Aries Full Moon 6 October 2025: Breaking Free from Control

As we witness the horrors unfolding in Gaza, one question rises with urgent clarity: how do we break free from control? Whether we’re looking at the geopolitical oppression of a people or the psychological grip of a narcissistic abuser, the mechanisms echo each other: denying the other’s reality, flipping victim and aggressor, isolating, gaslighting, maintaining power through domination—military or psychological.

This Aries Full Moon arrives as a mirror, forcing us to face what we’d rather not see—both out in the world and inside ourselves. It asks the question that rings at every level of existence: how do we end cycles of violence and coercion? How do we notice when we’re colluding in our own shrinking? And above all, how do we find the courage to walk away, to resist, to refuse the game?

With the Sun in Libra opposite the Moon in Aries, we’re caught in the ancient tension between harmony and authenticity. Libra seeks peace, diplomacy, and balance. Aries demands truth, even when it disrupts, even when it breaks what once seemed stable. This full moon carries an intensity that mirrors the collective fever of our times.

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CHIRON & ERIS

Chiron and Eris together in Aries, standing beside the Full Moon, embody the cry of the wounded who refuse to be silenced. To grasp the magnitude of their conjunction, we must return to the myths that shaped them.

CHIRON

Chiron was no ordinary centaur. Son of the Titan Cronus and the nymph Philyra, he was immortal, wise, a healer, and mentor to the greatest heroes of Greece. But in a fateful accident, he was struck by Heracles’ poisoned arrow—dipped in Hydra’s venom, incurable.

Here lies Chiron’s paradox: immortal yet wounded, a healer who cannot heal himself, carrying a pain that neither ends nor kills. He represents the defining wound, the one we cannot erase but can learn to transform.

It’s the intergenerational trauma that travels from parent to child,

the collective memory of violence, genocide, displacement.

ERIS

Eris, goddess of discord, was excluded from the wedding feast of Peleus and Thetis. All of Olympus was invited—except her.

In her fury, she threw a golden apple into the celebration, engraved with “To the fairest.” That small act of rebellion sparked a rivalry between Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite, and eventually led to the Trojan War.

Eris teaches us a deep truth: what we exclude always returns, and often, destructively.

Eris isn’t the problem; exclusion is. She stands for all those who’ve been erased, the people whose existence is denied, the voices refused a hearing, the woman called “hysterical” for saying no, the occupied people labeled “terrorists” for resisting.

Eris says: “If you erase me, I will blow you up!” She’s the natural consequence of systemic exclusion. When humanity is denied long enough, revolt becomes inevitable.

Together, Chiron and Eris say: the wound is real. It will not be ignored. Those who carry it will no longer be cut out of the conversation about their own suffering.

In Aries, the warrior’s sign of assertion and courage, the wound asks: How long will you ignore the wound? How long will you rationalize violence? How long will you keep us from the table and then ask why we’re angry?

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VENUS ON THE SOUTH NODE: THE TRAP OF TOXIC ATTACHMENT

Venus conjunct the South Node exposes one of coercion’s most insidious tricks: our attachment to what harms us. The South Node marks what must be released. With Venus here, we see how “love,” or what we mistook for it, becomes the tool of our own oppression. The target of a narcissist stays because she remembers the charm, because she hopes he’ll revert to the man he pretended to be. She stays for the crumbs, for fear of aloneness, for the promise that maybe this time it will be different.

On the geopolitical stage, dependency (economic, military, diplomatic) props up oppressive structures. “Peace” becomes a code word for “accept your subordination.” Calls for “mutual understanding” ask the oppressed to empathize with the oppressor, never the other way around.

This Full Moon asks us to mourn what must be released: the relationship we thought we had, the “peace” that was really compliance, the illusion that it’ll work if only we make ourselves smaller.

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MARS IN SCORPIO CONJUNCT LILITH

Mars, ruler of this Aries Moon, stands in Scorpio, fused with the Black Moon Lilith. To grasp the explosive power of this alignment, we must remember who Lilith truly is.

