Full Moon in Leo

January 25, 2024| 9:53 am (PST) | Keyword: Strategy

Changes occur connected to social activities, romance, or the birth of a child. Enhanced creativity, sports, hobbies, games, and pleasure are highlighted.

The Moon is edging through the sign of Leo bringing to light events of action, the need for quick decisions, and endeavors that require physical energy. This might include an interest in relationships, added financial responsibilities and new enterprises, particularly those where you can excel in any form of artistic creativity. Highly romantic and ardent in love at this time, your personal aura displayed through unusual charm, grace and magnetism can make you highly attractive. This self-confidence also supports a special ability in public relations, performing arts, diplomatic tasks, and as an effective salesperson. The events that unfold may connect to fame and fortune and are likely to include persons with strong Leo in the natal chart (sun, moon, rising) and dominant Aries placements.

With Venus sitting at the mid-heaven, the opportunity for marriage, an increase in social functions and general popularity in the public eye is possible. The relationship midpoint linked to the greater benefic Jupiter may grant a happy union, a birth, joint success and shared happiness. This increased focus on relationship encourages you to project more emotionally and stimulates the possibility for a new romantic relationship that holds the characteristics of a “first” in some way. Perhaps it’s your first significant relationship, sexual relationship, live-in or the initial phase of dating the person you’ll eventually marry. Alternatively, it could just be the first time in a long while that you’ve been emotionally involved with a new person. Whether married or not, a profound connection is the draw to someone that may or may not include sexual involvement. Your emotions are dependent on how well the relationship is going, whether or not you can see each or due to questions about whether you’re friends or lovers. However, it wouldn’t be unusual for a sexual relationship to develop as the need for emotional fulfillment and intimacy deepens. If so, it’ll be difficult to hide intense feelings or to keep this relationship a secret.

Your protective and nurturing instincts are also aroused stirring the strong desire to take care of someone. Perhaps your children are more emotional and require extra love and attention from you, particularly if your relationship or home environment is changing. Other strong obligations that can’t be avoided may be situations where you become responsible for someone less fortunate, family members who may need care, or friends in trouble.

The experiences of this cycle prompt decisions that will affect your immediate and distant future. These decisions may be career-related but might also include other major life transitions such as marriage, leaving home, moving to another country or making a total lifestyle change. In some cases, important decisions link to the ability to go on in life alone. You may be in the midst of a divorce or separation and functioning independently while pursuing a course of action. You’re seeking greater freedom and it may arrive automatically if you’ve been restricted in some way in the past.

Your goals will also change and what once seemed feasible may no longer seem realistic in light of new goals that show greater potential. However, the chart for this moon shows an interception and indicates difficulty in being realistic when determining achievable goals. You may have grand visions, yet not know how to achieve them leading to the end result of deceiving yourself as well as others. The blockages and delays of an interception also brings potential problems with work, relations with co-workers and subordinates, service that you give, your health and issues of self sabotage linked to problems with your subconscious.

For some, the desire may be to solve problems of love or painting or writing may become the vehicle of emotional expression. Perhaps you’re an imaginative or inventive visionary with a very persuasive voice and/or charismatic ideas. You may be interested in secrets, fantasy writing or the mythology of different cultures. This cycle attracts projects that require your originality or the use of new tools or techniques. If you’re an outsider in the arts, you won’t allow the limitations of others to restrict your creative process although you can be too self-absorbed or idealistic in your views. If you’re a free-spirited person you might play the role of popular rogue or challenge authority in a way that’s loved or appreciated by others.

The Part of Accomplishment sits upper most in your career sector and professional success can flourish if you’re willing to put forth the necessary effort. This is a good time to undertake new studies or training that may help to advance your career, and to network and make business connections presently in order to plan for future career developments. Good negotiating skills can garner support for your proposals and favorable circumstances in your business and professional life can attract situations and/or people that facilitate your work. Those in authority are favorably inclined toward giving you the opportunity to establish a mutually beneficial relationship that can advance your career goals, perhaps for many years to come, and may be interested in developing your abilities. Creative ideas that offer improvement and efficiency may be critical to advancement, otherwise work can become more tedious, detail-oriented, repetitive and involve more paperwork.

In some cases you feel a need to aggressively pursue your objectives for specific reasons. It may be the awareness of direct competition or the realization that you need to work harder to get or stay ahead as you work on commission or target new clients. With the ambition to achieve highly aroused, you can work extremely hard on any project you’re invested in to bring it to completion.

While the preference is for working alone, you may accomplish more through groups unless you feel your goals are compromised by shared efforts. This may be reflective of complicated situations with no answers that arise when group power struggles provoke the need to fight for your beliefs or the decision to withdraw entirely. If you allow difficulties to block you, you may give up on your objectives or direct your energy to a short-sighted goal when you’re actually capable of much more.

Ties to hopes for the future also suggest that activities you once participated in and the kinds of people you have as friends will change. Power struggles can erupt due to expectations equated with loyalty through friends or one friend in particular, but you need to avoid friends who attempt to guide your life into paths you don’t wish to take. More positively, you’ll meet someone who can really act as a guide and teacher and send you in a direction to help you grow.

