What: Aquarius Full Moon
When: Aug. 19, 2024
Who’s Impacted: EVERYONE, but esp. the signs listed below.
Takeaway: An electrifying conclusion, shocking disruption, or groundbreaking release.
Look! Out there in the sky: it’s a bird–no, a plane! No! It’s a–a–SUPER FULL MOON. ARGHHHHHH. That’s right, on Aug. 19, we have our 8th full moon of 2024, this one—a rare, super blue full moon—is in the liberating, forward-thinking air sign Aquarius. Even though it’s in Aquarius, the most emotionally detached sign in the zodiac, don’t expect this full moon to make you objective or indifferent to your current situation. There’s simply too much dynamic energy to think or feel that way.
First, this 2024 Aquarius super full moon is riding the wave of tension, frustration, confidence, and determination of the Mars-Jupiter conjunction and the Mars-Saturn square. Secondly, it also has some planetary friction, making a tense square to rabble-rouser Uranus in Taurus, which is set for a headline-making square to Mercury Rx in Leo (same day as the Mercury Cazimi!)
These tense alignments imbue the air with feelings of friction, frustration, hecticness, restlessness and maybe a little discontent. As the moon swells towards this peak moment, so do these feelings. Full moons often bring a tidal wave of emotion (since the Moon is the celestial body of the emotions), but this Aquarius full moon, which opposes both the Sun & Mercury Rx in Leo, is cranking things up a notch.
With Uranus in the mix, there’s a stronger-than-normal desire to break up with, break out of, or break free from something. (Because this full moon happens the SAME day as the Democratic National Convention, we’ll probably hear rhetoric revolving around freedom, liberation, and moving on from the past.) Uranus is the planet of unexpected shakeups and much-needed wake-ups; it is a disruptor, a wild card, a groundbreaker and liberator of what’s stale, stodgy, and outdated. Uranus shocks and electrifies you with insight, ideas, or a wild hair up your ass to do something—anything!—different. But don’t worry, this doesn’t mean you’ll suddenly have a soap-opera worthy break up, or get dramatically fired from your job on Aug. 19.
Will there be changes? Mmmmaybe. Because this ~rare~ super blue full moon is all about shaking things up and letting go of the stale sh*t that’s holding you back. HOWEVER, it’s more about making a small but meaningful change in your life, your daily habits, and/or your behaviors. With the opposition to Mercury Rx, this “change” will likely have something to do with a past passion, project, idea, and/or your creative spark.
So, if you’ve felt like you’ve been spinning your wheels in really thick mud and getting nowhere, you’re not alone. Mars and Saturn Rx recently had a standoff, which resulted in a battle between your drive and your duties. Jupiter and Saturn Rx are doing the same tense tango. Plus, Jupiter in Gemini squares Venus in Virgo, while the love planet opposes Saturn Rx in Pisces. In plainspeak, this means you might feel an urge to indulge, to splurge, to grow a current creative project, but feel stymied by your own limitations / duties. Needless to say, it’s been a tough and exhausting couple of weeks that’s culminating in a tense yet exciting Full Moon.
The good news is that the 2024 Aquarius super full moon is here to help you make forward progress and release stuck energy, to wake you up so you can break up with the thought pattern, behavior, person, project, or path that you no longer need to be tangoing with. Of course, what you’re tangoing with and what you need to release or shake up, depends entirely on your Sun / Rising sign. So, without further ado:
YOUR 2024 Aquarius Full Moon Horoscope
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