Full Moon Collective Energy for February 2025
The moon's phases in February are:
🌓 First Quarter: Feb. 5.
🌕 Full Moon: Feb. 12.
🌗 Last Quarter: Feb. 20.
🌑 New Moon: Feb. 28.
The February full Moon, also called the Snow Moon, peaks on Wednesday, February 12.
According to NASA, several other planets will also be visible in the sky along side the full Snow Moon.
These other planets include:
- Mercury - Appears just above the horizon in late February, shining brightly after sunset.
- Venus - The brightest planet this month, visible in the west after sunset.
- Mars - A glowing amber-orange, high in the east each evening, setting a few hours before sunrise.
- Jupiter - A brilliant presence high overhead in the evening.
- Saturn - Faint but visible low in the west just after sunset, sinking lower as the month progresses.
Significance & Influences of the 2025 Snow Moon
This February full Snow Moon is here to expand upon the energy of last month's full Wolf Moon, which encouraged emotional awakening through aligned creative expression.
Since the Moon will be in the fixed fire sign of Leo, this lunar event will encourage us to lean into deep rest so we may reflect on what sparks our spirit and fuels our being.
The presence of Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn intensifies this energy. Their combined planetary interactions call for increased focus on expanding what self-discipline looks like around manifesting our desires and aspirations.
Additionally, thanks to the celestial influence of Venus and Mercury, this Snow Moon will also ask us to consider whether we feel authentic in our self-expression, self-love, and relationships as we take that journey of self-displine.
Overall, this February's full Moon calls us to honor the cycles of release and renewal while celebrating the fire of unexpected energies and change for more creativity and love in our lives.
Tapping into this lunar energy requires the courage and confidence to let go of negativity and embrace a fresh start while listening to your gut and heart along the way.
Behind the Moon's Name:
Given the snowfall patterns around this time, February's Full Moon is commonly known as the Snow Moon.
Native tribes across the Americas have several other names for this Full Moon related to seasonal occurrences and the kin embodying winter's wisdom.
Other names for the Snow Moon include...
- Bald Eagle Moon, mikisowipîsim — Cree
- Black Bear Moon — Tlingit
- Raccoon Moon — Dakota
- Groundhog Moon — certain Algonquin peoples
- Eagle Moon, Migizi-giizis — Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe)
- When the Bear Cubs are Born Moon, Makoonsag-gaa-nitaawaadi-giizis — Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe)
- First Flower Moon, Siwekure Araskehe Nuti (sihway-koo-ray ah-rahs-kay-hay noong-tee) — Catawba Language, Catawba Indian Nation, South Carolina
- Hungry Month, Kagali — Cherokee, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, North Carolina
- Deep Snow Moon, Muxaʔtaawe Osãane Neepãʔuk — Mahican Dialect, Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Wisconsin
- Midwinter Moon, Tsha’tekohselha — Oneida
- Little Sister of the Waning Moon, Tahch’awɛka Tehekuma — Tunica, Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana
Attuning to Sacred Cycles
February's lunar event helps draw our attention to our cycles and those of the Seasons and Celestial movements around us.
Named after the heavy snowfall typical around this time in North America, this Snow Moon invites us to embrace the quiet wisdom of winter.
Through the courageous acts of deep rest and introspection come the miracles of clarity, integration, and renewal.
Like our furred and feathered Kin, our bodies are attuned to the seasons, meant to be synced to the cycles found across nature. This embodied wisdom cues us into the energies, health, and well-being of the world within and around us.
Last month's full Wolf Moon oriented us to this wisdom through our instincts (innate awareness), intuitive intelligence (innate knowing), and childlike imagination (innate ability to create). The connection between our emotions and energy means we can apply much of last month's insights to this full Moon's emphasis on balancing action and reflection as we step into our truest selves.
Since this full Moon is rising in a fixed fire sign ruled by the Sun, it reminds us to embrace the warmth and light of each new day, even amidst challenging times.
Ecosystems rely on the oscillation between polarities, like that seen with night and day. Our survival is dependent on the principles of resisting and yielding, of acting and reflecting, of life and death.
