From Caterpillar to Butterfly: Full Moon Candle Ritual with Mano Matthews

Mano Matthews
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A woman crawling in the mud — Mano's Full Moon Candle Ritual - ManoMatthews.com

May will be a powerful and transformative month, with the cosmic energies aligning to offer Scorpios extra support as they welcome the Full Moon—a time for deep emotional insight, renewal, and personal growth. For the entire month of May, Pluto will be in retrograde, beginning on May 4th, while continuing its journey through Aquarius. This has a lot to do with transportation, death and rebirth, reinvention, or simply put, major life endings and new beginnings, like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly. This energy can also influence friendships, groups, and communities, and even touch on the rapidly changing world of AI, shaping how we connect, collaborate, and evolve together. It's up to you to reevaluate all of it within yourself.

In support of the mix, we will have the Algol Gateway, the Alycone Gateway, and the Silver Gate portal. These star-gates are very frequent, which will help with the ebb and flow of life, which have to do with birth and renewal. We will also see and witness the transformation in leadership in certain countries where tyrants will quite literally lose their thrones and in not the most gracious ways.

On top of that, Mercury in Taurus will influence areas like agriculture, finance, and perhaps even romance or relationships, but not in a youthful, playful way (like the traditional notion of "boy love" or more casual, fleeting connections). Despite us having a weak harvest because of haphazard weather conditions, we will see much positive innovation, inventions, and discoveries for the better in agriculture and farming to come, and much healthier food to eat. Depending on your astrological sign, you’ll see an increase in your finances, and how to process it all.

With Scorpios being up close and personal, it will help take the lead in all this transformation that is yet to happen in the second quarter of 2025, with the rest of our journey for this year.