Full Moon in Libra
March 28th 2021
Libra is the sign of love and relationship, in its highest expression- equal and right relationship, in its lowest expression- power play and people pleasing. We are entering a completely new 8 year relationship cycle today 25th March and a very sensitive but ultimately healing astrological alignment happening on the full moon on Sunday 28th and March 29th. It is a rare alignment and a very rich chance to do some powerful emotionally mature heart clearing and integration before the new moon in Aries on April 11th which is the first new moon of the astrological year. Let us get our hearts clear and in gear! For context, let’s dive into a little Libra inventory to understand some themes that will be coming up.
The Gifts of Libra
Libra teaches us about the fine art of balancing the needs of the self with the needs of other. Libra wants peace between friends, families, lovers, societies, cultures and this precious land we live on. Libra is all about cultivating a sense of equality. Libra is about mutual reciprocity. Libra wants us to strike the sweet spot between giving and receiving. The golden gifts that the Libran archetype embodies is its love for loving, its innate sense of empathy, cooperation, teamwork and community. Libra loves to love and be loved and to make sure everyone is ok. Libra, the sign of the scales is an air sign that is super fast thinking, a great conversationalist and excellent at being able to see both sides to situations with a graceful ability to keep the peace during conflict. In the tarot, Libra’s card is justice, and, as Libra LOVES all beings, Libra will fight for justice; justice is the one thing Libra will disturb the peace for in order to stand up for the voiceless. Calling out unfair power structures, communicating anger and righteous spiritual rage when their heart is ablaze calling for social change is a superpower of Libra. Political activist AOC and black feminist writer Bell Hooks are Libras. Libra is the ultimate dreamer and wants to live in an ideal world. John Lennon was a Libra and the lyrics to ‘Imagine’ are a beautiful example of alchemising pain into art. Art gives us hope and helps us cope. Art brings us closer to the ideal. To me an ideal is an idea that has become real
THE IDEAL THAT DRIVES LIBRA IS THAT IT LONGS TO CREATE HARMONY AND MINIMISE HARM
The Challenges of Libra (with some personal experience and wisdom thrown in)
Like every astrological archetype Libra has a shadow. Libra’s biggest shadow is people pleasing. Libra can pedestal love and harmony so much to the detriment of its own needs. Libra will readily advocate for the needs of others without a second thought, but is not comfortable stating their own. When a Libra is not conscious of this shadow, Libra will completely change itself like a chameleon to fit into who it thinks the other wants or needs them to be. This is actually manipulation when you really look at it honestly. Thank fuck I’ve integrated my shadow enough to write that without shaming myself. Another shadow of Libra is codependency. I really don’t like using the word codependent as one of my old therapists says “it implies that you are fucked and you are not fucked”. Loved her. And that reframe. But yes, we are relational beings, we are dependent on each other to survive and thrive but many of us have been placed or place ourselves into overly care-taking the needs of others which really blurs the boundaries between self and other. Flimsy to no boundaries is a big one and this can applied to ANYONE especially if it’s been modelled to you from young. When looking through the lens of gender binaries women have been conditioned to be this; the nurturer, the be everything to everyone. Self sacrifice and then feeling resentment can be a big shadow of Libra; no one person call fulfil all our needs and this is a lesson to us all that what we project we expect. Not expressing our own needs or putting another on a pedestal is unfair to all parties involved as it’s based on falsity and fantasy instead of fact. Trying to be perfect is exhausting and distracts us from building a healthy integrated sense of self and personal power. Perfectionism is rooted in white supremacy and is a dehumanising mask that blocks us from genuine connection.
Personal Reflection and Prompts
This is where Aries, the libran mirror comes in. Libra needs to look to Aries to fully embody a sovereign sense of self. Aries the sign of the self honours its truth first before anything else and isn’t afraid to say it. This is why Hunter And Her advocates for each person seeking, speaking and standing for Love and Truth. If Libra is Love, Aries is truth. This is ideal relationship that this Libran woman believes will let us all heal. Hand on my heart as a Libran, love and relationship are where I I have struggled with peoplepleasing and pouring all my energy into lovers and friendships in a bid to heal and find belonging. If you break up the word Belonging it reads Be-Longing. For a long time I didn’t know who I was or what I stood for because I was always told who to be, looking outside of myself for everyone else to tell me, trying to prove myself to people who couldn’t see me. I couldn’t even accept the praise I got either. How could I when I couldn’t praise me? And also, this bloody culture that conditions us to be a disempowered sheep that follows the crowd bowing down to the powers that be without any relationship to our own truth or self-agency. I used to look for my peace, love and healing in all my lovers and others unconsciously using them as a way to hide from the work I needed to do on myself. My willingess to cultivate a relationship to truth and my own love has been a huge part of my self discovery and creative recovery. The Hunter is about searching for the higher spiritual truth as a beacon to find one’s own unique truth. The like-hearted communities and teachers that I aligned with on the spiritual path have been the healthy and empowering relationships my soul needed to be cocooned in as I learned to cocoon myself. I have learned some hard truths about my patterns but fuck I’ve never felt so at ease and at peace in me. It is ongoing soul work to stay committed to the path of love and truth, it is a graft but it is my path and I don’t do it by halves. I leave you with these creative prompts and invite you into The Cocoon on Sunday for the most stunning and powerful relationship healing ritual, spiritual practices, and community sharing my favourite part! At Hunter And Her we believe we heal more while being held and heard in healthy and supportive relationship.
1. What would it feel like to summon the fire to call out every single relationship that does not hold your heart safe including the one with yourself?
2. And doing this brought your life, healing, self respect and depth in ways you could NEVER expect
3. Your deep need to be fully seen, you let ALL the way in, and this new capacity to be received in your allness changed absolutely EVERYTHING you thought you knew about love…
Blessed Be Hunter Hearts,
The highest love, Francesca x