Leo, my passionate friend,
As a fire sign you possess boundless reserves of epic will power and confidence. The Lion is the emblem of pride of the zodiac and strides in your life are naturally made to impress. The greatest source of pride for Leo is the confines of the domestic domain. For Leo, a passionate fire sign that burns with great love and appreciation for culture and art is encyclopedic in their knowledge of all the hottest brand names of the moment, from artists, and actors to fine cuisine and shows. At home, style is extracted with flare and a love for showing off your goodies in the bank on your couches for your living room, accented perfectly with a select art piece that compliments not just the colors, but heightens the subtle energy created by the collective ambiance of the room.
For the past three years from October 5, 2012 to December 23, 2014, you housed Saturn, the great disciplinarian of the zodiac and god of wisdom in your fourth house of home life and relationships with your parents. You have experienced a lot of stress, both real and psychological, in the quarters that matter most to Leo – their home base and their parents, for parents are the great home base for our roots to this Earth. In many cases, some Leos saw the total loss of their connections with their parents due to Saturn’s heavy transit through this house. Loss and ends that come with harrowing traumatic finalities are natural products of Saturn’s obstacles and blows. Saturn tests you with love at the core, though the tests may have felt like you were thrown into a downward spiral of hell and anguish. He wants you to be able to stand strong on your own two feet by procuring the most authentic you and re-establishing the sincerity in your connections with those intimately around you in close quarters. As a teacher, Saturn’s preferred method is your life itself. This is not to say that you are not endowed with free will. Quite the contrary, actually, for you, better than anyone else in the zodiac, know that your will is not one to control or limit. In fact, no one can alienate your free will and get away with it because the will power of the Lion comes from the self-reassuring ego of the Leo mind that does not cower in the face of challenges to their knowledge and authority. What’s more, the Universe wants you to be happy, dear Leo, and the last three years have been tests to see just how much you trust the Universe is working in your favor.
Saturn’s tests could have manifested themselves by not only ending a relationship with a parent through the permanent loss of death, but your very home might have had to be totally demolished, remodeled or recreated. Saturn directs his focus with exacting quality, piercing the surface to peer deep down into the foundation. The comfort and security of your home may have come into question as insecurities and weak links exposed themselves, as ultimately Saturn has made you realize that the foundation you built your life upon at home and with your parents is cracked beyond repair. Saturn made you question the validity of relationships or realities at home that rather than empowered and nurtured your growth, hurt you and made you feel insecure. In some cases, you just had to move out and finally assert the independence that has been percolating for quite some time, but needed the help of Saturn to fully take away the veils of your rosy perception to bring your awareness to the fact that a house depends on the fortitude of its smallest component.
In the last three years you have learned a great amount from the mistakes of the previous generations and after your own scrutiny, uncovered that there are better, more efficient, less destructive and improved ways to manage your home life. After three years, Saturn exits your fourth house of home life and your relationship with your parents and enters your fifth house of true love, fun and children from December 23, 2014 to December 19, 2017. As Saturn leaves your fourth house, you feel greater confidence in the home you have created for yourself and start to grow in your approach towards fun in your life.
