Snow Moon in Leo, Imbolc, and the doorway into eclipse season

There is a particular quality to this time of year.
The ground is still frozen where I live.
The mornings are quiet.
But the light is staying a little longer.

You can feel it if you pay attention.
The sun lingering.
The day stretching by a few careful minutes.
We are not in spring.
But we are no longer in deep descent either.
We are at a turning.

Beginning with the Snow Moon in Leo

Our upcoming virtual gathering begins under the Full Snow Moon in Leo.

Leo is ruled by the Sun and carries the element of fire, but in winter its energy doesn’t feel loud or performative. It feels like the small fire you protect. The warmth you keep alive when everything outside is cold.

This moon asks for honesty more than visibility.

Where have you dimmed yourself to conserve energy?
Where is your heart asking for more room?
What light have you kept tucked away?

Full Moons illuminate.
They show us what is already there.
They are not about becoming someone new — they are about recognizing what has grown quietly in the dark.

This Snow Moon feels like a reminder that life is still moving beneath the frost.

How this Moon is meeting my own life

I always notice where a Full Moon lands in my chart — not to predict anything, but to understand the tone of what I’m living. This Snow Moon is lighting up my 10th house — the part of the chart connected to calling, public voice, and how we stand in the world.

And I can feel that.
Right now, much of my life is brushing up against questions of leadership, responsibility, and speaking when it matters.

My mom — Big Mama — is preparing to address city council. If you know her, you know she doesn’t speak for attention. She speaks from care. From lived experience. From a deep love for this community.

What feels especially meaningful is that we share the same rising sign. This Moon is moving through the same area of her chart too. We’re both being asked, in our own ways, to stand behind what we believe in where others can see it.

Watching her step forward like that is a lesson in what it means to live your values in public, not just in private.

Our community has been writing letters of support. Showing up. Saying, this matters.

There’s something very 10th house about that — truth spoken where it can be heard, care made visible, leadership that grows from devotion rather than ego. Witnessing it has been emotional in a steady, grounding way. Not dramatic. Just real.

It reminds me that visibility isn’t about being seen.
It’s about standing for something.
It’s about letting your heart guide your public voice.
I don’t separate this from astrology.

The sky often names the season I’m already living.

For me, this Moon is illuminating what it means to stand in my work, my community, and my values with more honesty.
This isn’t abstract.
It’s lived.

How you can look at this in your own chart

If you enjoy working with astrology, you might look to where Leo lives in your birth chart. That house shows the area of life this Full Moon may be illuminating.

Not predicting.
Not forcing meaning.
Just noticing.

You can gently ask yourself:

Where am I being asked to be more honest with my heart?
Where is my energy wanting expression?
What feels quietly alive in me?

Astrology doesn’t tell you what to do.
It gives language to what you may already be feeling.

Where the Snow Moon in Leo may be illuminating your life

If you know your rising sign, you can reflect here. If you don’t, simply notice what resonates.

Let this be reflection, not pressure.

Aries Rising — 5th House
Creativity, joy, self-expression
Where is my heart asking to create or play?

Taurus Rising — 4th House
Home, roots, family, foundations
What does home truly mean to me right now?

Gemini Rising — 3rd House
Voice, communication, learning
What truth wants to be spoken?

Cancer Rising — 2nd House
Worth, values, resources
Where am I learning I am enough?

Leo Rising — 1st House
Identity, presence, self
Where am I ready to show up as I really am?

Virgo Rising — 12th House
Rest, healing, inner life
What needs gentle compassion or quiet care?

Libra Rising — 11th House
Community, friendships, belonging
Where do I feel true connection?

Scorpio Rising — 10th House
Calling, visibility, public life
How do I want to be known?

Sagittarius Rising — 9th House
Beliefs, perspective, learning
What understanding is expanding for me?

Capricorn Rising — 8th House
Depth, vulnerability, shared energy
What truth am I ready to face honestly?

Aquarius Rising — 7th House
Relationships, mirrors, partnership
What am I learning through others?

Pisces Rising — 6th House
Daily rhythms, body, wellbeing
How can I care for myself more consistently?

You might not have answers right away.
That’s okay.
Full Moons are about noticing.
About letting light land where it needs to.
Sometimes awareness itself is the shift.

Crossing into Imbolc with Fiona

From that Full Moon space, Fiona will guide us into Imbolc and the teachings of Brigid. Imbolc is one of the old seasonal thresholds. It marks the subtle return of light — not spring yet, but the knowing that spring will come. Traditionally, it is a time of tending the hearth, honouring the sacred flame, and caring for what is not yet visible.

Brigid is associated with the hearth, healing, poetry, and the well — the places where inspiration and life are sustained. This is not a festival of bloom. It is a festival of preparation.

A remembering that what grows well later must be tended now. Through Fiona’s storytelling and guidance, we’ll step into that quieter wisdom — the kind rooted in land, ancestry, and seasonal rhythm.

The doorway at the end of the season

I’ll close our circle by speaking to what’s ahead. As Aquarius season winds down, we approach eclipse season, beginning with a Solar Eclipse in Aquarius.
Eclipses have a way of shifting things.
Not always loudly.
But decisively.

A solar eclipse often marks a new direction, a reset, or a reorientation toward what is more aligned with who we are becoming. Aquarius energy asks us to look at the bigger picture — our communities, our future, the patterns we are part of. It invites perspective and honesty about what is truly ours to carry forward.

Standing at this point in the season, we have a rare opportunity:
To release under the Snow Moon.
To tend the returning light at Imbolc.
And to step toward the eclipse with awareness rather than reaction.
Not forcing change.
Just meeting it consciously.

An invitation to gather

This virtual circle is simply a place to mark this moment together.
To sit with the Full Moon.
To learn from the old stories.
To orient toward what is coming next.
If you feel called to join us, you are welcome.

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No pressure.
Just a circle at winter’s turning.