24/07/2025
🌜A fertile New Moon in Leo🌛 is opening a powerful creative portal in our skies. This New Moon ushers a new beginning centred around your creativity, heart space and authentic expression. The cosmic energies are especially intense right now with four planets in Retrograde and Solar Storms provoking ascension symptoms.
With the Sun also doing its yearly transit through Leo, this marks the season for bold moves and courageous beginnings. The Sun as Leo’s ruler ignites the inner spark bringing warmth and light to our passions, relationships and desires. Leo asks for true authenticity, uniqueness and the bravery to go against the crowd. The Lion activates the heart chakra bringing daring determination to follow our deepest wishes and needs (often linked to our inner child).
Within this void, the darkness or shadow aspects around this New Moon may include issues with self-esteem and self-confidence. There may be a tentativeness in shining your light or being in the spotlight. Perfectionism around creative ventures could arise, as well as anger, irritability or self-sabotage. As a fixed Fire Sign, Leo can also have a flare for drama, stubbornness and emotional outbursts. All of these aspects of self need to be lovingly embraced, witnessed and released as this New Moon peaks.
Mercury is also moving Retrograde in the sign of Leo during this time (this began on July 18th and will end on August 11th). In this transit, we are experiencing a need for deep reflection and reassessment, particularly concerning our self-expression, confidence, creativity, and relationships. We will be re-evaluating our authentic expression in regards to our voice, ego clashes, miscommunications, emotional reciprocity and the impact of our words.
This is also an ample time for creative renewal and unfinished projects, returning to old hobbies with joy, play and experimentation. Of course, this period is also dealing with themes around self-worth, turning inward, learning to receive and strengthening our self-image.
Alongside this, Neptune, Saturn and Pluto are also in their retrograde phases. As outer planets, these transits mainly affect the collective consciousness, however we will still be experiencing pull to go within until they move direct later this year.
Take care and enjoy the energies,
The Lotus Sisters xoxo🙏🏻