Hey everybody, I’m Emily Fawn and welcome to Lunar Notions! 🌙✨ In this series, we look at the current attributes of the Full Moon and peek at the other major players of the cosmos - aiming to raise our awareness in what affects us all celestially.

I’m naming this one: allowing completion - not how you thought it would go. Release the plans!

Photo by me, at the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens; Buffalo, NY 2025

Each Full Moon brings fulfillment. Illumination. A reveal 🔎. It shows us what has grown since the last New Moon, and helps us discern what deserves our continued energy — and what is ready to shift.

Respecting where we come from:

Two weeks ago we had a new moon in Leo with a total Solar Eclipse! This was an intense reset for many folks. It asked us to release patterns of expression rooted in performance, ego and external validation; encouraging us to lead from our True Self.

The time between that total solar eclipse and this partial lunar eclipse can produce extreme evolutionary pressure. It’s a great time for us to question familiar assumptions and beliefs about who we are while we adapt to quickly changing landscapes inside and out.

A Lot has happened since the last full moon, so you might want to grab some headphones for this Lunar Notion!

Honoring the moon’s reflection of the Sun’s, we will start where the Sun is shining.

♍ Virgo season - refinement

August 24

Virgo season brings us into our bodies, and brings our spiritual aspirations down to earth: connecting the sacred to our daily doings and turning them into daily devotions.

Other than Chiron in Taurus, this is the only Earth energy we’ve had in a while - and a great opportunity to get some routines and ideas grounded into reality! We might feel more traction as our wheels meet the road.

This season asks us to look deeper at our relationship with health, work, service, and our physical body as our temple.

Virgo can get a bad rap for being a stickler, but the real gift of this energy is discernment; of being selective in how we invest our time, energy, and attention.

It’s a great season to cultivate a more fact-based relationship with what brings us deep relaxation, and understanding how our bodies communicate with us.

Virgo season is an invitation to make sure the way we live our daily life supports our wellbeing.

At the time of this eclipse, we may find that many of our routines don’t support our present and future - they might disrupt our evolution, which right now is unstoppable.

Also in Virgo, as of August 25th, we have Mercury

Mercury’s in its earth element domicile, bringing us an opportunity to become more intentional with how we communicate, the information we consume, and the thoughts we entertain daily.

Directives from Mercury transiting Virgo:

• get clear about your priorities and act accordingly.

• observe the relationship between your inner dialogue and your wellbeing.

• reassess your routines, optimize the way you organize your time, work smarter, and become more efficient at solving problems.

Mercury in Virgo will help us spot inefficiencies and make intentional adjustments in the systems that support our lives and our health.

♓ Pisces - closeouts

Pisces is the last sign in the zodiac wheel of the year, highlighting closures, endings, things that need to be dissolved out of our lives, and spiritual rest. How wonderful for this full moon to illuminate where these things need to happen!

⚠️ The shadow side of the wonderful Pisces surrender aspect is escapism, and denial.

So, our hidden emotional baggage, spiritual truth, and subconscious patterns will rise to the surface and shine ☀️.

This full moon in the sign of the balanced fish, and our mutable emotions; it serves to remind us that meaningful beginnings require meaningful endings.

We can use Pisces energies as a sort of mirror - showing us the dance between above and below. Right now, down here, we are catching up to big changes in our cosmos.

One idea that has come up in a few of my MOONWISE ceremonies is welcoming our intuition into our life strategy. Take a second with that - what if our intuition is actually meant to be a part of how we strategize in our life? That’s like the most balanced and evolved Virgo-Pisces energies ever!

Anywho, this lunation is all about making space for new possibilities in our lives by surrendering what we already know, and our well-grooved experiences.

This eclipse is very different from the recent Leo total solar eclipse - it’s occurring on a different astrological axis. The energy of change from this Eclipse will last for one year, this is rare!

It will be activating our subconscious dreams and work, bringing purification and then relief, harnessing the clarity of our otherworldly visions - opening us to the direction and steering of the North Node in Aquarius.

🌀 Nodal Shifts: continuing the move out of the Pisces - Virgo axis

Even though the Lunar Nodes -our karmic patterns & evolutionary path, moved out of the Pisces-Virgo axis on July 26th, we might still be navigating this shift, especially as this axis is highlighted by this lunation.

The South Node represents what we already know, what we have mastered, as well as our subconscious patterns of self - sabotage. 🎓

The North node shows what is yet to be explored, and is unfamiliar and uncomfortable in its newness; or we might find that we’re uncomfortable in our lack of mastery with it.✨

The Virgo-Pisces axis: Mastering Healing 🩹 and Service 🛎️

In Virgo, the South Node exposed our need for control, over-analysis, and overthinking. Now in Leo, this placement highlights our collective tendency to over-identify with our image, and our desire to receive applause and acknowledgement from others.

We have 18 months to explore and rewrite ways in which our self-worth and self-esteem are tied to other people’s opinions of us, or our environment’s reaction to us. It’s time to embrace our unique self-expression!

While in the Mutable sign of Pisces, the North Node asked us to surrender to something greater than us. Now in the Fixed Air sign of Aquarius, this placement challenges us to develop objectivity and strengthen our awareness of the fact that we don’t exist separately from others: we are interdependent. Because we are an integral part of a greater ecosystem, this transit is asking us to make decisions according to everyone’s best interests, not only our own.

Ultimately, the invitation for us is not to entirely leave the South Node behind, but to integrate and harmonize the energy of both Nodes. So, don’t study what you already know and prepare yourself to try things in a new way!

The Lunar Nodes will be in Leo and Aquarius until March 26, 2028;
revisiting the theme: Cultivating and Sharing Creativity

♒ Along with the North Node in Aquarius, we also have Pluto

Pluto will be in Aquarius until spring of 2043.
Wherever Pluto is, it’s doing what it naturally does - destroy, decay, compost, invigorate in the darkness, and rise in more true strength than before.

In Aquarius, Pluto is transforming how we think we are perceived, and it’s really trying to get us to understand that none of that matters. You will be seen how you wish after you do the work - and we aren’t talking about face lifts, BBL’s, implants, hair dye or tattoo removals. That’s not what’s being supported during this transit.

This is Aquarius - fight the power, overstand rather than understand, reclaim your real power 🐦‍🔥(again, not necessarily the part that you perceive to be powerful) and acknowledge what is actually helpful.

This transit is long, the movement is slow, and we have time to integrate these lessons; but they will present themselves.

“Whatever Pluto asks you to leave behind in the underworld, know that it’s clearing space for something even more fulfilling.” -Chani

Let us remember, the last Pluto in Aquarius transit was 1777: revolutions abound, powerful institutions were toppled, followed by an age of enlightenment. Buckle up!

At the time of this full moon in Pisces, the subcurrent of Pluto in Aqua encourages us to cut ties ✂️ with outdated group dynamics or internal fears that block our personal autonomy.

♌ Along with the South Node in Leo, we also have Jupiter

While expansive and protective Jupiter in fiery and expressive Leo wants to shout, perform, and shine brightly in the external world, the Pisces full moon & partial eclipse asks us to retreat inward, listen to our dreams, and honor what is quietly slipping away and being released.

During this transit at this time we might find a clash 💥 between the urge to showcase our creative work or personal brand with the need for authentic, unmonetized spiritual rest.

We can help ourselves out by allowing big Leo-Jupier visions to find a practical container as the Sun travels through analytical Virgo opposite this Pisces full moon.

♎ At her airy summer home of Libra, we have a Venus

Venus in Libra can help us quickly understand who we need to be speaking to and connecting with to move forward with projects that are kinda already in the works. 💑

Her expertise in customer service, diplomacy and aligned magnetism is enhanced in Libra, so that’s a bonus.

In combination with the other astrological aspects at this time, Venus in Libra will balance our relationships ⚖️.

Meaning, if we understand and honor our real needs then this transit will disperse what isn’t reciprocal and help us gravitate towards what is actually harmonious for us. Keep in mind, this might not go as you wish: what is fulfilling for us may not be what is easy. This will require courage to advocate for ourselves.

The other option is to not do anything differently and continue to suffer.

Yay, free will!

The main lesson from Venus in Libra at this time is: Harmony within cultivates harmony throughout ☯️.

♈ In Aries we have Saturn & Neptune

At its simplest, Aries represents our identity.

Saturn, lord of time, is ready to bestow great gifts and the energy to follow through with our plans when we utilize SMART goals 👓:

Heavy on the Relevance:

Neptune is tuning our identity into our spirit, making sure that what we are pursuing is deeply resonating with our soul and our journey 🪷.

This big planet represents our sleep habits, our meditation practices, our nap time; and wants us to rest as needed.

♊ In Gemini we have Uranus

Broadly, Gemini represents what we are learning. With Uranus in the mix, we are all learning about unpredictability.

Uranus in Gemini is the dice roll - everything is a gamble! 🎲 Stay curious and try new things. It’s throwing everything we have at something and seeing what happens. It also represents finding a new way to connect.

This transit is squaring the other mutable signs in their 5° points: Pisces (with the moon), Virgo (with Mercury), and Sagittarius (who is always ready for an adventure).

These squares are bringing:

• More shocks and unveilings, more hidden aspects to the surface.

• A change in public perception.

• Changes to what we thought we believed in.

• Disruptions to our best laid plans.

• A reveal of what has been denied or lied about.

At this time, this Uranus in Gemini transit is going to require us to go with the flow of what is being removed: you can’t hold a cloud in a closed hand. As inner changes mount, try to allow these new perspectives to bring you new solutions.

♋ In Cancer, we have Mars

Other than the quick full moon in Pisces, this is the only real anchor of water represented in the cosmos for a while. So, of course Cancer is housing a typically fiery planet.

In Cancer, Mars is sensitive to all the energies in an environment - and things might feel like they’re moving slowly as we take all that in.

Cancer rules the moon and Mars represents how we put our energy outward - with the natural fluctuating aspect of the lunar cycles, and our own emotional tides, Mars is asking that we get unconventionally intentional with how we act, make decisions, and express what we feel. This too may feel tiring.

While Mars is in Cancer, the tendency is to avoid unnecessary risks and test the waters before we jump 💦. Hence, for some of us, it can to be more challenging to be direct, decisive, and act on our desires.

♉ In Taurus we have Chiron

While the Sun and fast-moving Mercury are transiting Virgo, this is the only real anchor of Earth in the cosmos for a long time. So naturally, Taurus is hosting the wounded healer Chiron. With all this air and fire energy going on, Chiron is suffering from dry skin, and stirring the pot around our attachment to validation (I feel like I’m on repeat but this is the stars y‘all).

The Time of 🌬️ Air & Fire 🔥

With our larger planets occupying air and fire signs we might experience a very different daily rhythm than we’re accustomed to.

There will be much more yang or outward energy and we will have to intentionally take time for yin or inward practices, if we wish to remain in balance with this shift ☯️.

We might find that we get more easily overwhelmed, or that we can activate ourselves and get a lot done but we now have an earlier crash point in our day.

The beginnings of this shift brought a pause on long term planning. That may have left many of us feeling very scattered and unsure about next steps. It was a call to hone in on what we want, and to go for it while expecting changes in how we both perceive and pursue our goals.

Now, this fire and air focus during the grounded Virgo season can uplift us towards our future and our legacies ❤️‍🔥.

This energy is responsive - it changes with each choice we make. Some of us will feel those changes quickly but for many, they will unfold slowly. It’s a chance for new, active participation in our own lives.

• Keeping curiosity present : cultivate beginner’s mind, stay open to see where your curiosities take you. Though, this is not passive. It’s less about observing and more about just trying the thing and seeing where it goes. This is also not a forceful energy; there’s nothing to prove and everything to try.

• Unlock yourself from specific outcomes : most especially to something you think you’re going to do for the rest of your life. Unlock, and unclench.

• Look for new and different ways to spend your time. Most likely these will bend in the yin direction (meditative places or movements, time for stillness and not-doing)

• Try a new healing arts practice. This could involve things that you previously thought were bazaar but now you’re feeling really drawn to it. Explore!

• Meet (or at least acknowledge) new parts of yourself. As a result of your new decisions and actions, you might find what you identify with changing.

Ultimately, this shift into air and fire is meant to reawaken 👀 us to the joy of living. It’s a call to follow what lights us up. 🍭

Air and fire are light, and weigh almost nothing. Water and Earth are dense and heavy. Because water and earth are mostly missing from the field, we now have to take more initiative in creating our anchors ⚓, what grounds us - using joy and curiosity as a barometer of relevance.

That is the self-responsibility, and group accountability aspect of this shift.

During this time, we might find that we’re seeking humanity and humility from others and in groups - with those that we can be vulnerable with, and those that take responsibility for the natural foibles of being human.

As we open ourselves up to explore a greater sense of vulnerability, areas in our lives in which self-responsibility is lacking - in ourselves and in others, may be much easier to identify 🪪.

This Pisces Full Moon & Partial Eclipse

Partial Lunar Eclipses spotlight our identity, close personal partnerships, and our emotional boundaries. This is the final partial lunar eclipse in Pisces in a series that started in September 2024, signaling major personal closures and clear realizations. We won’t experience this again until the year 2034.

Tensions may peak in close personal or business partnerships, forcing you to address unfair dynamics or gracefully walk away from unaligned situations.

Here’s the deal:

• The Piscean action of dissolving parts of our reality is messy.

• The Aries initiative of taking untempered actions is sloppy.

• Newness is awkward.

It’s incumbent upon us to muster self-compassion and the courage to entertain and try out some new ideas regarding how we think, behave, and communicate 🧹.

Don’t get lost in old stories, but don’t bury them either. Acknowledge their cautionary tales, lessons, and boons. Then think about what is new here, and ask:

This is where the mental gymnastics come in, so get ready to stretch.

I’ve heard a bunch of people refer to child rearing in a new way: that they can’t raise their kids the same way they were raised because the world has changed too much.

This is a great time to apply that idea to our own lives. It’s not normal to try to go back to what was, or the way things used to be. The new normal exists in the now, and requires our innovation, transformation, and adaptation.

Pluto in Aqua can lend us some necessary detachment from our old stories and loops. You are not who you were. The tight Uranus square to this eclipse brings a potent gateway of completion and closure that has the potential to bring very significant changes into our lives. The change in the lunar nodes amps up our bullshit meter, letting us see people and circumstances for what they truly are.

This whole event is marking the end of a long chapter and the beginning of something radically new.

Fret not—your you-ness will not be erased!

Many things will come with us into our future. But even those things will have a new base of operating procedures.

This whole eclipse season is going to help us understand what has been holding us back from our ascension.

We don’t need to earn feeling good. We just have to have faith in ourselves to make the transformation, and never give up.

“Our future is determined by our everyday habits and choices”. - James Clear

Thank you for joining me on this cosmic tour of the Pisces Full Moon partial Lunar Eclipse! I’m wishing all of us the strength of hope, the courage to master being ourselves, and all the joy that also arrives when we navigate the messiness of being human.

Coming up!

🌚♍ Virgo New Moon! This upcoming lunation will offer some respite from cosmic purification and a chance to lean into our daily wellness; rebuilding with the power of earth energies.

To join me and my Moonbeams in a beautiful online and in-person ceremony celebrating this grounding lunation, register HERE!

📩 If something in this article struck a chord in you, consider leaving a comment - sharing your experience could help someone else on their journey!

Until next time, Moon Lovers — Live Full!

Emily Fawn 🌙✨

📎 Disclaimer: This Lunar Notions piece is meant to be uplifting, educational, and fun, and is not a substitute for professional medical advice.

Inspirations:

MOONWISE monthly hybrid new moon ceremonies

Molly McCord

The Pattern App

The Leo King

Chani

photo credit: me.

Each Full Moon brings fulfillment. Illumination. A reveal. An area of focus that is over-highlighted. It shows us what has grown since the last New Moon and helps us discern what deserves our continued energy — and what is ready to shift.

Respecting where we come from:

Two weeks ago we had a new moon in Cancer which focused on our relationship to giving and receiving love, and our roots of relating. 🦀 In the online MOONWISE ceremony celebrating the Cancer New Moon we explored getting comfortable with the discomfort of emotional evolution, and to trust ourselves no matter what happens or unfolds.

This was a thrust forward towards empowerment. That new Cancer Moon sent us a reminder that the ability to give, and give from the heart with boundaries is possible. ✔️

The vibes of this full Aquarius moon can be felt a few days ahead of time, and it ramps up on approach.

♒ Aquarius

🌕 The Moon represents our most personal energies In the cosmos. Aquarius represents our biggest visions and the collective consciousness. This combo can bring us emotional clarity on what matters most to us, and where to invest our energy. It can bridge our deeper feelings with the ways those feelings inform how we show up for the world. Aquarius energies are waking up our sixth senses, so stay grounded and stay tuned.

Pluto in Aquarius

📡 A few days before reaching its fullness, the moon was conjunct Pluto in Aquarius, bringing up fears that operate below our normal radar. We may have been feeling that we are being drawn to a new dream and then having to confront our fears around making that dream possible. Those fears are rising for our review and clearing.

Luckily, Jupiter is conjunct the Sun in Leo during this full moon, lending us the courage to see these old and previously hidden fears in a new light.

🔦 During this lunation, the Plutonic influence is most impactful - bringing to light what we have been suppressing, and expanding us into new psychic realms. Under this Aquarius full moon, Pluto reveals what you need to know about the people in your life. This influence can dramatically alter group dynamics and friendships - destroying what isn’t in alignment. What is presented or paraded is of little concern to this Plutonic wave.

🔎 What we have come to understand through observation; what has now become undeniable is what will guide our resonance with others. This is how we develop a deeper understanding of people’s intentions, and why, and how we feel about it.

We might also get new understandings around the emotional psychology within us; and how that is reflected in people around us.🪞

Prepare for a change of mindsets.

This full moon comes with questions that challenge our connections 🫂 and why we have them:

Why are these people in my life?

What do we have in common?

We may realize that some people in our lives with whom we don’t have a deep attachment to might go away, or move on; or we may move away from them.

🦋 Aquarius is a fixed air sign. Fixed signs stabilize things into reality. The air element is about our mental landscape. Pluto’s transformational energy in the mix means that what we think, how we think, what we focus on and why are all changing. This might feel catastrophic, it might feel liberating, it could be both or something in between. However it lands, these changes are undeniable.

We are being asked to embrace what is irregular for us to pursue on a personal level - what’s calling you that seems totally different from how you usually do life?

⛓️‍💥 Emotional patterns are breaking, but we have the option of a higher vantage point at this Full moon in Aquarius - a more evolved understanding; which can support the change & deep transformation that Pluto is requiring.

♌ Leo

☀️ The Sun is at home in Leo, and it’s dancing with Expansive Jupiter.

Jupiter is a planet of abundance and expansion, good luck, and manifestation. Leo is courageous and bold, especially in trusting yourself and loving yourself so unconditionally that it inspires others to do the same. And that is not easy.

🚀 Every time Jupiter changes sign, it’s a chance to shift your mindset toward abundance and call in whatever it is you want in your life. Jupiter conjunct the Sun in Leo can grant us the strength to choose ourselves, our path, our heart; and acknowledge the investments needed in ourselves no matter who we surround ourselves with.

“I’m going to choose me, and allow these disruptions, endings, and separations to occur and fall away as they may.”

🌬️ So if you’ve been afraid to take up space or try something or believe in yourself, this is one of the most advantageous times. This energy is kind of like the wind in your sails, and it wants you to express everything that you are.

🍭 Jupiter is typically a jolly, protective and fun force - protecting our strength, our willpower, our creative force. We might find ourselves feeling stronger about something at a personal level - a strength that might feel challenged by the opposing Pluto & full moon in Aquarius.

IE: there might be something you really want to do, it lights you up to think about it, it feels strong and abundant. Then you share that with others and maybe you receive some unexpected feedback that you hadn’t considered. Instead of writing them off as a negative Nancy because they didn’t 100% agree with what you’ve been thinking about, consider that they’re bringing you deeper into your idea, they’re part of the crucible that your idea needs in order to be in its truest form for you to pursue with all your spirit.

With the Full Moon in Aquarius with Pluto leading the way, we have to consider why we want to do that thing and how it is going to be received before we bring it into the public.

Unlike the Aquarius tendency to observe from a wide lens and collect data without emotional attachment, Leo energies use the courage, wisdom and sight of the heart 💗to discern the best next steps.

A challenge to the hierarchy:

With Jupiter conjunct the Sun on this full moon, there’s an opportunity for collective perception to change in a more equitable way - one in which less people will be perceived as special and those that celebrate everyone’s unique gifts will be recognized and appreciated, but probably not adored. This will challenge those in positions of power, with a special focus on those that have become too detached from the collective, narcissistic, or just can’t read the room or live from their heart.

Jupiter amplifies and exaggerates:

If you’re only in it for yourself, if you’re fueled by ego drives, overly confident, and living in a desire for validation or recognition; then pursuing that thing you want to do will hit that Aquarius-Pluto-Moon brick wall. It might bring out the worst in everyone as a reflection of where you’re at.

The ♒ Aquarius - ♌ Leo Axis : the people and the powers

At their core, Aquarius represents the people, the bigger picture. Leo represents the people in power, leading from the heart.

🪨 Both are fixed signs that inherently value stability and reliability; they fixate energies to strengthen them. As with all fixed signs, this can translate into uncompromising and unyielding stances and mindsets.

🪇 When these two dance together in harmony, the people wielding power are able to recognize the importance of the entire collective and respect their level of value in decision making. Everyone’s input carries weight in decisions about the collective future. Doesn’t that sound nice?

With the big player planets squaring one another in these dynamic, fixed signs, concepts of fairness will present themselves with an uncomfortable twist: 🥨

• We might feel confronted by our own habits and behaviors, as they gain new awareness and exposure

• We might get some surprising clarity about which of our choices and ideals are actually holding us back

• Pluto is saying, “The personal transformation train has already left the station. So, allow your new awareness to shift your fixed mindsets and beliefs, and get onboard.”

🧘 If you’re feeling this land in your solar plexus, your belly, or your heart then the cosmos is encouraging you to open to the change. The more you resist the flow of these transformations the less authority, autonomy, and community support you will experience as the water passes your mud-stuck obstinacy. Breathe and trust in this divine timing! ⌚

Nodes of Fate in New Signs 🌀🧭♌♒

On July 26th, the South node moved from Virgo to Leo, and the North node moved from Pisces to Aquarius. You might still feel the nodes in their prior placements, as they’re newly into these next signs.

New areas of our lives where we are meant to grow and expand.

South Node in Leo

Could feel like wounded pride, our creative spirit impacted, a loss of mojo. This nodal shift is urging us to drop our ego, our pride, our competitive nature. It’s a call to move into our hearts deeply, to examine what we truly desire: which may not appear as we assumed it would.

North node in Aquarius

Our plans may unfold in ways we didn’t expect as we open ourselves up to new ways of viewing ourselves and the greater collective. North node in Aquarius can help us wake up to new dreams and endeavors that are more connected to who we are.

This change of the nodes brings us an 18 month shift in how we view our autonomy.

If we would normally ask:

Will they love this?

We are being called to ask instead:

Is this true?

This shift will come for all the ways we seek external validation and security.

Trust that your weirdness is where your true evolution will happen.

How do we rise together?

Be so unapologetically ourselves that it disrupts everything - change doesn’t happen otherwise.

♈ Aries

Neptune retrograde in Aries

🪖 We have this very powerful Aries warrior energy fusing with Neptune, which is all water 🌊. In this tension of elements Neptune is trying to bring us deeper into the heart-centered ♥️ reason behind our actions - dissolving our flight or fight instincts so that they can be remade in alignment with our present.

Those who are very connected to their dominant, more aggressive sides could feel a slowdown and a softening of those drives. For some this could bring a disconnectedness; life could feel harsh or dry and lacking love. This is a call to go deeper into our own hearts, to see what’s there without judgement.

🔵 Neptune in Aries, and Uranus in Gemini are sextiling this full moon and trining the Sun & Jupiter in Leo.

These heavy hitters are helping unstick our mindset around the new beginnings that we are committing to. 🔧

🏃This trine can also help us move away from previous versions of ourselves that we might be realizing are no longer in alignment with where we are headed. It can have a generational impact, and influence the collective in a positive way.

☀️So, even though Pluto is activating our fears and intense emotions, the brilliance of the full moon coupled with the opposing brightness of the Sun and Jupiter is keeping the lights on and amped. And while that’s beautiful and kind, it is also spotlighting what has been hidden, covert, controlling, or manipulative; even secret societies, cults, manipulated data harvesting - keep a weather eye out.

🛋️ Not everyone will be evolving with this; or even in this lifetime. Some people will not be changing, or seeking any newness. They may prefer the resistance, the pushback, that feeling of control and maintaining a certain position. This sextile and full moon is asking all of us -

What are you going to choose and move toward that’s personally best and empowering for you, while understanding that not everyone you love can come with you?

🪐 Saturn, also retrograde in Aries

📋At this full Aquarius moon, Saturn’s retrograde transit in Aries brings a shift from impulsive action to strategic accountability. Aries is all about being committed to a goal. Saturn initiates karma, so we might do well to prepare ourselves for a kind of reckoning in areas where we have been reckless.

When Saturn was in Pisces we could sit back and wait for the perfect thing to show up. It’s not gonna work like that anymore. The main lesson from Saturn in Aries is that we have to take responsibility for our lives by acknowledging reality, initiating plans based on our purpose, and taking real action towards them. 🎬

♋ Mercury in Cancer

While Mercury moving forward in Cancer is in an ongoing square to Saturn in Aries, it could feel like you’re in detention - there are things you’ve got to sit and review, understand, move through in your emotional container. ⏱️

It’s demanding maturity and an honest look at the present moment. And it’s a moment that some people might refer to as “come to Jesus” moments; buckle up y’all. ⚠️

Saturn is pulling us into the present while Mercury in Cancer is tethered to the past. We might have to deal with what was ◀️, while realistically addressing the present. ⏸️

♍ Venus in Virgo

Just before this full moon, the South Node was bumping past Venus in Virgo. Their meeting signaled a time to let go of outdated relationship patterns, especially in romantic partnerships. 🧹

🍂 Venus is at fall in Virgo, so it has a difficult time holding values correctly. Meaning, we might be aware of an annoying aspect of something or have a nagging sensation about a potential issue, but if we don’t work on the actual cause then the compass of our values will operate off kilter, and so will we.

👓 What isn’t working can be much easier to recognize with Venus in Virgo. Virgo energies can help us keep things clean - meaning: streamlined, pure of intent, clear of distractions, focused in action; clean energetically; simple.

So, if you’ve felt frustrated, like something’s not right and you keep trying harder and harder, Venus in Virgo is asking you to stop trying. Stop faking. Stop pushing. Be with yourself. Offer yourself a chance to find closure, or to release what’s holding you back from pursuing a more honest form of love - for self and others. There’s nothing to change or fix in yourself, it’s about relaxing into who you are.

