What the Full Moon in Leo Means for You in February

The second full Moon of 2026 arrives in Leo, bringing us face to face with our most authentic expression. Acting as a cosmic mirror, the full Moon in Leo reflects back the light we’ve been afraid to claim and the power we’ve been hesitant to own.

When is the Full Moon in Leo?

The year’s second full Moon takes place on Sunday, February 1, 2026, at 2:09 PT.

What the Full Moon in Leo

Ruled by the Sun itself, Leo is solar by nature. Just as our Sun doesn’t apologize for its existence, Leo reminds us that dimming our light serves no one. The full Moon in this fire sign carries the medicine of radical self-acceptance and the courage to be witnessed in our fullness.

The full Moon in Leo illuminates which aspirations came from your true self versus which ones came from who you think you should be. Maybe you set goals based on external expectations or comparison to others. Leo reveals these misalignments not to shame you, but to liberate you. When you release intentions that aren’t truly yours, you create space for desires that are aligned with your soul.

Leo connects us to the part of ourselves that once knew how to play without purpose, create without criticism, and love without conditions. Before the world taught you to monitor yourself, edit yourself, make yourself palatable, who were you? What did you love? What made you feel alive?

The Moon in Leo helps you remember that original innocence, that untouched creative spark, that playfulness that still exists within you, waiting beneath layers of conditioning. This full Moon brings these patterns into conscious awareness. You might notice how you still seek validation in familiar ways, how you still perform old scripts that no longer serve you. Leo’s medicine is the remembrance that you are inherently worthy of love, attention, and celebration simply for existing.

This Moon’s clarity creates conditions for seeing ourselves truly, perhaps for the first time. Consider how you learned to relate to attention and visibility. Were you celebrated for being yourself or did you learn to perform for approval? Did you discover that love had conditions, that you had to achieve or behave certain ways to receive it?

You do not need to do anything, accomplish anything, or create anything to be loved. The full Moon in Leo is the time to begin developing love for yourself, without conditions, for merely existing.

The journey to authentic expression requires incredible bravery. Your heart doesn’t operate like your mind. It won’t give you five-year plans or guarantee outcomes. Instead, it speaks through sensation, through knowing, through the pull toward what lights you up and the resistance to what dims your flame. Leo teaches us that following these signals takes the courage of a lion. You might not know where the path leads, but your heart knows the next step. This full Moon in Leo strengthens your ability to trust that inner compass, even when the destination remains mysterious.

Leo is the sign of kings and queens. It reminds us that each of us has the potential to lead others through the full expression of ourselves. We must, though, be willing to be seen. Kings and queens are generally the center of attention in any room. They feel confident enough to take up that space. From this platform they can lead and share their truth.

Feel into your own willingness to take up the space you deserve this full Moon and use it to share yourself with others. Accept yourself for who you are this full Moon and allow yourself to extend far past the confines of your body.

What the Full Moon in Leo and Sun in Aquarius Mean for You

The full Moon in Leo and the Sun in Aquarius create one of the zodiac’s most dynamic conversations. Whereas the Sun in Aquarius invites us to revolutionize the collective through our unique contributions, the Moon in Leo illuminates the source of that uniqueness as our creative fire and our unique truth.

These opposite signs form a bridge of light, each illuminating what the other might overlook and, together, creating the blueprint for authentic leadership in service to humanity’s evolution. The Leo-Aquarius axis teaches us about the dance between individual creative expression and collective contribution, between standing in our sovereignty and remembering our interconnection with all beings. It is a cosmic dialogue between personal radiance and collective consciousness, heart-centered expression and visionary innovation.

Each astrological sign exists on a spectrum, offering both shadow and light, contraction and expansion. As if we were tuning into different radio frequencies, we can consciously choose which expression of these energies we embody.

When you align with Leo’s highest frequency, you become a beacon of inspiration. Your confidence comes not from comparison but from self-knowledge and acceptance. Your warmth makes others feel safe to be themselves. Your creativity flows freely because you’ve released the need for external validation. In this elevated state, Leo helps you lead through love rather than dominance, inspire through authenticity rather than performance. You become someone who celebrates others’ light as enthusiastically as your own, knowing there’s room for everyone to shine.

Aquarius at its highest frequency makes you a visionary channel for collective evolution. You see patterns others miss, imagine possibilities others haven’t conceived, and hold space for humanity’s highest potential. This elevated expression of Aquarius helps you honor your uniqueness while recognizing how your individual gifts serve the whole. You become both revolutionary and collaborative, independent and interconnected. Your rebellion is based on love rather than reaction.

Yet each of these powerful signs carry shadows that the full Moon illuminates. Leo’s shadow emerges as the wounded ego—the part of you that needs constant validation, that creates drama to feel significant, that confuses confidence with arrogance. This shadow Leo might dominate conversations, compete rather than collaborate, or withdraw when not receiving enough attention. It’s the voice that says you’re either the best or you’re nothing, that your worth depends on applause, that love must be earned through performance.

Notice where these Leo shadows might be operating in your life. Do you find yourself inflating stories for effect? Feeling devastated when your contributions aren’t acknowledged? Creating conflict because negative attention feels better than no attention? These patterns often stem from childhood experiences around being seen and valued.

The full Moon in Leo doesn’t highlight these shadows to shame you—it shows them to you with compassion, knowing that awareness is the initial step toward transformation.

