Full Moon in Leo ~ February 16, 2022

[Oops! I didn’t mean for this to go live so soon. I had it scheduled for the 11th, but somehow it jumped out in front. This seems symbolic of the energies, so I’ll leave it up.]

My February 2022 Forecast notes:

February 16 Full Moon in Leo, 11:56 a.m. Eastern. This Full Moon in late Leo occurs at the same time Venus exactly conjuncts Mars. The close proximity of these cosmic lovers spans from February 7-March 15, but they consummate today. Uranus passes through 11°11′ today, too, opening a portal of liberation in Earthy Taurus. The energies are expansive enough to overwhelm. If you feel option dilemma, don’t try to decide anything today. Just enjoy the flood of potentials after a long period of immobility.

The Sabian Symbol for the Full Moon degree is:

PHASE 148 (LEO 28°): MANY LITTLE BIRDS ON A LIMB OF A BIG TREE.

KEYNOTE: A wide, and perhaps confusing, openness to a multiplicity of inspiring potentialities.

You can read the full description here, and it ends with another warning not to get OVERWHELMED WITH POTENTIALITIES. These could show up in areas of romance, revolution, many individuals standing up to a group of zealots, and/or sudden “out of this world” solutions that appear in the tangible, physical realm. Leo encourages us to follow our heart. Individuals can feel more courageous as they find themselves “out on a limb” with other bold souls facing fear and moving beyond it.

Pluto in Capricorn and the transiting North Node in Taurus remain in a close trine, with Pluto also quincunxing the Full Moon in Leo and the cubewano (outer system asteroid) Chaos in Gemini. According to Mark Andrew Holmes:

Astrologically, Chaos signifies chaos: anarchy, disorder, tumult, uproar, disarray, senselessness, which is sort of reinforced by the fact that its asteroid number adds up to 9, number of endings, selflessness and release. Chaos has to do not only with primordial confusion, but the confusion that is entropy and its final product; things fall apart, or are broken, so that new things may come into being. Accordingly, it seems to have something to do with activism as well.

In other words, we’ve got a YOD, aka “Finger of God,” pointing from the Full Moon and Chaos to Pluto, god of death, destruction and transformation. Add this to rebel Uranus hitting 11°11′ Taurus today, and we’ve got a chaotic portal of activism ripe for lightning bolts of inspiration. These alignments all deepen and intensify the energies, urging new leadership to arise as if answering destiny’s call. The dark underbelly of power, corruption and shadow government may lose its cover today. Some of the information revealed will feel like too much, too soon, and yet the nodal axis presses on. Karmic debts demand payment, while the collective stands its ground until it can find real steps forward.

With the nodal axis squaring the Sun-Moon axis in Fixed Signs, we can expect heightened emotions, resistance, and enough friction to force action. A Grand Cross of feuding energies. As the saying goes, “Keep your head on a swivel.” Use situational awareness, and trust your intuition if it tells you to lay low. Sometimes the wisest action involves pausing to assess the next move, rather than getting carried away by ego, revenge, or the crowd. All Full Moons heighten emotions, but this one invokes a LOT of volatile energies.

Asteroid Atropos conjuncts the South Node in Scorpio and sextiles Pluto. One of the three Fate Sisters, Atropos marks death, endings and transformation. The South Node (past) in Scorpio — and the sextile with Scorpio’s ruler Pluto — amplifies these themes. Whether we recognize it on February 16 or only in hindsight, this Full Moon signals the end of an era. Something major is going down. Time will tell what kind of regeneration follows.