Leo New Moon – 4 August 2024

Consider the interface in each relationship,
and let your big heart be loving.

(don’t worry about the astrology, go for the gist)
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.       We seem to start this month OK, but gradually the push for perfect service (do it my way!) becomes an issue. Words may be spoken in haste, seemingly true at the time, but the speaker not taking account of the listener’s needs, maybe, or the listener taking light humour seriously. ‘Many a true word is spoken in jest’ and if the listener is not in a jesting mood, or has a different sense of humour, the truth in the words may go deeper than intended, even to hurting the love that was there out of the picture.

Leo:  be yourself! – or your Self . . .
.       It looks to me as though the universe is making a strong push to get humanity off its teenage ego, and into service from a more mature standpoint (Pluto and Neptune both pointing a finger at Venus). For the last few weeks, we have been happily being ourselves in our relationships, assuming outcomes will be positive. At this New Moon we are on the brink of having to face the real needs that underlie any difficulties (Venus about to leave Leo for Virgo). However, Sun and Moon in Leo bring a sense of big-heartedness and the feeling that deep issues can be talked through lightly – not always, though, we may be biting off more than we can chew! (Sun/Moon sextile Mars/Jupiter in Gemini, but Jupiter squares Saturn.) We may be single-handedly trying to overthrow assumptions embedded over thousands of years (Saturn in Pisces).
.       One of the difficulties could be around personal space: how to get the space we need without rejecting closeness; equally how can we respect another’s space yet not withhold a certain sensitivity (Venus squares Uranus). Another difficulty could be around the space we live in, what we like to have around us to feel comfortable – how important this may be, and what we are prepared to lose to preserve our own sense of stability in the world, even though that sense may be a illusion.

The interface between us
.       Helpfully, we are already contemplating issues of relationship interface, boundaries, and necessary changes in life-style (Mercury in Virgo for the last 9 days and about to be retrograde until 28 August, at 21 Leo). Some people have stronger boundaries than others but, for the purposes of relating, we need to be aware of our own, and respectful of others’ to the degree that we find out where they are. As I understand it, boundaries are not fixed things, but rather the interface between individuals so that we don’t overlap, unless that’s intended by both people. So perhaps what is most important about our own interfacing boundary is that we are able to maintain our authenticity within it. Depending on a situation, or the particular person we’re relating to, we may want more or less personal space; more if the person or circumstance is inimical to our sense of who we are; or less perhaps when surrounded by that which feels comfortable.

Let more love through
.       A problem with feeling too comfortable to bother with boundary awareness is when a sudden shock is introduced like a blast of anger, a hurtful comment, or an unexpected event. If this happens to you, rather than reacting, let yourself wonder how the other person feels – it helps preserve your own space. Keeping our reaction as belonging to ourself, rather than a retaliation, we are identifying more as the greater Self, a sign of the maturity of the new human we are to become. That person is calmer, more peaceful, master of themself – I’m working on it!
To manage the energy this month, we could focus on the other person’s need and mood first, or simply withholding the first words that spring to mind, until finer feelings have been engaged. There are so many ways of communicating, and any of them, with love, can have the healing effect we would choose. Let the big heart be loving.

Surf the waves of a storm at sea – in the Light all is calm
.       If the Full Moon is somehow the culmination of what the New Moon suggests, then around the 19 August we get to see from experience where boundaries need to be in each relationship we have (Venus through Virgo opposite Saturn, both square Mars/Jupiter – in your chart, every relationship shows up in one or other of the Houses, there’s more on my website). There’s likely to be a great deal of speaking out and new lines being drawn, so make sure you really do mean what you say, so that the consequences open out your true path (shown by the Moon’s Nodes in your chart), rather than shunting you into a cul-de-sac you didn’t mean. There is also likely to be a great letting go, realising what is history and no longer relevant to how we identify ourselves, and what we wish to express (Sun/Mercury take the place Venus had, exactly square Uranus).
.       I have to say here, nothing in the world is really stable – it’s all vibrating away just by existing. So anything that disturbs the energetic vibration may change the entire shape of our lives. At the moment Pluto sextiling Neptune reassures me that these are spiritually based transformations; yet the time is unfolding inexorably bringing Uranus, energy of sudden vibratory changes, into the background pattern. There is no way things can remain how they have been, no way our lives will look quite the same in another year. The Full Moon chart is extremely energetic, and I feel we are being encouraged to get a move on! It’s as though we are pot plants, and the great gardener wants to plant us out in real ground. We’ve grown roots through the bottom of the pots while we’ve been assuming we’re in control of our lives. The gardener loosens any attachments round the top and sides that will move, and then turns each pot over, so the extending roots can be freed, so the pot can be lifted off the root ball inside without breaking anything. If the plant will not be loosened, some of those roots are going to break off just to free it. Sounds painful, but we can be prepared for the coming shifts by making sure we are not tethered to immovable objects, attitudes, preferences, people, and so on.

We get what we focus on, so choose – suffering? or Light?
.       This month, this year, we have a Gemini influence from Mars energy of action, and Jupiter who’s aiming for a bigger picture. This allows us to flex ourselves mentally, looking for what can be moved, let go, changed, without actually having to let go NOW. Jupiter squares Saturn during this process, so there are factions in the world, and in ourselves, that fight to keep the illusion of control. This is the way life grows, building muscle in the process. Keep going up and out in your growth and expression, except when you need to breathe in and re-group internally. Stay on course for the Light – it is our little egos that hang back and try to convince us that growth is impossible or too painful to contemplate.
.       Emotionally, we know how a good feeling feels. We can feel a good feeling about life arise. Just notice when the negatives begin to reduce or rubbish or tarnish that feeling – that’s our little ego at work. Rather than letting fears of loss, or panicky need, reduce you back into darkness, stay with the first joyful, exuberant, excited, loving, feeling – this is your spirit coming through, your real Self getting to grips with being part of the whole, showing the way that is Light. Faced with this choice, would you prefer to be guided by little ego? Well, think about it – we make choose that all the time, so why? This is a good time for contemplating this area of human life. And the new human is in process of becoming. Our job is to focus on what we really want to attract, because that’s how it works. Think about what you don’t want, or what you really value?

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Contemplation for this Leo New Moon

Turbulence, energetic storms at sea
Wake up and see from deep inside yourself
that which holds life entire
is rooted deep within your heart.
You know this because
you have to go deep in your heart
to find the beauty of this truth.
And there it is.

With love,
Margaret