Leo New Moon Astrocasts
Reassess. You don't need to be likeable. You need to be real.
Aries Sun & Rising
The Leo New Moon — 24 July 2025
House Activated: Fifth (Joy, Creativity, Identity Expression)
This Leo New Moon hits your fifth house—the part of your chart that asks: what makes you feel alive? Not what makes you feel useful. Not what makes you feel admired. Alive. There's a difference, and if you've forgotten it, this Moon is here to remind you.
If you've been through a breakup, lost your creative spark, shut down something that once felt joyful, or hit a wall, this is the reset you need. But it's not soft. It's not "just do what lights you up." It's: what did you stop doing because it stopped feeling safe to be seen?
Pluto is opposing this Moon from your eleventh house, pressing on the ways you've shaped yourself to be accepted. Maybe you've been performing a version of "the creative," "the flirt," or "the one who always bounces back"—because people liked that version of you. But do you?
Mercury retrograde in this same house is revising your relationship with expression and worth. If you've been silencing your joy to stay productive or relatable, that strategy's out of date. You're not here to play a part. You're here to feel like yourself again, even if it's a messy process.
Chiron in your sign reminds you that choosing yourself is both the wound and the medicine. Especially when it's hard. Especially when you've been trained not to.
The Venus–Mars square may push up against old habits of making yourself palatable just to be accepted. If you've been burning yourself out trying to be someone else's idea of impressive, stop. Reassess. You don't need to be likeable. You need to be real.
Ask yourself:
What would I create—or admit—if I wasn't afraid of being misunderstood?
Taurus Sun & Rising
The Leo New Moon — 24 July 2025
House Activated: Fourth (Home, Belonging, Inner Foundations)
Let's get honest. You've built your life around safety—maybe even comfort—but have you built something that actually supports you? This Leo New Moon lands in your fourth house, opposite Pluto, and it's not asking you to redecorate. It's asking you to get real about the emotional scaffolding you've built around your "home". If it's a performance, it won't hold.
This lunation brings the kind of grief that only surfaces when you realise you've outgrown a version of home—one that may never have fit to begin with. The kind you tried to keep standing out of loyalty, fear, or habit. Mercury retrograde is rewriting the story of where you belong. You're not here to keep recreating the same dynamic with new walls. You're here to decide what kind of emotional environment helps you stay grounded and present.
Uranus in your sign may jolt you out of comfort—unexpected changes to your environment, relationships, or living situation are possible. Not to shake you, but to wake you. The Venus–Mars square highlights the disconnect between what you've been taught to value and what your body actually needs. Trust your instincts more than the external noise.
The childhood wound around belonging? It's active now. Not to punish you, but to be redefined. You can choose what "family" means. You can rework the foundations. You can begin again—but only if you stop pretending you're okay where you're not.
Ask yourself:
What kind of home would I build now if I didn't have to defend who I've been?
Gemini Sun & Rising
The Leo New Moon — 24 July 2025
House Activated: Third (Communication, Daily Truth, Mental Frameworks)
This Moon lights up your third house—your mind, your message, and how you speak to yourself and others. If you've been faking fine, smiling through disconnection, or staying silent to avoid being misunderstood, this Moon calls that out. Not to punish you. To free you.
Pluto opposes this lunation from your ninth house, pressing on the beliefs you've outgrown. It's not just about how you speak—it's about what you say and why. Are you still repeating truths that no longer feel true? Are you still explaining yourself in ways that protect your image but betray your reality?
Mercury retrograde in your third house brings back unsent texts, unfinished conversations, and old stories you've carried for too long. Now's your chance to revise them. Not to be more polished—but to be more honest. This is the difference between being heard and being understood.
Venus in your sign, squaring Mars, may trigger the reflex to be charming, palatable, and easy. The kind of likability that leaves you feeling empty. Enough. The goal isn't to sound good—it's to be real.
You have wounds from not being heard. So you perform, or you retreat. This Moon says: neither. Try this instead—speak plainly. Speak even if your voice shakes. Your honesty won't ruin things. It'll clarify them.
Ask yourself:
What do I need to say that I've been softening, shrinking, or skipping altogether?
Cancer Sun & Rising
The Leo New Moon — 24 July 2025
House Activated: Second (Self-Worth, Security, Value)
This Moon lands in your second house, and it's not subtle. It's asking you to look at what you believe you're worth—and who taught you that. If you've been over-giving, over-apologising, or making yourself smaller in exchange for safety, the performance is wearing thin.
Pluto opposes this lunation from your eighth house, forcing you to confront what you've traded to feel secure—your needs, your voice, your self-trust. This isn't about finances on the surface. It's about the energetic cost of undervaluing yourself. What have you been giving away just to feel needed?
Mercury retrograde in this house helps you rewire your value language. If your self-talk is full of doubt, apology, or justification, start again. You don't need to earn your worth. You just need to stop bargaining with it.
