A Queenly Full Moon in Leo and Why It’s Important

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology, and today, we're going to take a look at the full moon in Leo, which is coming through tomorrow. So we're kind of taking today to prep for the significance of the full moon in Leo to give you a sense of what to watch for.

Today, I want to talk about this Full Moon as a very queenly full moon in Leo; there's a lot of the energy of the Queen, I think, present in this sign of royalty, and you put the moon there, and this moon is also configured to Jupiter very closely. I think one of the archetypes we're working with is that of Queen energy. So we're going to talk a little bit about that, but among other things, hopefully, this will prepare you for the full moon. That's our agenda for today.

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Okay, so it's a big week with lots of transits that we've been looking at, and one of them is the full moon in the sign of Leo. So here is the chart, and I'm going to actually advance this just a touch. So, we can see that the full moon in Leo is happening. Obviously, the full moons are always opposite the sun. So we are across the Aquarius Leo axis, a bit of an opposition to Pluto.

But you'll also notice that the moon is moving into is engaged with moving into a square with Jupiter. It is also in the bound of Jupiter and moving into the bound of Venus by the way right afterward, and then Jupiter is in the bound of Venus and the exultation of the moon. So, some really nice reception between the Moon and Jupiter. They're certainly both playing to Venus, who is also moving into a trine with Jupiter from Capricorns, a very earthy underlying structure with a lot of emphasis on Venus, which we've been visiting all week long.

There are five features of this full moon in Leo that I want to talk about today that hopefully will prepare us for those themes that we may notice coming through, especially tomorrow, Thursday, but also into Friday, and these themes because they're very fast-moving right the full moon comes and goes but full moon stand out, you know they as do new moons you'll find that these are days of the month that not only the full moon but whatever else is happening around the full moon will stand out just a little bit more it's a little bit easier to notice or observe. That makes it worth it to pay attention to these times for us as students of astrology as well as just people who are using this to observe and reflect on the archetypal nature of our experiences.

Anyway, these are the five archetypal qualities to watch for, given the moon in Leo. The first thing that I noticed right away is that Jupiter and Venus are giving shape to the moon in Leo, and that is because the moon is the full moon; let's look at the basic dignities right the moon is in the sign of the sun, and we see that the sun is moving into the bound of Venus, while also squaring Jupiter in Taurus and Venus is bound and Venus the sign and the moon's exultation.

So, in other words, and then you look again at the applying square to Jupiter from the moon, Jupiter being in the sign and bound of Venus. This means that there's a tremendous emphasis on Jupiter and Venus that this Full Moon brings forth. So what does that mean?

Well, one of the great combinations we get when we combine the moon in Leo is a royal sign, a sign associated with things like kings and queens, and there's an archetypal meaning to that, too, and it doesn't have to be literal. When we see that paired with Jupiter and Venus, we really get the feminine qualities and the royal qualities. I think, for example, a personality like Oprah or someone else that comes to my mind who literally has the name queen is Queen Latifah that just the royal presence of a like matriarch like a matriarch could be a matriarchal entrepreneur or mother or head of a family or head of state.

But you get the feeling of women and the feminine leading the way in this full moon, and that could mean a lot of things because the feminine is archetypal, as well as being associated with a human-like gender category. We're talking about the archetypal feminine, which is really something that we all experience, you know, in so many ways.

So, some of the images that come to my mind right away, I drew some tarot cards that I thought you guys might resonate with. One is the Empress. So the Empress is kind of like a Leo Moon insofar as the moon is very earthy, sensual, and nature-based. The moon speaks to the feminine, and it speaks to the world that we live in, the material world, the world of animals and nature and forms and pregnancy and, you know, the kind of ecological matrix that we live in is very lunar and when you pair it with a signification of royalty, one of the cards that you get is the Empress.

This archetype is really important because, at this time of the full moon, you may feel that you need to bring that forward in yourself somehow. It doesn't mean that you need to put on some theatrical display of egotistical grandiosity, right, though you might, I don't know. I guess there's a season for everything. But you get what I'm saying that how can you tap into the Empress? The Empress is the one who she's she rules, but she rules with a kind of creative, tender, devotional, firm, but gentle quality; how can you be firm, loving, affirming, encouraging the light, and, in sort of earthy and sensual, but also strong, you know, those qualities come to mind.