Venus in Virgo Squarring Mars in Gemini

All squares bring discomfort so that we can understand where we need to grow.

This is another nod to the shift happening in our relational dynamics. This one represents our inner feminine and inner masculine, operating with different priorities, needs and expressions.

♀️ She’s discerning, particular, detail oriented; can even be critical and too short sighted. In the square, Venus is not happy. This might prod us to focus on our own well-being & lifestyle. She won’t really feel supported until August, when she moves into Libra. Until then, it’s a quieter time; it’s the library or an at-home project that gives us something to do while we think through and process some things.

♂️ He has a lot to say, to express, to get off his mind; and he’s operating in discord with Venus in the square. Mars has a stronger influence at the time of this full moon. This means we might have some important ideas that we are working with and putting into action; brainstorming, a desire to move ahead with a plan, or travel, or move your life entirely.

♉ Chiron in Taurus

Chiron in Taurus can offer a grounding influence to what we’re realizing needs to change or shift within us. Typically, the wounded healer in Taurus signifies rising inflation & costs around things like food - a threat to our safety and security.

At this full moon, Chiron is handing out new healing assignments regarding our self worth, our physical wellbeing, and our desire to have a life that is sustainable, honest, true and supported.

Chiron in the fixed earth sign of the bull is not-quite-squaring Pluto in the fixed air sign of the water bearer. They’ll be dancing in this almost-square for more than a year.

💃In this first flirty dance, Chiron is bringing our attention to money & finances in our life & world. Pluto energy is stepping onto the checkered floor with a covert note that tells us these financial systems are changing.

These two are putting us on notice regarding what is worth our investment. The semi-squares to Aquarius & Leo are hinting that we should be more conservative going forward, and make much more conscious decisions with our spending - despite our natural resistance to these changes.

💲Where can you make financial changes that support the reality of your life and the reality of the world at this time?

While there may be a decrease in one area, there may be increases in other areas (thank you Jupiter & Sun in Leo!), and new forms of abundance may come online.

🔥 What are you noticing that is awakening an empowered and abundant potential within you?

🌀 At this dynamic Aquarius Full Moon we’ve got 6 planets in an ongoing conversation about movement, change, increase.

The message: what flows through our lives now requires our active participation.

🍕 Part of that active participation is awareness, acknowledgement - something we need to see and respect for what it is.

🍕🍕 Another part of our participation calls for relaxing; yielding to what is disintegrating, and unapologetically releasing whatever isn’t resonating.

🍕🍕🍕And a third part is recognizing your faith in what you’re moving ahead with or creating.

🎲 Uranus is saying roll the dice. Pluto is demanding that we commit to whatever we’re rolling the dice on.

July will change us.

This Full moon is a pinch point.

It’s an opportunity to evolve in ways that help us overcome self sabotage, and reach for that thing that lights us up.

🌓 As July closes and we move into August and eclipse season, whatever is revealed at the time of this full moon will ripple into an ongoing story; with more layers revealed at every turn. While that can be scary, it also means that what has perhaps felt lofty may come closer to home and ground itself in your reality.

Coming up!

♌ Jupiter in Leo trines Saturn retrograde in Aries - stabilizing our creative fire, and everything we have been working on and towards during Leo season. This can be an absolutely beautiful and supportive influence!

🌚♌ Leo new moon+ solar eclipse!

Join me for a beautiful online and in-person ceremony celebrating this reinvigorating lunation!

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⌚ Thanks for spending time with me meandering the cosmos and listening for timely lessons. Under this Aquarius full moon I’m wishing you some ease in acknowledging and attending to what has been hidden, some strength in releasing the relationships that you can’t carry forward, and some true joy in following your weird and wonderful destiny!

📩 If something in this episode stood out to you, I would love to hear about it in the comment section. Sharing your experience could help someone else on their journey.

Until next time, Moon Lovers — Live Full!

Emily Fawn 🌙✨

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This episode is titled: Orbiting 3 P’s.

To get at what I’m talking about, let’s start with a definition or two:

What is an orbit?

According to NASA: An orbit is a regular, repeating path that one object in space takes around another one. An object in an orbit is called a satellite. A satellite can be natural, like Earth or the Moon. Since the Earth orbits the Sun, you’re actually in orbit right now!

The Oxford Dictionary adds that: an orbit is a spirit of activity, interest or application; a sphere of influence.

For our purposes today, I’m exploring orbit as the inherent gravity of our emotional and actionable choices.

Our Orbit

In my past I’ve described having my orbit knocked around by unexpected, intense life events. Events that brought deep loss, even when semi-expected, had the ability to negatively impact my navigation - or that has certainly seemed to be the case in those moments. Upon reflection I can see the resilience developed as I learned to reorient myself in those gravitational eddies. From here, I can also see what hasn’t resolved as a result of them.

When pondering my orbit and what might knock it off kilter, I also consider extraordinarily happy events - surprise letters in the mail from faraway friends, the shock of a well-lit dramatic cloudscape; when someone close to my heart expresses a perspective which illuminates a shiny piece of my soul that I hadn’t recognized.

The impact of these moments of awe have made a profound change in the way I think, behave, and move my life forward. They are my indelibles.

Recently, I’ve been looking at orbits from the space of our more regular days.

On a Thursday in early summer I typed a phrase into the next day on my calendar. It was a sudden thought, like a squirrely treat for a time when I might need its specific nourishment.

The little note read,

“what is present, what is pressing, and what is prescient?”

I must have known that on Friday I would experience deep feelings of inadequacy, buyer’s remorse about so many things, shame about hiding parts of myself, and also like I had no idea what was actually going on or what I should do next - in my mind, emotions; in my day, my week, and in the coming months. I felt detached from my spirit. I felt afloat, like I was grasping for but missing gravity.

After revisiting these queries throughout the day, eventually, asking myself what is present, pressing, and prescient helped me find my footing. I might have still been afloat but this small practice created a tether for coming to terms with it.

Present

If we allow it, asking what is present can call attention to our emotions of the moment, urging us to look at:

What is here?

• What emotions are old and what are they attached to?

• Which are new?

• What is looping, and is it fresh?

• What needs to be felt all the way through, and then soothed?

• What is ready to be released, and what is blocking me from releasing it?

Peace wasn’t a guarantee, but my ability to somewhat calm my racing mind felt more attainable after looking at what was present.

Pressing

What is pressing reflects our ages-old, trickster-like deal with time. An agreement made centuries ago, demanding levels of productivity which spit on the face of the Earth’s seasons and those of our lives.

And yet, considering the weight of what is pressing can serve to bring us into unity with ourselves.

“What is on my mind and heart?”

-Something the Gottman’s or Brené Brown might urge us to inquire about.

This too can elevate and lighten our sometimes foggy burdens, and can bring what is needed now into focus.

Prescient

Hmmmm, yes.

This future-oriented inquiry packs it’s own follow up questions:

What is it about now that I want to take with me?

• Which of those things resonates with how I have evolved emotionally?

• What do I want to live? My wounds and strengths? Are those the sum of my truth?

• What is worth enduring because it supports that which I am becoming? (Read that again).

Prescience describes, among other things, that we perceive the significance of events. This means that we are not ashamed of how we perceive them or that we can perceive them, nor do we experience any weirdness around why we find an event significant. We simply know that it is. This is especially true when it concerns our mind & emotions.

I know that when I typed out those words into my calendar on a different day than the one I was living- the day that I had the thoughts- that I was setting myself up.

This was the emotional equivalent of prepping the coffee maker the night before, even if you have the luxury of sleeping in; somehow, you know you’ll be grateful for the prep.

This was also like a guide was standing by, hand on hip, dictating the note with an undertone of, “Woman, you’ve got some big feelings bubbling to the surface, so do your cookin & preppin now because you’ve got processing comin at ya ta’morrow.”

A, B, C’s

At their simplest, these three words offer another angle to view the ABCs of doing life.

From as basic as:

If I want to eat later, I need clean dishes. If I want a nourishing meal, then I need supplies to make it happen. (what is present?)

To slightly larger projects:

If I want to paint this room then the items therein need to be moved: space is needed. What is actually in the way? (what is pressing?)

To our emotional states:

If I want to feel like I matter, and like my life matters, then I need to see my sense of self worth for whatever state it is actually in. To acknowledge it and then do the inner work to help it heal.

If I want to feel supported then I need to develop community with those that can hold me in kindness. These are also the people that will call me on my shit in a way that supports me meeting my challenges - not by adding a challenge of meanness, but not through coddling either.

(Both of these illustrate what is prescient, as per today’s conversation.)

To clarity & back again

My answers to these queries shift a little as I work with them and, over time, develop some sense of clarity; before I evolve again and then am called to reassess their resonance.

Here’s a small recap:

What is:

Present - what is here? what emotion is yearning to be felt?

Pressing - what is on your mind & heart?

Prescient - what is it about now that you want to take with you into your future?

We are always learning and changing. It’s my hope that this piece inspired you to listen a little keener to the voice of your mind & heart, letting them inform you about how to keep your orbit grooving just right, for wherever you’re at.

And here’s an ask:

I’d love to hear from you!

Which of the questions spoke to you the most?

Share your thoughts, stories, or even your resistance to this piece in the comments below. Let’s inspire each other to show up for ourselves.

As our world turns, our universe shifts, and our attention is beckoned by all the things; thank you for sharing some of your precious time with me today.

Until next time,
Live full!
Emily Fawn

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The Borderlands series by Emily Fawn is meant to be uplifting, educational and fun, and is in no way intended to replace any medical advice from your primary care physician, acupuncturist, physical therapist, psychotherapist, psychologist, counselor, or any other qualified medical specialist in whose care you are under. If you’ve read this series and have questions, contact me.

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Each Full Moon brings fulfillment. Illumination. A reveal. A focus. It shows us what has grown since the last New Moon and helps us discern what deserves our continued energy — and what is ready to shift.

Our last New Moon was in Gemini two weeks ago.

In our MOONWISE new moon ceremony, we explored beyond the rote communication aspect of the sign of the Twins. The Gemini New Moon motivated us to question the assumptions and narratives we live by, and inspired us to explore how our words, perceptions, thoughts, and ideas have the power to shape our reality. Among other introspective questions, we asked ourselves which internal and external stories about us need to dissolve so that our higher guidance can emerge. If you are interested in exploring things like this in community, then check out the link in the notes below!

Today we will look at the Cancer - Capricorn axis, other major movers and shakers, and some introspective questions I’ve parsed from the astrology surrounding this lunation.

🦀 Cancer - who’s feelings? + Mercury & Jupiter

Wherever the Sun is dancing is where our conscious mind tends to linger, right now, the Sun is in the sign of Cancer.

Cancerian energy is centered on nurturing:

– how we love,

– how we tend,

– how we let ourselves be held.

On June 21st The Solstice and the Sun’s move into Cancer invited us to come back home to ourselves and direct our attention toward our emotional needs. This Cancerian season highlights the importance of emotional self-knowledge, reminds us to honor our past and where we come from, and encourages us to strengthen our connection with our roots.

Each Cancerian season serves to reminds us of some important emotional truths:

• how we care for ourselves and our families shapes how we show up in the world.

• our vulnerability can be a source of strength.

• taking time to go inward is not a luxury but a necessity.

This season is highlighting personal restoration through understanding and honoring how we are really feeling and where our energy levels are really at.

📞 Mercury in Cancer

Mercury in Cancer deepens the connection between how we feel and what we think - this transit can help us trust the voice of our hearts, and heart of our voice.

While this can enhance compassion and empathetic attunement, it can also amplify moodiness, defensiveness, and therefore, taking things too personally.

Today, Mercury turns retrograde, and for about a month it will be retracing the terrain that Jupiter in Cancer has expanded since November 2025. We can expect reviews, and possibly rewrites of our deeply personal stories and understandings, and a chance to revisit some of our emotional truths that contain more wisdom for us to glean.

Mercury retrograde in Cancer can enhance uncertainty around feelings, memories, and conversations we thought were settled. We may find ourselves revisiting things we were once sure about and questioning them again. Certainty about any of these things might not come immediately.

However, if we express ourselves constructively: with curiosity & integrity — seeking understanding rather than dictating outcomes — clarity can emerge over time.

🪐 Jupiter in Cancer

Jupiter is on his final days in Cancer, drawing attention to our foundations: home, the energy behind our self-care, and the literal and figurative basements and beds of our lives.

Before Jupiter leaves the sign of the crab, it would behoove us to shore these areas up by being as transparent as possible with our emotions and what we are feeling. Escaping how we feel through overdoing, over productivity, over-involvement with family or friends, or drugs or alcohol would be a great waste of this beautiful, expansive, and heart-nourishing energy.

The lesson from all this intense Cancerian focus is that there’s no place like home.

The greatest gift is not the adventure.

The reward of journeying is returning to a sanctuary where you can process and nurture what arose and share these fruits with your beloveds.

Personal Share: Home as refuge is a big deal for me: uncluttered space and undistracted time nourish me greatly, though chaotic homes have taught me how to make safety from within - not to avoid challenges mind you, but to create a space that was supportive of me meeting them.

I’m getting one big question for us from these Cancerian transits:

Where might you be coddling – or being coddled – in ways that create a false sense of safety and dull your emotional range?

These circumstances might allow you to numb out but they won’t support you in feeling your full spectrum of emotions.

🐐Capricorn 🐟 - who’s authority?

Capricorn energy is here to help us step into our own authority - it highlights your relationship to responsibility and commitment—especially in building something long-lasting.

But just like this sign’s symbol of a goat’s head and a fish’s tail, this archetype can swing both ways: while Capricorn encourages commitment and leadership, it can also accentuate martyrdom and over-responsibility. This full moon might reveal where you’re holding it all together for everyone else, while your own needs remain unmet.

Capricorn energies urge us to ask ourselves:

• Are you committing to what’s real and resonant—or outsourcing your power and authority?

• Are you over-functioning for others while your own needs fall away?

• What is your relationship to responsibility - and why?

The illumination of this full moon is calling for a realistic assessment of what is working and what is not. Think back to Capricorn season - the beginning of the year, what your intentions were, the ideas that were brewing. This is a great check-in point for how those are going, and whether or not they still matter to you.

The 🦀 Cancer - 🐐Capricorn 🐟 Axis : a balance of where we are from and where we are headed

Attachments and love are ruled by Cancer, while achievements and rewards/punishments are ruled by Capricorn. The Cancer-Capricorn polarity spotlights how our need for a nurturing home sanctuary can sometimes oppose our public life and reputation.

This potent axis of celestial power can teach us what is worth withstanding.

We can miss the point of that lesson when we mistake discomfort for hardship, and vice versa.

The Cancerian tide pulls us toward comfort for ourselves and what we believe is comfortable for others (calling myself out with that note!). Capricorn’s horns nudge us toward commitment and what we perceive to be our responsibility.

Without learning about our own needs and our truest forms of comfort, we might find ourselves taking responsibility for things that don’t belong to us, or trapping ourselves in situations that drain our energy because we don’t believe we deserve better or more. (This astrological axis feels like it calls me out all over the place!)

The polarity of these signs reminds me of the Sankofa symbol and wisdom:

Our past helps guide our future.

I am everything I was, and everything I am.

And within this astrological context, it is our responsibility to understand our emotional past, and to understand that healing with it allows us to move forward in a more authentic way; in wholeness and with purpose.

Alongside the other astrological players during this lunation, we will learn that:

the things that make us feel truly comfortable and safe won’t exist until our truest selves are lived.

This means acknowledging our past and how it has shaped who we are. Moving forward, we will still experience the discomfort of newness while experimenting with potential comforts and safe spaces - and that what we find comforting will evolve over time.

The sun in cancer represents the bedrock of our emotional seas. Capricorn full moon energies are telling us that it’s time to be our own authority of our emotional landscape. This combination might urge us to look at what we can transform within our foundation to develop greater emotional discernment and capacity.

🐏 In Aries: Neptune & Saturn

Neptune in Aries is like a warning light on your car.

What warning is in your face that you’re ignoring?

This could go both ways - good and productive for your path or an obstacle that needs tending before you move forward.

The Full Moon forms squares to Saturn and Neptune in Aries, activating the weight and complexity of these heavy hitters. Saturn, Capricorn’s ruler, emphasizes the pressure of our obligations, commitments, and the effort required to move toward our visions. Neptune’s involvement blurs the line between imagination and reality, making it easier to project, idealize, or lose sight of what is actually happening. Together, these planets ask us to discern between the responsibilities that are truly ours and those we may be carrying because of duty, fear, guilt, or old conditioning.

This astrological square can call our attention to actions, decisions, or initiatives that we began around late February. Some tension may arise now from skewed expectations or from swinging between rigidity and impracticality, certainty and confusion.

It’s a good time to pay attention to pertinent discoveries that seem to redirect us from our goals. Are they opening our minds to new possibilities? Either way, try to allow circumstances to unfold before making major decisions.

👯 In Gemini: Uranus & Mars

Uranus in Gemini will zigzag our destined paths - don’t expect linear lines in ya life. Think about it like a pinball machine. You could aim as much as you like, but it might go totally sideways according to your perspective. Stay in the moment, anticipate less and watch more.

Yesterday, June 28th action-oriented Mars moved into mental-focused Gemini, bringing more motivations to move toward new challenges and opportunities. Mars in Gemini supports our adaptability and multitasking skills, and so brings an extra challenge to our mental focus and avoiding distractions. Our areas of risk-success during this transit involve writing, public speaking, debating, teaching, and sharing our perspective with others.

🦁 In Leo: Venus

Sensual and accepting Venus is in fiery and creative Leo. Venus in Leo can inspire us to let ourselves be seen as who we are. She wants to throw us a party for our unique qualities, reminding us that these are the sources of our magic - and that we don’t require outside validation to shine our brightest.

What is one thing you can do this week, or month to celebrate yourself, and others; to give and receive love and joy, and cultivate relationships built on authenticity, warmth, and mutual appreciation?

Sometimes that’s as simple as picking up the phone and being really real with, for and about the person on the other end.

🐂 In Taurus: Chiron

June 19 marked the beginning of a collective healing journey centered on self-worth, abundance, security, and embodiment. This transit will shift the way our wounds around our self-worth, our embodiment, and how we experience security surface, and how they heal.

Chiron represents our deepest wounds—the places where we feel most vulnerable, shamed, or misunderstood. Yet Chiron’s purpose is never to leave us in the wound.

Chiron brings these hurts to our awareness because they require critical observation in order to really heal - they must be faced.

Ultimately, Chiron in Taurus reminds us that abundance isn’t only about having—it’s also about being.

By cultivating a deeper sense of worth within ourselves, we contribute to a collective recalibration of what it means to feel secure, deserving, and whole.

Over the next eight years, Chiron in Taurus will invite us to examine how we define our worth.

Where have we tied our value to productivity, possessions, appearance, achievement, or external validation?

Where have scarcity, survival fears, or feelings of inadequacy shaped our choices?

🏺In Aquarius: Pluto

At this full Capricorn moon, long-transiting Pluto in Aquarius asks us to examine where we may have become emotionally detached, overly intellectualized, or unwilling to feel the fires burning within us and around us.

• Where are we withholding our true feelings?

• What is the source of that restraint?

• Who does it serve for us to remain silent or disconnected from what we genuinely feel?

This sounds heavy, but it can be surprisingly simple. Sometimes the most transformative act is saying, “I’m feeling this way right now. This may not always be true, but it is true for me at this moment.”

Doing so unmasks foundational illusions about who we think we are, who we’ve been told we should be, and what we believe we’re supposed to want. That honesty is what moves us forward.

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🌕 Bella Luna!

This Capricorn Full Moon invites us to get clear on our priorities, reflect on how we are structuring our lives, and consider whether what we are building is aligned with our true purpose and vocation. Full Moons always mark a culmination point, and in Capricorn, we have an opportunity to witness the results of our work, reassess our ambitions, and release our outdated definitions of success.

Bringing sudden awareness to our lives, particularly in areas that require more balance, this lunation reminds us that we can’t ignore our commitments to the outside world. We need to take care of our responsibilities, attend to business, act maturely, and take charge. The realizations and epiphanies arriving now tend to be solid, practical, and actionable.

This practicality might feel abrupt. If there was something you were on the fence about, something you liked enough to keep around but not enough to fully pursue, that may no longer feel or be sustainable. Emotionally, we are arriving at a place of greater decisiveness, which means the time for convincing ourselves of anything is over. Life isn’t usually that black and white, but under this Full Moon, we’re more likely to know whether we’re truly in or truly out.

With so much fire and air energy active, we need to speak our emotional truth, but we also need to ensure that we are emotionally regulated when doing so. Emotional regulation looks different for everyone. Some people find it through mindfulness, others through movement, exercise, creativity, or time alone. Allow yourself to be surprised by what works for you now.

This Full Moon can also bring up feelings of embarrassment around our emotions, desires, or the actions we want to take. Yet with Uranus in Gemini, there is support for experimentation. It’s better to try the thing, say the thing, or explore the possibility that feels slightly awkward than to remain trapped by assumptions about how others might respond. By doing so, we build tolerance for discomfort, loosen the grip of shame, and move closer to living our truth.

🦪 Here’s some pearls on the path to living in our truth:

• My therapist told me once that I’ve got to just say the thing. That no one ever died of emotional discomfort: the person saying the thing or the person hearing the thing. I still struggle with this in certain relationships.

• We might find ourselves suddenly feeling stuck - staring into space wondering what the F is going on. Consider this moment from the perspective of processing. Being in confusion means that you are in a state of learning. It might not be emotionally comfortable, but it won’t kill you to relax your brain into it. So, F around in confusion & find out.

• This lunation is an opportunity to think about emotional regulation in new ways. One way is by bringing our emotions into alignment with what has purpose for us. I mean, feel your feelings, y’all; feel the whole rainbow. But this is another call not to get stuck in a short range of emotions because it seems efficient and we already know how to navigate it — while in reality it is an old way that doesn’t serve who you actually are now, or who you are becoming.

Coming Up!

Tomorrow, June 30th, expansive Jupiter enters courageous-love Leo. This will be a 12 month journey focused on creative expansion & authentic confidence.

🔮 On July 12th, the MOONWISE Cancer New Moon Ceremony helps us understand how we honor our deepest feelings and recognize our sense of home.

Each month our MOONWISE community gathers online & in-person to dial into the current astrology, dive into introspective questions, and dig into our own wisdom through internal journeys. If you’re interested in checking it out we offer a drop-in ceremony rate before committing to an optional membership. Link HERE and in the notes!

⌚ Thanks for spending time with me meandering the cosmos and listening for timely lessons. Under this Capricorn full moon I’m wishing you a renewed sense of your inner fire, emotional grounding in speaking your truth, and shameless acceptance of who you are, you beautiful, one and only you!

📩 If something in this episode stood out to you, I would love to hear about it in the comment section. Sharing your experience could help someone else on their journey.

Until next time, Moon Lovers — Live Full!

Emily Fawn 🌙✨

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Each Full Moon brings fulfillment. Illumination. A reveal. It shows us what has grown since the New Moon and helps us discern what deserves our continued energy — and what is ready to shift.

Two weeks ago, during the MOONWISE Taurus New Moon Ceremony, my moonbeams and I explored what our self worth is attached to, and we did a deep meditation into how we can experience receiving nourishment devoid of transactions. This full Sagittarius moon can help us stay adaptable in our approach to stabilizing the value of our self worth and our priorities; allowing that value to help guide us in where we want to invest those Taurus-oriented energies.

Today we will look at the ♊ Gemini-Saggitarius ♐ axis, other movers and shakers in our local cosmos, the full moon itself, and some introspective questions brought up by this lunation’s astrology backdrop.

🏹 Sagittarius ♐ - experience life

Sagittarius represents mutable fire, our personal world view, philosophies, ideologies, opinions. It is flexible, adaptable and made to be in motion. It is independent. What we learn through Sagittarius influences is what we have come to believe based on our lived experiences: how we have lived, and what we have studied that builds our bigger picture of life.

Sag vibes energizing forward momentum. The optimism of this sign can help us move through things that came up during the last, intense Scorpio full moon - most likely something we were forced to face that represented an ending in our lives. With the possibility of renewed understanding under this Sag full moon, we can more accurately gauge our best next steps for self expansion.

What are you ready to run with or see in a new way that lifts you up?

👯Gemini ♊ -be here now

On May 20th, the sun came into Gemini and infused our day-to-day life with themes of freedom, playfulness, exploration, and social connection. This energy is meant to inspire curiosity and the rapid-fire exchange of information. This year however, the Sun in Gemini might feel more like it erased all of our favorite apps.

♅ Uranus in Gemini ♊: anti-manifestation and experience points arrive with script revisions

We are getting some big challenging changes from Uranus in Gemini. Our usual script has rewrites and most of the time we can expect that they won’t look how we imagined. Because it’s Uranus, these changes are happening for EVERYONE.

Here’s the deal: when what we have imagined for ourselves is too small for our destiny, Uranus in Gemini will make the greatest changes to those areas of our lives - and this will be very uncomfortable at first.

My advice? Get curious about how the story unfolds and detach your sense of self from the previous script you were using for your life.

Uranus in Gemini is opposing this full moon in Sagittarius, fueling a general sense of restlessness and emphasizing that we are navigating times of strong unpredictability.

Some practical notes for navigating Uranus in Gemini:

😟 What you are worried about will probably not come to pass. What you aren’t paying attention to might bite you in the ass.

🔎 What you think will happen, may still happen. However, if you start imagining and trying to manifest the details of how everything will go, then the rug will be pulled from underneath you.

👓 Our desires will not be met the way we want them to come in; we need to shift our perspective on how things arrive when they seem to have our name on them.

Uranus is saying, “You are here for something better than what you expected it to look like!”

Our expectations create the walls that block what we want from coming to us.

🔑 One key to success during this transit is staying neutral, and acknowledging that things could go really well or that things could go really bad, or even somewhere in between, is going to be the best mindset to navigate this transit with.

Hot off of that last new moon in Taurus we had a Sun-Uranus Conjunction which really kicked off some dysregulation, the kind that only Uranus can bring us.

Your losing phrase for the next long while is, “I know what it should look like.”

We have all been learning for a while now that those dirty “I should’s” aren’t good for us. With these planetary shifts, the should’s will be too much weight to bear. So how do we lighten up?

This is what frees us; we attain peace and lightness through facts that we gain by experiencing.

⚠️Manifestor warning: don’t focus with future-oriented intent. No vision boards. Passivity can bring downfall under these influences. What I mean by this is that while we may have to wait for things like answers, forward motion on projects, etcetera, it will behoove us to focus on and adjust how we wait and stay more in the now. When we find ourselves seeking and seeking, or focusing on future possibilities and potentials, we can bring ourselves to the moment by asking,

”What is needed now? What can I do with the newness that I’m experiencing?”