Saturn and Neptune are in retrograde, laying down new spiritual and practical foundations. You can want rest and still be ambitious. You can be soft and still take up space. However, you must choose to stop trying to prove yourself through service.
The Venus–Mars square shows the push-pull between your desire to care and your quiet hunger to be cared for. Let yourself want more. Let yourself say "mine."
Ask yourself:
Where did I learn I had to earn love—and what part of me still believes that?
Leo Sun & Rising
The Leo New Moon — 24 July 2025
House Activated: First (Identity, Presence, Core Self)
This is your New Moon. But it's not about glow. It's about truth. Who are you when you're not being impressive? What remains when the performance stops?
Pluto sits opposite this lunation, pulling focus to all the masks you've worn to be adored, accepted, chosen. They may have worked. But at what cost? Mercury retrograde in your sign says it's time to edit the narrative. The one you've repeated so many times, you don't even hear yourself anymore.
You might find yourself sorting through old photos, revisiting the choices you made to be "marketable," "likeable," or simply less threatening. Let them surface. And let them go. You're not a brand. You're a person.
Chiron in Aries reminds you that independence doesn't mean isolation; it means embracing your autonomy. You've survived not being chosen. You've worn the mask of "I'm fine." Now it's time to pick yourself—even if it's awkward, even if it's quiet, even if no one claps.
The Venus–Mars square may inflame tension in relationships where you've had to strive for perfection. Drop it. The approval you've been chasing won't give you peace. But your honesty might.
Ask yourself:
What version of myself am I ready to stop performing—and what am I afraid will happen if I do?
Virgo Sun & Rising
The Leo New Moon — 24 July 2025
House Activated: Twelfth (Unconscious, Closure, Self-Erosion)
This New Moon lights up your twelfth house—the place where things unravel, dissolve, or get buried under the noise of doing. If you've been managing everyone else's chaos while quietly losing track of yourself, this lunation is the wake-up call.
Pluto is opposite this Moon, exposing the unconscious roles you've been stuck in: the helper, the fixer, the one who always holds it together. When did that become your entire personality? Mercury retrograde in the same house is dredging up what you've avoided—emotional debris, unfinished grief, or just truths you haven't had time to feel. Now you have time. And no excuses.
Mars and the South Node are still moving through your sign, pushing you to release the pressure to be efficient, perfect, or constantly helpful. This Moon doesn't want your productivity. It wants your presence. Your mess. Your surrender.
The Venus–Mars square may trigger feelings of guilt about resting. You've been trained to associate stillness with failure. But what if stillness is where your real power regenerates?
Saturn and Neptune retrograde are restructuring your partnerships, but you can't meet others deeply if you're unavailable to yourself. If you've lost a part of yourself in caregiving or burnout, this is your turning point. Grieve what you missed. Then choose something different.
Ask yourself:
What part of me have I exiled because it didn't serve anyone else?
Libra Sun & Rising
The Leo New Moon — 24 July 2025
House Activated: Eleventh (Community, Future, Belonging)
This New Moon falls in your eleventh house, the place where your friendships, dreams, and collective vision live. And it's likely pressing on a hard truth: you've been shaping yourself to keep the peace, to be liked, to stay connected. But at what cost?
Pluto opposes this lunation, forcing you to confront the masks you've worn to fit in with groups that never truly saw you. Perhaps you've been muting your opinions, shrinking your uniqueness, or compromising your truth for the sake of harmony. The problem is, you've started to disappear in the process.
Mercury retrograde is revisiting your beliefs about connection. Have you confused acceptance with approval? Have you been calling disconnection "maturity"? This is your chance to get clear on who actually gets to witness the real you—and who doesn't.
The Venus–Mars square turns up tension between your desire to belong and your instinct to preserve peace. If you find yourself managing other people's discomfort more than your own, take a step back. You're not responsible for making truth easier to swallow.
Chiron in Aries reminds you: love doesn't require perfection. It requires presence. You're allowed to be in a room and still take up space. The right people will stay. The wrong ones will leave. Either way, you win.
Ask yourself:
Who am I when I'm not trying to earn my place?
Scorpio Sun & Rising
The Leo New Moon — 24 July 2025
House Activated: Tenth (Career, Legacy, Public Image)
This Moon hits your tenth house—the part of your life that asks: what are you known for? And more importantly: does it reflect who you actually are? With Pluto, your ruler, sitting opposite in the fourth house, you're being asked to strip away the image you've built for approval, power, or survival.
Mercury retrograde is circling this same area, prompting you to rethink your career, your role, and your reputation. Perhaps the thing you built helped you get here, but now it's holding you back. You don't need another accolade. You need alignment.
You might feel exposed or uncertain. Good. That discomfort is the truth showing up to negotiate. The version of success you've been chasing might not be yours. And the energy you've spent managing your image might be better used building something real.
