Speaker 1: Welcome back to another episode of Astrology with Alice. I'm
Speaker 1: your host, Alice Bell, and we are back. I ended
Speaker 1: up taking a longer break and anticipated, and I'm here
Speaker 1: to give you the LEO season forecast this month. And also,
Speaker 1: Mercury retrograde is finally over. It actually ended today, July
Speaker 1: twenty third. It was honestly brutal this time. The first
Speaker 1: week of it started off fine for me and for
Speaker 1: references started on June twenty ninth, so like the very
Speaker 1: start of July was fine. I thought I was getting
Speaker 1: off without anything major happening. And then the longer this
Speaker 1: mercury retrograde went on, the worse it got. Like the
Speaker 1: more emotional it got, the more I mean, it was
Speaker 1: in my twelfth house and I was literally like trapped
Speaker 1: in my home because of the air quality in New
Speaker 1: York and just being eight months pregnant with that going
Speaker 1: on too. But it's over today, so we can all
Speaker 1: expect in this coming month LEO season to be moving
Speaker 1: forward with more clarity and your life will not feel
Speaker 1: as slowed down as it may have for the past
Speaker 1: several weeks. And also I'm back to my regular schedule
Speaker 1: with this podcast. I'll be releasing new episodes every Thursday
Speaker 1: from now until the very very end of August, when
Speaker 1: I have my baby and I'm going to take some
Speaker 1: time off from podcasting at that point. So we've got
Speaker 1: some good episodes for the next I guess month and
Speaker 1: a half at this point. But yeah, I'm so happy
Speaker 1: it's Leo season. There's a lot going on this month.
Speaker 1: So I mentioned how mercury retrograde has ended as of today.
Speaker 1: We also have the North and South nodes changing signs
Speaker 1: in just a few days, which we'll get into. That's
Speaker 1: a huge transit, Like I mean, that hasn't happened since
Speaker 1: early twenty twenty five. I'll get into all of the
Speaker 1: details in a second, but for now, know that the
Speaker 1: nodes are changing signs, the North notes moving into Aquarius,
Speaker 1: the South notes moving into Leo. For the next year
Speaker 1: and a half. We also get our first solar eclipse
Speaker 1: in Leo, which will amplify the Jupiter and Leo so
Speaker 1: much more. That transit will just feel a lot more heightened. Also,
Speaker 1: just expect bigger shifts occurring as eclipse season begins. July
Speaker 1: felt very very slow, and that's about to change as
Speaker 1: we head into August. We'll get a solar eclipse in
Speaker 1: Leo during Leo season, and then at the very start
Speaker 1: of Virgo season, we'll get a lunar eclipse in Pisces.
Speaker 1: And not to get ahead of myself, but the lunar
Speaker 1: eclipse and Pisces that is on August twenty eighth, I
Speaker 1: believe twenty eighth or twenty ninth. I'm forgetting the exact
Speaker 1: date of that is ruled by Jupiter in Leo. So
Speaker 1: it's like both of these eclipses are really like bringing
Speaker 1: your attention back to that overarching transit of Jupiter now
Speaker 1: in Leo, activating a new house and sign in your chart.
Speaker 1: I just have a couple of announcements before we get
Speaker 1: into the breakdown for the week ahead substeck in depth.
Speaker 1: Leo season horoscopes are out now. Those came out yesterday
Speaker 1: on July twenty second, So if you want to understand
Speaker 1: what all of these transits mean for your exact chart
Speaker 1: based on your rising sign, those are over there now.
Speaker 1: Twenty five hundred to three thousand words written Perie Rising.
Speaker 1: I've also done a few other articles and workshops recently
Speaker 1: on Substack. I put out one on interpreting planetary returns
Speaker 1: that one's free for everyone to read, like that's how
Speaker 1: to interpret a Jupiter return, a mercury of Mars, a
Speaker 1: Venus return to your chart. Also under the paid subscribers here,
Speaker 1: I've released a whole article on using zodiacal releasing to
Speaker 1: time major career chapters throughout your life. I just find
Speaker 1: zodiical releasing to be interesting. It's not something I use
Speaker 1: in my readings necessarily, but I use it in my
Speaker 1: own life. And when I'm like talking to friends and
Speaker 1: family and they're just kind of wanting to know about
Speaker 1: overall life direction or career related stuff, that's when I'll
Speaker 1: pull up zodical releasing, because it really breaks down your
Speaker 1: life into these bigger chapters of like, Okay, this is
Speaker 1: what I'm focused on for these ten to twenty years,
Speaker 1: and then there's gonna be a bigger shift ten years
Speaker 1: on from that. I don't know. For some people that
Speaker 1: might be too much into the future, but I find
Speaker 1: it brings me a lot of peace. No, like, Okay,
Speaker 1: there is a time and place for certain career stuff
Speaker 1: to go on, and you never know what will happen
Speaker 1: twenty to thirty years from now and how you may
Speaker 1: be headed off in a completely different direction with the
Speaker 1: type of work that you want to be doing. And
Speaker 1: also as we get into the fall, I'll probably start
Speaker 1: talking a lot more about the astrology of parenthood and
Speaker 1: parent child synistry on Subsac in the coming weeks. I'm
Speaker 1: also planning to share my birth story over there too
Speaker 1: when that does happen, So if you want to follow along,
Speaker 1: I will not be taking a break on Subsac. I
Speaker 1: will not be taking a maternity to leave there. Content
Speaker 1: will keep flowing there throughout the rest of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: With that being said, let's now get into the astrology
Speaker 1: for Leo season. So Week one is July twenty second
Speaker 1: through the twenty fifth. It's a shorter week because we're
Speaker 1: starting Loo season halfway through this week. But we can't
Speaker 1: talk about Leo season without talking about the major like
Speaker 1: underlying transit of just the Sun moving through the sign
Speaker 1: of Leo from July twenty second to our twenty second
Speaker 1: this year, and the Sun's transit and also the upcoming
Speaker 1: solar eclipse in Leo. I mentioned this in the intro,
Speaker 1: but those two transits, like the Sun and then the
Speaker 1: subsequent solar eclipse, will amplify the year long transit of
Speaker 1: Jupiter in Leo that we went over last month, and
Speaker 1: you may start to feel that Jupiter transit a lot
Speaker 1: more in the next couple of weeks. So if you
Speaker 1: really haven't felt that big of a shift with Jupiter
Speaker 1: changing signs and houses in your chart since June thirtieth,
Speaker 1: expect that to come into play a lot more as
Speaker 1: we get into the next couple of weeks. With longer
Speaker 1: transits like Jupiter or Saturn, you need the shorter transit.
