Sagittarius Full Moon: The meaning of meaning in your life?

Do you ever stop and really contemplate what meaning actually means in your life?

Not just what keeps you busy or functioning or distracted day to day, but what genuinely gives your life a sense of purpose, resonance, depth and spiritual aliveness.

As we move toward this Full Moon at 9 degrees of Sagittarius on May 31st here in Australia, I keep returning to this question. Probably because I am a Sagittarius myself and I know just how deeply this archetype longs for truth, meaning, understanding and expansion. Sagittarius is not interested in simply surviving life on the surface. It wants to understand life. It wants to experience life fully enough to extract wisdom from it. It wants to feel connected to something bigger than itself, whether that is philosophy, spirituality, creativity, learning, nature, travel, purpose or simply the feeling that life itself means something.

The Moon in Sagittarius is sitting in beautiful flowing aspects to Neptune, Saturn and Pluto, which adds extraordinary depth, emotional honesty and transformational potential to this lunation. There is something profoundly reflective about this Full Moon. It is not simply about optimism or inspiration, although Sagittarius certainly seeks both. It is about emotional and spiritual alignment and asking whether the life we are living, the beliefs we carry and the direction we are moving toward genuinely resonate with our deeper self.

The Gemini Sun is trining Pluto in Aquarius, creating a powerful backdrop for self-inquiry, deeper conversations and psychological insight. Gemini wants information and perspective. Pluto wants truth so there is an invitation to look beneath the surface narratives and into the deeper motivations, beliefs and patterns shaping our lives.

This Full Moon is a blue moon and follows the Scorpio Full Moon earlier in the month, and I do not think this is insignificant. Scorpio invited us into the underworld of ourselves, into emotional honesty, shadow work and confronting truths we may normally avoid. Sagittarius now asks us what meaning we are making from what we discovered there.

Meaning in our lives does not emerge from bypassing ourselves. Real meaning rarely comes from staying comfortable or attached to simplistic narratives. It often emerges through the willingness to meet ourselves honestly, including our contradictions, fears, wounds and polarities.

And I honestly think one of the deepest threads beneath sadness, disconnection and even depression can sometimes be the loss or absence of meaning, or perhaps also, living inside a meaning that never truly belonged to us in the first place.

So many of us inherit belief systems without questioning them. We inherit ideas about success, relationships, spirituality, purpose, identity and happiness from family, culture, media, religion or now increasingly, the algorithm. We are constantly being told what should matter, what should make us fulfilled and who we should become.

But Sagittarius reminds us that meaning cannot be prescribed, i has to be discovered through lived experience, to be explored, questioned, challenged and ultimately felt within the body and soul as something true and unique to us.

This is why Sagittarius is the philosopher, the seeker, the eternal student and explorer of consciousness. It asks us to expand beyond limitation, beyond certainty, beyond dogma and into a more open and curious relationship with life itself.

And perhaps one of the most important themes under this Full Moon is the integration of polarities, because true meaning is often found in the integration of opposites, the hopeful and grieving parts of ourselves, the strong and vulnerable parts and the part that longs for freedom and adventure and that longs for safety and belonging, the light and the shadow and the certainty and the questioning. All of this and its conscious integration helps us discover true meaning for ourselves

Sagittarius energy at its highest expression is not rigid belief or spiritual superiority. It is the willingness to continue growing, learning and evolving and understanding that wisdom often comes not through certainty, but through remaining open enough to let life transform us.

Jupiter in Cancer Square Chiron – The Emotional Undercurrent

Adding another layer to this Full Moon is the fact that Sagittarius’ ruler, Jupiter, is still in Cancer and squaring Chiron in Aries.

Jupiter in Cancer expands our emotional world, our need for safety, belonging, emotional nourishment and connection to home, family and emotional roots. Yet Chiron in Aries continues to expose wounds around identity, self-trust, autonomy and the courage to fully be ourselves.

There may be an emotional tension emerging between the part of us seeking comfort and emotional security and the part of us being asked to grow into greater self-definition and authenticity.

Old emotional wounds connected to belonging, rejection, visibility or feeling emotionally safe enough to express our truth may rise under this Full Moon. But this is not here to punish you. It is here to show u where healing and deeper self-awareness are needed.