Saturn is stern in his deliverance of his lessons and the only tool he has to teach you is life itself. You have the right to choose the life you want and the Universe wants you to live the life you love – since you only get this one, there are no re-dos. Through Saturn’s entrance in your fifth house of true love, children and innocence, there will be experiences that quite literally rock your world, highlighting in some instances your lack of maturity in these areas of your life. Saturn teaches you wisdom through gained experiences, not intellectual wisdom acquired through study, since wisdom only has reason when experience backs it. When Saturn transits through the fifth house, he begins by looking at you like you are a fool with your hands raised, having fun singing your lungs out to the sky approaching the edge of the cliff you don’t see – and Saturn is quite literally making you blind so he can push you over the edge. Some of you may fall over the cliff and into a state of free fall. Free fall, give in, and you will learn to trust the Universe since even in the suspense of being in an existential free fall, she always carries you in her embrace. Your innocence in life runs deep in the highly egotistical power of your mind, dear Leo, and, with innocence and ego, illusions and fantasies can arise. Saturn stares down at these fantastical tales you told yourself of love, and how you could always win at fun no matter how questionable you went about having it, and if you have children (and yes, pets definitely do count as children), you may experience a conflict and disturbance in your ability to relate with them. Heartbreak may occur to you in the upcoming years, my dear Leo, as suddenly life’s heavy doses of reality make you grow and learn that certain defenses are needed to protect yourself from hurt. You will develop a practice of diplomacy underscored by grace and tact as you will realize that your bitterness is directly resulting in your child’s loss of innocence, as rather than fun and the deeply magnetic you that you are deep in your heart you are controlled by the stern disciplinarian, Saturn. Saturn will test your ability to have fun through all of the tests of the next three years to shed your old skin, wrinkled from resentment, regret, hate, bitterness, and alienations, and you will enter a new state of wonderment about life. There is a newfound reality and through Saturn you will be transformed to see how to protect all the blessings of your life. You are living your ideal life, dear Leo, it is right now and you are perfect as you are, and wiser now about how to be a provider for yourself and others while having fun and taking accountability.
Saturn’s lessons in the fifth house transform our most joyful relationships by nurturing wisdom that empowers and allows joy to grow in an environment that is safe and sound. From December 23, 2014 to December 19, 2017, Saturn puts the fantasies and illusions you have come to believe were true and demolish them. His lessons, though jarring to the core, will bring about a wiser you that is in love with the reality of your life. You are not a victim, dear Leo, of anything. You are a soul voyaging through the cosmos in the vessel of your human body encountering celestial bumps, detours and blockages along your way. Saturn scrutinizes your willpower and ability to overcome these bumps, and as you progress, you will learn the lessons he means for you to have in order to gain the wisdom you need to continue forth on your celestial journey. The lesson of the fifth house as Saturn transits through it: let go and be open all at once. Saturn totally cleanses your sight and your soul, empowering you to let go of the bitterness that has festered from years of accumulated heartbreak, and you learned how joy is wisdom in practice, and that even at old age you remain forever a child at heart.
You begin the month of love in the glorious sweet-like-honey drippings of the rays of the Full Moon in your first house of self-identity. The Moon is your celestial best friend, she is the god of emotion and the scribe of every emotional lesson you have ever endured, dear Leo. In her illumination she brings the reflection of compassion to your soul, and makes you feel as though it she was, not you, that experienced everything you ever did. On Tuesday, February 3, the Moon fully dressed in her glory will bring to fruition a whole year of personal growth and development. In the background of the mysterious void of the night lurk hidden truths that under your nose were percolating, but only with the illuminating rays of the friendly Moon could you finally see them. These are not terrible secrets, but rather, upon this night, the Moon will bless you with personal revelations that may be life-changing as suddenly great expansive potential for growth opens right before you. You will be made aware of your true emotional state inside. This is your own personal Full Moon so use her power and her rays to make reality something that has long been deeply hidden and make it shine!
Jupiter, your celestial body guard and god of good fortune, joins forces with the glorious Full Moon, making this day your very own for the taking. From June 2014 to July 2015, Jupiter will be highlighting your personality and bringing great charm to your appeal. Over the next year, you have Jupiter showering you with gifts so bountiful in number that you have every reason to be happy, dear Leo. The first house governs your sense of self, your personality and your identity. The Universe is allowing you to enjoy the benefits of being taken at face value. Jupiter is so expansive in his reach that he is endowing you until July 2015 with the opportunities to make your personality shine authentically. Jupiter can only shower you with gifts when he knows what to give you, and yet, he also demands that what you ask for be in alignment with the vision of the life you love. Therefore, Jupiter is encouraging you to grow in your sense of self-awareness, to overcome your insecurities and refine your strongest attributes. A passionate and ego-driven mind like the Leo will not falter in declaring what they really want and the Universe will grant you rewards for simply being sincere in requests from the skies.