Speaker 1: It's like a new moon or a full moon or
Speaker 1: a Sun or Mars transit to come along and trigger
Speaker 1: that longer transit to feel it more intensely. I also
Speaker 1: want to say that this Leo season will set the
Speaker 1: stage for the Mars retrograde that will happen partially in
Speaker 1: Leo in twenty twenty seven, and Mars is also going
Speaker 1: to move into Leo throughout October and November of this year,
Speaker 1: So it could be interesting to see how whatever you
Speaker 1: start thinking about more intensely this month during Leo season
Speaker 1: or start planning for start developing, those themes will continue
Speaker 1: to develop and get more prominent throughout this fall, so
Speaker 1: an idea for something new may come to you this month,
Speaker 1: but then maybe you want to take greater action on
Speaker 1: it once Mars moves into LEO in the same part
Speaker 1: of your chart throughout October November, and again because we
Speaker 1: get a Mars retrograde from January up until April first
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty seven, you could spend a good chunk
Speaker 1: of the earlier part of twenty twenty seven thinking about
Speaker 1: the Leo World House themes too, but just to go
Speaker 1: over LEO season themes in general. It's really a time
Speaker 1: for reconnecting with your personal creativity and finding new ways
Speaker 1: to express yourself, whether that's through like an artistic practice
Speaker 1: or your personal style, or how you show up on
Speaker 1: social media, some other type of like activity or hobby
Speaker 1: you do. And I want to prioritize how it's like
Speaker 1: for your own enjoyment, not necessarily to get somewhere or
Speaker 1: be super productive, like you're just focusing on like what
Speaker 1: lights me up in this moment. And it can also
Speaker 1: be a time of returning to childhood interest and really
Speaker 1: reconnecting with what makes me me, Like what am I
Speaker 1: particularly interested in? And I'm not following this because it's
Speaker 1: trendy right now or someone else is doing it and
Speaker 1: at work and through maybe some type of side hobby
Speaker 1: or passion project, you could find yourself wanting to experiment
Speaker 1: a bit more. This could come through in your personal
Speaker 1: style or the branding of your own business too, like
Speaker 1: you're wanting to put less pressure on yourself in your
Speaker 1: career and again with being productive, so that you have
Speaker 1: time to explore different interests. And these themes of creativity,
Speaker 1: self expression, connecting with your inner child, they're gonna apply
Speaker 1: to the Leo worldhouse of your chart. So I'll just
Speaker 1: run down the by rising sign now so you can
Speaker 1: kind of get a better idea of what can I
Speaker 1: expect based on my own chart. So for Fire sign risings,
Speaker 1: Leo Airy Sagittarius risings, it is quite literal in that
Speaker 1: this time of year has a lot more to do
Speaker 1: with your sense of identity, your personal creativity, how you
Speaker 1: can be more confident in who you are and explore
Speaker 1: different areas of interest, different sides of yourself. For Leo
Speaker 1: Rising specifically, this is a bigger month because of all
Speaker 1: the action taking place in your first house, so you
Speaker 1: can kind of expect more significant life developments occurring, like
Speaker 1: things that don't happen to you often or realizations about
Speaker 1: who you want to be what you want to do
Speaker 1: next coming up in a major way. And then also
Speaker 1: I would say like the theme of learning and just
Speaker 1: following whatever you're curious about would probably come up to
Speaker 1: And then for Earth sign rising so Taurus Virgo and
Speaker 1: Capricorn riisins, this may be a month with that is
Speaker 1: more geared towards your mental health or your inner cell
Speaker 1: and tending to things in your personal life, whether that's
Speaker 1: spending more time with family or at home, or working
Speaker 1: on yourself through like therapy or other forms of healing.
