ScorpioThe phase of the Moon on October 22, 2025 was a New Moon.
The New Moon opens a new lunar cycle. The sky is dark and the pull is inward. Decide what you actually want next instead of reacting to what's already in motion, and set the intention quietly. The follow-through comes later.
Scorpio doesn't do things halfway, and the New Moon here pushes toward depth rather than comfort. This phase suits letting go of a habit or an old story about yourself that's run its course. What you release now makes room for what comes next.
Today’s recommendations for haircuts, gardening, and surgery are on the Moon Phase Today page.
Growth sits at its lowest point of the cycle, so today is for housekeeping. Trim split ends or tidy the outline of a style you already like. What you don't want is a big restructure booked for today, because the shape you leave the chair with is roughly the shape you'll live with for the next couple of weeks. Anyone who shaves or waxes and wants the regrowth to stay away longer picks these days for the same reason.
Scorpio is the third water sign, and here the lunar calendars disagree with each other. The common reading is that regrowth comes back thick but unruly, so it suits a shave or a very short cut better than a shaped style. Chemical treatments are traditionally avoided on these days.
Haircut Moon Calendar
Root crops go in now: carrots, beets, anything you are growing below the soil line. The reasoning in lunar calendars is that with the light at its lowest the plant spends what it has below the surface. It's also the point in the month worth spending on the soil itself, opening new beds and working compost in before anything is sown. If you prune today, expect the plant to answer below ground instead of pushing new shoots, which is what you want from a fruit tree you're trying to keep in bounds.
Scorpio is a leaf day with the least trouble attached. It reads as wet without being as soft as Cancer, so leafy crops sown here are said to hold up better afterwards. Good for watering, for the salad bed, and for cuttings that still need to root.
Gardening Moon Calendar
The quiet end of the cycle, and the almanacs treat it accordingly: a slot for routine work and not for anything demanding. The reasoning they offer is that recovery here is slow and gradual, so minor and elective procedures get placed in this window while the heavier ones wait for a waxing phase. Worth saying plainly that this is folk timing and nothing more. If a date has already been offered to you, your surgeon's reasoning about your case outranks the moon's position every time.
Scorpio governs the reproductive organs and the bladder. It's the entry the old almanacs treat most seriously and the one repeated most often in later folk calendars. The advice covers elective work in that region and is silent about everything else.
* Lunar timing is folk tradition, not medical advice. No research supports scheduling surgery by moon phase. Always follow your surgeon's recommendation on when to operate.
Surgery Moon Calendar
