Last quarter Moon in Leo
Transit strength: medium strength monthly transit.
Transit duration: energies will be most powerful during mid-week and towards the weekend.
Astrological layout
The Moon in Leo will mostly affect the members of the fixed signs. Leos, Aquarians, Taureans and Scorpios, especially those who were born at the end of July, October, January and April will feel it the most. This Moon’s transit will also be felt by all those who have significant planets and astrological points between 0 ° and 8 ° in the sign of Leo, Aquarius, Scorpio and Taurus.
* You will find instructions on how to erect your own natal astrological chart at the end of this article.
Emotional needs, moods, challenges, responses, awareness, frustrations
The mixture of Scorpio and Leo energy, with powerful influences of Taurean energy as well, will bring a lot of passion, conflicts this week, triggering strong intense emotions, and creating dramatic situations. Due to the period of retrograde Venus, this varied activity will be prominent within the relationships that we have with the world around us and, of course, the relationship we have with ourselves. We will strongly express and expose our shadow sides, that is, certain suppressed emotions, untreated heart wounds and neglected, ignored parts of our personality we are mostly unaware of.
It is necessary to understand that the human society as we know it today creates a huge emotional imbalance and personality fragmentation, segregation in people. In a world that is extremely judgemental, where a certain kind of behavior, expression of self, social engagement, interaction is promoted, commanded as it is considered acceptable, permissible, likable and tolerable, while other types of personal and social expression are considered unacceptable, deviant, harmful, inappropriate, becoming whole let alone maintaining the wholeness of one’s character is extremely difficult . To be whole means to accept and express all feelings, moods, tendencies, motives, personal potential, beliefs without prejudice or judgment. It means that we know how to recognize our own wishes, ambitions, desires and needs, and that we can, in equal manner, exist within both, joyous and painful moments.
Rejecting and stigmatizing certain emotions, tendencies, beliefs, human qualities, abilities, behavior patterns, creates giant ruptures, cracks within our inner selves. It creates duality, destroys the integrity of our natural state of wholeness, it hacks our whole being into numerous little pieces, which get lost easily and we soon become disconnected with some really important parts of our own being. Unaware of our true nature, certain aspects of ourselves become only mere shadows we cast in a completely subconscious way. Everything that is met with disapproval, condemnation, non-acceptance, ridicule, we reject and suppress deep within. We want to forget about certain wounds, we ignore important emotions, we repress certain tendencies, we are very careful in expressing our own opinions and beliefs, we do not harness all of our potential or abilities. We basically deny a large part of who we are.
Of course, even if we want to suppress and deny important aspects of our being, this does not mean we succeed in not expressing them all the time. The natural state of man is the existence in the totality or wholeness of his being. Although most of the time we can maintain control over what we want to show and reveal to the world around us, and also to ourselves, there are periods when the ability to maintain such control is weakened. Thank god for that.
image credit: Egon Kronschnabel
Rx Venus combined with the energies that we have experienced during the current lunar cycle awaken our shadow side, we are forced to acknowledge the existence of discarded parts of our personality and allow them to see the light of day, even if just for a moment.
In our interaction with the outside world during this week, as well as during the entire period of Rx Venus, we will reintegrate and express our shadow aspects. Old wounds will open, suppressed emotions, as well as old passions and, of course, needs, wishes, tendencies to express our potential, skills, abilities will resurface. Do not be scared of your own shadows, they are expected to create conflict, drama, as that is the only way to attract our attention. We will have to take this situation seriously though.
All intense emotions, events will remind us of a certain fragmentation within ourselves. Let’s gaze, reach deep inside into our hearts, let us establish an inner dialogue, let us accept, explore pain, hurt, sadness, loneliness, discomfort, let’s allow all of this to become part of us, to teach us about the concept of wholeness. Let’s allow the shadows to co-exist with all the other parts of ourselves in the coming days, especially with the parts we show to the world. The goal is to feel oursleves as complete beings and, if possible, to express ourselves wholly, to keep the sense of profound integration long enough to realize that this is our natural state, that in fact there must be no division, no condemnation, segregation. We are as we are, nor good, nor evil, nor pleasing nor displeasing, nor acceptable nor unacceptable, appropriate or inappropriate, we simply ARE. Let’s recognize ourselves as such and let’s regain our WHOLENESS!
* If you would like to know if your planets and astrological points fall under the influence of this current aspect, you can simply ask me or you can make your own astrological chart. The chart will show you exactly where all your planets and points fall within your natal chart wheel.
You can create your natal chart on this site: https://www.astro.com/cgi/genchart.cgi, but you must first create either a guest profile or a permanent one. In either case you will need to enter birth data, such as place, date and time of birth, and then create birth chart under free horoscopes and extended chart selection. Then you will select the guest or permanent profile you created under Birth data and under Methods you will select natal chart wheel. Finally, click on the blue “click here to show the chart” button and your map will pop up. 🙂 You will see a graphic representation of your chart, a 360° wheel. All the positions of all your personal planets and astrological points will be listed in the bottom left corner. That’s it. 🙂