{"id":74208,"date":"2014-02-13T00:22:17","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T05:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=74208"},"modified":"2014-02-13T11:12:20","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T16:12:20","slug":"have-some-heart-the-leo-full-moon-on-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/have-some-heart-the-leo-full-moon-on-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Have Some Heart: The Leo Full Moon on Valentine\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow, Feb. 14, is the Leo Full Moon (exact at 6:53 pm EST; view full chart here<\/a>) — and Valentine\u2019s Day. So if you\u2019re feeling antsy, confrontational or as though a relationship is at loggerheads, it\u2019s likely the building Full Moon you\u2019re feeling, though it may be compounding any pressure you\u2019re feeling from the romantic hype streaming at us this week.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s not that romantic gestures are bad per se, and expressing love is always a good thing. It\u2019s that in the face of social expectations based on something other than holistic relating, and artificially fueled by the retail industry, the idea of \u2018relationship\u2019 gets warped into something less than nourishing. If you\u2019re single, it can be downright alienating.<\/p>\n

Somewhere along the line, certain actions and events became codified as the accepted ways to demonstrate love: fancy cards, chocolates, expensive dinners out, sparkly jewelry, etc. As society pushes those superficial (if pleasant) material displays, relational values such as empathy, honesty and receptivity seemed to get relegated to the back seat — especially on Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n

Empathy, honesty and receptivity can also be trickier to locate within yourself when a Full Moon is approaching, as this can be a tense moment, prone to opposition or polarization (i.e., drama).<\/p>\n

When you\u2019re engaged in conflict with another person and caught up in seeing them as the cause, it can be a struggle to find a way toward feeling empathy for them. Being completely honest about your own part in the conflict, or owning up to whatever qualities you\u2019re pointing a finger at in someone else, isn\u2019t easy. And once you\u2019ve taken an accusatory posture and stopped looking inward, it becomes incredibly difficult to receive who that person really is and what they have to offer. We lose touch with our compassion.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow, as the Leo Moon sets up across from the Aquarius Sun, it will also oppose retrograde Mercury and the centaur planet Nessus in Aquarius. Mercury relates to the mind: our thoughts and how we communicate them. Remember that you can mitigate havoc caused to communication this week if you\u2019re willing to pause and double-check that you were understood and that you understand, before going on the offensive or getting defensive.<\/p>\n

Mercury retrograde can represent confusion, and in Aquarius, an intractable Nessus is about consequences. The combination can be fearful, or in some way troubling — especially when coupled with the Full Moon. <\/p>\n

The Sun, retrograde Mercury and Nessus may be pushing you to conform to the codified social expectations and patterns of Valentine’s Day. But the Moon is in Leo, which rules the heart; ultimately, love is about showing compassion for yourself and for others, in ways that truly matter: through empathy, honesty and receptivity. What effects might ripple out if you allow those qualities to guide your actions?<\/p>\n

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Tomorrow, Feb. 14, is the Leo Full Moon (exact at 6:53 pm EST; view full chart here) — and Valentine\u2019s Day. So if you\u2019re feeling antsy, confrontational or as though a relationship is at loggerheads, it\u2019s likely the building Full Moon you\u2019re feeling, though it may be compounding any pressure you\u2019re feeling from the romantic … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1734],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}