Virgo | 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 12th House | Mystical Radiance
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.
Virgo, Leo Season draws you inward like sunlight through a stained glass window—soft, luminous, and quietly transformative. While much of the zodiac basks in outward expression during this fiery season, your journey moves in the opposite direction. You’re being called to retreat, renew, and reconnect with the unseen parts of yourself.
This is your season of sacred integration. Of laying low and listening deeper. Of letting what’s unspoken rise to the surface like gold dust in still waters. You may feel more tender, more tired, or more tuned in to the quiet inspiration residing in your heart and spirit. Don’t resist this pull inward—it’s not a detour but the path itself.
The Leo New Moon on July 24th opens a hidden chamber of your heart. Here, in the deep interior of your chart, intentions are whispered rather than declared. They grow slowly, quietly, under the surface. This moon is your invitation to release what no longer fits and to plant seeds of rest, spiritual clarity, and soul alignment. Pluto’s presence may stir buried emotions or old grief, but you’re strong enough now to let them move through you without losing yourself.
Your gift this season is discernment—learning to tell the difference between what drains you and what nourishes you, what is truly yours and what you’ve carried too long. Let your inner world be the sacred ground where your next version begins to grow.
When the Sun moves into your sign next month, you’ll emerge radiant and refined. But for now, rest in the chrysalis. You are being remade in quiet magic.
The animating guide of The Season
Sol in the 12th House | The golden composer
The Sun is the ruling body of the season, 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 Light Behind the Veil”
Leo Season enters quietly, like sunlight through stained glass, casting sacred hues across the inner sanctum of your heart. The Sun moves into your 12th house now, the place where time dissolves, and the boundaries of the self blur into the divine.
Here, the solar archetype is not the performer—it is the mystic. The dreamer. The silent witness at the edge of consciousness.
This season’s ruler comes with an invitation:
To rest in radiance, rather than strive for it.
To see yourself without mirrors, in the privacy of spirit.
To let your subconscious compose in symbols, stories, and visions.
The Sun’s agenda here is subtle, but luminous. It does not push—it reveals. It calls you inward:
Toward forgiveness.
Toward quiet composition.
Toward the golden threads in your undoing.
This is a time to dream courageously.
To retreat not in defeat, but in sacred preparation.
To let the soul stretch out and soak in the solar warmth that doesn’t demand performance.
You don’t need to be visible to be radiant.
You don’t need to be loud to be powerful.
This season, your light is your sanctuary.
Let your inner world bloom.
Let memory become medicine.
Let the unseen become art.
Your Ground and Materialization of the Season
Earth in the 6th House | Deep Rhythms
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.
Leo Season asks you to retreat and restore, but Earth in Aquarius gently holds you accountable to your daily rituals and sacred responsibilities.
Let your rest be purposeful. Let your stillness be a space to reimagine your rhythms. Give space to process and integrate your inner knowings about the liberating purpose, work, and small day-to-day rituals that make your life fertile.
The August 9th Aquarius Full Moon brings a moment of clarity—what needs to be restructured in your routine to truly serve your wellbeing?
Personal & Continuous aims
Your Radiant becoming
PHASE OF Virgo’s YEARLY SEEDS | Transforming & Aiming
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.
The new moon seeds you are working with carry the essence of a return to your core sense of purpose. You are on a mission to reignite passion and clarity around the work you do, your daily rhythms and practices, and the curation of a lifestyle that feels vital, balanced, and well.
At the start of Leo Season, you're in the process of uprooting and uncovering aspects of your inner light that have long been buried—or perhaps never fully discovered. At the heart of what’s emerging may be power dynamics: how you share with others, and how others share with you. Are the feedback loops of sharing—financial, intimate, or emotional—creating mutual empowerment? Or are there places where energy is stuck or leaking? Follow the mysteries that call to you with their quiet allure. Digging beneath the surface in search of truth has the potential to transform not only you but also the world around you.
Around August 3rd, your yearly seeds begin a new phase of unfurling. You’re approaching the final stretch of your solar journey of becoming. Now is the time to pause and reflect on the full arc of your year—what’s been lived, learned, and outgrown. Let wisdom found in this retrospective give shape to your growth and aim it like an arrow toward something larger, more expansive. Something foreign, perhaps even uncomfortable, but deeply horizon-stretching. Aim high.
Your Archetypal Journey
Mercury in The 12th | Symbolic Thought
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. Your ruler, Mercury, is the Trickster, the Alchemist, the Problem-Solver, and the Holy Fool.
Mercury: The Trickster-Alchemist/Your Ruler | Stage: Integration to Disruption | Signs: Leo | Houses: 12th | Ending the Aries 8th House-Themed Journey & starting a Leo 12th House Journey
From Sacred Breakdown to Hidden Fire
Mercury, your cosmic compass, has been dancing through the depths of your 8th house—the realm of shared power, transformation, taboos, and soul contracts. Under Aries’ fierce and unfiltered fire, this Trickster’s Journey has been anything but polite. Secrets were cracked open. Power dynamics flared. You may have faced the raw, unmasked parts of yourself or others—grief, shame, desire, rage—whatever couldn’t be organized or controlled.
But now, as Leo Season begins, Mercury enters the Integration phase of that deep descent. This is when the Trickster steps out of the fire with something alchemical. You’ve learned what burns away doesn’t always destroy—it sometimes frees. A pattern may have unraveled. A karmic thread released. You’re not quite who you were—and that’s the gift. The trick? You don’t need to fix it. You need to integrate it.
And just as you’re starting to catch your breath, on July 31st, Mercury begins a brand new Trickster’s Journey in your 12th house of Leo—the house of dreams, solitude, mysticism, and the unseen. This is the Disruption phase, and it arrives quietly, like a spark in the dark.
This time, the Trickster wears a mask of intuition. You may feel pulled toward strange dreams, irrational thoughts, or uncanny insights. Something in your subconscious is shifting—but it may not announce itself logically. Your inner world becomes a playhouse of paradox:
Clarity through confusion.
Revelation through forgetting.
Power through surrender.
This is not the part of the journey where you make sense of things. This is where Mercury tricks your need to understand. You may find tech glitches, missed appointments, ghost memories. But also: flashes of genius in the shower. A sentence whispered in a dream that you can’t forget. A sacred riddle hiding in silence.
This Leo Season, Mercury dares you to stop tracking every detail—and let your inner fire speak in symbols.
You’re not losing your grip—you’re loosening the hold of the rational so your soul can speak.
The Trickster doesn’t mock your devotion.
It just wants you to find the magic hidden behind your method.
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.