02/01/2026
The Full Moon in Leo rises at 13°03′, on February 1 or 2 depending on where you stand. This moons light is illuminating the heart of who you are and how you express yourself in the world. This is the time to let your true self be seen. Be your truest self in the most courageous way possible.
Leo energy inspires creativity, joy, courage, & authentic selfhood. When the Moon is full in Leo, it brings bright clarity where you’ve been dimming your light out of habit, self-protection, or a desire to belong without disruption. Often dim from fear it is time to blow away any darkness and shine on yourself.
This Leo Moon energizes you to dig into where you hold back what wants to be seen, what is your truth and how can you express yourself ?
This full moon shines light on your identity, visibility, and emotional honesty. It reveals where you’re ready to be seen in full, not in performance or trying to prove something but living with greater presence and authenticity.
With a 5 planet stellium ( stellium is where planets are in a straight line) in Aquarius opposite the Leo Moon, there is a natural tension between individual expression and collective belonging. You may feel pulled between being truly yourself and molding to group dynamics, social expectations, or relationship roles. This is a big time of change for partners not only in love but in business or any relationship you are part of.
This Full Moon doesn’t create energies for you to choose one over the other, it creates a way for you to stop abandoning your heart in order to fit in.
Emotionally, this Moon creates a tenderness for you, for yourself. Visibility always carries vulnerability. You may feel more sensitive to recognition, feedback, or moments where you’ve felt overlooked. Felt is the key word, you may be getting more than you believe.
This sensitivity isn’t a weakness. It’s showing you what you care about, what feels alive, and where you may have been overriding your own needs for the sake of ease or acceptance.
When you listen instead of dismissing it, sensitivity is guidance. Helping you move toward authenticity rather than away from it.
Leo reminds us that courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s the willingness to show up even in fear, with honesty and heart.
This Full Moon highlights the balance between self-expression and emotional presence.
With heightened Aquarian influence in the background, there can be a tendency to intellectualize feelings, detach, or prioritize ideals over intimacy. In relationships, watch for where you have ego driven not heart driven choices. Where has emotional withdrawal been mistaken for independence. And where has staying above having feelings been a cop-out when being open and sharing yourself would truly have served you better.
This is a mirror moment. You may see clearly where you’ve been withholding your joy, creativity, or truth. Think about, have I been waiting for some unknown permission that I no longer need? This is a time full of energy that lights up self recognition as self respect and embodied worth. Don’t hesitate to use this for yourself to become your truest self.
This is a time for showing deep appreciation to whom you love, giving single minded attention and your full presence to your loves, not just romantically but to all you love give as deeply as possible. It’s a wonderful time to connect with friends, anyone you think of, someone who just came to mind it’s for this for you to shine as deep and brightly as you are capable of shine love. How wonderful this is, this moment given to love.
All your relationship roles are up for a deeper look, where you help out, where you are always the reliable one. Are these still reflecting who you truly are? Have any relationships become a way of being safe, not having to change yet each every time you hold back you are chipping away at yourself. Time to be! Time to step up not down.
This Full Moon activates the archetype of the Heart-Centered Individual within the Collective. There is a growing desire to contribute, care, and be of service, paired with exhaustion around being valued only for output, productivity, or correctness. This is a time for our tribe to come together and each of us has a part, a place and one of our
Around the world people are energized, wanting to feel alive, emotionally engaged, and creative energies longing to be expressed, not just basic useful ways or morally aligned but that hot golden feeling of life, of rebirth. This Moon helps remind us that humanitarian energy loses its power when it lacks heart. This is a time of truth to yourself, truth to and for all.
This Full Moon carries an extra heavy power so it is the last full moon before the eclipse season, so all that energy is silently unseen moving towards us behind this great moon. This season of eclipse culminates with a New Moon Solar Eclipse on February 17. What comes into awareness now lays the ground for what will soon need to be reshaped. This is a moment of powerful emotional truth-telling before larger, more fated shifts arrive.
This energy also unfolds during the final weeks of the Year of the Wood Snake. A cycle of silently shedding old outdated ways, slow discernment and unseen internal alchemy/ transformation. Wood Snake energy releases outer skins slowly, only when they no longer fit. Over the past year, many of us have been outgrowing identities, coping strategies, and relational roles from the inside out.
This Leo Full Moon illuminates the last layers ready to fall away, the performances, self-concepts, and emotional defenses that once protected you but now restrict you.
In a few weeks we enter the Year of the Fire Horse, a very different time of burning away that which no longer serves you, a time of speed, courage, and forward momentum. Fire Horse energy moves quickly & rewards clarity. This Moon offers a pause a breath to know and think about what you carry forward and what will you leave to the fire.
Now you can let yourself be seen and not feel the need to prove or perform for anyone. Gather confidence that is deeply rooted in your self respect. This is not a time for comparison with another but a time to find your strength and your abilities. As you move deeper into your own truth you will see what to contribute without sacrificing yourself.
What you let go of now will not follow into the coming year of Fire Horse. Think about what Joy you have treated as optional that is actually essential. If left to fire it remains as dust. Be prepared to be reshaped, reborn again as your true self without the shadows of others expectations.
We are all on this threshold opening into the fire that will cleanse away the unneeded. The last emotional clearing of the Wood Snake year and this last moon before the eclipse shapes everything as we go forward. Let go of performance and reconnect with your true heart joy.
Your compass is love.
As we come closer to the New Year things speed up, everything will move faster. Use this wood snake Full Moon be a time of choosing deep truth and authenticity. Drop all performance and enter the Heart Zone. What you embody and create now becomes the fire that carries you forward.
~ I lead with my heart. I AM here now. This is presence. I carry forward only truth ~