The full moon in 24° of Leo on Wednesday, February 12th (7:53 a.m. CST) ignites a creative rebellion that shakes our foundations in order to reconnect us to the parts of ourselves we have detached from.
New information is illuminating a more complete story. What needs to be known arises now and brings forth new outcomes and solutions.
This full moon activates a T-square with Uranus in Taurus, amplifying breakthroughs, shocking developments, and big changes. Disruptions in our patterns of security will help us break down our walls of stagnancy. In turn, this will allow us to unlock more of our creative expression.
Our intuitive perception is also amplifying, and we’re able to see situations more fully.
“For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
By feeling all we need to feel and process, we can connect to a deeper sense of psychological security and trust within.
This full moon is also opposite Mercury and Ceres in Aquarius. Through the polarities of Leo and Aquarius, we are asked to bring our mind and our heart into balance. Mercury in Aquarius may cause us to overthink and overanalyze, while the full moon in Leo asks us to listen to our inner guidance. Ceres connects us to the cycles of nature and our ability to birth innovative ideas. Ceres also shows us we are fertile and ready for new beginnings and new possibility. In Aquarius, Ceres reminds us of the power to nurture our connections and community and honor the season that we are personally and collectively in.
This full moon corresponds with the intentions that we planted near the new moon in Leo on August 16th, 2024.
Over the past six months, our old forms of security may have been shaken, but this was in service of now being able leave what we’ve outgrown. We must walk away from what no longer serves so that we can find different ways of expressing ourselves and sharing our creative gifts with the world. It is time to explore our relationship to our visibility and become more confident in being fully seen.
“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
Maya Angelou
This Lunation Activates Sacred Leadership
As we have been watching greater collective cosmic cycles of change unravel, systems dismantle, and endings unfold, we may feel a greater tension building around which collective systems are dysfunctional and where leadership is not serving the interests of humanity. But through these moments of discomfort, we are unlocking better ways of seeing what will ultimately illuminate what we really want and what feels resonate.
We are now asked to come into balance by shifting our focus back to nurturing a healthy sense of self.
What feels inspiring and life affirming? Where do you feel internally empowered to express and create? What daily practices help connect you to your life force? What fresh solutions and different ways of seeing are emerging?
With so many opinions about what is shifting and what isn’t working, it can be easy to just sit back and feel we have no control. But what we can control through this time of turbulence and massive change is how we show up to serve our communities, what we choose to bring our attention to, and how we can become our own leader, moment by moment. Our art is a form of resistance. Where our hearts break is where we are called to serve. It is through bringing our gifts into the collective ecosystem and gathering in communities that we strengthen.
“The upheaval of our world and the upheaval of our consciousness are one and the same.”
C.G. Jung
This lunation calls us to embody our unbiased, truth-telling leader, and to respect our gifts and remain faithful to our hearts.
We Own Our Creative Gifts
In its highest expression, Leo is sovereign, confident, and able to recognize their creative abilities, allowing them to radiate outward. Leo follows the heart with experimentation, playfulness, and a willingness to try things out. Through this process, they awaken to the awe and wonder of their creativity and can consciously embody their creative life force. Sometimes our gifts are so innate that to share or celebrate them may seem insignificant. However, this lunation summons us back to authentic expression so that we can honor our unique offerings and can bring our attention back to what we know is most natural and true.
What are our hearts being called to create?
“This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.”
James Baldwin
Neptune Aligns with the North Node
Neptune is conjunct the North Node in Pisces which is supporting our spiritual growth and in completing soul lessons. This alignment also connects us to the bigger cosmic dreams we may have forgotten and are now preparing for. It is vital to pay attention to our dreams, to watch for signs of synchronicity, and trust what we are feeling.
This energy calls in new dreams, higher forms of love, and higher frequencies that support our destiny.
When Saturn conjoins the North Node in Pisces it will bring lucidity and a reality check on what is being dismantled and released. Saturn governs our ethics, leadership responsibility, societal laws, and the consequences of our choices. The next three months will bring both change and clarity around what is coming to completion. It is important to pay close attention to our connection with the divine and our intuitive hunches and soul longings.
The Invitation
We are being guided toward a path where we must own our unique expression so that we can be of service to the collective. We are invited to release old forms of being and also be willing to be seen and known. We are reclaiming parts of ourselves to support our creative paths of service.
We break out of stagnancy and old forms in order to see what isn’t working and to recreate our lives in a way that deeply resonates with our values, our emotional truths, and our souls’ evolution. This lunation calls us back into our hearts.
“You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both.”
Brené Brown