Leo Monthly Forecast

Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of August in Leo, whether you were born in late July or your birthday is this month, this is your birthday month and the start of a new solar year. You were born under a Leo Sun, with its return a chance for a fresh start and new beginnings. Until the Sun leaves on 23rd August, this is a chance to look to the future and the opportunity this brings for a fresh start. However, don't be surprised if you don't feel ready to nail down your intentions, resolutions or that you aren't 100 percent sure of what you want from the coming year. This is partly because until he turns direct on 11th August, in retrograde motion Mercury brings a chance to reflect and to spend time back at the drawing board, reassessing your options. As the planet of communication, this is also making it easier to give the past and unsaid words a voice. However, the real reason why, is that even when the Sun leaves you might not have a clear sense of what you want from the coming year, is that it is not until 26th August that held up by a retrograde phase earlier in the year, will finally return. This is not only when your heart will finally get to have its say in what you want from the coming year, but with Mercury not leaving until 3rd September, when you will finally have heart and mind on the same page. Meanwhile, after spending the whole of July in your income sector Mars, the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos is on the move, though not before smashing as many glass ceilings on his way out the door as possible. Knowing that the Sun will return on 23rd August and Venus and Mercury next month, while working to make his final days as lucrative as possible, Mars is also clearing a path for the lucrative months that still lie in front of you. Mars will always be the warrior planet of the cosmos and on 7th August, when he leaves your income sector and returns to your communication sector, this will end a fight for what you deserve and then begin his first war on communication barriers in two years.

While the Sun's return to Leo last month to begin your birthday month and new solar year saw it clash with Pluto in your relationship sector, something that Mercury did when he returned in June and Mars several times earlier in the year, things have settled and will remain that way until later in the month. With Pluto not only in your relationship sector until 2044 but set to spend several years in the early degrees, no planet can return to Leo without clashing. However, these are brief clashes and with Pluto in the first full year of a 20 year transit through your relationship sector, this is key to maintaining the right balance between your own and your relationship needs. The last planet to clash with Pluto this year will be Venus, when she returns to Leo on 26th July. While this might once again push some buttons, as the planet of love she will use this to better understand what you want from your relationships and what they need from you. Venus will also have an advantage that the Sun, Mercury and Mars didn't have, which is a huge amount of support from the communication gods. Despite their early clash at the end of June having Mercury, the planet of communication in Leo is already helping to keep the communication lines open. With Pluto already in retrograde motion and Mercury in retrograde motion until 11th August, this includes finding it easier to give the past and unsaid words a voice. However, this will get a significant boost when Mars, the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos returns to your communication sector on 7th August, to begin his first war on communication barriers in two years. This is the start of a new trend, where over the coming months, the planets that had clashed with Pluto, will one by one return to your communication sector and into a friendly aspect. While Mars' friendly aspect to Pluto will peak on 10th/11th August, just as Mercury is turning direct, this is the start of a new partnership between the communication and relationship gods that will continue for months.