This is the combination of my late half-brother, and so I’ll tread as lightly and clearly with him as I can. Leo Suns have a real drastic and almost impossible to speak of secret trajectory that spans a great height. Every single Leo Sun has this in some way, as the riches of the Sun in its own rulership of Leo belies an ambitious and starry-eyed ego, one which will man its chariot to the Sun, to the great end of all ends, for better or worse, eventually. They set extremely high standards for themselves, and have an inflation of who they are that sometimes meets opposition in the world which staggers and humiliates them. But this creates important new dimensions in the Leonine psyche which are essential to development. Here the Moon, which should be the underlying supportive fulcrum of the person, his or her emotional stability, is directly opposite, strained to the widest diameter possible—the Moon was Full when Leo-Aquarius was born. Those born on a Full Moon have very precise and profound destinies. In Vedic astrology, it is the most auspicious of all configurations, and there is much expected of the Full Moon children. The way I see it, the people born of the Full Moon are blessed, or cursed, with the fullest range of insight possible in a sign’s trajectory. We have here the sign of Leo mirrored and challenged by the sign most polarized to its being, yet the polarization is occurring inwardly, like a throw down on every level of the psyche. The result can only be ultimate integration and ascendance. Leo is the sign of wanting to belong to a clan, but as king, rabidly rising through ranks of perceived necessity and glory, to reach a magnificence condoned by that structure. Ironically, the Full Moon aspect of Leo becoming such as he or she imagines involves going through the unlikely road of Aquarius. Aquarius, as it goes, abstains from the whole process of a perceived stairway and takes a back route, where there is not only less pressure but less visibility. The person’s most defining times end up being in the shadows, when he or she is tied up with marginalized connections, or alone. A pervasive hidden self bent on rooting out the uncanny from the unseen—or at the mercy of it—must integrate with the orator, the contender. That’s the nutshell quandary of being a Leo Sun and Aquarius Moon. The person is secretive and tight-lipped when prodded but fluid and genius when on his or her own terms. They love shining, as all Leos do, but the Aquarian Moon in them, the subconscious part of them, shirks from representing anything that is not ethically in accordance with themselves, though in fact even ethics go through deep change with them. There is an indecisiveness. A stark part of this person remains profoundly anti-mainstream, even anti-social. There is a real strain that has to do with how the Leo-Aquarius would like to be perceived, how they project themselves, and what that person is actually drawn towards. It does not equate, or seems almost impassable. Serendipitous meetings with others both lures them in indescribably and bring them to a kind of Caeser-Brutus confrontation with themselves. They feel they’re betraying themselves when they choose ego, when they choose the known. This is a person decidedly ‘lunar’—prone to sudden mood swings, and turn-about-face, particularly around Full Moons. Essentially the Full Moon opposition is about going through the great tumult that mounts the peak of an arresting sight, the calm of epiphany. This person learns everything through immersion, disillusion, and the clearing bath of rage. Though it hasn’t been much written about, Aquarian moons deal with rage, because what the person values, what she or he loves is so very often beyond reach or shamefully castrated in society. The person needs to build up an intense amount of faith in his or her own hidden eye, and in the decided isolation that is that place. The consciousness must absorb much that the child would have considered base, so that the Aquarius Moon, the emotional disposition of distance and observance, can circle back and breathe the warmth of otherworldly knowingness into a spurned heart. There is a physical, even nauseating process of dismantling the ego so as to identify with the spirit of things. The person might be a good companion, loyal and affectionate, but their interior struggle makes it difficult to know him or her. The person’s journey leads on further than he or she imagined, through far more shadowlands than ever would have been guessed. The Leo-Aquarius has a destiny of fulfillment that is a whole greater than its parts.