There is a whopper of a Full Moon on the horizon: the Leo Full Moon, conjunct Mars retrograde. One of the ways astrology works is that events involving the Sun and the Moon precipitate or bring out the influences of aspects or placements that are already standing. This is a good example — Mars is doing a long, slow (and rare) retrograde, and the Sun and Moon are about to show up and oppose and conjoin Mars, respectively.
So this is going to bring out the nature of that Mars retrograde. There are a few ways to take this aspect: for one thing, it’s going to take everyone for a ride. It’s the chart of a news event, before the event. Part of that news event is on the human level: the Moon and Leo are about human feelings; human emotions. The Moon is amplifying the rather mixed, inwardly searching emotions of Mars retrograde. And on whatever scale, those feelings are poised to come out. The extreme polarization of the Full Moon nearly guarantees that emergence. It’s a question of how whatever comes out, comes out.
The problem with this Full Moon is that personally, we have the potential to over-react, and have suppressed feelings burst out. I suggest that it would be efficient to ask yourself what you want, and they state what you want. They are two separate processes. My take on Mars retrograde, as explained yesterday, is about figuring out what we want.
Yet the Moon applies an emotional overlay to what we want: it’s like a veil of denial, that we’re trying to remove and get to the heart of the matter. Leo represents the heart. Mars represents desire. The retrograde represents conflicted desire, or the search for what we want. This is deeply personal stuff; sometimes seeming too personal for personal acknowledgment (that is never really true), but certainly too personal for admission in a relationship.
This Moon makes things more complex because while the relationship could be seen as personal (Sun/Moon, Venus/Mars involved), Aquarius is a collective entity of some kind. It’s not just one relationship partner who may have an interest in knowing how you feel; it may be a group of people who have this interest. I know this may be difficult, but I suggest checking in with how much you may have to say, and rather than letting that feeling well up, you know, the one that helps you empathize with throwing something through a window, or worse…make some decisions.
Get real with your feelings: first with you, then, calmly and directly, with those who matter.
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