Full Moon February 16, 2022 – Secret Passion

The Leo full moon on February 16, 2022 makes a tense aspect to Pluto. So the spiritual meaning of the full moon February 2022 astrology relates to understanding your deepest fears, worries, and secrets.

The February 2022 full moon is even more strongly influenced by the exact alignment of Venus and Mars. This intensifies your passionate desires and makes love relationships the major theme of this full moon. However, some poisonous fixed stars suggest that immoral or reckless activity could jeopardize a valued relationship.

Full Moon February 2022 Astrology

The full moon on Wednesday, February 16, 2022, at 27°59′ Leo makes just one planetary aspect. But the challenging quincunx to Pluto is not the only important influence on the full moon. Venus conjunct Mars (0°0′58″) is a powerful influence because is exact only 2½ hours before the full moon. There are also four named fixed stars within the orb of the February 16 full moon.

Full Moon February 2022 [Solar Fire]

Full Moon Meaning

Sun opposite Moon brings your home, family, and intimate relationships into sharper focus for the following two weeks of this moon phase. Opposing forces such as work versus home, or what you need versus what you want, create inner tension and external pressures. This can lead to conflict and crises that drain your energy.

The lunar qualities of emotions and instincts reach their peak at a full moon. So use your increased emotional strength and intuition to overcome any relationship challenges. Subconscious awareness allows for an impartial and balanced look at your personal relationships. You will clearly see any relationship dynamics or negative feelings causing disharmony.

Full Moon Secrets

Full Moon quincunx Pluto (0°33′) intensifies your emotions and makes them harder to control. Fears, worries, and secrets that have been buried deep in your subconscious can play on your mind and make you feel bad about yourself. Such intense feelings can escalate to a tipping point that results in an emotional outburst, mood swing, strange behavior, crisis, or relationship drama.

Sharing your complex feeling with a trusted loved one or a counselor will help avoid such emotionally painful experiences. It will also help you better understand yourself and relationship dynamics. You may discover a family secret that also helps you make sense of your own feelings and reactions.

Without conscious awareness and understanding of your intense emotions, you may experience guilt, jealousy, possessiveness, or conflict. You may be drawn to political activism, and extreme beliefs or ideologies. But this should be avoided unless you are prepared for criticism. This is a good full moon to uncover secrets, solve mysteries, explore taboo areas of sexuality, and better understand occult and esoteric subjects like astrology.

Full Moon Passion

Venus conjunct Mars (0°01′) is not only a powerful influence because of its exactness. The planets of love and sex stay within a one-degree orb from February 11 to March 12. This is because Venus stationed direct on January 29, and is moving at a similar rate to Mars.

This passionate conjunction increases your desire for intimate relations. Driven by an intense need for sexual satisfaction, you can become very direct in your search for a mating partner. But this primal urge to reproduce is not so raw and aggressive as to make others feel uncomfortable.

Your more tender and sensual side dominates, increasing your chance of finding romance. This compliments your raw passion and sex appeal to make you highly attractive. Increased charisma and popularity make socializing more enjoyable and exciting.

Fixed Stars

Full Moon February 2022 is in the Sign and the Constellation of Leo. It aligns with three named stars in the Lion, as well as the brightest star in Constellation Hydra, the Water Snake.

Full Moon February 2022 [Stellarium]

The two closest stars to the Moon in the list below are relatively small. Both located in the mane of the Lion, Adhafera and Al Jabhah have a dangerous and violent nature. Regulus (2°09′) and Alphard (0°24′) are important major fixed stars. But Alphard is so much closer that it overpowers any small influence from Regulus.

27♌35 – Alpha Hydrae, Alphard
27♌52 – Zeta Leonis, Adhafera
27♌59 – Full Moon February 2022
28♌13 – Eta Leonis, Al Jabhah
00♍08 – Alpha Leonis, Regulus

The Lion

Constellation Leo the Lion is associated with royal events especially the ascension or death of kings and queens, the election or death of heads of state, assassinations uprisings and massacres, currency and the stock exchange, the Vatican and European Union.

Fixed star Adhafera (0°07′) is connected with suicide poison, corrosive acids, liquid explosives, liquid fire, lying, stealing and crime. This star has been called Al Serpha, ‘the Funeral Pyre’. ^[1]

Fixed star Al Jabhah (0°14′) gives loss and many dangers, a violent and intemperate nature, and to a military officer danger of mutiny and murder by his soldiers. ^[1]

The Water Snake

Constellation Hydra the Water Snake gives an emotional and passionate nature, threatened by great troubles, and to cause some interest in shipping. ^[1]

Fixed star Alphard (0°24′) gives wisdom, musical and artistic appreciation, knowledge of human nature, strong passions, lack of self-control, immorality, revolting deeds, and sudden death by drowning, poison or asphyxiation. ^[1]

Matters connected with ‘poison’ are accentuated badly, e.g. blood poisoning, murder by poison, attempts of poisoning, poisoned hatred in women, gas poisoning, danger to life by the wrong use of drugs and overindulgence of good living, smoke inhalation, and danger of suffocation, snake bite, bites by poisonous insect bites, or bites from dogs with rabies.

A ‘poisoning’ is also possible in a relationship between a man and woman in marriage. This is especially true in a male chart. On the material plane, nearly always unhelpful, though enlightenment comes if the native is able to conceive it in the spiritual sphere. ^[2]

Moon conjunct Alphard: Lust, wantonness, profligacy, failure in projects but financial help often from a relative, ill-fortune to wife or mother, eventual disgrace and ruin, danger of death by asphyxiation. ^[1]

Full Moon February 2022 Summary

There are four main influences on the Full Moon February 2022 astrology. Firstly, the Sun opposite Moon places emphasis on your home, family, and intimate relationships.

Secondly, Moon quincunx Pluto intensifies your emotions and makes them harder to control. It exposes your deepest fears, worries, and secrets. You may experience guilt, jealousy, possessiveness, emotional outbursts, mood swings, strange behavior, or a relationship crisis.

Thirdly, Venus conjunct Mars is the next most powerful influence after the full moon itself. It makes you more passionate and greatly intensifies your sex drive. So love relationships are the major theme of this full moon. Finally, the fixed stars indicate passion, lust, recklessness, immorality, and poison.

The combination of all these factors points to the potential for poisoning of a love relationship due to secrets, especially of a sexual and immoral nature. While this might be a good full moon for finding a willing partner to explore your taboo sexual fantasies, it is not be the best full moon for keeping an affair secret.

The February 16 full moon lasts for two weeks up to the March 2 New Moon. If the full moon February 2022 astrology directly impacts your horoscope decan you can read about it in your monthly horoscope. For more detail about how it affects your natal chart see full moon transits.