AQUARIUS FULL MOON- Will the real you please stand up?

The Aquarius Full Moon reminds us to check in with how we function as part of the collective, where we contribute to society, how we travel with our friendship groups and how we may or may not be expressing our authentic selves.

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The workbook is designed to help you reflect and bring purpose and focus to this Full Moon. The workbook takes you through specifically focused questions, affirmations and rituals for everyone to work with. And I have included a bonus section of what it means to have your natal Moon in the sign of Aquarius and specific questions for reflection for the Lunar Aquarians. So if you have an Aquarius Moon, this workbook is for you.

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Happy Aquarius Full Moon

The Aquarius Full Moon occurs in Australia at 4.31 am on August 2nd and focuses our attention on the Leo Aquarius axis integrating and balancing our individual needs and needs to participate as part of the collective.

The Leo Aquarian polarity and opposition represent the duality of self vs the collective, what you want vs what others may want of you, being self-determined vs working for the group and personal ownership vs freedom. It's about creativity vs intellectualism and heartfelt emotion vs detachment.

Leo rules the heart, and Leo's energy loves nothing more than expressing that love in significant heartfelt ways, to a point where they can smother others with their need to express love and, sometimes, ownership. Leo says, 'I love you; you are mine", whereas Aquarius say, I love you, so I shall set you free.

This theme can also apply to group situations in your life. Leo likes to lead, control, and be upfront and centre of a project. On the other hand, Aquarius is all about democratic principles, being fair, equitable and letting all have a voice.

This full Moon may offer an opportunity to look at where in your life you may not be being fair and equitable, where you may assert too much control, putting your needs first and not looking out for the collective. Alternatively, it is also a time to observe where we may be playing small regarding our participation in friendship or group endeavours.

This full Moon in Aquarius also highlights where we may not be acting by our most authentic selves. As an energy, Aquarius values authenticity, uniqueness and the expression of one's individuality. With this full Moon, we are offered an opportunity to reflect and release any habits or traits that may hold us back from our most genuine expression.

On a personal level, we may feel push-pull energy between doing the right thing and following the status quo and, on the other, a strong desire to break free from any restriction we think may be holding us back.

Where do you feel you need more freedom in your life?

Are you bending too much toward societal norms and letting fear dominate?

Are you free enough to express your genuine opinion or fall in line with what the collective wants you to think?

This theme of structure versus rebellion, status quo versus change, equality and inequality is a dominant worldwide theme. Aquarius is the energy that works for the collective, especially the disenfranchised. Hence, this is an excellent time for reviewing how we serve those less fortunate than us and what group or collective agendas we may like to align ourselves with.

This is also a poignant time to check in with our use or abuse of technology. Ruled by Aquarius, technology is such a hugely important part of our lives now in both positive and negative ways. We can use this time to release any habits or addictions around the use of technology. This is a great time to assess where technology is working for you and where it may not be.

Given it is a full moon, which is a time of release, it could be wise to become more mindful of how technology is infiltrating our lives.

Both the Sun and Moon are in a square aspect to Jupiter during this Full Moon. This could have various effects on us at this time. We could feel overly confident, prone to exaggeration or taking things too far, especially to get our ideas or beliefs across to others. We need to pay special attention to allowing others the freedom and the safety to have their ideas and opinions aired and respected. Jupiter's effect on the Moon can certainly amplify our emotions as well, so if we are feeling particularly edgy during this full Moon, it could be wise to ensure we exercise and release any pent-up nervous energy.

The Aquarius Full Moon is a time to connect with our heart-felt love of humanity, our friendship groups, and people with whom we share common goals and interests and of course, a time to celebrate diversity and the need for humanitarian evolution and growth.

It's a balancing act, on the one hand being true to yourself, your unique and authentic self-expression and on the other being able to work with and co-operate with others. Anything you can identify that could be holding you back on this themse can be released now.

Cancer New Moon. Feeling and Healing

This particular New Moon, I feel, is quite poignant with its timing coinciding with the nodal shift into Aries and Libra. Combined with aspects from Pluto, Neptune and Chiron, the stage is set for activating intention around deep emotional healing. Like all new Moons, this New Moon offers us an opportunity to make new goals, set agendas, and embark upon new activities or habits in line with Cancerian energies, but with it may emerge some deep introspection and energy activation for change, especially within our inner world, our inner sanctum and desire for self-care.