On the other hand, the focus may be discomfort with your present position or the preference for self-employment because of frustration with your employer, career responsibilities or conflict with authority figures. Stressful situations that develop between you and upper management might be attributed to an overwhelming workload or unreasonable or difficult authority figures. You can be seen as a threat, and unless you have something real at stake, should try to align your interests with theirs in order to make progress.

With a retrograde Uranus shaking up your income sector, events affect your economic and material situation and it would be wise to have a plan in place that ensures your finances can withstand some sudden changes. The energy can spur you to break out of a confining rut or rebel through unpredictable behavior. Alterations can be major or minor, fluctuating or single events that bring sudden windfalls or sudden losses.

Positively, you may receive a pay raise. If unemployed, you may find work or be paid for work you previously volunteered. If self-employed or working on a commission basis, you could land a big account or exceed sales expectations or you may successfully start or expand your business.

Negatively, you may experience a break in income due to a job change, pay cut, relocation or leave of absence without pay. You may be the one to initiate a cutback in hours or may even give up a job with very good income. If you work in sales, you may find it difficult to push a product at this time. If your tendency is to overspend, you may spend impulsively.

Perhaps personal satisfaction is more important to you than material possessions. If so, you may decide to rid yourself of useless items and may not be interested in purchases. If you feel encumbered by your possessions, they may be taken away. However, if you need a resource to grow further, it may very well come into your life. Unless your financial situation is critical, money will not matter. In fact, this can be a financially difficult period if your sole focus is on gaining material wealth at the expense of your emotional considerations. In this instance, your relationship to resources will be altered so that you can continue to grow as an individual.

Nevertheless, the potential for success and progress is great if you’re open to learning and gaining new experience for self-development. This includes getting to know yourself and your capabilities in order to promote your assets. You’re becoming more aware of what you have to offer and what you may need in return, and the greater self-awareness leads to the confidence that enables you to initiate and develop opportunities. In fact, you should be attempting new and more difficult endeavors in order to stretch the limits of your expertise.

But circumstances will compel you to complete any unfinished business before starting new pursuits in any aspect of your life. You must believe in yourself and your abilities in order to manifest reward, and that means addressing unconscious blockages that have held you back. It may be that your own fears prevent you from taking the necessary risks needed for growth. This can be the fear of being loved or rejected; fear of inadequacy that prompts the need of constant reassurance; fears concerning sexual performance or orientation; fear of losing control or being overpowered or fear about breaking free. You may have to care for someone who needs to be saved from a difficult situation and the need to care and the need to face a fear are interrelated.

Alternatively, it may be guilt that serves as the unconscious restriction that prevents you from doing certain things. Perhaps you feel responsible and subsequently guilty for everything that goes wrong. You may have difficulty delegating and try to do everything yourself to perfection to overcompensate for real and imagined shortcomings. Events that occur during this cycle act as a catalyst for anxiety that may not be valid yet exists because of heightened vulnerability or self-defeatist attitudes. As a result, you’ll be forced to analyze your situation, behavior and actions while at your most vulnerable. Recognize that you are clearing leftovers from the past to make a new start.

This is likely to manifest through a fateful event slated to occur that coincides with work, health or the daily routine. Matters will either come into public awareness or bring persons unknown into your affairs. The purpose may be to bring opposing factions together, counsel or arbitrate to seek a satisfactory compromise that gives the opportunity for you to relate as an equal. This process can also make you conscious of a persecution complex that produces inner conflict and the need to cultivate compromise and detachment to put aside personal ego in partnerships. The subsequent domino effect impacts career and social status, group association and ideals, your physical independence and actions, and the final closure of a matter related to home, property, family and some form of self expression.

Generally, the dilemmas you’ll face are related to issues surrounding self love, self acceptance, and rising above personal limitations or restrictive authority figures. Health and living with a physical or mental health challenge could also play a role in your considerations. You can’t deny painful, sensitive issues, and must examine them and find a way to use them to serve and help others. If you can do this, these restrictions and obligations can be turned into constructive tools for accomplishment by making the best use of both time and the available resources.

It’s to your advantage to move toward the fear rather than retreat. You’ll need to learn to live on trust and faith without solid proof or understanding. The more you believe in self and the Universe, the easier this period of uncertainty will be. Situations tend to focus on inner satisfaction rather than immediate material attainment, and you must trust that Divine guidance is leading you to your purpose and fulfilling circumstances. If your efforts are propelled by a spiritual motivation through acts of service, you can rely on the Universe to provide the means by which you will accomplish the task.

Depression and despair are now fading and the moon’s influence will open the gateway for the return of your sense of personal power. This cycle may signify recovery from an illness or injury and heralds a positive influence in questions of love and friendship. While you may be compelled to fight and struggle in certain situations, the use of ingenuity can release you from entanglements and problems that may involve financial difficulties or difficulties over property or estates.

The keyword for this cycle is strategy which suggests the need to develop a plan of action designed to achieve a major or overall aim. With a plan in hand, your strength will increase as you seek to improve your situation, rather than wait to be rescued.

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