Full Moon Collective Energy for May 2025
The moon's phases in May are:
🌓 First Quarter: May 4.
🌕 Full Moon: May 12.
🌗 Last Quarter: May 20.
🌑 New Moon: May 27.
This month's Full Moon, known as the Flower Moon, will appear full between May 11 and May 13, depending on your location.
Like last month's full Moon, May features a Micromoon, meaning it will appear smaller and dimmer than usual due to its distance from the Earth.
According to NASA, several other planets will also be visible in the sky along side the Full Flower Moon.
These other planets include:
- Venus: Appears very bright and low in the east in the hour before sunrise all month.
- Mars: Easy to find in the west in the first few hours of the night, all month long. Sets around midnight to 1 a.m. local time.
- Jupiter: Shines brightly in the west following sunset all month. Early in the month it sets about two hours after the Sun, but by late May it's setting only an hour after sunset.
- Saturn: Begins the month next to Venus, low in the eastern sky before sunrise. Quickly separates from Saturn and rises higher in the sky each day before dawn.
Significance & Influences of the 2025 Flower Moon
Similar to the many cosmic alignments presented by the Universe over the last few months, the Full Flower Moon in Scorpio encourages deep shifts in our psychological and emotional processes.
Under the lunation of May's Full Moon, be prepared to embrace personal rebirth, practically and prudently immersing yourself in the dark depths of your inner workings.
Behind the Moon's Name:
The Full Moon in May is commonly known as the Flower Moon, which honors the many wildflowers that bloom around this time across North America.
The May Full Moon is also known to Native Tribes across the Americas by the following names...
- Budding Moon, Zaagibagaa-giizisIskigamizige-giizis — Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe)
- Flowering Moon, Waabigoni-giizis — Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe)
- Flowering Moon, Waswwgone-giizis— Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe)
- Flower Moon, Waawaaskone Giizis — Anishinaabe
- Snake Moon, Ya? Nuti (ya(q) noong-tee) — Catawba Language, Catawba Indian Nation, South Carolina
- Planting Month, anisgvti — Cherokee, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, North Carolina
- Summer Moon, Upinagaaq — Inupiat Language, North Slope, Alaska
- Planting Moon, Aʔkeʔaat Neepãʔuk — Mahican Dialect, Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Wisconsin
- They Plant Moon, Latiy^thos — Oneida
- Dancing Moon, Tahch’ahipu — Tunica, Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana
This lunar cycle will also feel huge energetic impacts from another fellow fixed sign, Taurus, since it is the sign that the Sun is traveling through this time of year (April 20-May 20).
The powerful polarity between the sister signs, Taurus and Scorpio, tends to bring a significant focus on value, trust, stability, passion, and intimacy. Moreover, the extreme energies of the Taurus-Scorpio polarity indicate a need to be wary of stubbornness, explosiveness, emotional edginess, and breakdowns during this period.
Such wariness stems from the fact that a few days before the Full Moon on May 10th, Mercury will enter Taurus, and then square with Pluto, which is in the sign of Aquarius.
Since Pluto is a co-ruler of this lunation, this planetary influence can bring about lots of fast-moving or intense conversations. Power struggles regarding matters of the mind are likely under this Full Flower Moon.
Hence, we may want to slow down and be patient if we desire to understand how something works and deeply transform how we think about or relate to it.
Additionally, the Moon will be in direct opposition with Uranus, which is also in the sign of Taurus during this period.
Such an aspect brings unpredictability and exacerbates the urge to break free from the known to create a reality aligned with our uniqueness.
Whether regarding our career, a relationship, or a personal concern, the Taurus-Scorpio polar energy is giving us a universal push out of stagnation and complacency.
Finally, Mars, the other co-ruler of this lunation, will be in a perfect trine with Venus.
This aspect helps remind us that favorable outcomes are likely if we focus on love and make heart-led decisions regarding our relationships, pleasure, and joy.
Finding Truth in Rebirth
This month's Full Moon invites us into deeper relationships with our truth beyond others’ expectations.
As a water sign, Scorpio's energy helps remind us that our relationships are powerful mirrors that show where we have outgrown old patterns.