The month of love has so many gifts in store for you, dear Leo, as Venus is also gracing your eighth house of rebirth and the transformation of the soul. Venus, the goddess of love and peace will grace your house of soulful transformations with her white forces of peace. During this transit until Friday, February 20, you will undergo the transformation of your soul down to its very essence. Venus in her indulgence of romance and pleasure brings you the chance to reflect up on the state of your soul’s well being. Is your soul fully self-expressed? With Venus you will be given the security and love of searching through your own self worth and value with sincerity.
Mars, the great action planet of the zodiac whose energy is necessary for creating and completing tasks, will grace the same house of rebirth with his red forces of war, ego and determination. In the month of February, you will discover wells of energy, will power and determination that over time and with the passage of the seasons erode. You have a very wonderful chance as Mars tours the eighth house of your soul’s rebirth to really discover the soulful prerogative of your existence. Only you know that, and only you can know that. With Mars you are given the confidence and ego-reassurance that makes you fearless and dauntless as you venture forth into the recreation of your soul. Until Thursday, February 19 Mars will energize your search for truth and authenticity, so much so that he can even inflate your ego and make you believe you are a lot more powerful than you really are. Not to worry, as the delicate white forces of peace from Venus will help keep Mars’ ego in check.
This great celestial interplay of the white forces of peace by Venus and the red forces of war by Mars will take place on the dance hall hosted by none other than the planet of dreams and inspiration, Neptune. Neptune will energize vision of your new soulful rebirth with his powers of making the ideal life you desire a reality. To do so, Neptune is inviting you to ask yourself authentically what kind of energy are you giving off and thus impacting the life you are living. As Venus and Mars both encourage you to re-envision your prerogative, Neptune is energizing your very essence and changing the vibrations of your soul, so that you are fundamentally, down to the cellular level, transformed and vibrating a new frequency to your energy.
This is great news to hear, as very rarely do we get an opportunity to truly start anew, and that is precisely what the Universe is giving you: a whole new carte blanche. To make this transformation of your soul even sweeter, Mercury, the god of communication, will be retrograde in your seventh house of relationships with others. This poor little guy has a lot on his plate and he gets a lot of grief, but if you only knew how much he has to handle! He is the personal assistant to the stars – literally! Like Earth, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, all of the planets, including the Sun! And these are no Hollywood stars, these are the stars that made #diva a hashtag to begin with. So no wonder this little guy gets to go on vacation a couple of times a year. He has to sort through the celestial baggage of these big planets that otherwise can’t take care of themselves without him #needymuch.
As Mercury goes retrograde in your house of relationships with others ruled by Aquarius, the forward and innovative sign of the zodiac, you are encouraged to look at the state of your current closest relationships and ask yourself how you can improve upon them. In fact, this is a time that many of you may even get engaged, as Mercury allows you to truly look at the connection and judge if it is solid. The seventh house rules relationships of all sorts, from romantic to professional, so at the same time you get to completely transform and redefine your sense of self down to the very essence and vibration of your soul, you are empowered by Mercury to make your relationships with others direct reflections of your newfound sense of self. You are being given the opportunity to realign the purpose and direction of your closest relationships so they can be with you. The seventh house is more appropriately the mirror to your soul, as those we surround ourselves with are but simply reflections of what we see in ourselves. You have had to let go of relationships whose end you never envisioned or wanted to accept with Mercury going to retrograde, but that is to allow for the greater gifts that the Universe has in store for you able to move in with the space being freed up. You will feel great momentum in your significant relationships, as the past is finally put to rest and the future is taken in great strides on Wednesday, February 11 when Mercury goes direct.
One full week after Mercury is back from vacation and moving forward in full swing, you will invite a fabulous New Moon on Wednesday, February 18 in your seventh house of significant relationships. On this night, the Moon sheds her cloak and goes bare into the mysterious dark void of the night to open a celestial door to new opportunities.
Clearly the month of love for you, dear Leo, is a month of rebirth! What greater way to enjoy the gifts and splendors of February than with all of the celestial opportunity to create the life you want by completely letting you start from square one with a wholly new carte blanche. Dance, dear Leo! Dance!
