Full Moon in Leo - February 1, 2026
On Sunday, February 1st, 2026, at 2:08 PM PST, the Snow Moon glows in the vibrant, playful, and expressive sign of Leo. This lunation is an invitation to listen to our hearts, lean into our creativity, and find the specific ways we feel most alive. If you have planets in fixed signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, or Aquarius), you are likely feeling this pulse more intensely. There is something within you that needs to be expressed: possibly regarding your identity, your purpose, or how you truly desire to be seen.
For those of us in the bone-deep chill of mid-winter, we often find ourselves in a season of hibernation. The world slows down, the earth is frozen, and we are tucked away in our internal landscapes. Yet, right in the heart of this stillness, the Leo Full Moon arrives like a sudden, roaring fire. It asks us a profound question: In the midst of the cold, what within is still burning?
Leo is the archetype of the Heart and the Sovereign. It governs our capacity to be seen and to lead from a place of radical authenticity. This year, however, the Moon sits in a tense opposition to a powerhouse of energy in Aquarius: Mars (assertion), Pluto (the Underworld), Venus (attraction/value), and Mercury (the Messenger).
Aquarius cares about the collective, the tribe, and the future. It also cares about aligning to the rhythm that comes from within rather than the noise from the outside. With so much Aquarian energy, there can be a subtle temptation to intellectualize our feelings, to prioritize lofty ideals over the messiness of intimacy. We must stay curious about where we might be masking a withdrawal from others as a pursuit of independence. You may feel a tug-of-war between your personal happiness and your responsibility to the world. With Venus in the mix, you might find yourself standing at a line in the sand, deciding which relationships deserve your fierce loyalty and which require a firm, protective boundary.
With Mars instigating a bit of divine drama and Pluto standing close by, the truth is rising to the surface. For some, this reveals where we have been more genuine with others than they have been with us. This transit demands an end to our in-between-ness. It exposes how we use busyness or intellectualization as a shield against the raw intensity of our needs. When Pluto stands across from the Moon, our sensitivities to rejection and loss aren't just amplified; they are initiations. They ask us to look at our fears of abandonment or where we’ve been smothered, not as problems to be fixed, but as parts of our history finally ready to be seen and held.
Our task isn't to solve the intensity. Instead, we are called to be the compassionate witness to our own shadows. Can we stay in the present and watch the waves of these intense emotions without planning to abandon them? The invitation is to move from the head to the heart, practicing the radical honesty required to stay present with the fire, trusting that the heat is exactly what is needed to alchemize our disowned parts back into the whole.
Uranus, the ruler of Aquarius, is making challenging alignments to Venus and Mercury, disrupting our habitual landscape. We are being invited out of our comfort zones and into an awakening. These squares act as a somatic jolt, challenging the conditioned ways we speak and relate. They ask: Are our lives built on our essential truth or merely on the echoes of our history? This is a season of divine disruption, where the breaking of our foundations is actually the clearing of a path toward untethered freedom.
It is easy to think that adventure is something we go out and find: a new job, a new city, a new person. But this Snow Moon suggests the real adventure is happening within. It is the act of re-membering your repressed creativity and the roar of your true self. It is the bravery required to be messy on the way to being more aligned with yourself.
Vocalize the internal: Say the thing you’ve been holding back. Let yourself be heard. Release the Fixer: You don’t have to have it all figured out; you just have to be present. Set a sovereign boundary: If a relationship or job feels like a dry dock for your soul, it is time to move back to open water. We are creatures of sacred passion. Do not hold back your roar. The world is listening. Your soul is listening. Express what you need to express. It’s time.
If you’d like some guidance on how to understand what’s present in your own chart and how to navigate through this energy, let’s talk about what type of session might be right for you.