Cancer | 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 2nd House | The Heart Garden
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.
Cancer, Leo Season turns the golden light toward your second house—the realm of value, worth, and tangible nourishment. After a season spent swimming through deep emotional tides, the solar fire now warms your shores, asking: What makes you feel secure, seen, and sustained? Not just emotionally—but physically, financially, spiritually.
This is the time to gather your treasures, not just hoard them. To assess what truly supports you, and what you’ve outgrown. To remember that your worth isn’t measured by how much you hold on to—but by how vividly you radiate what you love.
Leo Season asks you to wear your gifts with pride. To make space for joy without guilt. To honor beauty, pleasure, and comfort as sacred, not selfish. Your inner richness wants to show—not to prove anything, but to share the light that naturally shines when you feel safe in your own skin. Use your sensuality and preferences to give shape, in a tangible way, to the things your heart adores. To tend to your heart like you would a garden.
The Leo New Moon on July 24th (1:10 PM MT) is a radiant seeding point for calling in new experiences of abundance, self-trust, and embodied confidence. What do you truly want to invest in—time, energy, money, devotion? What do you believe you deserve to receive?
Let this be a moon of choosing yourself with full-hearted clarity. Seed intentions that affirm your value without compromise. Align your livelihood with your joy. And above all, remember: you are not a resource to be used—you are a force to be treasured. With Pluto in opposition, the next year will challenge you to dance kindly around those with power, transforming how you share your heart-led pleasures.
The animating guide of The Season
Sol in the 2nd House | The Radiant Sculptor
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 Worth of Light”
The Sun enters your second house like a benevolent monarch surveying your garden of worth and sculpting light into the matter of life. Leo Season doesn’t ask you what you own—it asks, do you know what you’re worth? And are you willing to act like it?
This is the season of radical self-valuing. Not because you must prove anything, but because the gold was in you all along.
The Sun’s archetype here is regal and generous. Its agenda is clear:
To illuminate what sustains you—financially, emotionally, energetically.
To help you name your value without apology.
To let your resources reflect your radiance.
This is not a shallow affirmation of self-worth—it’s a creative reckoning. A call to root into what truly supports you and to claim your space in the material world.
You are being asked to embody confidence, not perform it.
To magnetize, not chase.
To let what you treasure align with who you are becoming.
Let this be the season you:
Invest in your joy.
Build around what you love.
Crown your worth with action.
The Sun here reminds you that gold attracts gold. And you, luminous soul, are already glowing.
Your Ground and Materialization of the Season
Earth in the 8th House | Enriched Psyche
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 invites you to revel in self-worth and resourcefulness, but Earth in Aquarius deepens your awareness of entanglement and shared power.
Let your innovative entanglements settle and integrate into your bones. Process what feels gentle and at home in how you share in the power of progress.
The August 9th Aquarius Full Moon illuminates hidden contracts—energetic or material—that shape your sense of security. Ground yourself in truth, not just comfort. Your sovereignty will thrive when you release what no longer serves your soul’s evolution.
Personal & Continuous aims
Your Radiant becoming
PHASE OF Cancer’s YEARLY SEEDS | Summiting & Liberating
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 a strong tie to rediscovering what lights you up around being soulful, vulnerable, caring, and imaginative. It’s a year to tend to your inner world with more space just for you and your needs. Self-care is important this year. What do you need? What ignites fire in your deep-rooted core?
At the start of Leo Season, you have only just had your new moon of the year. There is still something seeding in the dark depths inside of you. This is a time to let something ignite within, to hold it close, protected. It’s a time to let the pressures of the outer world be the thing that sparks something new within. Goals, intentions, foresight, and planning are ways to help you detach from what has been.
Around July 26th, what you seeded within, whether consciously or not, will start to break something open in you. The container that was can no longer hold the light growing inside. Lean into breaking open. One part bitter and two parts liberated come with the energy of this stage. The more you resist growth and change, the greater the cracking open will feel. There is excitement and a new future vision on the other side of letting go.
Your Archetypal Journey
Your Lunar Month | A Liberating Swell
With Luna being the planet that rules your sign, she represents your archetype—a leading character flavor. This cosmic body 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, the Moon, is the Mother, the Hearth-Keeper, and the Historian.