Speaker 1: There'll be this emphasis on self improvement and really wanting
Speaker 1: to understand yourself better. And then for AirSign risings gem
Speaker 1: and I Leebra Aquarius risings, this is a more social
Speaker 1: period of the year for you, So this theme of
Speaker 1: relationships and how you connect with people and how you
Speaker 1: can communicate better within your relationships might come up a
Speaker 1: lot more. And there may be more social activities or
Speaker 1: dating that's going on at this time, or bigger changes
Speaker 1: happening in existing relationships. So maybe you're taking the next
Speaker 1: step with your partner, or you're realizing is this relationship
Speaker 1: right for me? Getting clear on like what do you like,
Speaker 1: who do you value spending time with, and like who
Speaker 1: do you want to spend your time and energy on?
Speaker 1: And then for Water Sign Rising, so Cancer Scorpiopis's risings,
Speaker 1: this is a more work focus time of year for you.
Speaker 1: How can you bring that creativity and that different size
Speaker 1: of your personality into the work projects you're developing or
Speaker 1: even building out your own business. I know, like the
Speaker 1: theme of like entrepreneurial type stuff is really big for
Speaker 1: Cancer Risings right now, So looking into that specifically, like
Speaker 1: do I want to start my own business? Do I
Speaker 1: want more independence over my work? But for all Water
Speaker 1: Sign Risings, just kind of wanting greater structure or thinking
Speaker 1: about what comes next in your career. Also happening right
Speaker 1: away in LEO season is that Mercury will be stationing
Speaker 1: direct at sixteen degrees of cancer on July twenty third.
Speaker 1: This will end it's more than three week long retrograde
Speaker 1: that's been going on since June twenty ninth, so throughout
Speaker 1: all of July up until this point, we've had mercury
Speaker 1: retrograde going on. It'll be nice to finally receive greater
Speaker 1: mental clarity or be able to move ahead. With new
Speaker 1: plans more easily. It's kind of crazy, like before mercury
Speaker 1: retrograde started, I was so excited about these new areas
Speaker 1: of my business that were developed being and new ideas
Speaker 1: coming to me, and then mercury retrograde totally made unmotivated, tired,
Speaker 1: uninterested in all of this stuff. So it'll be nice
Speaker 1: to get back on track if you felt the same
Speaker 1: way too, And also if you've just felt more emotional
Speaker 1: about certain relationship dynamics or things happening specifically in your
Speaker 1: home and family life, that may clear up a lot
Speaker 1: more over the next few days, and those things may
Speaker 1: get resolved or just not be weighing on you as much.
Speaker 1: Mercury will remain in Cancer until August ninth, though, so
Speaker 1: this underlying theme of like stuff going on with home
Speaker 1: or family in those relationships, or developments happening with moving
Speaker 1: or your living space, or just like reflections on childhood
Speaker 1: in the past, those themes may still linger a bit
Speaker 1: up until August ninth, but just expect to feel less
Speaker 1: frustrated or emotional than you have been about those themes recently.
Speaker 1: And as we'll get into a bit later, Mars will
Speaker 1: move into Cancer on August eleventh, just two days after
Speaker 1: Mercury leaves cancer on August ninth. So it's worth noting
Speaker 1: how there will still be themes to work through and
Speaker 1: developments to occur in the Cancer world house of your
Speaker 1: chart if you didn't see what you thought may happen
Speaker 1: there this past month because of the retrograde slowing everything down.
Speaker 1: So Mars sweeping in there in a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: from now will help speed things up in that cancer
Speaker 1: world house, and it's more likely you'll be taking action
Speaker 1: on the topics and themes associated with that house. There's
Speaker 1: just been like a lot of back to back cancer
Speaker 1: transits this spring and summer, Like first throughout Gemini season
Speaker 1: we had Venus and cancer, and then Mercury joined Venus
Speaker 1: there and Jupiter was still in cancer, and then it
Speaker 1: was literal cancer season and Mercury retrogading cancer. Now there's
Speaker 1: going to be Mars in cancer. It's kind of like
Speaker 1: that part of your chart has had a lot of emphasis,
Speaker 1: and I mentioned like how things are very much shifting
Speaker 1: to Leo this month, but it's still worth noting, am
Speaker 1: I still seeing like themes linger here even though Jupiter's
Speaker 1: not in that party? Your chart anymore, Okay, and then
Speaker 1: we are moving onto week two, which is July twenty
Speaker 1: six to August first. This year, we've had a series
Speaker 1: of outer planets and other longer transits changing signs. Saturn
Speaker 1: and Neptune both moved to Ares, Urinus moved to Gemini,
Speaker 1: Jupiter just moved to Leo, Chiron moved to Taurus. The
Speaker 1: nodes aren't planets, but they are changing signs on July
Speaker 1: twenty six, and the nodes indicate where eclipses are happening
Speaker 1: for about a two year long period, so it's a
Speaker 1: big deal that these these elements of the chart are
Speaker 1: changing signs, and the North note is moving into Aquarius,
Speaker 1: and the South note is moving into Leo, like I
Speaker 1: said on July twenty six, and they're going to remain
Speaker 1: there until March twenty six, twenty twenty eight, So I
Speaker 1: believe that's a little over a year and a half.
