Internal Inventory: Taurus Full Moon

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The first week or so of November sets the stage for the remainder of 2025 in a lot of ways. Mars, Venus, and Uranus change signs. Mercury stations retrograde in Jupiter’s sign on November 9; and, while still a beacon of support exalted in Cancer, Jupiter also stations retrograde on November 11.

Jupiter’s retrograde will affect how Saturn, Neptune, the North Node, Mars, and Mercury are supported in Pisces and Sagittarius, and by extension, the Sun and Venus in Mars-ruled Scorpio for most of the month. However, as Jupiter stations it will be a potent symbol in the sky. It won’t retrograde away from 25 Cancer until November 19 (the same day as the Scorpio New Moon), where it’s been since November 2.

On November 7, Uranus moves back into Taurus (in Gemini for only four months). Once this happens, the positions of all the outer planets are almost exactly where they were at the beginning of the year.

But before Uranus moves back into Taurus, Mars, as it moves into Sagittarius, forms a combustible opposition to Uranus. And Venus, like Mars, will also form a challenging aspect to an outer planet as it moves into a new sign: Pluto in Aquarius from 1 Scorpio on November 6.

The Taurus Full Moon in the heart of the week signals important decisions about resources, worth, or value—material and/or inner—might surface and need considering now. How we share resources and with who, as well as what is shared, given or lent to us, are up for review in some way in the Taurus part of our charts.

All this said, these are the important transits surrounding this full moon I’ll be talking more about below:

• Venus (Libra) opposite Chiron (Aries) both square Jupiter (Cancer)

• Mars into Sagittarius opposite Uranus Rx (Gemini)

• The Taurus Full Moon

• Venus into Scorpio square Pluto (Aquarius)

• Uranus’ retrograde back into Taurus

On November 2 2025, Venus in Libra opposes Chiron in Aries, their dialogue amplified by Jupiter’s square to both from Cancer. All three operate from positions of strong rulership, meaning they’re each well-resourced to do what they do: Venus and Mars are in their own signs, Jupiter is exalted in Cancer.

The first days of November ask us to remember healing doesn’t erase—it refines sensitivity, empathy, and compassion. Tensions between desire for peace and balance, exposed vulnerability, and deep emotional attachment to memories and what “home” means are very possible for some.

Venus in Libra calls for harmony through reciprocity, the intelligence of relationship and proportion. Yet in opposition, Chiron in Aries exposes the ache of selfhood and the friction of needing to act freely while being received fully—the pains of relating and self sabotage.

Between them, Jupiter in Cancer amplifies our most private realms and roots. It brings tenderness to the wounds there, but also sentimentality. It protects, but can also smother or over-protect. Emotional gravity becomes both container and constraint, echoing the moral architecture of family, home, and belonging. Jupiter holds, perhaps cradles, the tension of the Venus/Chiron opposition and offers the support to heal from the inside out.

What completes this configuration is what is absent: Capricorn, cardinal earth, steadying what might otherwise overflow or overwhelm. Capricorn provides the ground. Its wisdom is the patience to build structure with responsibility and the reality of the structure’s eventual erosion in mind.

Capricorn’s ruler, Saturn in Pisces, adds another layer. Pisces dissolves and Saturn defines. Together they create a kind of compassionate realism — emotional intelligence with edges. Saturn helps us ask What will I build from this after things re-balance, heal, and the past is all but burned away?

And Saturn, hosted by Jupiter in Cancer, is forming a very tight, supportive trine to Jupiter, its host. This is crucial, and not an aspect that happens very often—every ten years or so.

It eases the T-square’s implications, giving situations a sense of spiritual resolve, forgiveness, understanding—enduring in memory, but perhaps no longer present or real, tangible. It represents proof new structures are forming now. Since these two were square each other roughly August 2024 until June 2025, many old structures have been torn down.

