THE SHORTCUT - Full Moon in Scorpio May 2025

We are in the energies of the Wesak. Today is Sunday the 11th of May 2025, and tomorrow there's going to be this full moon in Scorpio, which is one of the most important Buddhist festivals. The ceremony to celebrate the birth, enlightenment, and death of the Buddha. And I think it's really remarkable that this full moon is the full moon in Scorpio. The axis of Scorpio Taurus is enlightened. The sun in Taurus, the moon in Scorpio. And there is a certain joy in the air that I think is really remarkable. A certain sense of safety, of being solid, centeredness that comes from Taurus. And a sense of ascension, of transcendence, that comes from Scorpio. I think it's remarkable in many ways, and I need to speak about Scorpio.

There is a lot of talk about how Scorpios are intense. This is the terminology that is mostly used regarding Scorpios. I would say that this is not really providing a true definition of the life experience that Scorpios have to go through. Rather than using the term intensity, I would like to introduce the term extremes. Extremes - 777, thank you, universe and source -.

The “intensity” of Scorpios does not rely only on a heightened perception. It's not just sensitivity that makes the experience of Scorpios’ intense, as the media wants, as all the astrologers describe them. It's the life experience itself. If you think about it, if you have a heightened sensitivity, emotional, mental, intellectual etc., peaked at a maximum extent, but your life is normal, yes, you are going to have a great sensitivity, but you're going to stay out of trouble. Scorpios instead, are presented with an experience of life that involves extremes. And that is the experience that makes them intense.

See what I mean? It's not just their sensitivity or their ability to resonate with other people's emotions, feelings and thoughts, because it's not just feelings that they are sensitive to. It's the fact that they have to go through extremes.

Now, if we are still in dualism, in the conflict between extreme polarities, the consequences are really, really intense for Scorpios.

The task for Scorpios is to unify, to cross over extremes, not by the longest path, but through the shortest path. I believe that is Scorpios’ potential.

Potentially, Scorpio has got the means to lead us through the shortcut.

So, imagine that we are still in dualism and we need to reason between opposites such as the light and the darkness, the good and the bad, the white and the black and so on and so forth.

If we can imagine opposites being placed on a horizontal, straight line, let's unite the opposites and form a circle. The two opposites will be adjacent to each other. This is why Scorpio holds the mystery about life and death and death and life. If you think about it, Persephone is the only goddess that can go in and out of the Underworld and is - 555 thank you, universe and source - linked with the rebirth and the death of nature.

We believe that Scorpio is just death, it is death, but it's also life.

And just to conclude this, a couple of things.

One is an observation regarding the Ouroboros, the famous representation of the snake eating its tail.

A symbol that deals with cycles where the end is the beginning and the beginning is the end.

And it would seem to make sense with this reasoning that I just made, always dealing with a two-dimensional reality and within a dualistic framework.

Always remember that dualism is not duality. Dualism is the belief that two opposite sides cannot be integrated into a whole.

The Ouroboros has been misconceived a little bit and possibly misinterpreted, used to describe certain things. One of the first representations of the Ouroboros is in Cleopatra's contribution to alchemy.

Now, if you take a look at nature, can this happen in reality? To see a snake biting its tail, believe it or not, it actually can happen. And, I would add, unfortunately, it can happen. Very few people know that when this happens, it means that the snake is unaliving itself.

I was shocked, so shocked, when I found this out.

Because that symbol that we thought was related to this unending cycle is actually the end of the snake’s life. It's death. In the real world, in the world of Nature.

And it's very sad because this happens usually with snakes that are held captive, in a cage, in a terrarium, maybe alone, without the company of their own species.

And when they do this, they're just killing themselves.

It took me a while to process this terrible, horrible feeling that I received when I discovered that.

It's terrible.

It's the end. Total end.

And it's surely very, very uncomfortable, at least for me.

That symbol has been ignoring this and has assumed a completely different color.

And I think we need to escape that symbolic representation.

It's not what we believe it is - 11122, thank you, universe and source -.

Nature is the Master.

Unfortunately, the symbolic meaning of it, what was traditionally associated with it, from an esoteric perspective, does not reflect nature. And if we take a look at the perspective of nature, this symbol is just the symbol of suicide, if we want to get stuck and confine ourselves in two-dimensional cycles.

It's the representation of Saturn as death with flesh-on. It's the unending, always-repeating cycle. It's the bi-dimensional trap.

There is no escape. You see what I mean?

If you draw this equation, end equals beginning, beginning equals end, you will be trapped in the end - full stop. There's no beginning.

It's over.

As I said many times, we need to increase the dimensions. We need to break through in another dimension to turn that toxic cycle represented by the Ouroboros into a spiral.

Add just one dimension, one dimension, and you will have a different perspective, and you will have seen where life is going on. I know that this is not very common, but truly, at least in my experience, being a Scorpio, this awareness about what it actually means from a natural perspective caused me to deeply reflect and change my vision about it. Transformation is the other keyword for Scorpio.

We believe that it's just transformation, like a chemical transformation, changing state.

Here, like a vapor to liquid to ice, it's water, right?

No, it's not just that.

When Scorpios have done their work on themselves and have gained that center, that it's not in the peripheral view, it's not on the opposite, on the extremes that they have to go through, but it's in the center, then it is possible for them to transform without running the risk of having to embrace either or of the opposites.

