Radiant Self Love: When Love is Liberation/ Full Moon in Leo

Under this luminous Full Moon in Leo on February 1st, we’re invited to return to a deeper, truer experience of self-love — not as something we earn or perform, but as something we emanate.

This episode explores love as a living, embodied frequency rather than an act of self-sacrifice. With Venus traveling through Aquarius, a powerful reframe comes online:

My love is liberation.

Together, Leo and Aquarius remind us that joy is not the reward for giving — it is the source from which authentic love flows.

In this episode, we explore:

  • How so many women were conditioned to equate love with depletion

  • Why midlife often marks a sacred turning point where over-giving no longer works

  • The heart and breasts as powerful, energetic centers of embodied love

  • Why eros and pleasure are essential nutrients for a radiant, spacious heart

  • How ancient priestess wisdom honored sensuality as sacred power

  • A gentle, fully PG Tantric breast and heart meditation to reconnect you to your inner source

When eros, heart, and pleasure are integrated, love becomes expansive rather than draining — a natural offering rather than a sacrifice.

This Full Moon is not asking you to shine harder.
 It’s asking you to shine freer.

🌹 Embodiment Practice Included

This episode features a short, gentle PG Tantric Breast & Heart Meditation designed to:

  • Nourish the heart

  • Restore a sense of safety and warmth in the body

  • Reconnect love with pleasure rather than obligation

This practice can be done fully clothed, seated or lying down, and is always invitational.

🐍 Ancient Lineage Remembered

We also touch on ancient goddess cultures, including the wisdom embodied by priestess traditions, where exposed breasts symbolized life force, nourishment, and sacred power — not performance, but presence.

This is not something new we are learning.
 It is ancient wisdom we are remembering through the body.

So many of us were taught that love requires depletion.
 This lunation offers a different truth.

Happy Full Moon, love.

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📕A Trio of Journal Prompts for this Full Moon 🌕

Radiant Self-Love & Liberated Heart

Let your flow lead…You can always:

  • choose all three or one prompt only,

  • write just a word or a few lines,

  • simply breathe into the question(s) and feel it in your body.

    1. Where has love in my life been tied to depletion rather than nourishment?
    Without judgment, notice where giving has felt heavy, obligatory, or disconnected from pleasure.
    What is my body asking for instead?

    2. What does “My love is liberation” feel like in my body?
    If my love were free — not earned, not proved, not performed —
    how would I move, speak, create, or relate differently?

    3. When I am rooted in joy and eros, what naturally wants to emanate from me?
    Rather than asking how can I give more?
    What shifts when I ask, what wants to flow through me when I am nourished?

 
dianne shepherdMidlife Woman, Second Spring, Sensual Breathwork, Sacred Feminine