Leo Season begins, Leo New Moon opposite Pluto, Sun’s soft aspects to Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus
This week opens a threshold into fire and heart. A moment to remember what it means to live from the centre of your being – to radiate, to express, to shine in truth.
Leo Season begins, and with it, the Sun returns home. The ruler of Leo, the Sun in this sign becomes a symbol of personal reclamation. We are each invited to remember our inner radiance, what makes us feel alive, worthy, joyful, and powerful simply because we exist.
But this is not light without depth. Not warmth without shadow. We begin Leo Season with Mercury still in retrograde – also in Leo, and move toward a potent New Moon opposite Pluto. It’s the kind of light that comes from knowing your own darkness. This is expression that grows not in perfection, but in intimacy with what has been hidden.
This week, we are not simply stepping into joy, we are choosing joy.
July 22, 2025: Leo Season
On July 22, 2025 the Sun enters the fire sign of Leo, where it will remain until August 22, 2025. This season is a return of vitality, creative fire, and confidence sourced from within. It is a season of self-affirmation, bold love, and reclaiming the right to exist in your fullness.
Leo is the spark of divine creation alive in each of us. It teaches us to remember that we are worthy of being seen simply because we are here. That our joy is not frivolous, it is holy. That our self-expression is not egoic, it is necessary.
And yet, this Leo Season begins in reflection. With Mercury still retrograde in Leo until August 11, the journey begins inward. We are not called to rush into expression, but to first listen. To reflect. To question the stories that have kept us from our light. The stories that said: you are too much, or not enough. That said: dim your fire to keep others warm. That said: your joy must be earned.
This first half of the season is an initiation, a return to the roots of your self-worth. A reconnection with the inner child, the creative soul, the pure essence of self.
As the Sun moves through its first days in Leo, it forms gentle alignments, a sextile to Uranus on July 23, and a trine to Saturn, and Neptune on July 24. These threads of energy offer quiet support: a permission to see differently, to ground more deeply, and dream more freely.
There is inspiration here. Stability. A sense that as you remember yourself, you are also rebuilding yourself on your terms.
Read more about Leo Season 2025.
July 24, 2025: Leo New Moon
July 24, 2025 the Moon meets the Sun in Leo, beginning a new cycle of creativity, courage, and self-devotion. This New Moon asks you to choose yourself again. To return to the essence of who you are and begin anew not in theory, but in embodiment.
Leo Moons are bold. They ask for presence and love. For joy as a declaration of worth. But this Moon carries more than warmth, it also carries the weight and wisdom of Pluto.
In exact opposition to Pluto in Aquarius, this New Moon stirs the underworld within. It brings us face to face with the places we’ve hidden ourselves away. The parts of us that fear being seen, or shining too brightly. The inner child who remembers being told they were too loud, too vibrant, or too much.
Pluto does not come to shame these parts. It comes to reveal them. To illuminate the roots of control, shame, and suppression so that we can love ourselves through them and can claim the fullness of our being, shadow and all.
This is a Moon of reclamation and creative resurrection. Of meeting the wounds that kept you small and choosing, with steady heart, to rise.
Let this lunation be a moment of quiet bravery and a ritual of remembering. Let it be a decision: not to become someone new, but to return to the truth you’ve always carried.
Read more about the Leo New Moon.
Weekly Forecast: July 20 – 26 2025
This week is a flame and a mirror, a doorway and an opportunity.
It invites us to slow down and listen for what brings us to life. To explore the fears that have shaped our expression, and to offer them the love they never received. To gather the scattered parts of ourselves and bring them home to our hearts.
With Mercury still retrograde, reflection is the portal. With Pluto opposite the New Moon, healing is the purpose. With Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus gently holding the edges of the week, a new version of you is quietly taking form – one that is grounded, inspired, and more true than ever before.
This is not a time to rush, it is a time to deepen. To feel your way into clarity and listen for your joy as sacred guidance.
We are all being called back into our light. Not the performance projection of it. But the real thing, the light that lives in ours hearts, waiting for breath, presence, and permission.
Let this week be that permission. Let it be the beginning of your return.
Weekly Horoscopes for Your Zodiac Sign
As the planets shift in our cosmos, they simultaneously shift through our astrological chart, highlighting different areas of our human experience. By looking to your zodiac sign – in particular your rising sign for your horoscope forecast, we can begin to discern those shifts and invitations.
Read on for your horoscope for the week, forecast for July 20 to 26, 2025. For a greater in depth reading based on your astrology chart, explore our Transits Astrology Reading.
Aries Rising
This week is an invitation to return to what makes you feel alive, Aries Rising. To joy, to play, and to creativity that flows from the very center of your being.
Leo Season sparks your inner fire and reminds you of the beauty of self-expression that asks for nothing in return. The New Moon offers a sacred reset in this space, guiding you to reclaim the parts of you that once felt silenced, and breathe life back into them.
Opposite this spark is a quiet reflection around how you show up in collective spaces. What roles have dimmed your joy? What truths are ready to be seen?
Taurus Rising
You are invited inward this week, Virgo Rising. Into the chambers of your heart that hold your earliest understandings of safety, family, and belonging. Leo Season asks for warmth and presence in the places that taught you who you needed to be in order to be loved.
