Full Moon are always oppositions. The Sun and the Moon are on opposite sides of the earth or more precisely the ecliptic longitudes of the Sun and Moon are 180 degrees apart.
Full Moons bring things to a culmination, a conclusion or into the light.
Leo is represented by the lion. A lion is a cat. If you live with a cat you have some idea of what this 'king of the beasts' thing is all about. It becomes the cat's house. You become the cat's human. Cats rule. The male lion doesn't just get to mate with his choice of lioness. He gets all the lionesses.
(and now I am picturing a whole lineup of that little guy from Peanuts dragging his blanket)
Leo represents royalty and generosity and fun and romance and children and creativity.
The shadow of the Leo archetype is a kind of arrogance or greed or self-importance, but what you will find with most Leos is that they have a presence - they impress us. Sometimes it's hard for other people to relate to Leo as "one of us".
There is a reason the king of the jungle is the king of the jungle.
There is dignity here.
Leo rules the space we are meant to shine through self expression, so yes, the energy needs a lot of attention and needs to feel special and, yes, Leo cares what other people think.
And because there is a need to leave a legacy here, things can get overblown.
Leo has trouble with 'humble' (hence this energy leads us to the next sign - the 'humble' Virgo). Leo is ruled by the Sun and MUST shine (the Pluto in Leo generation isn't called the 'Me Generation', for nothing'). It is attached and emotionally reactive.
Aquarius energy (where is Sun is now and opposing the Leo Moon) is the opposite side of the same coin.
It's the energy of "we". It is detached (this doesn't mean unaware or uninvolved) and emotionally non-reactive - note I mean the energy and not all Aquarius people, no one is just one thing! It doesn't need to feel special because it already knows it is special. It knows everyone is special (which kind of means no one is special, so you see where Aquarius energy is headed).
Ruled by Uranus, Aquarius is the sign of the genius, the rebel, the criminal. The Aquarius space in our chart is where things will work best by being 'outside the box'. It is unpredictable. Aquarius doesn't do humble either. It's hard for other people to relate to Aquarius as "one of us", too.
So, we have this opposition at any Leo Full Moon.
We come to this part of winter (in the northern hemisphere), and keep in mind, our Sun, the ruler of Leo, is in his detriment in Aquarius and he is all the way to 20 degrees now and he (as us) is just really needing this Leo Full Moon to recharge his (our) batteries!
Let's unpack the chart for this one!
The Moon is sextiling Juno, trining Eris and squaring Vesta. This is alot of activated feminine energy! And with Venus conjunct Lilith at the Aries point - makes me think a woman/women will be in the collective news now.
The Moon's square to Vesta is the only thing that is waning (in the past), so let's look at that one first. Keep in mind the Moon is in Leo - so creative/generous and also in need of lots of attention. And Vesta is in mid-Taurus, like "hey, pay attention to this really, really important stuff over here, like your money and your resources and your values, because Uranus is going to crash through here one day and maybe you might want to sort this all out for yourself first".
This could be about a situation where our priorities/commitments or our money/resources are not meshing with what we want to do!
At the same time the Moon has good aspects - and these are waxing, so building - with partnership and status conscious Juno (in serious and ambitious Capricorn) and "let's burn this whole thing down" Eris in "let's start something brand new" Aries.
So, we've moved through the square to Vesta - the tension/frustration around stagnant commitments and priorities (that thing that used to keep us up at night, the stuff we want to preserve at all costs that maybe we are now thinking about do we really need to be holding on here for dear life) and then here comes the partnership/status
OPPORTUNITY (that sextile with Juno) that, yes, this will involve work and patience and maybe ambition and with Juno in Libra almost certainly taking a look at what is really fair and balanced,
which releases the brakes (that trine to fiery Eris) via a challenge to be brave, to be first, to START - in order to change our life (Uranus ruler of this lunation via disposition),
so that we can fully SHINE via love and creativity and us taking the center stage in our own life, which is ultimately what that Leo Full Moon is all about!
The Moon is trining and the Sun is sextiling an out-of-bounds Mars (he is beyond the path of the Sun, so not playing by the Sun's rules/limits).
We can find the courage/initiative to make the first move. To act in ways we might not normally act. We can be direct/assertive without being an asshole.
Keep in mind the Leo Full Moon is answering to the Sun (the Sun is the ruler of Leo) - and the Sun is in Aquarius. This makes the Leo Full Moon different from any other Full Moon, since for rulership we have to look at what the Sun is doing, ie answering to Uranus. So what is Uranus doing?
Uranus is in Taurus squaring Ceres (in Aquarius so also answering to Uranus) at 3 degrees.
So, we have unpredictable Uranus slowly making his way through Taurus - unsticking our stuck Taurean spaces, changing up our money/resources/values/self-esteem - and Ceres has moved into an exact square with him at exactly the time of this Full Moon. Coincidence? No.
Ceres in Aquarius is about unconventional nurturing. Nurturing through friends/groups/causes. Maybe through indifference/being left to our own devices. Ceres can also activate situations outside our control and cycle of life issues - in Aquarius, we can step back a little bit and detach from the emotions of this stuff. So, maybe we are a little more detached here or leaning a little more into unorthodox nurturing and then wham-bam we hit this square to the king of unorthodox - Uranus.
Are we all in or is this too much disorder/chaos? Maybe there could be a feeling like we are being ambushed somehow because Uranus is very unpredictable. But with Mars out of bounds and, so many active energies answering to Uranus, who in Taurus is answering to Venus in Aries and bringing us back to Mars - we can not only handle this (because we have been prepared for it, this isn't our first rodeo folks), we can THRIVE by taking action toward what we are passionate about, by being brave, by allowing ourselves to FEEL THE LOVE - the romance, the creativity, the children, the recreation, the risk - and focus on that, during times of instability. Venus is exactly conjunct Lilith, so the power balances/imbalances within relationships are activated. Female power is new and fresh and more about going after what we want, ie more active than attractive now.
And finally Mercury is trining the North Node in the Full Moon event chart (and this is a three-peat aspect, so there is more clarifying information to come).
Our conversations/words about the future are very important and moving us toward a more authentic/more stable/more emotionally fulfilling timeline (although it can seem to make us more vulnerable at first). Information could come in now that points us in this direction or confirms where we are headed. This probably won't be some big thing because trines are subtle. So pay attention. This has been a week all about powerful INFORMATION and receiving information that will matter later (because Mercury is walking degrees she/he will walk two more times in the upcoming weeks).
And speaking of walking, let's make sure we get out and walk in this one! We have seen all the things in the collective news that came to light, culminated and ended this week.
It's a powerhouse.
xo all