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When Mars crosses into Sagittarius on November 4, our need to act in the world is released from the inner, consolidated focus of Scorpio, and begins turning outward again.

Now we can move forward with what’s been uncovered by Mars’ time in Scorpio; and from this, we might seek larger purpose. In Jupiter’s temple, Mars acts through conviction, meaning, and the appetite to explore and discover.

Once here though, Mars immediately opposes Uranus at 0° Gemini, creating a live wire across the axis of belief and information, higher knowledge and local experience, novels and sentences, big ideas and passing thoughts.

Mars in Sagittarius pushes forward with enthusiasm and faith in the systems surrounding us like sky. Uranus in Gemini can shatter perception of these systems and scatter them to the wind with a flash of insight, perhaps too quick for words. How we think about what we think about comes into confrontation.

The result is charged, expansive velocity: swift changes of plan, sudden truth-telling, erratic shifts in plot or philosophical arc. Explosive arguments are likely if we’re too easily shocked out of comfort zones.

But Jupiter in Cancer helps reset the emotional climate as the new host of Mars (and, via Mercury in Sagittarius as well, colors the mind that rules Uranus’ sign). Jupiter swells faith and belief into new horizons; can make risk feel protected, urgent quests feel necessary, revelations feel close to home.

This can bring intellectual courage. Mars supplies momentum; Uranus, breakthrough; Jupiter, heart and hope. Belief becomes exploratory rather than dogmatic, and curiosity can regain its edge. Travel, study, debate, and creative experiments could find tailwinds. One single conversation might reveal new roads into new lands, if we’re open.

However, conviction could also outrun clarity. Mars in Sagittarius can crusade. Uranus in Gemini can provoke and shock with contradictory language and unpredictable movement. Jupiter’s emotional amplification could turn confidence into overreach — speaking too soon, moving too fast, assuming truth before evidence. Meanwhile, Uranus sparks conflict with irreversible consequences.

This opposition leans us toward sudden, disruptive communication that could ignite swift reactions based on philosophical or ethical convictions, and the other way around. The Taurus Full Moon (the following day) asks us to slow the fuck down and consider what’s at stake or could be lost if we take action too abruptly.

Whatever is said or dreamed up now will likely go under the microscope after Mercury turns retrograde, re-conjoins Mars, and goes back into Scorpio in the coming days and weeks. We should be careful with our words, and practical with any new “bright ideas” that suddenly seem to signal a new path forward.

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On November 5, the Full Moon blooms at 13° Taurus; serene on the surface yet reflecting the subterranean light of the Scorpio Sun.

The Moon is exalted here and grounded in the tangible. Ruled by Venus in Libra (for one day) it seeks ease and comfort.  But it also brings issues around value, trust, and exchange to light: what’s mine, what’s ours; what endures, what gets tossed; what’s stable, what’s stagnant?

The Moon rules Cancer, where Jupiter is also exalted now. The Jupiterean answer to these questions might be: protect what feeds growth, not what resists it.

Taurus can remind us that our ability to slow down and really sense the world around us is a priceless resource in and of itself.

But this calm holds charge. As just discussed, Mars has just entered Sagittarius and opposes Uranus. Electricity crackles across the fixed Earth, disrupting the soil and perhaps exposing some bullshit.

This lunation can ground and renew, and perhaps show us where more gratitude is needed in our lives. What is abundance? Accumulation? Acquisition? What wealth (inner or outer) do we take for granted? What can we cultivate; not chase, cage, or possess?

Venus in domicile as host of this full moon is very short-lived. But it makes its mark.

The following day, November 6, Venus leaves home in Libra and enters Scorpio to join the Sun again; crossing from the bright, breezy surfaces of relating into the subterranean caverns of deeper relating.

Here, Venus loses a bit of power. Scorpio is the home of Mars. Harmonizing and balancing aren’t as easy now, but depth and intensity become much more so, even if that means it feels slightly more dangerous.