LILITH: THE FIRST WOMAN ERASED

According to ancient texts and Kabbalistic lore, Lilith was Adam’s first wife, created at the same time, from the same earth. Unlike Eve, shaped from Adam’s rib to serve him, Lilith was his equal.

When Adam demanded her submission, she refused the position beneath him and said: “Why should I lie below you? We were made equal.” When he persisted, she spoke the unspeakable Name of God, rose into the air, and left Eden.

Three angels were sent to bring her back. They found her by the Red Sea, near the realm of demons. She refused to return. They threatened her: if she stayed away, one hundred of her children would die each day.

Lilith replied that she preferred exile to submission. Patriarchal tradition later turned her into a demon—child killer, seductress, nightmare. Everything about her autonomy, her sexual sovereignty, her refusal to be tamed, was rewritten as evil.

But here lies the hidden revelation: Lilith chose exile over servitude. She chose to lose everything rather than lose herself. She chose to be demonized rather than domesticated.

MARS IN SCORPIO

Mars in Scorpio is the warrior who transforms in the dark, dies and is reborn, who knows the real battle is waged in the psyche’s depths. It is the underworld descent where power is found in shadow.

THE MARS–LILITH CONJUNCTION

When Mars meets Lilith in Scorpio, everything repressed erupts.

It’s the sexual rage that refuses to be controlled. It’s the woman who stops smiling when she’s harassed. It’s the colonized who, after decades of ignored peaceful resistance, finally fights back.

This aspect says:

“You called me a demon for wanting equality? Fine. I’ll become the demon you fear.” “You vilified me for refusing to submit? Then I’ll embody your fear of the free feminine.”

It’s the refusal to be Eve—grateful, docile, and contained.

It’s the choice to be Lilith—fierce, untamed, free or dead.

At its deepest level, this conjunction is alchemy. When Mars and Lilith unite, it is the reconciliation of wounded polarities.

The masculine heals by ceasing to dominate; the feminine heals by ceasing to submit. Together, they transmute rage into clarity, pain into the power to act. It is the inner union of fire and truth within the same sacred flame.

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THE MERCURY YOD

A near-exact Yod points to Mercury at 0° Scorpio, with Uranus in Gemini sextile Neptune in Aries forming the base. The “finger of fate” that compels speech.

MERCURY: MESSENGER & PSYCHOPOMP

As Hermes, Mercury alone crosses all realms—Olympus, earth, and the underworld. Psychopomp, he guides souls through invisible thresholds; protector of travelers and commerce; master of language, meaning, and the in-between.

At 0° Scorpio, Mercury is an exorcist: wielding verbal scalpel to lance embedded lies. He opens the wound so light can enter—so the scar becomes memory, not prison. Like a shedding serpent, he strips the dead skin of false narratives so raw truth can breathe.

URANUS

Sky-god and tyrant father who tried to keep his children unborn. Overthrown so life could continue. In Gemini, Uranus brings lightning-revelations: the proof, the testimony, the footage that cracks the official story.

NEPTUNE

In Aries, Neptune fuels spiritual passion and mystic conviction in direct action. He dissolves boundaries and illusions, but can also fog the field.

THE YOD AT WORK

This Yod squeezes Mercury from two sides until the message MUST be delivered. Gaslighting—personal or political—cannot withstand it. The narcissist says: "You’re too sensitive. You’re exaggerating. That’s not what happened." The oppressor echoes: "You’re the terrorists. You provoked us. We’re only defending ourselves."

Mercury at the apex in Scorpio is the psychopomp who descends and returns with the dead’s testimony. It’s the voice of the disappeared that will not be buried. It’s memory refusing erasure.

Uranus in Gemini brings the leak, the document, the phone video that contradicts propaganda. Neptune in Aries lends warrior-compassion and spiritual sight, the intuition that sees through curated “facts."

A Yod demands adjustment. Mercury in Scorpio must say what cannot be said politely. It must name what everyone sees and no one wants to acknowledge.