When we understand and honor these sacred cycles, we can intuitively tap into our energy levels' natural fluctuations and direct them in aligned ways.
Becoming Caring Stewards of Our Energy
Importantly, this full moon urges us to clarify what influences how we conserve and expend our energy.
When we are mindful of what we are exposed to, connect with, or consume, we can genuinely manage our energy, which can ebb and flow like our emotional state.
The pull to utilize that energy can be sensed during energetic high tides, while the desire to conserve energy is natural during energetic low tides.
Environmental exposures and some substances, like caffeine and overly processed foods, can directly shift our energy levels and bodily cycles. Relationships, too, can have an immense impact on our energy, either leaving us drained or revitalized.
Unfortunately, external pressures and internalized expectations may also push us past our capacity.
When pushed past our energetic capacities, misalignments and inauthenticity can rise in our beings and relationships.
Luckily, the snow moon in Leo this year amplifies our bravery to address misdirection, allowing us to align our energy toward our deepest values and desires.
Release Fearful Heaviness to Renew Courageous Confidence
This winter lunar event truly is pulling us to take steps toward self-acceptance and authenticity. Its energetic influence is helping us let go of any mental or emotional blocks so that we can align with our intuitive and creative strengths.
Our loving reminder from this Snow Moon is to never settle based on perceived limitations or fears.
Whether projected, inherited, or adopted, these limitations and fears can be transmuted. However, it relies on our intentional efforts to release any energetic heaviness in the physical, mental, spiritual, emotional, and ancestral aspects of ourselves.
Such heaviness often manifests as resistance to changing limiting habits, beliefs, and relationships.
The slowness and seemingly stillness of winter provide a welcomed pause to do so.
Just as hibernating Kin need to tuck away for survival or the Land needs to be blanketed by snow or the void, we also find ourselves syncing to the universal need for deep rest and renewal.
The cold can often shock and stir new energies to rush in with the turn toward spring. However, death easily comes through its icy chill. Survival depends on learning to release and let die what no longer aligns with the part of the cycle you're entering.
Fortunately, the decay brought by winter's introspective pause nourishes our renewal with the awaited return of the next season.
Allow the Snow Moon to act as a catalyst for trying something new, committing to your intentions, and expressing your true self.
By resisting change, we become energetically weighed down in the past or connected to energies that lock us in anxiety mode.
Expectedly, it is an injustice to oneself when we do not devote time (of our own free will) to detox all that leaves us feeling stuck and paralyzed with fear.
Redirection Through Intuition
Whenever we feel misaligned with the sacred cycles, we must transmute energies to support our intentions. Of course, this call to action comes only when we listen to our inner voice and use our inner compass.
These common phrases help reflect how our intuitive intelligence is a loving, directive force that knows the desires of our soul.
Often, it may seem that our intuition provides inaccurate or inaccessible messages. When this occurs, it's important to scan for energetic heaviness that can impact your sense of connection and direction.
Some ways to move heaviness out of our being are through breathing, meditation, and fasting practices.
As we enter the void of stillness, we can begin to sense how our intuition communicates with us, through us.
Whether accessed via deep rest, meditation, or the inactivity of our digestive system, embracing the void of stillness helps us consciously sense how resistance and yielding truly feel in our body.
Dreams also hold insight into how we unconsciously process the language of our intuition and soul. While resting, we can confront, feel, and release fears and heaviness through our dream state.
Through deep rest and reflection, we devote time to understanding the multidimensionality of who we are. When we collectively honor this need, we are making strides toward authentic self-expression.
Together, we can begin celebrating the courageous nature of deep rest and reflection in our lives.
Ultimately, even in the silence of winter, the moon in Leo reminds us that we can have powerful moments of self-discovery and transformation when we listen to the wisdom of the body and soul.
Through this full Snow Moon and beyond, may we spark within us the self-discipline needed to allow our souls to shine and sing, attuned to the sacred cycles, among those who cherish us in our fullest expression.
with love,
mgmc
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