Moon-light
In this section, I spend more time diving into the cosmic tonality of this rare moon and what it might manifest on your way across the next two to four weeks.
On February 16th at 16:56 GMT the Moon will be full in the sign of Leo, encouraging us to better integrate our emotions, better balance our polarities, re-energize our creativity, continue to support the collective and face our inhibitions with courage and faith.
Well, all of that, plus a massive dose of eroticism, kink and creativity courtesy of Mars & Venus united!
On August 8th the New Moon in Leo had invited us to become clearer on our distinctive talents and better at expressing our unique personality by either reconnecting with our inner kid or gaining confidence through creative outlets. This New Moon was the first to be aspected by Uranus in a series of seven, heralding a cycle of profound changes and awakenings, whether we wanted or not.
After almost two months spent navigating a very intense Venus retrograde, your sense of security, finances, core values, partnerships or concepts of love may have been challenged, leaving you quite vulnerable. Add to this the aftermath of the disruptions of the last Saturn-Uranus square (i.e. Omicron’s debacle), most of us are not exactly feeling super positive or at the top of their game, having to deal with harsh responsibilities while only remotely dreaming of a better future. Unexpected events, delays, cancellations have wrecked many of the plans we had worked on since August. Other difficulties will have likely popped up around the end of the year, piling up on our disappointment and this may feel a little bit too much.
This full moon comes at a time when motivation and enthusiasm are quite difficult to find, we lack courage and sometimes even discouragement and feelings of helplessness will have won.
Some very lucky human beings might be able to reap the benefit of their newfound voice or creative outputs but many more will need to forgive themselves for their failures or mistakes.
Hold a much more compassionate look on your brave attempts considering all the obstacles the universe laid on their path since then. You are not alone today, far from it. Most of us stand vulnerable and feel weak.
Even though we are all somehow open to change, our plans seldom fit with what the universe has in mind for us – and this despite our best efforts and intentions.
Most of you should have now discovered where this change was indeed required over the period. If you have a doubt – yes, this is what you desperately want to escape but have no other choice than to carry through. If you still have a doubt our 2022 horoscopes are now available and provide strong support and guidance. While we are still mired in the harsh and cold energies of Saturn and must face our responsibilities and demonstrate discipline and commitment, embracing the blessing of the Uranian liberation and change that these efforts will result in is still a very distant prospect at this point.
This is about to soon evolve, but one should bear in mind that this is a time of profound change requiring substantial efforts and adjustments on our part. Those efforts can either be suffered or celebrated.
Events are either happening to you or for you.
This will define your state of consciousness over the next months, getting you to side on either a pessimistic view of life, likely to enhance an unstable emotional and mental state (agitated by insecurities certainly exaggerated) and to attract further difficulties OR an optimistic view of life, likely to help others and to attract new people and opportunities in your life to lighten up the load and help you navigate the change more gracefully.
Realize that we are almost on a ten month journey to liberation, but we will also go through ecstatic highs, difficult lows and many traps set for our new ego, so try to get used to it. Don’t take things too seriously and take a more positive and playful attitude to what the universe will send your way.
Leo knows that life is just a theatre and always tries to keep a child perspective on all events. His strength is in his positivity, his ability to bring a positive light on all situations and empower others to find the courage to shine their light too. Leo is also the hero in the journey, reminding us to see our life like an adventure and ponder on our challenges like a hero would, with the same magnanimity, courage and resolve.
This full moon will likely trigger an extreme need to be seen, appreciated, recognized, and let’s say it, loved, but the chance that this need will be acknowledged, fulfilled or fully satisfied remain low, even more if our motivation is purely ego based.
With the Moon square the nodes, our emotions are still slightly off, turned towards suspicion and paranoia causing crippling fears and hindering our ability to properly express our more sensitive side. In this deeply vulnerable state, getting the support we need might not be easy and one could further feel alienated by the current lack of cooperation.
Some might resort to cutting themselves from all feelings and becoming cruel and hurtful over the period.
Similarly, our ambitions will still be delayed and have a harder time to progress unless they serve the collective rather than our ego.
Inconjunct Pluto, this full moon reminds us that the real obstacle to our success is still the rigidity of our ego structure.
Those outdated foundational elements can either be the old conventions we use to assess whether an option is relevant, a solution can work, a lifestyle is acceptable or not, the old stories we use to rationalize our unsustainable choices, our tendency to favor our individual freedom over the collective needs, or the traditions or privileges we continue to defend because previous generations benefited from them.
This moon reminds us that more than a superficial change, this period of transition requires a deep transformation of our outdated values and habits. Ongoing adjustments will be required over the next six months if we want to emerge victorious on the other side. The Venus retrograde will have started to bring some of that old emotional material to the light.
With the inconjunct we are invited to give permission to others to be different from what they were and from what anyone else has been before. Through this, we also give ourselves permission to be different.
