August 9, 2025
The Full Moon on the Leo–Aquarius axis marks the culmination of an intensely Plutonian lunar cycle that began on July 24. This cycle triggers processes of deep renewal: a change in perspective, facing fears, and bringing to light chronic issues that require healing and purification. At the same time, it highlights our personal power, talents, will, and creative work, as well as the need to express these in new ways within the social or collective sphere and in our relationships with others.
The “locomotive” planetary pattern, led by retrograde Pluto in Aquarius and ending with Mars (transitioning from Virgo into Libra), underscores the need to explore the transmission of information and the shifting of social roles on personal, interpersonal, professional, and creative levels. It also attunes us to what we have neglected—or tend to neglect—while trying to improve situations in our environment, helping others, or leaving matters unresolved. There is a strong drive to revisit issues and resolve them. Discussions about chronic dysfunctions and deficiencies come to the forefront. Shared finances, debts, insurance and resources, taxes, and energy are central themes of this cycle on a collective level, along with our position and relationships within the larger whole. At the same time, the determination to address problems on a leadership level demands a radical change of personal agenda. Mars, being the last in the ‘locomotive’, seems to illuminate the entrance into a new territory where preparation for change is essential. What the warrior within us—and in the world—chooses to fuel or to repel is a particularly complex dynamic, and naturally depends on the environment and the position from which we act.
Pluto transmutes and transforms, bringing us into contact with our obsessions, passions, desires, fears, psychology, research, and all that is unseen, hidden, or lies beneath the surface—birth and death itself. It is an agent of change. Within this cycle, our attention may have been drawn towards what is missing in the world, our world or what is withheld from us, what needs improvement, while at the same time measuring our strength and perhaps gaining a deeper understanding of what is central and essential in our lives—at the very core of our being. The dynamics of power, both around us and in the world, have become more evident, as have the supporters and the absentees, the areas where we give or work without result or recognition, and the moments when we act with sensitivity and discretion to correct or assist.
The dynamic of this cycle is regenerative and revealing. In March 2023, Pluto entered the sign of Aquarius. On January 21, 2025, the first Sun–Pluto conjunction in Aquarius took place, following the previous one, which occurred at 29° Capricorn. This first conjunction in Aquarius illuminated the purpose of Pluto’s transit through Aquarius, while the Mars–Pluto conjunction on February 14, 2024, fertilised it. The current lunar cycle gives us the first glimpse of awareness of its larger scope, as it began with the Sun–Pluto opposition.
The dynamics of power in our lives are shifting—along with the way we make decisions, how we use our willpower, and how we perceive power and strength in general. These themes will concern us in the areas of life where this cycle began (the areas of life houses – ruled by the Sun). Where is the source of assistance and strength? What are our motives and intentions? and those of others. This Full Moon sheds light on what is no longer necessary, what is ailing, what we truly desire, and where we are in denial in relation to our initial intentions and personal power.
While this may not affect everyone on a purely personal level, it does influence society and the balance of power between the group and the individual, which inevitably touches us in some way. Retrograde Mercury in Leo has brought back contacts, conversations, aggreeements and creative pursuits from the past, giving us the opportunity to reconsider these matters. It has also offered a chance for reorganization and revitalization through talents and personal activities, approached in a more subjective way.
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