The Moon is happy in the sign of Cancer; it is at home, where it can delve into the feeling realms, access emotions and go with the flow.

This period allows us to set foundations both physically and metaphorically, the foundations that form the base of our home, our family and connections with those we chose as our family, and building the foundations, we create our sense of security around.

This can be a brilliant period for setting goals, intentions and plans involving your family or reframing the narrative you have set regarding your own family and family values. Is spending more time with them important to you? Is there something that needs to be said to be healed to help you grow and move forward? If so, now is the time to commit to doing so.

Family is a broad and fluid term, so even redefining and honouring what family means to you positively expresses this New Moon's energies. Gathering around a table and sharing great food is a beautiful expression of Cancer's energies. Family at its most fundamental level, means security. Cancer is all about exploring how we get our security needs met.

Are there any changes you need to make in how you go about finding a sense of inner security? How are you nurturing yourself and others?

Cancer rules the home, so use this time to rethink or plan what you may like to change in your home environment. This could be as simple as giving the house a deep clean, smudging, or rearranging furniture.

Is your home offering you the sanctuary you need to recharge your batteries? If not, what can you do about that?

As the ruler of Cancer, the Moon rules how we habitually respond to the environment around us, and it also rules some of the daily habits we form, perhaps to help us feel more secure, or not as the case may be. We can explore during this new Moon whether there are any new emotional habits you would like to begin? For example, we may become more mindful of how we react emotionally, positively and negatively, and express our emotions.

This is an excellent time for changing emotional habits.

Do you express your emotions honestly or let them

bottle up to keep the peace? This may be an area where you want to change and start new habits, such as being more upfront and honest

with others about how you feel.

Ruling the archetypal mothering principle, Cancer represents how we were nurtured, nurture others, and nurture ourselves, so spend some time in this space.

How is your relationship with your mother? Whether she is still with us or not, we are all affected by the mothering we had or did not have. Are there areas in which you could make some positive changes? Forgiveness of the mothering you received or did not receive, perhaps. Do you need to make peace in this area and begin new ways of viewing or expressing this part of your life?

How are we doing for those of us who are mothers? Without dumping mother guilt on us, what could we improve concerning how we go about 'mothering.'?

Use this New Moon mostly to tap into your inner world and find the time, place and space for self-nurturing and setting new intentions around your emotional goals and growth.

A Significant Shift- North and South Nodes Move into Aries and Libra

A significant astrological change is happening.

As an evolutionary astrologer, I work closely with what is known as the north and south nodes of the moon. Different to planets and their significance in your astrological chart, the nodes are the points where the moon crosses the ecliptic, which in astrology is our earth-based view of the apparent path that the sun takes. In evolutionary astrology, we focus deeply on the sign, house and aspects to the nodes on a deep soul evolutionary and collective level.

The signs that the nodes are in are always in opposition and change about every 18 months, and they are about to change now.

On the 17th, the Nodes will move out of the signs Taurus and Scorpio and into Aries and Libra, where they will be until January 2025.

On a personal level, if you have planets, key points such as the ascendant or midheaven or indeed your north and south nodes in these signs the impact will be significant on an evolutionary and soul level. To really understand the impact, however requires a deep dive into your personal chart, ideally with a professional evolutionary astrologer.

I have however written a little about what Transiting North Node through the houses may mean for you. If you know which house Aries falls in, or your rising sign, check it out below.

The South Node is an indicator of evolutionary, karmic or soul-based energy that we have brought in with us in this lifetime, it often indicates an area which we have an innate ‘knowing’ skills, talents or hang ups, a past life cellular memory where we may energetically carry ‘ stuff’ from a past life. Exploring the South Node in an evolutionary astrology reading may uncover some deep understanding of your life by giving you insight and making you conscious of past life residue that may still impact your present life.

The North Node on the other hand points to where we need to move toward in this life to evolve from our past into our present and soul direction. The sign, house and placement highlight what we need to activate and move toward consciously. However, it may not feel innate or natural to us as this is what we are ‘learning’ in this lifetime.

The South and the North Nodes are always in opposite signs and now we begin a new and significant shift into the North Node being in Aries and the South Node being in Libra.

So, what will this mean on a collective level?

Many theories are floating around about the possible impact of the nodes moving into the duality of self and other. Aries, as the first sign of the Zodiac, is self-focused, ruled by Mars; it is also associated with the heroes’ journey, embarking upon and starting something new, and exploring new horizons. To do what Aries energy needs to do, to find inner-courage and to take action, the sense of self needs to be strong. Freedom and independence are keys for this sign.