What may initially seem inconvenient or destabilizing could open doors that would not have opened otherwise.

☿️ Mercury in Gemini 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 : at home and ready to try new things

Mercury’s ingress into its Air home sign of Gemini is an invitation to be curious, explore different ways of thinking, and not be afraid to ask questions. It’s about discovering new ways to understand life through intellectual challenges. Mercury in Gemini wants to stretch our mind; it urges us to communicate, study, talk, write, research, debate, and learn. This transit offers us one of the 🔑 keys that release us from the cage of our normal thinking patterns.

The 👯Gemini - 🏹 Sagittarius Axis

Gemini deals with the mind, the mentals, our daily surroundings and how we navigate them both physically and through communication. Sagittarius urges us to live fully; to have experiences and mine those for data to back up our beliefs. Overthinking in Gemini season is easy. But its not like the Libra season’s deliberation. Gemini Sun with Sag moon is thinking in motion, experiencing the art of discourse.

What can come up:

• loud opinions

• A pull to share more, which might create polarization based on our loud opinions

• A need to take time to process what has been shared or spoken

• Amplified intuitive hits - as a part of our expanded understanding

• The creation of a new story: detailing the ‘how to’s’ of a new adventure built on the effects of that recent Taurus new moon.

This axis asks us: what do you need to experience now to move your story forward?

We aren’t talking about regular logistics here - “If I had enough money I could…” This isn’t the moment to focus on lack. Jupiter rules sagittarius so the name of the game is expanding what already is, and with Gemini leading we are encouraged to think in ways we haven’t conceived of before now.

♈ Aries 🐏

⚷ Chiron is in the later degrees of Aries, or the place of Mastery in the sign of the Ram.

Chiron will move into Taurus in mid June to mid September, and then return to Aries for some final lessons. In Aries, Chiron helps us learn to act in alignment with our desires. It’s my guess that this transit will test our acceptance of our desires, and our inner-permission to be ourselves. The 🔑 key with this transit is to treat them with the level of seriousness we might attribute to our and other people’s needs.

Our ability to be vulnerable - accepting and being who we truly are, will be tested by other people in our lives that cannot reflect their own vulnerability back to us.

These are relational road blocks placed by the universe that actually save us from harm and heartache down the road. We are meant to acknowledge, accept, grieve, and move forward without them.

🔵 Neptune and 🪐 Saturn are lingering in the earlier, or learning degrees of Aries 🐏.

The spice of Neptune adds spirituality, imagination, possibility, and sometimes confusion or idealism to the Ram’s focus on identity. This fusion invites us to explore how we want to use our power while staying grounded enough not to get lost in fantasy.

🔵 Neptune in Aries can help us broaden the scope of who we are. One 🔑 key for unlocking our self doubt about who we are through this transit is to move beyond labels we may have adopted since 2018 (effects of Uranus transits).

🪐 Saturn, the Lord Of Karma and Logistics, in Aries asking us to learn to take action more intentionally and to master our impulses and our instincts rather than being carried away by them. At the same time, this transit can expose insecurities that block us from taking immediate action when the moment requires it. It can also bring up fears about asserting ourselves confidently.

💼 Saturn demands that we take full responsibility for our life’s direction; this includes taking actions to courageously ground our dreams. Saturn is supporting the energies of this full moon by offering strength to our autonomy & sense of self, helping to stabilize that new adventure story.

🔺Saturn and Neptune in Aries are trining this Sagittarius full moon, bringing a harmony that supports our ability to stay grounded and have faith in the meaningful events unfolding in our lives.

🔥 With as much fire as Aries musters, unmastered Sagittarius energy can lead us into the wilds without a care for preparation, management or consequences.

🪐 The dad-planet in Aries wants to teach us to work with the wild fire horse energy of both this Sagittarius full moon and the lunar year: to build a constructive relationship that tames our more vapid impulses in order to support our self-expansion into unknown territory.

The 🔑 key to success in developing our new story on solid ground will be acknowledging where we need to mature, and taking action on our own that reflects that need.

♋ Cancer 🦀

♀Venus in Cancer ♋ : calm the mind, and the heart will follow

Through mid-June, the planet of Love is in the sign of Nurturing; putting the focus on how you love and are loved. This sounds lovely but there is a catch- we are asked to surrender our analyzing or over-explaining of our feelings, and instead to be still and have compassion for whatever arises for us and others.

One 🔑 key for success in this transit is to be around people with whom you feel safe enough to be vulnerable - because a Cancerian Venus demands emotional intimacy, honesty and trust. So, who feels like home for you?

If you’ve previously had a difficult, or just a very different time with giving & receiving love, nurturance, care from the heart or experiencing intimacy, this Venus in Cancer transit is primetime for deepening those capacities.

Another 🔑 key for success in this transit is to fill your own cup first, so that you can give from a place of nourishment. This means we are being asked to examine our relationship to giving & nurturing.

For example: sometimes when we get a little lost in caring for others, our boundaries get a little faded. Filling up your cup might look like enforcing those with a little more care for your needs so that you can give from a place of full capacity to do so.

There’s a lesson that this Venus in Cancer is learning from Neptune in Aries: to distinguish between what actually resonates with us (what is me) and what is actually an illusion we have adopted because it felt like it would fill up our cup, or would create our best self, or would bring us nourishment.

Stay out of Neptunian delusion by acknowledging your needs so that you can recognize them and meet them more often. This will take practice.

♃ Jupiter in Cancer ♋ : it’s about you, boo

Jupiter in Cancer is all about the kind of growth that begins from the inside out – and the joy that comes from being fully ourselves. It’s asking us to take actions in our outer lives that refine our alignment with how we have changed internally. (read that again)

Basically, how we have changed internally now needs that outward action and learning to re-enter our depths and refine our internal changes even more.

🔴 Mars in Taurus 🐂

In Taurus, Mars motivates us to channel our energy consistently and pragmatically to create structures that allow us to manifest and sustain our visions. This transit supports our ability to endure consistent effort and pursue delayed gratification: it reminds us that it is worth it to keep working, even when results aren’t immediate. Mars in Taurus is a time to cultivate resilience and determination: this combination of energies helps us access the commitment and dedication needed to bring our visions into form.

♂️ ◼️♇ Mars Squares Pluto: while this intense alignment was exact on May 26, its reverberations can be felt for about a week afterwards. Mars is connected with our conscious desires that come from our ego, while Pluto is connected with our unconscious desires and our Soul’s evolutionary intentions for this lifetime.

When these planets are in a confrontational aspect, the friction between our conscious and unconscious desires becomes impossible to ignore. Mainly, our buried frustrations, power struggles, and even extreme reactions that live just under our skin are all exposed. How we handle these eruptions will dictate how we respond, and how life responds to us.

Self compassion is going to be 🔑 key here - allowing us to take a pause, and a breath before speaking. And in that pause, noticing what is being triggered, getting in touch with the value of our self worth (thank you Taurus), and acknowledging what truly motivates our actions.

This intense transit can bring us empowering medicine when we learn to work with our ferocity in a constructive way.

⚫ Pluto Retrograde in Aquarius ♒

On May 6, Pluto went retrograde in Aquarius. From now until October 15th, 2026 we may be reassessing how we use our power.

We may feel the pressure in our lives shift from external to internal as we are urged by this transit to develop better understanding around our self-destructive tendencies, and gain insights into our needs for control – namely, how we resist or accept deep change.

The 🔑 key to navigating Pluto retrograde in Aquarius is to get actively curious about where life is asking us to evolve, grow, and transform.

Specifically, it’s an invitation to confront our resistance to change, to become aware of shadow patterns in our relationships with communities (cult fans or lonerism), and to take care of unfinished business from the recent past.

So with all of that, how do we train and attune to our wildness without making it lame?

We are being sent a lot of energy signals that our visualizations for ourselves are not the keys to success this season. This time requires new energy from us, new perspectives, adjusting our mental approach, and trying new things that have unpredictable journeys and end points. It’s time to be in the moment and keep walking towards the unknown.

💎 Some cosmic gems to keep in mind during this moon and month:

🧘 You’re here for something better and bigger than what you may have expected life to look like. Stay flexible, adaptable, and willing to embrace new possibilities and walk into the unknown. It’s easier to do those things when you know who you are – so, take advantage of these last weeks of Chiron in Aries to understand and embody your you-ness.

🚘 When it feels like something you want to do isn’t getting traction, ask yourself, “Why do I think this will happen that way?”

🧭 Your winning phrase is, “I don’t know, but I am willing to explore the idea.”

⚖️ Use the same level of acceptance for your desires that you would attribute to someone else’s needs.

🪞Consider how much you have grown internally. Now, take an external action that reflects that internal growth.Then, bring what you learned from that external experience into your areas of growth to further refine your alignment with how you have evolved.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑While Venus is in Cancer vulnerability is the name of the game. Who can you be safely vulnerable with? Who reflects the same level of open-heartedness with you?

📸 If you find yourself feeling overwhelmed by things not working out, ask yourself, ”What is needed now? What is this moment bringing me to? What can I do with the newness that I’m experiencing?”

🏳️ When overwhelm bubbles into frustration, it’s a sign that it’s time to try new day-to-day things, to approach our normal life with a new lens. Luckily the North node in Pisces can help us surrender how we want things to go, or our attachment to outcomes.

📈 Are you feeling excited but a bit stalled about that new story forming in your life? What do you need to experience to move that new story forward?

🪑Don’t expect immediate gratification while Mars is in Taurus.

🌝 A Sagittarius full moon urges us to see things from a higher perspective with a renewal of faith, trust and optimism.

🌝 The last full moon in Scorpio may have seemed to bring us setbacks or quick endings. But what if these were setups for something bigger and more attuned to us on our horizons?

♏ - ♐ This Sagittarius lunation, the second full moon this May, can revive our understanding about what to do next – what we are ready to expand in ourselves based on what the Scorpio energy is earlier in the month required us to face and move through.

❤️‍🔥Most of the wisdom around the time of this Sagittarius full moon seems to be about learning to work with our wildness in a more constructive and attuned way. We don’t need to hurt ourselves or others to experience our power, we can wield it with maturity.

🥾🥾Once your basic needs are met, it’s time to explore. Pack your values and your curiosity, leaving your idolization and perfectionism at home, and anticipate newness, surprise, revelation and communication.

⌚ Thanks for spending time with me meandering the cosmos and listening for timely lessons. I’m wishing you a renewed sense of hope, wonder and understanding under this Sagittarius full moon!

Until next time, Moon Lovers — Live Full!

Emily Fawn 🌙✨

📎 Disclaimer: This Lunar Notions piece is meant to be uplifting, educational, and fun, and is not a substitute for professional medical advice.

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Chani Survival Guide for Uranus in Gemini

Each Full Moon brings fulfillment. Illumination. A reveal. It shows us what has grown since the New Moon and helps us discern what deserves our continued energy — and what is ready to shift.

Two weeks ago, during our Aries New Moon Ceremony, my moonbeams and I explored how we use our power, our fire; and we had the opportunity to explore daily conscious choices we can make to support our own energy. Because there are still many planets and points roaming through Aries, this energy will be heavily prevalent during this full moon lunation.

Today we will look at the ♉ Taurus-Scorpio ♏ axis, other movers and shakers in the astrology, some introspective questions brought up by this Full Moon, and a little bit about celebrating Beltane!

🌊 Scorpio ♏- deep transformation, or an avoidance of?

The moon is always associated with water, with emotions and feelings. When Scorpio is on the main stage this lunation takes us deeper, into the darker waters we might otherwise avoid. While full moons illuminate issues that are already there, a Scorpio full moon exposes what hasn’t been dealt with.

💦 The waters of Scorpio aren’t obvious - they’re deep underground, 🏜️ under the desert or locked in sharp plants, in many cases. This makes most Scorpio lessons a treasure to be sought, a worthwhile pursuit, a lifesaving resource. The main gifts of Scorpio energies are profound and protective loyalty, transformative resilience, passionate pursuits, deeply intuitive healing abilities, and introspective spirituality. Scorpionic shadow aspects usually emerge as being secretive & vengeful, obsessive & controlling, emotionally repressed, and paranoid or distrustful, with a side dish of self-destructive tendencies. This list really makes me feel like a Scorpio!

Scorpio rules the destruction of form, shared possessions, change and transformation. Hmm, Scorpios might be like the OG Tibetan Buddhists of the zodiac!

The deep emotional waters of Scorpio demand a purge of false attitudes. The Scorpio’s stinger 🦂 can pierce to the core, revealing what we tried to hide from ourselves, and/or others.

While all of the water signs seek safety. Unlike Cancer’s strong nurture muscle, or Pisces escapism, Scorpio builds safety by probing deep into psychological truths and controlling its environment (or exoskeleton) to prevent vulnerability. This Scorpio full moon is asking us:

Are you getting in your own way between where you are and where you need to go because it doesn’t feel safe, and you don’t know who you’ll be on the other side?

Under this full moon, the deep Scorpio current is pulling us toward internal reflection 🪞and shadow work 👤. One profound step in shadow work is simply recognizing an issue, seeing it for what it is, and allowing these deep revelations to evolve as you view them and learn more about yourself. We win half of these internal battles by simply acknowledging to ourselves, “ yeah, that’s something I need to work on.”

Shadow work can really pull the rug up to reveal what we’ve hidden away, luckily, as discussed, Scorpio also rules shared resources.

So, this is a great placement for reviving your relationship with shared work!

📲 Call a friend, and/or see a 🧑‍⚕️mental health professional. It’s worth having company for these big reveals, revelations and transformative experiences. If that friend happens to be a Taurus? All the better!

🐂 Taurus ♉- secure values, or insecure self?

Wherever the Sun is spending time is where we will find our consciousness focused. While the Sun was in Aries the focus was on all action – all the time. The Sun moved into Taurus and we re-learned that taking action is not enough for something to take root in our lives; tending to it with awareness, presence and consistency will give it strong legs. As the Sun dances through Taurus, we might find our focus drawn to things like:

• cultivating our connection with nature, and the basics of life; re-discovering the value of simplicity

• being more in our bodies and less in our minds

• connecting with what is essential for us, what has deep value

• examining what our self worth is attached to – yikes!

• putting our attention & energy on what has long term potential

• releasing outdated survival patterns in favor of creating truer forms of stability & security

• balancing patience with the natural pace of our growth, the growth of those around us, and the growth of the collective consciousness – with enough movement in these areas to keep us from getting stuck in the mud.

The sunny side of Taurus keeps things simple, dependable and pleasurable. Known for being reliable, grounded, sensual, artistic, persistent & driven, loyal and protective, Taureans can also exhibit a stubborn inflexibility, materialistic overindulgence, possessive jealousy, fear of change, and a passive-agressiveness in lieu of confronting issues directly.

Questions from this Taurus Sun:

1. How do you relate to your physical body and its needs?

2. Is making time for slowness and pleasure a priority for you?

3. What might help you accept the realities of your feelings and situations, while grounding your emotions about it?

Taurus energies can help us discover what is truly essential for us, removing doubts and other mental clutter from our navigation.

A quick pause and a note: Before any of y’all go using this astro update as ammunition against some Scorpio or Taurus, remember that we all have these signs in our chart; and we can be more dominated by their forces than the placement of our Sun sign. 👀

The 🐂Taurus- 🦂Scorpio Axis ☾𖤓 : Holding On and Letting Go

Essentially, the Taurus-Scorpio Axis is about resources: what we share, and what we don’t.

This full moon in Scorpio opposing the Sun in Taurus highlights the balance between:

• All that is mine (Taurus) and all that is yours (Scorpio)

• Concepts taking Form versus the Necessity of Transformation

• Personal desires and shared resources meeting our intense emotional connections

• Stories about, or illusions of safety, budding heads with the full exposure of all our fears

The Taurean Sun wants happiness in simple, tangible forms. The Scorpio full moon is exposing the complexities, the intangibles, and the mysteries that make life interesting.

• Can we use the Taurean influence of returning to the simplicity of nature to explore our emotional depths in a grounded way?

• Is feeling secure in direct opposition with transformation?

Balancing this axis: Taurus energies can bring a simple clarity to the nuanced and complicated concepts that Scorpio brings to the realities of our lives.

I would wager that this full moon will bring some discomfort while leading us into more grounded truths.

🎭 Other Players on the Stage

On April 23rd, 🔴 Venus entered ♊ Gemini. If Venus in Taurus was all about being patient, slow and relaxed, Gemini is almost the complete opposite.

🌀 It is moving very fast, and it’s this electric energy that is meant to bring in change so that there’s space for fun and independence in creativity and play - and to use this new energy to innovate our relationships.

In its healthy expression, Gemini sees the perspective that nobody else can, and it’s about being objective and open, and finding freedom through those mindsets 🧠. Gemini is the first sign in the zodiac that represents our interaction with the Divine.

One shadow aspect of swoony Venus in Mercurial Gemini is being so attached to freedom that we lose connection to our hearts 💔– our mind is the only one navigating and driving.

How to work with the lessons and tools that this transit brings:

• If you no longer feel joy or find creativity in your relationships, take a good look at the way you experience intimacy. This can help illuminate what your deeper needs are, and how you can meet them with or without a partner.

• If it feels difficult to find creativity in your relationships, take a look at the partners you’re usually attracted to. I am a fan of Esther Perel’s discussions on how concepts of love and desire interact - that the very elements that build a healthy relationship can stifle other parts of it. Both partners usually have all the ingredients needed to cure old wounds, or rip them open. What are your relationships usually working toward – repairs, or more ruptures ⛓️‍💥?

• If you find yourself feeling bored 🥱, prioritize intellectual connection 😮: shared curiosity, witty conversation, and mental stimulation can be as important as physical attraction.
  On that note, exploring new social circles & hobbies can be very fulfilling under this transit.

• With Neptune squaring Venus on May 4th, stay aware of over-fantasizing romantic partners and financial deals: double check the facts ✔️.
  This reminds me of a quote I heard recently in conversation: just because you told someone something doesn’t mean that they understood it. Get confirmation.

• A challenge presented by Venus in Gemini at the time of this full moon in Scorpio: expressing our needs clearly and keeping the tone playful, and NOT overthinking and asking deeper questions 🎈.

⚡Uranus has also moved out of 🐂Taurus and entered 👯Gemini, where it will remain for the next 7-8 years.

Uranus brings a challenge to Old rules and paradigms, wherever it is traveling through.

This massive disruptor will shake up:

• how we go about our daily lives and living

• how we travel locally

• how we perceive, learn and think

• how we process things we enjoy engaging with

• how we communicate

• how we relate to and use technology

Chani.com offers a great survival guide for this longer transit, you can find a link to their guide in the notes below.

Uranus in Gemini brings in new solutions or ideas for how we do life - think of The Jetsons: their day-to-day activities were pretty similar to ours, but the technologies they used to live their day-to-day lives were vastly different.

During this Scorpio full moon, Uranus in Gemini can bring a highly charged ⚡ atmosphere with sudden revelations, chaotic shifts in personal finances 💸, psychological breakthroughs 🧠, and honestly, who knows what else 🤷.

The Great Awakener can bring unexpected events and understandings, specifically pinging on our control patterns that keep us in fear, and our insecurities around emotional depth and intimacy. Thanks bud!

🪐Jupiter in 🦀Cancer – emotional intelligence 💦

Jupier in Cancer brings a nurturing balance to the intense waters of this Scorpio full moon. Bear in mind that these are still aquatic energies, so we will find our greatest long-term security by engaging in emotional healing and intentional growth. Jupiter’s expansion influence in Cancer is focused on developing deeper connections with our sense of home, family, and our emotional roots.

This combo supports the Scorpionic transformation energies by helping us feel safe in letting go of past baggage, and making room for new, more secure beginnings.

🐏 An Aries Party🎉 – action Jackson!

Aries is the first sign of the zodiac. All of the planets now in Aries had to pass through Pisces to get here, the last sign of the zodiac, which deals with bringing things back around in our lives for review.

That energy is done, we will have no more reviews for the next 18 or so years. In Aries, the emphasis moves to taking action and not worrying so much about making a mistake.

At this full moon, Aries 🔥fiery energy creates a high-pressure environment where internal emotional revelations (Scorpio) must be met with immediate, decisive, and disciplined action.

Mercury at the final, or mastery, degrees of Aries is conjunct Chiron, the Wounded Healer.

Mercury is our communications expert 💬 — moving thoughts quickly from mind to mouth 👄. Chiron shows us that our best ⚕️medicine comes from our lived experiences where we may have felt rejected or cast out; and were then forced to establish parts of our lives on our own, and on our own terms.

This is a powerful time for communicating vulnerably – we might find ourselves with more courage to speak about an old wound or insecurity that has kept us silent. This transit offers a greater opportunity to heal through our truth ❤️‍🩹.

At the last degrees of Aries, the “just do it!” sign, we can sense a now or never urgency behind this quick transit. This is an important feeling – without that Piscean review or return, the doors that appear before us in the moment will not come back around. Get it while you can!

⚠️CAUTION ⚠️

While this Scorpio full moon encourages unpacking old baggage so that we can heal through our honesty, Mercury conjunct Chiron at the last edge of Aries can lead to involuntary self-disclosure. We might find ourselves suddenly spilling out deep truths or secrets – so, pay attention to your audience and use the strategies gained from emotionally intuitive Scorpio to gauge how much you want to divulge. I am a notorious over-sharer. However, I usually say so much that almost no one can remember half of what was spoken. I can see it as a strange form of defense, but I’m still offering too much ammunition; and people can twist words like they’re on a loom, can’t they?

In the late degrees of ♈ Aries is ✵ Eris.

A catalyst of raw truth and disruption, she’s an advocate for the parts of ourselves that have something primal and raw to unleash 𖤐. She exposes uncomfortable truths and challenges false harmony. This energy is completely unapologetic, vital to remaining ourselves, and doesn’t seek validation. In Aries, she urges the warrior within all of us to focus on the right to exist authentically. ﮩ٨ـﮩﮩ٨ـ♡ﮩ٨ـﮩﮩ٨ـ

Together in the later degrees of Aries, Mercury, Chiron & Eris invite us to understand who we came here to be, the cycles and patterns we are here to break, how we can mature while embodying more of our primal truth, and how we can speak for our wounds instead of from them.

During these transits we may feel subconscious scabs getting scraped open, further testing our self-mastery of our vulnerability & confidence.

Also conjunct, though in the earlier learning degrees of ♈ Aries, are 🔵 Neptune and 🪐 Saturn.

🔵 Neptune adds spirituality, imagination, possibility, and sometimes confusion or idealism. This fusion invites us to explore how we want to use our power while staying grounded enough not to get lost in fantasy. In Aries, Neptune says, “ Stop just envisioning and start fighting for your ideals with compassion.”

🪐 Saturn, the Lord Of Karma, is in Aries asking us to learn to take action more intentionally and to master our impulses and our instincts rather than being carried away by them. At the same time, this transit can expose insecurities that block us from taking immediate action when the moment requires it. It can also bring up fears about asserting ourselves confidently. Saturn demands that we take full responsibility for our life’s direction. In Aries, it urges us to ground our dreams in structured, courageous action.

These Aries transits are asking:

What is your relationship with how you take action in your life?

While the Full Moon may bring up fears or “shadows”, these placements provide the grit (Saturn) and inspiration (Neptune) to build a new, potentially more authentic identity from the ashes of a Scorpionic transformation.

Essentially, all of this Aries fire 🔥 meeting the extra deep waters 🌊 of this Scorpio full moon can create a friction between our souls’ need for surrender and a pull to do and to take action.

The emotional data, and then clarity we can mine from time with our beingness can inform our strategies for the next steps in our outer lives.

You are a human being, not a human doing.

Pretty big tug-o-war, no pressure.

♒ Aquarius - ♏ Scorpio square

Squaring her ruler, Pluto in Aquarius, the Scorpio Full Moon will ask us to release emotional baggage, outdated patterns and no longer useful beliefs. Alongside all that Aries business, this square is emphasizing the need to take action and not dwell in indecision.

We release so that we can evolve.

✨ Consciously working with this Scorpio full moon can bring deeply beautiful and transformative revelations which we can ground into our reality and move our lives forward with.

Practical applications for this full Scorpio moon time

• I might suggest this for any full moon, but for this one especially: collect some moon water to continue working with these concepts — especially whenever you find yourself stuck between what is yours, what is not yours, and what feels complicated that might need a simpler solution. Find a cup, a jar, a bowl or some beautiful piece from your altar and fill it with water. Place this where it will receive maximum moonlight on May 1st. It doesn’t have to be outside, a windowsill works fine. Feel free to add one or more crystals to charge them with the energies of this lunation.

• Confront fears, secrets, and other shadow aspects by writing them out. Keeping a black obsidian stone on hand can help us get into this stuff with more ease. Get these thoughts and feelings out of your mind and body and onto paper. Then, put them away; and walk away from them – literally, take a walk and let the wind dust ya shoulders off. Wait a few days and re-read them, asking:
  - Where might I have judged myself a little too harshly?
  - Can I make an apology for any of this that would ease my spirit, and not put anyone else in danger or harm?

• Take a ritual salt bath to work with Scorpio water’s depth, and its ruling planet Pluto’s ability to help clear emotional baggage. No tub? Soak ya feet. Focus on what has expired: relationships, habits, behaviors. As you soak, imagine the waters clearing away any last hooks from these things – removing them from how you are who you are.

• Amplify the Taurus Sun energy, and stay grounded during your emotional deep-dives with some stones like Emerald, Black Tourmaline or Malachite.

If you’re into detailed ritual practices, here is a heavier approach:

Always start by creating sacred space and welcoming in spirit helpers. Then…
1. Light a red candle, setting the intention for clarity.
2. Amplify digging deep into your subconscious fears with stones like obsidian and labradorite, or your favorite.
3. Take a very real look at what you’re ready to stop carrying – really investigate it, double check, track it by digging deeper into the why of it: how did it serve you in the first place? What will you do so that this attachment does not return? This isn’t the moment to pussyfoot around about it.
4. Write down your internal discovery – craft it into a simple statement.
5. Read it aloud, and then transform/ burn it in a fireproof dish. No fires allowed? Use water or earth.
6. Sit in silence and welcome what arises for you. Feel free to journal about what comes up.
7. Pour out the contents of the dish (ash, or earth, or water) into the earth, or a waterway.
8. Close sacred space and offer thanks to your spirit helpers and yourself for showing up to do this work.

🔥Beltane! 🔥

May 1st (Northern hemisphere) and November 1st (Southern hemisphere)

Marking the midway point between the spring equinox and the summer solstice, Beltane is a key Celtic festival of the year rooted in fertility, creativity, protection & purification.

Derived from Gaelic, Beltane is often interpreted as “bright fire”, or “lucky fire”; it’s also referenced as the fire of Bel, honoring the Celtic god Belanos.