The Moon’s Journey Home
Leo Season 2025 | July 22 – August 22
Your ruler is the guide. You don’t follow the Sun—you follow the tide.
🌘 July 22 – 24 | Moon in Cancer
Phase: Waning Crescent
House: 1st | Archetype: Sacred Retreat → Inner Cradle
You’re drifting between cycles. A memory lingers on your skin. The old story has dissolved, but the new one hasn’t spoken yet. The Moon returns to your sign, and you feel everything without needing a reason. Rest here. Exhale. The world doesn’t need you to explain—it only asks that you listen.
Let the womb of you dream. The next you is not ready to be born, but she is stirring.
🌑 July 24 | New Moon in Leo
Phase: Seeding the Self
House: 2nd | Archetype: The Sacred Inner Cradle
Something ancient in you begins to pulse with new desire—quiet, but certain. It may not yet have form, but it does have value. This new moon is about what you are worth before you prove anything. Let yourself feel the abundance of being, not doing.
This seed does not need sunlight yet. Only your full presence.
🌒 July 27 – 28 | Moon in Virgo
Phase: Waxing Crescent
House: 3rd | Archetype: Stirring the Nest
Thoughts flutter like wings in the morning. You’re curious again, noticing tiny details, new desires, subtle patterns. Conversations bring warmth. Journaling helps clarify the inner voice that is just beginning to speak.
You are allowed to tend to the little things with holy attention.
🌒 July 29 – 31 | Moon in Libra
Still: Stirring the Nest
House: 4th
You revisit your foundations. The quiet sanctuary within you hums with renewal. Home, family, or memory might tug at your heart—gently, asking to be reimagined. What kind of home does your becoming need now?
Softness is not regression. It is how you prepare your inner altar.
🌓 August 1 - 4 | Moon in Scorpio/Sagittarius
Phase: First Quarter
House: 5th/6th | Archetype: Testing the Shell
Your creativity faces pressure. Longing arises, but so do fears of exposure. Do you dare to feel joy again? Vulnerability and expression walk hand in hand. This is a moment to trust your passion even when it trembles.
Your light is allowed to be intense. You are not too much. You are just enough.
🌔 August 5 | Moon in Capricorn
Phase: Waxing Gibbous
House: 7th | Archetype: Tending the Emotional Offering
Now your emotions are mirrored back through others. Relationship dynamics reflect where you've grown, and where you're still soft. There’s work to do in love—but it’s sacred work.
Tend to the container of connection like it holds something holy—because it does.
🌕 August 9 | Full Moon in Aquarius/Pisces
Phase: Full Moon
House: 8th/9th | Archetype: The Waters Rise
Here it comes—the great release. Your greatest illumination of the season. This moon might bring a powerful emotional revelation, especially around intimacy, grief, or shared trust. Don’t fear the tide. What rises now is here to liberate you.
Let it break open. The truth is a wave, not a wound.
🌖 August 12 | Moon in Aries
Phase: Waning Gibbous
House: 10th | Archetype: Storytelling and Meaning-Making
You understand now how your private journey shapes your public path. There is wisdom in your emotional resilience, and it’s time to name it. Lead with vulnerability. Share from the heart.
Your truth is not a burden—it’s a beacon.
🌗 August 15 – 18 | Moon in Taurus/Gemini
Phase: Last Quarter
House: 11th/12th | Archetype: Cleansing the Waters
You outgrow something—a dream, a group, an idea of where you belong. Let it go with love. You’re refining your future by releasing the emotional clutter of the past.
It’s okay to want more than comfort. You want alignment—and you’re getting closer.
🌘 August 19–22 | Moon in Cancer → Leo
Phase: Waning Crescent → New Cycle
House: 1st–2nd | Archetype: Sacred Retreat → Inner Cradle
The season ends where it began—in you. The Moon returns to your sign just before the next new moon. You feel the closing of one chapter and the quiet initiation of another. Return to center. Wrap yourself in your own care.
What began in longing has become a deeper kind of trust in yourself.
Head to the Lunar Workbook’s ‘13 Moons’ and find your natal moon. Find the nearest date to see how your ruler/archetype is patterning and journeying this season as it reflects the light of Leo.
For New and Full Moon work, head to the ‘Lunar Workbook’