Speaker 1: Wherever the nodes are transiting indicates where you will be
Speaker 1: experiencing them. A major changes take place for that year
Speaker 1: and a half to two year long period. So this
Speaker 1: month in particular, with a solar eclipse triggering that South
Speaker 1: node in Leo transit, and also the full moon and
Speaker 1: Aquarius will happen in that same area that the north
Speaker 1: node is moving into. You'll start to see how there
Speaker 1: may be new beginnings unfolding, especially in the Leo worldhouse
Speaker 1: of your chart, but also possible endings or bigger life
Speaker 1: shifts that are about to take place there too, and
Speaker 1: out of this year and a half or so long
Speaker 1: transit up the North node and Aquarius south. Note in Leo,
Speaker 1: if you have planets or angles in your chart that
Speaker 1: are in Leon Aquarius, it's really important to note when
Speaker 1: do the nodes reach those exact degrees of those chart placements,
Speaker 1: So like, for instance, I have a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: in like early Aquarius like six seven degrees of Aquarius,
Speaker 1: not so much. I don't have anything in like the
Speaker 1: later degrees like twenty to twenty nine. So I really
Speaker 1: want to pay attention to the later part of this
Speaker 1: nodal transit, like when the north node moves down into
Speaker 1: early Aquarius, like that's probably going to be the biggest
Speaker 1: period of shifts for me, or when I notice like
Speaker 1: the themes of those chart placements coming into effect a
Speaker 1: lot more so if you have Leo Aquarius in your chart,
Speaker 1: observing the exact few weeks or month that the North
Speaker 1: node or the South node is moving across those chart placements,
Speaker 1: and how the themes associated with those elements of your
Speaker 1: chart are brought up a lot more strongly during that
Speaker 1: specific month. And the last time the nodes were in
Speaker 1: Leo and Aquarius was throughout twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: so you may see similar themes being brought back up
Speaker 1: again throughout the end of twenty twenty six into twenty
Speaker 1: twenty seven. That or taking place, I guess that's nine
Speaker 1: almost ten years ago now. And of course you'll want
Speaker 1: to look at the two houses in your chart ruled
Speaker 1: by Leo and Aquarius. How are you trying to strike
Speaker 1: a balance between the topics of those opposing houses. How
Speaker 1: are the themes of one house influencing changes going on
Speaker 1: in the other, or you're bringing in themes of one
Speaker 1: house into the other house. There's just going to be
Speaker 1: back and forth activity across those two houses in your chart,
Speaker 1: and that's the area where you're going to see the
Speaker 1: most major changes take place from now until early twenty
Speaker 1: twenty eight for everyone. Though, we can also just look at, like,
Speaker 1: what are themes associated with the signs of Leo and Aquarius,
Speaker 1: and how are those themes being brought up for like
Speaker 1: the world right now, and how are we finding a
Speaker 1: balance between Leo and Aquarius as signs. So when I
Speaker 1: think about Aquarius, it's a lot about community and networking
Speaker 1: and innovation and rebelling against this status quo, like wanting
Speaker 1: to do things differently and be your own individual and
Speaker 1: also promote change and kind of like able to see
Speaker 1: how things could be done more efficiently and better, and
Speaker 1: that may be far ahead of what's currently taking place
Speaker 1: right now. Well, if you have Aquarius planets in your chart,
Speaker 1: you probably understand what I'm saying, Like you may often
Speaker 1: have like ideas for stuff that you want to do,
Speaker 1: but no one else has caught up to you quite yet.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of the vibe we're moving into. And
Speaker 1: I've always said, like with Pluto and Aquarius, now that
Speaker 1: we're really going to start to feel that Pluto and
Speaker 1: Aquarius transit a lot more once the North node moves
Speaker 1: into Aquarius and eclipses start triggering Pluto there too. So
Speaker 1: I just see like a lot of transformation in society,
Speaker 1: coming up with new innovations, with science, with coming together
Speaker 1: as a community to promote change and kind of get
Speaker 1: rid of these structures that just aren't working for us anymore.
Speaker 1: And then on the opposite end of that is the
Speaker 1: South Nord and Leo, and Leo is so much about
Speaker 1: the attention being on you, and again we're turning to
Speaker 1: those Leo themes who went over at the start, like
Speaker 1: connecting to your creativity, wanting to rediscover joy, and like
Speaker 1: in your everyday life, not being afraid to experiment. So
Speaker 1: I almost see the two of these signs blending right
Speaker 1: now is like, how can you lean into your own
Speaker 1: like individual, creative self, and how in turn is that
Speaker 1: helping to promote change or bring greater solutions into the world.