Both modern and traditional celebrations involve dancing and weaving ribbons around a Maypole to symbolize the union of masculine & feminine energies, making flower crowns decorated with yellow flowers (like rowan and hawthorn), and holding feasts. Bonfires are also a big part of celebrating Beltane. Brave folk jump over them for luck.

This is all about the return of the Sun – the merriment that naturally arises as the winter storms abate and more people venture outdoors. Sprouts are sprouting, flowers are blooming, and spring has fully sprung in the North!

And now for a plug…

If you’re in the western NY area of the United States, I’ll be wrapping up my Beltane celebrations by offering energy medicine services at the Witching Hour Market at The Powerhouse in downtown Buffalo New York on Monday May 4th from 3-8pm.

Check the notes below for more details!

🔮COMING UP!

On May 2, Mercury enters Taurus, emphasizing thoughtful decision making – and with this a potential trap of stubbornness or resistance to change. This transit brings cautious communication around desires and limitations. This energy encourages slow-paced and spoken or heard communication styles with a lot of patience and grounding while analyzing details.

On May 6, Pluto turns retrograde in Aquarius. From now until October 15th, 2026 we may be reassessing how we use our power. We may feel the pressure in our lives shift from external to internal as we are urged by this transit to develop better understanding around our self-destructive tendencies, and gain insights into our needs for control – namely, how we resist or accept deep change. During this time we may find that we are not as open, overt or direct in our desire for control. Some of us may feel less in touch with our power, but I encourage all of us to consider that we have outdated power structures that need upgrading and our sense of our power may feel different than it has as we navigate these changes.

On May 16, the New Moon in Taurus puts our focus on accepting new definitions of safety and security - some of which we might encounter at this full moon - and re-developing our relationship with fulfillment.

Join me in MOONWISE for a guided New Moon Ceremony – online or in-person – where we will explore the current astrology, reflect on our inner world, and journey inward through meditation and magic. You can find out more, and register through the link here and in the notes.

💬 I’d love to hear from you

What is this Scorpio Full Moon revealing for you? Do you feel more confident in confronting what you may have been hiding from within yourself?

👉 Share your thoughts in the comments — your insight may support someone else on their journey!

Thanks for spending time with me meandering the cosmos and listening for timely lessons.

Until next time, Moon Lovers — Live Full!

Emily Fawn 🌙✨

📎 Disclaimer: This Lunar Notions piece is meant to be uplifting, educational, and fun, and is not a substitute for professional medical advice.

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MOONWISE Taurus New Moon Ceremony

Aries New Moon Ceremony

Chani Survival Guide for Uranus in Gemini

Cafe Astrology - Full Moon on May 1 2026

Esther Perel - the secret to desire in long-term relationships

Moon Omens - Taurus Season

Molly McCord - Uranus in Gemini Interacting with all 12 Signs

David Palmer, aka, The Leo King - Substack & Highvibe.tv programs

The Pattern App

Each Full Moon brings fulfillment. Illumination. A reveal. It shows us what has grown since the New Moon and helps us discern what deserves our continued energy — and what is ready to shift.

Two weeks ago, the Pisces New Moon stirred longing, romance, imagination, and the desire to connect deeply. Now the Libra Full Moon arrives to bring a practicality to romance -- urging us to connect in the most conscious, equal way and to prioritize relationship above all else.

Both of these signs, at their healthiest, bring a really beautiful expression of love and loving. It’s about wanting to love. and being in love.

On their shadow end, they can bring us into codependence – we can lose ourselves in love, and we can have undetermined or sloppy boundaries.

This Full Moon is all about where you are in relation to these themes, because love, connection, and partnership are very much in the air right now. 💞

🔥 Aries Season: Our Fire Spark, Ourselves

We begin with the Sun.

Aries season is the first spark after darkness — the moment light returns and begins growing stronger. The Sun is exalted here, and the message is simple and unmistakable:

Trust your instincts. Follow your spark. Learn by doing.

This is not perfection season. This is trial-and-error season.

• Mistakes are information.

• Action is medicine.

• Authenticity matters more than approval.

While Aries is a cardinal fire sign with a lot of drive, its real power is its simplicity in distilling the immediate truth. It’s not that deep, but the simple truths that Aries energies can reveal will bring us to a place of feeling real safety, which then allows us to take smarter risks for more aligned living.

And this Aries season is not happening quietly.

Saturn and Neptune are both in Aries, reshaping our understanding of identity and self-trust.

Neptune dissolves the roles we absorbed from family, culture, and past versions of ourselves. Saturn steps in with firm clarity and asks us to take responsibility for who we are becoming.

With Neptune in Aries we might encounter things that aren’t aligned with who we are, but we feel like we have to have them. Bringing that stern-dad energy, adjacent Saturn says, “ No you don’t.”

This is a flag, a light, a signal that there’s a personal block here for you to examine and resolve.

We may notice identities, roles, or ambitions that suddenly feel… off. Like clothing that no longer fits.

Avoiding what is ours and clinging to what isn’t will create a lot more work later for us to undo - like re-breaking a bone to reset it properly. Ouch!

Another potential trap with this transit is focusing too intensely on what feels off - here too we will simply get more of what we don’t want. Our thinking can have its own gravity sometimes, what we dwell on persists. Luckily Aries energies help us move on quickly. That feels off? Noted. Move on.

Choosing what is ours creates long-term safety — even if it feels uncertain at first.

This season reminds us that we do not need to have everything figured out before we begin.

We simply need to begin– in the best mindset possible..

⚖️ Libra Enters the Story: Relationship as Mirror

While Aries asks Who am I? Libra asks Who are we?

Libra is the sign of 1:1 connection, of collaboration, partnership, and shared experience. It helps us pause, reflect, and communicate thoughtfully. It invites us to consider the other side of the story.

Libra energy steps back and analyzes, or weighs out the pros and cons, to see what is necessary to communicate and how it can foster a deeper relationship.

Because Libra is consistently striving for balance, we can find ourselves in analysis paralysis under too much of this influence. Another cautionary aspect of Libra energies is comparison.

Libra energy reminds us that life is not meant to be lived entirely alone.

And yet, the tension between independence and connection is exactly what this Full Moon illuminates.

⚖️🔥 The Aries–Libra Axis: Me vs. Us

This Full Moon activates one of astrology’s most important polarities: the axis of self and relationship.

Aries pushes toward independence, instinct, and personal desire. Libra reaches for harmony, fairness, and balanced connections.

Together they ask us to balance autonomy with partnership.

This lunation may bring courageous conversations, honest realizations, and moments of clarity about where we have been sacrificing ourselves — or where we have been afraid to show up fully.

This Full Moon asks us to notice where the scales of our relationships have tipped too far in one direction.

🌌 The Cosmic Backdrop

Jupiter in Cancer — Overgiving & Emotional Amplification 💗

The Full Moon forms a square to Jupiter in Cancer, magnifying emotion, empathy, generosity, and care.

Jupiter expands whatever it touches. In Cancer, it amplifies our desire to nurture and support others — but it can also highlight tendencies to over-give, over-promise, and over-extend.

This influence asks:

• Is your generosity sustainable?

• Are your relationships reciprocal?

• Are you pouring energy into connections that can truly hold you?

Jupiter in Cancer squaring the Moon and Sun is also sending us a reminder notice about our relational habits:
if we assume others know how we feel without us expressing it, then we will hit the infamous brick walls of misunderstanding.

Pisces Hosting Mercury & Mars 🐟

Mercury and Mars are both moving through Pisces, bringing emotional depth and intuitive awareness to our communication and action.

Mercury in Pisces prioritizes feeling over logic. Conversations may feel poetic, intuitive, or emotionally charged — but misunderstandings can arise if we assume others know how we feel without expressing it. Oh hey, that’s the second cautionary note about expressing ourselves. Ah-hem.

Careless words can travel farther than intended right now.

This is a time to review, reassess, and renegotiate rather than rush forward.

Mars in Pisces tells a similar story through energy and motivation. Vitality may feel diffused. Inspiration may arrive without immediate follow-through.

This placement reveals:

• where we’ve been overexerting

• where our energy is leaking

• and where exhaustion might be signaling misalignment

Instead of summoning more energy, we may need more rest. 🛌

🔥 Mars Moment: Let It Go

Sometimes the fears we want to avoid are actually pointing to what matters most to us. This is one way we can give our energies away only to find more exhaustion. Digging deeper into Mars in Pisces, we can use the following introspective questions to turn our fears into a useful compass:

1. Where are you settling for breadcrumbs when you deserve a full meal?

2. Where are you over-identifying with sacrifice?

3. Where are you holding onto old wounds instead of the wisdom they created?

Venus in Taurus square Pluto 💚

Venus — ruler of this Full Moon — sits in Taurus and forms a powerful square to Pluto in Aquarius. Venus is at home in Taurus and can greatly help us dial into what really matters in our lives; and develop a deep appreciation for what we have right now.

This alignment brings relational themes into sharp focus:

Power dynamics. Attachment patterns. Financial entanglements. Fear of vulnerability.

Venus in Taurus asks us to prioritize what feels nourishing and meaningful. Pluto asks us to look beneath the surface and examine the unconscious forces shaping our relationship choices.

This is deep relationship work. The kind that transforms us.

Venus’ connection to Chiron and Ceres also in Taurus adds themes of healing and nourishment, reminding us that self-care must come before caretaking others.

While Venus is in Taurus, it’s a great time for us to find ways we can ground into gratitude. With all the other edgy energy bouncing around us, we can get really stressed out about attaining our goals.

• Can you take 10 minutes a day to breathe and be grateful for what you already have?

Outer Planet Whispers 🌌

Pluto in Aquarius encourages us to embrace the parts of ourselves that feel unconventional, or weird, or urge us to do something we wouldn’t normally consider. Acting with the Sun in Aries, all we need to know is whether or not the things calling to us are singing our heart song. Yes? Great, go for it. Kinda? Or No? Leave it alone.

Keeping it simple is the winning ticket during Aries season.

However, under this full moon we should keep in mind that Aquarius and Libra have a similar Shadow aspect: where Libra can get caught in comparison, Aquarius can get caught in being overly concerned about how other people perceive them. Both of these are traps.

How will other people feel? What will other people think?

Between Pluto, Aries & Mars energies, and Venus with Ceres & Chiron, we are getting the message:

“You can be there for other people. (But) There may come a time when you need to cut them loose. You cannot sacrifice yourself for other people. And you also need to think about the kind of person that would allow you to do that.” — Pluto Bean

Oh hey, that’s the second cautionary note about managing any self-sacrifice tendencies we might need to outgrow. Ah-hem.

This brings up more clarifying questions for us:

• How will I feel if I pursue this?

• What will I think of myself if I embrace this quality of mine?

Uranus in Taurus continues shaking loose our labels of stability so we can build real security instead of perceived safety.

Uranus brings an opportunity to heal through disruption.

While this can feel like something’s knocking us off kilter, Uranus is here to upset what is actually out of alignment so that we move into attunement with our actual, very real forms of safety, security, and comfort.

Any upset we feel from this transit is likely a re-matching of our frequencies to what is even more stabilizing for us.

🌕 The Libra Full Moon: Restoring Balance

Now we arrive at the Libra Full Moon Moment.

Libra is symbolized by the scales. It learns balance by exploring extremes.

This Full Moon shines light on imbalances, lack of reciprocity, and the places where harmony has quietly slipped out of alignment.

Something may come into awareness now — something we didn’t previously see clearly.

A relationship. A dynamic. A truth.

Personally I feel like I’m just coming out of a time of extreme self doubt. And now I’m recognizing where I have put a lot of work in, and where the focus of my work is needed. Along with this, I am still discerning where my energy needs a boost and where it needs a rest. It’s all a process, not a sprint.

This lunation invites us to step back from immediate personal concerns and assess what is needed to improve a connection or situation.

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”

We are not being asked to choose between independence and connection. We are being invited to practice interdependence.

🌿 Working With This Energy

Since this Libra full moon is briefly in the sky amidst a lot of Aries energy, the focus is on who we are at our most simple and true core .

So, the next set of questions I have for you today dig into our identity and how that meets our relational life.

• Where might you be settling for less than you deserve? This might be happening in one of those places where you did not get a solid yes from yourself before proceeding to engage with something, or someone.

• Where are you over-identifying with self-sacrifice? If this feels familiar, how does self-sacrifice help you — what does it get you? That might be an easier start to answering why you might over-identify with self-sacrifice.

• Where are you ready to have an honest conversation? Use that sharp Aries energy to have an honest conversation with yourself. Use that intriguing Libra vibe to understand more about who else you need to have an honest conversation with, and to what end. Sometimes we can have the conversation with ourselves, and through that process realize that we needed our own permission, or our inner authority recognized; and it really didn’t have much to do with anyone else.

Some gentle ways to work with any roughness surrounding this Full Moon:

⚖️ Notice where reciprocity feels balanced — and where it doesn’t.

💬 Invite open, honest conversation — with yourself and others.

🪶 Release what isn’t yours to carry, and keep gratitude for what you have.

💗 Practice compassion for yourself as you grow.

🌕 Closing Thoughts

Recent astrology urged us to focus on closing doors so that we can welcome new doors that are ready to open for us. Until Mars leaves Pisces and moves into Aries, we will still be doing that.

Our efforts towards that this month are all about balancing what isn’t tagged with our name on it with what is. What I mean by this : the cosmic influences are washing away what isn’t spiritually aligned with our core essence and prodding us to move forward with projects or plans that are attuned to our truest natures.

As we go into this higher octave of Libra, this lunation is about being honest with yourself about what you want, and how you want to feel. To get us there, this Libra Full Moon illuminates how we might transform the relational aspect of our lives.

If we are open to re-learning about our deep needs, and then expressing them, it offers clarity, connected conversation, and the opportunity to bring our lives into greater harmony.

Something is coming into awareness now. Something ready to be balanced.

And that awareness is a gift. ✨

💬 I’d love to hear from you

What is this Full Moon revealing for you?
What part of your life feels touched by the cosmic effects right now?

Share in the comments — your insight may help support someone else on their journey!

Thanks for spending time with me meandering the cosmos and listening for lessons.

Until next time, Moon Lovers — Live Full!

Emily Fawn 🌙✨

📎 Disclaimer: This Lunar Notions piece is meant to be uplifting, educational, and fun, and is not a substitute for professional medical advice.

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New Moon Pisces+

Pluto Bean general tarot reading:

Moon Omens: https://www.moonomens.com/full-moon-in-libra-2026/

Molly McCord Libra Full Moon video

David Palmer, aka, The Leo King’s Deep Astrology horoscope on HighVibe

Each Full Moon brings us the fulfillment of our plans, ideas, and seeds planted during the most recent New Moon. It can illuminate where we are at with those endeavors, and help us discern which of our agendas are worth our continued energy and focus.

This Virgo Full Moon arrives as a Total Lunar Eclipse. Eclipses disrupt. They accelerate. They close doors that have been half-latched for far too long. Lunar Eclipses illuminate relationships and polarities, and this one brings a potent opportunity for purging and purification.

At this point in the Spring 2026 Eclipse portal, keeping a sharp eye on the real prize — and not the distractions — can bear wonderful fruit on the other side.

Because this lunation opposes the Lunar North Node in Pisces, it doubles down on endings that are karmic, cyclical, and right on time.

🌾 The Virgo–Pisces Axis: Method vs. Meaning

Within the Virgo–Pisces axis, we are challenged to examine our relationship to two essential realms:

1. our day-to-day routines, physical health, and the need for order — the Virgo side

2. our spiritual health, divine timing, and our place in the infinite — the Pisces side.

The current intensity of the Pisces–Virgo axis can provoke questions like:

What does this all mean? And what do I do about it?

Virgo wants the method.
Pisces wants the meaning.

Too much Virgo? We micromanage life.
Too much Pisces? We dissolve into it.

This Eclipse asks us to recalibrate. ⚖️

And because this eclipse focuses on closure, we may find harmony between these opposing forces with less force and more discernment.

🌊 Heavy Pisces Influences

There’s a Pisces party going on, y’all! 🎶✨

On the guest list: the North Node, the Sun, Venus, Mercury — and soon, Mars.

This dance floor is lit with divine timing, intuitive trust, and fated developments. The DJ playlist? Surrender. Compassion. Spiritual awareness. Energetic sovereignty. Our intuition & psychic senses are topping the charts!

And bebes — this party has several disco nap stations. 🪩💤

Because during this eclipse, all that Piscean energy highlights our exhaustion, our overgiving, where we have porous boundaries — and also the sacred need for rest, retreat, and self-care.

With a North Node in Pisces, we have a powerful opportunity to cut away what cannot follow us into our next chapter.

The lesson becomes:

Can you become conscious of what was previously unconscious?

Emotional patterns. Default reactions. Old coping strategies.

“Mature Pisces energy honors sensitivity as a strength, supports intuitive and creative gifts, and cultivates discernment without guilt or self-sacrifice.”

— Molly McCord

Pisces invites surrender — but not collapse.
Virgo invites improvement — but not obsession.

🔁 Retrogrades & Emotional Processing

Mercury retrograde in Pisces can cast an illusionary fog over past situations that were truly messy.

Yes, our past brought us here. But it wasn’t all lollipops — sometimes it was glass shards. And those shards were teachers.

The caution is not on remembering.
It’s about re-entering chaos you already know is chaos.

This is not about romanticizing dysfunction.
It’s about recognizing patterns that no longer deserve your energy.

With Mercury retrograde in Pisces for much of the season, slowing down is medicine. Clarify communication. Allow mental rest. Let your mind float when it needs to.

Jupiter is also retrograde in Cancer — another water sign. Two retrogrades. Two emotional currents. 🌊

Cancer focuses on the emotions of our foundation:

How we felt.
How we processed as children.
How we learned to protect ourselves.

When strong emotions arise, notice: are they echoes of the past — or fresh waves asking to be honored?

This Virgo Full Moon receives support from Jupiter retrograde in Cancer, amplifying what we are feeling and processing and potentially pulling us out of our analytical mind and into a more reflective space.

This influence highlights the wisdom available through our emotions. Because of Jupiter’s placement in Cancer, we may feel drawn into past memories — even into matriarchal lineage and the women who shaped us.

The quest is to sit with what we feel called to honor — and to trust what surfaces.

🔥 Mars in Pisces & Energy Levels

Mars just moved into Pisces from Aquarius, where it urged us to prove ourselves and see things through.

Now in Pisces, Mars can create a sense of diffused energy — vitality that isn’t fully embodied or grounded.

This may look like:

Starting projects and not finishing them.
Feeling inspired but physically drained.
Wanting to retreat even when responsibilities remain.

Mars in Pisces reveals:

• Where we’ve been overexerting

• Where our energy leaks

• Where exhaustion signals misalignment

Instead of summoning more energy, plan more rest. Delegate where possible. Streamline. Not everything requires your fixing.

💗 Venus in Pisces: a dreamy connection

While Venus is at the peak of her powers in Pisces, her opposition to this Full Moon may introduce tension, as dreamy romanticism interacts with the analytical and practical demands of the Virgo Eclipse.

In Pisces, Venus supports us in choosing real feelings over fears, offering us a special courage during this intense time. Thanks lady!

🧠 Virgo: Brain–Gut Axis & Self-Assessment

This Virgo Full Moon and total Lunar Eclipse calls attention to our brain–gut axis.

Virgo governs the analytical mind, everyday functioning, and how we embody our thoughts and feelings — how the brain speaks to the body and the body answers back.

If we tend to live in our minds, then this eclipse urges us to examine how we store stress in the body.

Opposite the flow and surrender energy of Pisces, Virgo attempts to organize feelings of overwhelm and uncertainty. The North and South Lunar nodes also dancing in this opposition signal to us that the endings unfolding in our lives are timely — not random and not a sign of punishment or failure.

Getting regular healthy meals, enough water and generous amounts of movement will be key to unlocking and releasing emotional stress stored in our bodies.

Under the current starscape, this process might be quieter or more gentle than we imagined.

Mercury, Virgo’s ruler, is in Pisces and operating at a disadvantage.

During this transit we could feel like the specifics we are craving are just out of our reach.

But that Virgo energy wants details. It wants a plan, a spreadsheet - it wants to know how things will end.

This is a cue to trust. To surrender to the unfolding. To focus on self-care.

To learn how to stay present with our process and bring our awareness into our bodies.

If you don’t make time for your wellness, you’ll be forced to make time for your illness.

— Joyce Sunada

🔄 Escapism, Control & Default Settings

During this intense lunar eclipse, the Virgo part of us might say, “I don’t want to deal with that — I’ll just keep working and stay in my head.”

That seems productive, and yet…

Do you distract from what is uncomfortable (but not harmful) by focusing on what you’ve always been able to control?

I know I do!

It’s a type of escapism — and the shadow side of Pisces season can make it so easy to surrender to it, until we hit that brick wall of reality. 🧱

💥 This Eclipse illuminates that breaking point.

We know that new viewpoints can create new results. So, here are some ideas to get your mind working on fresher approaches:

• What routines haven’t worked for a long time and are ready for an upgrade or a toss in the trash?

• Where have you sacrificed your needs for something greater than yourself — and it has become unsustainable?

When we stop doing something in one area of our lives, it affects everything.

We can use Virgo’s organizational gifts to audit routines and patterns that don’t truly nourish us.

🌊 Emotionally Grounding the Upgrades

Shifts in routines, upgrades, and releases all make changes.

Any change that happens illuminates the past as it moves us into the present and future. It shows us what was, or in some cases what didn’t happen. Each change brings a loss of what was, which brings grief, small or large. Luckily this Virgo-Pisces axis, and specifically this Eclipse can bring us to a more private and quiet space to assess, digest, feel our feelings and release.

Okay Emily, but what about my job and other day-to-day functional needs? Who has time for grief?

The critical eye of Virgo can be sneaky.

The challenge is being nice to yourself through this. ♥️

The more that you’re in the messiness the faster the relief. Mutable earthy Virgo energies can assist us with this emotional processing and upgrading if we don't get overstuck in details or start beating ourselves up with perfectionism.

If something no longer yields meaning or vitality, it will begin to feel flat — even draining. That is information.

Remember that everyone is sorting through these things right now. Emotional consciousness, trusting what we feel, and allowing these feelings to move through us will enable ease and compassion for ourselves and others.

You are here in this present reality, in this current life, in your perfect body.

You have choice.
You can avoid extremes. You can choose to breathe.

The new era we are entering is less interested in our stale sacrifices and more concerned with meaning.

🪐 Also Dancing in the Skies

Discipline-focused Saturn and transcendent Neptune have been cohabitating in Aries since mid-February.

Saturn wants structure. Neptune wants transcendence.

Their conjunction at zero degrees of Aries — the first spark of the zodiac wheel — asked us to initiate from spiritual maturity.

Together they remind us that taking responsibility for our dreams requires conscious action.

Alongside the other energies of this Full Moon Lunar Eclipse, they also invite us to examine systems in our lives that no longer hold meaning, and note that before we can replace those systems, we must release them.

🧘‍♀️ Ritual & Self-Care Suggestions

Practical ways to work with this intense energy!

The days surrounding this Lunar Eclipse are ideal for lying low and tending to your nervous system. Eclipses can be unsettling, so regulating your system might feel non-negotiable.

We reclaim our energy best when we are open and direct about where our time and attention are flowing.

Here are some reflections to guide you:

🌿 Getting honest with Virgo’s focus on

• Our day-to-day habits: which one’s nourish us and which are anxiety-producing?

• Our analytical mind: which forms of self-talk motivate — and which corrode?

• Control disguised as productivity: where might busy-ness be distracting from emotional truth?

🌊 Getting honest with the Piscean visions of

• Surrender: where might we need to loosen our grip — and where might we need to rein it in?

• Emotional awareness: where do we easily flow with our feeling and where do we stagnate or dissociate?

• Trust without visible proof: where our intuition is clear — and where might we be layering stories like blankets for comfort?

⚒️ And some tools to support you in balancing method with meaning:

• Underschedule where possible.

• Streamline everyday systems - what doesn’t need your attention?

• Let emotions move without trying to make sense of them all — simply acknowledging these feelings can be healing on its own.

• Journal or record insights — without rushing to act or fix anything.

• Embodiment through Salt baths, Stretching, Tears, Breathwork.

Heavy Virgo energy can fixate on what’s “wrong.” These practices help us widen our perspective and cultivate patience for our process.

🌕 This Virgo Full Moon Lunar Eclipse is a checkpoint.

In the days surrounding this potent event, we can gain clarity and grounding by looking at ways we might imagine rejuvenating rest as part of our routines.

Where can we sneak in 3 deep and nourishing breaths?

Maybe we can better support our posture at work with a little more body-mind connection focus.

As we tweak our schedules with reality buffers, why not pencil in a nap?

♓ The 2026 Pisces season reminds us that:

Endings are gateways. Composting feeds life. The cosmos is asking us to shed what doesn’t, or can’t fit into our next chapters.

We have been moving out of Water and Earth energies and entering a time of Fire and Air.

All of that mud that we’ve been sludging through for two decades is starting to dry up — revealing what has been spiritually and emotionally heavy for us throughout those twenty years, and now offers it’s final lessons as it softens, rises and elevates.

🔮 We might feel spiritually lighter on our feet, and we may also encounter an extra boost to our ESP, experiencing prophetic dreams and psychic hits that feel like regular thoughts or come up in seemingly normal conversations.

🔀 This is our extrasensory perception fusing with our everyday; becoming a standard part of how we live.

It really can’t get more Virgo-Pisces than that!

✨ Post Full Moon Transits

March 6 - passionate Venus shifts into the fiery, direct, and more impulsive sign of Aries; requiring a balance between spontaneity and caution.

March 10 - expansive Jupiter stations Direct in Cancer, increasing enthusiasm.

March 18 - the New Pisces Moon awakens our need for a spiritual vision or more magic in our lives.

March 20 - cerebral Mercury stations direct, unclogging information about what is still useful from our past projects and ideas.

🔮 Invitation

On March 20th, the MOONWISE Pisces New Moon Ceremony seals the closing Eclipse portal and honors our work with Piscean themes of the unseen, our spiritual practice, and the Divine.

Gathering on the brink of Aries season, we’ll prepare for this fiery ignition through astrological exploration, introspective questions, voluntarily sharing, and a guided descent to our deepest seats of wisdom.

I hope you’ll join me online or in-person for a chance to reset your inner compass!

💬 I’d love to hear from you:

What is this Full Moon Lunar Eclipse revealing for you?
What part of your life feels touched by the cosmic effects at this time?

⬇️ Share in the comments—your insight may inspire or support someone else on their journey, too.

Thanks for spending some time with me meandering the cosmos and listening for timely lessons.

Until next time, Moon Lovers —

Live Full!
Emily Fawn

📎 Disclaimer: This Lunar Notions piece by Emily Fawn is meant to be uplifting, educational, and fun, and is in no way intended to replace medical advice from any licensed healthcare professional or other qualified medical specialist in whose care you are under.

