meaning of February’s Full Snow Moon
Shake your mane and bare your teeth, my babies; the full Snow Moon in Leo peaks on Wednesday, February 12, 2025, at 8:53 a.m. EST.
February’s full moon will be below the horizon at full illumination, making the evening before and after peak times for peeping.
Just after sunset on the 12th and in a sweet celestial nod to Valentine’s Day, Venus, our planet of love, aesthetics and relationships, will rise alongside the moon — and be at its peak shine — for this year.
Full moon meaning
Full moons represent the end of a lunar cycle. As they rise, they bring to the surface issues, emotions, intestinal parasites, menses and other sticky situations that demand to be dealt with. Culminations come knocking, revelations slip into something more uncomfortable and the human heart is tenderized.
Full moons are not about subtlety. They intensify emotions and illuminate what can no longer be ignored or endured.
The sign that the full moon falls in lends its specific energy to the lunar cycle. In this case, our mirror in the sky falls in the sign and paws of Leo, a heart-ruled sign defined by a hungry need to express, subjugate, love, and be loved and be witnessed in their totality.
Add to this that Leo is the sign synonymous with stubborn pride, high drama, and theatrical expression, and you have the recipe for a potent lunation.
Full moon in Leo 2025
Leo is often reduced to the stereotype of a preening big cat seeking external validation and roughly pawing at/pandering for attention (good or bad) to feel important. See showboating child stars, vain dictators and/or maniacal frontmen with good hair and bad habits. This characterization is born from the underbelly of the sign, which is ego-dominated and, as such, insatiable.
However, at its highest vibration, Leo is the vital pulse and profane joy of creativity, the perennial child/cub that lives to walk in the sunshine and express themselves without the need for praise or fear of judgment.
The full moon in Leo coincides with the sun shining in the ‘objectivity is my love language’, ride the lighting, progress for the people, genius/madman sign of Aquarius. Aquarius is not afraid to alienate in the name of authenticity and teaches Leo that truly belonging to anything is born from an IDGAF approach to self-expression.
This is the axis of extra (Leo) and the extraterrestrial (Aquarius). This axis teaches us that the heart (Leo) and mind (Aquarius) are not opposing forces but necessary ballasts.
While Leo wants to rule, Aquarius understands what it means to be sovereign. Leo rules the heart, and under this moon, we are encouraged to get quiet, listen close to that vital drum beat, and be brave enough to believe that love is a self-renewing resource we need not compete, perform, or beg for.
Square dance
During the full moon, the Sun in Aquarius and the Moon in Leo will both form activating squares with Uranus, our punk rock planet of chaotic catharsis and radical independence.
Uranus is known as the great awakener though it rarely rouses with gentle words and ambient light. It’s more inclined to kick down the door and play “Thunderstruck” at an 11. Yet, Uranus can upend us enough to see unexpected solutions, helping us kiss chaos on its fevered cheek rather than try to grab it by its unruly tail.
Uranus juggles the champagne bottle, quakes the earth and pulls out the rug — to create something in the wake of release. This energy is a summons to tune into our vitality and shake loose pride to get to the source of power and shake up inflexibility to invite more life force.
In the words of Aquarius sun, Leo moon James Joyce, “To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.”
What is a Snow Moon?
February’s full moon is known as the Snow Moon, as the second month of the year has historically held the highest levels of snowfall in the Northern Hemisphere.
The Farmer’s Almanac reminds us that Indigenous tribes also referred to February’s full moon as the Bony Moon and Hungry Moon, indicating that food was scarce and people were wanting.
The theme of scarcity is interesting to consider, as Leo is defined by an unmatched appetite for love and recognition.
Full Snow Moon meaning
This full moon invites us to investigate what really and truly satisfies us and what we consciously or unconsciously store up and starve ourselves of.
In what areas of our lives, physical, sexual, sensual, mental, spiritual, relational, professional, have we learned to anticipate or accept scarcity rather than expect or imagine radical plenty? Where do we make ourselves small in the hopes of fitting in?
With the sun in Aquarius, the sign of independence and innovation, and Uranus throwing curve balls and puta falls, there exists the potential for us all to find new ways to get full.
Meaning of the full moon in Leo
The intensity of the full moon be especially affecting for those with significant placements in the fixed signs; Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius.
For full February predictions and general astro weather, read your monthly horoscope.
When is the next full moon in 2025?
The next full moon, the full Worm Moon in Virgo, will rise and shine on Friday, March 14, 2025.
Astrologer Reda Wigle researches and irreverently reports on planetary configurations and their effect on each zodiac sign. Her horoscopes integrate history, poetry, pop culture, and personal experience. To book a reading, visit her website.
