Scorpio | 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 10th House | The Heart of the summit
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.
Scorpio, Leo Season casts its golden spotlight on your public life, vocation, and path of becoming. Where Cancer Season pulled you into the deeper chambers of personal meaning and inner transformation, Leo calls you to rise, to step into visibility with a heart that has done the work and is ready to lead.
This is the summit of your chart—the high point. The heat of this season asks not just what you do, but why you do it. Are you proud of what you’re offering to the world? Do your ambitions still hold meaning, or have they grown dusty in the shadows of duty or fear?
You are being asked to lead with soul. To burn with a purpose that outshines performance. And yes, this can come with pressure—Leo rules the throne and the spotlight. But pressure, for you, is an old companion. You know how to transmute it into power.
Whichever sign is at the top of our chart, we can sometimes feel as though it is limited and boxed in. This isn’t exactly accurate. You have focus and a building capacity with your heart, creativity, and leadership. It may be less free than the hearts of other signs, but you use it toward classic, timeless goals.
Let your passion guide your professional and creative expressions now. Don’t be afraid to be seen, celebrated, or challenged. The right kind of friction will help shape your light into something enduring.
The Leo New Moon on July 24th offers a bold seeding moment in your tenth house of career and legacy. What are you ready to build over the next year? What are you here to be known for—not in terms of ego, but in the soul-sense of fulfillment and alignment?
With Pluto involved, you may feel an intense pull to confront what’s holding you back from true sovereignty—old power dynamics, inherited expectations, or fears of success itself. Let it all surface. The more you own your radiance, the more you inspire others to do the same.
The animating guide of The Season
Sol in the 10th House | The Regal Ruler
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 Crown You Were Born to Wear”
Leo Season ascends to the summit of your sky, casting long shadows and golden light across your public life, your calling, your legacy. This is the house of your most visible becoming—and now the Sun stands at its highest point, asking:
What are you here to be known for?
The solar archetype here is regal, but not performative. It seeks not fame, but purpose on fire. It wants you to stand tall in your truth, not to impress—but to inspire.
The Sun’s agenda is activation:
To illuminate your true authority—not borrowed, not forced.
To clarify the vision that’s too big to hide.
To warm the throne that only you can occupy.
This is a season for aligned ambition, yes—but also for sacred responsibility. The call is not just to succeed, but to embody success in a way that feels sovereign and heart-led.
You are not being asked to hustle.
You are being asked to lead—with integrity, with courage, with heart.
Let this be the season you:
Step forward without apology.
Honor the work that only you can do.
Shine so others can recognize what’s possible.
Your life is your masterpiece.
Your role is not a performance—it is a position of power and purpose.
Own your light.
Crown your path.
Lead like the Sun: bold, clear, and unwavering.
Your Ground and Materialization of the Season
Earth in The 4th House | Foundational Nurturance
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 is your time to rise into the spotlight of your work or calling, but Earth in Aquarius grounds you in your roots.
Your home, lineage, and emotional foundations call for tending. Give time to process and integrate those things that feel inwardly known in how your home and nurturance need alignment with friendship and originality.
The August 9th Aquarius Full Moon may expose cracks in the basement of your ambition—where emotional security must be reinforced to support your rise. Root down to rise fully.
Personal & Continuous aims
Your Radiant becoming
PHASE OF Scorpio’s YEARLY SEEDS | Refinement & Harmonizing
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 have an essence of revival. It’s a year of redefining your power, your entanglements, and your psychological wisdom. It’s a year to purge what’s no longer lighting your strategic core up to make space for new things to delve into, new underworld to uproot, and new resurrections to attend to.
At the start of Leo Season, you are in the process of putting your light into the world in service toward the communal good. It’s a time of feeling into what’s useful and not about your light and refining the way you grow to be more prioritized and pure. More rhythmic and organized.
Around July 31st, you start to feel the call back to yourself. What do you take with you? This brings a time to understand life through resonance. Rather than making critical decisions right now aligned with pros and cons, it’s more about what feels right, despite appearances. This starts a process of unraveling and contextualization as life mirrors unconscious patterns that need pruning. It’s all toward a beautiful harmonizing of your path. Lean into the tense discomfort and find peace on the other side.
Your Archetypal Journey
Mars in The 11th & 12th Houses | Temple of Reflective solitude
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, Mars, is the Lunar Hero, the Strategist, the Transformer, and the Psychological Warrior.
Mars: The Lunar Hero/Your Ruler | Stage: The Road of Trials | Sign: Virgo & Libra | House: 11th & 12th | Cancer 9th House-Themed Quest
The Road of Trials: From Vision to Community to Surrender
Back in January, when Mars entered Cancer—your 9th house of wisdom and far horizons—a quiet quest was seeded in the higher mind. As ruler of your sign, Mars didn’t launch a crusade then—it opened a door. A call to meaning, to seek the truths that live beyond the known. Perhaps through travel, study, or soul-searching conversations, something stirred your belief system. It wasn’t just about ideas—it was about faith. The Hero in you began to climb, not to conquer, but to glimpse a broader sky.
Now in Leo Season, the Sun illuminates your 10th house of purpose, and Mars walks the road of trials in Virgo, your 11th house of community, vision, and future pathways. Here, the battle isn’t personal—it’s collective. This is where the Hero refines their role in the web of others. Your energy turns to the details of service, collaboration, and belonging. You may find yourself wrestling with where (and with whom) your gifts truly make a difference. Are you showing up in ways that serve the greater good—or burning out trying to fix what isn’t yours?
This is a time of discerning which dreams are sustainable, and which alliances are aligned. Mars in Virgo helps you purify your participation. Not every fight is yours to fight. Not every circle is yours to heal.
Then on August 6th, Mars enters Libra—your 12th house of endings, hidden realms, and divine surrender. The trials deepen now, not into effort, but into letting go. This is the Hero’s descent into the temple. The sword is no longer drawn—it’s laid down. Here, your power dissolves into something larger. You may feel a pull to retreat, to rest, to dream. You may confront ghosts, karmic patterns, or old identities that no longer serve you.
This is not weakness—it is initiation. In Libra, Mars learns that balance isn't passive—it is sacred equilibrium. You’re being asked to trust the unseen, to soften into the mystery, and to prepare for a quiet, necessary rebirth.
This Leo Season, let the solar light clarify your purpose, while Mars walks the underworld on your behalf. The Hero in you isn’t lost—it’s evolving. First through vision. Then through service. And finally, through sacred surrender.
The Hero does not journey to be seen.
She journeys to become whole.
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.