Photo by Anthony Cheng.
The Leo Full Moon is overnight Friday to Saturday in most timezones in our readership. It is exact at Saturday at 1:17 am ET, Saturday at 6:17 am GMT and Friday at 10:17 pm PT.
This is an unusual Full Moon in that it’s conjunct retrograde Mars. My sense is that it’s going to shake out some of the sentiments hidden inside the retrograde, which means speeding up the emotional or growth process.
Mars retrograde in Leo is about the working out of one’s true desires. This can be complex. Often we fear that if we say what we want or need, we’ll cause problems. There the potential for plenty of resentment revealed, and perhaps the inner revelation of secrets that one is keeping from oneself. Those secrets can have a tendency to come out all at once; or we can (if we apply awareness) ease off the pressure slowly. I would say, take it easy, particularly in emotionally charged situations.
Spot any passionate or violent emotions brewing before they surface in unwholesome ways. This is not a good night to out drinking; you need to be letting everyone else be the ones to go out of control, while you keep your eyes peeled and make sure you’ve got a handle on yourself and your posse. This link takes you to the chart.
– Eric Francis
A clerk at a local store noticed that nearly everyone coming in today has included candy with their purchases. Comfort food, sugar, sweets, whatever you call it – probably evidence of some sort of emotional thing going on.
I bought a lot of rechargeable batteries today. That’s my equivalent of comfort food.
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I need my coconut milk.
Tell me about it. The full Moon and Mars conjunction is also dead conjunct my Pluto in the 12th house! Rechargeable batteries ain’t gonna fix this power drain!
and Logged into Cosmic Confidential….That’s my comfort food…Ha Ha Ha!!!
yeah, i feel this big time. my blood has been boiling dealing with the worst mercury retrograde effects after the retrograde. outbursts of anger toward inanimate objects are quite frequent. this happened to me last fall too. 3 days after the retrograde ended, i had the worst technical meltdown of all time.
I’ve been eating raw for a while and feeling wonderful. Last night I suddenly craved something cooked but didn’t even enjoy it ;(
And this morning I reacted strongly to a perceived snub – which on thinking about it was just that mentally we were in two totally different places at the time.
Thursday night I was able to have an emotionally charged (in a very good way) conversation with the man I love about our undefined and undefinable relationship. This Saturn in Libra/Pluto in Capricorn square has been very interesting to say the least. He is a Christian (a rather fundamentalist Christian) minister. I am an Osun priestess. God definitely has a sense of humor. Our composite chart has 10 Libra on the ascendent, so we are in for a long opportunity to come to a way to “build a bridge across the chasm” as he says. Anyway, I just sent him a link to A New Christianity for A New World, a website of John Shelby Spong. Accompanying that was a super long e-mail in which I shared a number of my own personal beliefs about my spirituality that I had previously been withholding out of fear of his reaction. I love this man. I know he loves me. And I know the Creator loves all of us. I chose Love over fear today.
Hm! Friday into the wee hours of Saturday felt pretty great. Made an early day and a late night of it. Tons of exercise and walking in the fresh air. I went on 3 separate dates with 3 separate former lovers. I did eat and drink quite a lot, along with some serious dancing, dreaming and scheming, interesting conversations, and some PDA. As for revelations of true desires, my Aries ex-girlfriend announced, “We should have sex again sometime,” and I agreed. Also, later on I did blurt “I love you” to my favorite ex-boyfriend (late Sagittarius), while flagging down a taxi, but he blurted back, so no worries there. Thursday was interesting too, since I made peace with someone I’d been holding a grudge against for almost precisely ten years. Whoof!
Conflicts with parents were more squirmy and squabbly than intense, fortunately (I was visiting and am making a point of doing so, since my mother has cancer and I’d like to err on the side of spending too much time with her). More like “Argh! You talk to me like I’m an idiot who lives under a rock! I live in the boonies but HELLOOOO, we have internet and radio here.” But this time I said it out loud and to the point, and it didn’t lead to a big fight over nothing this time.
So, um, I guess I’m getting a lot of emotional work done these days. But it doesn’t feel like work for some reason. This resonates with what Eric was saying about emotional laziness in today’s post on Virgo moon trine Cap Pluto. Maybe not laziness in the sense of denial, but little effort? I had an algebra teacher who used to exhort us to “Be Lazy!” in the sense of creating fewer steps in our problems.