Because healing is not about becoming perfect. It is about becoming more whole.

How To Work With This Full Moon Practically

This Full Moon is not only philosophical or spiritual. It also asks for active reflection and conscious engagement.

Here are some practical ways to work with this energy:

Reflect on Your Beliefs

Spend some time journalling about the beliefs currently shaping your life.

Ask yourself:

• Which beliefs genuinely resonate with me now?

• Which beliefs feel inherited, outdated or fear-based?

• Where might my worldview be limiting my growth or openness?

• What truths am I afraid to fully acknowledge?

Sagittarius asks us to remain intellectually and spiritually honest.

Seek New Perspectives

One of the healthiest expressions of Sagittarius energy is openness to learning.

Read something outside your normal perspective.Have a conversation with someone who sees life differently.Travel somewhere unfamiliar if you can.Watch where defensiveness arises when your beliefs are challenged.

This Full Moosn asks us to grow beyond the echo chambers we often unconsciously create.

Explore Meaning Through Experience

Meaning is not something you think your way into entirely. It is something you live into.

Notice what experiences genuinely make you feel more alive, connected and expanded and what drains your spirit or disconnects you from yourself. Your body and emotional responses often know before your mind does.

Spend Time In Honest Self-Reflection and tap into your deepest beliefs

Because Pluto is so active in this Full Moon, there is an invitation to go deeper psychologically and explore what it is you really believe about yourself, what gives you meaning and how you want to be in the world.

Do not fear your depth. There is wisdom there.

Reconnect To Hope

Sagittarius ultimately reminds us not to lose faith in life itself and to find what expands us and gives us grounded hope, not blind optimism. The understanding that growth, meaning and transformation are always possible, especially when we face difficult life seasons, is often what brings us closer to our spiritual practice that then brings meaning into out lives

A Final Reflection

This Sagittarius Full Moon is ultimately an invitation to reconnect with our own inner truth and a deeper sense of meaning that emerges from knowing ourselves deeply enough to live in alignment with what genuinely resonates within our souls.

So during this Full Moon, spend some time with the meaning of meaning in your own life.

What genuinely makes you feel spiritually alive?What beliefs are evolving?What truths are asking to be lived more honestly? And where is life asking you to grow beyond old limitations and into a more expansive understanding of yourself and the world around you?

Perhaps meaning is not something we find once and hold onto forever but it is something we continually uncover as we grow into deeper relationship with ourselves and with life itself.

If you wish to dive deeper, my books are open for readings in June. Head to www.aspectastrology.com.au

Full Moon in Scorpio — May 2, 2026. The courage to feel what’s real

The courage to feel what’s real

There are moments in the year where the astrology doesn’t just invite reflection… it asks for honesty.

This is one of those moments.

A personal note before we begin…

How often in life are you really honest with yourself? No, I mean really?

You know that feeling where you know you have to face something, a truth or an emotion but you just keep sweeping it under the carpet?

Yep… guilty.

Despite doing the work I do, I am just as good as anyone at being in denial or putting off what might need to be faced. But after my last Saturn return, I vowed I would try at least to not do this anymore and come face to face with my shadows, demons and subconscious drivers.

It has literally changed my life. I would not say I have mastered it, but I sure am working through some stuff and well, once the decision was made it is actually easier than I thought.

Sometimes we just have to do it…and this is one of those times.

We’re moving into the Full Moon in Scorpio on May 2nd here in Australia, sitting at 11 degrees, and there is a palpable intensity to this Moon — a sense that something has been building beneath the surface and is now asking, or perhaps even insisting, to be acknowledged.

This is not a light, surface-level Full Moon. This is one that pulls you inward.

The pressure to feel what’s been held

This Full Moon is charged because the Moon is in a dynamic square to its ruler Pluto, with co-ruler Mars activated in Aries.

And this creates is a kind of emotional pressure — not necessarily dramatic on the outside, but internally, something is shifting. So during this Full Moon we may feel our emotions rising more strongly than usual, a sense that something can no longer be contained or an urge to express, release, or confront something that has been sitting quietly

This is certainly the kind of energy that doesn’t allow you to bypass.

