Full Moon in Aquarius Horoscopes

Being a revolutionary in your own life starts with ceasing to negotiate what must be ironclad. Your vision for the future. Your values. The line in the sand worth going to bat for. The collective care that’s worth sacrificing a bit of convenience to uphold.

Honesty begets alignment. If you are complacent in your liberation and the liberation of others, you become apathetic about your own life and the world. Herein lies the high and low road of Aquarius. Are you standing at a distance that allows you to see the situation clearly, or are you detaching from your intuition to put off an important next step?

With Sun conjunct Jupiter and moon conjunct Pluto, this transit is supercharged for radical clarity; what you’ve been waffling back and forth over for ages might feel painstakingly clear now — especially on the other side of that retrograde from hell.

You’re feeling the call to expand, to choose visibility. To pluck life’s offerings like ripe fruit so heavy in abundance that it seems to be curving down to the earth towards your outstretched palm. (This is the Jupiter cazimi, a.k.a. exact degree with the Sun.) But if there’s a limit to your reach, a leash snapping back right as you get close enough to taste it, this is Pluto’s influence with Saturn retrograde to boot. This raw truth of what you’ve outgrown but are still tied to is being blasted through a megaphone. Energy already runs higher under a full moon, and Pluto’s proximity is a truth serum, double shot of espresso, lie detector, and amplifier of desire all rolled into one.

You cannot ask for a feast if there is no room on your plate. Jupiter is the movie preview of the life that could be yours, and Pluto is the oven timer warning you that your potential could burn if you leave it inside for too much longer.

The area of life this story will ring loudest is the house of 6° Aquarius in your chart. I have a free tutorial to locate a specific degree. I’ve also indicated where this horoscope is likely to occur based on your rising sign, but this is not fool proof depending on the chart style you use; it’s always good to double check!

With Saturn in Aries now retrograde (July 26-December 10), think of this energy like a redo or fresh attempt at where you’ve tried to initiate or gain independence. If the handle on the shovel keeps breaking, how can you soften the earth? Aries likes to speed ahead, but Saturn retrograde wants to fill potholes. This is an opportunity to revisit hasty goals that were abandoned once they were no longer exciting, or address a fear of being alone by building the scaffolding to support a life on your own terms. It’s a question of how committed you are to self-governance, and the steps that were overlooked or half-assed in the initial conception of the idea.

Where do you need to make room on your plate for the feast you say you want?

If you feel one foot in, one foot out of your old life and would like support naming the culprit and identifying next steps, I have a few reading spots open before I head to Europe on August 16! Let’s honor your initiation chapter together 🌀

1st house | Aquarius Rising: Have you examined lately how the close relationships in your life are impacting your confidence? How much sway do others have over your ability to embody the most fulfilling version of you? This is the dialogue being lit up in your chart right now. It could feel like a great time for love, but even still, you must be filling your own cup and making sure that your own goals and intentions aren’t being clouded by the haze of a new love interest or wedding bells on the horizon.

Journal or tarot: what version of me feels the most liberated a year from now? What do I need to keep in mind in order to embody that?

2nd house | Capricorn Rising: If you’re tired of the status quo in your life, this is the week it becomes untenable. The cog in the wheel, no matter how inconvenient on the surface, occurs so that you pause your current direction long enough to reassess if you want the same destination you did when you started. You might look around at the house, car, all the boxes you’ve checked off, and feel a sense of distance. It doesn’t matter how impressive a life is on paper if you’re not excited to live it.

Journal or tarot: how is my story of safety and abundance shifting to prioritize freedom and alignment?

3rd house | Sagittarius Rising: If you’re tired of talking about the same old shit, writing about the same old shit, beating the same dead horse, this is the moment to decide what stories in your life you want to fully turn a fresh page on. The mind is a repetitive creature of habit, and in order for new big ideas to come through (which you are on the precipice of) you need to put the old, outdated, distracting narratives to rest. I would even recommend a cord cutting or burning to clear the cobwebs!

Journal or tarot: what stories am I ready to release so that new abundant ideas can find me?

