Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse - Leo/Aquarius

This Friday at 4:25 PM EST, the full moon will peak in Aquarius.

Full moons are a time for the illumination of power struggles. Which parts of yourself are at each other's throats? Full moons, by nature, occur when the sun is opposite the moon - when the sun is staring its opposite energy in the face, and fully illuminating her.

This week, the sun is in Leo, at home. Radiating. The lion king, the creative force that takes centre stage. Everything will be okay if you do what Leo says - if you follow them, if you emulate them. Everyone, especially people with prominent Leo placements will feel this jolt right now.

Aquarius does things a little bit differently. Aquarius is aggressively individualistic, but not for accolades. Aquarius isn't trying to call attention to themselves and their ability to fix everything - they want you to look at the bigger picture, man. No - bigger than that. As far away from the examination of self as you can get, that's where Aquarius wants you.

The signs work for and against each other naturally - Leo cares so much about the people around them - this is why they rally their communities to take their lead - they care the most of anyone. This leaves them susceptible to interpersonal influence and manipulation. Aquarius has the distance and detachment from interpersonal issues - they're focused on the goal, whatever that is for them. They have a grand plan, they have a vision. The issue for Aquarius is that they can sometimes become so big-picture, so disconnected from their peers, that nobody cares what it is.

And so, Leo and Aquarius have to work together. Polar opposites, not believing in each others' influence, fundamentally needing each other. These opposites work are hard at work, against and alongside each other, within us right now.

This full moon, which comes within a square of fixed planets, will expose which areas of our life we're clinging to that are no longer serving us. Leo and Aquarius aren't just polar opposites - they're famously stubborn opposites. This square contains four fixed planets, famous for their stubbornness - this includes the Sun and Moon (in Leo and Aquarius) as well as Uranus and Jupiter (in Taurus and Scorpio).

The good news is that Uranus and Jupiter will have our backs here - but you have to have faith in them. Uranus promises to shake things up. It promises to fuck up whatever isn't working, to force us to find a new way - but it doesn't promise we'll like it. Jupiter promises to bring us to our greater goals, to offer us success, growth and expansion - but not necessarily on our terms. We have to be on the right path in order to reap the benefits of this full moon right now - if we aren't, it will lay the groundwork for us to reap the benefits later, if we can tap into our intuition and follow our path.

This full moon, reflect on areas of your life that are no longer working for you - things you're clinging to out of habit, or stubbornness. Write them down, and then write a plan for how to shift your focus for each.

Stop ruminating on things that upset you - unfollow your frenemies on instagram - take a break from your routine - be impulsive - if you're usually with people, stay home - if you're usually alone, reach out - if you usually think of your own path and goals, think of society's path and goals - if you usually think of others' well-being, address your own - if you usually think of your environment, think of your afterlife - if you're usually a harsh realist, think of dreams and opportunities - if you usually think of what could be, think of what is.

New Moon in Gemini - Organization and Resistance

On Wednesday at 15:42 PM EST, the New Moon will peak in Gemini.

The new moon is a good time to sit quietly and reflect, to make plans but hold them loosely. This is a dark moon - not everything is clear yet - there's still more that will come to light. Our minds will change and some of our plans will fail - we should work on them anyway. The process is a crucial part of the whole.

After electing a Conservative majority government this past week with the province's highest voter turnout since 1999, we're polarized. We're angry and scared. Gemini's new moon is going to cast us into helpful shadows where we can untangle and explore what this means for us.

With the Sun, Moon and Mercury being briefly conjunct in Gemini (before Mercury moves into Cancer on Wednesday), we'll have a heightened ability to work through our feelings, how they affect our daily life and how we can make them work for us. This is a good time to sit down and think about what this will look like moving forward, but it's a better time to talk about it. Meet up with a friend, or a few - talk about feelings, strategies, how to best support each other and how to build resistance in the face of a government that is likely to fail so many of us.

Gemini will force us to confront uncomfortable dualities. This is a process we need to engage in; we will need to acknowledge the uncomfortable tensions and contrasts in order to move forward. Who are we engaging with? What are our motivations? What are our goals and how can we achieve them?

We care about the people who will be negatively affected by this government - how can we make things better for them? We are furious with the people who chose this for us - the people who voted for a Premier with no platform and the people who didn't vote at all. How can we keep our government and peers accountable?

We want to build support systems for ourselves and our peers, as well as work towards change. Our challenge will lie in how we distribute these energies. Both are vital.

It's difficult to communicate in an environment that's polarized and emotionally charged. We've all constructed arguments, stories, ways of communicating to get our point across. Before someone with an opposing opinion has finished their sentence, we've already begun to build our rebuttal.

Under this new moon we can examine the ways in which we're engaging with each other, especially those we deem our opposites, our opponents. Are we communicating effectively, both with the people we agree with and the people we don't?

Gemini tells us to communicate, to get our point across, to argue, to ask why, to wonder how things got to be this way. Gemini wants to pick things apart - under its influence, we can sometimes get so wrapped up in communicating that we forget to make a point. The new moon tells us to make the most of these urges, but quietly - with people we trust. It tells us to work through this energy internally, first and foremost, before we move on to action.

Right now is a moment for quiet abundance. Think big-picture, think outside the box. Make wishes. Work with the people around you, uplift each other and believe you can make a difference.

How can we support each other, not only to keep ourselves and our loved ones from harm, but to empower each other to be even better? How can we built communities that are anti-fragile, whose resilience we can rely on and draw from?

Once Mercury opposes Saturn on Friday, we'll want to put these thoughts and concepts of abundance, hope, organization and resistance into concrete plans. The new moon is the beginning, the deconstruction, the acknowledgement, the time to wish and cast spells.

Consistency and quiet perseverance is what will help us accomplish our goals. This opposition will require us to work within our limitations to accomplish what needs to be done - we have to work now to find our abundance so we can proceed to channel it within realistic boundaries.

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Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse - Leo/Aquarius

New Moon in Gemini - Organization and Resistance