© 2026 Emily Ball. All Rights Reserved.

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New Moon Ceremonies

https://cafeastrology.com/events/full-moon-lunar-eclipse-on-march-3-2026/

https://www.chani.com/blogs/what-you-need-to-know-about-marchs-lunar-eclipse-in-virgo-2026

https://www.moonomens.com/the-saturn-neptune-conjunction-in-aries/

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https://cafeastrology.com/this-month-astrology-march-2026/

Joyce Sunada quote: https://share.google/0i4km35MSIf0D6HM4

Hey everybody, I’m Emily Fawn and welcome to Lunar Notions! 🌙✨ In this series, we peek behind the movements of the cosmos before looking into the current attributes of the full moon. Along the way I’ll offer some introspective questions for you to mull over at your leisure.

Each Full Moon brings us the fulfillment of our plans, ideas, and seeds planted during the most recent New Moon. It can illuminate where we are at with those endeavors, and help us discern which of our agendas are worth our continued energy and focus.

This full moon in Leo is opposite the Sun in Aquarius. There’s a lot to cover, including a super planet party in Aquarius and that’s where we’re going to dig into first.

Aquarius Business 🏺🌊

Transformation Does Not Happen in Isolation

While Capricorn season highlighted how we cultivate self mastery and bring our ideas into tangible form for our long-term goals, Aquarius season asks, “Why? For whom? And, to what end?”

It’s common for people to mistake Aqua for a water sign: it has a sigil of a human holding urns from which streams flow. However, this water bearer is an air sign, separating its emotions from its thoughts. An evolved Aquarian combines them both in harmony before offering them to the world.

Aquarius is about everything futuristic, unusual, and visionary. Aqua is so overly concerned with innovation, evolution and doing things differently - and you might be too if Uranus was your main ruling planet, that they have a tendency to exhaust their inner resources as they pour out their fresh ideas all over the place. They’ve grown accustomed to what’s in their urns and sometimes forget how precious, magical and life-giving their waters are - this is where that seemingly dispassionate or aloof characteristics associated with those born in the time of Aquarius comes from. Aqua’s can seem bored waiting for others to catch up, “yes, it’s magical, it’s in the urns, we are going to pour it out- can we get past that and do something real?”

The Sun in Aquarius invites all of us to move beyond old paradigms and shift our focus from the what to the purpose behind our actions and how we use our energy.

Aquarius season reminds us that we are all interconnected and that transformation does not happen in isolation. This season is a time to acknowledge the visible and invisible threads that connect us all and honor how we, as individuals, have the power to generate change at a collective level.

We can learn about this focus on interconnectedness by observing how we show up in our relationships, and the groups and committees we are involved with, and on larger stages in our life.

It can shed light on how we define belonging, where we try to fit in and where we try to avoid fitting in; and where our authenticity might clash with our sense of belonging.

It’s a great season to ask:

• Where is my FOMO coming from?

• Am I consciously, or unconsciously choosing a lifestyle that naturally puts my life at odds with the collective in a way that doesn’t actually serve me? Or if I do feel it serves me, then how does it?

• Am I just interested in being opposed for the sake of displaying a strong statement?

• What actually makes me unique? And how can I simply honor that without making a Vegas-style billboard about it?

As a native Aquarian, these are some common themes I’ve been navigating my entire life. 🥂

♒ Many Things are Happenings in Aquarius!!

🔴 MARS in Aquarius brings power confronting conformity & compliance.

Aquarius’ energy signature is considered Male, and Mars is considered masculine. This can bring some serious social justice and other warrior energy to the front lines of our hearts and minds.

The caution here is on conformity:

• Are you using your energy to do what’s expected of you (politically, sexually, relationally, commercially…)?

• Are you energetically performing, or complying with a status quo while simmering with disagreement beneath your cap?

• What would it look and feel like to experience your power in a way that honors your uniqueness instead of conforming or complying?

For me, it would take courage; all day, every day.

🔴 Mars in Aqua ♒ can urge us to drum up more courage to take next steps without waiting for permission or applause. If we are always checking in, looking for feedback, hoping that we or our project proposal will be well received then Mars is here to help us assert ourselves without asking, overexplaining or apologizing.

💪 This transit can also help us trust that our power is amplified when it’s aligned with what makes us different, and it can give us the necessary audacity to go for our goals that might not make a lick of sense to anyone else.

In relationships, it means having the courage to pursue connections that feel authentic, even if they don’t look like what society told you they should look like (including your more personal society / friend group).

Full disclosure: my natal Mars is in Aquarius near my Sun, so I’m super familiar with the struggle between seeking approval for doing just about anything and just doing anything that feels natural and supported by my soul’s destiny. As this transit moves through Aquarius in my natal chart, I have a greater opportunity to resolve and accept my true, wild and wise weirdness. This can be Fun! It can also be exhausting and affecting my relationships as I evolve!

All this Mars business can sound demanding, but really it’s just asking us to take some small steps in these areas, and trust that so long as we aren’t aiming our powers over anyone then the universe will have our back, and the next steps will get easier.

And it’s a good time to initiate these baby steps, cause bebe…. Mars is moving toward its conjunction with Pluto on February 27th. The god of war will be meeting the god of the underworld. If we thought the last many moons were focused on washing away what doesn’t serve us, this is the final bout in the ring - pure destruction of the erroneous habits, relationships, behavioral patterns, and negative self-talk that we haven’t cleared out yet. During this time, Mars & Pluto will not tolerate a victim mentality from any of us.

⚠️ If we aren’t taking initiatives to clean out our emotional closet, then this powerful cleansing energy will give us hints, such as:

• Running into extreme obstacles that force our path to change

• Feeling like we are missing something salient to our lives

• Realizing that we had been missing key points in our relationships, and actually seeing them for what they are for the first time

Luckily, Mars & Pluto in cahoots can give us the motivation to do what we need to do. With these powerhouses in Aquarius it will be easier to align our missions with and for the greater collective.

The best way to work with this energy would be to take responsibility for your needs, your emotions, your spirituality, and the real essence of the much-needed and unique gifts that you bring to this world.

When we can take ownership of our full part in our lives, then we can also own what we learned from living - and use that wisdom to move forward in empowerment.

🧠MERCURY in Aquarius - real talk talk

Mercury loves to be in Aqua and offers us a much wider and far out perspective on our lives. Objectivity is the name of the game, and detached from personal bias we can more easily examine reality plainly, as is, for real.

Ooh, but careful - when we get this view we generally develop questions about why things are the way they are, we might even develop alternatives to what we are seeing that align with our values in a more authentic way.

We all know what questioning the existing social norms and rules leads to… so, it’s your move.

As Mercury bounces through Aquarius, it will encounter a few aspects:

On February 2, Mercury forms a sextile with Chiron in Aries, supporting healing conversations and facilitating resolutions of past misunderstandings.

On February 5 Mercury squares Uranus in Taurus. In this tense aspect with Aquarius’s ruler, Uranus, we may access surprising revelations and revolutionary ideas that can disrupt our stability. This aspect can correspond with an acceleration of the pace of both our thoughts and our daily lives that can feel stressful and anxiety-inducing. For this reason, around this date, it is essential to be intentional about slowing down and ensure we take care of our basic needs.

More disclosure: my natal Mercury is also in Aquarius. Can’t tell if I’m about to be exhausted or illuminated — TBD!

♥️ VENUS in Aquarius - Real Desires

Venus in Aquarius is asking us what we truly desire, outside of outsourced inspirations - what desire really resonates with us feeling our most fulfilled?

Folks with amplified fixed signs in their natal chart will be asked to question whether their values and preferences are truly their own or merely an extension of the social, cultural, and familial values they were programmed to conform to. BTW: fixed signs are Aquarius, Taurus, Leo & Scorpio

During this transit, we may feel called to reassess the structure of our relationships and have honest and open conversations about our needs, desires, and expectations.

Venus in Aquarius is an invitation to practice relating as equals and growing alongside one another without losing ourselves in the process. As we navigate the transition from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius, this transit invites us to explore a new way to relate, a new way to love, one that is not based on outdated hierarchies, ownership, control, and victim-savior dynamics but rather rooted in mutual respect, personal responsibility, and shared values.

As venus sashay’s her way through Aquarius, she’ll have some encounters:

On February 4, Venus forms a sextile with Chiron in Aries, facilitating healing experiences in our relationships with other people as well as in our own self-esteem and self-love. This alignment supports our ability to honor both our desire for connection and our need to be true to who we are.

On February 8, Venus squares Uranus in the late degrees of Taurus, stimulating a surge in our desire for independence, autonomy, and change within our relationships. Around this date, many of us will feel drawn to shake things up in our partnerships, be more experimental, meet new people, and find a new way to harmonize freedom and connection. The Venus-Uranus alignment has the potential to catalyze an awakening in one or more areas of our lives and bring into the open where we feel constrained, stuck, or out of alignment.

Leo Business 🦁

Leo energy, symbolized by the Lion, belongs to the Fire element, and is ruled by the Sun. Leo’s are known for traits like passion, leadership, creativity, confidence, and generosity, but also potential vanity or stubbornness, with a love for the spotlight and admiration.

Leos, like lions, can be strong leaders. They generally have a regal quality to them and possess a noble manner that is hard to miss. They are genuinely motivated by affection for people, and often have big dreams and plans to make people happy.

While they are attracted to the good things in life, and they know they have to work hard to get them. You may never know how much work went into whatever Leo presents you with, trust that it’s probably a lot; like way more than you might do.

The ultimate goal for every Leo is love, in all of its varieties. That seemingly egoic shine is actually Leo working hard to get your shine just as sparkly as theirs. Leo calls us into our hearts. And we are lucky for that — this influence can bring up strong feelings around what lights us up, what calls to us, what sings with us that only our hearts can hear.

Leo Full moon’s bring us that fixed energy as a bonfire. How big or brightly that fire glows depends on our willpower, our creative energies, the desires we want to move toward, and how we ultimately want to experience life.

🩰 The Leo and Aquarius Dance 🪇

The Leo-Aquarius polarity deals with the balance between all that is personal (Leo) and all that is impersonal (Aquarius). It may behoove us to get cozy with these energies now, as the south and north lunar nodes will be moving out of the Virgo-Pisces and into the Leo-Aqua axis in late July. These points are regarded as the nodes of fate: karmic points representing destiny, life purpose, and evolutionary growth. The North Node indicates future growth, while the South Node shows past-life tendencies to release ( or tendencies from earlier in your life)

The Leo-Aquarius axis invites us to remember that true belonging doesn’t require self-sacrifice or self-abandonment, and that places where our authentic self is celebrated and welcomed do exist.

Both Aquarius and Leo are motivated by expressing themselves. Aqua is interested in the most unique or unusual, and Leo wants to express themselves however they want without anyone else’s permission.

The spotlight of this Leo full moon goes on how we balance and harmonize our need for authentic self-expression, recognition, and actualization with being part of a community, our need for belonging, and our responsibility to contribute to collective good.

For the days surrounding this lunar illumination we have an opportunity to examine where we may be over-identifying with group thinking, collective narratives, or social roles, and where we may resist collaboration and connection out of fear of losing our individuality.

❤️‍🔥The dance of this Leo full moon opposite all that jazz in Aquarius, wants us to notice, move toward and ignite the things that make us feel most alive.

🔮 Other Cosmic Happenings ✨

🔵 🐐 NEPTUNE IN ARIES UNTIL 2039 : letting the soul inform the identity

Neptune is the ruler of Pisces, it represents our soul and its journey through our lifetime. Aries is the first sign of the zodiac and represents our identity. So this time will initiate deeper acknowledgement of what our soul wants us to become, the part of ourselves that the soul wants to grow into.

While Aries is generally considered an action-oriented sign, Neptune here is more of an outpost; a place to stop, reflect and rejuvenate our spirit.

🪐 We get an intimate dance with these two until February 14th, when Saturn moves into Aries and brings new insights on what we want to bring into form. Zero degrees of Aries is a huge creation point in the zodiac. Dreamy Neptune and concrete creating Saturn will bring extra power to our creation endeavors – what we bring into the world.

This can also usher in an era where we develop more physical intelligence, where we learn to listen to our bodies and understand its needs as a part of our regular instinct patterns. The beautiful wisdom of our body is only available if we can allow ourselves to listen and trust it, which will also be easier under these influences.

Neptune in Aries can also bring our awareness to how we judge things that cross our paths. It’s a caution about only looking for things in our lives that are familiar and comfortable, rather than asking why something came into your world; and what hidden, magical surprises might it bring?

Neptune in Aries can produce the illusion that we are behind in our tasks or life goals. This is a good time to adjust our lenses, to try and see where we are overdoing. The challenge will be to use our energy so wisely that doing less looks like more.

As I mentioned in the recent New Moon Ceremony, alignment creates ease. What I’ll say today about that is that alignment is not the same thing as control.

Through this transit we will be learning a new way to drive our ego, versus letting our ego drive us.

🪐🐟SATURN in PISCES brings a caution on creating long-lasting emotional patterns from fleeting moments of significance.

With Saturn in the last degrees of Pisces we might feel ungrounded, as if all our plans are constantly shifting in a liminal space. Pisces is a deep water sign, our plans are riding ocean waves.

🩺🐐CHIRON IN ARIES: getting medicine from the wound

On January 2, 2026, Chiron stationed direct in Aries, wrapping up a learning curve from 2018 around self-worth and identity.

Since its original retrograde motion those years ago, this transit has been poking at our insecurities about “Am I enough?” and “Do I deserve to take up space?”.

Throughout 2025 the wounded healer in the sign of self creation was highlighting specific traumas for our recognition. Now we can get a boost from these energies to reclaim our agency as we actively break the unhealthy cycles, some of which were revealed just months ago.

This will call us to our resilience, and to acknowledge the strength we’ve gained from the lessons we learned. It is from these precious and hard-earned gems that we can lead new directions in our lives, standing secure in our self-worth and powerful, confident self-expression and leadership.

🪐 🦀 JUPITER in CANCER is focused on mothering and nurturing.

Because of that tendency, this transit might provoke us to hold on tightly to things even if they don’t feel aligned, or don’t really connect. That’s the challenge they bring under this full moon time.

The more we hold onto what has always been, the further away it will move us from what could possibly be.

The best way to proceed through this transit is to figure out what would be best for you emotionally during times of chaos. It might not be what you’re used to - what might normally bring you comfort.

Sometimes we can’t do the extra things we might normally pursue or offer when we feel amazing. This time might be more about what we can do in the moment that matters — remembering that we will be back on top soon enough, and able to manifest and give more.

⚡🐂URANUS retrograde in TAURUS is about to station direct, reminding us that living in our values creates our sense of safety.

This Transit won’t repeat for another 80 years, it’s here to remind us that no matter how much we plan, we won’t ever know for sure how something is going to work out.

Uranus is moving slowly in the sign of the unhurried Bull, as it prepares to leave its retrograde motion and station direct. This can make it feel difficult to find that spark of energy this huge planet usually brings to our lives. But, that energy is still available - though it may arrive from unexpected sources.

During this slowdown we might feel emotions we aren’t used to, which brings us an opportunity to feel normal feeling more. This can build our emotional resilience and lead to less turmoil in the long run.

The purpose of Uranus in Taurus is to help us hone in what is of most value to us. While the process of this transit is not comfortable, it will bring us what is of the highest quality for our lives - if we let it.

With all the other Aquarian energies going on, this will most likely bring up questions for us around why we identify with certain values, and who that identification actually serves.

📝 It’s pen & paper time!

Our values can be influenced by our natural or easiest skillsets, as well as those we have chosen to develop. Today I’ve got 4 questions for us to dig a little deeper into the Aquarian focus on: Why? For whom? And to what end? Of our skills.

1. Which one of your many skills have you typically leaned on to move toward your goals?

• Maybe you’re a charmer, and you trust your wit in situations that might otherwise be awkward.

• Maybe you keep up on all the political goings on and so you feel like you can talk to anyone anywhere about anything political.

• Maybe you’ve really honed your physique or your general look and that’s brought you confidence in all your interactions.

• Maybe you’re a rockstar at organization - of people, of storage spaces and excel spreadsheets, of time and schedules.

It’s possible that we attach most of our identity to our skills.

2. What would it feel like to move through your day with your mainstay skill diminished or removed entirely?

3. What’s the backup skill that would then take center stage?

4. What other amazing aspects of yourself might rise and grow stronger without that mainstay skill hogging the spotlight?

I’m always curious (did I mention my Aqua Sun already? Oh yes, quite.) about our myriad forms of magic that get buried beneath ages of conformity, compromise, the physical and psychological efforts of passing as less weird in society (while knowing full well that everyone is actually weird in some way, because everyone is magical), and all the other efforts we make to try and control an uncontrollable life. It is a constant work in progress for me, yet with each seasonal transit through Aquarius, I find a little more freedom. I hope you do too!

Anchored alone on one side of the zodiac wheel and facing the Aquarian dance party across the street, this February 1st full moon in Leo will emphasize the importance of investing in ourselves.

This is: developing our creative voice, understanding what makes us feel most alive. Leo expresses and connects from the heart, something we are experiencing with more rarity as we rely more on technology to communicate.

This full moon is facing 5 planets in Aquarius — what is the significance of that number to you and your life? This could represent 5 people, 5 projects, and for some of us: 5 jobs. It’s highlighting 5 areas of your energy connected to the Aquarian themes: ideas, visions, thinking, conversations, communications, group chatter, taking in a lot from the collective & sifting through what you’ve gathered to determine what truly resonates and calls to you specifically. This Lunarny anchored opposition might also signify that a project or passion you want to pursue will come up against several (maybe even 5) people. It’s all about alignment.

The Leo Full Moon calls us back into the immediacy of lived experience, invites us to be active participants of our lives, to be creators rather than observers, to get involved rather than watch from the sidelines.

This fiery Leo Full Moon happens to coincide with the pre-Christian holiday of Imbolc, which is the marker between the past Solstice and the upcoming Equinox, and most acknowledged by St. Brigid’s sacred flame. This does not happen every year! Leo Fire meeting Imbolc Flames: bringing us into a new level of creation and empowerment, and bringing warmth into our hearts so that we can relax into planting the seeds for our longer visions of spring and summer (in the Northern Hemisphere).

This Leo Full moon brings a courageous solo force; to follow that call to strike out and do something differently.

❤️‍🔥 What are you prepared to hold and own more powerfully in your life?

The focus on fire - with the intense healing in Aries and this Leo full moon is enhanced by the sun illuminating the more spicy parts of Aquarius. It’s a time when the dance of alignment is either natural or it’s just not happening. While the emphasis is on being true to and nurturing a deeper love of ourselves, it also will be easier to find the people, scenarios and other things that seem to step into rhythm with us, and we with them.

This time of the year reminds us that we are an integral part of a community; we are part of a broader social system, and we don’t exist in isolation. Everything we do, or don’t do, impacts the people around us, and our individual actions ripple into the human collective.

The beauty and the challenge here is to choose yourself, and what you need to be the most to you. What you choose will show you more about who you are.

Your choices, and how you chose them, are a demonstration of your light, your gifts, your power and your abilities.

“When we make these shifts to our inner landscape, our changes spiral out into our greater communities. As we meet our own deep needs, we serve others.”

Emily Fawn in MOONWISE

Leo shows up to remind us that what makes us happy, what makes us feel alive, is always in our hearts and always accessible to us.

It’s the Power of Love.

LOOKING BACK

– Last week’s astrology transits continued our move out of earth and water elements, and into air and fire energies. Neptune at those last degrees of Pisces brought us to our place of becoming, perhaps without realizing what part we had stepped into. As Neptune settles into Aries over the next month we will be in a magical liminality: We will be like the wizard before it realizes that, “omg, I’m a freakin ‘wizard!”

LOOKING AHEAD

– February 3 : Uranus stations direct in Taurus 🎉

– February 6 : Mercury leaves Aquarius and enters Pisces 👉 🐟

– February 10 : Venus leaves Aquarius and enters Pisces 👉 🐟

– February 13 : Saturn leaves Pisces and enters Aries 🪐 🐐

– February 17 : Lunar New Year, Aquarius New Moon and Lunar Eclipse! ♒🌑✨

🎉 In celebration of the Lunar New Year, I’m launching:

🌜MOONWISE🌛

If you’ve enjoyed these full moon articles, imagine working through them in a group of compassionate people, online & in-person, at each New Moon. We explore the introspective questions in real time with journaling and then reflect on them together if we feel called to. After that, our guided meditative journeys unlock even more of your amazingness! 👉 Click this link for more info.

I can’t wait to see what magic we all wield
and co-create in the Lunar New Year!!

❓What area of your life are you yearning to add more lionhearted expression without self-sacrifice or abandonment?

💌 Let me know in the comments, I read and respond to all of them.

Until next time,
Live Full, Moon Lovers! 🌕

💫 Emily Fawn

Ye olde disclaimer: This Lunar Notion piece by Emily Fawn is meant to be uplifting, educational and fun, and is in no way intended to replace any medical advice from your primary care physician, acupuncturist, physical therapist, psychotherapist, psychologist, counselor or any other qualified medical specialist in whose care you are under. If you’ve read this series and have questions, contact me.

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Deee-Lite: Power of Love

Hello my wonderful subscribers!

Those of you familiar with my Borderlands series know that it has been some time since you’ve seen a new episode. Oh the plans we make, how clever.

This piece serves as our bridge back into the fray of being human and testing our edges.

While the timeframe I walk you through today involves a death, a family, and ripples of grief touching many people’s lives, I will not be digging into those details. I will share with you a small and potent portion of my experience around it.

In early 2025 something was shifting in me, something that would later prove to be a steady bedrock as my sense of self, of place, and of belonging was rocked at its core.

Little did I know that the work that I’d been doing to un-homogenize, de-condition, and find greater acceptance for who I am would help prepare me for a powerful test.

Something I never anticipated feeling arose out of this time. Through tending to the soil of who I am, I created an infertile environment for anything that threatened to pull me back into behavioral reactions that once protective, proved to do more harm than good. What I didn’t realize until then was that I had developed an intolerance to going emotionally backwards. Intolerance is not a word I would normally associate with myself in any respects. This was new.

My initial reaction to the pop quiz on those healthy boundaries was to assume fault.

This was like exiting quicksand safely only to be immediately dropped into an ocean of shame.

Blanketing my thoughts were feelings that I had gotten things wrong about the progress I had made both personally and relationally - that I had lied to myself about how well things had been going, and about what love and belonging meant in general.

I lost sight of the markers somehow, or the flags on the field changed; or … it’s possible that my bullshit meter finally came back online after years of calibration, and the effect was stunning.

After a few days of emotionally rear-ending the same garbage truck filled with ancient expectations and fresh misunderstandings, I gave up.

I went home. I cried about what I could not do. I felt like I had been ripped further away from my destiny, my purpose, the ME that needed to show up, but was being benched from participating by circumstances - I was furious.

Was this a control pattern problem? Maybe. Though it might have had more to do with how I thought I should be, and what other people thought I was, and what each of us thought I was both capable and incapable of.

I had an intense day filled with pity parties, rabid journaling, and navigating some of my darkest emotional places. Once I landed in that deep darkness, I knew I had to push through — to dwell there very long would be detrimental.

So, I got still. I sat and I questioned each statement that my mind had made that day. I fact-checked each one asking, “Do I have more proof that this is true or that it is not true?”

This took a long time and I was grateful to have the space and aloneness necessary for me to move all the way through it.

The next day I nursed an emotional hangover and allowed myself to do whatever came naturally and easily, not that I would have been capable of much else, but the permission seemed important.

It was so strange, to navigate all of that within such immersion, and without witness.

To just feel my way through the mess without rationalizing - or rather, allowing myself to fantastically rationalize half truths and twisted facts, until examining them later with my proof-filter. It is rare that I feel that much at once without some outside force or activity instigating and inspiring.

I do have my moments though. Sometimes when I sing, I cry. When I hear certain pieces of music, both modern and classical, I choreograph movements in my head passionately. When I’m drumming or playing another instrument I might feel such a wide range of emotions that my soul opens up to new ideas on being human and interconnectedness.

But this was set apart by its raw-ness, its urgency; a seemingly unprovoked tsunami which allowed no recourse. And, what also seemed to be the absolute worst timing - when my family needed me most.

I can only assume that the timing and amount of pressure was perfect because it happened so naturally, like a volcano. I learned a lot, very quickly.

I learned that I can survive myself, my bigger emotions, my darker places; the stuff I don’t want to share with you or perhaps anyone other than my therapist.

In my bones the notion landed that there can be so many truths occurring at once, emotional, rational, those ripened with age and those born today. Like many of us I had used the phrase, internally and in conversation. I had felt many truths within myself about things. In this context the learning curve was steeper — truths surged forward from all directions from all the people involved; a chaos storm of old and new truths shifted with the light of day to constantly re-inform. A frying pan of truths on fire. All of that was also natural.

I found a deeper place of belonging that didn’t subsist on validation — a space I arrived at from that questioning what was true: what had more proof to back it up.

This was a pivotal point in my grieving process, and I am easing into the aftermath of impossible normalcy. And I am writing again.

Soon you’ll find a new Borderlands piece about our emotional orbit that I started writing in April. I could say it is six months overdue, however I don’t have a publisher so I will say that it is indeed right on time.

Stay curious, stay you, and live full.

Until next time,

Emily Fawn

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Welcome to our first full moon of 2026 🎉 !

🌕 Full moons occur in astrological signs that are oppose where the sun is located ☀️. This Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on January 3rd is opposite the Sun in Capricorn ♑, which is where we will begin today.

Capricorn Business 🐐🐟

Capricorn season is an invitation and an opportunity to focus on mastering the world of form, bringing our dreams and visions into tangible structures.

As a cardinal sign, Capricorn brings initiator energy. Cappy’s are symbolized by the Sea-Goat, half mountain-goat and half fish. The goat embodies Capricorn’s Earth sign energies of perseverance, ambition, and determination: it has to do with our ability to face challenges and persevere through obstacles with patience.

The fish tail symbolizes intuition and emotional depth. As a feminine sign, Capricorn asks us to turn inward and connect with ourselves and our inner world before deciding what to pursue and what to build. These attributes can be mistaken as seeming slow in work or decision making. Do not be fooled! People with heavy Capricorn in their chart take their time because they’re deliberate, and they don’t want to do something, or say something twice.

⏳ When this energy is prominent, time is on our mind. We can find ourselves remembering those deep wells of wisdom that took patience and time to find, to tune into and then draw from. We might also notice that we are more aware of the responsibilities that arise as we age. We can find ourselves wanting to build things meant to last.

Capricorn season will shine bright lights on how we cultivate devotion and consistency. It’s a reminder to make sure we are being intentional with how we are investing the precious time we’ve been given. It asks us,

“Do you notice any lack of alignment between your aspirations and how you choose to spend your time?

