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Scorpio Full Moon: Sacred Power & The Central Channel

In astrology, Scorpio is the sign that governs sex, death, transformation, and power—but not just in their surface forms. Scorpio is about what lies beneath: the hidden motives, the buried emotions, the energetic entanglements that either bind or liberate us.

When the Full Moon illuminates Scorpio, it casts light on the unseen. It reveals the soul contracts we’ve outgrown, the places where we’ve leaked our life force, and the unspoken shame or longing tied to our sexual and emotional bodies.

This moon doesn’t ask for polite healing.

It asks for honest, energetic reclamation.


♏ Scorpio & Sexual Energy: Beyond the Physical

Scorpio is ruled by Pluto, the planet of deep psychological processes, soul evolution, and regeneration. In the body, Scorpio rules the reproductive organs, the pelvic bowl, and the sacral chakra. But its influence extends into the energetic and emotional realms of sexuality, where intimacy becomes transformation.

In its highest expression, Scorpio represents sacred sexuality:

Sex that awakens the soul.

Desire that is rooted in self-respect.

Power that is held with integrity, not control.

But when distorted, Scorpio’s energy can manifest as:

  • Obsession, control, or manipulation in relationships

  • Psychic bonds that override your intuition

  • Trauma loops and emotional enmeshment

  • Shame, secrecy, or energetic “leakage” around sex

This is why Scorpio is also linked to tantra, shadow work, and kundalini awakening—all of which deal with the alchemy of raw life force into spiritual gold.


🌬 The Central Channel: Your Inner Pillar of Power

In yogic and esoteric anatomy, we each have a central channel (called Sushumna Nadi in Sanskrit, or the Taiji pole in Taoist practice). It runs vertically from the root chakra (perineum) to the crown chakra (top of the head), passing through the major chakras.

This channel is the core pathway for prana, chi, or sexual energy to rise. When clear and active, it allows for:

  • Integration of desire, emotion, and spirit

  • A calm, focused, and embodied presence

  • The ability to hold high amounts of energy without collapse

  • Direct connection to Source, intuition, and inner truth

Think of it like a vertical river of light—and sexual energy, when healed and refined, is what flows through it. When blocked or leaky, this energy spills sideways into drama, cravings, or over-identification with others’ energy.


🔥 Signs Your Sexual Energy Might Be Leaking

  • You feel overly exposed, drained, or confused after intimacy

  • You magnetize attention that feels off, invasive, or confusing

  • You dream of exes or still feel psychically "tied" to past lovers

  • You feel disconnected from your womb, or "numb" to pleasure

  • You over-identify with being desired or avoid your sensuality entirely

  • Confusion between desire and love

  • Difficulty accessing higher intuitive states without being overwhelmed

Energetically, this often looks like:

  • Overactivation in the sacral or solar plexus

  • Weak grounding at the root

  • Heart disconnected from arousal

  • Third eye clouded by fantasy or psychic attachments

This Scorpio Full Moon offers the perfect portal to clean out those cords and come back to your own sacred current.

🕊 Healing Through the Central Channel

Many ancient traditions work with the central channel to refine life force:

🔥 Kundalini Yoga & Tantra

These traditions teach that sexual energy is divine, and when awakened, it moves like a serpent (kundalini) up the spine, initiating spiritual rebirth. But this must be done safely, with grounding and devotion—otherwise, it can fry the nervous system or awaken shadow patterns.

💧 Taoist Sexual Alchemy

Taoist practices use breath, movement, and internal visualization to circulate sexual energy through the microcosmic orbit—looping it up the spine (governing vessel) and down the front (conception vessel). This transforms raw arousal into vitality, longevity, and creativity.

🌹 Feminine Mystery Schools

In womb-centered and priestess lineages, the central channel is seen as the pillar of sovereignty. Here, pleasure becomes a tool for anchoring into one’s body, and erotic energy is cultivated as a sacred force, not given away, but offered with discernment.

✨ Scorpio Full Moon Practice: Refining Your Erotic Current, Sealing the Leaks & Awakening Your Channel

This ritual is designed to help you:

  • Reclaim your sexual energy from past entanglements

  • Clear psychic cords from lovers or relationships

  • Activate the central channel to circulate refined erotic power

  • Re-anchor your desire into self-honoring sovereignty

🌑 You Will Need:

  • A white or black candle

  • A bowl of water

  • Oil (rose, ylang ylang, or mugwort)

  • Something symbolic to represent your womb/hara (a crystal, flower, or seed)

  • Optional: journal & sacred playlist

1. Set the Space

Dim the lights. Light your candle. Place your water bowl before you and sit on the ground. Place one hand over your womb, one over your heart. Take 3 deep breaths.

2. Listen to the Following Guided Meditation:

3. Close the Ritual

Blow out the candle. Pour the water outside or into the earth with gratitude. Write any reflections in your journal. If desired, dance slowly to music that celebrates your sensuality and wholeness.

🌒 Final Thoughts: A Sacred Return

This Scorpio Full Moon may have stirred feelings long buried—grief, longing, rage, desire. Let them rise. Let them be felt. Let them move.

This is how the energy returns.
This is how you come back to yourself.

When you stop leaking your life force into people or patterns that cannot hold you, you begin to hold yourself with reverence, with truth, with power.

Your erotic energy isn’t meant to be drained.
It’s meant to be devotional.

Let this be the moment you seal the leaks, clear the cords, and rise, rooted, radiant, and whole.

You are the altar.
You are the container.
You are the return.

With Devotion,
Sonia

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