Aquarius carries its own shadows that complicate our relationship with community and authenticity. Shadow Aquarius shows up as emotional detachment disguised as enlightenment, intellectual superiority masked as wisdom, rebellion without cause. It’s the part of you that judges others for being “unconscious” while avoiding your own emotional work. Shadow Aquarius can become so focused on being different that it loses touch with genuine expression or so committed to ideals that it forgets compassion for human messiness.

You might recognize shadow Aquarius in patterns of isolating yourself while claiming you don’t need anyone, dismissing emotions as inferior to logic, or becoming rigidly attached to being seen as evolved or unique. Sometimes this shadow manifests as perpetual contrarianism—automatically opposing whatever’s popular without checking if it actually resonates with your truth. These patterns often protect old ways of being around belonging, around feeling like an outsider, around not fitting into conventional structures.

The magic happens when we consciously integrate both signs’ highest expressions while compassionately acknowledging their shadows. The full Moon in Leo supports you in finding the sweet spot where personal expression serves collective healing, where your individual light becomes part of humanity’s greater illumination.

Integration looks like sharing your gifts without needing everyone to receive them the same way. It’s creating from your soul’s calling while staying open to collaboration and feedback. It’s claiming your space without diminishing others’ right to theirs. The full Moon in Leo asks you to lead with your heart while keeping your mind engaged, to honor your uniqueness while remembering your interconnection, and to shine brightly while celebrating others’ radiance.

When Leo’s heart meets Aquarius’s mind, you become a force for transformation that’s both intensely personal and universally relevant. The way forward requires honest self-review. Where might your need for recognition be blocking your creative flow? Where might your desire to be different be preventing genuine connection? How can you honor both your individual expression and your role in collective evolution?

This full Moon creates space for these questions even as your answers will shift as you grow. When these energies integrate, you become someone who inspires not through perfection but through courageously sharing your whole self—shadows, light, and everything in between. The upcoming full Moon offers clarity for this integration work. This lunation helps you see clearly where you’ve been operating from shadow and where you’re ready to step into greater light.

Remember, the goal isn’t to eliminate shadows—they’re part of the human experience. The goal is to bring conscious awareness to these patterns so they no longer run your life unconsciously.

As you work with this full Moon, let yourself feel both the sovereignty of Leo and the interconnection of Aquarius. You are simultaneously a unique, irreplaceable expression of creation and an integral part of the cosmic whole. Your individual healing contributes to collective transformation. Your personal courage inspires global change. This is the profound gift of the Leo-Aquarius axis: showing us that authentic self-expression and service to humanity aren’t separate paths—they’re the same journey.

Your heart speaks a language more ancient and honest than words. Before your mind forms thoughts, before your ego constructs stories, your heart already knows. It responds instantaneously to truth, expands in the presence of love, contracts when encountering what doesn’t serve you. This full Moon in Leo illuminates this inner wisdom system, helping you recognize how often you override your heart’s guidance in favor of logic, convention, or fear.

Consider how your heart’s field touches everyone you encounter. When you walk into a room, your heart arrives first, broadcasting your true frequency before you speak a single word. Others feel your authentic vibration and whether you’re operating from love or fear, openness or protection, authenticity or performance.

You’ve felt this yourself when meeting someone whose presence immediately puts you at ease, or conversely, someone whose energy feels incongruent with their words. This is heart intelligence in action.

Your heart generates an electromagnetic field that extends beyond the physical body. This field touches everyone you encounter, communicating your true frequency more powerfully than words ever could. During the full Moon in Leo, you’re invited to become conscious of what your heart is broadcasting to the world. Are you transmitting fear of judgment or the courage to be seen? Are you sending out signals of scarcity or the abundance of someone who knows their worth? This Moon supports you in amplifying your heart’s most authentic message.

During this Full Moon, Leo’s fire helps us access this coherent state more easily, teaching us to lead from this powerful center. The full Moon in Leo reminds us to restore the heart to its rightful place as our primary guidance system. When you align with your heart’s wisdom during this full Moon, you tap into an intelligence that transcends linear thinking. Your heart knows things your mind cannot explain. It recognizes soul connections, senses optimal timing, feels the truth beneath appearances. It carries the memory of your purpose, the blueprint of your joy, the map to your most authentic expression.

The full Moon in Leo’s clarity helps you distinguish between the mind’s fearful projections and the heart’s steady knowing.

Your Invitation

After January’s full Moon in Cancer helped us release what no longer aligned with our way forward, the full Moon in Leo asks us to step boldly into what remains, including our essence, our gifts, and our undeniable magnetism.

As we move into February, the Leo full Moon marks a crucial moment of choosing courage over comfort, authenticity over approval, heart truth over head logic. The universe is asking you to stop waiting for permission to be magnificent. Stop postponing your brilliance until you feel ready. Stop editing yourself down to fit into spaces too small for your spirit.

The full Moon in Leo reminds you that your light isn’t too much. The world needs the exact frequency you carry. Your specific way of shining creates openings for others to find their own light. This is how we collectively rise: one brave heart at a time, each of us daring to glow at full capacity.

Learn more about the full Moon in Leo, including additional astrological insights and journaling prompts, in the Leo Full Moon workbook, from which the above is excerpted.