Capricorn | 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 8th House | The Heart as a shared resource
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.
Capricorn, Leo Season pulls you into the underworld of light—the kind of heat that reveals what’s hidden beneath the surface. After the emotional exposure of Cancer Season, where relationships stirred and reflected your deepest longings, you now enter a phase of intimacy, merging, and transformation.
This is the part of your chart where power meets vulnerability—where trust is not a given but a practice. Leo may be bright, but here, it shines its beam inward, into the caverns of your psyche and the shadows of shared entanglements and resource. This season asks: What are you holding onto that no longer serves your becoming? And, just as importantly, who are you allowing into your inner sanctum?
Let yourself be unraveled a little. Let love strip away the masks that power has taught you to wear. There is a sacred fire here—not the bonfire of glory, but the quiet flame of alchemical transformation. You’re learning how to be strong in your softness, how to lead from the deepest places within.
The Leo New Moon on July 24th is a potent moment for planting seeds around trust, intimacy, and shared power. It's a time to release what feels overly controlled or transactional, and instead ask: How can I show up more wholly, more truthfully, in my bonds? With Pluto sitting opposite this New Moon, you may find yourself navigating power dynamics or energetic imbalances. But don't shy away—lean in with heart and courage. The path to liberation lies in your willingness to meet the intensity with grace.
This is not a season of surface living. It's about letting the gold at your core be seen—and shared—only with those who honor its depth.
The animating guide of The Season
Sol in the 8th House | The Heart Alchemist
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 That Transforms”
The Sun enters your underworld now—not to conquer, but to witness and warm the places where you've shed old skins, grieved silent losses, and made quiet pacts with your own resilience.
Leo Season in your 8th house is not gentle, but it is generous. It offers you solar fire not to burn you, but to transmute what’s been buried into radiant truth.
The solar archetype here is the sacred alchemist. It’s here to:
Illuminate the power you reclaim when you face what you fear.
Melt the shame that no longer belongs to you.
Dignify your desire—for closeness, for sovereignty, for rebirth.
This is a season of depth—a soulful investigation and confrontation with what you've outgrown, what you're still merging with, and what you might dare to trust again.
The Sun’s agenda is not just exposure, but healing through revelation.
This is a time to:
Enter intimacy with your whole self.
Let power become something you hold gently, not grip tightly.
Let your vulnerability shimmer with the gold of hard-won wisdom.
Don’t confuse visibility with strength.
Sometimes the most potent radiance happens underground.
Let Leo’s fire be the forge for your becoming.
Let what dies give way to what burns brighter.
Your Ground and Materialization of the Season
Earth in the 2nd House | deepening worth
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 wants you to dive into deep transformations and shared emotional waters—but Earth in Aquarius says, “Remember your own worth.”
Grounding comes through autonomy and clarity around what’s yours. Give time to process what feels inwardly aligned in how you tend to your original and humane voice and what you value. Integrate the gentle inner knowings that come around progressive values that feel at home in you.
The August 9th Aquarius Full Moon may highlight where you’ve been giving away too much power or energy. Reclaim your value. Anchor transformation in self-respect.
Personal & Continuous aims
Your Radiant becoming
PHASE OF Capricorn’s YEARLY SEEDS | Imagining & Shining
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 seeds this year carry the essence of clearing out past structures and aspirations to make way for new ones aligned with passion. It’s a year to rediscover the kind of building you want to do in life—and to reconsider where your reach is meant to take you.
As you step into Leo Season, your yearly seeds are in your inner world, finding soul alignment. This may require that you prune some of the possibilities you’ve recently opened pathways toward. Let all of the information drop away and see what feels good to your light rather than what you think your light should be. Find the fertile ground that holds your becoming.
Around July 31st, you will start to feel more courageous with your expansive heart and light. You could feel some friendly competition or a need to defend your light’s presence, but the challenge is one that will help you see your victorious will. Let yourself shine and have fun while doing it, no matter the response.
Your Archetypal Journey
Saturn in the 4th house | Roots of Becoming
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, Saturn, is the Father, the Executive, the Initiate, and the Architect.
Saturn: The Initiate/Your Ruler | Stage: The Seat of Authority | Sign: Aries | House: 4th | Pisces 3rd House-Themed Journey
Integrity over Identity
The journey began with a silence.
A moment between thoughts,
when the inherited language — the one you never questioned —
finally loosened its grip.
Back in your Pisces 3rd house, Saturn cracked the shell of certainty.
It softened your mental structures.
It pulled apart your reflex to define, defend, explain.
It asked:
“Whose thoughts are these? Whose rules did you internalize as truth?”
And now, having walked barefoot through the fog of illusion,
you’ve come to the root.
The 4th house.
The underworld of selfhood.
The ground beneath the persona.
But Aries rules this place for you — and so the ground isn’t quiet.
It’s blazing.
You are not resting here.
You are remaking yourself in fire.
This is the Reshaping phase.
Not a tidy renovation, but a gutting of your emotional architecture.
Here, Saturn doesn’t offer comfort.
It offers clarity.
The question is no longer “What happened to me?”
but
“What am I still carrying that no longer belongs in the foundation of who I am?”
Family stories.
Emotional armor.
Inherited shame mistaken for loyalty.
Old scaffolding built in times of fear.
Now you must rebuild from within.
You are not meant to exile your anger —
you are meant to house it with wisdom.
To make room for your fire in your core self — not as destruction,
but as creative sovereignty.
Saturn here teaches:
Your roots must be strong enough to support your becoming.
Your emotional integrity is not a luxury — it is the base of your power.
Let your inner home be worthy of the Initiate you are becoming.
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.