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see what things look like two
Speaker 1: years from now and how much this balance of Leo
Speaker 1: Aquarius shifts, like the way people show up online or
Speaker 1: show up with in the workplace. I felt like with
Speaker 1: the North note in Pisces, especially like when it was
Speaker 1: conjunct Saturn and Neptune, things felt very like confusing or
Speaker 1: hazy and just uncertain about what the future holds. And
Speaker 1: now I see like the North note moving into Aquarius,
Speaker 1: it's more like I want to take action. I want
Speaker 1: this change to happen, and I have a vision for
Speaker 1: what I want to be doing next. Continuing on with
Speaker 1: these Aquarius themes, there will be a full moon and
Speaker 1: Aquarius happening on July twenty nine, nin at six degrees
Speaker 1: of Aquarius. And this full moon is pretty significant because
Speaker 1: it'll be exactly conjunct Pluto and Aquarius, and it will
Speaker 1: be opposite to Jupiter and Leo. So the Sun is
Speaker 1: going to be conjunct Jupiter in Leo and the Sun
Speaker 1: and Jupiter are going to be exactly opposite to the
Speaker 1: Moon and Pluto in Aquarius. So it's really triggering the
Speaker 1: Jupiter Pluto opposition and also awakening that major cradle aspect
Speaker 1: between Jupiter, Pluto, Urinus, and Neptune that I went over
Speaker 1: in last month's forecast. So again it's bringing up this
Speaker 1: theme of like, how can you better balance community involvement
Speaker 1: with time spent on your own interests? Or you're kind
Speaker 1: of making a lot of realizations about what sets me apart,
Speaker 1: how might I lean into that more. There could also
Speaker 1: be a situation that you're wanting to break free of
Speaker 1: at this time, or you're noticing that you're undergoing a
Speaker 1: lot of positive transformation or change around the end of
Speaker 1: July that likely pertains to the Aquarius worldhouse of your chart,
Speaker 1: Like is there some you need to get rid of
Speaker 1: there or something you need to release in order to
Speaker 1: move forward? Differently, there might be limiting relationships, mindsets, are
Speaker 1: situations that you want to leave behind with this full
Speaker 1: moon too, as you prepare for that next new six
Speaker 1: month chapter to start up once that solar eclipse in
Speaker 1: Leo occurs about two weeks later on August twelfth. So
Speaker 1: I overall, I'm seeing this full moon as an opportunity
Speaker 1: to step more into your personal power, like kind of
Speaker 1: take back, like what who do I want in my life?
Speaker 1: What types of situations do I want to engage in?
Speaker 1: If it's not working, it's time to go. In Aquarius
Speaker 1: is such a relationship oriented sign, so it could be
Speaker 1: that you're a lot busier with social activities around the
Speaker 1: time of this full moon, or just that theme of
Speaker 1: like relationships, who do I want to surround myself with?
Speaker 1: That becomes something that you're thinking about a lot more. Also,
Speaker 1: the ruling planet of this full moon in Aquarius is Saturn,
Speaker 1: which will have just stationed retrograde in Aries on the
Speaker 1: twenty six, just a few days before the full month.
Speaker 1: So in addition to seeing how greater change or realizations
Speaker 1: are being brought to the Aquarius world house of your
Speaker 1: chart at the end of July, you could also be
Speaker 1: looking at the Ares world house of your chart and
Speaker 1: how are you thinking about wanting to restructure things in
Speaker 1: that area or go about your commitments and responsibilities differently.
Speaker 1: There there may even be a connection you're seeing between
Speaker 1: the themes of the Ares worldhouse of your chart and
Speaker 1: the themes of the Aquarius world house of your chart.
Speaker 1: So let me just give a couple of examples to
Speaker 1: see how this could play out. So let's say you're
Speaker 1: an Aquarius rising and you have this full moon happening
Speaker 1: in your first house, so that may bring up a
Speaker 1: lot of realizations about who am I, what do I
Speaker 1: want from myself? Bigger life stuff happening, or kind of
Speaker 1: more attention on you from other people, or there's like
Speaker 1: a willingness to put yourself out there a bit more
Speaker 1: and kind of thinking about how do I want to
Speaker 1: show up in the world. And then that has this
Speaker 1: connection with Saturn and Ares transiting your third house. So
Speaker 1: it could be that maybe you're wanting to bring more
Speaker 1: of your personality first house into things like writing or
Speaker 1: content creation or other communication based work with the Saturn
Speaker 1: the ruling planet of the full moon in your third
Speaker 1: whereas if you're a Taurus rising, you have the full
Speaker 1: moon in your tenth house, so it could bring up
Speaker 1: more activity in your career or realizations about what you
Speaker 1: want to be doing with work in the long term.
Speaker 1: But then the ruling planet of that full moon is
Speaker 1: Saturn and aries transiting your twelfth house, So maybe it's
Speaker 1: that you're kind of like letting go of something at
Speaker 1: work that's not serving you anymore, or it could be
Speaker 1: that twelfth house themes like mental health or spirituality are
Speaker 1: finding their way back into what you want to be
Speaker 1: doing in your career. Always so important to look at
Speaker 1: where is the ruling planet of any lunation. It's going
Speaker 1: to give you so much more insight. Also, on the
Speaker 1: same day as the full moon, we got another transit happening.
Speaker 1: Venus and Virgo will square Mars and Yemini. So this
Speaker 1: again brings in the topic of relationships into the full moon,
Speaker 1: and we'll probably have you deciding like who do you
Speaker 1: want to put energy into and also just being pretty
Speaker 1: busy with social activities right at the end of July.
Speaker 1: Because both Virgo and Gemini are signs ruled by Mercury.
