Leo Monthly Forecast

While it is not until 23rd July that the Sun will return to Leo to begin your birthday month and new solar year, it is not only having Mercury here since late last month that is giving you a head start. Normally moving through in just 14 to 15 days, Mercury will give you just enough time to get your head in the game, ideas on the table and the communication lines open before he is gone again. However, a retrograde turn on 18th July will not only keep Mercury here for the whole of July, but right through to early September, so through your birthday month and beyond. However, when Mercury returned it had been less than 10 days since Mars not only left, but after his own retrograde turn had seen him spend five of the last seven months in Leo. To say that by the time the Sun returns to begin your birthday month and new solar year you already have a head start is an understatement. By the time the Moon returns from 25th July to 27th July as a New Moon, you will be more than ready to commit to your new solar year, the future and the journey ahead, even though it will only be 48 hours old by then. Meanwhile, there are some big changes this month, with Venus and Uranus not only leaving your career sector and returning to your friendship sector within 48 hours of each other, but for what will be a major shift. While Venus is only in your friendship sector until 31st July and she will be working to make these the most social and serendipitous weeks of the year, Uranus is here until 2033. While this will leave your career sector empty, as Uranus had been here since 2019, you have everything needed to keep this professional year on course, something that spending the whole of July in your income sector, Mars will continue to benefit from. Long before the Sun can return later next month, for the first time in two years, Mars returned last month to declare war on glass ceilings, roadblocks and barriers, whether real or imagined as he gives you the drive to fight for what you deserve.

By now, with Pluto having begun to transition into your relationship sector in March 2023 and having now settled in for a 20 year continuous stay in November 2024, you will have a feel for his influence. Pluto is the planet of change and transformation and this first visit to your relationship sector in our lifetime is taking you on a journey that over time, can change how you approach your relationships, while helping both you and your relationships make the kind of changes or just to lean in the direction that can create more authentic relationships. While Pluto can bring sudden change, here for so long, it is more about evolution and slow turns in the right direction. You will also be starting to become aware of sticking points, when this long term focus on your relationships comes up against times when your own needs are important as well. You experienced this when Mars was retrograding back out of Leo in the New Year, when he returned in April and again at the very end of last month, when Mercury returned to Leo. As you move into the new month, a clash between Mercury and Pluto is just starting to separate, while the Sun will face the same when he returns to begin your birthday month and new solar year on 23rd July. The reality is, for the next 20 years no planet can return to Leo without clashing with Pluto, something that is key to maintaining the right balance between your own and your relationship needs. For Mercury, who because of a retrograde turn on 18th July, will not only spend the whole of July in Leo but the whole of August as well, as the planet of communication he will be using this to get the communication lines open. This will be especially helpful when the Moon makes its monthly visit to your relationship sector from 12th July to 14th July. It is a few days earlier that the Moon will not only return to your romantic sector from 7th July to 9th July, but coming full circle from last month's Full Moon, these romantically charged lunar vibes will have a lot more potency.