It’s a Leo Full Moon today. She reached Her peak of fullness at 8:53a (EST) at 24° Leo. Full Moons are moments of recognition. This is a time to take in everything that has been manifested—and everything that’s missing—under the enhanced light of the Moon. Celebrate your victories, note your losses, and take a breath. The active half of the cycle is completed. From here, you’ll get to slow down and reflect on how you got here. Many people in our modern society fueled by immediacy will burn right through this phase, eager to start doing the analytical work of ‘figuring out what happened’. But I encourage you to resist that temptation. Give yourself the pleasure and the potency of recognizing yourself for your efforts; honoring yourself for your contributions; spotlighting your own uniquely powerful magick.
The Sabian Symbol for this lunation is A Large Camel Crossing A Vast And Forbidding Desert. This speaks to me of being on a potentially challenging journey through barren terrain. But the camel is fully resourced for such a trip. It can carry everything it needs to successfully navigate these harsh conditions. The camel is, in fact, built for such a task. It speaks of faith in one’s own resourcefulness while moving through difficult and seemingly inhospitable circumstances.
Leo is a sign of strength. It’s Fixed Fire. It’s tenacious. It’s also warm and generous and bright. If you are the Camel in the Sabian Symbol, you could also say you are the Lion of the Leo Moon. Both are bastions of their environment. Both are stalwart voyagers relying on their own Nature-given skills to thrive in landscapes that would bring others to ruin. They don’t sit around wondering how they’re going to make it through the desert or the savannah. They trust that they have what they need to not just survive, but to thrive. You’re being asked to recognize this tenacity and fortitude in yourself under this Moon.
With Mercury tightly conjunct the Sun in Aquarius while in opposition with the Moon, you might find yourself being faced with gaps in your communication. This is a great time to recognize how to improve your communiques in order to more effectively express yourself.
A tight square to Uranus creates some motivating tension to get clear on your inner dialogue and the psychological drives that guide you forward through life. How is your inner landscape serving you? Is it driving you to fully express and foster your own needs and desires or is it keeping you small and withdrawn, neglecting what you need to feel fulfilled and nurtured? What is it that will nourish you right now? What can you do to provide that for yourself? (Hint: You may need to try new approaches to old dilemmas.)
With Mars and Chiron squaring off, be mindful not to declare war on yourself. It might feel tempting to beat up on yourself as you navigate the proverbial battlefield (or vast and forbidding desert), but you are not the problem. You are the solution. You have everything you need. Your wounds make you stronger, just as flesh that has once been torn becomes stronger through the reparative work of scarring. Let your pain points fortify you.
Pluto is in an exact square with Black Moon Lilith at this lunation. Powerful transformation is possible if you are willing to stand in your own strength. Now is not the time to kowtow to external forces that try to subdue the beautiful wildness within you. Use your primal instincts to call your power forward. Lilith chose to leave the lush gardens of abundance and ease in order to live life on her own terms. Like the camel, above, she was resourceful in the barren landscapes that played witness to her journey. She created a life that was deep and meaningful, one in which she was able to live in her full natural potency without denying any aspect of herself. You have this power, too.
This Full Moon in Leo moment is your time to recognize your strength, your resourcefulness, your tenacity. Your current situation may not feel very nourishing or provident at the moment. But this is the way of life: It is cyclical. There are ebbs and flows with each segment of the spiral. The one constant in your life is YOU. Know that you are made for this journey. You are equipped to make it through the desert-y bits. And under this Full Leo Moon you are being reminded to pause and to recognize just how far you’ve traveled; how many obstacles you’ve already overcome. And here you still are. Here you still are.
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