Full Moon Collective Energy for January 2025

The moon's phases in January are:

🌓 First Quarter: Jan. 6.

🌕 Full Moon: Jan. 13.

🌗 Last Quarter: Jan. 21.

🌑 New Moon: Jan. 29.

The first full moon of 2025 peaks today, Monday, January 13, signifying the end of one lunar year and the transition to the start of a new one on Wednesday, January 19.

Interestingly, Mars will be visible near the full moon along with two bright stars, Castor and Pollux. The red planet gets close to Earth roughly every two years, so its next big appearance like this will be in February 2027.

This year, Mars will shine just as brightly as Sirius (the brightest star visible in the sky) around January 15-16, depending on where you live.

Significance & Influences of the 2025 Wolf Moon

Awakening emotionally at this time requires acknowledging, reflecting on, and releasing the latent tensions in our emotional being. Such tensions tend to be caused by ruthlessness, carelessness, obliviousness, or restlessness toward matters of the heart.

Through aligned creative expression, we can navigate the challenges of deepening our understanding of ourselves and our heart space.

While the Full Wolf Moon is here to help with this awakening process, now is not the only time to find emotional balance. Nevertheless, since the moon is at home in the watery sign of Cancer, it encourages us to focus our collective attention inward toward our heart space and emotional state.

Given its proximity in the sky, Mars will have an energetic influence on this full moon, as will the transiting planet Uranus, which is retrograde in the sign of Taurus until January 30, 2025.

Together, these planetary interactions can make us more receptive to our instinctive awareness, intuitive insights, and potential for breakthroughs regarding our emotions and deep healing. However, this is not necessarily a passive or entirely pleasant change, as we must take the initiative to tap into this celestial energy.

Tides that bind

Using water as a way to understand the emotional aspect of our health and well-being is a common analogy found across spiritual spaces. It easily helps us recognize that each person has their own emotional ebb and flow.

Our moods and emotions often fluctuate in subtle and immense ways, like waves in the ocean, both above and below the surface. The feelings that well up within or come crashing down on us tend to be the reactionary voice of desires, needs, beliefs, or expectations that are either being met or unmet.

Relating to water also helps explain how our emotional reactions tend to take on the form we think they should have based on our social and familial values.

Just as water takes on the shape of the container that it is in, different beliefs and expectations shape how people express (or do not express) their sensations of emotions.

At the same time, water is a carrier and holds memory based on what it is exposed to. So, people's perceptions of their emotional waters are further influenced by their lived experiences.

Whether experienced directly or through lineage, what we see or bear witness to colors our sensations of emotions. Depending on those experiences, we may be ill-equipped to face our waters when they get murky or understand how to maintain clear waters in the first place.

Fortunately, water has a life cycle, and when flowing freely in a healthy ecosystem, it can filter, purify, and nourish. Yet, this cycle is severely altered because settler-colonial ways of dominating (rather than relating) encourage inhumanity and emotional immaturity.

Cultivating Intergenerational Emotional Intelligence

Across generations, we collectively suffer from an inability to recognize and truly reconcile our interconnection and interdependence with Water, Land, and their Kin.

Stunted by abstraction, it has been difficult to remedy the turbid emotional waters that continue to be imparted with tools tainted by a dogma of disconnection and domination.

Still, we can begin navigating the emotional waves in our being by being attentive to what encourages balance and what causes turbulence (emotional instability).

This level of attentiveness is a relational act of care and communication with ourselves that must be done with compassion and authenticity. Like water, the consequences can be damaging if our emotions become neglected, overly pressurized, or forced.

Once we can extend compassion to ourselves, it becomes easier to extend it to those before us.

Navigating the Personal among the Pack for the Pack

Mitigating the harmful potential of our emotional waters or those of others requires honest and nonjudgmental exploration and expression of our desires, needs, beliefs, or expectations. We can recognize how this may look by turning to Wolves, after whom this full moon is aptly named since it occurs in a month when they are most active.

The chilly winter months, January through March, present an opportune time for Wolves to survive and mate. Their haunting vocalizations ring through the night around this time, reminding us of the high level of relationality necessary to sustain life amidst the cold season.

Like us, Wolves have a distinct voice or howl that they use to communicate with one another and maintain balance between members. By varying their pitch, Wolves can send different kinds of messages over long distances, including affection and alarm.

A Wolf's howl embodies the fusion of emotion and action, linking instinct with intelligence.

Through the act of howling, a pack of Wolves can easily coordinate efforts to capture prey that nourishes them all, ensuring the next generation.

Their unique vocalizations, though nonverbal, illustrate that intuitively leaning into expressions that feel cathartic and authentic to our nature is important for survival.

Ultimately, aligned creative expression may help us better understand and communicate about the relationships between our emotions and actions.

Aligned creative expression can be anything that engages one's senses and capabilities. However, it must encourage us to utilize our instincts (innate awareness), intuitive intelligence (innate knowing), and childlike imagination (innate ability to create).

Whether your insights come from creating connections, visual art, written works, textiles, musical pieces, or cooked meals, it is important to start the fusion of emotion and action.

At its core, socio-emotional development relies on the guidance received through creating relationships and connections. In this process of dynamically relating to all that is within and beyond us through expression, we expand our capacity to interpret what is fundamental to our own emotional waters and that of others.

Now, though, no better than others, is a great time to forge new navigation tools and create a map of relations to better care for your heart space and emotional state.

Through this full Wolf Moon and beyond, may the tides of our waters find and maintain an emotional balance that not only deeply nourishes our health and well-being but extends outwards to those around us through our embodiment.

with love,

mgmc

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