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Note that in this case, we take into consideration the mean Black moon position, in my opinion, it appears to be the most meaningful in most classical cases. But keep in mind that when it comes to the Black moon we must see things with a “zonal” perspective (an area with an Orb), rather than as a fixed material point.
The black moon enters Scorpio on March 27, 2025, just before the solar eclipse New moon of March 29, 2025, and will exit just in time for the New moon of December 20, 2025! (these are 2 new moons which may have a greater energetic impact, so keep an eye on them if you’re sensitive to this black moon transit).
This is a sign where the black moon has a certain depth, where it can enable, for example, important psychic and psychoanalytic evolutions, but where it is also sharper in the detachments and renunciations it can bring about (it can heighten fears of loss, require mourning mechanisms, etc.).
Of course, this won’t apply in the same way to everyone, depending on what Scorpio implies in each person’s birth chart, but it’s a karmic transit that’s still very interesting for “purging” (the black moon can make it possible to leave lighter than before, once it’s cut through what it had to cut through).
It’s a process which can be violent, intense and compulsive at first, but which is generally, at least in the long term, beneficial for the evolution of the personality (Plutonian forces act mainly in a corrosive way towards what is not or no longer functional, a bit like a “self-cleaning” function).
This transit of the black moon can therefore be a significant factor in rapidly activating the alchemical process of Calcinatio in the present: over a few days/weeks, it brings psychic focus, producing intense emotional pressure, with a view to changing what no longer suits…
Main signs impacted during this transit:
1st decans Fixed over April/May, 2nd decans Fixed over summer, 3rd decans Fixed mainly from 3rd dekad of October to end of December.
What do we have to give up or let go of?
This transit begins on April 2025, clashing with the decreasing square of its ruler Pluto transiting Aquarius, and rapidly forming a Grand Fixed Cross pattern with Mars gradually coming out of its retrograde loop in Leo, and the Sun gradually moving into Taurus.
The second half of April can be very energetic on this point for 1st decans Fixed, and this pattern clearly evokes a certain violence in personal assertion, it has an important unblocking role.
Especially with regard to medium-term configurations, such as the retrograde motion of Mars which will have marked several months, and which may have made us impatient, creating setbacks and frustrations…
This is a bit of a fed-up phase! It’s as if we want to say “enough”, and have the energy to make a decision and take the necessary action (even if it’s based on a lack of confidence, or requires us to confront someone who may represent a source of domination for us, or an authority).
Clearly, this second half of April, especially the New moon of April 27, 2025, and into early May, should not be overlooked, as it may have a major role to play in unblocking bogged-down medium-term situations (decisions may even be imposed “by force of circumstance”, of will or of necessity, by fate, so you might as well try to consciously accompany what you have to do as much as possible).
Note that this is probably very much in the direction of greater emancipation to be conquered in the background, so it may perhaps concern more strongly an activity where “you’ve felt imprisoned” in recent months, where you may have lacked freedom of action (more or less consciously, more or less on your responsibility, and with your consent).
We know that the energies of the Fixed Cross can have great difficulty in evolving smoothly, in adapting to change. They tend to “cling on”, to want to retain, preserve, conserve, but here the Black moon acts as a factor that demands or forces just the opposite (and this is precisely what quadrature tensions can sensitize us to, by forcing us to let go).
These changes aren’t necessarily made for pleasure, but they have to be made, they have to happen in order to use them as a new evolutionary base from then on (we have to cut the grass, but the grass also serves as humus in the soil for the next cycles).
This period of April/May 2025 seems to mark a very important impulse in the year, and this black moon transit will continue very much on this impulse, without forming any other major contact for several months.
The black moon will pass through Scorpio 2nd decan around June 24, and will remain relatively neutral in this sector compared to the background transits, so natives with 2nd decan Fixed influences may feel it less strongly a priori (less violent than 1st decans).
Rapid transits in particular can set the pace, such as the retrograde of Mercury in Leo from July 18, 2025, which won’t emerge from its retrograde loop until the end of August.
This retrograde phase may sensitize the Fixed 2nd decans and may be felt more strongly in early August, perhaps through a discussion, an argument, a negotiation, which may be more violent, or something representing a delay, and which may make you very impatient…
Note that around the 2nd decade of August, an interesting harmonic trine forms between the black moon and transiting Jupiter in Cancer! This may help a great deal in finding conciliation, appeasement and negotiation, and in compensating for things that may be lost or given up…
The black moon then moves into 3rd decan Scorpio around September 22, 2025, and will especially tighten the trine to Saturn / Neptune (which insist on the 3rd decan of Pisces), as well as tighten the opposition to Uranus, which will return by retrograding into Taurus after its small incursion into early Gemini since the beginning of the summer.
This will be most sensitive from the 3rd decade of October 2025 until December 20, which forms a period that can help trigger some of these transpersonal energies.
This can be useful, for example, at work or in associations, if you want to launch a new project, follow an inspiration, an intuition, something that allows you to assert yourself personally.
Overall, these seem to be well-harmonized energies with a strong creative content, so we shouldn’t be afraid to “dare” things, and the black moon can help initiate these dynamics even in a natural and spontaneous way.
Fixed 3rd decans seem to be the most fortunate in this black moon transit and have an autumn to really try to maximize in order to move their projects forward, as the black moon knows no tension much of the time.
So if they have to give up or let go of something, it seems to happen quite naturally and spontaneously, a bit like the over-ripe fruit that detaches itself from the tree, without effort, and it represents something harmonious to pick and let be…
Be careful, however, from November 20 to December 20, 2025, when the opposition to Uranus will be most prominent! And it’s not that it’s “bad” in itself, but it can have a much more nervous, impetuous, unstable and sudden impact, so it can more easily create surprises and reversals in situations, which may require you to adapt quickly and change your mind accordingly…
See my article “How do karmic transits affect daily life?” for a better understanding of the possible repercussions and workings of this Black moon transit.
I would also like to remind you that it’s the different lunations that will specify in greater detail the different possible triggers and influences for each month as a whole, so it’s important to follow them carefully…