When we acknowledge the finality of chapters in relationships, we make room for our personal rebirth and the truth of who we are to express itself. Under this lunation, clear any limiting attachments and ideas, and move forward.
Some questions that can help gain insight into whether we are moving through life in our truth include...
- Are the places I am spending my time mapping back to my priorities?
- Are my decisions and my values aligned?
- In what ways do I hide?
- How am I measuring my worth?
- Where are the places where my boundaries need adjusting?
Easing Tension and Control
Despite being in a fixed sign, the Full Flower Moon challenges us to release control and surrender to the mystery of not knowing.
While uncertainty is rarely comfortable, the discomfort of not living in your truth is debilitating for the soul.
The Flower Full Moon presents an opportunity to explore all the new and uncertain spaces that you could not see or imagine before.
When we exert tension and control over areas of our lives, we only allow for a sort of constricted growth, which can be fruitful. Yet sometimes, if we ease up, opportunities begin to blossom in unexpected and profoundly beautiful ways.
This lunar cycle is all about dispelling misunderstandings about the unknown and building trust in the guidance within us that keeps us aligned with our truth.
The Roots of Power and Trust
Remaining rooted in the truth of who you are can be challenging, especially when others may feel jealous, try to dim your light, or walk away from you. Yet, doing so, unlocks an unbreakable confidence and trust in your own power, allowing you to rise out of self-doubt and family wounds.
Through this lunation, we are encouraged to deepen our gratitude for all the opportunities to grow that have and continue to present themselves.
If you find yourself reflecting on the past, the foundation of your life, and what has been instrumental in forming your world view, try to release any shame and guilt for who you are.
Like thorns on a rose, which grow from a place of pain, sometimes those things that harden us also offer the greatest gifts, such as the teachings of discernment and tenacity.
Ultimately, the Full Flower Moon urges us to make the conscious decision to operate with a lens of gratitude and extend ourselves love.
Once we make that decision, we can transform pain and doubt into blessings and self-trust. Such transformations help us enter a space where we are more receptive to the intuitive guidance that helps us bloom more fully.
Learn the Divine Language of Your Inner Knowing
*** NOTE: This practice expands upon the ritual outlined at the end of the post, which helps you deepen your relationship with the guiding forces in your life. Remember to ask for greater clarity and presence from loving and supportive guides and receive them with your full awareness.
Start a journal or list of all the meaningful signs you come across day to day.
This can include spotting an animal or feather along your path, flipping randomly to a page in a book with a powerful message, and seeing a pattern of numbers, symbols, or colors.
Whatever the sign, take time to assign meaning to it through meditation and reflection on your personal experiences.
Blooming into Our Medicine
As you root into gratitude and self-love, begin to notice how you bloom in the many moments of your life. Even the seemingly insignificant moments can reveal how our voice, presence, and heart bring much-needed love into a space.
The Full Flower Moon encourages us to ask ourselves... “What is my medicine?”
We are all capable of doing something that flows easily from our being. It is not merely luck or talent that brings it forth, nor some complicated process. Instead, it simply extends outward from the soul.
What is your one thing?
Your one thing may be how you hold space for others, raise your children, or tend to a garden bed. It could also be insights that seem to come from a stream of notes, the beautiful music you create that reflects your inner beauty, or the heart-warming food you cook that nourishes the soul of all who eat it.
It doesn’t matter what your medicine is. What matters is that you embrace, nurture, and celebrate it.
But how will we know when we discover our medicine?
Oftentimes, a sense of timelessness (or flow state) occurs in which we experience feelings of joy and passion for what we are doing. The medicine will not feel like work, yet it should be treated with similar reverence.
Through our medicine, we rise and lead with the love we desire to see in the world.
While it may be hidden or suppressed for various reasons, our medicine will always find a way to emerge when we take the time to acknowledge its existence and trust in our inner knowing of how it may manifest.
May we all remember that we do not need to have it all figured out, yet we have the tools, power, and support to make it through the mystery of it all. May we illuminate our darkest corners to reveal ways we have been held back without realizing it. Through luck, love, and guidance, may we be presented with the opportunities necessary to continue growing and bloom into our medicine.
With love,
mgmc
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