The Hunter's Full Moon is Turning Up the Heat!

Dear Beautiful Soul,

The Hunter’s Full Moon in Taurus arrives Sunday night, just days before Samhain, when the veil between worlds is at its thinnest. Five planets will be in retrograde, plus Pluto went direct last week after months of retrograde, bringing many things to the surface that we just cannot unsee.

And if you think everything has been intense so far, just wait. Mercury goes retrograde right before the Full Moon and slaps you in the face with everything you’ve been ignoring or avoiding until you pay attention to that too. Because you didn’t already have enough on your plate, right?

Why Does Everything Keep Happening to Me?

These energies are a little extra this time, so everyone is going to feel them to some extent. But if any of the following sounds familiar, these energies will hit you even harder than most:

Has a big change this year left you feeling uncentred and like the earth has fallen out from under you?

Does it feel like the moment you get back on your feet, something else knocks you down again? Or like one thing keeps happening after another?

Are you exhausted from being the one everyone relies on, while quietly wondering who’s there for you?

Giving everything to everyone else, only to feel like you’re running on empty?

Recognizing the same patterns in your relationships, your work or your life, yet somehow finding yourself right back where you started?

Or feeling that the life you’ve built no longer fits, even though you can’t quite see what comes next?

You’re not imagining the pressure. These planetary energies are bringing different parts of your life into focus, and the Full Moon is about to illuminate what you can no longer ignore.

Let’s take a look at how these combined energies may be affecting you, and of course this will depend on what else is going on in your life.

You Can’t Unsee What You’ve Seen

Pluto went direct last week, and brought many things to the surface. Some of them may have been shocking and even potentially life changing.

Maybe you’ve finally recognized a pattern in a relationship. Perhaps you’re seeing how often you’ve overextended yourself, accepted less than you need or kept trying to make something work long after your gut told you it wasn’t right.

The hardest part of realization isn’t always seeing the truth. It's taking the action to change what the truth unveiled. So the big question is, now that you see it, what are you going to do about it?

You can’t change a pattern you’re still convincing yourself doesn’t exist.

Pluto asks you to stop ignoring what you see. Not to punish yourself for what you didn’t see before, but to recognize what you can see now.

That’s where your power begins.

Love, Illusion and the Truth You Already Feel

Venus Retrograde is the reason you can’t stop thinking about who you’ve given your heart to, how much of yourself you gave away, and whether any of it still feels right.

And Neptune Retrograde is why the rose-coloured glasses keep slipping. What you hoped was true and what actually is are getting harder to tell apart, and harder to ignore.

Venus also asks you to look at how much of yourself you’ve sacrificed to keep everyone else happy. How often have you poured into other people while leaving yourself with whatever was left?

You cannot keep giving from an empty cup and expect not to feel the cost.

Neptune Retrograde invites you to distinguish intuition from wishful thinking. Venus asks whether the way you’re loving others is costing you your relationship with yourself.

You can have compassion for someone’s struggles without making their healing your responsibility. You can love someone and still acknowledge that the relationship isn’t meeting your needs.

This isn’t about becoming cynical or closing your heart. It’s about taking off those rose-coloured glasses without losing your ability to love.

Your intuition isn’t there to make you suspicious of everyone. It’s there to help you recognize when something is no longer working for you - and trust yourself enough to respond.

If You’ve Buried Anything it's About to Come Back UP!

Mercury Retrograde has a way of digging up everything you’ve been burying or ignoring - and slapping you in the face with it.

The conversation you never had. The decision you kept putting off. The feeling you pushed down because you didn’t have time to deal with it. The problem you hoped would disappear if you just kept going. You know, those old stories, doubts or beliefs you've held onto - including some you thought you'd already let go of.

Sound familiar?

You can stay busy, keep everyone else happy and convince yourself you’ll deal with it later. But avoiding something doesn’t make it disappear. Sometimes, it just makes it bigger in our minds than it really is.

Now, Mercury Retrograde brings it all back to the surface.

But you're not Elsa, so you're probably not able to just "Let it go, let it go!" That's why my Mercury Retrograde Survival Guide walks you through how to root out these issues when they arise, then transmute and release so you can make room for all of the beautiful, new stuff to come in!

Download the Free Mercury Retrograde Survival Guide here: https://mercury.yourtransformationalhealer.com/

You’re Allowed to Break Free

Uranus Retrograde is asking: Is this who I want to be, or am I just being held down by responsibility?

Maybe you’re the dependable one. The peacekeeper. The person who adapts, accommodates, and makes sure everyone else is comfortable.

You might even be praised for it.

But what happens when keeping everyone else happy means continually silencing yourself? When you’re so used to being who everyone needs that you no longer know what you need?

Uranus asks where you’ve been suppressing your truth to maintain a version of your life that no longer feels like yours. You don’t have to keep playing a part simply because other people are comfortable with it.

You’re allowed to outgrow a role, even when everyone else prefers you in it.

Breaking free doesn’t always mean walking away overnight. Sometimes, it begins with saying no, telling the truth or making one decision that honours your authentic self.

After all, Uranus is all about those quirky, eccentric traits that make us all one of a kind. So where have you been dulling your sparkle just so you can fit in?

Why the Hell is This Taking So Long?

You’ve been doing the inner work. You’re recognizing the patterns. You know what needs to change.

But just because you realize things need to change, doesn't mean they automatically will - there is no magic wand. You must do the work in the physical, even when you're working in the metaphysical.

