Taurus Super Full Moon: Finding Stillness in Liminality

One of three supermoons closing out 2025, this Full Moon rises at 13 degrees of sturdy, grounded Taurus — pulling our awareness back to the body, the soil beneath our feet, and the pulse of life itself, even as the Sun moves through the dark waters of Scorpio.

By illuminating the axis of life and death, this lunation reminds us that death is not an ending, but an opening — the clearing that makes space for new life. It also whispers that true spirituality isn’t found somewhere above the clouds, but within the rhythm of our breath, the warmth of our skin, and the heartbeat of the Earth.

As the sign of life, fertility, and sensual embodiment, Taurus invites us to remember that the sacred lives in our everyday aliveness — while its counterpart, Scorpio, invites us to surrender to the mystery that gives that life meaning.

Fittingly, this full moon blooms just one day before the veil between worlds reaches its thinnest on Samhain (Nov 6 at 15 degrees Scorpio) — the ancient festival that honours death, ancestors, and the unseen cycles of renewal. You can learn more about Samhain’s roots and rituals in [this previous blog post].

Taurus Super Full Moon: Brightest of the Year

Supermoons occur when the Moon is closest to Earth in its orbit, making it appear larger and more luminous than usual. Astrologically, that proximity amplifies everything: emotions, intuition, embodiment. This one — the second last supermoon of the year, and the biggest — acts as a magnifying glass on our internal landscape.

And because it’s in Taurus, the sign of the earth, body, and fertility, this lunation illuminates life itself. Taurus is the fertile soil of the zodiac — its season is the time of year where seeds sprout, roots thicken, and abundance takes tangible form in the natural world. It’s ruled by Venus, the goddess of love, beauty, and value, who teaches that pleasure is sacred and life is art.

Its opposite (where the Sun is now) is Scorpio — illuminating the time of year when the darkness reigns over the light, when the veil between worlds thins, and nature begins its descent into the quiet slumber of the underworld. Its the season of decay and composting — of allowing what doesn’t serve to feed the soil in which new roots will grow sturdy and deep in the spring. This lunation sits on that axis of life and death, body and soul, sensuality and surrender.  Where Taurus embodies creation, Scorpio holds destruction — together they form the current of sexual and creative energy that flows from womb to heart to throat — the energy that births worlds, songs, and new versions of ourselves.

Taurus vs. Scorpio: The Axis of Creation

In the body, Taurus rules the throat and heart, the chambers of voice and value. Scorpio rules the reproductive system, the wells of death and rebirth. This full moon activates the channel between them — the erotic, creative current that manifests life when energy is allowed to move freely.

When we block expression (throat) or repress desire (womb), energy stagnates. When we allow movement, sound, and feeling, we become fertile ground for creation — whether that creation is a piece of art, a relationship, a human being, or a new way of being. So this moon is an invitation to move, to sound, to breathe life through your own body-temple.

Between Life and Death: The Samhain Threshold

This full moon arrives just one day before the midpoint of Scorpio season — Samhain, when the Sun reaches 15 degrees Scorpio (Nov 6). Traditionally, Samhain marks the thinning of the veil between worlds ... a time when the living and the dead walk together.

We are walking the same threshold now: one foot in the tangible world of Taurus, one foot in Scorpio’s invisible underworld. It is a deeply liminal time, a cosmic pause between what has ended and what has yet to begin. You may feel suspended — like you’re in a birth canal, sensing movement but unable to fully see the new world forming. Remember that seeds germinate in darkness before they bloom in light.

While the Moon itself makes harmonious aspects to the North and South Nodes in Virgo and Pisces, gently encouraging us to bridge control and surrender as well as body and mind, the surrounding sky tells a story of transformation...

Venus Urges Transformation

Venus, still in Libra until until November 7, forms several potent and challenging aspects. She opposes Chiron in Aries and brings early wounds of love and self-worth to the surface. Patterns formed in childhood or early relationships echo back for integration. Chiron asks that we look towards the wound to extract its wisdom — embody the courage of Aries to look within. Venus also forms a square Jupiter in Cancer before exiting Libra, expanding our capacity for care and nourishment, but asking us not to over-give. She also approaches a square Pluto in Aquarius (exact on November 7th-16th) which catalyzes deep value shifts, as well as power dynamics around love, money, and creativity transforming at the collective level. Pluto is Scorpio’s modern ruling planet, so its tension with Venus is a significant energy that we will experience during this lunation.

Though Venus wrestles with Pluto, Pluto himself is in harmonious dialogue with Uranus, planet of change and awakening. Together they signal liberation from the old paradigm — a quiet revolution within.

