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🌕 Full Moon in Libra - April 12th, 2025

Balance isn’t about keeping things pretty, it’s about getting honest.

This Full Moon in Libra on April 12th, 2025 invites us into a deep recalibration. Not just of our relationships, but of the unspoken agreements we’ve made, to stay quiet, to keep peace, to prioritize others while abandoning parts of ourselves.

Full Moons bring clarity. They reveal what’s been simmering beneath the surface. In Libra, this clarity centers on where things look harmonious, but don’t feel that way.

We’re not here to perform balance. We’re here to live it, messily, honestly, and with integrity.

♎ Astrological Energies at Play

With the Moon in Libra opposing the Sun in Aries, the energetic tension is clear:

Libra seeks connection, diplomacy, shared experience.

Aries demands individuality, courage, and self-prioritization.

This Full Moon highlights the tug-of-war between belonging and boundaries, approval and autonomy. It asks us to notice:

Where are we over-giving?

Where are we under-expressing?

And what parts of us are quietly craving realignment?

What’s Being Illuminated?

This lunation may bring relationship dynamics to the forefront, not necessarily in dramatic ways, but through subtle moments of truth. Watch for:

Conversations you’ve been avoiding

Decisions that no longer feel neutral

Emotional clarity that arises seemingly out of nowhere

You might feel pulled to speak your truth, shift a dynamic, or walk away from an old version of connection. Trust that. Libra reminds us: balance without honesty is just illusion.

Journaling Prompts for the Libra Full Moon

If you’re feeling like you need a little introspection, these prompts may be helpful:

Where in my life have I chosen comfort or approval over authenticity?

What relationships or dynamics feel out of balance, and what would recalibration look like?

What parts of myself am I reclaiming right now?

What truth am I ready to express, even if it disrupts the calm?

What am I finally ready to release, with compassion and clarity?

A Simple Full Moon Release Ritual

You don’t need to do anything elaborate to work with this energy. But if you'd think a ritual would support you? Here’s a gentle one:

You’ll need:

A candle

Paper and pen

A fireproof dish or bowl

Steps:

Write down what you’re releasing. Be specific.

Light your candle and read your list out loud.

Burn the paper (safely) in your dish, visualizing the release.

Close your ritual with a hand on your heart and a deep breath. Thank the surrounding energy, then let it go.

🌓 Final Reflections: Let Clarity Guide You

This Full Moon is not about judgment. It’s not about assigning blame or burning everything down. It’s about liberation through honesty.

Balance, real balance, requires disruption sometimes. It requires discomfort. But it also leads to something more sustainable: integrity, alignment, and relationships that don’t just look good, they feel good, too.

Let yourself see clearly. Let yourself choose differently. Let go.

Make space for the peace that actually nourishes you.

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My favourite harmless prank I've heard of was done by this girl whose dad was a geologist, and they'd go on day hikes with his geologist friends/co-workers and when she got bored on them she'd habitually pick up a random rock and go ask him what it is, and one of them would explain what kind of a rock that is, how it probably got here, and usually some notions of the more unusual features the rock had, if any.

And she had a friend who had once gone on a tourist trip to Iceland and brought back a volcanic rock. So she borrowed the rock and took it with her on the hike, and after two randomly picked up "hey dad what rock is this", she presented the volcanic rock, in the same fashion as all the others.

3 minutes later there are five middle-aged and older men circled around this mysterious rock, all agreeing on what it is, but not why it is. They keep asking her questions, where did she find it? Were there any other rocks around there that looked like it? Was it like this on the ground? People walking past the group try to stretch their necks to see over the geologists' shoulders to see what's the source of such amazement.

And in the end she couldn't take it anymore, burst into laughter and confessed. The geologists agree that it was pretty clever.

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had a shower to relax and just argued with myself in my head the whole time 😊💕

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Having ADHD is that your brain either feels like

Or

And it can switch in a matter of seconds.

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Trump’s golf course in Turnberry, Scotland was vandalized overnight by Palestine solidarity activists.

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Hundreds of people marched in Minneapolis on Friday to honor missing and murdered Indigenous relatives. Between 27 and 54 American Indian women and girls in Minnesota were missing in any given month from 2012 to 2020, according to the Minnesota Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Office.

Star Tribune, Photos by Leila Navidi.

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