https://graycrawford.net/2024/01/25/full-moon-in-leo-5/

#FullMoon in #Leo
JANUARY 25, 2024 / GRAY #ASTROLOGY

..."the silvery light brought by the Leo Full Moon can deliver insight into the next steps needing to be made. If you’ve managed to bring a major work together during these tumultuous times, make space to celebrate and honor the productive force that Mars and Mercury can create together.

Of course in global events there are too many examples to count of disastrous decisions that have been made during these months of Mercury and Mars that have led to massive death and destruction as well as needless conflicts on a smaller scale. Their final conjunction is taking place in a square aspect with the lunar nodes at the southern bending of the nodes, the chthonic turning of the dragon, a place of crossroads, pivotal choices, and subconscious depths. Looking around for guidance, they encounter the ultimate guide and mentor – Chiron – scrutinizing their path with his heart-centered gaze of hard won wisdom. Mars will form a square aspect with Chiron on the same day as the Leo Full Moon, while Mercury will form a square one day later on 26 January. Depending upon the choices made and actions taken with Mercury and Mars coming together, Chiron will cut to the center with messages that can help in recalibrating, rebalancing, and making sure we are responsibly on course to get to where we want to go and are in right relationship with those around us. To receive the wisdom of Chiron, however, we will have to listen. 

Chiron in Aries has been engaging the Head of the Dragon, and will continue to be a guardian of this lunar gate in the months ahead as Chiron will form a conjunction with the true calculation of the north node on 19 February, will form a conjunction with the mean calculation of the north node on 5 March, and will be present at the dead center of the Aries Solar Eclipse that will be aligned with the north node on 8 April. Unions between Chiron and the Dragon’s Head are not too common, as it hasn’t happened since 2008 and will not happen again until 2038. With Chiron holding space at the zodiacal degree marking the intersection of the Moon’s monthly crossing of the ecliptic, we will experience monthly conjunctions of the Moon with her north node and Chiron (13 February; 11 March; 8 April; 5 May) as well as oppositions between the Moon and Chiron when Luna conjoins her own south node in Libra (31 January; 27 February; 26 March; 22 April).

The world has gone through accelerated changes since the pandemic and inception of several major astrological cycles in 2020, and we also know that the astrological alignments in the years ahead promise much more change. Many longstanding attachments, places and passions and people we have been attached to have had to pass away, and so feelings of uncertainty concerning the future can grab hold of us. For many reasons we are entering a time of Chiron playing an increasingly important role. Chiron the mediator between the realms within Saturn and the realms beyond Uranus. Chiron the horse, the human, the teacher, the one whose sacrifice liberated the liberating Prometheus. In Aries the wisdom of Chiron involves the courage of the heart, as well as the need for relationship and mentoring, for questioning when we need to widen the scope of our individual perspective and shed the individualizing influences of the times to relate to the collective concerns of our community. Yet in other cases the fire of Chiron in Aries may ignite realization of a need to remove ourselves from groupthink and conforming with the expectations of others. The thread through all of the complexity to come will involve listening to both internal and external messages."...