Leo Full Moon – The Sacred Rage and the Fire of the Heart

Can you feel it?

The energy of the lioness?

I feel it like a flame being lit in my heart.

An inner fire that whispers:

Something has to change.

It cannot continue like this anymore.

This full moon awakens a holy rage and a deep passion in me.

And I feel like I have to talk about anger – because it has been an important part of my healing journey.

When anger is turned inward.

As a child, I experienced that my sacred rage did not always have a space.

It was not met.

Not held.

Not understood.

So it turned inward.

With my sun in Leo and Sagittarius rising, I have a lot of fire in me!

Today I can see that a large part of the fibromyalgia and inflammation I have suffered from, has been connected to this internalized anger – strong emotions that were never allowed to move through me.

For me, anger is a deeply feminine emotion, that has been shamed for many generations.

Many women have learnt early on that anger is dangerous, wrong, or unwanted.

For some women in the world, expressing anger is still life-threatening.

I feel like I carry some for my ancestors – those who were not allowed to shout, speak out, or speak their truth.

I have recently learnt that repressed and internalized anger can stand in the way of receiving love and abundance in our lives.

To make anger sacred again.

So how do we meet this primal force without harming ourselves or others?

For me, it started with radical self-love, by no longer shaming myself.

By not making my strong feelings wrong.

I started to let the anger have a voice.

Sometimes through words.

Other times through dance, prayer, ceremony, rituals, singing, writing or sound.

It changes it's shape of expression.

But when I listen, it becomes clarity.

I do this with the awareness that,

I do it for those who came before me – and for those who come after me.

The courage and truth of the lion.

I have felt anger bubbling up in my body, especially when faced with distortion and dishonesty.

As if my body can no longer tolerate what is not true.

Recently, I was given another opportunity to radically speak my truth.

It wasn't dramatic.

But it was honest.

And it was deeply healing for my body.

Speaking my truth sets my holy fire free!

Sekhmet and the wisdom of the heart.

In the days leading up to this full moon, the energy of Sekhmet has been strongly present for me.

She, the lion goddess, carries the sacred wrath – the fire that purifies and protects the truth.

It is said that Hathor, the goddess of love and music, and Sekhmet are two aspects of the same being.

Love and anger. Heart and fire.

Like two sides of the same coin.

Like Venus, who is currently in the underworld, she carries the power of both love and war.

I feel that I am no longer either or. I am both and.

I love the world, but at the same time I am soo angry at the state of our world!

My anger is sacred, as long as I don't use it as a weapon against others and remember to translate it into right action and self-loving actions, most often it is transformed through my creative expressions.

We women can change worlds with our sacred fire when we learn to master and channel it.

The myth of Sekhmet.

Sekhmet is the Egyptian lioness goddess of fire, truth, protection, and sacred wrath. Her name translates to “the mighty one.”

According to myth, she was sent by the sun god Ra to punish humans for turning away from the divine order.

Sekhmet was so powerful in her anger that she nearly wiped out humanity.

To stop her, Ra had beer dyed red like blood and poured out onto the ground.

Sekhmet drank it, thinking it was blood, and became intoxicated and calmed down. When she woke up, her rage had transformed.

In some traditions, she is then associated with Hathor — the goddess of love and joy — as another aspect of the same force.

The essence of the myth.

Sekhmet represents:

• the purifying fire

• the protective anger

• the power to restore balance

She reminds us that anger is not wrong in itself—but that it must be carried with awareness so that it can turn into clarity, truth, and right action.

In short: Sekhmet is not destruction for destruction's sake. She is the fire that protects the sacred.

May we roar like the lionesses that we are.

May we ignite our passion and create the changes our lives and the world call for.

Ahavah 🕊️

Akkirah Rose Maedelene 🥀

* Artwork:

1. Unknown artist.

2. Moonjube