4th house | Scorpio Rising: Take a look around and notice how your life has felt more on your own terms over the last six months. No one else can tell you how to live. Whether or not to have kids, to settle down, to play life by the book. No one else decides what your 2nd, 3rd, 4th act should look like — or when you get to restart. You’re the black sheep for a reason. Your focus might be turning to career opportunities now that the home front feels more sovereign. With a private life lived on your own terms, you gain a fearlessness in the public realm.

Journal or tarot: how could greater alignment at home open up more professional opportunities this year?

5th house | Libra Rising: Where have you distanced yourself from visibility under the guise of artistic integrity? What stories do you carry that keep your creativity at arm’s length, or you behind the curtain? Your social life should feel enriched right now, which means there are countless connections at your fingertips if you just start sharing your work with a little more courage and pride.

Journal or tarot: how would my creativity benefit from 20% more audacity and visibility?

6th house | Virgo Rising: You say you want time for all of your hobbies, extracurriculars, causes, and friends, but when is the last time you sat down with your daily schedule and flipped it on its head to create space? Take this week to consider what you’re still doing out of reflex or obligation — precious time that could be invested devotionally elsewhere.

Journal or tarot: what is the best use of my energy on a daily basis? Where am I leaking the most energy?

7th house | Leo Rising: The love you crave is gonna require you to break a few rules. Whether that’s deepening the connection you already have, or shifting a pattern to make space for a future love. What traditions or norms is it time to make peace with and let go of? Is there a relationship timeline or framework that you’ve been haplessly trying to shove your own personal life into, to no avail?

Journal or tarot: what social conditioning could I break out of in love that allow me to be met more deeply and freely?

8th house | Cancer Rising: And what if I said the pathway to desire requires you to walk through the flames of liberation first? You might yearn from a distance, whether for a person, lifestyle, or version of you that is capable of everything you want. Use this full moon to examine how you can close that distance. Where you could be more fearless in pursuit of what you truly crave out of life. Pretending you don’t want it in order to manage expectations is no longer a suitable strategy for manifesting your dreams.

Journal or tarot: what desire would I admit to myself if I believed it was inevitable?

9th house | Gemini Rising: if you’ve been a busy-body lately with a lot of little trips filling up your calendar or it feels like you have more ideas than time, it would be helpful to reassess what it is you’re actually working towards long-term. Flittering energy can feel rewarding in the moment, but you’re being asked to zoom out right now and consider how to bridge your current goals and habits with where you’d like to be in a year.

Journal or tarot: where are my daily habits out of alignment with my bigger vision? What would liberating from those habits require of me?

10th house | Taurus Rising: You weren’t born to take marching orders, which is why you defy authority and hate having bosses. At times, it’s felt like there is no ideal job or career that fits you fully. Instead of lamenting the system you are forced to participate in, where could you reclaim time, energy, and space to start doing more of what you want? It doesn’t need to be a sweeping action, it could look like a few extra hours here and there throughout the week to devote to something more meaningful.

Journal or tarot: what must I liberate from in my current definition of purpose, to get closer to what I really came here to do?

11th house | Aries Rising: Give your friendships a bit of extra grace this week, while noticing who naturally feels cut from the same cloth and where you’ve fallen out of step with others. You’ve got big dreams that could start accelerating quite rapidly, but the company you keep can play a major role in whether you feel supported or silly in pursuit of them. Walk through the world as if every strand in the web of community is out to support you and see you succeed!

Journal or tarot: how can I lean on my community for more creative support, and weed out the connections that seed doubt?

12th house | Pisces Rising: It’s time to pluck out the dream that has been stagnating in the still waters of your subconscious. Instead of beating yourself up for letting it fester on the back burner, can you liberate yourself from the stories of impossibility or inadequacy that you’ve used to put it off over and over again? Keeping your dream at arm’s length doesn’t make it hurt any less when you leave it unfulfilled.

Journal or tarot: what unrealized dream within me needs me to get out of my own way right now and bring it back to life?

To the moon and back,
Ocean Pleasant

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