Don't forget to scroll down and read the astrological insights and customized release intentions you can use this Full Moon.

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Even the moon is in tune with love month. 

Welcome to February, widely regarded as love month as it boasts the one day of the year that people feel socially obligated to "show their love" in commercially-imposed ways. I've been redefining Valentine's Day for over six years now, and due to family responsibilities (and because I promote self-love and self-care 24/7, 365), I'm taking this year off. Lucky for me, this Full Moon in Leo's got my back. Let's talk about how this Full Moon is flipping the script on this commercialized holiday, and how we can use its energy to cultivate healing and harmony for our mind, body, and soul.

The Sun is still in airy Aquarius, but the fiery Full Moon in Leo, ruled by the Sun, comes to meet it. We already know that Full Moons are ripe for introspection and liberation from aspects that weigh us down on our journey. So as you can imagine, having a Sun-ruled sign in a Full Moon shines a fateful light on all the things we're meant to see, acknowledge, forgive, and let dissolve. Not for our detriment of course. If I haven't said this enough, the Universe/God/Spirit doesn't punish us, but instead gifts us opportunities to shift our vibration and show up for our visions and intentions. 

Although emotions might run amok as they typically do during these lunations, we're being called to align with our own Sun, our core, who we truly are. This is a time to not just look but really see as the depths of our lives are being illuminated. A time to give ourselves grace while we feel ourselves through the darkness and back to our fire. A time to reframe our circumstances as temporary trials on our journey towards evolving past current versions of ourselves. Put simply, this is a time to remember wtf we are and shed the rest.

The Moon is also in alignment with Mars, the planet of motivation. So if you needed any more divine reassurance that it's okay to move, weightless, in the direction of our dreams, this is it. Not only are we supported in our self-love pursuits, but if we steep ourselves in Mars' juicy energy, we'll restore the strength, power, and passion we need to burn through any fear that has calcified on the surface. 

If you've been running on E, quite like I've been since the last New Moon in Aquarius, gas yourself up with Leo's confident, passionate, creative energy these next few days. Much like the last lunation, this ain’t a time to play small. Remember when I said that you can either lounge in fear of the unpredictability of life or love the fact that it’s here to shake us? This time, moon energy is here to shake us out of repetitive, ego-driven self-talk, shake us out of outdated mental patterns and behaviors, and shake us into loving ourselves deeply through the process.

Forgive yourself for all the times you've done otherwise and give yourself the grace to take up whatever space you need to at this moment. 

1. What is being illuminated in me to be acknowledged and released?
    
2. What contributes to my divine fire? What extinguishes my divine fire?
    
3. How can I cultivate passion, practice confidence, and incorporate creativity into my daily life?

The Full Moon in Leo went exact on

Sunday, February 9 at 2:33 AM EST | 11:33 PM PST

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If you want to release with a Full Moon Ritual, you have until Wednesday, February 12 at 2:33 AM EST | 11:33 PM PST to use the most potent energy. 

• "Leo is a fire sign that reminds us to connect with all that lights us up. It reminds us to connect with our inner fire, with our inner Sun, and to remember that life is for experiencing rather than controlling."
  
  "Mars’ energy will help inspire us to push past any fears that are holding us back or keeping our inner light small. If there are fears you have been holding onto, if there are things you would rather not look at, or pains that have felt just too heavy to carry, allow a little space for this Full Moon energy to hold you. " – Forever Conscious
   
• "The upcoming Leo Full Moon offers a potent opportunity in which to practice self-love. Fiery Leo rules the heart, seat of compassion and courage (derived from coeur, the French word for heart). Emotions run high around any Full Moon, even when cool-headed Aquarius is involved." – Moon Circles
   
• "This Full Moon asks us to find our balance between these two polarities, to be both engaged and present (Leo), but also to maintain a certain amount of detachment, that enables us to move and make progress."
  
  "At the same time, the trine between the Full Moon and Mars in Sagittarius indicates we have access to new levels of courage and optimism, if we stay present in the moment." – NorthPoint Journal

• "Allow this full moon to feed your self-confidence so you can be all those things. Forgive all the times you have been hard on yourself for the illusion of “not doing it right”. Take in as much sunlight as possible and honor the masculine in yourself, the quality of taking action, and the ability to manage your energy in a productive way." 
  
  "Stick to your own sense of management and don’t get caught up in any drama that is taking place “out there." – The Power Path
   
• "This is the last Lunation where our entry to experience is via the expansive wisdom of Mars in Sagittarius leading us to act on our vision and truth. With Saturn still closely conjunct Pluto and Jupiter closing on its conjunctions with both, we can experience some very high states of consciousness if we allow ourselves to let go of fear and too many mental gymnastics related to “attaining higher awareness."
  
  "The recent Eclipses continue to remove everything which would block our mobilization toward a new life role or vision to be accomplished." – Aquarius Papers
   
• "A Leo lunar transit can also see us spend more extravagantly than usual as it is the grandest of signs, ruled by the Sun. Remember the most touching acts of love are those where we truly give of ourselves, such as our time and energy to show our appreciation of another." – The Moon Woman

• I release resistance to seeing and acknowledging the opportunities for growth in my circumstances.
   
• I release internal patterns, mental programming, beliefs, and mindsets that disconnect me from my fire.
   
• I release any and all energy ties that drain my spirit. 
   
• I release the fear of releasing weight from my mind, body, and soul.
   
• I release judgement and trust that I am always where I need to be in divine time.
   
• I release spiritual inhibitions. I welcome the lessons and see the guidance in all that unfolds in my life. 

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