This dominance of the Fire Element remains strong throughout the coming weeks, building up to an energetic Grand Fire Trine with a lively New Leo Moon August 19^th that ignites our innate intuition. Right now, though, it is time to allow the warm Spirit of the Leo Sun to kindle our personal inner-fire, just as the cool and airy Aquarian Full Moon accents our daily need for intellectual stimulation with social and spiritual connections, especially those we consider helpful friends; and, if we raise the aspiration to generate the altruistic intention, to humanity itself. Indeed, among all the signs of the zodiac, it is the Aquarian Water-Bearer who provides the means to nourish all beings that share life under the heavenly firmament, not only with life-sustaining water and the illuminating zap of electricity, but also with friendship, inspiration and freedom.

According to Esoteric Astrology, Aquarius, the water-bearing 11^th sign is the hierarchical, unselfish ruler of the sensitive nurturing Moon, meaning that beyond animal instincts we are truly capable of living every day in full alignment with our ‘higher self’, side-by-side our brothers and sisters in a world where everyone has equal respect and care, as well as the freedom to explore, choose and change. From this elevated, but celestially inferred attainable perspective (and one that has a similar resonance January 2021, and most especially the last Full Moon (28thJan) of the Metal Rat – before the Metal Ox Lunar New Year Feb 11^th), a Full Moon in Aquarius indicates that humanity has the ability to accomplish an egalitarian society, where fellow beings, without exception, are considered kindred spirits, seen within the context of a global family, each playing their unique part of the collective whole. But in order for this to happen (as we enter into a 200-year phase of Air Sign conjunctions between Jupiter and Saturn, beginning with Aquarius at the December Solstice (For a cosmic calendar moment!)), we also need to familiarise ourselves with the will to achieve this apparently a ‘high’ ideal.

In astrology it is the Sun which represents our will and determination. And now at home in Leo, the Sun bolsters our individual ability to be steady and strong when crazy things happen (yes, covid – among others). Another aspect to consider over this Full Aquarian Moon is how the Lights, Sun and Moon, are in a tense ‘Fixed T-Square’, with electrifying Uranus, the Modern planetary ruler of Aquarius, to bring personal liberation into focus.

There is the kind of tension that can suddenly snap, creating shock, surprise and change, in which there are opportunities to expand awareness, raise consciousness, and develop altruism. With this Fixed T-square presenting the challenge to transform selfishness into selflessness and manifest our highest principles, even within, or should I say especially at points of crisis. In this tight T-Square between the Leo-ruled Sun, and a hierarchical-ruled Aquarian Moon, both Lights are therefore powerfully supported. But still one needs to not be too dogmatic or rigid. Such astral alignment boosts the Solar-Lunar relationship  as together ‘the Lights’ square up to the eccentric Aquarian ruler, Uranus (in Taurus), that triggers a tense and astonishing T-square which suggests we do have the capacity to embody enlightenment (I kid you not!).

Note also that within peer-groups and any team work, even those where vivacious individual’s reveal a heroic Lion Heart, and hit the stage, mic and spotlight in order to shine or entertain, cooperation and organisation are indispensable tools for success for the whole to reach that higher aspiration of everybody living together in peace and harmony, without divisions threatening our essential loving human kindness and oneness, our humanity.