Aquarius | 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 7th House | Heart Reflections
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.
Aquarius, Leo Season beams its golden light directly across the sky from you, illuminating your seventh house of one-on-one connections. After the quiet recalibrations and healing rituals of Cancer Season, where your daily rhythms asked for more compassion and care, you now step into the fire of relational mirrors.
This is your annual reckoning with partnership—not just romantic, but all sacred reflections: friends, collaborators, lovers, teachers. The people closest to you are not distractions from your path, but messengers bearing wisdom about your own heart. What do they reveal about how you give and receive love? What do they teach you about intimacy, boundaries, and shared brilliance?
Leo stirs the passion in your connections. It reminds you that love—real love—is courageous. It roars. It shines. It sees. You are being asked to participate with more warmth, presence, and self-expression. The roles you play in relationship are up for reinvention. Are you leading from your authentic light, or defaulting to detachment out of fear of losing yourself?
The Leo New Moon on July 24th is your invitation to plant seeds around the kind of partnerships your heart truly desires. With Pluto opposite this New Moon, deep truths may surface around control, co-dependence, or where you’ve been dimming your brilliance to keep the peace. Let this be a turning point. Choose mutual empowerment. Choose courageous intimacy. Choose the kind of love that fans your creative fire rather than contains it.
You don’t have to lose yourself in another to belong. This season teaches that you shine brightest when your heart is fully engaged—first with yourself, then with others who honor your light.
The animating guide of The Season
Sol in the 7th House | The Noble Partner
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 Share”
The Sun rises in your house of relationship now, and suddenly connection becomes a mirror that glows. This season is not just about who you love—it’s about how you show up in the presence of love, reflection, and mutual becoming.
The solar archetype here is the divine counterpart, the sacred witness, the noble lover who sees you clearly—not to contain you, but to call you forth.
Its intention is not to define you through others, but to illuminate how you relate:
What do you bring to the altar of connection?
What truth burns brighter in the gaze of the other?
Where do you give away your light—and where do you share it?
Leo Season wants you to claim your place in every bond.
Not by shrinking to fit, but by standing tall in your radiance.
This is a time to:
Let loyalty deepen, not confine.
Let love reflect the most authentic version of you.
Choose relationships that honor your fire, not dim it.
The Sun here doesn’t just warm your heart—it asks you to open it courageously.
Let connection be conscious.
Let reflection become revelation.
Let love be a stage where both souls shine.
Your Ground and Materialization of the Season
Earth in the 1st House | Self-care
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 turns your attention to others—partnerships, harmony, and reflection—but Earth in your own sign brings the focus back to you.
You’re the ground. You’re the stable axis of your season. Take time to process what feels at home in your core sense of Self—in your electric, eclectic entering. Integrate the gentle inner knowings that arrive, aligning you with your passionate originality.
The August 9th Aquarius Full Moon invites you to embody your truth unapologetically. Let your uniqueness be your strength. Let others adjust to your gravity for once.
Personal & Continuous aims
Your Radiant becoming
PHASE OF Aquarius’ YEARLY SEEDS | Informing & Deepening
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 are imbued with the essence of returning to your original, out-of-the-box path. They’re about purging anything that no longer lights you up, making space for your humane, innovative spirit to feel clearer, more passionate, and more directed.
At the start of the season, your yearly seeds of becoming are in a phase of learning, gathering information, and making new connections. It’s your time to follow the sweet nectar toward possibility. Don’t worry yet about whether any one thing will bear fruit. Right now, it’s about meandering and exploring the pathways your light might travel. Let your light stay free; don’t commit it to any one thing just yet.
Around July 31st, your light may crave retreat from the overwhelm of spinning options. It’s time to deepen your light inwardly—to tend to it, and to notice what nourishes and stabilizes it. With a little daydreaming, the mental tensions subside, and you begin to hear the dreams carried by your inner light. The right, soul-aligned path quietly reveals itself. Follow what feeds your heart.
Your Archetypal Journey
Saturn in the 3rd house | Fiercely Authentic Mind
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 Futurist, the Iconoclast, the Outsider, and the Social Architect.
Saturn: The Initiate/Your Ruler | Stage: The Seat of Authority | Sign: Aries | House: 3rd | Pisces 2nd House-Themed Journey
The Reforging of the Voice
It began with a soft unraveling —
in the Pisces 2nd house, you lost what was never truly yours:
the values you inherited,
the definitions of worth assigned by others,
the false gold of ego survival.
There, Saturn asked:
“If nothing outside you proves your value… what does?”
That question cracked open a deeper authority.
Now Saturn has moved into your 3rd house — the realm of mind, speech, and neural flame.
And Aries rules this house for you — bold, unfiltered, unapologetically direct.
Here, Saturn doesn’t whisper. It reforges your voice in fire.
This is the Reconstruction stage — where the Awakener becomes the Architect,
taking all that was dissolved in the last phase,
and shaping it into something that can move through the world.
You are not just thinking differently —
you are rewiring the way you speak, teach, question, and share.
Words become blades, bridges, spells.
The mind becomes a workshop, not a prison.
Saturn’s challenge here is this:
How do you wield fire without burning bridges?
How do you communicate truth without domination?
How do you design language that liberates, not controls?
You are no longer here to mirror others’ logic.
You are here to craft your own dialect of clarity —
one forged in courage, but anchored in humility.
Your thoughts may feel raw now —
your voice stripped down to bone.
But this is the gift of Saturn in Aries:
not polished eloquence, but fierce authenticity.
You’re learning to speak like an architect sketches:
with bold lines, clean structures, and purpose.
Each idea is a brick.
Each word, a doorway.
You are building a mind no longer shaped by fear, but by vision.
The Awakener’s Mantra:
“I reconstruct my voice from truth.
I speak to ignite, not dominate.
I am the architect of liberated language.”
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.