DYING TO BE REBORN

Ceci Stieglitz
May 1
2 min read

Updated: 6 days ago

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The fruit is ready to fall.

The Flower Moon ~ Full Moon in Scorpio (May 1st) illuminated everything that needs to come out.

What began with the Scorpio New Moon (November 2025) has blossomed, reached its peak, and now begins the return.

Scorpio asks us to go where it is uncomfortable. Where we would rather not look.

To enter the dark and go deep, to then bring something back into the light. To let die what has reached the end of its cycle, without trying to control what is to be born, allowing things to happen in their own time.

Taurus holds. Scorpio lets go. That is the Taurus–Scorpio axis: sometimes uncomfortable, but always true.

To hold the intention and release the outcome.

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Mars, ruler of this Full Moon, is strong in its own sign — Aries — and squares Jupiter (exalted in Cancer). This represents the courage to enter, with the care not to destroy.

Mercury conjunct Chiron: the wound finds language. Difficult words to speak now find their form.

Go where you need to go, look at what needs to be seen, and say what needs to be said.

Venus is sextile Saturn. From this transit, only what is real survives. The rest falls away. Even if it feels heavy, in the end it brings relief. And with Pluto stationary, what we see now, we will be processing for months.

This is a Moon for composting.

Nigredo is the alchemical phase in which form is incinerated so that something new may emerge. It is the phase of dissolution, putrefaction, and decomposition of the previous form. It is the rupture. We cannot skip it or control it. But we can witness it, observe it.

Holding and letting go. That is the balance.

I am there too. Tired of falseness and the noise. What's real is the only thing worth anything.

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Rich oils for this Moon:

Vetiver (♄) — one drop on the feet before sleep

Patchouli (♇/♄) — one drop on the chest, inhale deeply, exhale longer

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Ceci

MoonlightSage

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Questions for Contemplation

What uncomfortable truth are you sitting with? The one you have not spoken out loud?