Full Moon in Aquarius
I often think of Leo Season as the Season of Love. There’s a very good chance that’s because I am a Leo, but just go with me on this one.
Leo governs the part of a chart associated with personal love/romance, creativity and kids, and the sign opposite it - Aquarius - governs humanitarian love, uniqueness and the collective. When the Sun sits in either of these signs, there is an opportunity to use the strengths of each to more fully love those close to us as well as those we think we don’t know; and since the Sun rules the sign of Leo, when it is in this sign its power is even more magnified.
Sunday’s Full Moon in Aquarius illuminates, and calls into question, everything we know and assume about Love.
As these two signs shine on each other from across the cosmos, they work to remind us that humanitarian love isn’t complete unless you greet every stranger as if they are your kin, and personal love isn’t whole until the joy you get from it is passed on to those you do not know. These two signs also remind us that Love is a verb and not just a feeling. Love requires a commitment to live from your heart, which means it requires the fortitude to be vulnerable, heartbroken and fully alive. It also requires that you put action into working on how to be that strong and soft as well finding a way to remain humble to the fact that to Love really means to serve while not degrading the power of how your Love could change the world. There is a Serbian proverb that says, “Be humble for you are made of the Earth. Be noble for you are made of the Stars."
I’m a big proponent of there being no such thing as a “honeymoon period” of a relationship. Allowing that magic to die is a choice. Likewise, keeping it alive is a choice. I think one of the reasons why it tends to end is because the first doesn’t require much work (in fact passivity/laziness is often the beginning of the end of love in a relationship), while the latter requires consistent effort and action. The deal is, however, that you can either choose to do that work and really see how deep falling in love can go, or you can not do that work and let “it’s fine” be enough. Personally, I prefer to put in the work.
Likewise, the way to keep falling in love with the world is to remember that the collective is made up of billions of individual hearts all of which desire to feel seen, accepted and made to feel that they matter. This is much easier to do when we look for what is beautiful about each being rather than for what we can use to qualify our desire to push them away. Luckily, as Venus (the planet of love) is currently in Libra (the sign of beauty), this rose colored lens is more accessible to us now.
Plus, as everyone really is just “God in drag,” as Ram Dass would say, what is there not to love?
If you are in a relationship, take a moment to remember what it was like to fall in love with your partner - what drew you to them, what part of you they lit up, your first kiss - and approach time with our partner from that place.
Whether you are in a relationship or not, see every stranger’s heart - the longing, the light, the love - and choose action that serves this truth, which may just be the foundation for a new world view.
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