The Aquarius Full Moon

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Every planet in the zodiac has a polarization, except, the sun and the moon who are the luminaries. These planets don’t have counters but rather complement each other.

And so, the Sun is in Leo, the sign it rules—but it isn’t the moon that rules Aquarius. The moon is domecile in Cancer, the sign of emotion, intuition, tenderness, protection. Aquarius detaches from emotions preferring intelligence and defers mothering to villages.

This gives Leo and Aquarius a nuanced juxtaposition. And furthers Aquarius’s uniqueness and strength, even if not ruled by a luminary.

Leo, kings, and our Sun stand alone. Aquarius can also be found as a party of one—it does correspond to the Fool in tarot. Aquarius is the class clown: disruptive because they’re bored, they’re intellectally unchallenged.

A king’s power separates him and it can be used against him. A king must always guard his throne. Aquarius’s power connects people. Aquarius is collective minded. They often cast themselves out, as much as are outcasts. Where the good king is adored, the Aquarian is misunderstood—

But, his need to be himself, protects him from ego, from needing applause. Obedience belongs to kings and anarchy to Aquarians. A king rules and he is served by his people. An Aquarius will not always be recognized for his humanitarianism. The only power Aquarius cares much about is the electricity.

Leo is about our position. Leo is centerstage. Popular. The demand. Aquarians can also be popular, but because they are practical. Because they’re healers. Providers. Aquarius is a network. Aquarius is walking the perimeter, connecting people into the position they need to be in, to transform source into resource. Wiring. This retrograde is rewiring our nervous system.

Both Leo and Aquarius are powerful by nature. Leo grows into their confidence, their power comes with responsibility. Leo’s obstacle is to have the courage to be themselves. Their only competition is the mirror.

Aquarius’s confidence defends what others mock. It is the Aquarian’s belief in themselves and doubt from others that gives them power. Where the people give a king power, Aquarius represents the people, and how democracy, village mentality, gives the individual power.

Aquarius flashes light, Leo is lit. This full moon reveals knowledge and we will be brighter afterward.

So, this full moon in Aquarius answers where our power is and where we are in relationship to power, in actuality and reality. And it provides the support for us to choose to be empowered, to be responsible, accountable, and brave.

Because this full moon corresponds to the story Pluto started when it entered Aquarius, then this full moon reminisces our trauma, and it’s also the point of view of victim. Victim identity is down there with our core beliefs. But nothing is deeper than Pluto, who abides at the bottom of wells. Our trauma knows and understands the victim well and rightfully so—

The Aquarius energy around this full moon makes the revelations sharp and clear when we identify the pattern of behavior that renders our power away. How we have held onto beliefs that rippled from abuse, abandonment, and trauma to determine our abilities to be responsible.

Our odyssey is still inciting. We know the setting. A few key characters. We met a lion with the Leo new moon. He showed us what we are afraid of, why we run, how being a victim doesn’t work for us. How it disempowers.

So when we meet the Tin Man under the Aquarius supermoon, it’s still a heart story, but a different one—not new romance, but perhaps conditions or conditioning, hydration, things get flowing again and the movements are smooth. Well oiled.

Aquarius and the Tin Man want hearts, both are longing to empathize. They want to feel. And that’s the victim’s language: emotions, compassion. There is a core belief attached to the feeling that roots our disempowerment. This full moon in Aquarius has a reveal in store if we send a bucket down the well. Make sure it’s tin.

Or, I read this and it really helped in case you're not sure where to find a bucket made of tin.

The Rest of The Week:

This week starts with Mercury combust the Sun squaring Uranus, which is another reason talking to yourself this week, and journaling will elucidate answers.

Things might not land the way they sound in your intentions. Nothing meets expectations when Uranus makes squares.

Further engineering our behavior this week is Mars square to Saturn, the other planet that rules Aquarius. How committed are you to the things that everyone else says are weird, worthless, and to which your only defense is your belief in it?

It might hurt your feelings, but who doesn’t love a discount? Even if it’s you evaluating your own dream. Two negatives add up. Oil yourself up if you’re feeling stiff. Put your contracts in writing. Show the universe you're serious by taking action. Choose devotion over everything.

Because Venus will oppose Saturn, and that’s like saying your vows out loud. Writing them but announcing them to witnesses. It’s adding layers of accountability to prove what you say you value is what you will commit to doing for the rest of your life, through sickness, life and death—discounts.

But it isn’t official until Mars and Venus make their square two days later, on the 22nd. That’s the ring slipping on the finger. Is it wedding or engagement or peach. It’s in the details. Be specific. An act of service, a choice, a routine, a blood oath to determine your commitment, to seal the agreement. Securities. Insurance. Protection, are other words that come up for this transit.

Then her trine to Uranus on the 27th, is asking if anyone opposes this union. What terms haven’t been revealed will be exposed. The devil is in the details.

Align accordingly to your values and you will have long-term rewards, even if it prolongs a sacrifice. Even if it shocks you or surprises you, when it settles it will be the last of any forseeable obstructions. But that doesn’t omit the effort it will require.

This isn’t one story, there are a few threads. It isn’t just one love we have, nor one way of expressing it. The beginning of the year has gestated now for almost 9 months. We birthed something, if not ourselves anew. The creativity process culminates. The setting may look the same, but the activity doesn’t.

What we birthed has a name, it has its own will. What we could control before because it lived in us is now outside of us. It’s its own thing now. We can’t take care of it, just by taking care of ourselves, but we have to teach it how to take care of itself. It has its own destiny now—outside of us, but still a part of us. It’s a wheel and we’re the stick. It will try to control us—it can, but not if we own our command.