Speaker 1: It also may be that you have more motivation to
Speaker 1: put into writing, speaking, or other types of communication projects
Speaker 1: for a few days, and ideas and like new plans
Speaker 1: to get kind of a content off the ground or
Speaker 1: writing or research going could come together pretty quickly. However,
Speaker 1: on the downside of that, maybe you do feel very
Speaker 1: mentally like on or just like harder to relax, or
Speaker 1: you're just feeling a bit anxious for a couple of
Speaker 1: days right around the twenty ninth, So finding ways to
Speaker 1: get out of your mind and reconnect with your body
Speaker 1: maybe super important to do right around this, like full
Speaker 1: moontime frame two and Venus and Virgo thankfully does have
Speaker 1: that like well known aspect to it, so could be
Speaker 1: great to like sign up for a workout class or
Speaker 1: take a walk outside or kind of nurture your body
Speaker 1: through like healthier foods or like taking a longer time
Speaker 1: with your skincare routine at night, just like bringing it
Speaker 1: back to like, okay, let me connect with my body
Speaker 1: and get out of like being so mentally like on
Speaker 1: moving on to week three August second through eighth, So
Speaker 1: about a week after Venus squares Mars on July twenty ninth,
Speaker 1: we get Venus moving into Libra from August sixth through
Speaker 1: September tenth, and Libra is one of the signs Venus rules,
Speaker 1: so it loves to be here. As we get a
Speaker 1: bit further into August again, you're gonna see a greater
Speaker 1: emphasis on partnerships in your life. I would say the
Speaker 1: Folmon and Aquarius is more about a community and kind
Speaker 1: of bigger groups, but Libra is more about that, like
Speaker 1: one on one time you have with people, whether that's
Speaker 1: platonic or romantic. So maybe it could be that you're
Speaker 1: collaborating with people at work a bit more, or strengthening
Speaker 1: certain friendships, or spending more time with your partner, or
Speaker 1: feeling more up for dating, and just overall noticing how
Speaker 1: can you maybe accomplish more with the help of someone else,
Speaker 1: or how are you coming together with someone and deepening
Speaker 1: certain relationships. Also areas like art, design and fashion, maybe
Speaker 1: greater interest during these several weeks too, Or you could
Speaker 1: be interested in attending cultural offerings around your city or
Speaker 1: doing things like visiting the museum or taking some typid
Speaker 1: day trip to see a specific site that has a
Speaker 1: history behind it. When I think of Libra as a sign,
Speaker 1: I think of it as combining style and esthetic with
Speaker 1: this theme of education and wanting to learn something new.
Speaker 1: This is definitely one of the more pleasant transits of
Speaker 1: this month. I actually really like this first full week
Speaker 1: of August because we get another positive transit TOOLO on
Speaker 1: August sixth is that the Sun and Leo will trying
Speaker 1: Saturn and Ares. So seeing this nice link between the
Speaker 1: fire signs and how things might be flowing easily between
Speaker 1: the Leo world house of your chart and the Ares
Speaker 1: world house of your chart may also just be easier
Speaker 1: to like commit to new responsibilities or new work around
Speaker 1: this time and just sit down and be productive. It
Speaker 1: could feel like you're seeing results from the effort that
Speaker 1: you're putting in, like less frustration overall, or you're just
Speaker 1: able to go about your day be more productive and
Speaker 1: not feel so stressed out about that. So, yeah, not
Speaker 1: as much happening during that week. So let's move on
Speaker 1: to week four, which is August ninth through the fifteenth,
Speaker 1: where a lot is taking place, mainly a solar eclipse
Speaker 1: but before we get to that, there is an aspect
Speaker 1: Venus and Libra will make in this fourth week of
Speaker 1: the month, So around August ten through eleven, Venus and
Speaker 1: Libra will oppose neptune and aries, which may have you
Speaker 1: feeling a bit more sensitive when it comes to relationships.
Speaker 1: It could feel kind of like a mini Mercury retrograde
Speaker 1: where you misinterpret what someone says to you, or you
Speaker 1: feel a bit uncertain about where you stand in a relationship.
Speaker 1: On another note, this transit may have you reconnecting with
Speaker 1: an artistic or a spiritual practice and kind of leaning
Speaker 1: into that part of your brain a bit more, or
Speaker 1: returning to that theme of relationships, how can you be
Speaker 1: there to help someone in a bigger way or be
Speaker 1: more compassionate and like giving to people, Just understanding where
Speaker 1: I guess like this is a theme that has kept
Speaker 1: popping up because I feel like I keep talking about it,
Speaker 1: Like where, who and what are you giving your energy
Speaker 1: to And is that burning you out or leaving you
Speaker 1: frustrated or are you finding that by putting more effort
Speaker 1: into someone, you're able to go deeper and have like
Speaker 1: a more meaningful connection. So just really taking stock of
Speaker 1: like am I getting in return the energy that I'm
Speaker 1: putting out to people around like this August tenth eleventh period.
Speaker 1: Then on August eleventh, MARS will change signs as it
Speaker 1: leaves Jemini and moves into Cancer until September twenty seventh.
