On October 26, 2026, at 05:11 local time in Amsterdam (CET), the Full Moon reaches its peak as the Hunter’s Moon - a luminous lunation in the early degrees of Taurus, opposite the Sun in Scorpio.
This is the first Full Moon after the Harvest Moon, traditionally named for the time when fields were cleared and moonlight helped gather what was needed before winter. In Taurus, that harvest is material and emotional: what we value, what we own, what makes us feel safe, and what we are still holding that no longer nourishes us.
The Moon in Taurus opposes the Sun in Scorpio, illuminating the axis of personal security and shared resources, comfort and transformation, what we keep and what must be released. Taurus wants stability, beauty, and the tangible. Scorpio wants truth, depth, and the willingness to let the old die so something truer can live. Together they ask: what is actually worth keeping?
Full Moon ENERGY
Taurus energy flows toward embodiment, pleasure, self-worth, and the quiet power of the body and the senses. It is motivated by a desire for safety that is real, not performative, and for a life that feels good to inhabit. Under this Hunter’s Moon, the light is full and steady - revealing where we have built solid ground, and where we have been clinging out of fear.
This Full Moon brings emotional truths around:
Personal values versus shared resources
Comfort versus necessary change
Self-worth versus people-pleasing or over-giving
What we own, and what owns us
It is a powerful time for releasing:
Attachments that no longer feed you
The belief that security only comes from holding tighter
Outdated definitions of worth that were never truly yours
Resistance to change that is already underway
Taurus does not rush. It roots. This lunation invites you to feel what is solid, and to gently loosen what is only heavy.
Amplified by Mercury Retrograde in Scorpio
This Full Moon arrives just two days after Mercury stations retrograde in Scorpio on October 24, at about 21°. Mercury remains retrograde until November 13, when it stations direct near 5° Scorpio.
Mercury retrograde in Scorpio turns the mind toward the unspoken. Conversations about money, intimacy, trust, and shared resources are more likely to surface unfinished business, old agreements, or details that were never fully said. Misunderstandings around value and loyalty can appear. So can the chance to finally name what has been hidden.
Under the Hunter’s Moon, this means the illumination is not only emotional - it is also mental. What the Taurus Moon shows you about security and worth may need to be reread, rewritten, or spoken differently once Mercury has finished its pass through Scorpio.
Clarity often comes on the other side of the retrograde, not in the middle of it. Notice what rises. Do not force the final conversation or the final decision yet.
Venus Still Retrograde: The Review Continues
Venus remains retrograde as well, having turned on October 3 in Scorpio. Around October 25 she backs into Libra, her own sign, continuing the review of love, money, beauty, and fairness until mid-November. The Full Moon in Taurus (ruled by Venus) opposite the Scorpio Sun therefore sits inside a longer season of relational and financial reevaluation.
What this Moon illuminates about self-worth and resources is part of the same story Venus has been rewriting. Old patterns of giving, receiving, and valuing may come into clearer focus. The invitation is not to abandon what is good. It is to stop pouring energy into what no longer feels mutual or true.
The Larger Sky
Pluto has recently stationed direct in Aquarius, slowly releasing a longer collective transformation back into forward motion. Some readings place this Full Moon in a tight square to Pluto, adding pressure around power, control, and what must evolve. Saturn and Neptune remain retrograde in Aries. Uranus is still retrograde in Gemini. Jupiter continues in Leo, expanding heart-centered confidence even as Taurus asks for grounded worth.
After the Libra New Moon’s call to honest balance, this Hunter’s Moon brings the results into the body and the bank of the heart. What did you decide was fair? Now, does it also feel safe and nourishing?
“Security is not the absence of change. It is the trust that you can release what no longer serves and still remain whole.”
The Hunter’s Moon in Taurus, rising in the early morning sky over Amsterdam at 05:11, is a sacred invitation to feel what is truly yours and to let go of what is not. It is a time for embodied honesty, for noticing where you have been holding too tightly, and for trusting that real security includes the courage to release.
So on October 26, don’t just look at the Moon. Feel her. Stand in the autumn light and ask what still feeds you. Journal what you are ready to keep, and what you are ready to return to the earth. Speak carefully while Mercury is retrograde in Scorpio. Let Venus continue her review of love and worth. And trust that the harvest includes both what you gather and what you finally set down.
This Full Moon’s energy will ripple through the coming weeks, weaving with Mercury retrograde’s deeper listening and Venus retrograde’s ongoing revision of value - reminding us that true stability is built on what is real.
Embrace the light. Your worth was never meant to be a burden.