Once in Scorpio, Venus immediately squares Pluto in Aquarius on November 7, intensifying the tension between the light and dark expressions of Venus in the nocturnal Temple of Mars. This might feel like an emotional descent of some kind, or a test: will passion transform what needs it most, or will control disguise itself as intimacy?

In one way or another, Venus will confront power. This could be projected onto others, instead of simply being reflected upon.

Pluto exposes what Libra’s politeness concealed over the last month, and the time around this full moon could bring that into awareness. What was graceful and balanced while Venus was in Libra turns intimate, inward, and absolute, for better or worse.

Venus in Scorpio seeks depth before harmony, truth before comfort, fusion over formalities. Niceties are exchanged for emotional gravity. Beauty morphs into something raw and delicious. Mars-ruled Scorpio (like Aries) has zero patience for what doesn’t cut to the core and expose the glinting guts of a situation—the shimmer of transformation itself.

Pluto in Aquarius adds an unyielding edge. It represents collective will, systems, and the unseen forces shaping the future. Personal desire becomes challenged by the impersonal will of hidden impulses driven by outside forces.

Mars hosts Venus now from Sagittarius: the truth of guarded beliefs and outlooks could burn their way to the surface and into open air. Words and actions might cut through pretense quickly, perhaps painfully, yet necessarily so for the sake of renewal; and this is made even more of a possibility with Uranus still opposite Venus’ host.

Venus in Scorpio’s need for fusion can blur boundaries. The square to Pluto can expose emotional games played to avoid vulnerability, especially given the mercurial environment unfolding. Possessiveness, emotional ultimatums, or covert testing could erode trust. This can spiral into obsession, control, jealousy, manipulation, if not careful.

At its most conscious, however, Venus square Pluto opens the heart to transformation in our most intimate relationships. Venus in Scorpio knows depth heals. Pluto in Aquarius reminds us collective evolution begins in private realms, one person at a time.

This is also a powerfully creative transit: art, ritual, or theurgic dialogue with the Unknown might generate cathartic, regenerative experiences. Creative work could gain more potency through emotional authenticity. Beauty becomes elemental now, no longer proportional or considerate as might’ve been experienced in Libra. It demands something more.

What was masked behind Libra’s etiquette and poise is likely ripped away through confession, even in the face of fears of exposure. Honesty about our desires can clarify values and attract deeper attachment. But in order for that to authentically happen, definitions of power must evolve.

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Also on November 7, Uranus retreats from Gemini back into Taurus and the future revisits the past.

In Taurus, even Uranus doesn’t move that quickly. Its slow shock is sometimes the realization radical change has already happened and we’re living its consequences already.

Uranus was only in Gemini from early July until now. So we should take into account whatever was shook from stability or broken through during that time in the Gemini part of our charts. It likely revealed what possibilities for reinvention and innovation lie ahead for us in the coming seven years.

It was only a hint, but it likely awoke something in us and forced us to learn and adapt to a situation rapidly unfolding, either right before our eyes, or behind them in the mercury of our minds.

What happened around July 7? We shouldn’t forget that lesson.

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The Time surrounding this Taurus Full Moon signals us to take stock of what we value and what we don’t anymore. What was once shared might not be able to be moving forward.

What can we touch and what’s out of reach? What is real and what is hidden? What are we owed and what do we owe? What is ours and what is ours?

What do we under-value and over-value? What needs to be purged because it no longer has value? What can be rebuilt or refurbished in order to renew its value?

What about our material, emotional, and spiritual reserves could use the attention only a gardener can provide?

We probably already know.

We’re being asked to slow down, feel our feet in the grass; to ground and renew; to cultivate rather than chase or possess; to allow the process of calm, steady creation to unfold at its own natural pace; to embody gratitude for what we already have and release any sense of lack that takes us out of the present moment.

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This is a general forecast. If you'd like to learn more about how transits affect your chart, please consider booking a reading.