Full Moon in Aquarius, Gate 13
In this episode of the Inner Circle Podcast, we explore the August 9, 2025 Full Moon in Aquarius, illuminating Gate 13—the Gate of the Listener in Human Design. Together, we unpack how this archetype invites us to bear witness, honor the stories entrusted to us, and release the narratives that no longer serve our lives, relationships, or visions. We look at how listening becomes an active, revolutionary act, one that reshapes our leadership, our relational integrity, and our capacity to participate in collective transformation.
We also share a powerful set of reflection prompts to help you work with this lunation—questions that bring you face-to-face with the truths you may be avoiding, the perspectives you’ve resisted, and the inherited patterns ready to be released. This episode is both a lunar guide and a practice in radical receptivity, calling us to soften the rigidity in our bodies, open to complexity, and create space for new relational and cultural possibilities to take root.
Join us as we explore how the Full Moon in Aquarius, Gate 13 can help us listen beyond our comfort zone, hold nuance in a polarized world, and align ourselves with the great turning of our time.
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00:00 – 02:40 | Welcome & Global Context
Introduction to the Inner Circle Podcast and Storywork Studio’s mission to support visionary leaders, mystic entrepreneurs, and creative change-makers.
Announcement of the Global Industry Shutdown & Prayer for Palestine (August 8, 2025) with nearly 1,000 coaches, healers, and transformational guides participating.
02:41 – 07:30 | Full Moon in Aquarius Astrology Overview
Timing: Full Moon in Aquarius on August 9, 2025, at 3:55 AM EST.
Human Design lens: Gate 13, The Gate of the Listener.
Why adding Human Design gates deepens lunar astrology beyond standard zodiac archetypes.
07:31 – 12:10 | Mythic & Archetypal Themes of Gate 13
Aquarius as the water bearer and transmitter of collective memory.
Gate 13 in the G Center: holding cultural memory, identity, and hidden narratives.
The role of the listener in visionary leadership and relational wholeness.
12:11 – 16:25 | From the New Moon in Leo to the Full Moon in Aquarius
Reconnection to New Moon in Leo (Gate 31) themes of reimagining leadership.
The polarity between leading (Gate 31) and listening (Gate 13).
Leadership as recognition-based, rooted in service, and relational authority.
16:26 – 21:15 | Listening as a Visionary Leadership Practice
Shifting from problem-solving to witnessing and deep listening.
Aquarius’ wide-angle lens: holding nuance, complexity, and paradox in leadership.
Gate 13’s invitation to release outdated personal and collective stories.
21:16 – 26:50 | Full Moon as a Threshold for Release
The Full Moon’s energetic tipping point as a natural time for clearing.
Returning expired narratives to the earth for composting.
Making room for new relational realities and visionary potentials.
26:51 – 31:40 | Working with the Law of Assumption
Using this universal principle as a mythic technology for subconscious re-patterning.
Example: Shifting the belief “I can never forgive” into a more life-giving truth.
How nervous system regulation supports releasing relational rigidity.
31:41 – 37:00 | Full Moon Rituals & Reflection Prompts
Guided lunar ritual questions for examining personal and inherited stories.
Identifying which narratives serve your visionary path and which to release.
Becoming a leader others can trust with unvarnished truth and deep story.
37:01 – 41:50 | Listening to Body & Earth Wisdom
Trusting intuitive and body-based guidance over external noise.
Reconnecting to earth wisdom as a navigational tool for the visionary process.
Cultivating stillness as a spiritual technology for receiving clarity.
41:51 – 45:00 | Closing Reflections & Blessing
Embracing paradox, complexity, and multi-perspective truth.
Encouragement to let your perspective evolve in service to life-giving leadership.
Final blessing for softening into change, reforming, and holding visionary space.
The Full Moon in Aquarius on August 9, 2025, at 3:55 AM EDT illuminates Gate 13, the Gate of the Listener—a place in the Human Design chart where we hold the stories, histories, and unspoken truths of others. This is the archetype of the witness, the archivist of human experience, the one who hears the quiet details that might otherwise be lost. In the G Center, Gate 13 tunes us to memory, belonging, and the hidden narratives that shape how we orient ourselves in the world. Under this lunation, the invitation is not to speak, but to listen—deeply, wholly, without rushing toward resolution.
Aquarius brings a wide-angle lens to our connections, reminding us that the stories we carry are never just our own. They are threads in a collective tapestry, influencing how we relate, lead, and participate in the larger ecosystem. The Full Moon’s light exposes where we have been holding onto certain narratives for too long—stories that once gave meaning or protection, but now weigh heavy on our ability to move forward. In Gate 13, these stories can be honored, integrated, and, when ready, released.
Listening in this way is not passive. It requires presence, discernment, and care for what is entrusted to us. Some of the stories we carry are our own; others belong to those who have come to us for safekeeping. This lunation is a threshold for deciding which we are meant to keep and which must be returned—either to their owner, to the collective, or to the earth for composting. The release of these stories creates space for new ones to take root, ones that reflect who we are becoming and the communities we are cultivating.
To work with this Full Moon, find time for stillness. You might sit with a journal, not to write your own words, but to record what arises when you listen—to your body, to the memories that surface, to the silences between thoughts. Notice which stories feel alive, which feel closed, and which seem to belong to another time. Allow the act of listening to become a form of devotion, a way to clarify what truly needs to travel with you into the next season.
Reflection Questions
Where in my life am I listening only to confirm what I already believe? What truths am I avoiding because I’m afraid they’ll require me to change? What am I missing because I’m too focused on being heard instead of hearing? Whose stories have I been trusted with that I’ve treated casually or shared too freely? Where am I holding the weight of someone’s truth without offering it the dignity it deserves? When have I listened with the intent to fix or respond instead of simply receive? What am I inheriting from my lineage or culture that I have not yet examined? Which of those inheritances do I continue to carry into my work, my relationships, my vision—whether they serve life or not? What am I willing to lay down so something more alive can take its place? How do I respond when someone offers me a perspective that disrupts my comfort? Do I shut down, get defensive, overexplain, or actually metabolize it? What would it take for me to be the kind of person others can speak the unvarnished truth to? What has my body been telling me that I have overridden or silenced? What guidance is the earth offering me that I haven’t yet taken seriously? What would change if I trusted those signals more than external noise or authority? If I could listen without fear of what I might hear, what questions would I finally ask?
