Full Moon in Aries
In October, 2025, the Full Moon falls in the Sign of Aries, Fire Cardinal Masculine Sign, and in the Decan of Leo, October 6 @ 20:47 PDT, 22:47 CDT, 23:47 EDT. In Europe, it happens on October 7 @ 3:47 am UTC/GMT. Like any other Full Moon, the Moon opposes the Sun. The Moon reflects the sunlight and projects it onto the Earth.
You will hear Astronomers and Meteorologists talk about it as a Super Moon. The reason is that the Moon is at her perigee (closer than normally to the Earth), appearing really big to us. This phenomenon has more than picturesque impressions, but many gravitational physical effects. She pulls on the surface of the Earth and Water affecting tides and the movement of water in the seas making the currents stronger.
"This "perigean current" is a period of stronger-than-average currents, making the high and low tides more extreme than during other times of the lunar cycle."1
Effects of a Super Moon
However, at this time the Moon, fortunately, will NOT be out-of-bounds by declination. Still, having the Moon so close, in our face as it were, also amplify our moods, making us more reactive to the situation at hand. And this is not all, Emergency Room staff will tell you whenever there is a regular Full Moon, they are busier. But during a Super Full Moon, wounds will bleed profusely, there will be an increase of mental health patients needing assistance, there are more baby deliveries, and the staff themselves will be more irritable and work will become hectic. Just a tip, if you don't have a life threatening health problem, avoid the ER around a Super Full Moon.
My teacher, Lynn Koiner, has done extensive astrological research on Super Moons and calls them Crisis Lunations. They are usually associated with critical events, personal as well as public. 2
Ruler Mars in Scorpio
Yet, this Full Moon in the Sign of Aries is a fiery one. Ruled by Mars in Scorpio, one can count on needing a good emotional cleanse, organically, psychologically or spiritually. Scorpio relates to the excretory system in the body, but symbolically, one may need to eliminate deep seated emotional trauma, or revisit anger, fear or trust issues. The Full Moon light will illuminate the darker places of our psyche to uncover them.
Another possibility is seeing aggression popping up from dark places. Mars in Scorpio is vengative, sometimes, looking for revenge; may be obsessive compulsive, but strategic in his action. He can awaken a passionate reaction due to jealousy, or even the suspicion of treason. The Leo decan may indicate a wounded ego lashing out. His impulsive dart may be subversive, or lie in ambush. An old resentment may burst in the open in a relationship and destroy it.
Mercury square Pluto
Then this Full Moon, not only because of her bright light, but also her condition -described above-, can promote revelations. During the Solar Eclipse in Virgo on September 21, 2025, Mercury, its ruler, was under the sunbeams, which means that whatever the eclipse was starting, was 'invisible'. Now, not only has Mercury already escaped the Sun's brightness, but is square Pluto, the modern ruler of Scorpio.
Mercury in this Sign loves investigating to the core of the matter. He's now able to uncover taboos, secrets that one keeps very tightly close, especially those of sexual nature, but also shames, guilt, crimes, and undercover dealings. Mercury is never afraid of digging deep in the dungeons of the psyche. After all, he dealt with Pluto the liberation of Persephone from the Underworld. In Scorpio, Mercury becomes a spy, he wants the truth and will not rest until he gets it. Plus, he knows the tricks necessary to make the subject lose the grip of it.
Mercury is also forming a Yod with Uranus and Neptune at the base, activating their sextile. There might be surprising insights. Uranus stimulates the mind and the combination with Neptune gives intuition and clairvoyance. Mercury in Scorpio finds out shocking information that radically change the way we think. We have to revise and adjust our concepts and ideas.
Last Aspect of the Moon
Another factor to consider is the last aspects the Moon makes before being perfectly Full. She sextiles Uranus in Gemini and Pluto in Aquarius at their midpoint from Aries. The Moon -almost full- represents a new awareness that produces a mental liberation, when new information published reveals certain secrets (Uranus) and makes a significant intellectual transformation in the public opinion (Pluto in Aquarius).
Chiron conjunct Eris
Chiron conjoined Eris exactly the first time on May 27, 2025 at 25º Aries 28'. The second time they are exact is October 9, 2025 at 25º Aries 15'. They are in tight orb at the moment of the Full Moon. There will be a third exact conjunction on March 19, 2026 at 24º Aries 59'. But they are in effective orb for a few years on either side of these dates.
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| Apple of the Discord by Jacob Jordaens |
Eris was not invited to the Gods' Banquet. One can safely assume, due to her bringing her apple of the discord to their table, that she was not 'beautiful' enough. Chiron was abandoned and relegated also because he didn't fit the mold. The way I see this conjunction is that rejecting those who supposedly do not fit in society, making them scapegoats, or trying to eliminate them because they are 'inconvenient', is the actual Discord that creates not only the Chaos the world experiences now, but may actually end in the kind of Trojan War that decimates Humanity.
Chiron in Aries represents the Wounded Warrior as well as our human wounded identity. Everywhere people are put in situations where they are rejected just because who they are, discriminated for their color, nationality, culture, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, health condition, etc. That assuming that there is a Standard Normality.
This Aries Full Moon may also shed the light on issues of identity and the 'problem' of being a Human.
References
1- https://www.naturalnavigator.com/news/2019/02/the-supermoon-and-tides/
2- Lynn Loiner on Crisis Lunations, https://www.lynnkoiner.com/super-moons-or-the-crises-lunations/
