“A simple spark in May means lovin’ in June, all underneath the light of the flower moon” Durand Jones & The Indications, Aaron Frazer
The Scorpio Full Moon will be taking place on Friday, 1st May 2026 at 18:23 (UK time). This is a flower moon, which happens once a year on the first full moon of May. I really like this full moon because the Greek goddess Maia, the mother of Hermes (Mercury), had the month of May named after her. Bonus that I found out me and this goddess had the same name not too long ago.
Maia symbolises creation energy, youth and fertility. She is a patron of feeding mothers and all those who need extra support with what they are nurturing. This full moon is a continuation of the new moon in Aries, as the ruler of this full moon, Mars, is currently at home in Aries. It is also completing something that began when the new moon was in Scorpio in November 2025.
During this full moon, we are being asked to witness where the creative charge in our bodies is directed and what knots and entanglements emerge when the scorching heat of our passions has nowhere to go. How can we hold destruction with the same tenderness and care that we hold creation? Our desire to create is sacred, but so is our desire to destroy. We must know what we don’t want clearly so that we stop giving it energy.
Flower moons are a point of release but with a celebratory twist. How can you celebrate the internal leaps and bounds you have made in the last 6 months, and how all the hard parts of your life you thought would be the end of you, ultimately made your eyes sharper and more aware? This is a very earth-based full moon (HAPPY EARTH DAY!) where the bounty of the earth and the consciousness of Mother is blooming. Even through sadness and overwhelm, there’s a ripening in the body and soma for releasing an old way of being into the earth with full trust that the intelligence of the soil will produce an outcome and a shape that is perfumed with love, care and hope. Be kind to your body this full moon and mind your cravings. If you’re craving something “random”, give yourself the pleasure of receiving it. The goddess Maia oversees braided and knotted items. When you untie your shoelaces and walk barefoot, only then in the sensorium field of being, does the ancient calling of freedom make its name known to you.
Here are some journal prompts to help you move through this full moon. Read for your rising sign.
Aries:
-What has transformed in your collaborations and intimate partnerships in the last 6 months?
-What healing journey have you embarked on, and what has shifted inside you as a result?
-How has your relationship to giving and receiving help changed, or what do you feel needs to change?
-How can you be more honest about the limits of your capacity with yourself and explore how seasons of grief may need a different pace?
-If your relationship to your resources feels blurred and fuzzy, what actionable steps can you take to gain more clarity?
Taurus:
-What aspects of yourself have you abandoned that you admire in others?
-What kind of shame do you hold about your intensity, and how can you create room in your life to surrender and let go of needing to know what will happen next?
-How can you celebrate that there is no one like you on this earth, and what feelings emerge when you entertain the idea that you can be a separate, whole individual with divergent needs and preferences and still be loved and respected by the right people?
Gemini:
-What daily habits and routines need to go?
-What has your body been trying to tell you about pacing and structure, but you have been too distracted to notice or listen?
-How can you recalibrate output and examine the quality of energy each endeavour needs from you?
Cancer:
-How can you incorporate more fun and frivolity into your life?
-Is there a shame narrative around play and creativity for its own sake? If so, what does it sound like and what is its overall texture?
-What seeds of joy can you plant in the garden of your life so that you can feel resourced during moments of dull adulting?
-If you are a creative, what project or endeavour has reached completion? Even if it’s difficult to let it go, how can you reframe that endings are always a doorway into new beginnings?
Leo:
-What expectations that are rooted in the past are still running in your interior world? How has your default to carry the burden of being a joymaker meant that your more reserved and questioning nature gets repressed?
-If there was no role to perform, what would a day in your life look like?
-Is there something you hunger for that feels shameful to admit?
Virgo:
-What about your oracular gifts are insisting on being shared with the world?
-what long term plans and projects have now become distilled into everyday actions you take and, in a sense, absorbed in your daily life? Are you happy with this? Or do you need to zoom out into the big picture for a bit?
-In what ways are the fears you may feel about using your voice a fear of your own power?
Libra:
-What old and outdated values around money and resources are you ready to burn to the ground?
-How have you been nurturing your talents and gifts in the last 6 months?
-How can you trust that your body knows what it needs and that you may need to use a different ear to listen?
Scorpio
-What old part of you is ready to die?
-How can you incorporate rest and restoration into your transformational journeys?
-What part of you that lay dormant is ready to emerge?
Sagittarius:
-In what ways can you carve out alone time to process the internal and psychological journeys you have taken in the last 6 months?
-What spiritual and creative foods can you feed your system to feel a sense of oneness and belonging to All That Is/ Divinity/Life?
-What have your dreams been telling you about seasons in your life that are wrapping up and what needs to be released? How can you be gentle with yourself with the information that emerges from your unconscious?
Capricorn:
-In what ways are group think dynamics beginning to bore you?
-How has your definition of community changed in the last 6 months?
-Are you tired of social scripts that dull your creative juices? How can you bring more of your authentic self to causes and efforts you are a part of? What boundaries may you need to communicate around capacity and the fine lines of engagement with groups projects or friendship circles?
Aquarius:
-What parts of your career life require transformation? How can you alchemise any endings to create intentional space for something new to emerge?
-What seeds you have planted in your career or work 6 months ago have now borne fruit? In what ways has your thinking shifted around whom you want the world to know you as? Does that sort of thing even matter to you?
-How has embracing change freed you from your and others’ outdated expectations of the path you should pursue? How has listening to your intuition helped you make more aligned career choices?
Pisces:
-What learning or travel plans have begun to stir up your imagination?
-What beliefs and ideologies are becoming tasteless and need a good palate cleanse?
-What projects have reached a peak and are ready to be published and released to the world? How can you embrace that You, your essence and spirit, are bigger than the biggest stages on this planet? How would this knowledge expand your view on how far you can go in this life?
P.S. What’s your rising sign and what has been swelling up inside that you are ready to let go of this full moon?
Your deviant astrologer⚡,
Maiia
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