Your Sexual Future
Tonight's Full Moon in Aquarius, Kink, and Community
At 9:36 pm EDT tonight, we meet the wholly formed Full Moon at 19 degrees of Aquarius. This feels like a ripe moment to tear the seal on my new newsletter, Pleasure Centers, even though I feel generally messy and unfinished today.
Aquarius is the place in our chart where we can get our freak on. It’s the place where we find our tribe, gather with our friends: the people who make us feel seen. It’s where we can exist without shame. It’s like a friendly kink community where you can come with whatever makes you unusual and not worry about being judged. Aquarians see the future because they are the future. This is why they often don’t fit in, because there is some part of them that’s ten years ahead of the rest of y’all, and normies just don’t get it.
The ongoing attack on our bodily autonomy is making me think a lot about our sexual future as a collective. Because it’s not an attack on abortion in a vacuum — it’s an attack on pleasure itself. It’s an attack on the very idea that anyone living in a marginalized body is even allowed to think about having pleasure, let alone experience it. Full Moons are meant for breakthroughs, and this is what I want us to have a breakthrough around at this lunation.
We may have experienced intense disruptions during the last two weeks as fixed signs have been shaken to their foundations. After tonight, we should begin to see exactly what cracked and where the light got in, in a Leonard Cohen sort of way.
All Full Moons, in some ways, are about letting go, releasing the remnants of the last lunar cycle and beginning again with a clean cosmic slate. Yet this lunation speaks to the annihilation of toxic, outdated systems even more succinctly. On the collective level, we’re seeing the phrase “civil war” over and over, ginned up by the far right propaganda machine, but also genuinely on the lips of both the angry and the scared. There is this sense that we’re hurtling inexorably toward a showdown between the progressive, diverse, humanity-loving future so many of us want — so very Aquarian — and a clinging to the past where only white men were allowed to feel a sense of safety.
This Full Moon provokes the Saturn-Uranus square in effect since 2021 - the one that brought us the Capitol insurrection and the torrent of lies from violent far-right extremists. It’s still close enough in orb for us to feel it, especially with the proximity of the nodes at 17 degrees of Taurus and Scorpio. This is where the karma comes in. The karma of old white supremacist structures collapsing, the karma of Donald Trump facing his lifetime of crime as the FBI (a Saturnian force if there ever was one) searching his home — his LITERAL BASEMENT, a symbol of the psyche. And of course, your own karma, your own past, your own burdens, hurts, your own inner terrorist.
With Uranus, the modern ruler of Aquarius, in a square to this Full Moon, innovation and breakthrough are central themes. This is sudden thunderclap energy, the lightbulb not just turning on over your head but exploding and transforming into a dancing unicorn of brilliance. But it won’t happen if you refuse to let the old power structure go. If you want to keep it, just for backup, for spare parts, just in case the new thing doesn’t work out, you probably won’t experience the full breadth of newness and awakening you’re meant to experience. So consider taking the risk of truly letting go this time. This is particularly relevant if you’ve been trying to hold onto something that’s been slipping out of your hands for the last 18 years. We’re midway between 2022’s two eclipse cycles, which speak to Saros series 131, which was last seen in May of 2004. Bob Dylan’s “Whoever is not busy being born is busy dying” reminds us that in order to transform, we sometimes need to make a clean break from our past.
With pleasure,
Stefanie