Overall, Venus’ aspects remind us: growth in love often requires discomfort. As she crosses the threshold between Libra and Scorpio, she asks us to refine what real harmony means — not peace at any price, but peace rooted in truth, vulnerability and authenticity.

Mars, Mercury & Uranus Bring Boldness

Mars, the other ruling planet of Scorpio has just leapt from Scorpio’s depths into Sagittarius on November 4 — a bold shift after weeks of shedding skins during this powerful snake year.

Conjoined Mercury and opposing Uranus, this configuration sparks breakthroughs, directness and potential restlessness. Mercury and Uranus are both connected to the nervous system, and with Mars in the mix, there is a rewiring and awakening energy arising within the masculine principle — how we act and assert ourselves. We may be presented with unexpected opportunities to show up differently by being bold, direct or brutaly honest in some way. Just be mindful that this combination is potentially volatile when it comes to communication — the shadow of Sagittarius often says before thinking — so try to pause before saying something you may regret.

Saturn–Neptune in Pisces: The Birth Canal

Saturn, the North Node and Neptune hover together in late Pisces for the last time in our lives over these last few months of 2025 — boundary and boundlessness, form and formlessness, side by side. This is the cosmic womb — dissolving old structures while gestating new dreams. It’s why life may feel like a foggy pause right now. We are becoming, not quite yet born.

In the days leading up to this full moon, I stood on the Pacific coast of southern Vancouver Island — cliffs meeting sea, wind sharp with transformation. It felt like standing between worlds. The waves endlessly crashing, dissolving, birthing. It makes sense — my Jupiter and Neptune lines cross there in astrocartography. Expansion and surrender. The ocean mirrors the Piscean field of this sky (and my natal moon): the end and the beginning, the womb and the infinite.

In that liminal stillness, I felt the truth of this full moon: nothing is stagnant, even when it looks still. The Earth is always breathing, composting, creating.

Earth Mirrors Sky

Just as this full moon activates a unique area of your chart, every place on Earth activates a different part of you.

Your astrocartography map reveals the planetary lines that shape your experience in each location — where your Venus line opens love and creativity, your Moon line deepens emotional connection, or your Neptune line (like mine on the Pacific coast) dissolves boundaries and heightens intuition. If you’re curious to explore how place interacts with purpose, book an Soul Map: Astrocartography Reading here. Let’s map where your body, soul, and geography harmonize; so you can root your magic in the right soil.

This Super Full Moon in Taurus is both culmination and prelude; the harvest before the compost, the breath before the next bloom. Let it remind you that being in your body is sacred practice. That endings are only gateways in disguise.

Stand barefoot on the earth. Listen to your heartbeat echo the pulse of the planet. You are the bridge between death and rebirth, heaven and soil, spirit and form. Let this moon ground you there — in the holy middle, where everything begins again.

xx, Vanja

What has come to fruition since the Taurus New Moon six months ago (April 27)? How can I honour and celebrate the growth that has unfolded — even if it looks different than I expected?

How has my relationship with safety, sensuality, or pleasure evolved this year?

What lessons or experiences are composting within me — naturally transforming into wisdom without needing to be “released”?

How can I embody gratitude for the life that’s here now, while holding space for what’s still becoming?

If my throat and womb could speak to each other, what would they celebrate? What truth or desire is ready to be voiced into being?

Embodying the Liminal

1. Root into Presence

Find a forest, a beach, or even your living room floor. Sit or stand with your spine long and your feet or hips connected to the ground. Close your eyes. Feel the weight of your body supported by the earth. Annoint yourself with rose oil or burn some incense.

Inhale — draw energy up from the soil into your heart.

Exhale — send gratitude back down, offering your presence.

2. Awaken the Body

Begin to move intuitively. Let your breath guide your motion: a stretch, a sway, a slow circle of hips or shoulders.

Taurus reminds us that the body is the altar. Let movement awaken your senses: the rhythm of your heartbeat, the texture of air on skin, the subtle pleasure of simply being alive. Make sound if it wants to emerge ... a hum, a sigh, a note of joy.

3. Celebrate the Harvest

Full Moons are not for forcing release, but for witnessing what has come to fruition.

Under this bright Taurus moon, light a candle or gather natural symbols of abundance — leaves, fruit, flowers, or soil. Name what has blossomed for you this year — the growth, the lessons, the small miracles. Offer thanks to the Earth for holding it all.

If emotions arise, let them flow ... this is the natural composting of Scorpio at work. Nothing to fix or purge; simply honour the cycle completing through you.

4. Embody Gratitude + Pleasure

To close, place one hand on your heart and one on your belly or womb.

Breathe deeply, feeling energy move between them ... heart to womb, womb to heart.

Let yourself smile, move, or dance slowly in the glow of your own aliveness. This is celebration. This is the magic of Taurus: the body in devotion to life.