Aries | 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 is Activates You
Your Dimensional Growth
SUN IN The 5th HOUSE | HEARTFELT PERFORMANCE
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.
While Leo Season blazes with themes of radiance, courage, and creative expression, for you, Aries, this fire lights up the heart-center of your chart. This isn’t just another summer—it’s a call to remember what it feels like to be alive in the fullest, most brilliant sense of the word. To burn with dramatic joy.
Your innate Aries flame, usually stoked for trailblazing and conquest, is now redirected into the art of play. This is the season where you get to be the spark—the dancer, the lover, the artist, the fool for joy. Risk looking silly. Risk being seen. Risk pouring your heart into something purely because it makes you feel like the sun itself is coursing through your veins.
You’re not just taking up space—you’re lighting it up. Leo Season turns you into the lead actor of your own mythic play. It’s not about perfection, it’s about presence. Radiate your truth. Fall back in love with life. Your passion becomes magnetic, and your authenticity, contagious.
The Leo New Moon on July 24th (1:10 PM MT) is a radiant invitation to plant bold, heart-led seeds that shimmer with joy, courage, and unapologetic expression. For you, Aries, this lunation awakens your creative fire and asks: What would you dare to bring into the world if you weren’t afraid of being seen?
This is your moment to listen closely to the drumbeat of your own heart. What does it long to create? To play with? To love without restraint? These aren’t passing whims—they’re soul signals, guiding you toward a life where passion and purpose align.
Let this new moon be a sacred spark. One that lights the stage of your life with fresh vision, childlike wonder, and wild, generative courage. What you begin now isn’t just a project or pursuit—it’s a love letter to life itself. And one that could transform how your heart dances with power, with Pluto in opposition.
Dare to shine. Your radiance is the root of your becoming.
Your animating guide of The Season
Sol in the 5th House | The Golden Star
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 Artist as Flame”
The Sun returns to its golden kingdom, and in your chart, it opens the doors to the inner temple of joy. This is not a season for hiding. This is the moment when the stage lights flare and your heart is handed the script.
You are not being asked to perform someone else’s play—you are being called to author your own myth, one gesture, one pleasure, one creative risk at a time.
The ruler of this season is not a passive ambiance—it is a sovereign force. A mythic fire that wants to see what you’ll do when the spotlight finds you. Will you flinch? Or will you rise, radiant and raw, to meet your own reflection?
This Leo Season isn’t about applause. It’s about authenticity. The kind that burns through pretense and makes beauty out of boldness. Love out of laughter. Art out of aliveness.
Let this be the season where you:
Fall in love with your own voice.
Say yes to the ridiculous, the romantic, the radiant.
Create as if joy is a sacred birthright—not something to earn, but something to embody.
The Sun wants to ignite, not control. And in this house of creation, its only agenda is your aliveness.
You are the flame.
You are the artist.
You are the moment that makes the light worth watching.
Your Ground and Materialization of the Season
Earth in the 11th house | Innovative depth
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.
While Leo Season invites you to shine creatively and indulge in the delight of self-expression, Earth in Aquarius roots you in collective purpose.
The grounding comes not from applause but from belonging—how your gifts uplift your communities and future visions. Take time to process and integrate your original truth. Find what kind of evolution and progress in life feel right with a gentle inner knowing.
The Aquarius Full Moon on August 9th may highlight which groups nourish your authenticity and which drain it. Ground your radiance in networks that celebrate your wild ideas.
Personal & Continuous aims
Your Radiant becoming
phase of Aries’ yearly Seeds | Clearing & Beautifying
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.
Aries, your new moon seeds this year have a quality of rebooting life to feel clearer and more passionate. This means taking a wrecking ball to what no longer lights you up, making space to create a new order that’s more alive with breath and light.
As we step into Leo Season, your yearly seeds of becoming have recently broken ground, emerging from the liminal incubation stage into a phase of taking action, clearing away the debris of a winter phase, and reconnecting with impulse. What truly lights you up and gives you energy? Pay attention to what sparks motivation and allows you to make decisions that might feel contrary to where your energy has recently been. Make a left turn on instinct. Don’t be fragile or discouraged by falls along the way. Right now, it’s more about connecting with passion than succeeding. Be a beginner. Find a little luck along the way. Magic follows your energetic yeses!
Around July 31st, your yearly seeds move further into their spring phase. Like tending a garden, it’s a time to create the right conditions. What soil, light, water, fertilizer, neighboring energies, and challenges are needed for you to thrive? On a more concrete level, it’s a time of becoming more embodied, attending to beauty, and shaping your physical world. Values may stir sharper black-and-white sensitivities—and that’s okay. Sometimes it’s the hard polarities in life that help us recognize how different sides can still offer vital support.
Your Archetypal Journey
Mars in The 6th & 7th Houses | dueling Friends & enimies
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 Solar Hero, the Warrior, the Protector, and the Emperor.
Mars: The Hero/Your Ruler | Stage: The Road of Trials | Sign: Virgo & Libra | House: 6th & 7th | Cancer-Themed Quest
The Road of Trials: From Virgo’s Precision to Libra’s Poise
Back in January, when Mars entered Cancer, the seed of a quest was planted not through conquest, but through care.
The Hero awoke not with a sword, but with a feeling—something raw, vulnerable, and deeply human. Mars, the warrior, found himself softened, compelled to protect rather than pursue, to nurture rather than dominate. This was no ordinary call to adventure—it was a call to feel.
Now, in Leo Season, the journey blazes forward. Mars begins in Virgo, the sign of sacred refinement. Here, the Hero walks the road of trials, where victories are subtle and quiet: a sharpened focus, a habit reformed, a wound cleaned and tended. Virgo doesn’t glorify the fight—it dignifies the craft. Here, Mars learns that strength is not brute force, but the ability to keep showing up in devotion to what is real, useful, and healing.
But every road of trials turns. On August 6th, Mars crosses the threshold into Libra. The battle shifts from the body to the realm of relation. Now the trials are mirrored—played out through others. Can the Hero still honor his own fire while making space for another’s truth? Can the sword become a bridge?
In Libra, Mars must learn the art of grace under pressure. Action becomes diplomacy. Will becomes balance. The Hero cannot conquer here—he must co-create. And in doing so, he begins to integrate all he has learned since Cancer: that courage can be gentle, and that strength, when tempered by harmony, becomes wisdom.
This Leo Season, let the flame of the Sun illuminate your own trials. Where are you being asked to serve, refine, adjust? And when the mirror of relationship appears, will you meet it with righteousness—or with reverence?
The Hero does not journey to win. He journeys to become.
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.