Taurus | 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 4th House | A Light-Filled Home
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.
Taurus, Leo Season draws you inward to the glowing hearth of your fourth house—the realm of home, belonging, ancestry, and inner roots. While the Sun blazes proudly in the sky, your journey this season is one of quiet fortitude: tending the flame within, protecting the sacred, and remembering where you come from.
This is a time to anchor yourself—not in obligation, but in devotion. What does it mean to feel safe in your own skin? To create a sanctuary that reflects your true essence, not just your responsibilities? As the world bustles with peak summer energy, you’re being invited to step back, soften, and let your emotional life take the lead.
Let nostalgia move through you like warm wind through a childhood bedroom. Let memories rise—not to haunt, but to inform. You are a steward of legacy now, and Leo Season wants you to honor the lineage that shaped you while daring to reimagine the foundations beneath your feet.
The Leo New Moon on July 24th (1:10 PM MT) is a golden portal for planting radiant new seeds of belonging. What does your heart need to feel truly held and seen, especially in private spaces? How can you become a more loving guardian of your own needs, your own sacred space? Let your inner world be re-cast as something regal—worthy of care, attention, and beauty. It’s time to build not just a home, but a throne room for your soul.
You’re not just the builder now. You’re the flame at the center of what’s worth protecting. With Pluto facing off with these seeds, over the next year, you will learn how to gently dance around those with authoritative power, to get your security needs met.
Your animating guide of The Season
The animating guide of The Season Sol in the 4th House | The Flame keeper
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 Radiant Hearth”
The Sun descends into the quiet corridors of your inner life, not to dim, but to glow from within. Leo Season lights the hearth at the center of your being—the place where your origin stories, emotional foundations, and ancestral echoes gather like candlelight in a dark room.
This is not the spotlight of the stage. This is the warmth of firelight on your skin as you remember who you are when no one’s watching.
The ruler of this season—the Sun—is not here to perform. It’s here to bless your inner sanctum, to remind you that the home you seek may already be flickering inside your ribcage.
And so, the agenda of this archetype becomes sacred:
To illuminate the spaces you’ve outgrown.
To dignify the family story, whether inherited or chosen.
To re-center your life around what truly nourishes your roots.
What feels radiant and restful? What part of you has been longing to belong—to yourself?
This season invites you to become the keeper of your own flame.
To bring sovereignty to softness.
To make the private luminous.
To let the gold of Leo Season not dazzle the crowd, but sanctify the soul’s dwelling place.
Let this be the season where your inner light becomes your truest home.
Your Ground and Materialization of the Season
Earth in 10th House | Enriched Position
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 lights up the hearth of your home and inner life, but Earth in Aquarius reminds you to stay anchored in your public path and responsibilities.
This polarity teaches that true rootedness comes when your inner and outer lives are in conversation. Sense into the quiet moments of belonging you feel in your outer life. Process and integrate the authority starting to root into your depths.
The August 9th Aquarius Full Moon may ask: how does your private life support or sabotage your ambitions? Let the two parts of your life find creative resonance.
Personal & Continuous aims
Your Radiant becoming
PHASE OF TAURUS’ YEARLY SEEDS | Surrender & rebirth
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.
Taurus, your seeds of becoming this year have an essence of returning to your core passion for material life, clarifying your voice, and rebooting where your self-worth stems from.
As we step into Leo Season, the seeds of your year’s becoming are still incubating. Bubbles of inspiration may come up one day, and the next, something is ungraspable. Don’t pull the trigger just yet on your fresh trajectories. Gather the subtle messages, the sensitivities wiring some sort of consciousness into being around what you planted at the new moon, and sleep a little extra.
Around July 29th, something should become clearer, real, and impulsive. You may find yourself making moves that are counter to the mode you’ve been in. Decisions that have you cleaning up your life and energy and saying yes to a left turn. Let your impulses steer you, and don’t fear a few bumps and falls. It’s more about connecting to passion than succeeding through the end of the season.
Your Archetypal Journey
Venus in 2nd & 3rd Houses | An Intuitively Bustling World
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, Venus, is the Heroine, the Earthy Lover, the Empress, and the Sensitive Appreciator
Venus: The Heroine/Your Ruler | Stage: Meeting the Faery Godmother & Leaving the Waters | Signs: Gemini & Cancer | Houses: 2nd & 3rd | Aries 12th House-Themed Journey
From Dreamtime to Voice: A Journey of Worth, Magic, and Becoming
Back in March, when Venus entered Aries—your 12th house of soul memory, solitude, and dissolution—your Heroine’s Journey began not with an arrival, but with an unraveling. A letting go. In the quiet spaces behind the world, something sacred stirred. You may not have known what you were releasing then, only that something in you was reaching for light beneath the surface. That was the seeding: not of ambition, but of awakening. A silent call to return to yourself.
Now, in Leo Season, Venus glimmers in Gemini—your 2nd house of embodiment, values, and self-worth—and she takes on the archetype of the Faery Godmother. This is not a figure of fantasy, but of reclamation. The Faery Godmother shows you your own magic, your own enoughness. She doesn’t hand you a glass slipper—she shows you how to walk in your own skin.
Here, you are asked to bless yourself. To honor your voice, your value, your vision. Your worth is not a currency—it is an inheritance. You may feel drawn to beautify your space, enrich your skills, or make tangible choices that support your wellbeing. The gifts you give yourself now are not indulgences—they are the tools of your next transformation.
Then, on July 30th, Venus slips into Cancer—your 3rd house of communication, connection, and story. Your voice softens, but strengthens. This is where the Heroine begins to speak—not with certainty, but with sincerity. Conversations may become more emotional, more layered. Old narratives may rise to be rewritten. Listen for what wants to be said—not just aloud, but within.
And on August 13th, Venus enters the stage of "leaving the waters." This is the moment when the Heroine, having dwelled in her emotional, intuitive world, now steps toward the structured, outward-facing realm—the ordinary, often masculine world of form, logic, and action. Like The Little Mermaid rising from the sea to walk on land, there is both courage and ache in this crossing. You're leaving behind the comfort of familiar currents—soft spaces, soul connections, inner musings—to bring your heart’s truth into the soulfully bustling world of words, choices, markets, and daily rhythms. What you've felt must now be lived. What you've whispered in solitude must now be spoken aloud. This is not an abandonment of feeling—it is the embodiment of it. The world needs what you carry from the depths.
This Leo Season, let the Sun light up your foundations while Venus whispers in your ear:
"You were always the one with the power. I am only here to remind you."
The Heroine does not journey to become someone new.
She journeys to remember who she already is.
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.