And finally, I am very grateful for the study of a text that in my opinion speaks a lot about every theme that I just touched. I comes from the Nag Hammadi cave findings where a lot of knowledge was recovered, even if the archaeological context was destroyed. So we don't have the archaeological context to put that into context. As usual, unfortunately, people believe that it's the object itself that speaks; it's not. It's the correlation with other elements, which in this case would have been the archaeological site, if it had been preserved.

Treasure hunting is not archaeology, I should do a lecture actually on that, but in any case.

There is one text, it's in book six, it's called The Thunder Perfect Mind.

I heard about it before, and I probably didn't even know that it was being quoted in a lot of ways across different platforms and different forms, artworks, a lot of songs, and so forth. But this text is really useful during this specific lunation because it attempts to do something that can be a way to resolve dualism. And mind you, I know that there are different theories regarding the origins of this text, and of course, the author is unknown, and there is a lot of research being made on it, discussions, interpretations, problems with translation, you can imagine it's a very ancient text. It must have been composed before the fourth century CE.

And I agree, it might be Coptic, it can be referred to that, there are no explicit references to early Christianity at all, but it’s not even entirely monastic, it's a very weird kind of text.

I have already shared a fragment in the Pyramid Texts that does exactly the same kind of work that this Thunder Perfect Mind text does. The unification, the integration of the opposites. So still wired into duality, but resolving dualism, that's what this text does.

Monday the 12th of May 2025. Going home after the night shift. Today is full moon in Scorpio - 555 Thank you universe and source -

It moves through paradoxes. The subject - 555 indeed. Thank you universe and source - is a divine feminine that says explicitly: I am this and I am the contrary of this, I am that and I am exactly the opposite of that.

And one would simply argue that this is a paradox because if you are at one extreme of the polarities, you cannot be the other. But actually, what you are assuming is that plus and minus together equal zero, and that is useless.

It's exactly when we say that the two extreme polarities are in conflict with each other that we are assuming something, and based on that, we are basically judging everything according to that paradigm, to that axiom. That axiom is underlying dualism, and not duality. Dualism is the belief that the two opposites cannot ever go along together, but they are in conflict by definition. Do you see why it's an axiom?

And this conflict is the patriarchal standpoint for every consequent reasoning process: conflict, war, competition: “I want to demonstrate something. This is right. This is wrong. I am right. You are wrong. I am more powerful than you. I am wealthier than you. I am richer.”

This is why I also said that Patriarchy is addiction to supremacy.

The plus minus equals zero cannot be accepted by the patriarchy and not because there is a certain fear of the balance that this would entail, but because there is an addiction to supremacy. According to patriarchy, it is unacceptable that neither of the opposites overcomes the other - 333 thank universe and source -. There must be a winner. See what I mean? But again, as I said, I know that I am repeating myself, but that's how it works, if we are aiming for victory against someone else, we are missing the goal.

So the text is basically dualistic in that it suggests the unification of the opposites via the famous coincidentia oppositorum. Let me get into this.

Let's get back to the text. I wish it would be possible to find the original text in Coptic and to listen to someone read it, because I think the sounds would be so much meaningful and then we would even rule out our rational mind wanting to rush and find meanings and proper interpretation and translation - 111 thank you universe and source -.

This text is exactly the resolution of dualism within the realm of duality through paradox: the coincidentia oppositorum is obtained by affirming and negating, affirming and negating. A plus and a minus, a plus and a minus, a plus and a minus. It is a dualistic discourse that aims to overcome dualism. And it is just one of the ways in which this can be understood by those who are conceiving the world only via dualistic terms. It's one of the best ways that we have to attempt an explanation.

If, on the other hand, you have developed the third point of view, the upgrade of your thought not to be inflated with a sense of superiority or victory against others, totally devoid of patriarchal beliefs, just an observation point, a vantage observation point, then you wouldn't need that paradox. In a certain sense, that text is not for initiates. I think it's a beautiful representation of something that could be called essoteric, meaning for everyone, because the real esoteric talents would not need to use the paradox.

The text itself is beautiful, and today I'm going to read it, even if there are many, many gaps and the last bit seems to be added later – 888 thank you universe and source -. I would like to deliver some sort of work of art related to this.

As I've said, Scorpio is the experience of the extremes, and I don't think there's a better text to express the experience of the extremes. So whenever you meet a Scorpio the question is not “how can I deal with such intensity?”. Because most of the people don't like Scorpios, there's a certain - 666, thank you, universe and source - heaviness associated with Scorpio, and not all Scorpios are aware of this. They tend to be difficult to deal with. But the question you need to ask yourself is “did this Scorpio do the work to integrate the extremes within themselves?”. That's the question because otherwise you're going to see just one of the two extremes, and when the other is going to turn up - because it's going to turn up, believe me - oh, you are going to suffer so much. So Scorpio is like a living paradox, and it's this paradox that I think is really important today in this full moon. The birth, enlightenment, and death of the Buddha, and this apparently extreme dualism, that's not a dualism anymore.

Click on the image to listen to "The Thunder Perfect Mind" and watch the video art made with sacred geometry and a thunderstorm.