In a narcissistic dynamic, the spell breaks when we name what happened: the manipulation, the lies, the gaslighting that made us doubt our own sanity. Speaking these truths aloud restores awareness, and with it, freedom.

On the geopolitical level, it's time to speak accurately: ethnic cleansing, apartheid, genocide. No more euphemism. No more diplomatic haze. Name what is happening.

This configuration demands we speak. Victims must name the abuse. Witnesses must end their complicit silence. We must stop lying to ourselves about what is unfolding.

Hermes insists: the messages of the dead must be carried. Buried truths must surface. The psychopomp cannot refuse his role.

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CHARIKLO TRINE THE SUN

At 17° Aquarius, Chariklo forms a supportive trine to the Sun in Libra. Less famous, deeply relevant here.

Chariklo, a nymph, chose to marry a centaur, and she’s the only woman to do so. She chose Chiron: the wounded healer. When the poisoned arrow condemned him to unending pain, Chariklo stayed.

Crucially, she did not stay to “fix” him. She did not imagine her love would cure him. She remained as witness, present to his pain without minimizing it and without dissolving herself in it.

That distinction matters. Chariklo is not the woman who erases herself in tending the other. She isn’t the co-dependent who defines herself by someone else’s wound. She maintains presence and boundaries.

She does not ask us to accept the unacceptable, to remain with an abuser out of compassion, or to “understand” an oppressor at the cost of our own reality.

It’s one thing to walk beside someone who’s suffering and reaching for healing. It’s another to remain with someone who pours their unprocessed pain into you. Those of us with a savior complex, read that again.

Chiron wanted to heal but could not. The narcissist could heal but will not. The oppressor could stop oppressing but chooses not to.

In Aquarius, Chariklo reminds us we are not alone. Others have survived this. Community and collective support exist. Movements heal because truth is witnessed together. #MeToo worked because voices rose in chorus. Solidarity movements work when people say: We see. We witness. We will not look away.

Chariklo’s trine offers grace, not the grace that excuses or minimizes, not the grace that asks victims to forgive so bystanders feel comfortable. The grace that says: I see your pain. I acknowledge it. I don’t need you to be “strong.” I won’t ask you to smile while you’re being destroyed. I will hold witness to your truth.

Compassion can coexist with boundaries. Empathy can coexist with no. This is the hardest gift: to stay tender while being unyielding about our limits.

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WHAT THIS FULL MOON ASKS OF US

See what is. Stop minimizing and rationalizing. Stop telling yourself you’re exaggerating. If your body contracts around someone—if your gut knots, if you’re perpetually on guard, measuring every word—you already know.

Name the coercion—personal and political. Name the mechanisms: gaslighting, role reversal, isolation, the violence cycle (blow-up, honeymoon, rising tension, blow-up). Naming breaks the spell.

Honor your rage. Your anger is not the problem; it’s information. It signals violated boundaries, trampled dignity, the part of you that refuses to accept this anymore. Mars–Lilith gives permission to feel it without shame.

Accept that the oppressor won’t change. The narcissist won’t become empathic. The oppressive state won’t suddenly grow a conscience. Waiting for their transformation is how you hand over your power. Liberation doesn’t come from their change, it comes from your leaving, resisting, refusing to participate.

Grieve and go. Venus on the South Node grants permission to mourn the fantasy you held, the “peace” that was complicity. Then cut the cords. Protect your life.

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A PATH TO SOVEREIGNTY

This Full Moon denies us the comfort of ambiguity. It will not let us pretend. It asks us to choose: stay in the grip or get free.

Liberation is not easy. It walks through fear of solitude, through grief, through uncertainty. But it leads to sovereignty, personal and collective. A life where you no longer censor every word, diminish your experience, or contort yourself to fit a space too small.

The cosmos asks: How much longer will you accept the unacceptable? How much longer will you rationalize your own oppression?

This Full Moon lights the way out. It doesn’t promise ease. It promises truth. It promises what is yours.

Every time we choose freedom over submission, a crack opens in the Matrix.