The New Moon in Leo is a soft reset, calling you to rewrite those stories and choose presence, not performance. As Pluto whispers from the edge of your long-term visions and life direction, it asks whether the future you’re building is rooted in love, or in old expectations finally ready to be shed.
Gemini Rising
This week invites you into a new relationship with your voice, Gemini Rising. With how you express, connect, write, speak, and think. Leo Season brings brightness into your words, asking you to say what you mean and speak from the soul.
The New Moon in Leo invites a renewal here, clearing fear, distortion, or doubt around your self-expression. And across the sky, Pluto invites you deeper into your beliefs. Into your inner truth. Into the philosophical or spiritual frameworks that shape your thoughts.
What are you ready to believe now, about yourself, about life, about what’s possible?
Cancer Rising
This week calls you into deeper embodiment. Leo Season moves through the tangible and the fel, your relationship with self-worth, resources, and what it means to feel supported. It’s a return to inner richness, a remembering of your value, a healing of what has blocked you from feeling resourced.
The New Moon in Leo invites a reset here, a new way to hold yourself in devotion. Pluto, across the sky, pulls on your emotional depths and energetic ties. What have you been carrying from others that’s weighed down your joy? It’s time to release the old cords and choose your own grounding.
Leo Rising
This week is yours, Leo Rising. The Sun returns to your sign and with it, an invitation to remember who you are beneath the stories, roles, and expectations. This is your reemergence. Your reclamation. Your radiance, raw and whole.
The New Moon in your sign is a sacred rebirth. A breath into your body, your voice, your very being. And across the sky, Pluto asks you to hold yourself tenderly in your closest connections. What patterns, projections, or entanglements have kept you from being fully seen? Let the fire of your heart burn through what no longer belongs.
Virgo Rising
This week invites sacred retreat. A pulling inward. A quiet re-meeting of the self in solitude, in silence, in soul. Leo Season moves through your inner sanctuary, asking you to tend to what is unseen, Virgo Rising.
The New Moon in Leo is a gentle reset, a return to trust, surrender, and divine connection. It’s a breath in your spirit’s lungs. And as Pluto stirs in your daily rhythm, your relationship with responsibility, health, and doing may be shifting. What ways of being are asking to be released so you can move with more soul and less structure?
Libra Rising
This week invites you to remember the visions and dreams that live inside you. Leo Season lights the flame of your future, of what’s possible when you lead with heart.
The New Moon in Leo asks you to begin again with clarity and courage, letting go of the voices that shaped your direction through fear or fitting in. As Pluto stirs quietly in your space of joy and creativity, old wounds around visibility, play, and self-expression may rise. Let them. They are not here to block you, but to be loved and set free.
Scorpio Rising
This is a week of powerful self-acknowledgement. Leo Season brings attention to your contribution, your path, your visibility in the world. It asks: are you living in alignment with your inner truth, or upholding expectations that were never yours?
The New Moon in Leo offers a reset here. A renewal of purpose. An invitation to stand tall in your authenticity. Across the sky, Pluto moves through the terrain of your emotional roots. As you reach upward, you’re also being asked to tend to what lies beneath, to release what’s no longer safe, no longer true, and no longer you.
Sagittarius Rising
This week opens your inner sky. Leo Season calls you to remember your connection to wisdom, to wonder, to a broader perspective on life. You are invited to stretch, to explore, to question what you’ve outgrown and open to what’s calling you next.
The New Moon asks you to plant intentions aligned with truth, not inherited beliefs, but soul-knowing. Pluto speaks from the place of thought and communication, asking you to become aware of the subtle ways your mind has been shaped by fear. Let this be the week you speak from truth, not programming.
Capricorn Rising
This week stirs your inner waters. Leo Season and the New Moon bring healing into the quiet places, your shadows, your wounds, your deep emotional intimacy. You are being called into greater self-ownership. To reclaim parts of yourself you’ve given away. To walk through the underworld of your inner world and emerge whole.
Pluto, across the sky, activates your relationship with worth and survival. It asks: what have you been attaching your value to? What can be released so that you may feel truly empowered from within?
Aquarius Rising
This week brings focus to your relationships, those who walk beside you, mirror you, and hold your heart. Leo Season brings warmth into your connections, asking for presence, clarity, and authentic expression. The New Moon offers a renewal, a space to heal what blocks deeper connection and choose new ways of being in love, union, or collaboration.
As Pluto stirs in your sense of identity, old stories of who you are may be crumbling. Let them. You’re not being broken, you’re being revealed. Let connection reflect the new you back to yourself.
Pisces Rising
This week offers the medicine of joy in the everyday. Leo Season calls you to bring more creativity, heart, and presence into your daily life.
The New Moon is a breath of renewal, an opportunity to rewrite how you structure your days, how you show up for yourself, how you care for your body and spirit.
And as Pluto activates the underworld of the unconscious, old fears and hidden beliefs may rise. Don’t resist them. Let them be seen, so they can be loved. Let your inner light lead the way through the shadow and into embodied devotion.
