New Moon Leo, but Make It Pluto.
July 24, 2025
A magical new moon is on the horizon. This week, the 🌞bursts into Leo, its home, and we start a new moon cycle pronto. It’s a 🌚 worth honoring.
Time to clarify our intentions and plant our seeds. Honor the wisdom of the dark by tuning in, meditating on the questions, and inviting in new dreams. Imagination and possibility.
A new moon in Leo asks—much like this Mercury Rx in Leo and the sun in Leo—how do we show up? And not only how do we show up, but also how do we SHINE? What is awakening within us that we want to nurture so that we best harness our own self-leadership? What is awakening within me that I want to nurture so that I best harness my own self-leadership? What about myself and my authenticity and my STYLE have I been hiding or repressing or denying that I need to be free?
How do I allow myself to take up space? How do I create? How do I express myself? And how do I do it all authentically? Drop the wallflower script. This is Main Character Energy. BDE—Big Dynamic Energy.
Even though there's big drama with Leo🎭, there's nothing here suggesting you fake it. Just say no: fake it 'til you make it.
This is why you need to connect with YOUR inner authority. Converse with it, create with it, cultivate it. What would you say if you were truly liberated?
How we SHINE is the subject of the cycle, but only after a bit of transformation. This signature carries with it layers on layers of depth and meaning. Let's get into it.
The sun—your sun—is your self, your identity, and Leo = self-leadership. To get there though, explore this opposition to Pluto in Aquarius. Pluto’s domain is the underworld: the shadows, subconscious, unconscious, death, wealth, power, and rebirth. What needs to transform, related to how you belong to yourself and how you understand your power, in order to plant seeds that will nurture you fully inhabiting the way you personally SHINE?
On stage with this new moon and its opposition, is a trine with🪐and Neptune. While a trine is harmonious, Saturn and Neptune are toying with a conjunction at the very beginning of Aries, the infant of the zodiac, and both are retrograde heading back into Pisces, the death of the zodiac. How does the ideal (Neptune) converge with reality (Saturn) to shape this sun-soaked vision of YOU?
Now add another layer: Uranus just moved into Gemini, and Gemini rules Mercury. Uranus is here for the revolution, PS.
Mercury is in charge of the square that happens just before the new moon between Venus and Mars. Mars is in Virgo, which is ruled by Mercury as is Gemini, where Venus is. So that square is about communication and relationships. For authentic, purposeful communication, you need to harness your inner authority. Did the conversations you had this week provide a point of reflection that can inform your New Moon intentions?
The next two to three weeks feature challenging astrology. But by the time Mercury Rx ends, and Venus and Jupiter unite in Cancer on August 11, how will you show yourself and how will you be seen?