Full Moon May 2025 Astrology

The full moon in May 2025 is harshly aspected by Jupiter. So, the spiritual meaning of the full moon May 2025 astrology is using enthusiasm, intuition, and imagination to wish for something better, improve your life, or find the truth.

However, the May 2025 full moon could also cause indecision, uncertainty, deception and immorality. The key to success is focusing on a single goal with optimism, an open mind and honesty.

Full Moon May 2025 Astrology

The full moon on May 12, 2025, is at 22°12′ Scorpio. There are two significant planetary aspects: Moon quincunx Jupiter and Mercury square Pluto. Not shown in the Full Moon May 2025 astrology chart below is the fixed star Unukalhai at 22°26′ Scorpio.

Full Moon May 2025 Astrology

Full Moon May 2025 Meaning

Sun opposite Moon (0°00′) brings your home, family, and intimate relationships into sharper focus for the following two weeks of this moon phase. Opposing forces, such as work versus home or what you need versus what you want, create inner tension and external pressures. This polarization can lead to conflict and crises that drain your energy.

However, heightened feelings and intuition make you more receptive and aware of relationship dynamics. Greater clarity and objectivity help you find emotional balance and security. Modifying your behavior and reactions can relieve tension and resolve relationship problems.

Hope

Moon quincunx Jupiter (1°34′) brings enthusiasm, optimism, and anticipation. It makes you hope and wish for something better, whether it be a personal goal or a more just and fair world. You can make things happen with the power of your imagination.

However, this process involves long deliberation and a struggle to find the truth, which can cause insecurity, indecision, and uncertainty. The challenge is to focus on a single goal and make a decision. This is aided by self-belief, faith, broad-mindedness, intuition, creativity, and generosity.

Otherwise, a crisis of indecision could trigger irritability, impulsiveness, selfishness, arrogance, smugness, extravagance, ostentation, self-indulgence, lack of moderation, overeating, addiction, immorality, jealousy, and self-righteousness.

The May 2025 full moon quincunx Jupiter can also rebalance your karma. Fate may reward you for previous generosity or present opportunities to atone for prior misdeeds. It can bring gain or loss, wealth or poverty, glamor or controversy, praise or scandal, and fame or infamy.

Obsession

Mercury square Pluto (0°01′) brings profound thinking and intense interactions. A compulsive urge to find the truth could reveal secrets and mysteries that deepen your knowledge and understanding. However, obsessive research into a specific idea or topic can spiral into extremism or conspiracy theories.

Your thoughts, ideas, or plans may be challenged, perhaps related to a crisis or threatening experience with the darker side of humanity. Using extreme or coercive methods to express your thoughts risks criticism and conflict. A tendency to become defensive could back you into a corner and complicate matters. Keeping an open mind can lead to a positive transformation of your intellect and communication style.

Full Moon in the Scales

The May 2025 full moon is in the Sign of Scorpio. But because of the precession of the equinoxes, it is in the Constellation of Libra.

Libra Constellation gives harmony, beauty, justice, companionship, refinement, impartiality, caution, modesty, a philosophical mind, a lack of perseverance, a tendency to use intuition rather than reasoning, and a tendency to let sympathy impair judgment.

Harsh aspects cause a lack of direction and purpose, worry, indecision, moodiness, exaggeration, excess, laziness, lying, and self-indulgence.

With Moon: Understanding, amiability, intuitive thinking, kindness, sympathy, grace, fluency, artistic appreciation, and a tendency to be easily upset by disharmony.

Harsh aspects can make you capricious, fickle, overly critical, easily influenced, inconsiderate, deceptive, or easily deceived. ^[1]

Full Moon May 2025 Stars

Although the full moon is in the Constellation Libra, the most significant influence comes from the brightest star in the Constellation Serpens, Unukalhai in the Heart of the Snake.

21♏02 – σ Librae, Brachium
21♏42 – ε Librae
22♏12 – Full Moon May 2025
22♏26 – α Serpentis, Unukalhai
23♏08 – γ Serpentis, Ainalhai

The Serpent

Constellation Serpens gives wisdom, craft, deceit, malice, a feeble will, and danger of poison. ^[2] It also affects mines and minerals. ^[3]

Fixed Star Unukalhai gives immorality, accidents, violence, and danger of poison. ^[2] Bold, shameless, revolting, criminal inclinations, rise followed by a fall from favor. ^[1]

Danger, destruction, many difficulties in professional life, chronic diseases that are not easily detected and result in a weakened state of health, and operations will be necessary. ^[4] An evil mischief maker presaging accidents and violence of all kinds. ^[3]

With Moon: Clever, evil environment, hatred of authority, involved in intrigues and plots, banished, imprisoned, or hanged for crime, probably by poisoning. ^[2] Possible legal entanglement, violence. ^[1]

Full Moon May 2025 Spiritual Meaning

The May 2025 full moon is quincunx Jupiter and is in the Libra Constellation, which indicates a longing for the truth, justice, harmony, or something better. However, Mercury square Pluto and fixed star Unukalhai hide the truth with lies, deception, and immorality.

Struggling against the odds to find the truth or to improve your life could result in indecision, uncertainty, and worry. The key to success is focusing on a single goal with enthusiasm, optimism, imagination, intuitive thinking, an open mind, impartiality and perseverance.

Moon Phases

The influence of the May 12 full moon lasts two weeks until the May 26 new moon. Astrologically, a full moon is influenced by the preceding new moon. The April 27 new moon represents a breaking point for intense frustration, anger, and resentment that have been building for many months. Those most in danger of being victimized are strong, independent women.

The April 2025 new moon represents a breaking point for intense frustration, anger, and resentment that have been building for many months. Those most in danger of being victimized are strong, independent women.

If the Full Moon May 2025 astrology directly impacts your horoscope, you can read about it in your May horoscope. For more details about how it affects your natal chart, see full moon transits.