Journaling, Tarot & a Pinch of Magic for Courage to Be Seen
There is a particular quality to Leo Moons that always feels slightly exposing. Not in a spotlight-panic way, but in the quiet realization that you can no longer pretend you don’t want what you want.
In the height of Aquarius season, as we reach for a more just world through the collective strength of community, the Leo Moon arrives as a vital polarity: a gentle yet unmistakable reminder that amidst the grand struggle for democracy and freedom, your private dreams still deserve a voice.
It’s a ‘hang on a minute, my own values and desires, my dreams are valid because they exist, and vice versa.’ However small or simple they may seem against the thundering shadows of falling thrones and the cry for freedom, they deserve their place in the light.
That desire burning in your heart even through the howl of the world order collapse - is your guiding light.
Under this Full Moon on February 1st, 2026 also known as I’m Angry Because I’m Alive and Paying Attention, whatever has been dimmed, edited or held back for the sake of harmony begins to glow a little too brightly to ignore.
We’ve got some help from an overcrowded Aquarius situation across the sky, where the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Pluto are all tangled together. Too much thinking. Too many opinions. Too many systems explaining why things are the way they are while quietly erasing the people crushed underneath them.
Aquarius loves the future. Leo loves the living. And right now that difference matters.
The end of 2025 stripped the paint off a lot of comforting narratives. We watched institutions stop pretending they were functional. We watched empathy get rebranded as weakness and care framed as an inconvenience to be defunded. We watched people perform morality in public while quietly abandoning responsibility in private.
If you feel angrier than you used to, or sadder, or sharper, it is is a side effect of being alive.
With Mars in Aquarius, anger has been outsourced to movements and causes, often stripped of its emotional truth. With Venus in Aquarius, even love has been filtered through ideology and theory until it forgets how to touch the ground. Mercury in Aquarius blasts the airwaves with commentary, endless framing, very little listening. Pluto there exposes the power games beneath all of it.
Leo cuts through the noise by doing something radical. It feels. Fully. Without permission.
Jupiter in Cancer reminds us that protection is not regression and care is not naive. Saturn in Pisces keeps asking for emotional responsibility instead of spiritual performance.
Uranus in Taurus, now moving forward again, keeps rattling the material world, money, food, labor, bodies, reminding us that comfort built on denial was never stable.
Neptune newly in Aries dissolves fantasies about saviours and replaces them with something far more uncomfortable and far more honest. Personal agency. Ouch! I guess doomscrolling on that motherfucker Zuckerberg’s propaganda bullshit antisocial media platforms that happily throw children & teenagers mental health and safety under the speeding train loaded with money hoarded from selling you shit you never needed and greedy politicians buying a public opinion, might not cut it anymore in 2026. We are not so gently being urged to get up and fucking do something with the world that’s burning outside our windows.
Phew, and that’s just the outer world.
But how does all of this bipolar astrology play out in your own personal story? (Read my guidance below for your Rising Sign, but do have a peek at what's coming up for your Sun Sign too). I get into it in our usual sign-by-sign deep excavation guidance, and today I offer a gentle Leo Moon ritual completed with an original tarot spread and journaling exercise to tending the inner hearth while the storm winds blow.
In this space, we move from the heavy architecture of the collective to the golden room of the self, ensuring that your individual flame isn't snuffed out by the cold precision of progress.
Creating the Field
We are not treating this like a checklist. Think of this as a ceremonial interruption, a moment carved out of linear time where you are allowed to inhabit yourself fully.
Gather what feels appropriate:
a candle (gold, orange or red if possible)
a mirror or reflective surface
your journal and pen
If you work with Tarot, bring your deck. If not, your body will do just fine.
Sit somewhere your spine can be tall without strain. Light the candle. Let your eyes soften on the flame for a few breaths. We’re not attempting transcendence here, we’re establishing contact.
Place the mirror in front of you… angled so you can see your face if you lean forward. You won’t use it yet.
Say aloud or inwardly:
This time is dedicated to self-recognition, embodiment
and the truth that is deeply & loudly MINE.
Put on music that reminds you who you are when you’re not apologizing. Leo voices tend to roar or ache, they sound like Madonna, Tori Amos,Charlie XCX, Louis Armstrong.. Choose something that activates pride without tipping into performance.
No matter if you’re dancing naked under the full moonlight in your garden, reading cards by candlelight or just rolling around sensually in your freshly changed sheets, this Full Moon in Leo is yours to claim. It’s a night for presence, power and unapologetic self-expression, whether that means howling at the sky or sinking into your own quiet magic.
