Leo | Leo Season 2025
The Universal Overlay
Leo Season | July 22 - August 22
Welcome to one of the juiciest, most theatrical times of the year—Leo Season!
Last season, Cancer invited us inward. It initiated the summer quarter with a call to root, nurture, and settle into the softer places of life: home, family, intuition, and the emotional foundations that hold us. Now, with sturdier footing beneath us, we emerge from those tender waters into the full heat and radiance of the Sun. It's time to shine.
Leo, ruled by the Sun and ignited by fire, reigns during the high noon of this season—when the days are bold, hot, and full of potential. This is a season of creative ripening. The fruits of our spring intentions are beginning to swell, but we’re not harvesting just yet. This moment between bloom and fruition? It’s prime territory for light, drama, and... a few pests. Just like the buzzing insects drawn to sweetness, sharing your radiance may sometimes attract unwanted attention or energy. Do you ever dim your light just to keep the buzz at bay?
This is the season of performance. The emotional fluidity of Cancer evolves into energy-in-motion—e-motion—infused with Monkey-like antics, a thirst for movement, and a love of mischief. If you channel this restless brilliance with purpose, it can blossom into leadership. Your heart, now swelling with vitality, is ready to gather, inspire, and rally others into something meaningful and victorious.
So go play. Bask in sunlight. Take joy-filled trips. Flirt with summer love. But also tune into the deeper stirrings—what your heart longs to spotlight, what creative spark is ready to take center stage. This isn’t Gemini’s experimental rehearsal anymore. Leo calls for your boldest self-expression—from a place of confidence and clarity.
This season kicks off with a theatrical twist: a New Moon in Leo on July 24th (1:10 pm MT). This New Moon is potent—seeding radiant dreams right in Leo’s throne room, but tangled in a tight opposition to Pluto. What you begin now may lead you into confrontations with powerful forces, themes of influence and integrity, or archetypal battles with bold, domineering figures. This is a call for heart-led courage—leadership that resists control and uplifts collective brilliance. Your own heart will go through a metamorphosis over the next year. Let it.
The Aquarius Full Moon on August 9th brings a mirror moment, reminding us that the power of our radiance is amplified when it serves the people. Leo leads with heart. Aquarius ensures it serves the whole.
And one final cosmic footnote: Mercury is retrograde in Leo this season. That means it’s not the ideal time to start brand-new projects, sign contracts, or make big-ticket purchases—especially anything with moving parts (think tech, cars, bikes). Instead, focus on revisiting, refining, and revising the creations already in motion. They’re ready for feedback, elevation, and the final polish before they take their bow.
So—welcome to the Season of the Sun. May it be bold, bright, and brilliantly unscripted. Get playful, get passionate, and let your heart take the lead.How the Season Activates You
Your Dimensional Growth
Sun In the 1st House | The Energy of Heart
As the Sun moves through the signs and houses, it shines a light on a dimension of you. This helps you to become well-rounded and develop holistically.
Leo, welcome to your season of solar splendor. The Sun returns to your sign, and with it comes a cosmic invitation to reclaim the throne of your becoming. This isn’t about grandstanding or seeking applause—it’s about aligning your outer radiance with the truth of your inner light.
Leo Season always feels personal to you, but this year, it carries a deeper tone—like a drumbeat calling you back to the essence of your courage, creativity, and sacred individuality. What does it mean now to be you? What are you ready to shed, and what new shape are you ready to step into?
There’s a quiet power in this kind of blooming. You don’t need to shout to be seen. Simply living with bold self-honesty is enough. You are both the spotlight and the story, the fire and the warmth it gives.
The Leo New Moon on July 24th (1:10 PM MT) is your personal new year, a solar seeding of self. This moon arrives like a hush in the theater just before the curtain rises. It’s the breath before a new act begins—rich with potential, but also entangled with deeper undercurrents. With Pluto in opposition, your fresh intentions may meet power struggles or awaken inner shadows. But don’t let that deter you—let it deepen you.
Seed your wishes boldly, but also with humility. Choose the kind of life, leadership, and love that your soul is craving—not the one that gets the most applause. Let the transformation come. Let the fire purify. You’re not just stepping into your season—you’re becoming the star of your own rebirth.
The animating guide of The Season
Sol in the 1st House | The Radiant Being
The Sun is the ruling body of the season as well as your chart ruler—the archetype of our star, performer, leader, and sovereign self. This aspect of ourselves will activate to respond to Leo Season’s tone and circumstances, guide our actions, and give us a stance, or mythic script, in how we evolve, develop, engage life, and express.
“The Crown of Becoming”
The Sun comes home to you now. Not just to your sign, but to the very skin of your soul. This is your season of radiant becoming—when your identity is not something to manage or shrink, but something to burn true and bold.
The ruling archetype of this season is you, and the Sun wants you to remember that.
It brings no false modesty.
No dimming.
No echo of someone else’s light.
The Sun’s agenda here is sacred:
To initiate a new solar cycle of selfhood.
To ask you what it means to be seen and sovereign.
To invite you to become the most alive version of yourself—not later, but now.
This is not about ego—it’s about essence. About letting your presence announce itself without explanation. About wearing your name like a song instead of an obligation.
