Full Moon in Aquarius ✨♒️✨ — Be Who You Truly Are!

STAR 🌟 NOTES : August 9, 2025

Dear Star Tribe, Bonjour!

What a Moon! I don’t know about y’all, but this week was equally intense and magical! I experienced a profound emotional roller-coaster of peaks and valleys — like the wavy lines in the glyph for Aquarius! I am a bit late with this report as I am still busy processing all these deep and rich experiences. Thank you for your patience. This is a rich post, full of insights from many sources so take your time to read and reflect. I am so grateful you’re here. I would love to hear what you think and feel at this time. Please feel free to share — I truly love and value your feedback.

When we connect with people who share our desire for freedom and individuality, we develop a more collective mindset, shining our light for the global community. I allow myself to express my true, unique genius, which in turn frees others to shine their unique light.

August is a month of unexpected and unpredictable events, much like the energies of 2025. The world is shifting, changing, and moving very fast these days, so it is uber-important to be aware of our energy and to stay as balanced, grounded, and calm as possible. Taking care of ourselves is also how we can better show up and be of authentic service in the world. Let’s become more conscious of how we seek love and approval from outside ourselves, and learn to redirect our focus toward self-love, self-care, self-respect, and self-acceptance.

This Full Moon was exact at 3:55 am ET on Saturday, August 9, but we felt it building for days — and we will feel it for a while. As the cosmic Water Bearer, Aquarius pours new knowledge, realizations, and wisdom from the universal mind (Aquarius) to the human heart (Leo). Deep realizations can happen in moments of beautiful connection as well as times of discomfort, pain, and darkness. We always need to check in with our own internal authority — what feels right in our body.

What can we do if there are things we don’t agree with happening in the world? How can we call for change? This Full Moon energizes Pluto, also in Aquarius, and fuels a rise of revolution on the planet in 2025 and 2026. “The more people are shown they are not allowed or encouraged to demand positive change, the stronger they will rise.” — Lee Harris Energy.

The American and French revolutions happened when Pluto last entered Aquarius. The spirit of awakening to personal sovereignty, freedom, equality, and social justice is growing stronger every day.

We need to allow ourselves to feel and express every emotion that comes up. Anger can be a healthy part of our energetic awakening and recalibration when we allow it to flow for a few seconds. “Rage is a symptom of an underlying aspect that is looking for healing. Sit with the rage and ask it what it is attempting to protect. What is it reacting to? From the space of authentic power, you can show up for yourself as your own loving parent, guide, and protector. Gather up that hurt part of yourself and give it all the love and attention it has been yearning for so very long. Reassure it that you will keep it safe now and integrate it into your own loving care.” — Archangel Gabriel through Shelley Young.

The energy is so topsy-turvy out there — and in our own world — as our personal energy field constantly interacts with the collective field. We live in symbiotic union with the world and cosmos. An equally important truth is that every individual impacts the collective energy. Perhaps the purpose of life is to be our true, authentic self — to be who we truly are — and to trust that this is our best contribution to the world. We are learning to become guardians of our own frequencies, choices, and beliefs.

The epic shifts of many planets entering new signs this year provide a massive opportunity to shed old skins and birth a new version of ourselves. Who were you in the past? Who are you now? Who are you becoming? What does your heart and soul desire to manifest organically, naturally, instinctively? Surrender into these new energies with complete faith and trust in the flow.

Aquarius is a fascinating archetype because it represents an infinite dance between the collective and the individual. It is about the evolution of humanity — in its highest expression, weaving networks of social groups and communities with equality and justice for all. Are we there yet? The answer is obvious, but this Full Moon in Aquarius is a bright and powerful reminder of the evolutionary impulse at the core of the raison d’être of Aquarius. We are getting there as more and more people choose freedom, authentic soul expression, and warm connection over competition and conformity. This Full Moon energizes Pluto’s deep shadow and powerful transformational magic through Aquarius for the next 20 years.

One of the important yet complex themes of Aquarius is emotional detachment. “Detachment is not that we own nothing; detachment means nothing owns us.” — Bhagavad Gita.

Can authenticity be our highest vibration? “Authenticity isn’t about being perfect. It’s about being real—showing up without the mask, speaking your truth even when your voice shakes, and honouring your boundaries even when they’re uncomfortable. Authenticity invites real connection. Real peace. Real freedom. Because when you’re authentic, you’re not just loving others… you’re loving yourself, and the world can feel that.” — Paul Noiles

Many of you will be happy to know that Mercury will end its retrograde motion on August 11. I feel called to share some fantastic teachings on retrograde planets from the wonderful astrologer Suzanne Gerber, starsandstoneshealing.com:

“Think of retrogrades as a rare opportunity to hit pause and take mental and emotional inventory on how those areas of life are going for you. And then contemplate what you can do to make needed or desired upgrades. Saturn will dip back into Pisces for five and a half months (Sept. 1 to Feb. 13, 2026). So this last leap from Pisces to Aries signifies major endings and a dazzling new beginning, and is an opportunity to really clean house and expunge outdated, irrelevant structures in our lives that don’t support this very new beginning.

This is a big deal because right alongside Saturn is Neptune — and Neptune, the planet of dissolution and surrender, will be crossing this critical threshold (0º of the first fire sign) with Saturn, planet of boundaries, discipline, and responsibility, at this pivotal time in human history… it can’t not be a game-changer. We all stand to benefit from calling a personal timeout and — if not exactly stepping out of the action — at least slowing it down to a manageable pace. Saturn will give us a chance to actually digest everything we’ve taken in for the past several months and begin to metabolize it. What are we okay with? What must change?

Like going on a vacation, or just a digital detox, we need time and distance to gain perspective, which lights the path toward clarity. We need to replenish our physical, mental, and emotional stores as well. Constantly working without breaks depletes our energy and leads to decreased performance and burnout. It’s important to rest, relax, reset, and recover our natural rhythm. Let’s embrace these slowdowns and make every effort to find the gold inside the pause.”

In conclusion, I offer this imagery. Imagine our Earth family and galactic family holding hands — interconnected community sitting or standing around a gigantic, magical, divine campfire celebration — strengthening the vibration of peace, love, unity, and compassion. One mind, one heart, one faith: creating and anchoring a new vibration of personal and collective sovereignty. Focusing and trusting our soul power. Opening to love in all its forms: self-love, family love, romantic love, spiritual love.

If you feel called to better understand and embody your unique, authentic soul self, please reach out to book a private reading. It’s my greatest joy to help you integrate the magic of who you truly are, which is right there in your birth chart!

Cosmic love,Richard 💛

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