The Venus–Mars square may expose tension between how you're seen and how you feel. You might want to control the narrative. Don't. Let people see the cracks. It's not weakness—it's credibility.
Saturn and Neptune retrograde are asking you to get serious about your dreams and ruthless about what's no longer worth your energy. If you're questioning everything right now, that's not failure. That's evolution.
Ask yourself:
What am I still trying to prove—and to whom?
Sagittarius Sun & Rising
The Leo New Moon — 24 July 2025
House Activated: Ninth (Belief, Direction, Meaning)
This Moon lands in your ninth house—the terrain of truth, meaning, and belief. And if you're being honest, you might feel unmoored. The map you've been using to navigate life no longer makes sense. Good. It means you're ready for something deeper.
Pluto, opposite this Moon, confronts you with the question: what belief system did I adopt to survive? It could be optimism. It could be independence. Perhaps it was a matter of pretending not to care. But now those tools are tired. Mercury retrograde in the ninth asks you to revisit your story and tell the truth, not the polished version.
The Venus–Mars square highlights the tension between the desire for freedom and the need for stability. You're allowed to crave both. But you're not allowed to keep running from stillness just because it asks you to feel.
Saturn and Neptune retrograde are pulling your focus to what you're building behind the scenes. You don't have to go big to be brave. You don't need a plane ticket or a platform. You need to sit with the discomfort of not knowing—and stay curious.
This isn't a crisis of direction. It's a return to your internal compass.
Ask yourself:
What part of me wants to run—and what truth might I hear if I stayed?
Capricorn Sun & Rising
The Leo New Moon — 24 July 2025
House Activated: Eighth (Intimacy, Power, Transformation)
This Moon activates your eighth house—the seat of intimacy, power dynamics, and everything you'd rather not deal with. That's why this one hits hard. It's pulling up what's buried. What you've avoided. What you swore you had under control.
Pluto, in your sign for over a decade, now opposes the Moon from your second house. What are you holding onto that gives you a false sense of control? The real question is: what's it costing you to keep pretending you don't need anyone?
Mercury retrograde is moving through this same territory. Conversations about debt, betrayal, resentment, or emotional walls resurface. Don't intellectualise them. Feel them. And then—finally—respond differently.
The Venus–Mars square may intensify the tension between your ambition and your need for closeness. You might feel torn between doing it all alone and letting someone in, risking the disappointment that comes with it. Don't rush your way through this. Let the discomfort reveal to you where the work really lies.
You don't need to bulldoze your way through the healing process. You need to slow down enough to know what hurts.
Ask yourself:
What protective habit am I ready to stop referring to as "strength"?
Aquarius Sun & Rising
The Leo New Moon — 24 July 2025
House Activated: Seventh (Relationships, Mirror Work, Connection)
This Moon lands in your seventh house, opposing Pluto in your sign. That means the mirror is pointed directly at you. Every relationship is reflecting something back right now—not to blame, but to reveal.
Mercury retrograde is rewriting your connection script. Have you been approaching intimacy like a negotiation? Have you been managing people instead of relating to them? If the way you're showing up in relationships doesn't reflect who you're becoming, this Moon will press that point.
The Venus–Mars square may trigger a sense of discomfort, as one wants to connect while needing space. You don't have to pick one. But you do have to stop hiding behind your intellect when the conversation turns emotional.
This isn't about finding "the one." It's about being able to sit across from someone—friend, lover, collaborator—and tell the truth. No posturing. No cool detachment. Just the real you, even if you're unsure how to be received.
Chiron's influence reminds you: you've survived the ache of being misunderstood. You're ready for something more honest now.
Ask yourself:
What am I scared someone will see if I stop managing how I'm perceived?
Pisces Sun & Rising
The Leo New Moon — 24 July 2025
House Activated: Sixth (Daily Life, Boundaries, Burnout)
This Moon lands in your sixth house, and it's shining a harsh light on what you've been calling "helpful." You've been dissolving into other people's problems again, haven't you? Overgiving, overaccommodating, overextending until your own life is a blur in the background.
Pluto opposite this Moon in your twelfth house exposes the root of it: the belief that your worth is tied to how much you can carry. Mercury retrograde here forces a rethink of your routines, responsibilities, and the story you've been telling yourself about being "the one who always shows up."
The Venus–Mars square tightens the loop. You want to feel needed—but not at the expense of losing yourself. You want to serve—but not as a way to avoid your own needs. You're being asked to draw a new line: where do you end, and where does everyone else begin?
Saturn and Neptune retrograde in your sign are helping you rebuild your identity from the ground up. You don't need to make everyone else okay to justify your place here.
Start small. A ritual. A no. A pause.
Ask yourself:
What part of my routine reinforces the idea that I don't matter unless I'm useful?
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