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Full Moons are a great time to set intentions and highlight change in our lives. Spiritual clarity comes more easily and we can utilize the events to grow. Energies can be intense or distracting. Planning for each lunation to keep focus is essential to harnessing the full potential available to us.
June 17 – Sagittarius
This full moon will push us into adventure. Sagittarius is all about freedom, making new friends, and seeing new places. Planets align here to boost our confidence for speaking up, creating art, and fighting for social justice. It’s an excellent time to join a new club or take up a new activity. Be wise with your words, make sure there’s quality, not just quantity. Take time to exert the extra energy you’ll be feeling with a favorite pastime. Get outside with your friends. Do the creative and expressive projects you’ve been putting off. This boost of optimism and wild ideas will be refreshing. Try to get out of town if you can. Or visit a new place. Perspective is everything here. Get in on it.
July 16 – Capricorn
While the Capricorn full moon is always a call to restructure and work hard, this one in particular lends itself to creative expression as well. If you’ve been waiting for a time to make a shift into an artistic side hustle or start showing your work to the world, this is your moon. Clean out your closets, your desk, your contacts. Purge what is taking up space so you can make room for the things you want in your life. Capricorn teaches us to dissolve what is holding us back. If we do it ourselves, it can be an exhilarating and validating experience. However, with Saturn as this moon’s ruler, we really don’t have a choice. We’re being pushed to get our act together and get out there no matter what, but it’s best to make the moves yourself! Do you feel stuck? Analyze the aspects of your life you can attend to and focus on them. Be patient. The effects of this lunation are slow to take hold, but they are long lasting.
August 15 – Aquarius
I’d like to call this the esoteric full moon for the year. It will bolster intuition and all pursuits related therein. Tarot readings, astrology, palmistry, energy work, and intuitive readings are all set to be groundbreaking during this time. If there’s been a roadblock or feelings of spiritual funk, this is the time to break free. Every nuance and detail will seem more alive than usual. The union of spiritual life and mental awareness will overlap in loops. This has been called synchronicity. Notice how often you experience déjà vu this week!Are you on the right path? Is your life the one best for your growth? Look for the signs. They will be all around you.
September 14 | Pisces
If you thought the Aquarian full moon knocked you out with its spiritual tune-up, get ready. That was the warm-up exercise for the Pisces full moon. Pisces reaches the deepest parts of our psyche. This full moon blasts open all the secrets we’ve kept from ourselves. Instead of personal awareness like last month, we’ll be tuned in to the magic of our ancestors. There’s a sense of knowing who we are during this lunation. You know more than you think you do. You just need to trust yourself. All answers are within you. This is a great time to focus on past lives, spirit guides, and any metaphysical interests that are blossoming. Be open to the wisdom that comes with humility and life lessons. Surrounded by your own light and love, you will have astounding moments of bliss. You are your ancestors’ wildest dreams. Start living like it.
Ruby Sabbath Wolfe
Ruby Sabbath Wolfe is a professional astrologer and tarot reader and the owner of Sabbath Wolfe based in the Lower Ninth Ward.