Another Queen figure that comes to mind a little different than the Empress is the Queen of Wands. In the Tarot, the Queen of Wands has a sunflower in one hand and a staff, which to me is very magical, and so I think of the Queen of Wands and also the connection with the moon in the sign of Leo as the powerful leading charm and magic of the feminine. There's a way, and I'm not trying to sound stereotypical; this is an honest-to-God truth. There is a way that my wife can get me from one stubborn state of mind or consciousness into a more agreeable one, and the only thing I can attribute it to is that she is very magical, and she has the Moon in Taurus square to Jupiter in Leo.

I always see her as, like she, there's a queenly magic to the way that I would say, and I think this is true for all relationships, right? It doesn't have to be like a heterosexual dynamic; it could really be any dynamic that there some partners have that I would call like a relational intelligence and a charm and a kind of feminine mother magic, that where you can just shift someone out of a stubborn or stuck place into a more amicable one through a combination of charm, magic, likability humor, and, attractiveness, you know, you can just shift someone through that power and people like that, whether you're a man or a woman, however, you identify.

If you can access that kind of power when you're in positions of leadership or you are playing a cooperative role, and you need to help move things and you have people who are stuck or recalcitrant kind of, I don't know, this energy of the moon and Leo is very persuasive and magnetic and charismatic and charming and it has a kind of lunar queenly magic to it that can really shift things around through the power of personality and through a kind of a heart centered likeability so you know, tap into that or notice that around you and allow yourself to be charmed by it if you're feeling stuck, you probably will notice someone or something in the environment is trying to help move you from a stuck place into one of you know, feeling unstuck feeling more cooperative the moon is such a cooperative planet and the element of the moon and Leo is about really like everyone's ego is okay here let's everyone can be along for the ride and the Queen and Empress energy to me is radiating from this Full Moon as the full moon in Leo, again, has so much connection to Jupiter.

Everything in the sky right now points back to the dignities of Jupiter and Venus, who are also configured by a trine. Trines over the nature of Jupiter, there's just a cooperate; there's something really good that happens right now when we move a stuck ego and cooperate, we allow ourselves to be charmed by the Queen and the Empress.

Okay, well, the second thing I want to mention is this full moon takes place in the first Deccan of Leo, which is the first 10 degrees; the ancient Egyptians looked at the divisions of the Zodiac in terms of divisions of 10. So they took every sign and divided it according to stars that were aligned and constellations within the various 10-degree divisions of the signs, and they mapped out alchemical magical and symbolic meanings for the 10-degree segments of all the signs.

So there are 36 of them because you get 12 signs with three parts each. That's 36 total, and over time, much later, those deccans started receiving the association when the taro came about, which is, I think, 400 years ago at this point four or five.

What happened is the alchemical and magical hermetic traditions start in the Kabbalistic, which is also a big part of the Tarot. Of course, they started looking at those Deccan symbolisms and making meaningful correlations to the major and minor arcana of the Tarot.

I find those connections to be very magical because the alchemical imagery of the ancient texts maps very nicely to some of the archetypes of the Tarot. They're not perfect correlations, but they do share very interesting correlations that can help us think about the decades.

So there's a book that I really liked called 36 Secrets: A Mechanic Journey through the Minor Arcana of the Tarot, which looks at some of the classical associations between the tarot cards and those ancient decades. It's a really, really fascinating book; I really appreciate it. Anyway, T. Susan Chang is the author, and she talks about it in other texts as well. Another good one is 36 Faces by Austin Coppock.

But anyway, she talks about this first deck in of Leo as relating to two different cards; she actually has three. Alright, so Strength, and the Five of Wands, and these two cards are really interesting because the symbolism of them share something in common, even though it's not so noticeable. Alright. So here's the five of wands, and in the first Deccan of Leo, she really talks about the pressures that we face. This is a card that, I mean, looks like a bunch of kids fighting, right?

But often, you will hear this as a lot of demanding energies, and actions and thoughts and plans, going in different directions at once and all fighting to become one; all these energies are kind of like demanding; they're kind of fighting it out with a kind of immature, maybe a little childish quality that is seeking to be dominant, this is most important. No, this is most important. Go over here, go over there. It's like having a, you know, a very busy mind, a boiling pot in the mind, and you know, all the different things are kind of, they're not very well organized, they're not working together cohesively, and they're seeking for some kind of integration so that we move from kind of childlike and childish to strong, and the other card is strength.

This is about overcoming some of maybe our lower egotistical impulses, and here we can see, obviously, that we have a feminine character taming the mouth of the lion, and this is, to me, exactly what the moon in Leo is indicating, at least, in part, the first Deccan of Leo speaks to, you know, sort of needing to get our shit together and overcome various egotistical and childlike, busy battling disorganized and chaotic qualities, and how do we do so with a gentle, but sovereign touch?

