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Welcome to Leo season, a time of fire, creativity, inspiration, and a celebration of all that makes you, well, you. Throughout this season, consider passion your compass and desire your map. It’s an invitation to indulge in self-expression and play and know that you are art and life is your canvas.
When Does Leo Season Start?
The Sun moves into Leo on July 22, 2024.
What Leo Season Means in Astrology
As Cancer season draws to an end and Leo season commences, we shift from water to fire, inward to outward, receptivity to expression, inner nurturing to passionate existing. Cancer season invited us to explore our emotions whereas Leo season invites us to plunge into life. To radiate, create, play, and love with abandon. To open ourselves to love and know that we are each a conduit for it to move freely. It’s an entirely different energy.
Ruled by the Sun, the fire sign of Leo reminds us that this world and everything in it would not be the same without each of us in it. It reminds us that our energy is sustenance—for ourselves, our loved ones, and all of existence. It’s a space to feel the life force that moves through us and to explore how each of us uniquely connects with and expresses confidence, vitality, enthusiasm, courage, and creativity. It is a season of selfhood, an invitation to come home to our unique spark.
As an archetype, Leo celebrates individuality. It lives from the wisdom that life moves through each of us uniquely. It teaches us that we add light to the world by being exactly who we are. It reminds us that to dim, hide, abandon, or reject ourselves is to cut ourselves off from our own life force and fail to bring our own magic to the world. Leo reminds us that who we are is on purpose and that true liberation is found not in accepting who we are but in loving, embodying, and expressing all that we are.
This season, remember and celebrate what makes you undeniably you. Expressing yourself is your roadmap. Your energy is everything you need to continue dancing along your path.
How Does Leo Season Affect Your Sign?
Leo as an energy lives within us all. And as the Sun shifts through this passionate fire sign in the cosmos, it simultaneously highlights the area of your astrology chart that Leo occupies. By looking to your rising sign, you can uncover the unique invitations, offerings, and wisdom of Leo Season for you.
Aries Rising
You’re a fiery sign in a fiery season. That makes for passion and creativity, happiness and vitality. Remember your innate enthusiasm for life and explore where this enthusiasm wants to guide you. Life moves through each of us in its own way. How does it desire to move through you? What allows you to feel more connected to your own spark? If love, play, passion, creativity, and happiness were your guiding intentions, where would you go? What would you do?
Taurus Rising
It’s a season of tending to your inner child by returning to the playful spark that lives within you. What did you love to do, be, and feel as a child? What outlook did you hold? What made you feel alive? Leo season invites self-care through tending through laughter and pleasure and allows space for you to rewrite and rearrange all that’s within you through these very acts of play.
Gemini Rising
Your mind is your playground this season. This season ignites passion, curiosity and desire through your mind. Observe what you desire to know and share more share. Explore the topics that call your name through learning, reading, and creative expression. Notice how they make you feel as you immerse yourself in them. Feel the creativity in words. Feel the spark in conversation. Play with new ideas and remain aware which open you to greater life force. This is your compass, your map, and your coordinates.
Cancer Rising
It’s a season of coming home to your unquestionable worth. The value you hold through your unique expression of life. The meaning that runs through your body. The belonging that resonates through your soul. There is no other you in all of existence. And all that you are is on purpose. May that remembering ease your nervous system and may the whispers of Leo return you to the unparalled pleasure of being you.
Leo Rising
Radiant. Bold. Regal. Passionate. It is your season. As the Sun vibes with the frequencies of your sign, it creates space for more of your life force to come alive within you and more of your own guidance, passion, and creative inspiration to speak through you.
Whenever the Sun moves through the zodiac of your rising sign, it represents a rebirth. It’s an opportunity to meet more of who you are as more of you becomes available. Let it whisper where you desire to go, how it is that you desire to feel, and what it is that you desire to create.
Virgo Rising
Pleasure is sacred. Creativity is sacred. Passion is sacred. Art is sacred. Remember the sacred through laughter, beauty, creativity, expression, love, and desire. It is through embracing and being who we are that we reach deeper into the divine. The sacred expresses itself through you. It is a season inviting you to remember your unique role.
Libra Rising
Reconnect with the desires moving uniquely through you. Your dreams have a place in the world. As you follow and create your vision, you impact many. As you reconnect with pleasure and radiate the love within, you impact your friendships, community, and collective.
Scorpio Rising
Clear the outside noise and come back to the desires, passions, and sparks that move through you. What are you building? What do you desire to add to this world? How do you want to feel as you go about creating the art that is your life? This is your life. Your masterpiece. Your canvas. Let Leo season remind you of your direction, of what truly matters, and of the pleasure that you can experience throughout the entire process and not just your arrival.
Sagittarius Rising
Reconnect with your own fire. Reconnect with the intelligence inherent in your inner knowing as well as the found wisdom experienced in living more fully. Be in conversation with new perspectives and beliefs, new lens and frameworks. You are here to adventure, to plunge into wisdom, and to speak directly to life. This season is here to bring you this awareness.
Capricorn Rising
Strip away any barriers and feel all that lives within you. Travel into your depths. There’s profound wisdom waiting inside of you. As you come into greater intimacy and truth with all that you are, you reclaim more of yourself in the process. More of your life force, spark, desire, passion, love, purpose, feeling, and everything that can bring you deeper into this life.
Aquarius Rising
Leo reminds us that love is an infinite source. It flows freely, openly, abundantly, and in any direction it desires. The more love you express, the more love becomes available to you. The more love you allow in, the more you become love itself. How can you remind others that they are love? And how can you let love flow?
Pisces Rising
Life is to be lived. Deeply. Openly. Authentically. Within all of life, whether the mundane or the spiritual, is beauty. Sink deeper into this truth and begin living it. Step into what it means to occupy more of your humanness, your body, your life. Move through your days in ways that inspire happiness, reconnects you to passion, and reminds you that each step you take creates more magic.
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