Are you honoring, or are you able to honor your commitments to yourself and others? If not, what might need to change so that you can?”

Also happening in Capricorn

Until January 23, 2026, Mars will be in Capricorn, offering us access to more perseverance, stamina, and determination. Working together in Capricorn, the Sun and Mars can motivate us to take conscious control of what we are building and creating.

Venus in Capricorn is helping us rebuilding love on solid ground. With Venus in Capricorn, there’s no room for illusion. This time is about building intimacy on a secure foundation.

Mercury swung into Capricorn on January 1st. Coming down from a journey through Sagittarius, Mercury in Capricorn is a much more practical & direct energy where answers come about so you can assess what needs to be done.

This makes Capricorn the host of 4 planets. Along with the Sun, all 3 personal planets (Mercury, Mars, Venus) are working through Capricorn themes for at least a few weeks.

🕯️ This will spotlight the Capricorn aspects of our lives such as responsibility, commitment, deadlines, obligations & reality checks. When I use the term spotlight, or highlight, what I’m saying is that we might learn more about what we need to learn more about or take care of in these areas.

🔎 These super personal transits through Capricorn can help us get clear about the things in our lives that are important. They can also help us determine how much time and energy we can offer to the essential and non essential.

✨ It’s a great opportunity to recognize where we have too much excess, what we can trim from our schedules, and where our boundaries require more clarity. Because we are on the heels of a bunch of cosmic happenings in Sagittarius, this focus will be on where we may have overcommitted to others (you can’t do all the things for everyone) and where we may have overly clung to past ways of navigating responsibilities for ourselves. This shift can hep us better understand what is ours to manage, and what is not).

Cancerian Business 🦀

This Cancerian Super Full Moon brings opportunities for deep emotional healing, particularly in family relationships, close emotional bonds, and how we experience and express intimacy with a partner.

♥️ The focus of Cancer is on being in our heart and emotions with the tools of compassion and empathy.

If we allow it, this Full Moon can serve to remind us that emotional maturity does not mean emotional supression. Cancerian wisdom honors our sensitive natures and navigates the emotions with grace and compassion for the self and for others.

🎁 One of the major gifts of the Crab is clarity about where we might be overstepping healthy boundaries or losing ourselves in the care of others. Healthy Cancerian energy knows how to give with boundaries.

🪹 The moon, at home in Cancer

In Cancer this Moon asks us to connect with our most vulnerable, soft, and tender parts and deepen our relationship with our emotional world. Around this time, we have an opportunity to learn to be a safe space for both ourselves and others; through that emotional and boundary clarity we just talked about.

With the Sun in Capricorn, this Cancerian Full Moon highlights the balance necessary in our commitment to our career and our commitment to our families - consideration of our emotional needs is that bridge of balance!

Also happening in Cancer

The Full Moon will be widely conjunct with Jupiter in Cancer and oppose both Mars and Venus in Capricorn. This configuration will highlight relational dynamics, offering insight into how our past still shapes the way we connect with others.

Jupiter retrograde in Cancer expands our awareness of our past - even past lifetimes, to access generation wisdom and bring forth generational wounds to be cleared. The depth of this can catch us off guard; and we are called to honor our sensitivity around this.

Jupiter in Cancer squaring Chiron in Aries might amplify feelings of vulnerability, of feeling raw, feeling uncertain about navigating and integrating something that’s been on your mind. 🧠

🪇 The Cancer-Capricorn Dance

The Cancer-Capricorn polarity deals with the balance between the private life, domesticity, the need for a home base, and nurturance (represented by Cancer) versus the public life, career, reputation, and accountability (represented by Capricorn).

Attachments and love are ruled by Cancer, while achievements and rewards/punishments are ruled by Capricorn. In some ways, this polarity deals with the balance between unconditional love and conditional love. The Cancer Moon encourages us to value our home base and our roots, while Capricorn persuades us to consider our sense of duty and responsibility along public lines.

While Cancer may most enjoy attaching to the home and family, Capricorn urges us to attend to the responsibilities to the outside world.

Ideally, a balance and a bridge should be found between these two, and this Full Moon offers us an opportunity to do just that!

🪐 Other Cosmic Happenings 🔮

Uranus has just shifted back into Taurus on its retrograde path. This energy probably has some of us questioning our relationships. It’s asking you, are you actually relating authentically with others?

✴️ Uranus zaps its way through the zodiac shaking up whatever major labels each sign has going on. Taurus is the archetype that most enjoys comfort and security. These two don’t really get along. Right now it’s a clash of energies, but by coming together something new and incredible can happen.

The lesson of Uranus is to be open and to go with the flow, and to not judge the shifts or changes, no matter how drastic they may seem.

After 2026, Uranus won’t be in Taurus again for more than 80 years.

All the feels

Saturn at the last degrees of Pisces is urging us to stay aware of our subconscious patterns and how they might be undermining our goals, relationships and dreams. Neptune next to this energy is reminding us that the fugue placed over our sense of order and control is meant to wake us up to our erroneous belief patterns. 🌀

👊 It’s a challenge to the chase we make on our illusions and fantasies about needing an external source to meet our destiny. The fog is lifting, it’s time to see what’s real beneath these things. We are not as stuck as we might perceive. ⛓️

Chiron, the wounded healer, is transiting through Aries. This is fire on fire, illuminating deep wounds around identity and our origin stories, especially those concerning how we came to be who we are. 🛤️ |

Emotional needs and sense of self are brought up to the present moment. Chiron says, “It’s time, dear one. Move forward, move on, begin anew based on what you’ve been healing, strengthening and understanding about your true self.” 👣

Because of the square to Jupiter, what we are feeling at our core will be amplified. Chiron will be honing our focus on the parts of our journey that only we know about. There can be moments of epiphany that signal energies are more supportive where we need to be brave in next steps.

🕜 This will re-test our abilities to allow our inner healing to unfold naturally. Our signals for forward movement will be stronger and we will be more supported in our healing the more we are tuned into our healing rhythms.

Cancerian energies can bring our focus to our childhood and upbringing. These two cosmic notes are amplified and can highlight where our emotions or our responsibilities need to mature.

With the extra attention to our childhood wounds, we might find our emotions are emoting all over the place, and that we are making emotional messes that this Capricorn season demands we clean up. Luckily we have that Earthy energy from Cap & Taurus to help us dig into our foundations and reshape them for the world we live in now. 🌍

Feminine Reception

Capricorn, Cancer, Pisces and Taurus each bring feminine aspects to the zodiac. They help teach us about how we receive – information, affection, support, lessons, love.

When we learn about and then adjust our patterns of receiving we have a better chance of getting what we need.

👀 I’ve noticed that when I want someone to participate or show up in specific ways, it might not happen. Whether or not I express those desires, I had to stop assuming that they’d be met in the way I preferred.

Instead I had to look at my goal and work through trial and error to get my desires met. Part of that lesson involves integrity and honoring my values and goals, which Capricorn season loves to promote.

Ready for action

We have an opportunity to combat avoidant and anxious tendencies in this very stabilizing Capricorn season. Now might be the easiest time over the next year to build a foundational emotional practice that brings us inner security.

This cosmic time of the full moon may ask us to examine our attitudes toward comfort & responsibility: looking for any past patterns that have held us back from fulfillment in our familial relationships or those that are related to creating a work-home balance.

🤔 I’m curious to explore this myself. I’m wondering if some of my patterns have a cross-over between these areas - since we mentioned earlier that consideration for our emotional needs is the bridge between career and family commitments!

I have some action items for us to explore, which I gathered from workshops I’ve recently participated in that resonate with this season.

💡 These ideas are about active self love and boundaries.

🔥 When we find ourselves in a heated moment, like when we are stretched across a chasm between our comfort and our responsibility, we gotta give ourselves a moment of grace.

• A silent scream or actually yelling into a pillow, a brisk walk up and down a hallway, scribbling nonsense lines on a scrap of paper… Whatever low risk actions that help release a little steam and tell our emotional self that we acknowledge our big feelings and will make the time & space within the next 24 hours to sit & feel through whatever comes up.

🚩 And then we need to follow through, otherwise we will be back where we started - leaking feelings into irrelevant situations and onto innocent people, and probably beating ourselves up about whatever we are feeling.

🚧 We need to build trust with our emotional and nervous systems - they need to know that we will come back and collaborate with them to learn more and resolve our stuff in a compassionate way.

Journaling is excellent for this.

For those of us who don’t prefer to write, or who get stuck even more in our thoughts when we are writing, here a few other practices that can help us be present with our emotions and process alongside them:

• 🎤 Singing. Make up a song for and about your emotions. Don’t overthink or edit it, just keep singing. This can happen in the shower, while you’re doing housework, etc. We can learn so much about how we feel from hearing our own voice!

• 👣 Walk or dance through it. Like singing, walking & dancing are low-risk for most people. When our bodies are in motion our minds can loosen up and our emotions can flow easier, and we can learn to weave with them.

• 🎨 Making art. I mention this in a lot of my writing. Art projects can cross -train our brains in unique ways to solve problems. Again, try not to edit or judge whatever you’re doing. Pencil or pen to paper, brush and paint to cardboard or canvas, crochet, knit, silly puddy or high fire clay - whatever you have on hand. This is great for when the emotions are overwhelming and we might not feel sure about how to approach them. Art can train our brains to both zoom out for perspective and zoom in for detail. These concepts can also be applied to making music; with pots & pans or an upright bass - whatever you’ve got to work with will do!

• 📲 Dial a friend. If you can’t meet up for a walk and talk, calling is the next best thing.

Don’t be hasty - sometimes the person we think of to call first is the one that will just tell us everything will be ok without really being present for what you’re feeling.

Or, they might be the perfect person to agitate us out of processing because they aren’t actually ok to witness us feeling big feelings.

So, consider making a quick list and then check your subconscious drive to call them:

• Are they an active listener?

• Do you feel held and seen when you talk to them?

• Be upfront about why you’re calling, and ask if they have some time and brain space for that type of interaction.

• Maybe also let them know that you have a list so they understand that they aren’t the only friend you’re trusting. Then, trust them to answer honestly; it is their choice to do so.

🔑 Something here is key, especially considering the Cancerian influences of this time. People want to be called on by their friends in need. (If they don’t, then maybe check in with yourself to see if that’s the friend for you.)

I recently described this as a Love Tree. The Love Tree works like a phone tree for a small neighborhood or PTA.

For each person in a friend group there’s usually an unofficial spokesperson. It’s the person closest or in the most communication with that friend, and the most likely to take responsibility for them. From there the tree branches out in order of connection.

So, say a friend of mine is hurting and one of our mutual friends calls me and asks when I last spoke to our friend. They have my timeline and can catch me up if needed (not gossiping) because our friend is in a really-not-good place. I can offer direct support. I can also activate other parts of the love tree that my telephoned friend isn’t directly connected with. We all check in. All hands are now on deck and the support is more balanced. Nobody burns out their Cancerian qualities of compassion & empathy, and our friend has a better chance of getting through whatever they are facing with our support. Cheers to the Virgo-heavy folks creating an excel spreadsheet in their minds right now.

Ok, back to the moon!

✔️ Remember that this is a full moon, a time to shed and release. So, while I’m mentioning practices to cultivate, there are many subroutines that we’ll probably have to delete in order to follow through with those practices.

• We might have to battle a perfectionist mindset as we attempt to sing or create art.

• We might have to disrupt our people-pleasing or control patterns in order to listen to someone who holds us in authentic and benevolent compassion.

• We might have to go outside and endure whatever the weather is up to.

• We may have to ditch old ways of thinking about discipline as we develop new agreements to honor ourselves.

If we want something different, we may have to relinquish what we think we know, and how we believe we operate best.

Food for thought 🥪

On this super full, super Cancer-Capricorn moon we are being asked to bring our integrity into the forefront of our lives, to align our actions with our desires, and to match our sense of honor with our sense of compassion.

To attain these ideals we will have to untether ourselves from past deceptions, wipe the illusion-fog from our lenses, and commit to following through with building a trusting emotional foundation within.

Take a moment here and now, if you’re able. Have a nice long breath in, and a relieving exhale. Picture a bridge. This bridge brings you from your past to your present and leads to the road of your future. Open your senses and notice what’s around you on this bridge. What’s the temperature on your skin? What’s the lighting like here? How does the material of the bridge feel under your feet?

❓What does the bridge from your past to your present self look like?

❓How do you feel when you’re on this bridge?

Come back to this and maybe take some notes for you to revisit later in the year to see what’s changed.

I hope these and our practices from earlier can help you build a foundation for your relationship with your emotional self!

💬 Feel free to reply in the comments - I read and respond to all of them.

🌑 Up Next!

• January 6, 2026: Venus Star Point in Capricorn, while Mars is still hanging out there.

• January 18, 2026: New Moon in Capricorn. This is the first New Moon of 2026! It will ask us to define success on our own terms, to cut distractions, and to build structures that reflect our current values and desires.

Join me for our next hybrid New Moon Ceremony on January 18th, where we’ll explore:

• 📝 Gaining clarity on why and how we make commitments through reflective questions & journaling.

• ✨ An invitation to soulfully renovate how we orient ourselves toward our long-term goals.

• 🔮 A guided internal journey—part meditation, part magic—to unlock the power of your inner wisdom!

Details at www.heat.center

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎉

Until next time,
Live Full, Moon Lovers! 🌕

💫 Emily Fawn

Ye olde disclaimer: This Lunar Notion piece by Emily Fawn is meant to be uplifting, educational and fun, and is in no way intended to replace any medical advice from your primary care physician, acupuncturist, physical therapist, psychotherapist, psychologist, counselor or any other qualified medical specialist in whose care you are under. If you’ve read this series and have questions, contact me.

© 2026 Emily Ball, All Rights Reserved

Astrology References

Cafe Astrology

Moon Omens

The Pattern App

The Leoking

Molly McCord

Each Full Moon offers a spotlight on what’s growing in our lives from the seeds we planted at previous new moon times 🌱 — a symbolic illumination of our lives and where they’re going. Full moons are a great time to check in on your goals and mindsets so I’ll be aiming our reflective questions 🪞 in those directions. If you’re interested in the practice of tending your mental, emotional, and goal-oriented garden with others, check out my offer at the end of this article! 👀

During the second half of 2025 we have experienced full moons near the beginning of each sign the sun has entered. This full airy 🌬️ Gemini moon is occurring during the early part of the sun’s transit through fiery 🔥 Sagittarius.

Full moons are always in the opposite sign that the sun is in, so the Gemini-Sagittarius polarity will highlight where our attention will be drawn.

🧲 Balancing Comfort & Curiosity

The Gemini-Sagittarius polarity is a mental axis 🧠. Gemini represents the “lower mind,” focused on the logistics of everyday life and getting organized🔬. Sagittarius represents the “higher mind,” the bigger picture and what is essential 🌏. A Gemini Moon encourages us to think logically, while the Sun in Sagittarius persuades us to think beyond our normal mindsets and see our reality from a different perspective.

In ♊ Gemini, the Full Moon emphasizes the importance of recognizing the validity of multiple perceptions and viewpoints and embracing the paradoxes of life without trying to resolve them. Gemini, ruled by Mercury, governs communication, intellect, and adaptability. The ♐ Sagittarius Sun symbolizes the quest for meaning and ideas that expand upon the here and now.

So we will have both the scene from the airplane ✈️ and the sidewalk 👣 viewpoint tugging at our attention during this full moon.

This Full Moon invites us to balance our comfort in our immediate surroundings 🏠 (Gemini) and the stimulation that comes from venturing beyond our neighborhoods ✈️ (Sagittarius). It can also inspire deep conversations 💬, creative ideas 💡, and a willingness to see things from new perspectives 👀.

The main focus will be on what you are learning and believing in and how that affects your everyday life and decision making.

🥊🥊 Sagittarius and Pisces Squaring Off into Early 2026

As things progress astrologically, planets and points will pass or transit through the signs of the zodiac wheel. From now until early 2026, each time this happens in Sagittarius, these transits will square planets and points in Pisces 🐟.

Transiting through Sagittarius right now we have the Sun ☀️, Mars ♂️, and Venus ♀️. These transits will be highlighting what we are prioritizing going forward and separating those things from what is only important today.

🪐 Saturn ♄ and 🔵 Neptune are hanging out in the later degrees of the last sign in the zodiac wheel — Pisces 🐟. Here, Neptune is fogging all over the place 🌫️ and Saturn is tired of cleaning up 🧹 — yet pressing on to clarity is what we are called to do. Pisces is about endings ⏱️ and clearing out energies 🌊. The last degrees of each sign offer lessons of mastery in the themes of that zodiac sign.

🧠 The idea here is that we have the opportunities to re-learn how to master our sight of what needs to end, as well as mastering the actions of letting things go and phasing things out of our lives 🎓. This clearing out is what will help us cut through the fog.

🫵 What this means for our lives:

We will be repeatedly called upon to adjust our expectations, assumptions, beliefs, and what we might be perceiving as an ideal outcome.

Pisces energies will be more dominant throughout these squares; they’ll have more influence and directive. With this influence, we might find that the Pisces energies are closing out things we don’t want to let go of or lose. These can be tied to our identities, our beliefs about how things should be, and what we feel supports us in our lives.

🌥️ This will require a lot of trust from us regarding the following concepts and questions:

• ✨ Trust that karma has been fulfilled whether or not it looks resolved in the way we prefer.

  • Can you accept things without approving of them? I’ll revisit this concept later.

• 🌟 Trust that things are complete even if we feel like we haven’t caught up to the reality of the outcome. Ready or not, the world keeps turning — this is also about acceptance.

• 💫 Trust that the pressures we might feel around unhealed spiritual themes that we’re moving through or learning more about are exactly what needs to be released in order for us to graduate to the next level that we’re seeking.

  • Where can you get out of your own way?

• 💪 Trust that the mechanisms we have counted on to live our lives for a long time can be surrendered and we will survive.

  • Where have you needed and found a similar kind of resilience to personal changes in your past?

• 🌈 Trust that what we have believed is possible for our lives is just a fraction of what’s available. Move beyond your expectations and assumptions.

• 🕊️ Trust that as things are removed from our lives that we didn’t want, expect, or think we could carry on without, that we will find out how we process those losses, how we love ourselves through it, and how we honor those feelings as part of the human experience. Sometimes we have to deflate more in order to inflate with better air.

💥 The main lesson from Pisces is this: there are parts of your reality that aren’t meant to move forward with you into 2026.

🟣 Pluto in Aquarius ♒

Lingering in the background for the next 20 years or so is Pluto in Aquarius. Having an Aquarius Sun, I can testify that one of our attributes is always having an exit strategy 🏃‍♂️ so the Piscean aspect of escapism can get really enhanced. Pluto can urge us to focus on our fears — and who doesn’t have some fear around change and loss?

Because of this, we will need a little extra courage. 💪

We can pull some courage from other aspects of this long transit: Pluto’s strength of survival instincts and the Aquarian ability to compartmentalize so we can release what isn’t essential and hold that bigger Sagittarius vision with more ease.

We aren’t out of the woods 🌲 yet, but we aren’t out of luck 💫 either!

🌈 Optimistic Jupiter is retrograde in nurturing 💓 Cancer through March 10th 2026

⭐ The intention with this transit is to come into your heart 💖 in an honest way and expand how you give and receive from this beautiful space in the healthiest ways possible for you. That can feel super vulnerable.

Cancer is a heart-focused energy. Jupiter rules Sagittarius, so the Sun ☀️ is giving this transit a lucky boost 🍀. That luck isn’t free though; it comes with deep questions about how we love — and whether we can give from our hearts without strings attached if our personal needs aren’t being met.

🎁 The gift of this transit is to learn how to receive. Perhaps it might be about learning to give to yourself, learning to mother yourself and take care of your own needs so that when you give, it can be without strings attached, without resentment, and from that pure place.

If something has been really emotionally heavy this year, this transit can help us with discernment on where we focus our love energies. 💕

🌊 Grand Water Trine

In my last Lunar Notion article, for the Taurus full moon, I wrote about the Water Grand Trine unfolding into mid-December. The basic astrology is that there are a heavy portion of planets and/or points inhabiting the water signs.

The main players are Jupiter in 🦀 Cancer, Mercury in 🦂 Scorpio, and Saturn in 🐟 Pisces.

Water Grand Trines activate a lot of emotions, which might create a greater need for privacy 🛌, retreat 🏡, anything that allows us to feel very honest with ourselves. 💧

It is asking us to flow with the emotional growth that we are experiencing. 💦

This Water Grand Trine can help us flow, can help us carry our burdens, can drown what we cannot carry; it can also sink energies and can overwhelm us. 🌊

How we handle this will depend on our relationship with our emotions and our ways of working with them. 🔱

🔮 Mutations

🏹 Sagittarius, 👯 Gemini, 🐠🐠 Pisces, and 🏺 Virgo are mutable signs. What does that mean?

🌀 Mutation. Change. Un-becoming to become something new. With transiting planets and/or aspects in each of these signs, this might not be a pretty process.

Sagittarius season is a time to dream big 💭. In combination with the Full Moon in Gemini and the rest of the astrology right now, remember that these dreams are long-term visions.

👉 We will need to check our expectations on short-term outcomes, release many of our assumptions about how things will work, and hold onto that bigger vision without getting snared in the details for now.

A Recap of our full moon reflective questions 🪞

💭 Can you accept things without needing to approve of them? I delve into my own struggles with this idea in another article called Innerlands, you can find it here and in the notes below.

💭 Can you trust that things are complete even if you feel like you haven’t caught up to the reality of the outcome?

💭 Where can you release some pressures you put on yourself to be a certain way, so that you can graduate to the next level that you’re seeking?

💭 Thinking about the ways you’ve navigated change and loss in your past, can you notice how you’ve shown up for yourself and been resilient before now?

💭 Can you trust that what you think is possible for your life, even in your current circumstances, is simply a product of your perception? Can you imagine fewer expectations about what is possible?

💭 🌳 This next one reminds me of a lesson I learned from trees. Looking at an enormous maple tree, I noticed that the lines of its bark moved closer, nearly scrunched up together right before a new, really big branch formed. What in your life needs to get smaller in order for something new and big to shift or occur?

🌕 As this Gemini Super Full Moon peaks, a new understanding of reality becomes accessible. These days, what felt confusing or uncertain could begin to reveal its underlying pattern, allowing us to recognize a thread we can follow — maybe a thread connecting our past to the present and the future, or a thread connecting our inner and outer realities.

The Gemini Full Moon is a reminder that our truth isn’t the only truth, our opinions aren’t the absolute truth: we are being called to understand the difference between a belief and a fact, and invited to stay open to perspectives and ideas that are different from ours.

✔️ What is essential is curiosity.
✔️ What needs to be washed away is being right or having everything figured out.
✔️ If we can stay oriented toward learning and growth, to new perspectives, then we can gain clarity about our path ahead.

‼️ A perfect invitation from the last full moon of 2025!

🌑 Up Next!

• December 10th: Neptune turns direct — this should help clear some of the fog 🌫️ we might feel around moving our lives forward. This also brings some responsibility on us to wrap things up by then – gotta ditch illusions and outdated attachments.

• December 11th: Mercury returns to Sagittarius — keep integrating insights!

• December 15th: Mars enters Capricorn, where it is exalted (the energy of Mars can be more easily harnessed and directed) — our capacity to take action with intention will be supported!

This Gemini Full Moon is encouraging a clarifying power wash 🚿 to our psyches. If we can participate in this cosmic clean up, then the Sagittarius New Moon on December 19th can usher in a time of productive and wondrous expansion.

Get a boost for wrapping up Sagittarius season by joining me and my moonbeams in our next hybrid New Moon Ceremony on December 19th, where we’ll explore:
📝 Expansion of what we believe is possible through reflective questions & journaling
✨ An invitation to renovate our commitment to authenticity and to following our true path
🔮 A guided internal journey — part meditation, part magic — to unlock the power of your inner wisdom!

Details at www.heat.center

💌 If this Lunar Notions piece stirred something in you, feel free to reply 💬 in the comments — I read and respond to all of them.

Until next time,
Live Full, Moon Lovers! 🌕
💫 Emily Fawn

Ye olde disclaimer: This Lunar Notion piece by Emily Fawn is meant to be uplifting, educational, and fun, and is in no way intended to replace any medical advice from your primary care physician, acupuncturist, physical therapist, psychotherapist, psychologist, counselor, or any other qualified medical specialist in whose care you are under. If you’ve read this series and have questions, contact me.

© 2025 Emily Ball, All Rights Reserved

Notes

• Innerlands article — re: acceptance is not approval

• Moonbeam New Moon Ceremony!

• Astrology references:

  • Molly McCord: link

  • David Palmer, aka The Leo King: link

  • Moon Omens: link

  • Cold Moon etc from Happy Soul Crystals: link

  • Cafe Astrology: link

🌿 Lunar Notions: Taurus Super Full Moon November 5, 2025 🌕

Welcome to Lunar Notions! For Full moons I offer an article with astrology gathered from diverse sources and ask reflective questions to help align you with the cosmic flows. In this episode you’ll find questions meant to deepen your understanding of what is ready to end in your life, what you’re ready to transform, how we can share in a larger vision and how we can make it fun!

A quick shout-out to my subscribers - THANK YOU!

This November is a month of making deep changes in our lives. We may find ourselves at the end of the road with certain patterns that we feel DONE with. The trick will be whether or not we follow that feel-good time, vs the treat of doing internal, and sometimes deeply spiritual, cleansing, shedding, ending and THEN rejuvenating ourselves. We gotta open our longer-term feel-good eyeballs 👀 and remember to keep them open as things start to shift.

✍️ Reflective Questions

We are diving into some questions right away. If you’re able to, get a pen and paper and jot these down for deeper reflections later. Don’t sweat answering these and other upcoming questions right away. I will recap them near the end of today’s episode and you’ll always have a copy here on my substack to refer back to.

💭 What personal patterns are you nearing an end with?
💭 What do you need to repair internally in order to end those patterns?
💭 What is the brick wall you’ve been running into for a while now?
1️⃣ Stop.
2️⃣ See it for what it is.
3️⃣ How important is that brick wall and why?
4️⃣ Can you disconnect with it and what might a plan to disconnect with it look like?

Personally, I see a therapist weekly and we dig into this stuff often. Even with that regularity, I can dodge the elephant in the room of my mind and dance all around it.
Only we really know what needs to stop in our lives so that something that feels even better, even more nourishing, can come in. 🌸

That more nourishing thing waiting for us to make room is not a replacement. It’s more an appropriate way of being in our evolved selves. While it will be a more responsible and seemingly boring move or action, it will ultimately be way more satisfying than continuing the patterns which have kept us small, cramped, dull, in pain, and stolen our ability to be fully present. 🌱

It’s important to look at these patterns and potential changes from our own lens before we juxtapose them in our outer reality (physical world, relationships, etc). The astrology just prior to this full moon asks us to direct our focus back into self to understand what feels wonky in our lives, and what we can stabilize during this earthy Taurus Full Moon.