The inconjunct will also make the communication chaotic and messy, a bit like a dam breaking. For some couples, this episode will strengthen their bond as their relationship needed this test to move through a strong block but for others, the weirdness of it might bring misunderstandings simply too hard to swallow.
Pluto has been trining the North Node since November 16, bringing up old traumas and intense emotional reactions so that we can work through some of our shadows.
With this Full Moon we can now release and purge ourselves from behaviors or stories that are no longer required and walk stronger into the unknown.
This trine is exact on February 14 so from now on the intensity will decrease giving space for integration and transformation.
It will now bring us the necessary determination, stamina and will power to see the changes through. For some this might create more pressure to be decisive so you aren’t trapped in the same hurtful relationship again: choosing whether to stay but on new bases, set yourself free or hop on a new one.
As we now more than ever face uncertainty, this full moon comes charged with the anguish of the test that consists in bringing to light what is in our shadow but is required for us to fully know ourselves. This test is particularly difficult for those currently experiencing depressive states or power struggles as a surrender of ego is necessary for the healing to start power to be regained. The Leo moon comes to grant you the necessary courage to explore other ways and look in the direction of the selfless and objective Aquarius sun for inspiration.
We are now used to this; we’ve dealt with this challenge for more than a year. We have now understood that there is no easy escape possible, that the path of pure rebellion is just as doomed or illusory as the path of complete resistance to change. Liberating ourselves will require that we deal with the consequences of this newly gained independence, just like dealing with the responsibilities of our commitments might liberate us from past restrictions. The period of restrictions we have just experienced might have disconnected us or reconnected us from our heart so that we realize the importance of listening to our heart for making the necessary decisions. As we got tested under pressure, we also got to realize our own boundaries, and the need to establish healthy ones, to respect ours and make sure that others do too.
Yes, everything might look complicated, but is it really and does it have to be?
For you to better understand what is currently happening, consider the following:
The universe is currently reordering things.
Things need to change, for a long time now. While the threats to the survival of our species, or the survival of our economic and political systems (if you don’t want to go that far) are only increasing and we haven’t yet started to cope with our responsibilities, constantly distracted by short terms priorities, a greater scheme is unfolding.
The cosmos is a very intelligent system where all those possibilities are already forethought and where such option (our destruction) if part of the possibilities is not really where this system will naturally converge towards. Our consciousness hasn’t stopped evolving over the last four centuries and we are certainly due for another acceleration to help us deal with the new challenges our exploding demographics and intense resource exploitation have created.
The same events (a global pandemic) a century ago would have made many more millions of deaths and triggered a massive economic breakdown but it has not. Instead, trillions of dollars have been spent out of thin air to offset the potential difficulties, which will likely severely disrupt the global economy as whole but much slower than one could have previously expected. This gives us time to adjust, make our peace with the past and enter a new era where the changes will only accelerate but where all, or most, should be cared for.
At an individual level, our lives are also getting reordered.
Difficult choices are being made requiring cold blood, resolve and a firm position. We get to pay for past mistakes, unsustainable relationships, wrong choices. Depressive states are experienced when our lives were rather meaningless or simply delusional.
All of this occur so that we can come back to the source of why we were sent on this planet at this very moment, remember the gifts and talents we came equipped with so that we can truly play the role we were supposed to.
This is in great part what the Saturn-Pluto conjunction (that triggered the pandemic) and the Pluto square Eris (that initiated the psychological pains during the lockdowns) started and will continue to manifest over the next years. The Saturn Uranus squares of 2021-2022 have initiated the changes and slow painful reordering, but Pluto is also working in the background, finishing his destruction and purification work underneath the surface before he manifests again in 2023 and 2024, entering Aquarius, certainly with several bangs, all supportive of the collective and our democracies.
All of this reordering aims at freeing us from staled situations, liberating our true potential, bringing the necessary innovations and harmonizing our living conditions as well as our relationship will all things living.
Coming out of the chrysalid is not enjoyable process and can be a dirty business, but it’s a necessary step.
So how does that get impacted by the Mars & Venus conjunction?
Well, when lust and passion, the primal masculine and feminine, love and desire meet, you do not have to read Cosmopolitan to know that sparks will fly!
This aspect will certainly manifest at a more primal level as an increased appetite to seduce and be seduced, mate, play, be creative and social. The fire of Mars will meet the earth of Venus, so your blood will get heated and can either promise sensual delights, creative feats or material fights. The chances are much more in favor of a delightful romantic moment for all St Valentine’s events. If you are still hesitating, the passion of Mars will be much stronger and will land you the extra dose of courage you need to muster for the first step, whether a man or a woman.
