The Moon is full in the 12th degree of Scorpio on May 1st, at 12:23 pm CDT.
With the Sun in Taurus and the Moon opposed from Scorpio
the axis of the 2nd and 8th Houses, respectively, is highlighted now.
The 2nd House is often portrayed as the House of money,
which is fair,
but money is merely a small chunk of the iceberg
floating in the ocean of this domain of a horoscope.
The 2nd House holds all things material,
including our garbage and waste,
as well as our essential and necessary physical body.
The 2nd House suggests an experience of Materiality-as-such.
It also suggests our experience of Possession-as-such.
It indicates something about our personal relationship
to posessions and resources in general,
and I personally think can be reasonably extended
to resources which are immaterial as well, such as talent or skills.
Anything which can be classified as "mine" is drawn into the 2nd House.
In my experience working with people,
I notice a form of astrological arrested-development.
I hear people seeking counsel regarding relationships:
Is the year I will meet my future-husband?
Is my boyfriend really the right one for me?
I hear people seeking guidance about careers and purpose:
Should I quit my job?
Is there a path which will bring more meaning to my life?
What might be 7th House issues of relationship
or 10th House issues of public-pursuits,
get reduced to 2nd House issues of "My _____."
If I have advice,
it's to limit your 2nd House concerns
to mastering your Body and Mind,
those two most essential belongings,
before you worry about projecting possession
into the rest of the goings-on around you.
Before worrying about amassing millions of dollars,
be well-acquainted with your skills and talents,
for they are likely what will deliver such bounty to you.
Before you concern yourself with acquiring a new job,
make sure you are up to the task
of tending to the physical Body you inhabit,
for without it, no new career-path can be trodden.
You can give a man a fish, or you can offer him the skill of fishing.
You have skills and abilities which can be deployed in the other Houses.
If you are well-embodied and self-possessed,
your presence can be more effective in those other Houses.
There is no need to draw things in to your 2nd House,
like a desperate vacuum.
There is only a need to discover what is already there,
and to treat it with due reverence and honor.
In classic fashion,
the 8th House carries some of these same themes,
but extends them into shared dimensions.
If the 2nd House refers to "Mine," the 8th House refers to "Ours."
To that end, the 8th House suggests contracts and marriage,
secrets and mysteries,
as well as inheritances of both tangible and intangible
(or conscious and subconscious) nature.
The same call to awareness of the 2nd House applies here.
In this sense, it is indeed a House of Shadow in the Jungian sense.
Anything you are not acknowledging
can be reasonably given to the 8th House.
A talent with color and aesthetics you may cherish as a 2nd House gift,
might well be better conceived
as an 8th House inheritance from your great-grandmother;
you also, perhaps, are not so readily willing to embrace
the 8th House inheritance
of great-grandmother's propensity for alcohol and anger.
The husband you acquire as a 2nd House achievement,
invariably comes with a slew of hidden additions:
a psychologically abusive mother-in-law,
his resulting propensity to gamble or indulge in risky-taking behaviors.
The following may be a reach,
but to apply the 8th House to the 12th House of collectivity
we might even address that the shared burdens of all Humanity
could be meaningfully explored along the 2nd House-8th House axis.
As Pluto in Aquarius and Uranus in Gemini bring profound shifts
to our social and relational dynamics,
Neptune and Saturn in Aries bring similarly powerful awareness
to our individuality and distinctly personal experience.
The confluence of "mine," "yours," and "ours" has never been so critical.
Yin-Yang-Yoga 
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