🕯️ This will take work, and time, and we probably won’t see much of a return on those investments as soon as we might like.
It’s still worth it! 🌻

🌕 Our Taurus Full Super Moon 💫

The New Moon in Libra two weeks ago brought up themes around setting intentions for sovereignty and empowerment in our relationships. Intentions planted at the new moon will ripen with the full moon. 🌸

The themes of this Taurus Full Moon are all about sensuality, presence, groundedness and feeling secure. Security is a big thing for Taurus. 🪵

Super Moons are closer to the earth and they usually appear 30% brighter. Super Moons influence all water on the planet, from the water in the oceans to the water in our bodies. 🌊 Water generally corresponds to our emotions.

So, we have that recent Libra New Moon focused on balancing our empowerment in relationships and this Taurus Full Super Moon checking our feelings of security above all else.

The move from a Libran to Taurean lense asks us:

💗 How do you feel secure in your relationships?

Security in a relationship might mean that you’re not chasing someone, that you’re grounded in yourself, and to let what’s good come to you. 🌿 It’s usually about learning to stop giving your power away by trying to prove yourself.

Part of that Taurean security is driven by self-reliance. Taurus energies can help us with simplification by asking - what has been distracting you or taking you away from your deeper needs and desires? This can help us discern what is destabilizing in our lives.

Taurus is concerned with how we invest our time and energy. With the Sun in Scorpio, this opposing combo can put a spotlight on where we need to deepen our understanding of what we want, and our core needs as individuals. 🌞🦂

Taurus shows us what is above the surface: what we see of the trees. 🌳 Scorpio shows us what is below the surface: the roots, the soil, the semi-unknown. 🌱 This area stabilizes what we are able to see above ground.

The Sun in Scorpio wants to illuminate the depths of our psyche, it brings a drive to connect with what’s happening within us that we might not normally acknowledge, feel or understand. 🌒 Scorpio energies can be a beautiful guide through the unknown with a big toolbox for us to learn from. 🧰

💪 What a great opportunity to realize that we are more powerful when we face a fear, when we understand that part of ourselves and see it for what it truly is.

🌹 What are you facing internally?
🔥 What are you choosing to transform?

During this season in the Northern Hemisphere, the part of the tree we can see (Taurus) moves towards barren-ness, it releases the sometimes gaudiness of summer. 🍂 The leaves fall and will nourish the soil.

If we can let nature do its job, if we can understand what needs to end and then release control of it, then those leaves will join and replenish earth layers beneath our sight (Scorpio), stabilizing our potential for growth. 🌍

💧 How am I merging my energy?
💞 How am I sharing my energy?
🌬️ What am I willingly releasing in order for me to join a larger force, vision and mission?
⚖️ Is my energetic effort empowering and regenerating my life, or is it too heavy & dense, weighing me down until I feel like I can’t do this (job/project/relationship) anymore?

🌟 Jupiter, Chiron & Venus in a T-Square : ⚡

Jupiter in Cancer is bringing up what we’re ready to emotionally grow from. We have an opportunity to create a reframe for things that affected the roots of our Aries sense of self (Independence, confidence). 🦀🔥 Chiron in Aries in this squaring tension can move out of a wounded warrior embodiment and into more of a spiritually evolved warrior — here, he also has the capacity to balance the Aries masculine with the Cancerian feminine. This translates to us as a greater understanding about what our masculine & feminine energies are healing.

💎 Venus is finishing her time in Libra. Taurus is ruled by Venus, so she’s got a little extra oomph during this Full Moon. 💃 While in the tension of this square, Venus is reminding us about how we can bring balance to our self worth and allow that to influence the balance of our relationships and connections. She can also highlight how we express who we are and what we need with others. 💗

Venus in Libra brings us the opportunity to be more objective and detached, more able to see everyone’s unique experiences. Connecting with people that have similar or shared values and priorities may feel very important during this squaring transit.

Aries & Cancer deal with our personal energies that we are working through. Libra energy shows how we bring our personal energies out to others. It’s how we discuss, share and create something new with others.

⚖️ Libra here can show us how we are realistically applying what we’re learning about ourselves to the outside world.

🌊 Water Grand Trine : moving toward completion 💧🔮

This Water Grand Trine began at the Libra New Moon and will unfold into mid-December.

Both Neptune and Saturn are retrograde in Pisces. 🐠 Here they’re in the last sign of the zodiac and meant to wash away, complete or end whatever is needed. We might find ourselves reviewing deeper and potentially more spiritual matters from earlier in the year, now with updated and self-wiser lenses!

Saturn is activating our responsibility centers, demanding maturity, growth, and a broader view. 🪐 Trining Jupiter in Cancer, this allows us to move the completion energy forward and filter what isn’t a part of our emotional needs or our personal foundation.

Jupiter’s wisdom brings us emotional understanding about what we have been moving through. This Water Grand Trine offers opportunities to dissolve our belief that something is what it isn’t, and to trust what we are feeling. 💫

It is asking us to flow with the emotional growth that we are experiencing.

Water Grand Trines activate a lot of emotions which might create a greater need for privacy, retreat, anything that allows us to feel very honest with ourselves. 🕊️

Coupling with this Taurus Full Moon we need to find secure spaces where we feel safe to feel our feelings. 🌿

In part of this Water Grand Trine we have the Sun and Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio. 🦂🌑

Black Moon Lilith holds onto where we are pissed off, resentful, jealous, vengeful, angry and envious. She goes dark in Scorpio - digging into deeper and more private aspects of self, things we don’t normally openly share. 💀

Her energy here can encourage us to move through those feelings and find their roots. In doing so we can better understand their impact on what drives us and what parts of these harsh feelings need to be purged so that we can better understand our true power and connection with our soul. 🌌

Luckily, a Water Grand Trine will keep energy moving. Our job is to allow these feelings to be felt and then move through them with compassionate understanding. 🫧

Alongside the freedom found when we move through these foundational emotional matters, resolving them also fosters greater receptivity. 🕊️

This Water Grand Trine can help us flow, can help us carry our burdens, can drown what we cannot carry; it can also sink, capsize and overwhelm us. 🌊

How we handle this will depend on our relationship with our emotions and our ways of working with them.

💧 What is flowing through you?
🌊 Are you allowing it to carry you, or to sink you?

Fixing our future eye on Scorpio for the moment, Mercury will be there from November 9th - November 30th. 🪞

This will keep the water grand trine in motion and bring us more messages, secrets, revelations, it will show what’s been hidden, and unveil truths that have been submerged or manipulated. 🔍

You might find yourself drawn to water more - rivers, lakes and seas, longer showers, more thirst: seeking something that allows you to flow (again there’s a reminder to find space where you feel safe to do so under this Taurus Full Moon influence). 💦

⚡ Mars & Mercury in Opposition to Uranus in Gemini 🔥

Mars & Mercury conjunct in Sagittarius are opposing Uranus retrograde in Gemini. 🌪️

This mutable opposition can bring surprising, shocking, shake-up energy. Under this influence Uranus’ electrifying energies can zap our collective grids. ⚡

These energies in opposition can sometimes force changes of mindset. What we have been told might get turned upside down and all around: now the reverse is true, the opposite comes through. 🔄 This change can arrive in the form of surprising revelations and shocking developments. 💥

Fiery Mars in fiery Sagittarius gains energy, and instigates an inner dialogue, “I’ve got to go out and get that, I gotta make moves on this, I gotta go for that thing.”

The direct line between Sagittarius and Gemini leans into seeking information with wisdom & understanding of what was not known prior. 🌠

This influence can bring our focus to setting the record straight, making corrections, and moving towards what inspires and motivates us.

Mars & Mercury in Sagittarius are ready for something different. 🏹
They say, “Show me something I haven’t seen before, let’s go somewhere I haven’t been before.”

Adding fuel to the flames of this opposition is Pluto direct in Aquarius, which is Sextiling Mars & Mercury in Sagittarius AND Trining Uranus in Gemini. 🌬️

Pluto here also works with the collective grid - big systems that we rely upon for things like the internet and air travel. ✈️ Pluto brings extreme change, and I’m sure you can put those potentials together.

These aspects can initiate a readiness within us for adventures into new territories. 🌍

We might shock ourselves with what we say yes to. When we think something might be crazy to pursue, Sagittarius energy can relax and remind us of what is fun. 🪶

🌈 Where are you ready to let loose?
🔥 What changes are you ready to make?
🚀 Is there anywhere or anything that you are feeling propelled toward?
Can it just be fun instead of scary, and make for a great story later? ✨

This opposition can help us break free from something we’ve been ruminating on so that we can do something that we’ve been wanting to. 💥

When Pluto supports a change opportunity, it brings an extra force, more desire and drive. 💫

Here Pluto can lock us into a new risk or adventure; helping us decide where we put our energies.

Now, Taurus energies are by nature more cautious and observant, and darn right immobile. 🐂 One gift of Taurean stability is that it can be securely grounding even as it clashes with these wild aquatic and fire-whipped rides. 🌊

🔭 REVIEWING OUR QUESTIONS 🪞

🌕 What personal patterns are you nearing an end with?
💭 What do you need to repair internally in order to end those patterns?
🪶 What is the brick wall you’ve been running into for a while? How important is that brick wall and why?
🌱 Can you disconnect with it and what might a plan to disconnect with it look like?
🔥 What are you facing internally?
🌹 What are you choosing to transform?
💧 How am I merging my energy?
💞 How am I sharing my energy?
🌬️ What am I willingly releasing to join a larger force, vision and mission?
⚖️ Is my energetic effort empowering and regenerating my life, or is it too heavy & dense, weighing me down until I feel like I can’t do this (project/relationship) anymore?
🌊 What is flowing through you?
🕊️ Are you allowing it to carry you, or to sink you?
🌈 Where are you ready to let loose?
🔥 What changes are you ready to make?
🚀 Is there anywhere or anything that you are feeling propelled toward? Can it just be fun instead of scary, and make for a great story later?

🌕 This Taurus Full Moon can stabilize what we value while the hyper-mobile Water Grand Trine works to wash away what isn’t true for us, and the mutable oppositions keep us afloat with our drive toward newness, and the cardinal square helps keep our compass attuned to our emotional growth, and the Scorpio Sun helps remind us how deep the river we tread is, with the objectivity of Venus in Libra at the helm. 🧭

Ahoy mateys, adventure awaits! ⚓🐚

💌 If this Lunar Notions piece has inspired you, I’d love to know about it in the comments! I read and respond to all of them. 💫

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🌑 On Thursday November 20th we will have an opportunity to wrap up these questions and seed new intentions with an emotionally wiser mind in a
Scorpio New Moon Ceremony.

I offer these hybrid ceremonies each month
as part of a yearlong journey with the cosmos.

You can find out more about our ceremony outline and how to register for
New Moon Ceremonies on my website.

I'm super interested in Moon Ceremonies!

Until next time,

🌕 Live Full, Moon Lovers! 🌿
Emily Fawn

🩵 Disclaimer: this Lunar Notion piece by Emily Fawn is meant to be uplifting, educational and fun, and is in no way intended to replace any medical advice from your primary care physician, acupuncturist, physical therapist, psychotherapist, psychologist, counselor or any other qualified medical specialist in whose care you are under. 🌸

If you’ve read this series and have questions, contact me.
© 2025 Emily Fawn Ball, All Rights Reserved 🌙

📚 Citations

• Molly McCord

• David Palmer, “The Leo King”

• The Pattern App

• New Moon Ceremonies with Emily

Welcome to Lunar Notions! Every Full moon I offer an article with astrology gathered from diverse sources and ask reflective questions to help align you with the cosmic flows. In this episode you'll find questions meant to guide your understanding of what isn't working, serving your life, serving your spirit, and what's keeping you from living in the main character position of your life.

Eclipse Portals are intended to transform your life & push you forward in the most progressive ways. It’s like a door to a new dimension, where certain truths are revealed—the truths we know, but might avoid admitting to ourselves.

🌊 This lunar eclipse in Pisces is a clearing out.

One aspect of the Pisces duality represents the conscious and the unconscious mind. This is somewhat illustrated by the body parts associated with Pisces, the feet: the tops are exposed to the world, the bottoms feel what’s below. Pisces can ground us in our innate and unconscious connection to the Earth and everything therein.

The shadow side? Getting lost in the unconscious, feigning ignorance, or refusing to see what’s right in front of us.

📜 “Saturn RX (retrograde) in Pisces, the North Node in Pisces, and the Pisces Lunar Eclipse bring transitions that can honor your highest growth trajectory. Surrender of a previous version of Self is required, which can be messy and uncertain.” — Molly McCord

🌕 A Time to Shed All full moons are the culmination of whatever we began around the last new moon. For us, that was the first of two Virgo new moons. It’s a moment to assess what has grown well and what can be released during the two weeks before the next new moon.

Saturn retrograding into Pisces, in tandem with Pluto in Aquarius, will strip away anything without a spiritual foundation. Over the coming months, what doesn’t serve you will be removed—sometimes suddenly, sometimes gradually. Some things could quickly be removed while others will trickle out so slowly we might barely notice that they're gone. Either way, this release is happening and the status quo cannot remain.

✨ This is a great time to tend what’s been ignored:

• 🦷 That doctor or dentist appointment

• 🪞 The final conversation with the friend who drains your energy

• 🗂️ Anything you’ve pushed to the back burner

🌀 The Past Portends the Future

📜 “A lot of the answers to where your soul truly can express itself more, get over anxieties, get over situations, and really learn to trust in the Divine and really learn to be your best spiritual self, deals with what happened the last time we had this same eclipse.” — David Palmer, The Leo King

Pisces pulls focus to our past, and Saturn—the time lord—hates blank spots in the timeline. Both of these influences will be asking us what we forgot that was pivotal in our lives from September of 2006 - the last time we saw an eclipse like this and we were confronted by a major spiritual block

✨ Jupiter in Cancer's desire to gain wise insights from our past experiences can feel conflicting with the fact that we are not who we were, even though those past experiences formed us. This transit supports emotional growth and blossoming in new ways without being tethered to the old identities.

🌟 Jupiter in Cancer brings these two queries:

• 🌌 Are you letting spirit guide you?

• 🚪 If so, will you follow through on what spirit presents?

⚡ The Only Constant Is Change On September 6th, Uranus stationed retrograde in Gemini, where it will remain for the next five months.

📜 “Of all the planets, Uranus is the one most associated with radical disruption and revolutionary change—its intention is always liberation.” —Molly McCord

Retrogrades invite inward focus. With Uranus, that means reflecting on freedom, revolution, and breaking free from stale patterns. In Gemini, Uranus is restless and doesn’t want to stick with what’s worked in the past.

🌟 Reflective prompts from this transit:

• 🔓 Where in your life do you need more freedom?

• 🌀 Where can you release yourself from stale conditioning?

• 🪤 Where do you feel trapped?

• 🕊️ How can you reclaim your freedom?

This retrograde also brings review:

• 💡 Do past “sparky” ideas from Uranus moving direct still feel valid?

• 💭 Do you still believe in them?

Uranus asks us to stay present, lit up by the future without clinging to the past. Most drama that occurs under this transit will come from obsessive thinking or feeling something is missing. Don’t chase the shiny thing ✨ just because it’s shiny.

Instead, this is a great time to find steady energy—in your emotions, mind, or community—so you can respond with grounded presence.

💡 Notice where overstimulation shows up:

• 📱 Social media noise

• 🔄 Endless idea generation

• 📢 Constant outside input

Sometimes Uranus reveals freedom through boredom, stripping the illusion of sparkle from what is actually hollow.

🍂 For me, posting on social media and checking responses is one of the dullest tasks in the world—even though it’s one way that I reach those who might benefit from this astrology. Truthfully, in this season, I’d rather be out hiking in the autumn woods of Western New York. 🚶‍♀️🌳

🌱 The Seduction of the Moment The Sun, Mercury, and South Node in Virgo hold us in earthly responsibility. Virgo energy can obsess over details, leaving us confined in minutiae.

Meanwhile, the cosmos beckon for our expansion into more dreams, more love, more vitality. With all that energy in Virgo focused on the details, we can feel stuck in the small spaces of our lives. We might be confronted with what feels good and right for us to pursue that doesn't actually fit our current life or lifestyle.

🌟 If part of your life feels confining or holding you back, then it's a good time to ask:

• 🌈 What needs to expand in my life to welcome natural progression?

• ✂️ What needs to be tightened up, released, or resolved? (A mindset, belief, habit, job, person, location…)

Opposing Virgo, the Pisces North Node lunar eclipse energy may reveal great mysteries—or attempt to hide them. It asks us to face for those big elephants 🐘 in the room 🐘 that make the space feel small 🐘, and address them.

🌊 Pisces here reminds us that edits and changes must come not from stress or over-effort, but from surrender.

With Pisces, Virgo, and Gemini all active, we’re in mutable territory—expect almost nothing to go as expected.

🌊 Guiding questions for this slippery time:

• 🌊 How do you surrender what isn’t working?

• 💤 How do you accept your life as it is—even if it feels boring?

🌑 A Potential Future I noticed a main concept that seemed to be arising from the current astrology: more being, less doing.

🌟 So:

• 🪞 What small step can you take to let yourself Be—to get a broader view of yourself and your life, and to make sure you're actually living in it and not living as a supportive character to someone else's story?

• 🏡 How can you create a safe and true container for the new world you’re stepping into?

💬 Let me know in the comments—I read and respond to them all.

✨ May your purpose and identity be soul-led throughout this Eclipse season, and into the big changes coming up early next year!

Until next time,
Live Full, Moon Lovers! 🌕

💫 Emily Fawn

Ye old Disclaimer: This Lunar Notion piece by Emily Fawn is meant to be uplifting, educational and fun, and is in no way intended to replace any medical advice from your primary care physician, acupuncturist, physical therapist, psychotherapist, psychologist, counselor or any other qualified medical specialist in whose care you are under. If you’ve read this series and have questions, contact me.

© 2025 Emily Ball, All Rights Reserved

Astrology references:
🦁 The Leo King

Molly McCord

Hey everybody, I’m Emily Fawn and welcome to Lunar Notions! 🌙✨ In this series, we peek behind the celestial scenes in a succinct way before diving into the current attributes of the full moon. I’ve got some heavy-hitter questions at the end of the article so you’ve got plenty of time to grab a journal!

This Aquarius Full Moon is here to open big doors for us when we engage the tech of both the times and the future, and dynamically connect to others in the world through our work and offerings, and our wanderings.

Full Moons are about connecting us with things we already know but aren’t acknowledging. They can illuminate buried feelings, or secrets. They can also bring our projects to a turning point. During the time of the full moon we can suddenly burst forth with proclamations and outpours that seem fresh and new, simply because they are not yet rationalized or materialized.

🌞 A Look Back: Leo New Moon Seeds

The Leo New Moon two weeks ago set the tone for the month. Leo is all about radical self-love and confidence that comes from within.

In the last new moon ceremony adventure I hosted on July 24, 2025, we walked through some qualities that shape Leo season, explored the main character in our lives, and worked through some deeply reflective questions. We nurtured ways to take our power back from places we may subconsciously give it away.

At that time, the Sun and Moon were in tight opposition to Pluto in Aquarius, which highlighted the need to confront fears, wounds, or power dynamics that we felt were inhibiting our ability to shine and fully express ourselves. Pluto will transform us, and the changes it brings are life altering. This opposition dominated the celestial energy but offered an opportunity for us to explore how external influences, peer pressure, fear of rejection, and the need to belong might inhibit our self-expression or dim our light.

Luckily, Pluto’s transforming aspects in Aquarius can strip away things from our lives that we aren't putting our energy towards anyways; things that our hearts aren’t really into and any seeds we’ve planted that we aren’t actually nourishing. What you feed grows, so that new moon was a great checkpoint for us to take a realistic look at what we are feeding and what we want to be feeding in our lives.

🌕 This Full Moon in Aquarius

This full moon in Aquarius is going to shine a light on where we’re at with our radical self love and acceptance, and take it to the next level. Aquarian energy is all about being different and doing different, so this full moon can really help us engage that Leonine lesson!
The Leo Sun is proud and intensely individual–not content with simply being just one of the team. The Aquarius Moon, while individualistic as well, values the balance of independence and the team, the community, and a dedication to sparkle motion. The Full Moon illuminates this small conflict.

🔮 Cosmic Currents: Planetary Support

At this full moon time, Saturn and Neptune are both moving retrograde in Aries. As the first sign of the zodiac, Aries represents the state of new beginnings. Neptune retrograde in Aries offers an opportunity to question whether we may be acting from a place of escapism, fantasy, or unrealistic expectations; and asks us to focus on strengthening our connection with Source and Truth before moving forward.

Saturn invites us to get clear about what we aspire to build and what responsibilities we are willing to take. During Saturn’s retrograde journey, and especially while Saturn travels back through Pisces, we may face delays or encounter resistance if we try to keep pushing forward.

Saturn & Neptune in Aries helps adjust our sense of self to align less with what we tell ourselves about ourselves, and more with our soul.

Also dancing in the background of this astrological weather is Venus in Cancer. Cancer rules the moon, so whatever sign the moon is in will impact the influence of Venus throughout its Cancerian journey.
The moon in Aquarius will lend Aquarian aspects to Venus while it hosts the moon’s movement.

💫 Mars Shifts & Tensions

Just before this full moon in Aquarius, Mars moved out of Virgo where this duo urged us to optimize our energy management and be more conscious of how we channel our life force. We may have continued to feel the reverberations of that transit over the past few days.

On August 6th Mars moved into Libra, and will continue its flight there until September 22nd. I think this timing is great as Libra is a cardinal sign associated with leading us into the autumn season in the northern hemisphere.

This transit also moved Mars out of the southern lunar node. This will make it easier for us to get out of the mindset of shadow Virgo energies: ‘trying to fix everything’, especially what isn't or hasn't ever worked in the first place.

In Libra, Mars can accentuate our use of charm as a means to an end. With Libran energies we can see many different sides of any given issue, and this can sometimes lead to vacillation and indecision about how to act. We don’t want to be the “bad guy” and Libra’s influence rarely resorts to force. Instead, we might attempt to win arguments with style.

Because of Libra’s influence we might be indirect in our approach to conversations and projects, and more inclined towards mental debates. At the same time we might also try to make everyone, including our opponents, comfortable! Passive-aggressiveness is the shadow side of this energy combo, so there’s a caution here on over-conciliating. I’d advise us all to really look at where we might think we are practicing conflict management and check those areas for people pleasing. This can be an excellent invitation to master your strategies, especially in working towards a goal with a team by striving for balance and avoiding extremes.

Mars in Libra might be or feel hesitant, but don't confuse that with weakness.

With the right nudge from the right person this influence can propel us into making the best moves of our lives. The deal is that these nudges that we receive and give need to come from love and support in order to provide that great momentum. It's our responsibility to do our inner work, so how these nudges come about will reveal who is caught up in their ego and may have deeper work to do. And when people reveal where they’re at through their words or actions, approaching them with empathy and compassion will be paramount for your self care.

Another big Libran concept is that relationships are the path to self-awareness. Along with recognizing your people and where they’re at, a longing for partnership can arise or increase during this transit.

Ultimately, Mars in Libra is trying to show us that there is a more beautiful path or direction for our lives - if we can land on decisions and make moves from a healthy and lovingly supported place.

From Pluto Bean: he was speaking on waiting for miracles to arrive.

“ it’s not that you aren’t ready for those miracles, it’s that you think you need to wait for something.

You can stay in the pattern of waiting or you can step into the proof (of what reality is showing you you’re ready for).

Your mind is the architect and right now it;s building - either your limits or your liberation. “

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⚡ Uranian Sparks + Mercury Retro Vibes

August 8th Mars in Libra trined Uranus in Gemini.
This influence can urge us to take actions that liberate us from restrictions or increase our desire to experience new and different things. This airy trine can bring more innovation into our lives and create an atmosphere ripe for putting our ideas into action; a boon in the Libran battle of indecision.

Uranus, our signifier of radical thinking, feeling and action, in the sign of Gemini is telling us to liberate our thoughts.
Dancing with the energy of Mercury still retrograde in Leo until August 11th, the message is to ditch the bad attitude and go on our own heart-based instincts.

🌊 Mars Oppositions: Saturn & Neptune

Cusping this full moon on August 8th and 9th Mars opposed Saturn and Neptune respectively.

Saturn in this face-off may have brought obstacles, blocks, delays, and opposition. These could take the form of vetoes, rules, restrictions, limits, personal responsibilities, self-limitations, health matters, and other things that agitated our insecurities.

Mars opposite Saturn brings us the challenges we need to move our lives forward. In a friction-free life nothing changes, nothing evolves, nothing grows. Saturn brings us growth challenges.

Neptune’s part in this opposition is the bringer of boldness: this energy helps us face ambiguous challenges or complications, bewildering desires or anger, passive-aggressiveness or unusual displays of assertion, and whatever ire arises from circumstances that are unknown or complex.

🔥 Looking Ahead: Focus & Determination

On August 10th, Mars in Libra will trine Pluto in Aquarius, helping us plug into our inner resolve and point our power toward what really matters to us. It’s a great time to eliminate distractions, tighten up intentions, and set our sights on long-haul goals that already have legs in our lives rooted deeply in meaning.

Of course, this is all happening in the same breath as that Mars opposite Saturn and Neptune transit—so don’t be surprised if there’s tension, frustration, or the sense that your energy is being pulled in different directions. There might be questions of sacrifice: what’s worth keeping, and what do we release in order to move closer to alignment?

This stop-and-go feeling can be disorienting until we reestablish contact with our inner compass. Until then, rest may be just as important as action. Slow down enough to listen to yourself, and your plan will come.

And just in time, we’ve got Venus applying to a conjunction with Jupiter, offering sweetness and expansion in relationships, beauty, and connection. Love and pleasure can be guiding lights through all the noise—let them show you what you’re really longing for.

🌀 In Closing

Ultimately, the message from this Aquarius full moon is to take a good look at where you are conforming in your life, and in which areas this conforming undermines you showing up as your full self. 💡🪞

♒ Aquarius is the energy of accepting your difference and embracing your individuality—and the quiet power that comes from living those truths. Dena DeCastro offers insight into the archetype of Aquarius. According to her:

🌌 One archetype of Aquarius is the Outsider. When we think of an Outsider, we might envision someone who is disconnected and lonely. But tapping into the positive expression of this archetype can help us to disregard the approval of others in a healthy way. Down that path lies freedom from the chains of cultural expectations. Embracing the Outsider within, we shape our own life in alignment with our authentic self. We avoid blindly following the siren song of what society tells us we should do or be.

