This Full Moon is a threshold. One of realizations, actualizations, and the kind of understanding that comes not just from intellect, but from lived experience. It’s a culmination point, a moment where the weight of obligation and tradition meets the raw power of personal sovereignty, and something has to change.
As with all Full Moons, we are working with oppositions. The Sun in Leo and the Moon in Aquarius face each other across the zodiac, the solar self and the lunar soul meeting on opposite sides of the sky. If you stepped outside during this lunation, you’d witness one setting as the other rises. It’s a symbolic tug-of-war between ego and community, heart and mind, individuality and collective truth.
But that’s only the beginning.
At the time of this lunation, Mercury in Leo opposes Pluto in Aquarius. While not exact, the orb is close enough to be felt. We are processing profound truths, things we may have buried, denied, or intellectualized to avoid the emotional weight. But Mercury is slowing to station direct just days after this Full Moon, meaning these truths aren’t just coming up to be acknowledged; they must be metabolized.
In addition to the Full Moon and the Mercury–Pluto opposition, we also have Mars in Gemini opposing Saturn in Pisces, adding a layer of friction between action and restriction. And, to deepen the complexity, Neptune in Aries also gets pulled into this opposition axis, bringing with it themes of disillusionment, fog, or spiritual clarity, depending on where we’re willing to surrender illusions to the more complex truths.
And yet, despite all the tension, despite the oppositions that pull and stretch us, there is support.
Two kite formations are happening at the time of this Full Moon. For those unfamiliar, a kite is an aspect pattern formed when a grand trine (a triangle of planets in the same element) is supported by sextiles to a fourth planet opposite the triangle’s corners. While the opposition is the tension point, the trine and sextile elements offer solutions and routes through. The kite asks: Will you rise into your genius and fly, or will you stay grounded by fear and inertia?
These kites suggest that support is available, but here’s the thing: most of us don’t feel support as strongly as we feel pressure, friction, or confrontation. That’s why we tend to feel the opposition first. We feel the tension between what we want and what’s required. Between who we are and who we’ve been told we need to be.
The story of this Full Moon is one of revelation; raw, uncompromising, sometimes dark. Not for drama, but because it’s time to face it. These are not shallow insights. They are truths we must carry forward, or finally leave behind. Whether they emerge from within our psyche or through external events, the Leo–Aquarius axis is being activated, illuminating both our creative self-expression and our place within a larger collective.
And it may not feel good. It may not feel normal. And it certainly won’t feel easy.
But we are not without power. We are not without tools.
With Mercury in sextile to both Uranus and Mars, we are capable of clear, unconventional thought and bold action. And with Mars trine Pluto, we have the stamina and intensity to move mountains. The energy is here to do something with what we’ve uncovered.
Even when it feels like you’re facing red tape, a brick wall, or a person standing in your way, the reminder is this: you are sovereign. Your thoughts, your instincts, your emotional truth, these are yours and yours alone, draw the line in the sand. No one else can claim them.
And everything is heightened now. Full Moons always bring intensity, but this one comes with the weight of collective reckoning. We may see truths emerge around power figures, leadership, or collective movements. We may see something revealed in the tension between the elite and the people, between the solar figures and the masses.
But we may also see what is no longer true within ourselves.
It’s time to name it. To wrap it up. To acknowledge what cannot continue in its current form, whether that’s a mindset, a relationship, a role, or an entire way of being. Remember, the houses that these are happening in for each of us are either a person, a place, or a thing. If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll know what this is.
We may not be able to toss these things gently aside, but we can pack them up and mark them as complete.
It’s time.
And maybe, if we’re honest, it’s long past time.
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