Ignite your inner light and leader this Leo season

Now is the ultimate time to shine and be a living inspiration to yourself and others

Welcome to Leo season! The Sun is in their home sign of Leo and ready to help you take the lead in your life. It’s time to soak up all the positive and expressive energy the Sun has to offer so you can use it to improve your self-care habits. In the fixed, fire sign of Leo, the Sun helps you to bring stability and consistency to anything you put your mind to (especially in the Leo area of your birth chart!). 

Leo loves things that have quality, so with the Sun in Leo, you can hone in on the self-care routines and rituals that really help you feel your best while noticing why you may be inconsistent with others. Are you scattered, trying to care for yourself in too many different ways? Or maybe just scattered and inconsistent in general? Does something in your schedule create instability in areas of your life, reducing the quality of your experiences overall?

Leo season is an ultimate time to shine and be a living inspiration to yourself. If you’ve been feeling like it’s been hard to get going on a project, activity or task, allow the Sun in Leo to rev up your engine and make some progress.

I focus on self-care and compassion in my work because it lays the foundation for community and collective care. When we can care for ourselves and others compassionately, setting boundaries with ourselves and others that support our wants, needs and desires, we become a better community member. We can understand others' needs and be respectful of their wishes while honoring our own.

Over the next 20 years, as Pluto transits Aquarius, we will be returning to this reflection and balance between self-care and collective-care. Every year, the Sun in Leo will make an opposition to Pluto in Aquarius asking us to shine bright and step into our own leadership and also reflect on how we continue to bring equity and care to the collective. The Sun will shine light on information, ideas or situations that we may not have been aware of, either hidden intentionally or because we simply didn’t know. 

Today is that day. The Sun at 0 degrees Leo is opposite Pluto retrograde at 0 degrees Aquarius. (Pluto will leave Aquarius on September 1 and enter Capricorn, but will station direct again on October 11. Pluto will re-enter Aquarius on November 19.)

So while you’re shining bright and focused on your own well being, consider: How does expressing myself with confidence support others in my life? How can I bring more attention and energy to the needs and concerns of others? What power dynamics am I discovering about myself or others, and how do they make me feel? Is there anything I need to change in these situations?