2023 Aquarius Full Moon Astrology Forecast
2023 Aquarius Full Moon – August 1, 2023
11:31 AM PDT / 2:31 PM EDT / 6:31 PM GMT
9 Leo 19 / 9 Aquarius 19
2023 Aquarius Full Moon
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Has it felt lately like cosmic arrows are pointing at you from all directions? Are you increasingly aware of being ignored or undervalued and increasingly getting fed up? Have you had the sense that certain friends and pastimes don’t fit anymore? Have you thought that something has to give?
It does, and that’s what is happening now. The 2023 Aquarius Full Moon is supersizing questions like those and more until they have no option but to resolve. The pressure makes us want more and removes people and situations that can’t deliver. Actively or not, we’re breaking from friend groups, communities, and wish lists that don’t further our well-being and future flourishing.
It’s, weirdly, not an especially emotional experience for a full Moon. With her in detached, intellectual Aquarius, we’re in observer mode, ticking off boxes or marking a Bingo card as events unfold.
Not that this is an entirely drama-free zone. Venus is retrograding in look-at-me Leo, and some grandstanding and spotlight-grabbing is inevitable. Your best focus is your own spark. How’s it faring?
The 2023 Aquarius Full Moon is a measuring and release point in our Venus retrograde journeys, which began July 22. She’s not yet conjunct the Sun or Moon – that happens midmonth – but she does play a starring role right now. She rules the planet, making the tightest contact with the Full Moon right now: her counterpart in indulgence, Jupiter, who enlarges everything he touches. He’s midway between the Sun and the Moon, the focal point of the dynamic configuration of a t-square. He’s receiving equal pressure from reason and emotion, the masculine and the feminine, expression of the self and communal experience, and the way out is exaggerating the desire and need for tangible validation (no sweet nothings!), reliability, dependability and showing up.
No one’s inclined to wait for invitations or to wait for anything. The t-square is pumping up sagas and emotions and situations until they get satisfaction or until an energetic balloon pops. Keeping on with what you’ve been doing isn’t likely. Too much in the sky is poking us all to do something. (Those cosmic arrows, remember?)
Venus is also in charge of the ruler of Aquarius, Uranus, and she’s heading for a shoving match with him. When they connect on August 9, the impact will unlock hearts and desires – and complete the breaks the 2023 Aquarius Full Moon is setting up.
More about those arrows: The 2023 Aquarius Full Moon’s inconjunct to Mercury and Mars in Virgo is calling for healthier thinking, information channels, motivations, and approaches, with more intact boundaries and regard for the details. The Moon’s semi-sextile to Saturn is also nudging us toward adjustments, to step up, and above all, to act responsibly toward ourselves.
Some of this will play out slowly. This Full Moon is wired with delays, blockades, and echoes of July 21 (just before Venus stationed retrograde), when messenger god Mercury opposes Saturn, as action hero Mars did in July. (Watch for messages, explanations, and details about the July 21 impasses and frustrations.) It’s not a hospitable influence for winning anyone over to your side. You may even have difficulty contacting people, resulting in some of the Full Moon break-ups that will happen without talk. (Can you say … ghosting?)
You’ll know what it means to, and for you, by the time Venus reaches the Sun on August 13. And you are the MVP in your life now. Every development has information about your value, and especially your value of yourself. Assimilate! You’re only taking what’s yours.
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About the Author
Kathy Biehl is a professional astrologer with more than 30 years of experience. She has been translating astrology for the mainstream since high school and has a knack for combining humor and pop culture with her guidance. Visit EmpowermentUnlimited.net to sign up for her mailing list, listen to her forecasts, and book a session for her. Find her on Facebook at Empowerment Unlimited and the Astro-Insight Lounge and on YouTube at the Professional Aquarian Channel. Listen to her radio show Celestial Compass on OM Times Radio.
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