Gemini | 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 3rd House | Social Brilliance
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.
Leo Season illuminates your third house of mind, curiosity, and connection—a realm you know well, but now with a twist of royal fire. This isn’t about gathering information for the sake of it or flitting between conversations like a dragonfly on the breeze. This is about expressing yourself with heart. With courage. With presence that lingers long after the words have passed.
The Sun in Leo asks you to speak like you mean it—not just to entertain or inquire, but to ignite. Your mind, already electric, now becomes a torch, lighting up your neighborhood, your texts, your journal, your conversations. Your brilliance doesn’t need to be loud, just true. The way you say things can make others feel seen, uplifted, changed.
Let the small rituals of your day—your morning walk, your phone call with a sibling, your sudden idea while brushing your teeth—become golden moments. Leo energy loves the stage, yes, but it also honors the intimacy of honest expression. The rawness of saying what matters to the people who matter.
The Leo New Moon on July 24th (1:10 PM MT) is a moment to plant bold intentions around how you communicate and connect. What does it mean to speak from the center of your chest? To write or share with a sense of sacred play? To turn everyday exchanges into vessels of warmth and magic?
Use this New Moon to re-enchant your words. Name your desire to learn, to teach, to tell stories that light a path. You’re not just a messenger—you’re a weaver of heartlines. Let your language be love made visible. With Pluto facing off to this moon, you will be challenged to dance, lightheartedly, around powerful perspectives this year, transforming the wisdom of your mind.
Your animating guide of The Season
Sol in the 3rd House | The Light Messenger
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 Golden Word”
Leo Season lights the streets you walk every day, gilding the ordinary with myth. The Sun enters your third house like a poet-king, not content to simply speak, but to connect with heart, to think in color, to turn small talk into creative talk.
This is the season when your voice wants to burn brighter—when your words can charm, claim, create.
The Sun, ruling this season, becomes your guide to sovereign expression. It is not interested in borrowed phrases or safe opinions. It wants the sound of your real self, rising from the chest like song.
Its role here is not just ambiance. It’s activating your narrative power:
To tell the truth beautifully.
To find meaning in the mundane.
To share your ideas with a captivating presence.
This is a time for radiant communication—not just talking, but transmitting light. Through writing, speaking, teaching, sharing.
Let your curiosity become courageous. Let your ideas take up space. Let your mind bask in its own creative fire.
The Sun is not just shining—it is asking questions, sparking conversations, and weaving meaning from the moments most people overlook.
You don’t need a stage to shine.
The brilliance is already in your voice.
Speak like it matters—because it does.
Your Ground and Materialization of the Season
Earth in the 9th House | Deep Wisdom
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 energizes your mind, your voice, and your connections—but Earth in Aquarius calls you higher. It grounds you in meaning-making, in the beliefs and philosophies that give context to your curiosity.
Let your experimental narratives about life process and integrate deeply within you. What futuristic and original stories feel right with a soft, gentle, at-home kind of wisdom?
The August 9th Aquarius Full Moon may spark insights about the narratives that guide you. Anchor your sparkle in wisdom, and your voice will carry farther than you imagined.
Personal & Continuous aims
Your Radiant becoming
PHASE OF Gemini’s YEARLY SEEDS | Liberating & surrendering
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 all about returning to the core of your voracious curiosity. Let the wind take you where the scents are sweet, the colors are vivacious, and where connection and information drip freely like nectar to bees.
As you step into Leo Season, the seeds of your light are still in an inward place. They are cracking open, helping you to liberate from old containers that can no longer hold what’s to come. There may be an ebb and flow of feelings from bitter about what you are shedding and electrified—liberated, to be more of who you are becoming. Lean into the excitement and the envisioning that it brings.
Around July 28th, you step into the end of the incubation phase. Consciousness for what’s to come starts to congeal in the dark of your dreams. Inspiration arises one moment and is ungraspable the next. Shadows of your former self stand before you, asking to be integrated. It’s a mysterious time, at once exhausting, foggy, ethereal, and heart-opening. Open up to what’s beyond you for inspired guidance.
Your Archetypal Journey
MErcury in The 2nd & 3rd Houses | Cogs in the Wheels
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, Mercury, is the Trickster, the Coyote, the Cosmic Messenger.
Mercury: The Trickster/Your Ruler | Stage: Integration to Disruption | Sign: Leo | House: 3rd | Ending the Aries 11th House-Themed Journey & starting a Leo 3rd House-Themed Journey
From Shapeshifter to Signal-Breaker
For months now, Mercury—your quicksilver ruler—has been unraveling illusions in your 11th house of communities, futures, and the social mind, under the brash firelight of Aries. This Trickster journey began with bold disruptions—maybe a break from old groups, an uncomfortable truth voiced in public, or a defiance of who you were expected to be in your wider networks.
But now, as Leo Season opens, you’re in the Integration phase of that arc. The Trickster has played the prank, exposed the glitch in the collective matrix, and now something is freeing itself. Perhaps your vision of the future has shifted. Perhaps you’ve stopped waiting for the group to understand you—and started inventing a future that speaks your name. This phase may feel subtle, even strange: you’re no longer playing by the rules, but you’re not quite writing new ones yet. This is the trick of Mercury—you become the message by shedding the medium.
Then, on July 31st, a new Trickster journey is seeded—as Mercury returns to its home court: your 3rd house, now lit by the golden flames of Leo. This is the house of language, perception, neighborhood, and nervous system. But this time, the Trickster brings fire with it. This begins the Disruption phase.
In Leo’s house of voice and cognition, the Trickster turns up the volume:
It questions the way you speak.
It toys with your tone, your story, your assumptions.
It sets fire to the scripts you’ve been reading aloud on repeat.
What if what you think isn’t true? What if what you say is building a cage around what you could know?
This disruption doesn’t come to harm you—it comes to shake your mind loose. You may find yourself blurting things you didn’t mean to say, or discovering golden truth hiding in a casual comment. Watch your conversations, your texts, your journaling. The Trickster is threading clues through the language you use without thinking.
This Leo Season, Mercury dares you to speak not from the head, but from the spine.
To let your words burn with presence.
To become a mirror that reflects not just cleverness—but radiance.
You’re not just rethinking your voice.
You’re rewriting the frequency of your reality.
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.