Not everything needs to move toward the light

We often think about growth as something that moves us forward, upward, toward the light.

To heal, evolve and become better, more aligned, more aware.

And yes… there is truth in that. But what this Full Moon reminds us is that growth also happens in the opposite direction in the descent and the quieter, darker corridors of our inner world and the places we don’t always want to go, the feelings we soften or move away from, the truths we sense but don’t always fully let ourselves meet.

This is not about staying in those places and it’s certainly not about reliving or overwhelming yourself but it is about allowing yourself, when it is safe to do so, to turn toward what is there… and to feel it honestly.

The Scorpio invitation: truth, depth, and emotional honesty

Scorpio energy is not interested in surface-level awareness; it wants truth, depth and honesty

It asks:

• What are you avoiding?

• What are you suppressing?

• What have you not fully allowed yourself to feel or admit?

And while that can feel confronting, there is something incredibly liberating about meeting yourself in that space, because when you allow what is there… without rushing to fix it or transcend it…to just sit with it, feel it, something shifts.

There is often:

• an opening

• a realisation

• a quiet release

• or a deeper acceptance of yourself as you are

Not everything needs to be polished or resolved immediately,sometimes the growth is simply in the honest acknowledgement.

Taurus vs Scorpio — holding on vs letting go

Every Full Moon sits across an axis, and here we have the polarity between Taurus and Scorpio.

Taurus seeks stability, comfort, and security.Scorpio seeks truth, transformation, and release.

This creates a tension that many of us will feel:

Where am I holding on… because it feels safe?And where is that safety no longer aligned with truth?

This Moon may ask you to loosen your grip on something:

• a pattern

• a dynamic

• a version of yourself

• or an emotional attachment

Relationships, power, and emotional truth

Scorpio also governs intimacy, vulnerability, and emotional entanglement, so relationship themes may come into focus.

You may notice:

• power dynamics becoming more visible

• deeper emotional truths surfacing

• a need for greater honesty in how you relate

This is not about creating conflict, but it is about seeing more clearly, being honest with yourself and with that, allowing something to transform, deepen, shift or release.

 A mind awakening alongside emotional truth

Adding another layer to all of this is Uranus, which has just entered Gemini.

This is a significant collective shift.

It brings:

• new perspectives

• sudden realisations

• shifts in how we think, communicate, and understand ourselves

So what we are experiencing now is emotional truth meeting mental awakening.

You may not only feel something deeply… you may also understand it differently.

And that combination can be incredibly powerful.

How to work with this Full Moon

Rather than trying to “move through” this quickly, consider allowing yourself to be with it.

Some ways to work with this energy:

• Give yourself space without constant distraction

• Journal honestly about what is coming up beneath the surface

• Notice where you are holding on out of fear

• Sit with your emotions without needing to immediately change them

• Ask yourself: what is this moment actually asking me to feel?

Your growth will not always come from staying in the light.

Sometimes it comes from your willingness…to sit in the dark for a moment…and discover that there is something there for you that you could not access any other way. This is about conscious awareness.

If this Full Moon is stirring something in you… if you can feel that there is more beneath the surface that is asking to be understood… you don’t have to navigate that alone.

Your chart holds the map to why this is coming up for you, where it’s asking for your attention, and how to work with it in a way that feels supportive rather than overwhelming.

If you’re ready to meet yourself more honestly, more deeply, and with guidance…you can book a personal reading with me here: www.aspectastrology.com.au

Your Aries New Moon Permission Slip

The Aries New Moon: The Courage to Begin (Even When You’re Not Ready)

One of the things I have come to witness over and over again in my work as an astrologer, sitting with so many people at different stages of their lives, is just how often we hold ourselves back from what we truly want… how often we quiet that instinct, delay that decision, or place our own desires to the side in order to meet the needs, expectations, or comfort of others. I’ve done it myself many many times and when I witness it now, so often in others, it reflects to me just how insidious it is, how subtly it is depleting our light and our life force.