Speaker 1: This is a throwback to cancer season themes. But like
Speaker 1: I said earlier, maybe you have more motivation and a
Speaker 1: desire to take action on the topics associated with that
Speaker 1: cancer worldhouse in your chart than you felt during actual
Speaker 1: cancer season. However, MARS doesn't do that well in cancer,
Speaker 1: and it does bring up a lot of emotional frustration
Speaker 1: or taking things way too personally, just quick to get
Speaker 1: like worked up about stuff, but then also not knowing
Speaker 1: how to confront people when you're upset. Like take it
Speaker 1: from someone, I have MARS and cancer in my birth chart.
Speaker 1: It's like the biggest struggle. However, looking at this transit
Speaker 1: on a more positive note, maybe you just want to
Speaker 1: engage in work or relationships that you feel more emotionally
Speaker 1: connected to, Like it could just be harder for a
Speaker 1: few weeks to do something just for the sake of
Speaker 1: being productive and staying busy. There has to be this
Speaker 1: deeper purpose to it, or again, this theme of home
Speaker 1: and family is resurfacing, like how might you make changes
Speaker 1: to your living situation or idust miss your living space
Speaker 1: like decorating, renovating, making little improvements here and there. Or
Speaker 1: you could be connecting with family members. However, because it's
Speaker 1: Mars we're talking about, maybe there is something you need
Speaker 1: to speak up about with family, or it's just requiring
Speaker 1: more energy like this topic of like family dynamics and
Speaker 1: connecting with them, or maybe addressing things that feel uncomfortable
Speaker 1: or sensitive from childhood that may likely come up again too.
Speaker 1: And then we've got another planet changing signs this week.
Speaker 1: Mercury will move into Leo on August ninth until August
Speaker 1: twenty fifth, so it just has a very brief like
Speaker 1: a little over two weeks stay in Leo. However, it'll
Speaker 1: be great for creative brainstorming and coming up with more inspiration.
Speaker 1: Remember last year when Mercury was in Leo for a
Speaker 1: long time because it went retrograde there. I read the
Speaker 1: book Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert. She also wrote Eat, Pray, Love,
Speaker 1: but that was a book all about bringing creativity into
Speaker 1: your everyday life, exploring what you're curious about kind of
Speaker 1: finding new outlets for creativity. So on that note, just
Speaker 1: like seeing how you may be more interested in learning
Speaker 1: about creative practices or ways you can express yourself. You
Speaker 1: may also feel more confident in speaking up and voicing
Speaker 1: your personal opinions, or like leaning into your personality a
Speaker 1: bit more without fearing what if, like other people are
Speaker 1: going to disagree with you or what they might think.
Speaker 1: I love people who have Mercury and Leo in their
Speaker 1: birth chart. It's just like they have a more animated,
Speaker 1: like funny way of speaking, and they speak so passionately
Speaker 1: about stuff. So maybe we all get some of that
Speaker 1: energy for a couple of weeks in August. Also, Leo
Speaker 1: tends to interest that relate back to like childhood and pregnancy,
Speaker 1: and maybe it's that you want to learn more about
Speaker 1: these types of topics too. Then on August twelfth, we
Speaker 1: get a solar eclipse in Leo. This solar eclipse will
Speaker 1: take place at twenty degrees of Leo. It's also going
Speaker 1: to be the first of two eclipses we'll have in
Speaker 1: Leo over the next year. So the second one will
Speaker 1: be exactly a year from now, in August of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty seven, So it'll be interesting to note how whatever
Speaker 1: new beginning or life direction begins to take hold in
Speaker 1: that Leo wruldhouse of your chart around the time of
Speaker 1: this eclipse, and in the weeks that follow this eclipse,
Speaker 1: how that gets built upon further by the next Leo
Speaker 1: solar eclipse a year later. And it's always keep important
Speaker 1: to keep in mind that solar eclipses set the stage
Speaker 1: for the next six months, but what they represent often
Speaker 1: isn't visible quite yet. So maybe you have a feeling
Speaker 1: that you're headed in a new direction in this Leo
Speaker 1: world house of your chart, but it's not quite clear
Speaker 1: what that new direction is yet, or things you're working
Speaker 1: on aren't fully visible. You may sense that something new
Speaker 1: is unfolding there, but you're not seeing the full potential
Speaker 1: of what's to come for the next several months, and
Speaker 1: that's something you'll spend a lot of time working through.