This is not the first time that Mars and Venus meet over this period, they already did in July 2021 in the sign of Leo, possibly igniting a love affair. Venus is twice as fast as Mars, so she went around the Zodiac, but stopped mid-December and came back on track up to the end of January, giving time for Mars to catch back up at full speed. Venus is still slow, just out of her retrograde and will only slowly accelerate, adopting Mars’s pace for almost 3 weeks before meeting him again on March 6 for a new conjunction, but this time in Aquarius.
In other words, St Valentine’s Day does not fall on Feb 14 this year but starts on Feb 17 and finishes on March 6!
For this second conjunction, we are in the sign of Capricorn blessing the older couples, as well as the partners ready to make a longer-term commitment.
A much more enlightened use of this energy for St Valentine’s Month would be to:
At a more psychological level, this conjunction will come to reactivate the Pluto-Eris square and invites us to pay a closer attention to the balance of masculine and feminine in both our psyche and operating mode.
You may have focused too much on action, doing stuff, growing dependent on external events while neglecting your inner life.
Or on the other side, you might have been very passive and too sensitive to external events, mostly living within at the expense of living the life you really wanted to.
You might also have allocated too much importance to the material and your insecurities forgetting about your passion and what really brings you alive.
You may have given much more than you received or abused of others’ generosity for too long.
Also note that Eris and Lilith will be sextile, two icons of the repressed feminine. So, for most, this might be the need to open up to our more vulnerable and receptive side and forgiving ourselves, not just on our own but with others.
Giving ourselves permission to slow down, be still for more than five minutes, bring peace within, breath, listen to our intuitions, care for our mental health and nurture ourselves are all part of the feminine we very often neglect.
Recognize how shame, guilt and rejection drove you to repress parts of your personality, adopt toxic behaviors or partners, accept situations you never felt really comfortable with.
Learn to talk about sexual or bodily shame and the deep impact this had on your behaviors
If this is the case, this time is the opportunity to:
first ACKNOWLEDGE IT,
secondly COMMIT to bringing back a better balance between the two and reaching out to others if you felt this was necessary
and last use the NEXT 4 TO 8 WEEKS EXPERIMENTING WITH NEW WAYS until you find the right balance.
The next weeks could be extremely experimental and ground-breaking if you understand that Mars and Venus will support you in all your attempts to try new solutions to old problems, especially material, physical, business, financial or structural ones.
First off, we will be blessed with extra charm, drive, social skills, and creativity up to April.
Secondly, others are likely to be much more open and sometimes excited by our solutions. This will definitely require adjustments, but all are likely to benefit from the changes you will introduce since the conjunction finally lands in Aquarius.
Note that even though this energy is really good for individuals and couples, this conjunction will also be extremely supportive of group transformation. Do not hesitate to propose activities to your friends you had never considered before, especially artistic or outdoor pursuits. This is also the opportunity to find circles or friends you can talk about those imbalances with, to inspire others to open up about those difficult topics and to help those in need to illuminate those repressed part and empower them to be who they really want to be.
We currently need to be patient with our personal plans and ambitions. Right now is more about others than ourselves, so ask yourself how can you help your other half or others, how can you be more creative in the house highlighted by the Mars & Venus conjunction, find creative ways to express yourself and your unique gifts and talents.
Jupiter and Uranus are also exactly sextile. This aspect will bring us good fortune, freedom, and opportunities to make our life more exciting and interesting. This will be an excellent time to tackle difficult tasks that have caused frustration or limitations so far. Uranus invites us to experiment and innovate, do things differently, Jupiter helps us to move beyond the familiar, transcend our own limitations, find the necessary courage, faith and vision to try something new.
Chiron, the wounded healer, is right between Jupiter and Uranus, carrying the promise that innovative solutions associated with confidence and optimism will help you deal easily with problems or challenges that might currently seem larger than life. However, if the needs were to be divisive enough to end the relationship, rather than finding the necessary flexibility to allow growth for both, finding the courage to admit it and the necessary detachment to make it concrete could also be source of healing, liberation and personal growth.
Chiron further points to the need to establish a true partnership, not just a romantic one but one looking for the fulfilment of all aspects of life: a RESPECT for the individual and his or her needs for growth AND RELIABILITY no matter what comes up.
Feb 20 could come with some tension as we might come across as too daring, bold or offensive but by Feb 27 we should have found a way to adjust and learn from the process.
Remember that the more you experiment and play, the higher the chances that at the end of the period you have gotten rid of a lot of old limitations or problems and walk lighter.
All of this will contribute to bringing you closer to your more authentic self by gaining confidence in your unique talents and finding the courage to share what you might have repressed for far too long.
So remember, step 1 FORGIVE YOURSELF AND RELEASE, step 2 GIVE OTHERS AND YOURSELF PERMISSION TO OPEN UP AND BE WHO YOU REALLY WANT TO BE, step 3 GO PLAY & EXPERIMENT.
May the light of wisdom and awakenings shine on your path to evolution
With compassion
G