I've got this, you know, I've got this. Gentle, and we can; this might be something we're doing internally, or it could reflect something in the external environment, but what kind of strength is required? We can't go into it acting like one of these kids, right, and get it done. We have to demonstrate a kind of maturity, and again, these figures come to mind.
See, notice the similarity with that figure taming the lion. Very interesting.

So anyway, number three is the individual versus the collective or ideal. Now in, in my mind, one of the things that we have in the sky right now is this kind of energy; Three of Pentacles shows operative earthy building construction collaboration, and we get that from the fact that Venus is an Earth, Mercury, and Mars are conjoining an earth they're all trying to Jupiter. They're all trying to Uranus.

Everything is moving according to the desire to build tangible things and tangible results. Remember, Pluto in the sun just entered Aquarius, ruled by Saturn, gives us a kind of blueprint.

Notice that in this card, there's a blueprint, a kind of plan that's being laid out to create a new image or ideal, and an earthy building or construction of things. This is where we're at right now. Those energies are present. However, it is very important along the way, although there are collective things happening, right, there are things that are bigger than ourselves, there's plans and images and goals and, you know, kind of almost like the need for multiple resources to come together in order to achieve something.

However, I almost forgot to include it. The card that I see as the opposite card. In the Tarot, at least one of the opposite cards would be the sun, which is just this kind of childlike. I'm special. I'm an individual; this little kid has a flag on, unlike what looks almost like a unicorn. So my kids would love it. This is really when you look at these two images together, you know, look at how bright and individual the sun seems and look at how collective and Aquarian the three pentacles appear.

So the tensions right now between collective needs, projects, blueprints, plans, building design, all rooted in Venusian things, beauty, desire, you know, relationships are building things. Okay, but we can't lose sight of the fact that it is easy when there is an overarching plan, a vision, collaboration, and so forth, that we can somehow the individual can get lost. The need of the individual soul for individual expression. So watch for tension right now between what is individual, or what is collective or ideal, a plan, a blueprint, something that's bigger than me, something that's a part of a group or a family or a community or a collaboration. But don't forget your individual needs in the process.

The Leo-Moon is sort of demanding that there be an integration of the two. What we love, what we protect, and what we are loyal to. I like this again, as a bunch of the feminine cards, the Empress, the Queen, the strength card.

The moon in Leo brings up, you know, what we love, what we're devoted to, what we're loyal to, what we think is worth protecting, where we find that there is a sense of joining with others or joining with someone in particular or a family or community or a home or living environment or a culture. There's some sense of collective unity with the moon because the moon, for example, in ancient astrology, the moon referred to the city, the village, the family, the tribe, and the voters as opposed to the king or the Queen, the city, the people.

The moon in Leo, however, brings up the sense of what my personal heart finds personal emotional loyalty to allegiance to. It's like you're, you know, we've been watching Ted Lasso. So you know, it's like all of those footballers in the bar. They all love their team so much. It is very moon in Leo, and my pride, my pride, my team. Ted Lasso, at one point, says it's not our team; they just lent it to us for a while. He's the coach. You know, moving Leo has so much to do with what we're loyal to and where our affections and loyalties and devotion lie.

Number five is the shadows. You know, where are we proud? Where are we selfish? Where are we childish? Although this card plays a big role right now, you could say there's a sense of building things with so much Capricorn Taurus energy in the air, building things that are beautiful; the eight leads to the nine, the sort of luxury and opulence of Venus that's in the stars right now suggesting what we're building or what we're designing or what we're desiring. But we don't want to turn into, you know, proud, selfish, complacent, or we don't want to revert, you know, back to I'm fighting over what's mine, my pride, my, the things that I am possessive or jealous about.

So be careful of those energies of childlike battling and possessiveness and jealousy, you know, those kinds of shadow qualities of the moon in Leo, you know, so you don't want to be the dramatic Queen in mythology that, you know, has all these 100 underhanded ways of cutting down anything that she thinks will outshine her, you know, or something like that. So just watch for the dark side of the Queen, the dark sides of the Queen archetypal as well, you know, within ourselves within the environment.

So anyway, that's what I've got for you guys today for this full moon in Leo. I think that it's going to be, I think mostly a very positive one considering the nice configuration to Jupiter. So, I hope you guys enjoy it, and I look forward to catching up with you more tomorrow. Alright, that's it for now. Take it easy bye.