a lot of it is fluff and woo, and it’s, it doesn’t make a lot of [00:03:00] sense and it takes, I’ll be honest, it takes too much time. Okay? So I’ve been working with the moon phases for a number of years, so I created a guide for you.

It’s called the Moon Phase Compass, and it is totally free. Okay? In it, I share the three simple steps that you can use to work with each of the moon phases and they’re the exact three steps that I personally use. Okay. I’ll link that down in the show notes. Alright. Also, based on the area of life that Scorpio oversees in your chart, that’s where this full moon will be most active.

So if you know astrology and you know which area of your chart Scorpio represents, great. That’s what you wanna look at. But if you’re not sure I have something else for you. And that’s the Moon Chat membership. So in the membership, all of my members get a custom moonphase map. They get personal guidance and they get email notification sent right to their inbox a couple days before each of the moon phases that lets them know, hey, the moon phase is happening, here’s what to do. But also, hey, this is the area of [00:04:00] life it’s activating for you. I give them the dates, there’s a journal system. I’ll drop a link for that in the show notes too, if you wanna check that out.

Alright, so… let’s dig into the full moon. And the last thing I want to say about working with the energy, it is not a time to release, okay? Full moons are not a time to take action. Now, I want to clarify this. You might have realizations on the full moon about what needs to go. But unless it’s flowing and just naturally sort of falling apart or falling out of your life, don’t feel pressure to make it happen on the full moon.

Okay. That’s what I want to, I think that’s more I’m, if it feels like it makes sense for it to fall apart and release out of your life, great. But don’t feel like you have to release on the full moon. ’cause really the way the moon phases are designed, it’s divinely designed, is for you to actually release on the last quarter.

Which will be in about nine months. All these moon phases that I listed -the dates earlier- they’re about nine months apart, [00:05:00] which I think a lot of people say, that’s a long time. I’m like, well, okay, but keep in mind you get a moon phase every week. Everybody literally has about 36 different stories unfolding across the 12 areas of life all the time.

Okay? So the way these moon phases are designed, you have a full moon, and then nine months later, we’re going to have a last quarter right around this same degree of Scorpio. It’s going to reactivate all of these phases, that New Moon the first quarter, and this full moon and it’s nine months… If something really big goes down, -and I’m going to get into that in a second ’cause it very well might, this is an intense full moon- you’re going to have the benefit of nine months to fully process this to fully emotionally and physically and spiritually integrate perhaps what happens. And then on that last quarter, you’ll be better equipped, you’ll be more grounded to, to do some releasing in a calm [00:06:00] way that really serves you and it serves everyone else involved.

Okay. Um, alright, so let’s dig into the energies on this Full Moon and why I am sounding like your mother telling you to make good choices. Okay. So there’s, I really thought about that, but that’s really the best thing that I came up with. Okay. So we’re gonna start with May 10th. Okay. So again, the week is starting on Friday the ninth.

Um, Friday the ninth’s a pretty quiet day, but then we move on to May 10th, which is Saturday. Now, on that day, mercury enters Taurus. And I just wanted to point this out because you might notice a shift in communications with others. And when you’re communicating, so Mercury has been in Aries, which is very fiery, and now it’s moving into Taurus, which is more grounded, slower and deliberate. Okay. So slowing down that might be for the better, especially as we’re coming upon this full moon. I want to also mention that Mercury is just sort of trucking along right now. It just finished a retrograde, um, probably a few weeks ago. And it’s not [00:07:00] going to retrograde again until mid July.

Okay, now we’re gonna jump to that full moon, and that’s the only other major thing happening this week. So Monday, May 12th is our full moon in Scorpio. So couple other things that I’m noticing around this Full Moon. Number one, that same day, mercury makes a square to Pluto.

The other thing I noticed was that this Full Moon has the sun a few degrees off of Uranus. It’s gonna make a conjunction with Uranus in the next few days. It’s not quite there yet, but it’s operational, meaning that energy is active. Okay, so let me get into what this all, what this all means, right?

So Mercury making a square to Pluto, so. Mercury is the planet of communications. Pluto represents power, it represents control. It also represents what’s hidden. Pluto also rules Scorpio, so it has a lot of this like Pluto Energy, the Full Moon does. Okay, and then we’ve [00:08:00] got Uranus in the Makes. It’s very close to the sun.

So we’ve got this element of the unexpected and surprise. Okay. Also that Mercury, Pluto, some power struggles related to communication. When I saw this, I thought, oh, wow, okay. So the ruler of Scorpio is literally getting activated by Mercury and it’s a square. So it’s, it’s getting activated sort of in this like annoying, like, eh, hey, like sort of tension-y kind of way.

It’s not great. And so what’s happening at this full moon, really, if I could be the moon, the moon would be saying something like, Hey, I’m reaching my peak here in Scorpio. Um, what’s everyone got going on? And Mercury squares off with Pluto, and it’s kind of like, oh, hey, well I’m glad you asked because blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Okay. And really, with that proximity to Uranus, they could be really not well thought out. It could be something that you perhaps regret saying later, but, well, you know, the cat’s outta the bag now. So that’s why I said make [00:09:00] good choices. My best advice here, you may feel the urge to dig up something from the past, but ask yourself why.

Why are you doing this? Is it something that needs to be healed? Is it ultimately going to help? Is it going to help everyone in more self-awareness, get more alignment? Or are you just, are you just poking at something that really isn’t important to you anymore and that you’ve perhaps already outgrown?

So, for example, let’s say you run into your ex-boyfriend and he is now married and he’s with his wife and she’s pregnant. And you remember that when you dated him. He just wasn’t real good with kids. Maybe he was kind of a jerk to say, your nephew.

Like really is that something you need to bring up in front of his new wife? You know, he’s maybe changed since you dated him. So that’s an example of perhaps something you don’t need to do. Okay. But on the flip side, maybe there’s something that’s been bothering you in your relationship that you really have been thinking about telling your husband and you’re starting to realize like, Hey, this really does need to be [00:10:00] healed because I’m thinking about it all the time and it’s just festering inside of me. Okay. So that would be worth it. Okay. But again – the unexpected here. Keep in mind that with Uranus in the mix, something could happen, someone could say something unexpected, but that could also be you saying something unexpected.

You are on the receiving end of things, but you’re also participating in this and other people could be on the receiving end of what you are going through. You might be the one doing the surprising and the talking, or you might be surprised by something someone is saying.

Alright. Like I said, make good choices. Mercury and Taurus, I think helps, helps a bit here, right? At least it’s not in fiery areas again, but self-awareness on this full moon is huge. Really, really, really huge. It can be really emotional. It can be really hard at a full moon. Just the fact that you are listening to this now is going to help you, right? You KNOW! I always say if you know better, you can do better. Okay? So at least you’ve got some [00:11:00] self-awareness going into this and you may find yourself in the heat of the moment getting really charged up… But hopefully you’ll keep this insight in mind and be able to take a few deep breaths and again, make good choices.

Alright. Okay. I hope that’s been helpful and thank you so much for being here. These are always so, so fun to do. If you enjoyed this, please leave a review or drop a thumbs up below. And if you found this helpful and you can think of someone else who would perhaps benefit from this, I would so love it if you would share it with them. I am on a mission to share this wisdom with as many people as possible. It is science-based. It is so cool. It’s predictable and repeatable, and I am just so excited to have more and more people working with the moon’s energy in a conscious and empowered way. Alright, until next time, take care.