People, and I will say it, especially women are all too ready to say “not yet,” the “maybe later,” the “it’s not the right time,” the internal negotiation that slowly and almost invisibly moves us further and further away from something that, at one point, felt alive and true inside us, and over time, what can happen is that our instinct our natural impulse to move towards what we want becomes harder to hear.

So when I look at this very spectacular Aries New Moon energy with SOO many planets in Aries,  what I see is not just another moment of “new beginnings,” but something, much more confronting, and ultimately much more liberating than that.

This is your Aries Permission Slip to well, be fundamentally……selfish for a change.

This abundance of Aries energy is a permission slip to reconnect with that instinct, to remember what it feels like to want something without immediately editing it, softening it, or reshaping it to fit what feels acceptable or manageable, and to begin to act on your own behalf in a way that may feel unfamiliar, and at times even uncomfortable. And yes… to be a little bit selfish.

Not in a way that disregards others, but in a way that allows you, even briefly, to centre yourself, to listen inwardly, and to recognise that your desires, your direction, and your sense of movement actually matter.

So the question is … what do you want and are you willing to begin.

This New Moon is creating a kind of internal pressure that is hard to ignore, where something inside us begins to stir, to push, to ask for movement, even if we’re not entirely sure what that movement is yet.

This New Moon in Aries on April 17 at 9:51pm here in Melbourne sits within a significant concentration of Aries energy, with the Sun and Moon joined by Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Neptune and Chiron, and when this many planets gather in one sign, particularly a sign like Aries, there is a clear message that something is ready—if not overdue—to begin.

So what you may notice is restlessness, agitation, a desire to act, to decide, to shift something, even if clarity hasn’t fully landed yet, and this is where many people pull back, because we are often more comfortable moving when things feel certain, planned, and contained.

But Aries doesn’t work that way, Aries moves first and understanding this changes how we can work with this energy.

Working With the Fire Instead of Resisting It

Rather than trying to slow this energy down or make it more comfortable, the real work here is learning how to channel it.

So one of the simplest and most powerful ways to work with this New Moon is through physical movement.  This is fire in the body that needs to move, so walk, exercise dance- do something that allows the internal heat to have an outlet. Even 10–15 minutes of intentional movement can shift how this energy sits within you.

A Simple Aries New Moon Ritual

This doesn’t need to be complicated, in fact, Aries prefers it simple and direct.

Set aside some quiet time around the New Moon and ask yourself:

What do I want right now?

Write it down

And then, instead of creating a long list of intentions, choose one thing -One action or step or commitment to a new beginning and commit to doing something towards it within the next 24–48 hours.

The Discomfort of Being Self-Directed

This is not always easy, because this energy turns you towards yourself, and for many, that brings up discomfort.

The question of what do I want? can feel surprisingly complex when you are used to considering everyone else first.

So part of working with this New Moon is simply allowing that discomfort to exist without immediately moving away from it.

Sitting with the question and letting the answer emerge slowly, rather than forcing it.

When the Shadow Shows Up

With Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Neptune and Chiron all in Aries, there is also a complexity here that needs to be acknowledged.

Mars can bring urgency and frustration. Mercury can bring quick reactions or impulsive communication. Its connection to Neptune can create confusion or misinterpretation.Saturn adds pressure and consequence. And Chiron brings vulnerability around identity and worth.

So if you find yourself feeling reactive, overwhelmed, or uncertain at times, pause before reacting and channel the energy into something constructive rather than letting it spill out.

Healing Through Action

Chiron in Aries reminds us that taking action is not always straightforward, because it can touch old wounds around confidence, identity, and the right to take up space.

So if fear or doubt arises as you begin to move towards something, this doesn’t mean you should stop, it might mean you are touching something important, so rather than waiting for confidence, allow the action itself to become the healing.

A Final Practice

If you’re unsure where to direct this energy, take a moment to look at your own chart, or simply reflect on where Aries sits in your life.

Where are you being asked to begin?Where are you being asked to act differently?Where are you being asked to choose yourself?

Even journaling on these questions can bring clarity.

And if you feel called, this can be a powerful time to explore your chart more deeply, because understanding your personal astrology can offer insight into what is being activated for you right now, and where this initiation is asking to take shape.