Saturn Retrograde brings attention to the structures and foundations holding your life together - your routines, commitments, boundaries and the habits you return to when things get difficult.

Understanding a pattern is one thing. Changing what you do when that pattern shows up is another.

You can know you need stronger boundaries and still feel guilty when you set them. You can know you’re exhausted and still say yes because disappointing someone feels worse than disappointing yourself. This is where the work becomes real.

What needs to change in your everyday life so you’re no longer repeating what you’ve already recognized? Which commitments are draining you? Which habits keep pulling you backwards? Where are you waiting for life to change while continuing to make the same choices?

You don’t have to transform everything overnight. But you do need to start building a life that supports the changes you say you want.

The Veil Is Thinning

As we move toward Samhain, the veil between this world and the spirit world grows thinner. The veil thins and the fog lifts at the same time.

You may be more intuitive than usual. Dreams may feel more vivid. You might catch yourself thinking of someone who has passed, smelling their perfume, hearing their song, or simply feeling them close.

If you’ve lost someone this year, this can stir up so much. The grief, the questions, the things you never got to say. It’s okay to feel all of it. They haven’t gone as far as you think.

Bring It All Into Focus - Here Comes the Light

The Full Moon illuminates what these planetary energies have been bringing to the surface.

The truths you can no longer unsee. The relationships that need an honest look. The feelings you’ve buried. The situations you’ve outgrown. The changes you’re tired of waiting to make.

And perhaps the biggest question of all:

What are you still holding onto that is costing you too much to keep? What can you release now to make room for the new path you are trying to make?

Not everything is going to change overnight. But you don’t have to keep dismissing your own needs just because acknowledging them makes life more complicated.

The Full Moon offers an opportunity to see more clearly what you’re ready to release, what needs your attention and where you’re being called to choose differently.

I don't suggest trying to see the whole path right now. Just be honest about where you are standing and what can be released sooner, rather than later.

Crystals for the Hunter’s Full Moon

These are the crystals that came up for these energies during this Hunter's Full Moon. They work beautifully together as a set, and you can also choose the one that calls to you the most.

Moonstone: When You Can’t Make Sense of What You’re Feeling
When life keeps throwing curveballs, your own inner voice gets drowned out. Moonstone is always with me at the Full Moon. Hold it when you need to check in with yourself and let your intuition speak before you go looking for answers.

Selenite: When You’re Carrying Too Much
You’re holding your own pain and everyone else’s on top of it. Selenite is my other Full Moon constant, the stone I reach for to clear what’s been piling on. Sit with it and ask yourself what’s actually yours to carry. This beauty is wonderful for keeping the energies around us clear.

Smokey Quartz: When You Know Something Has to Change
When everything feels heavy and negative, Smokey Quartz helps transmute negative energy into positive energy. It helps you hold your boundaries and bring to the surface the issues you're ready to release.

Fluorite: When Your Mind Won’t Shut Off
All of that overthinking and trying to solve every problem in your life at once, until you feel like you can't even have a clear thought. Fluorite clears the noise so you can focus on the work in front of you, and it reminds you to speak to yourself with the kindness you’d give anyone else in your shoes.

Amethyst: When Your Nerves Are Frayed and You Can’t Rest
When you’re worn down from one thing after another and sleep won’t come, Amethyst is an amazing stone to work with. This Master Healer calms frayed nerves, supports your healing as you move into this next phase, and helps you finally rest, even when nothing is resolved yet.

You can watch Crystal Close Ups for these beauties, as well as the crystals I am working with for Mercury Retrograde on my YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@HannahCarveth

You Don’t Have to Wait Until You Hit Rock Bottom

Sometimes, you can understand exactly what’s happening in your life and still struggle to change it.

You can see the pattern and where it came from. You’ve probably spent hours thinking about what you should do differently.

But then, you find yourself doing the same thing again.

That doesn’t mean you’re broken or that all the work you’ve done has been wasted. It means there may be something underneath the pattern that you haven’t fully understood yet.

Sometimes these blocks are so energetically imprinted that they can be impossible to release on your own, and they can come in from past lives and ancestral ties too.

Most people wait until everything has completely fallen apart before they reach out. You don’t have to. The middle of the mess, when you can feel it all shifting, is exactly the right place to reach out for some support. Because, trust me, rock bottom doesn't feel good!

This is the work I help people with through my readings, connections with loved ones in spirit, quantum crystal healing and coaching - helping you make sense of what you’re experiencing, recognize what’s keeping you stuck, release it and find a way forward that feels right for you.

If you’re in the middle of a spiritual awakening or a big life shift, questioning everything or wondering why life feels so different lately, my free WTF Is Happening to Me Energetic Reset is a good place to start. It includes the Spiritual Awakening Symptom Decoder Chart. It’s a place to begin making sense of what you’re experiencing, rather than assuming you should already have all the answers.

Here's the link to get it for Free: https://wtf.newintentionsenergy.com/wtf-freebie

Your Hunter’s Full Moon Reflection

Grab the crystal that's calling to you, and take a little time to sit with these questions:

1. What truth have I been avoiding because I know acknowledging it will mean something has to change?
2. Where am I giving more than I have, and what am I afraid will happen if I stop?
3. Which pattern keeps repeating, and what am I being asked to do differently this time?
4. What am I ready to release so I can make room for what comes next?

You don’t need to force an answer. Just be honest with yourself.

You don't have to wait until everything falls apart before you listen to what your life is trying to tell you.

Let this Full Moon illuminate what you're ready to release - and give yourself permission to make room for what's next.

With Love and Fire,
Hannah