Speaker 1: With Jupiter also in this sign, and then, like I
Speaker 1: kept saying, like Mars retrograde also occurring in Leo, like
Speaker 1: there's so much energy and reflection you're going to be
Speaker 1: putting towards that Leo ruled house of your chart. And
Speaker 1: since this is an eclipse that will be in the
Speaker 1: sign of the South node. It might be that endings
Speaker 1: come about at this time, or there's something you need
Speaker 1: to leave behind that has to do with the topics
Speaker 1: of that Leo house in your chart in order to
Speaker 1: make way for what wants to come next. So for instance,
Speaker 1: of your Scorpio rising, this Leo solar eclipse is taking
Speaker 1: place in your tenth house, so maybe it starts to
Speaker 1: bring up bigger opportunities in your career. But maybe there's
Speaker 1: also something like a job you're leaving behind at this time,
Speaker 1: or an element of work that just isn't working for
Speaker 1: you anymore and it's leaving you feeling like low energy,
Speaker 1: or you just like you want to walk away from
Speaker 1: a job that isn't fulfilling. But over the course of
Speaker 1: the next year, you're really getting an idea of like
Speaker 1: what is to come with work and how are you
Speaker 1: taking on bigger projects or more of a public facing
Speaker 1: role in your career, Or if you're a Leo rising,
Speaker 1: maybe since that something is changing in your life in
Speaker 1: a bigger way, like a new identity shift is coming up,
Speaker 1: or new interests are coming to you, but you haven't
Speaker 1: fully seen the extent of like what those new interests
Speaker 1: or those new life changes, like what they will result in. Like,
Speaker 1: for instance, I'm a Leo rising, so this eclipse is
Speaker 1: happening pretty close to my Leo ascendant, and it's like,
Speaker 1: I know I'm having a baby. I know that will
Speaker 1: change my life in a bigger way. I just don't
Speaker 1: know what that change will look like yet, Like who
Speaker 1: will I be as a person a year from now
Speaker 1: as a result of having a child. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I know that that change is coming. So you
Speaker 1: could apply that same kind of thing to whatever house
Speaker 1: is ruled by Leo in your chart. Also, having the
Speaker 1: solar eclipse occur in the same sign that Jupiter and
Speaker 1: Mercury are both currently in at this time speaks to
Speaker 1: how you may be more interested in educational, spiritual, or
Speaker 1: travel related pursuits, or you may be thinking more about
Speaker 1: like decisions you want to make in the Leo road
Speaker 1: house of your chart, Like there's more conversations going on there.
Speaker 1: You're learning about what could come next or how you
Speaker 1: can improve that area of your life. And this may
Speaker 1: feel especially true in the lead up to August fifteenth,
Speaker 1: that's when Mercury and Jupiter will meet up in Leo
Speaker 1: at the exact same degree. The days surrounding August fifteenth
Speaker 1: could be really great for leaning into things like reading
Speaker 1: or writing, or research or wanting to take some type
Speaker 1: of workshop. They push yourself to learn something new, like
Speaker 1: get out of your comfort zone with what you usually
Speaker 1: learn about in order to like I don't know, take
Speaker 1: in a new culture or a new place you're traveling to,
Speaker 1: or kind of finding greater confidence in speaking and writing
Speaker 1: as well. And then it lasts weird to week five
Speaker 1: August sixteenth through the twenty second. This is the hardest
Speaker 1: week of transits in my opinion. So on August sixteenth
Speaker 1: to seventeen, Mars and cancer will come into a square
Speaker 1: with Neptune and Ares, which similar to the Venus neptune
Speaker 1: opposition that came up just the week prior to this. Again,
Speaker 1: maybe we're seeing like a mini mercury retrograde vibe or
Speaker 1: just feeling over sensitive, lower energy, not so motivated for
Speaker 1: a couple of days this week. Also, I find when
Speaker 1: Mars aspects Neptune like a hard aspect like conjunction square opposition,
Speaker 1: it can sometimes bring up illness if you are pushing
Speaker 1: yourself too hard, So really listen to like what is
Speaker 1: your body telling you at this time, I'm maybe instead
Speaker 1: of a super hard workout, or like I don't know,
Speaker 1: staying extralated the office, like try to engage in nurturing
Speaker 1: self care practices or gentle exercise. You may feel better
Speaker 1: if you're turning to some type of spiritual or creative practice.
Speaker 1: This is such a big theme this month, especially if
Speaker 1: things feel kind of unsteady or uncertain because of all
Speaker 1: the shifts happening with eclip season. And then on August
Speaker 1: twenty first, Venus and Libra will oppost Saturn and Ares.
Speaker 1: Again not a super fun transit, it's going to bring
Speaker 1: up this theme of relationships, but it may bring up
Speaker 1: stress with people, or you're thinking more about the long term,
Speaker 1: like who do I want to commit to further, or
Speaker 1: maybe you need to put more effort into making a
Speaker 1: relationship work or address any underlying issues. Also with Venus Saturn,
Speaker 1: it very much brings like the reality of a relationship
Speaker 1: into your focus. If they there's been problems you've been
Speaker 1: avoiding with someone or haven't wanted to face that, You're
Speaker 1: gonna have to get that stuff out in the open
Speaker 1: at this time, or really decide like is this someone
Speaker 1: I want to keep seeing or keep putting energy into.
Speaker 1: But some of you may feel that transit in a
Speaker 1: more positive way, where you feel more committed to a partner,
Speaker 1: or you're putting in that extra effort with a friend
Speaker 1: and you're enjoying being there for someone. So it's not
Speaker 1: it doesn't always have to go a bad way, but
Speaker 1: wanted to bring that up in case there is a
Speaker 1: bit of relationship stress right at this end of LEO
Speaker 1: season timeframe. Okay, but that is it for the LEO
Speaker 1: season forecast. I will be back here next Thursday with
Speaker 1: a new episode. I'm actually having my good friend Maxine
Speaker 1: on the podcast again. We used to host the podcast
Speaker 1: Astrology and You Together a few years ago, if anyone
Speaker 1: listened to that back then, so I'm so excited to
Speaker 1: catch up with her. And yeah, I will see you
Speaker 1: guys back here next Thursday. Hi,