Scorpio New Moon: Intuitively actualize our alchemical wholeness.
- SUNSOAKED
- Nov 20, 2025
- 6 min read
THE ASTROLOGICAL CONTEXT
On November 20, 2025, Mercury is retrograding, Virgo rises, and all is in review at the time of the new moon in Scorpio: 1:45 am. The moon is between us and the sun, it reflecting the sun's light back onto itself. The orientation opens for us a darkened, sprawling gate for projections. A field for manifestations, if you are so inclined.
These dark skies, this retrograde and new moon conspire, inviting us to manifest easeful conclusions, space openers. And that Virgo rising says make a list, bitch.
Perhaps write a list of conclusions you’d like to see through and write them like this:
I am standing on the other side of waiting for that phone call, free from the worry, responsibility, and emotional tether.
So long, longing!
I am no longer responsible for the dysfunction of that workplace. I’ve logged out of my email and all accounts, never to look back.
Bye-bye, 9-5!
I am no longer entertaining a gambling addict in my life, my bank account is full, and my attention is on my investments and goals.
This is a real one, a tender one: at an increasing rate, managing gambling addiction is entering the conversation.
Tap into your own needs, welcome your intuition. Be kind to yourself, release judgment. Let the notion of an ending light you up!
Perhaps this Lunar Cycle Tarot Reading: Scorpio New Moon, will open your vortex to wonder and be a gentile nudge in your direction.
THE CRYSTALS
Crystals: Beautiful earthy totems connecting us to ancestral stories, overlapping human experiences, and the passage of time. We carry them with us as partners on our transformational, autonomous journeys.
Flower Calcite, Raw: To understand and be understood, my birthright.
Carnelian, Raw: Every glimpse of mortality calls me to vibrant living.
Black Tourmaline, Raw: A rush of mental clarity grounds me, protecting me.
TO THE TAROT
The Tarot: A mutualistic, benevolent platform for reflection, featuring the spherical human story in five parts. The Major Arcana, or the Hero’s Journey in the literary sense, from inspiration to revolution or the Fool to the world, and the four Minor Arcana. Cups. Wands. Swords. And Pentacles.
Our birthright is mutualistic understanding, safety, and vibrant living. What insight will support us under this new moon in Scorpio?
THE SPREAD
Confluence Triad + Root
Three cards in a triangular formation with no hierarchy, and the card at the bottom of the deck, the root, underlying nature, and where we can go to gain strength and nourishment.
THE PULL
Confluence Triad:
The Magician
Mother of Swords
Ten (X) of Pentacles
Root
The High Priestess, Reversed
THE MESSAGE
We thrive when we intuitively actualize our alchemical wholeness, tend ourselves and our world concentrically, and eliminate our need for supremacy or external validation to galvanize abundance in terrestrial resources for every being, creature, and component of the universe.
THE TAROT READING
At the root of it all is our reconnection with, our retrograde into The High Priestess. A stepping into our divine intuitive body.
The Magician, from the Major Arcana, is both an invitation into power and a challenge to nourish it. Power, not in the sense of dominating others, but the infinite possibilities of ourselves. Power as in exertion employing all of our tools, the totality of us. In other words, activating the spherical nature of who we are.
There is something fearsome about this. Fearsome in the sense that there is an alchemist within, primed and eager to take on the world. Formidable. Frightening in the sense that “our greatest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure” (Our Deepest Fear by Marianne Williamson*). The Magician encapsulates the duality of fear and enthusiasm for life, and it demands that we face it in ourselves.
We are positioned with, and positioning ourselves through, internal alchemy. We experiment with it in the outside world. In doing so, we receive feedback. We learn where our gifts, talents, care, and energy are amplified, where we are empowered. Conversely, we discover that we might not be in the correct place or with our people – we might have even outgrown our lives.
Every Magician sighting is an invitation to look in the mirror until we see beyond the person we’ve made up and how we present in the now.
