wallflower on the dance floor: on this full moon in libra
and what it means for you
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The Full Moon at 23* Libra arrives Saturday, April 12th at 8:22pm Eastern.
And the vibe is: desperate to join the party, but nervous as hell.
The good news: we are officially clear of 2025’s first eclipse season. Glory hallelujah. This weekend brings a sense of conclusion, or at least reflection, to any questions posed by events around the very last (solar, New Moon) Libra eclipse on October 2, 2024. It feels like years have passed since then, and so it may be worth returning to your calendar, planner, or journal to see what you were doing around that time and how those events have ripened or fizzled.
On top of that! Mercury stationed direct this week. And so these last few days of the week rather have the feeling of finding the end of a Regency-era maze outside of a poppin’ ballroom: you can hear the other partygoers, the hazy candlelight drifting in and out, and you know you’re close, so close, to finding your way out and rejoining the party… but not quite yet.
In part, this is because this moon is moving into a square with Mars, which is still in feelings-forward Cancer. Given the air-water elemental makeup, it’s more likely to look like the frustration or anxiety of not being able to move fast enough, and any incumbent hurt feelings, rather than an outright, explicit conflict.
But the still-wallflower vibes are also in part because Venus (finally!) stations direct about 40 minutes after the Full Moon is exact, and planets are at their slowest during a station. So on the one hand, we do benefit from a Venus-ruled moon focused on connection, beauty, art, that which makes life worth living. On the other hand, questions raised by this last Venus Retrograde — around our relationships with other people and even our relationship to our art — are top of mind. So be patient with yourself, and with others, if things aren’t quite looking exactly how you want yet.
Things are starting to clear, and by early May, and especially come June, the world is going to feel entirely different than it does now. Not only because of the ~world events~, but also because of the astrology. Right now, we’re about to join a rollicking party, but are still gathering our courage from our wallflower comfort zone.
Be gentle, be patient, be kind. And remember that things take the time they take.
If you need a cheat sheet for what topics have come up for you during the past few years of Libra lunations:
Aries Risings: long-term relationships, typically that involve contracts and paperwork (marriage, literary agents, business partners); your beliefs, values, and practices around such committed relationships
Taurus Risings: your day job and/or the labor you exchange for money/benefits; daily scheduling; chores and errands; physical health - the maintenance of; chronic pain and illness; pets; activism for labor rights and/or healthcare
Gemini Risings: your erotic energy; creative work; sex; more casual dating/flirtation/erotic relationships; relationships with significant children in your life; your children themselves, if you have them; sports and games; pleasure and play
Cancer Rising: home - the literal space, also what it is emotionally; family, and who counts as family; parents, grandparents, and primary caretakers; direct, recent ancestors; cultural heritage; roots
Leo Rising: your local neighborhood; your regular/daily writing practice; everyday communication; K-12 education; relationships with relatives, siblings, and friends who feel like family
Virgo Rising: your relationship to money; material/liquid resources; less tangible resources like Time; income streams - developing or consolidating
Libra Rising: your self-expression, through anything from hairstyle to gender identity; energy levels and a general feeling of vitality (having it/not having it); new regimens for the physical body/health
Scorpio Rising: subconscious dreams, beliefs, and desires made more clear; mental health; old, forgotten ancestral patterns and traumas; visiting, working in, volunteering at, doing involuntary time in hospitals and prisons; finding spaces of spiritual retreats, such as at ashrams or monasteries
Sagittarius Rising: friendships & relationship to community; professional organizations; the internet and digital organizing; volunteer work
Capricorn Rising: legacy work; long-term career; showing up as an authority in public, or reacting to authorities in public (e.g. bosses, parents); “what you’re known for”; reputation
Aquarius Rising: higher education - pursuing, teaching in; systems of organized belief, e.g. organized religion; astrology; traditional publishing & legacy media; international travel and that which is “foreign” to you; the law and judiciary
Pisces Rising: shared material resources, such as inheritance, taxes, alimony, child support, royalty checks; shared emotional/psychic resources, such as grief, mediumship, and liminal work with the dead; client work; professional collaborations that are more project-based
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Libra rising here, and I’ve been highlighting my hair with purple since December. After the election, I felt the push to subvert expectations more.