Libra | 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 11th House | The Collective 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.
Libra, Leo Season lifts you out of the more private realms of recent weeks and places you squarely in the warm glow of community, collaboration, and vision. You’re being asked to shine not just as an individual, but as a beacon within your collective—a friend group, a movement, a dream team, or a cause that stirs your soul.
This season fans the flames of your idealism and reminds you that your heart doesn’t beat in isolation. You long to be part of something meaningful, something future-oriented, something that feels like belonging with purpose. And this longing? It’s not frivolous—it’s sacred.
Let yourself get lit up by the people who inspire you. Share your ideas. Lean into connection. Let your heart be seen in spaces that are bigger than one-on-one. You’re not just forging friendships—you’re weaving a vision for a better world, rooted in beauty, justice, and love.
The Leo New Moon on July 24th lands in your eleventh house of dreams and networks. It’s time to set intentions for the kind of community you crave, the kind of change you wish to spark, and the kind of creative joy that wants to ripple outward from your life into the lives of others. Pluto’s presence may ask you to reckon with power imbalances—past betrayals, trust wounds, or fears of being “too much” or “not enough” for the group. Let it teach you discernment, not withdrawal.
Your presence is magnetic this season. Let your love be loud. Let your art be brave. Let your vision stretch toward the horizon—and bring others with you.
The animating guide of The Season
Sol in the 11th House | The futuristic Leader
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 We Dream Together”
Leo Season rises like a torch in your house of hope. The 11th house is where wishes are born, where friendships become soulships, and where your most heartfelt visions for the future find their wings.
Now, the Sun arrives—not just to illuminate your dreams, but to ignite them.
Its archetype here is the visionary leader, the creative collaborator, the sacred instigator who dares to ask:
What if you stopped waiting to belong and started building the circle you crave?
What if your joy could be shared, scaled, offered to others as light?
This season’s solar agenda is collective, but personal:
To claim your place in the dream you long for.
To bring your unique and eclectic gifts into the open.
To lead—not from ego, but from radiant alignment.
It’s not about fitting in. It’s about shining forward—becoming a lighthouse for others who are seeking exactly what you hold inside.
This is a time to:
Speak your future out loud.
Risk being seen in your passion.
Remember that visibility can be an act of service.
Your presence is part of the collective medicine.
Your voice helps shape the world to come.
Let your light guide the dream.
Let your dream call the right people in.
Let Leo Season make the future glow.
Your Ground and Materialization of the Season
Earth in the 5th House | Fertile Command
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 draws you into friendship, networking, and visions of shared futures, but Earth in Aquarius wants to keep your heart lit by joy.
Grounding now comes through creativity, romance, and play. Allow time to process and integrate the evolution of your innovative heart and leadership style. Settle into a gentle inner knowing around what humanity means to your heart.
The Aquarius Full Moon might remind you that your happiness isn’t frivolous—it’s fuel. Center delight and your social reach will ripple with more authentic power.
Personal & Continuous aims
Your Radiant becoming
PHASE OF Libra’s YEARLY SEEDS | Exhaling & Investigating
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.
Your yearly seeds have an essence of renewal. It’s a year of purging and reinventing your relational core—how you trust others, the kinds of partnering that feel right, what commitment and fairness mean to you, and finding new vitality in your aesthetic drive.
At the start of Leo Seaosn, your becoming is in a phase of sacred unraveling as you move into the final quarter of your journey. You are shedding excess and working to return to the essence of what you truly value, enriched by the understanding you have recently gained. Let life become a mirror, helping you see more clearly the patterns you’ve unconsciously created. Prune what no longer resonates. Allow this process to lighten your load and help you exhale.
Around August 2nd, you move into an even deeper phase of unraveling. Mysteries call you to follow threads of psychological inquiry. It’s a time to witness the power dynamics in your life and notice how they are making you feel—integrated or fractured. In that witnessing, you find the power to mend what has been sabotaged in the shadows, reviving the blocked currents of your life force. It’s a time to find your empowered precision through strategic vulnerability and entangling with true hearts.
Your Archetypal Journey
Venus in The 9th & 10th Houses | Bridging a soulful world
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, Venus, is the Heroine, the Reflective Lover, the Elegant Negotiator, and the Designer.
Venus: The Heroine/Your Ruler | Stage: Meeting the Faery Godmother & Leaving the Waters | Signs: Gemini & Cancer | Houses: 9th & 20th | Aries 7th house-Themed Journey
From Sacred Mirror to Voice of Purpose
Back in March, Venus—your ruling planet—entered Aries and seeded your Heroine’s Journey in your 7th house of relationships, mirroring, and sacred otherness. But this was no ordinary love story. This was a soul contract—a call to transform not through solitude, but through reflection. Whether through a partnership, a rupture, or a deepening self-understanding, something within you awakened through connection. This was the spark: not of romance, but of revelation. The Heroine began her journey not alone, but with another holding the mirror.
Now, in Leo Season, Venus shines in Gemini—your 9th house of higher vision, truth-seeking, and spiritual expansion—and enters the Faery Godmother stage of the journey. This is the phase where help arrives, often disguised as insight, curiosity, or a new philosophy that sets your spirit free. You’re invited to see differently, to speak to your future self in the language of possibility. Here, the magic lives in books, teachers, wanderings, and wide-open skies. The Faery Godmother may appear in a conversation, a dream, or a long-held belief suddenly turning fluid and new.
This is where your journey blooms beyond the personal. What you’ve learned through relationships now becomes wisdom. A philosophy. A story you can share.
Then, on July 30th, Venus moves into Cancer—your 10th house of purpose, visibility, and contribution. The journey climbs. You are no longer just gathering insight—you are becoming someone others look to. Venus in your 10th house brings heart into your ambitions, softness into your strength. Whether in your work, your family, or your public path, you’re being called to lead with feeling. The Heroine, having tasted truth, now must live it in the world.
And on August 13th, Venus enters the stage of "leaving the waters." This is the crossing. The Heroine, who has grown in the lush inner world of emotion, dreams, and soulful knowing, now steps into the structured, masculine realm of action, systems, and worldly engagement. It’s like The Little Mermaid rising from the sea, trading fins for feet—not to lose her magic, but to walk her truth in the daylight. For you, this is the moment to bring your softness into systems, your beauty into responsibility, your heart into your highest role. You are not leaving anything behind—you are becoming a bridge.
This Leo Season, let the Sun light your place in the world while Venus reminds you:
"Your soul’s wisdom isn’t just for you—it’s your offering."
The Heroine does not journey to escape her world.
She journeys to transform the one she steps into.
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.