What happens when you walk into the world lit from within?
What power rises when you stop waiting for permission to shine?
This season, the Sun becomes your mirror and your muse.
Let yourself be reborn—not as someone new, but as someone fully revealed.
You are the story.
You are the symbol.
You are the Sun.
Your Ground and Materialization of the Season
Earth in the 7th House | Tender Reflections
In tandem with dimensional growth in our solar season, Earth’s placement, directly opposite the Sun’s reach and exerting energy, shows the dimension of us that has become the fertile ground maturing underfoot. It’s normal to feel like our efforts in a solar season aren’t paying off, but they will, in time, when that sign becomes the Earth’s sign, the ground holding us, embodied and tangible. Look to the Earth sign to tend to what is maturing and growing in your roots and soul, that needs you to be receptive and caring.
As the Sun returns to your sign, you are asked to glow fully—but Earth in Aquarius says: “Don’t forget your mirrors.”
Grounding comes in relationship, in feedback, and in the give-and-take of authentic connection. Process the originality of your resonance, of how you relate with others, and the relationships you draw in. What feels calm and ‘right’ in the depths of your gut knowings about your progressive way of exchanging?
The August 9th Aquarius Full Moon reveals how partnership shapes your becoming. It’s not just your light—it’s the way others reflect it back that completes the picture.
Personal & Continuous aims
Your Radiant becoming
PHASE OF Leo’s YEARLY SEEDS | Aiming & Summiting
Separate from the Sun shining a light on our different dimensions through the signs and houses, we have another solar journey—a spiral journey of Conscious Evolution and Radiant Becoming—the path of illumination. I track this journey from your sign’s new moon to its next new moon, with a formula that’s a bit my own.
Leo, your year’s seeds have been about clearing out the debris of a long chapter of life, making messes, but ultimately, space to reconnect to your inner fire—what lights up your heart, courage, leadership, and creativity. It’s been a year of rediscovering who you are and what you want. In your season, you will close this cycle and begin a new one. This year’s seeds are very similar in that some self-focus is needed as you clear an old chapter and ignite new paths. With a lot likely cleared over the past year, this year may give you more opportunity to for passionate starts and vitality to rise up. Your seeds are also deeply entangled with Pluto in Aquarius this year. Find the courage to influence those with power and learn what personal transformation means.
As you step into Leo Season, aim your gaze toward a new horizon. Challenge your current perspectives to imagine something grander. Explore unfamiliar philosophies, fresh ideas, and uncharted territory. Let this exploration clarify what your heart believes in—and what you hope for.
Your yearly New Moon on July 24th (1:10 pm MT) is both a summit and a seed. You’ve reached the high point of your solar year—wiser now, and more attuned to the nature of your own radiance. It’s your moment at the top of the zodiac wheel, with Leo’s golden light suspended at high noon. This is a time of glory, yes—but also of gravity. There’s no shame in wanting to step back for a moment, to reflect on what has been, to better understand what is, and to glimpse what could be. From this altitude, a new vision will begin to form. Let it germinate quietly in the dark soil of your inner world. Protect it from the noise. Let it root before it reaches for the sun. Your heart knows the way—align with its ease. In time, the foresight you cultivate now will become the blueprint for the year ahead.
Your Archetypal Journey
solar tone | Leading with Listening
The planet that rules your sign gives you an archetype—a leading character flavor. This planet is a central part of how you show up and your personal agenda. We go on journeys in the skin of our archetypes, like leading characters in books and films.
With the Sun being your planetary ruler, your core journey is a spiral journey of Conscious Evolution and Radiant Becoming—the path of the Illuminated Leader. Following the journey of your ruler, not from house to house, but in an arc from new moon to new moon, a story of your Journey to Radiant Leadership unfolds.
Because your ruler is also the ruler of the season, it is the season’s animating force that we’ve already explored. But I want to give you a little something extra to chew on—an intimate meditation with your yearly new moon:
🌑 July 24, 2025 – Leo New Moon
Phase: Seeding the Self
The Secret Flame of Becoming
You are not visible yet, but you are real.
The world has quieted just enough for you to hear the first flicker. A soundless yes. A heartbeat beneath the mask. The Sun returns home to your first house—a golden seed dropped into the very soil of your becoming. No one else sees it yet, but you feel it.
A warmth.
A wanting.
A whisper that says: I’m still here. I’m ready again.
This moment isn’t for performance or applause. It’s for remembering your name in the dark—the one you haven’t spoken in months. The one that doesn't need to be shouted. The one that only your heart knows how to hum.
It’s okay if you don’t know what’s next. The sovereign doesn’t rush the crown onto their own head. They listen first. They listen to the root voice of their joy. The one beneath duty. Beneath performance. Beneath even pride.
This is your cosmic reset. A chance to align with the version of you that longs not to be adored, but to be true.
Let the seed remain hidden a little longer. Protect its heat. Whisper to it. Dream with it. Say yes without proof. The self you’re becoming doesn’t need an audience—just your full permission to live again.
To round out your horoscope, check your natal moon sign’s ‘13 Moons’ stage to see how your mood is creating atmosphere and receptivity in your life. This is also where to head to do personal work and journeys at the New and Full Moons of the season.