New Moon in Leo 07/28/2022
On Thursday afternoon we are met with one of the most powerful lunations of the year. The New Moon at 5º of Leo is happening on the midpoint between Eclipses and marks a pivotal moment in between the Eclipses on the 30th of April and the 25th of October. This is like a wave reaching its highest point, and carrying us towards the culmination. What we need to do is try and catch this wave. Tapping into the courage, joy and sense of self, we all innately possess, is the only way to catch the wave of this season.
Leo New Moon fires us up to prioritize the creative, unfiltered, unapologetic and self proclaiming way of life. Leo energy doesn't ask for permission to be creative, to take up space and to be playful. It is a way of being. Recognizing all that you have to offer, and offering is with broad brush strokes. Leo rules our heart, and the heart deserves to be bold and it has to be respected. Heart needs to experience the range of feelings and its fair share of challenges to recognize the power it holds.
Jupiter in Aries, that is about to turn retrograde, is forming a beautiful trine to this lunation. Jupiter in Aries is about the truth of who you are, the trine to New Moon is about celebrating and honoring this truth by experiencing your life fully and unapologetically. The fire element says that the knowledge of who you are is the ultimate joy.
There is a childlike innocence to Leo archetype, that we don’t mention often. Leo New Moon reminds us that our innocence is ultimately a place we draw power from. It takes a lot of courage to remain innocent in this world, but losing it can be detrimental to how fully we can experience this life. We are here not to run away from it, we are here to influence it by who we are and the love we share.
Leo rules our ego, which is essential in the pursuit of wholeness. Ego, as much as it can be demonized, guides us towards our inner sun, and out of unconscious ways of being. As Mercury is forming a square to the triple conjunction of Mars/Uranus/North Node in Taurus and opposition to Saturn in Aquarius, we are asked to awaken from the state of detachment, from mind trap and be fully here and now, because in order to discover our divine potential we need to learn how to be unreasonable in this reason glorifying world. The values are to be re-written, and if you don’t re-write them, someone else will do that for you. This is a heart work, not the mind work. The play of life is for playing, not thinking about it. So keep playing, lovers.