Leo helps us to tap into our heart chakra, connecting us to our shared human experience. It’s human nature to think our problems are unique. However, a critical step in moving beyond victim consciousness and black and white thinking is to recognize that our issues are shared many times over with the sea of humanity. This full moon brings a self-reckoning. Do we want to be known for our problems or do we want to be known for our solutions? As I mentioned in the write up for the Cancer eclipse in January, our identity is expanding and therefore what we identify with has to expand right along with it. This includes our reputation with others and also the ways in which we desire attention. We’re finding avenues to adjust and change our self-expression and the story we tell to better align with this expanded identity as well as the boldest and beautiful aspects of ourselves. For if we don’t recognize them on a regular basis, we can’t expect other people to either.
Mercury and Neptune in Pisces help us tap into our intuition to create a new movie and plotline. Allow yourself to day-dream and soften your consciousness to explore a fresh, more playful and fun story to engage with. Venus in Aries and Mars in Sagittarius propel us forward with a fire in our bellies. We’re ready to strike out and explore a new frontier of our infinite inner consciousness. You are more and more in the driver’s seat of steering your mind towards that which uplifts you and connects you to your heart.
Saturn, Pluto, and Jupiter continue their close collaboration in Capricorn, conspiring to get us to take a radical level of self-accountability in our lives. There is a place in this process for the generosity of spirit that Leo is known for. We can give ourselves the benefit of the doubt and let ourselves off the hook of any overly ambitious ideas of what we “should” be doing. Ditto for any feedback from others that stings. It’s more about them than us anyway. You do you to the best of your ability. That’s empowerment. And that’s what Leo energy really wants from us, underneath any bravado or shyness, is to be loved and to look in the mirror and celebrate what you see.
Questions to Ponder: In what ways can I celebrate what I see when I look in the mirror? Are the ways that I desire acknowledgment and attention leading me to emphasize my expanding identity? How am I steering my attention and focus to that which uplifts me and others?
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