🧠 Another archetype of Aquarius is the Genius. The lack of need for external approval, and the willingness to be considered “weird”, is what allows us to discover our personal genius. The word Genius shares its roots with the word generate: To give birth to or to bring forth. We can only give birth to something new when we’re willing to walk away completely from old conditioning and “the way it has always been done.” When we let this genie out of the bottle, so to speak, we can create helpful change in the wider community.

This full moon offers us the opportunity to release our dissatisfaction with the complexity of how our world works. Aquarian energies remind us that when we embrace complexity it can open us to new forms of creativity, and new ways of expressing our heart.

Aquarius energy is asking us,”Can you get over yourself and get into it?”

With Pluto (transformation), Uranus (surprises) & Mars (heavy pursuit) highlighted in the skies right now we can expect some unexpected doors to open for us - especially those that we've been aware of but haven't fully approached in our lives.

🌬️ It’s a great time to Ask Yourself:

✨ Is there anywhere in your life that claiming an "Outsider status" might help you out?

🌟 Are there any areas of your life that people have told you you have a "genius" , or natural talent for?

🎭 Thinking on the Leo and Aquarian themes of self-expression, what are a few ways that you express your Genius? (Ditch the modesty—this is for you alone to answer. Consider letting it float a little in your mind and maybe journal about it later.)

🧭 Emily’s ceremony style deep-dive question:

Where might you be outsourcing your sense of self, your natural genius or your inner compass?

Whose authority do you live from?

Can you let the advice of trusted people in your life guide but not direct you?

💌 If this Lunar Notions piece stirred something in you, feel free to reply - I read and respond to all of them.

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The Full Moon is always a time of culmination, it’s the hope of fulfillment from what we started at the New Moon prior.

You're welcome to seed your monthly intentions with us in our New Moon Ceremonies! The next two new moons are in the sign of Virgo, one of which piggyback’s on a solar eclipse! Both of these upcoming New moons will echo the themes we wandered through today, and give us insight on what to harvest in our lives for our best outcome.

To join us, live in-person or online, on August 22, 2025, follow the link right HERE or in the sources section of this page.

Until next time,
Live Full, Moon Lovers! 🌕

💫 Emily Fawn

✨ Ye olde disclaimer: This Lunar Notion piece by Emily Fawn is meant to be uplifting, educational and fun, and is in no way intended to replace any medical advice from your primary care physician, acupuncturist, physical therapist, psychotherapist, psychologist, counselor or any other qualified medical specialist in whose care you are under. If you’ve read this series and have questions, contact me.

© 2025 Emily Ball, All Rights Reserved

🔗 Sources & Links:

Virgo New Moon Ceremony, August 22, 2025

https://www.heat.center/events-1?view=calendar&month=08-2025

Cafe Astrology: Full Aquarius Moon
https://cafeastrology.com/events/full-moon-on-august-9-2025/

Cafe Astrology: Mars in Libra
https://cafeastrology.com/events/mars-enters-libra-2025/

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The Leo King on Substack
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Dena DeCastro

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🌕 Lunar Notions

Hey everybody, I’m Emily Fawn and welcome to Lunar Notions! 🌙✨ In this series, we peek behind the celestial scenes in a succinct way before diving into the current attributes of the full moon. Each astrology transit in this article is packed with reflective questions, so I suggest keeping a journal nearby!

This Capricorn Full Moon shines a spotlight on responsibility, realignment, and the reclamation of your time and energy. Expect clarity about what’s worth your effort—and what just isn’t. Let’s dive in and see what kind of cosmic terrain we’re navigating alongside this earthy lunation. 🏔️🧹

🌌 Cosmic Climate: Saturn Shifts & Earthy Realignments

🪐 Saturn, the ruler of ♑ Capricorn, is conjunct 🔵 Neptune in ♈ Aries and turns retrograde shortly after this full moon on July 13.

Saturn wants to know HOW: how's that plan going to work, how will it show up?

With Saturn's sometimes-stern dad vibes lingering in the sign of fresh beginnings we can expect:

• Realistic looks at new ventures.

• A special focal point on what needs to be prepared and how we can best plan for it.

• A tug-of-war between certainty (Saturn) and intuition (Neptune).

As with any other retrograde, we will be getting the message to re-evaluate, reconsider, and look at what we might not have fully grasped over the past few months.

Neptune’s intuitive guidance is stronger than Saturn’s earthy rule making, so this transit could bring a sense of needing to take care of something or make changes to something without feeling certain about why.

🧲 This tug of opposites comes with a checkpoint: if you sense a delay or feel some push back on your plans, check your control-isms. We probably won’t really know how things are coming together, but we’ll have to trust the process we’re being intuitively guided to engage with.

✨ Even among this sometimes push-pull energy there is a great opportunity to rework our lives toward balance. We’re invited to reassess what we’ve committed to, what we’re building, and how we want it to feel moving forward.

🌀 Mars + South Node in Virgo: Fixing & Finishing

🔴 Mars is snuggled up to the South Node in grounded and mutable ♍ Virgo, forming a trine to this cardinal ♑ Capricorn Full Moon.

This 🌍 double-earth 🌎 signature energizes discernment and brings sharp clarity around what needs fine-tuning or letting go.

As Mars moves closer to the South Node later in July, what ‘needs to be fixed’ will be amplified. This spans the sacred space between this Capricorn Full Moon and the upcoming Leo New Moon on July 24. I'm super curious about how this will affect our Hybrid New Moon Ceremony!

As Mars makes his moves, frustration may rise—especially around things that haven't been working despite you putting in a lot of time, research and work to figure something out.

A big part of the Capricorn Full Moon is this turning point in our real-world life. This could directly relate to your health, exercise, lifestyle choices, and routines. This is about making new choices based on what gives us more freedom, peace, ease and relaxation because of what we are letting go of, and admitting we no longer want or need.

This will allow us to realize how valuable our energy is on a daily basis and where we want to direct it in the moment.

With these loamy Earth energies we can use this moon to:

• Identify what's no longer worth your energy.

• Realign projects, habits, and routines.

• Declutter the bullshit—yours, others', the world's. 🗑️

Capricorn + Virgo = ruthless discernment and productive release.

🌊 North Node in Pisces: Releasing the Pressure

This full moon makes a supportive sextile to the North Node in ♓ Pisces, amplifying intuition and signaling where we need to let go of pressure. If something feels like too much, too heavy, if you're overwhelmed or unclear—this moon lights the path to release by re-learning how to:

• Delegate 👉

• Say no 🫸

• Drop the storylines that no longer serve you 🫳

• Pass on offers that don't fully resonate 👎

Capricorn lends discernment, helping you assess: Is this really part of my long-term trajectory, or just a time-waster?

⚡ Uranus in Gemini: Spark of Newness

On July 7, 🌬️ Uranus entered ♊ Gemini for the first time in 84 years—expect excitement, rapid thoughts, communication shifts, travel, language expansion, and electric energy.

This Uranus transit can feel way faster than it did in Taurus, especially in our daily lives. Quick, quick, quick Uranus is probably going to have a lot of fun here as it is fond of sudden impacts of thoughts, independence & rebellion, and rapid change.

But take caution: this buzziness can lead to overstimulation. Sleep issues, memory fog, and stress may increase. To counteract:

• Practice meditations to quiet the mind.

• Research adaptogens like Tulsi to help you adapt to stresses.

• Find a great therapist – you're worth it!

Venus in early Gemini also brings a more social, expressive edge to our interactions.

Looking Ahead

🔁 Mercury Retrograde in Leo (July 17–August 11)

Like most retrogrades, the natural themes here are:

• re-view

• re-evaluate

• re-prioritize.
  
  Leo is a fixed sign, so it is reminding us to take our time and let creative solutions clarify before committing.

Mercury, the ever-mental 🧠, will be asking you to make sure that what you’re thinking about is aligned with what you want.

🏠 Cancer-Capricorn Axis: Public Effort vs. Private Restoration

Opposite the Capricorn Moon is the ♋ Cancer Sun, drawing our energy to our inner world. This is highlighting personal restoration through understanding and honoring how we are really feeling and where our energy levels are really at.

🪞 Reflective Questions from Our Last New Moon

In the last New Moon Ceremony, we dove deeply into Cancerian aspects. We took an honest assessment of how we give and receive love: our nurturing styles. This is still playing out as the seeds planted at the new moon ripen at the full moon.
Wherever we found ourselves on the nurturing spectrum—from absent to over-giving—we asked:

Are you controlling with your love? When you give, are there strings attached?

Doing that inner work at the New Moon helps prepare us for what the Cancerian Sun is taking stock of now: how we use our energy and where we need to sustain our nurturing for self and others.

This axis invites us to ask ourselves:

• Am I sending my energy too far out into the world while ignoring what's right here, right now?

• Am I balanced in effort vs. rest?

• Am I overworked, overextended, or overcommitted?

• Am I making time for loved ones and nurturing what really matters to me?

New alignments are the name of the game. This moon invites you to honor the importance of nourishing yourself and stepping away from constant doing. To balance being free-flowing and open without being consumed by everything on your to-do list, your commitment to others and any expectations from them.

Illuminated by the Cancerian Sun, new solutions to alleviate stress & strife can shine under this full moon.

🐐Capricorn Archetype: The Authority Within

Capricorn energy is here to help us step into our own authority. According to The Pattern App, Capricorn is about your relationship to responsibility and commitment—especially in building something long-lasting.

This Full Moon asks:

• Are you the authority in your own life?

• Are you committing to what’s real and resonant—or outsourcing your power?

• Are you over-functioning for others while your own needs fall away?

This archetype can swing both ways: while Capricorn encourages commitment and leadership, it can also spotlight martyrdom and over-responsibility. This moon might reveal where you're holding it all together for everyone else, while your own needs remain unmet.

Molly McCord notes that this moon occurs around 19° Capricorn, drawing our attention to work, effort, and commitments. It's a powerful moment to assess what is worth your time, energy, and long-term investment. Ask:

• How am I using my time daily?

• Is this truly aligned with what I want to build?

Fortunately, Capricorn helps us see from the mountaintop: taking a broad view of what we have achieved in our lives, what goals are still resonant from earlier this year, and what it's time to close out.

💬 I'd love to hear from you!

What does it feel like when you KNOW something is working, even if you can't prove it?

📝 Let me know in the comments! I read them all, and I’m genuinely curious how this moon is landing for you. 💌

For me? When I understand in my bones that a meaningful and positive shift is manifesting, it feels like the sudden unveiling of my biggest smile. I glow. I accept. I allow. I am empowered. 🌟

This reminds me of a card that my sister gave me years ago, it said:

“Happiness is like peeing your pants; everyone can see it but only you can feel its warmth.”

🌑 Up Next!

Join me for our next hybrid New Moon Ceremony on July 24, where we’ll explore:

• Enhancing, developing, and incorporating positive Leo themes into our lives and our hearts 💛

• Self-sovereignty and Self-responsibility

• ✨ A guided internal journey—part meditation, part magic—to unlock your secret Leonine powers!

Details at www.heat.center

Until next time,
Live Full, Moon Lovers! 🌕

💫 Emily Fawn

Ye olde disclaimer: This Lunar Notion piece by Emily Fawn is meant to be uplifting, educational and fun, and is in no way intended to replace any medical advice from your primary care physician, acupuncturist, physical therapist, psychotherapist, psychologist, counselor or any other qualified medical specialist in whose care you are under. If you’ve read this series and have questions, contact me.

© 2025 Emily Ball, All Rights Reserved

Sources & Links:

• Astrology.com Full Moon in Capricorn Forecast

• Molly McCord, Capricorn Full Moon July 2025 video

• Insights from The Pattern App

• Upcoming Hybrid (in-person & over zoom) New Moon Ceremony

Pardon the scratchiness of my voice, our air quality index has been higher than normal this past week.

🌕 Lunar Notions

Hey everybody, I’m Emily Fawn and welcome to Lunar Notions! 🌙✨ In this series, we peek behind the celestial scenes in a succinct way before diving into the current attributes of the full moon. You might even get a few reflective questions or an exercise from this piece!

Full moons can illuminate deeper aspects of our minds, and with all the Gemini and Sagittarius influence going on, this one is bound to bring unexpected insights … and possibly some impulsive behavior. Either way there’s potential for very awake minds!

Let’s take a look at what's happening behind our quickly-shifting moon cycle—to see what kind of dance floor the moon is grooving on. 💃🪩

🌌 Cosmic Climate: Wild Skies, Big Lessons

The cosmos have been dancing a wild jig lately. 🌀 The heavyweights of our solar system—Saturn and Neptune—have recently squared off in the Cardinal signs of Aries and Cancer, stirring the pot of identity and emotional security.

These cosmic keepers of structure and dreams are trying to calm the fiery, impulsive energy of Aries... but let’s just say—they’re not exactly in their comfort zone. 🔥

Aries is all about the self, the spark, the first step. And when Saturn and Neptune get tangled up here, it’s a cosmic caution sign 🚧 against showing up as just one version of ourselves—especially if we're clinging to control tendencies.

🧠 The message? Let go of the controlling parts of your ego that aren’t serving your true comfort.
It’s no longer about “my big vision!”
We're shifting into “my comfortable vision that does great things for a lot of people!” 🤝

🌀 Subconscious Sneakiness & Real Comfort

This isn’t always easy. Many of us think we’re being helpful—but our help can sometimes serve only our subconscious, outdated beliefs. 😶‍🌫️

Stay with me—and we’ll uncover some of this sneakiness and learn how to attain a truer form of comfort. 🛋️✨

🪐 Planetary Movements: June & Beyond

2025 feels like a constantly shifting cosmic weather pattern. ☁️⚡
Neptune entered Aries, Saturn followed, and in July, Uranus will leap from grounded Taurus 🌱 into free-spirited Gemini 🧠.

From June 6 to July 4, Venus is in her home sign of Taurus. She squared off with Pluto in Aquarius on June 9, and while that moment was brief, the tension will ripple out for days.

💥 These two don’t vibe easily—Venus isn’t into Scorpio energy (Pluto's domain).
But! This friction can jolt us out of the stale energy we’ve been stuck in—especially around Venus aspects like relationships 💞 and money 💰.
When Venus moves into Gemini on July 4, she’ll carry fresh lessons into a more curious and conversational space.

🌊 Jupiter Dives into Cancer

📅 On June 9, Jupiter left airy Gemini and dove into Cancer’s nurturing waters, where it will stay until June 30, 2026. 🦀

This is a big deal.

In Gemini, Jupiter’s expansive gifts may have felt scattered. In Cancer, Jupiter is exalted—operating with ease, joy, and emotional abundance. 🧡

💡 Key Themes:

• Emotional expansion

• Creating your own security

• Acting on home-based goals

• Feeling big feelings (Jupiter loves to exaggerate!)

• Listening to your gut—Cancer rules the stomach!

🛠️ Think: frugality, gardening, mending what you have, and protecting your home. This is a year for tending the hearth.

🤍 Cancer wants us to nurture and be nurtured. This transit is about taking action to create security, not just wishing for it.

🌟 Mutual Reception Magic

🧠 Here’s a fun astro-fact: Jupiter rules Sagittarius and the Moon rules Cancer.
During this Full Moon, they’re in mutual reception—each in the other’s sign. This rare alignment only happens once every 12 years! ✨

It supercharges our emotional drive toward new possibilities, expanding all the Cancerian vibes:

🌀 What feels good
🧲 What we need
🌐 What we want to connect with
🏡 What feels safe & secure
🛋️ Homelife & family
🫀 Emotional needs & emotional work

Sagittarius looks at all this and says:

“Now that you know what you want and need... run with it!” 🏃‍♀️💨

🎥 Astrologer Molly McCord compares this to a turtle 🐢 running with its entire home on its back. Jupiter & Sagittarius reveal what we need—while Cancer wants to feel comfortable moving with it.

🔮 Looking Ahead: Uranus in Gemini

On July 7, Uranus (the great disruptor ⚡) enters Gemini! While it will retrograde back into Taurus for a bit, by April 2026 it will settle in Gemini until August 2032.

Expect innovation in:

• ✈️ Travel

• 📚 Education

• 💬 Communication

• 🏘️ Neighborhoods

• 🧠 Thought & connection

Flexibility will be key! Get ready for sudden upgrades in how we connect and share ideas.

🪞 Reflective Questions from Our Last New Moon

In our last New Moon Ceremony, we worked with some of Gemini’s superpowers. These two reflective prompts from that ceremony that are especially helpful now as we navigate the emotional and intuitive waters of this Full Moon in Sagittarius:

1. 🌟 What would expanding your life look and feel like to you?
   Where do you shrink from expansion, and where do you welcome it?
   Are these areas already small and large, respectively?

2. 🧠 Where in your life would a little curiosity (rather than certainty) open new doors?
   Especially in areas where you think you already “know” everything, or you’ve already made up your mind about something & you aren’t willing to let new information affect your decisions.

Take your time with these—there are no wrong answers. 🕊️

(Ah, see what I did there? It’s a sneaky way of asking if you’re pushing your answers to your comfortable place or if you’re curious about where you might grow!)

🏹 Sagittarius Full Moon Opposes Gemini Sun

This Full Moon in Sagittarius opposes the Sun in Gemini.

• Gemini = 🧠 The mind, data, details, curiosity; multiple perspectives

• Sagittarius = 🔭 The big picture, intuition, exploration; self-trust

This axis helps us move from thinking to trusting—from loops to leaps.
Sagittarius asks: What if we tried a new way? What if it was easier than we thought?

🌟 Dormant hopes and dreams can surface now. So ask yourself:

• What is being offered to me?

• What do I want to move toward?

• Is expansion about doing more things or doing things differently?

Let your heart lead, and trust that your gut knows the way. 🧭

🌑 Up Next: Summer Solstice & Cancer New Moon

On the horizon:

• 🌞 Summer Solstice – June 20

• 🌑 New Moon in Cancer – June 25

I hope you’ll join me for our next New Moon Ceremony, where we’ll explore:

🌊 Honoring your deepest, most intimate feelings
🏡 Recognizing where your true sense of safety and home lives
👐 Allowing yourself to accept (and offer) support
✨ A guided internal journey—part meditation, part magic—to unlock your secret Cancerian powers

💬 I'd love to hear from you!

How is this Full Moon in Sagittarius landing for you?
Where do you feel the call to expand—and where are you seeking comfort?
What would moving forward differently look like in your life?

📝 Share your reflections in the comments—I read them all, and your insights help build this little community of moonbeams.

Leave a comment

Until next time,
Live Full, Moon Lovers! 🌕

💫 Emily Fawn

Ye old Disclaimer: This Lunar Notion piece by Emily Fawn is meant to be uplifting, educational and fun, and is in no way intended to replace any medical advice from your primary care physician, acupuncturist, physical therapist, psychotherapist, psychologist, counselor or any other qualified medical specialist in whose care you are under. If you’ve read this series and have questions, contact me.

© 2025 Emily Ball, All Rights Reserved

Astrology references:
🦁 The Leo King
📓 Almanac
📱 The Pattern App

Hey everybody, I’m Emily Fawn and welcome to Borderlands - a series of articles where I explore the edges of being human and offer ways to improve our navigation. In today’s episode we delve into innate creativity and how we can amuse our muse rather than set ourselves up for sabotage.

I noticed a recent trend in conversations with clients and friend groups. Many of them described similarly specific behaviors exhibited by some people that they’re close with. These beloveds seemed to have an odd sense of urgency—sometimes manically displayed—and a panic to do things swiftly. Sometimes this rash flash of inertia seemed to go against what that very person said they wanted, or against what might be considered normal behavior for them.

One common denominator emerged - these folks were referring to creatives. Some of them are artists and most of them are in jobs that don’t engage their creativity. While that may sound benign to most working professionals, creativity kind of has a life or agenda of its own. The muse—or our creative passions—will express themselves whether we will it or not; no matter what we are up to at any given time.

Giving our creativity space and time to play, to exercise, to be amused, can help curb its appetite for expression in areas that can’t really feed it. Where creativity is starved, it can unintentionally undermine our work, our professional and personal relationships, the way we navigate traffic patterns, and other aspects in the business of life. That's not to say that the business of life couldn’t use a makeover!

Artists are creative by nature, their creativity imbues every aspect of their lives. However, even those who aren’t creating physical works of art (music included) may think, process and operate in creative ways. Sometimes this shows up as people building elaborate narratives about a situation, stringing together tomes of cautionary tales based on little blips of information.

Because of our survival wiring, our minds like to make sense of things. This train of thought can be linked to an addiction to certainty, which I explored in Borderlands Episode 1: The Curious Paradox of Certainty. Our minds will sometimes create and finish a story just so that we don’t feel threatened by not knowing.

As Elizabeth Gilbert assesses expertly:

“If your calling is to make things, then you still have to make things in order to live out your highest creative potential — and also to remain sane. (A creative mind) needs to work, or else it will cause you an outrageous amount of trouble. Give your mind a job to do, or else it will find a job to do, and you might not like the job it invents.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

She speaks to this as well by admitting that when she’s not actively creating something, she is probably actively destroying something.

What made me throw her book Big Magic across the room before I realized I loved it, is that I read it just moments after writing the above paragraphs of my own. Of course, this was frustrating at first. I felt like,

“Why do I bother writing anything? Everything I’m engaging in feels like it’s sending me these message-directions from people who’s ideas are already out there. It’s like we are on a tandem bike, pedaling the same ideas—only theirs are recently published. It’s all been said, who am I to say it again, and what can I bring to the conversation?”

After a few moments of self-pity, followed by some reflections on reality (and a wonderful chat with my older sister), I reframed that negative self-talk into this:

“Well, sometimes that’s how you find out that you’re on point! And you will find your own voice in expressing these ideas. And you might express them in a way that is new for someone who hasn’t read these published works. And you might express them in a way that can be better understood by people that just don’t get those published views. Don’t give up, babe; be encouraged by this!”

So, while I feel like I’m on the front end of this metaphorical tandem bike, moving through the foggy culmination of these ideas and starting to flesh them out, the fog lifts and suddenly reveals I’m in a crowd of creative thinkers, thinking similar thoughts. I look in my rearview and many of my favorite established writers are right behind me, pedaling away at some new idea and waiting for me to glance back at them so they can give me a thumbs up. That’s my current fantasy about that, anyway.

Amusing your Muse

It might be a great idea to see our creativity as we would a lover. What if we took it on dates, engaged it in pleasurable activities, asked it what it likes, what makes it sing—and what really turns it off? And also be prepared ourselves for a cold shoulder when we ignore our creativity and then expect it to show up at our every beck and call.

Esther Perel reminds us that “the quality of our relationships determines the quality of our lives.” If we look at our relationship with creativity as we would a person or a partner, we begin to notice when we neglect it, take it for granted, or only engage with it under pressure. Perel encourages us to stay curious in long-term relationships, and that wisdom applies here, too: approach the muse with novelty, respect, and the kind of presence that stirs intimacy and trust.
(Esther Perel’s website)

Like any venture we embark on, we probably won’t be amazing at wooing our creativity at first. It may balk when we try to “Give (our) mind a job to do.” Conversely, we may experience beginner's luck, and then possibly find that luck waning thereafter, leaving us bobbing in the doldrums.

This is where I remind myself of something James Clear says in Atomic Habits:

“Each action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.”

— James Clear

Staying Engaged with Your Creativity

Of the myriad books on creativity, one workbook that has helped me stay engaged is The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron. Cameron mentions artist dates and offers ideas on disciplines and/or regularly scheduled engagement with our creativity.

What would it look like to schedule a weekly “artist date” with your muse?
It doesn’t have to be anything fancy—maybe it’s a walk in a new neighborhood, a solo trip to the library, or even an hour doodling at your kitchen table. The point is to show up for your creativity with the same intention and curiosity you’d bring to a budding romance. Feel free to write that down and chew on it later.

I don’t have to wait until I feel like a “real” artist to start making art. The practice itself is the proof. Ah, I could tell myself that every day, and I might believe it—like really feel it—about 50 percent of the time. And yet, it is the truth.

Each time I sit down with the muse—whether it sings or sulks—I’m affirming that creativity is part of who I am.

The Courage of Creating

Creativity is playful; it requires curiosity about what is happening in the moment as well as what might happen next. Expectations and a perfectionist mindset are anathema to creativity, not to mention being dangerous and delusional traps. So we have to remember to play!

And also keep in mind that play, joy, creativity and curiosity require courage.

As I discussed in Borderlands Episode 5: The Courage of Permission, giving ourselves permission to be curious is an act of bravery. It means allowing ourselves to explore without judgment, to ask questions without immediate answers, and to embrace the vulnerability that comes with not knowing.

This vulnerability is something Brené Brown names as foundational to creativity and wholehearted living:

“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.”

— Brené Brown, Daring Greatly

When we risk putting pen to paper or paint to canvas—or even dare to imagine a new story—we open ourselves to both criticism and connection. And that is no small thing.

And when all else fails—when the inner critic gets too loud or the fog too thick—I think of the poet Mary Oliver, who closes The Summer Day by asking:

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”

— Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems

Some days, I don’t have an answer. But on the best days, I remember that making space for creativity is the answer. I don’t have to have it all figured out. I just have to be willing to listen—and to play.

If you’ve got a pen and paper handy, consider taking a note on the following questions for you and your muse. Take your time with these, there are no wrong answers!

Some Reflective Questions for You & Your Muse

• What does your relationship with your creativity look like right now? If it were a person, how would you describe the dynamic?

• When was the last time you truly played, just for the sake of amusement—not productivity?

• What’s one small, playful thing you could do this week to amuse your muse?

• If you could ask your creativity one question, what would it be?

A Sincere Invitation

I’d love to hear from you:
Which of the reflective questions spoke to you the most?
How do you amuse your own muse—or how might you start?

Share your thoughts, stories, or even your resistance in the comments below. Let’s inspire each other to show up for our creativity—messy, imperfect, and gloriously alive.

While I normally give you a sneak peek into the next Borderlands episode, this time I’ll be honoring all of our curiosity, and letting my muse decide where we go next.

Until next time,
Live full!
Emily Fawn

Disclaimer

The Borderlands series by Emily Fawn is meant to be uplifting, educational and fun, and is in no way intended to replace any medical advice from your primary care physician, acupuncturist, physical therapist, psychotherapist, psychologist, counselor, or any other qualified medical specialist in whose care you are under. If you’ve read this series and have questions, contact me.

© 2025 Emily Ball, All Rights Reserved.

Citations

• Gilbert, E. (2015). Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear. Riverhead Books.

• Brown, B. (2012). Daring Greatly. Gotham Books.

• Cameron, J. (1992). The Artist’s Way. TarcherPerigee.

• Clear, J. (2018). Atomic Habits. Avery.

• Perel, E. (2017). The State of Affairs. Harper.

• Oliver, M. (1992). New and Selected Poems. Beacon Press.

• Fawn, E. (2024, 2025). Borderlands EP 1: the curious paradox of certainty. Substack., Borderlands EP 5: the courage of permission. Substack.

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