In opposition is Libra, ruled by Venus and turning away from the focus on the self to focus on the ‘other’ . Partnerships, including business and intimate partnerships, are Libran territory.

Libran energy is other focused. This is the part of ourselves that needs others, wants to relate but also find harmony, balance and peace, sometimes at the cost of our sense of self. Libra energy is very good at putting others first.

With the Nodes traversing both of these signs, themes of the self vs. the other may surface.

This energy asks of us on a collective level to find balance between self-focus and other focus, find ways to help others, see different perspectives and deeply understand others but not lose our sense of self in the process.

Questions and themes around where we may over-compromise in an effort to keep the peace will come to the surface. We may be more challenged to find and be true to our real, most authentic selves, including expressing ideas and opinions others may not like. I feel collectively this will be an interesting time regarding free speech, political correctness and how far we want to take these issues as a society.

The Aries Libra axis may offer us all an opportunity not to let the opinions of others cripple us. As always, being in duality it is all about finding balance, balance between the self and the other, finding personal courage and self-expression but also focusing on not harming others in the process. Libra always in opposition to Aries, is about playing fair.

Collectively we may also see the pace of life pick up and a feeling as though we need to move, act, initiate, and break new ground. The North Node in Aries may bring with it fast innovation and some 'out there' ideas but we may feel things are moving much faster than we would like them to. This may be especially true regarding technology when Pluto moves back into Aries.

Where Aries falls in your chart is the area of life that will be activated for the next 18 months that asks you to take assertive action to start something new.

North Node in Aries transiting your first house: ( Aries Rising)

This is a time to put yourself first, especially your self-expression, both verbally, creatively and physically. This period is an opportunity to focus on you and confront whatever fears you allow to hold you back.

North Node in Aries transiting your second house: ( Pisces Rising)

This is a time to focus on your sense of self-worth and how you actively define where and how you derive that. It is an especially positive period to set material and financial goals that feed into your values, not anyone else's.

North Node in Aries transiting your third house: ( Aquarius Rising)

This is a great time to get courageous about learning and massaging your curiosities and intellect. Start that new course and focus on self-expression and communication that is authentically yours.

North Node in Aries transiting your fourth house: (Capricorn Rising)

This a positive period for getting courageous about facing your inner world, your deep subconscious and perhaps dealing with past issues, including family issues that need to be healed. This is a very positive time for building new foundations for your life.

North Node in Aries transiting your fifth house: (Sagittarius Rising)

Activate your courage to tap into your creativity in however that manifests for you. This is an excellent time to begin new creative projects and to remind yourself about joy. This is a great time to allow yourself just to have more fun if you can.

North Node in Aries transiting your sixth house: ( Scorpio Rising)

This is a great time to find ways to bring new and meaningful daily routines into your life, especially ones that may relate to your work life or to your health. This can also be a brilliant time to learn a new skill that will serve you.

North Node in Aries transiting your seventh house: ( Libra Rising)

Focus will be on relationships but relationships that help you grow as a person. This is a wonderful time for finding ways to express yourself more authentically in your relationships and to work on any personal issues with boundaries

North Node in Aries transiting your eighth house: ( Virgo Rising)

Getting deep and meaningful can be a focus now. This is a wonderful time to connect with others, especially on an intimate level, really deeply. This can also be a great time to get more courageous with your sexual expression and needs.

North Node in Aries transiting your ninth house: ( Leo Rising)

This a time to find your inner courage to be adventurous and find ways to expand your horizons, either via travel education or embracing a new philosophy. This is all about feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

North Node in Aries transiting your tenth house: ( Cancer Rising)

Taking the bold steps to activate something new or exciting in your career or passion vocation. If you have been feeling stuck in a rut this is an excellent time to focus courageously on your dreams and goals- to go ask for that pay rise for example.

North Node in Aries transiting your eleventh house: ( Gemini Rising)

This is a time to be more bold and courageous about being your authentic self, especially regarding breaking away from others' expectations of you. This is a great time to find your tribe and align with people who share your hopes and dreams.

North Node in Aries transiting your twelfth house: ( Taurus Rising)

If you have wanted to devote more time and attention to your spiritual life, this is the time to do so. Peace, quiet and retreat is what is needed so finding the courage to set this time and space for yourself is perfect