The Moon steps into the Leo spotlight early Wednesday morning (4:14am EST), and flows energy in trine with Jupiter in fiery Leo. This is a day for strong feelings and high courage; a day when awareness allows us to move into creativity and heart-centered passion, deftly avoiding emotional excess and drama.
Early Thursday morning, the Sun conjuncts Neptune, joining our core selves with cosmic dreams and visions, in the sign of radical insight. With the Sun's light and Aquarius' clear thought involved, this could be a great night for lucid dreams.
Lucid dreaming has had pretty mixed press lately, with reports it's a method for escaping reality, or imagining we have superpowers to control our lives. Rather, lucid dream is a disciplined practice focused on increasing our awareness, bringing light and consciousness to what is dark.
As Thursday unfolds, the Moon begins with a flowing sextile to Saturn in Libra, balanced and responsible thought speaking to passionate feeling. Then the oppositions to the Aquarian cluster begins with the asteroid Ceres, and moving to Mercury, Mars and Neptune.
This Leo Full Moon comes with a strong focus on Aquarius, with five planets clustered there. This allows us to think in clear, innovative ways about whatever this Full Moon brings up, while adding extra emphasis to the Leo-Aquarian polarity.
At this Full Moon, we have Fire and Air, elements of movement and high energy. Like any element pair, they're essential to each other but dangerous when unbalanced. There is no fire without air, and no wind without warmth. Too much air either extinguishes flame or creates an inferno; too much fire consumes all available air, extinguishing life.
With Leo and Aquarius, we seek the balance between head and heart, between thinking rationally and staying with the ground of our feelings. We also look for the balance between self and community, the constantly negotiated boundary between following our heart's desire and meeting the needs of our communities.
Since this Full Moon falls in the last degrees of Leo and Aquarius, the characteristics of each sign are intensified. In the print edition of The Mountain Astrologer, Stephanie Austin reminds us this is the last of the series of five Full Moons falling in the last degrees, in which each polarity has been heightened. It's also the first of six SuperMoons coming this year, in which the Moon is at perigee, her closest approach to Earth, and at syzygy, aligned with the Earth and Sun.
Because it falls at the final degree, the Full Moon initiates the Moon's time between times, ending her transit through glorious Leo. The Full Moon arrives at 3:36am EST Friday morning. If this has been a winter of discontent for you, allow the brilliant illumination of this center stage Moon to open new doors of perception and understanding.
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