The suggestion? Gaze into our reflections until we are connected to the being within, look until we meet the revolutionaries pounding within our chests, demanding to be let out. They are elevated versions of us, more aware of our completeness. With care, they become full expressions of the infinite capacity of who we are when we are embodied.
We are beyond capable, like The Mother (Queen) of Swords. She marries intellect and experience with observational patience. Somewhat out of sight, tending to herself, she is gathering insight, adjusting her position to strike in a calculated way. She is in no way malicious–she is a survivor and a protector–she is keeping herself, her people, and the ecosystem within which she participates humming. Her labor is often unseen until it is gone.
If you have ever witnessed an owl hunt, you know precisely why she is an apex predator, a huntress. With a head that seems to track at 360*, an owl hunting for her nest will travel for miles to wait, watching for the correctly sized prey to race afield, calculating her height and distance, and its trajectory and pace. She will swoop in and rip it off the ground. For her, attentiveness is life and death, feast and famine for her whole family. It is also the maintenance of an ecosystem that relies on her ability to oversee a system, which, unchecked, will become a problem.
What she doesn’t do? Excessively burden herself to make a point, she knows when enough is enough and how to step back.
If the hunt is not in her, or the conditions are not appropriate, she will not risk life and limb for no return.
The Mother of Swords is our invitation to be selective and protective, to “let the chips fall where they may” again and again until either a lesson is learned or we are invited in to share our insights, and there is reward in it for us as well.
Overstepping to be helpful is over. Stepping on toes because we saw something coming down the line and wanted to get in front of it: that is done too. The age of boundary-free overgiving by the givers is over. We won’t get what we want that way; we’re betraying The Magician in us when we do.
This energetic confluence, The Magician and The Mother of Swords, emerging under a Scorpio new moon, is filthy because the Zodiac’s aspirationally self-serving integrant is Scorpio.
Don’t come for me, Scorpio friends! I say this in admiration and as a proud Scorpio Ascendant in constant tetatet with my Cancer Sun. Internally yearning to put my needs first while compulsively being in give, give, give mode...until my cup is dry as hell. Regular practice with tarot (specifically the practice I teach in SUNSOAKED Journaling with Crystals and Tarot) and Human Design has helped me deeply understand and work with this dynamic–turning it into a strength. After all, from our wounds can come our greatest gifts!
Hyper-individuation, exceptionalism, dominance, and exponential greed are on the rise, aka more billionaires than ever. The rest of us are out and about, in the fight of our lives, determined to be in the know, giving in every direction. And what happens when we stretch even the strongest material to its limits? It unravels, it severs. It can not hold us, warm us, or be itself.
Along with being of astute insight, The Mother of Swords invites us into a place where our needs are met. Better yet, she guides us to strategically place ourselves in positions where taking care of our needs symbiotically tends ecological wellbeing through concentric impact. Actions in our immediate circles have a rippling effect.
Rounding out this energetic loop is The (X) of Pentacles, an energy that is pretty cut and dry in this context. The Ten of Pentacles welcomes everything in the material world to respond to our alchemy, perspective, and strategic care by moving, shifting, and flowing into its rightful place. The epitome of worldly abundance.
Which on some level feels unimaginable, childish, foolish…blind to the realities of the world, economics, and the human trajectory of the 21st Century, I admit it. But let’s open up the vortex to possibility.
The tarot, in its benevolence, is whispering, inviting, perhaps prodding each of us to intuitively actualize our alchemical wholeness, tend ourselves and our world concentrically, eliminating our need for supremacy or external validation, to galvanize abundance in terrestrial resources for every being, creature, and component of the universe.
May we rise to this occasion. Or experience something better.
Infinitely,
Briget
Briget Heidmous [Washington DC] is a Tarot reader, Human Design translator and educator, artist, and founder of The Generalist Perspective and co-founder of ARTARIANICA. Through SUNSOAKED, Briget offers a bias-aware, trauma-informed approach to (higher) Self-Tending. She professionalized her Tarot practice in 2018 and launched SUNSOAKED in 2020.
To learn more about Briget: www.briget-heidmous.com
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