Leo Full Moon, 2025
(Originally published on 2/11/2025)
Hi friends,
We will have our next full moon on Wednesday the 12th in the sign of Leo. The best time to do your moon rituals will be on Wednesday before 4 PM pacific time.
I think this moon will feel a little destabilizing. It could feature feelings of chaos, maybe reveal some trickery. We are on the precipice of many retrogrades beginning and ending, so I expect to feel as if many things in life are changing direction all at once.
This moon will also ask us to really look at who we are, both as individuals and as parts of communities. On Sunday 2/9, we had a moment of clarity. If it fluttered by too quick and you missed it, this full moon will offer you another chance at feeling into that knowledge. In your ritual, however you practice this, try to find that feeling. I will be watching my breath and listening to my body to see what comes up. Whatever does come up, I hope we all find the courage to hold on to that truth and really look at it and understand its deeper meanings. I think it will ask us for action.
However, I do want to remind you to be wary of any new partnerships during this time. Venus is not retrograde yet, but she is in her shadow period, which means that anything done in this realm of life now will likely be undone very soon. Follow your heart of course, but you’ve been warned.
Speaking of Venus—her retrograde cycle is consistent, making a repeat of the same pattern every eight years, so we can have a hint of what she has in store for us. If you want to consider what this retrograde might mean for you, think back to this time in 2017, since that’s the last time that this retrograde in Aries and Pisces happened. What was going on in your life?
By the time of the full moon, Mars will have entered the last degree of his retrograde. He’s not quite done, as he’s also not moving forward again until February 23rd. Think back now to what you were doing in the first couple weeks of October. That’s when Mars was last in this degree, when he entered his pre-retrograde shadow. What was going on in your life then that you have needed to take action about?
If you have any placements near 17 degrees of any cardinal sign (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn), this Mars transit is likely bothering you a lot right now. A planet, especially a malefic planet like Mars or Saturn, can really be painful when it sits on one of our sensitive points. In my experience it can feel like actual weight on the shoulders and chest. If you’re feeling this way now, I’m here for you. Know that this transit will continue for a couple more weeks and then it will ease up. Please reach out if you want help looking at your chart.
I’ve been working on a longer bit of writing about the transits of the outer planets. Look for that one soon. But for now I will write you some prompts for your moon rituals and say goodbye. Remember to write these as a letter, thanking the moon for her gifts. Write out your wish as if you have already received it, and tell the moon how you feel about having what you want. Tell her how you will use your new gifts for the good of others, and really feel into the words and visualize your life with your wishes answered.
If you have a Leo moon in your personal chart, wish for everything and anything you want. For the rest of us, these prompts are organized by rising signs. (Please note that these long term changes I’m talking about are quite Long Term, since 2018, and the recent moments are very recent, within the last week.)
Aries: You’ve been experiencing a long term change in your values and the material things that you own. You are having a moment of clarity about where you belong and what you dream about. What do you need to find in your romantic and creative life to balance out your public obligations and personal wishes? How can what you’ve been learning in regards to your values help you bring that into your life?
Taurus: You’ve been experiencing a long term change in how others see you. You have recently had a realization about your career. This full moon could show you something about the balance between your home life and your work life, and it’s likely that this shift in how you appear in the world will play a role. What do you need to make your home feel like it’s yours?
Gemini: The long term shift that’s been happening for you has been happening in the shadows of your mind, or in the minds of people who aren’t your friends. Right now you have the opportunity to ask for visibility and autonomy in your day to day life, and you’ve had a moment of clarity about what you really believe. What do you need to learn in order to feel like you are given enough space at home?
Cancer: You’ve been experiencing a long term shift in your public social life. Something is happening now—some clarity about what you are owed. What do you need to sustain yourself? How can your public life play a role in helping you live out your own values?
Leo: You have been upending your career for the last seven years. This week, you are learning something about a partnership. What more can you ask of yourself? What ways do you want to show up?
Virgo: Your belief system and your education have been in a long term shift. This week, you’ve gained new knowledge about the work that you need to do. What do you need to fortify yourself to do that work? What can you ask of your shadow?
Libra: You’ve been in a long term readjustment with what you are owed from your partnerships. Recently, you have had a moment of clarity regarding your romantic or creative pursuits. With all of this going on, what can help you feel belonging? What can help you reconnect with your dreams?
Scorpio: You have been in a long term renegotiation—either with yourself about what partnership means to you and what you want from it, or directly with your partners about what those partnerships mean to both of you. You have had a recent moment of clarity in regards to your home and family life. You are being offered something in your public life now—what do you need that offering to bring you to balance out all these personal demands?
Sagittarius: You have been in a long term shift in the work you do, or you have had a long term change in your physical health. You are having a moment of clarity now about your day to day routines and the people you share them with. What do you need to learn? Where do you need to go?
Capricorn: You have had a long term change in your creative or romantic pursuits. Your moment of clarity this week has been about your values, your self worth, and the material things you own that sustain you. What do you need from your partnerships to help you through these changes?
Aquarius: You have been experiencing a long term upheaval in your home and family life. You are having a moment of clarity now about how you show up in the world and how others see you. How can your partnerships better support you? What do you need in order to find the transformation that you are looking for?
Pisces: Your long term shift has been happening near your home, but probably not inside it. There could have been changes to your routines, to your siblings' lives, to your writing style. Right now you are having a moment of clarity about where you belong, and what you wish would happen in your life. What will help you work towards that?
Thank you for reading. Sending you all so much love,
Alanna