The Full Moon South Node Scorpio Lunar Eclipse happening on 16 May 2022 is the first Scorpio one of the season. So far, the past two eclipses have been at the opposite end in Taurus, bringing in themes of security, sustainability, earthiness, nourishment and material values unfolding into your life through the disruptive Uranus energy.

The Scorpio Lunar Eclipse on 16 May is likely to be more emotionally intense and confronting, as deep fears, paranoias, secrets and subconscious impulses are illuminated with the light of the Moon. There’s good reason why we keep these thoughts and emotions hidden – possibly because they’re too painful or complex to deal with. In the lead up this week, it’s likely that complicated, emotional dynamics will come up within your interpersonal relationships. Allow these complexes to boil up to the surface and get acquainted with them – they’ve probably been repressed for too long – 8.5 years perhaps – since the last time we had a Scorpio eclipse. No need to take action, just be, listen, hold that tension and learn from that embodied wisdom.

Both Taurus and Scorpio eclipses highlight matters of security in a personal story for each of us. Taurus operates on that level of material security, while Scorpio, emotional security. But they both converge into a wholistic picture of relationship health, showing us imbalances when material security overrides emotional nurturance and vice versa. Both eclipse signs are ruled by Venus and Mars, the planets assigned over the feminine and masculine archetypal dynamic. Therefore, pertinent issues for this year’s eclipses would definitely fall into the equality, security and sustainability of interpersonal relationships. 

During this eclipse window, be prepared for uncomfortable spaces to erupt in your personal relationships, where events could potentially pry open some very raw emotions and past wounds. Being a fixed water sign, Scorpio emotions are like frozen ice. They lie inert within us for long periods but when the ice is allowed to melt, the floodgates burst open in a forceful rage.

The Scorpio eclipse could make you question the power dynamics that are currently operating in your relationship binds, potentially bringing up sadness and sorrows. Saturn squaring the eclipses adds to the solemn nature of this time. If you find yourself a little depressed this week, it’s likely because of this Saturn-Eclipse configuration. The Sun sextile Neptune at the time of the eclipse further adds another layer of confusion, illusion, disorientation, disappointment and overwhelm to the mix.  Allow yourself to be within this deep, sorrowful space from which wisdom, compassion and understanding could spring.

Saturn brings an austere tension into this Scorpio eclipse by reminding you of the consequences of your past choices that have led to your current obligations and responsibilities. Again, the fixed angles of this Saturn-Eclipse configuration could highlight the crystalised, rigid and immovable sentiments of this eclipse. Do you feel somewhat trapped in your current situation? Are imbalances in power dynamics making you feel oppressed? Are you at a stalemate with things? While Saturn tries to hold on to order and structure, the eclipses are forcing change. The result of this could see you activating big shifts in areas you’ve been stuck within for a long time. It may force you to question how much of your reality is actually under control, despite the illusion of an organized, ordered and structured life. This week, review your obligations, duties and deadlines as it could reveal what’s truly important and what could be let go of. You may also need to consider whether your duties and obligations could be alternative labels to describe your need to control. This South Node Eclipse will help you to get real with where things are at.  Transformation and the possibility to unify the tension of opposites is the potential outcome of this eclipse if you allow yourself to release the floodgates, dissolve your ego and surrender your pride. 

The South Node at this eclipse indicates that something along your dependency-codependency continuum needs to shift. Matters that gave you material security, could possibly not be as solid as you once thought. People you thought you could depend on, could be less reliable than you previously realised. Plans you thought were in motion could actually be at a stalemate. Nothing changes the tides of our perception more than the Lunar Nodes at the eclipse portals. Especially at the South Node eclipse, you could be reminded of how impermanent and transient your life really is. Where is 25 degrees of Scorpio located in your natal chart? This is the area of life that you could be feeling the need to downscale in order to make some changes to liberate yourself.

You may like to work with the South Node energy to invite in a more liberating intention with this eclipse. Use the South Node’s qualities of decline, loss, withdrawal and reduction for doing detoxes, fasts, diets, purging, spring cleaning, banishing rituals, cleanses, salt baths and culling your excesses. It’s a great time to release anything that you no longer need, including energetic attachments.

Here are some links to banishing / cleansing rituals from some occult practitioners whom I highly respect, that you may find useful or interesting:

• Gordon White – Simple Voodoo Hex
• Sam Block – Angelic Ritual of Banishing
• Sam Block – The Headless Rite
• Benebell Wen – Expelling Malefic Attachments
• Caitlin Coppock – Ritual Bathing