Full Moon 22 Leo 28’ Lunar Eclipse

11 February, 2017 11.33am (Sydney)

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will…

Living a creative life is freaking scary.

What you’re expressing is your soul, your inner life, something that you nurture and grow within you, before taking the risk to send it out into the world.

What if no one gets it, likes it, reads it, buys it, appreciates it?

That’s the thing about creativity, about art. At some point you have to trust that you’ve done enough and let it leave home. You have to stand proudly in front of it, and pretend that you’re full of confidence when in fact you’re anything but.

Why am I talking about this?

Because later this morning we have a Full Moon (and lunar eclipse), and it’s in Leo…and Leo is associated with the 5th house, with creativity, self expression. It’s also about ego, glory and recognition. When we go public, when we release our “babies” into the world, we’re risking all of these things.

The thing is none of this can exist in isolation. Ambitions for personal glory must be balanced against the responsibilities we have to society. What can we give back? What should we give back? At what point do we draw the line between what we give and what we receive?

Wherever 22 Leo and 22 Aquarius lie in your chart is where you need to look at the balance between these two areas of life.

As with all things, this is easier said than done. Both Aquarius and Leo are fixed signs. The ego is fixed and ideas are fixed. The balance point is somewhere in between – in a place of self-love and acceptance, perhaps.

As I mentioned above, Leo is aligned with the 5th house: with play, creativity, self-expression and the inner child. In this whirl of modern living it is that inner child which is forgotten – if indeed he/she ever really existed. It is that inner child that’s drowned out by all the authority figures telling us what it is that we should be doing, what we should be wearing, who we should be seeing etc.

Think about this honestly: when was the last time that you let yourself have fun – simply because you really wanted to? Guilt free, fuss free, judgement free, responsibility free fun?

What about this one too – when was the last time you picked up your hobby – and by hobby, I mean something that allows you to creatively express yourself. We all have a 5th house, and we all have something that is creative if we could only give ourselves permission to indulge in it.

So, this Full Moon, I’d like you to do two things for me:

• Confront a fear- look it square in the eyes, shine a torch on it and laugh at it.
• Do something creative or fun. Anything. If you’re writing, don’t edit yourself. If you’re painting, let the colours happen. If you’re designing, see what shapes emerge.

This Full Moon happens to also be a lunar eclipse – so will probably feel more intense with possibly some unexpected outcomes. And by intense and unexpected, please don’t necessarily read ‘bad’. (If you want to know more about eclipses, I posted something last week.)

To be really technical, this one is from the same series of eclipses that last came around in January and February 1999.

To quote from Bernadette Brady’s The Eagle and the Lark:

‘This is a family of eclipses that brings with it the element of the pleasant surprise. Sudden happiness, a joyful event, the lucky break, the lucky win. The events which will be occurring can be believed and can positively change the person’s life.’

There you go.

Doing it for yourself

Want to know what this means for you? Read the DIY Full Moon post available here. If you don’t know your chart, have no birth time, or can’t be bothered working it out, you can follow this solar guide below. If you do know where 22 Leo/ Aquarius is in your chart, you won’t need this.

• If your Sun or Ascendant is in Aquarius, this Full Moon falls in your 7th house.
• If your Sun or Ascendant is in Pisces, this Full Moon falls in your 6th house.
• If your Sun or Ascendant is in Aries, this Full Moon falls in your 5th house.
• If your Sun or Ascendant is in Taurus, this Full Moon falls in your 4th house.
• If your Sun or Ascendant is in Gemini, this Full Moon falls in your 3rd house.
• If your Sun of Ascendant is in Cancer, this Full Moon falls in your 2nd house.
• If your Sun or Ascendant is in Leo, this Full Moon falls in your 1st house.
• If your Sun or Ascendant is in Virgo, this Full Moon falls in your 12th house.
• If your Sun or Ascendant is in Libra, this Full Moon falls in your 11th house.
• If your Sun or Ascendant is in Scorpio, this Full Moon falls in your 10th house.
• If your Sun or Ascendant is in Sagittarius, this Full Moon falls in your 9th house.
• If your Sun or Ascendant is in Capricorn this Full Moon falls in your 8th house.