Leo Horoscopes
This Leo Season, Mercury is retrograde from August 5 to August 29. That means we may need to re-evaluate an area of life that requires us to tap into creativity, passion, and soulful endeavors in order to connect with our authentic selves.
Additionally, Jupiter in Gemini is squaring Saturn in Pisces on August 20. Saturn and Jupiter conjuncted at end of 2020 in Aquarius, ushering in a 20-year cycle focused on systems of social order, governance, and progress.
Now that we’re four years into that cycle, we hit a quarter crisis. Saturn now in Pisces (following Jupiter-Neptune in Pisces in 2022) has us refining our spiritual, emotive, and empathetic capacities, divining wisdom received from the unknown, ancestral, and divine, trusting our intuition and our deeper feeling sense.
On the other hand, Jupiter is bringing opportunities to communicate, learn, study, and share information, asking us to pay attention to the objective facts and details on the ground. This could lead to a potential crisis of truth. How do we know what’s real and what’s conspiracy? What truths lie in the stories that feel true even if the facts don’t actually line up? How do we connect with the universal feeling sense of humanity when people live in different echo chambers - tapped into different sources of information that limit their access to true connection?
See below for how this Leo Season will affect your sign (for the most accurate horoscope, look at your Rising sign, but Sun signs and Moon signs also work)
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Aries
This Mercury retrograde will have you re-evaluating your creative hobbies and passion projects, the channel through which the creative principle of life manifests as your authentic self. From August 5 until August 29, you may experience delays in your work life, routines and daily habits that transition into frustrations in getting what you want through your creative endeavors or pleasure projects (i.e. canceled dates or rain-outs at sporting events). The lesson of the last three Mercury retrograde cycles, December 2023, April, and now August, is to better appreciate how your ego-needs are met by engaging with the dynamic and animating creative life force.
Additionally, you may be experiencing some new opportunities through a new social context, environment, or an opportunity to learn something new, expanding the mediums through which your social world exists. However, as August 20 approaches, you may feel that these opportunities are in tension with the work you’ve been doing over the last year to find deeper meaning in more quiet, isolated spaces. You may struggle in this season to balance your varied social interests with your need for more rest, retreat, and deeper reflection. The goal is to lean into information networks that truly inspire you, using your words with more intention and for what spiritually and energetically nurtures you.
Taurus
This Mercury retrograde has you re-evaluating your relationship to home, places of origin, and spaces of emotional belonging. From August 5 to August 29, you may experience some setbacks to your creative projects and passion projects that transition into problems or setbacks on the homefront. The lesson of the last three Mercury retrograde cycles, December 2023, April, and now August, is to better appreciate your how your need for spaces of emotional belonging are met by engaging with the dynamic and animating creative life force.
Additionally, you may be experiencing some new opportunities on your material matters, maybe in the form of increased cash flow. However, as August 20 approaches, you may feel some tension with the work you’ve been doing over the last year to put the collective and social wellbeing over your individual well being. You may struggle to balance your efforts at accumulating material self-sufficiency with your more selfless pursuits toward the collective good. The goal is to better understand the difference between what you value and what you need. While the seeds you’ve planted are finally manifesting as material wealth, you are also devoting yourself to your higher values, exchanging materiality for greater social worth.
Gemini
This Mercury retrograde will have you re-evaluating your social mediums, networks, and your relationship to the community right around you. From August 5 to August 29, you may experience some problems or breakdowns on the homefront that transition into delays in communication channels or transportation within your local community.The lesson of the last three Mercury retrograde cycles, December 2023, April, and now August, is to better appreciate how your need for social connection, relationships, and networking are met by engaging with the dynamic and animating creative life force.
Additionally, you may be experiencing some new opportunities to lift your personal presence, allowing those closest to you to see you in a bigger and more magnified light. However, as August 20 approaches, you may feel that these new opportunities are in tension with all the work you’ve put in over the last year to craft and refine a public and professional identity. You might be struggling to balance your ideas about personal identity with how an emerging career or role in the world is requiring you to adjust your aesthetic sensibilities. You may be reflecting on how your look does or does not support the role you’re playing in the world. The goal is to figure out how your new found self-expression informs and is informed by the higher you that you want to be.
Cancer
This Mercury retrograde will have you re-evaluating your money matters and material resources. From August 5 to August 29, you may experience some delays or setbacks related to your local environment, transportation issues, or communication breakdowns that transition into money problems, maybe a missed paycheck or error on the balance sheet. The lesson of the last three Mercury retrograde cycles, December 2023, April, and now August, is to better appreciate how your ability to transform your skills into work that you can trade for needed resources is met by engaging with the dynamic and animating creative life force.
Additionally, you may be experiencing new opportunities to make a larger impact on the world through gifts from the Universe, divine wisdom, or unknown benefactors. However, as August 20 approaches, these opportunities may be in tension with the path of study that you’ve been on since last year, or the long journey to new terrains that you’re on. You might struggle to push yourself to new or higher places when you find yourself inundated with the world right around you. The goal is to integrate your more mystical and intuitive sources of wisdom with the higher paths and holy texts you’re studying.
Leo
This Mercury retrograde will have you re-evaluating how you put yourself out there in order to be received by those closest to you. From August 5 to August 29, you may experience delays or setbacks to your money matters, maybe in the form of a late paycheck for example, that transitions into miscommunications and misunderstandings with those around you. The lesson of the last three Mercury retrograde cycles, December 2023, April, and now August, is to better appreciate how your identity and ego needs are met by engaging with the dynamic and animating creative life force.
Additionally, you may be experiencing new opportunities through your social networks and friend groups, finding like-minded people who share your view of the way the world should be. However, as August 20 approaches, you may feel the tension between wanting to immerse yourself in the collective agenda with all the work you’ve done over the past year to work through your emotional entanglements and shared life within your chosen family. You may struggle to balance obligations and responsibilities to your created family with spreading yourself out to serve the broader purpose. The goal is to balance how the personal is political - realizing that how you locate yourself within the relational is also how you're able to show up for the group.
Virgo
This Mercury retrograde will have you re-evaluating your spaces of retreat or isolation or how you understand your more transpersonal purpose. From August 5 to August 29, you may experience delays or setbacks in how your words are received by those closest to you that transition into delays or setbacks in your day-to-day, maybe in the form of illness, injury, or fatigue, for example. The lesson of the last three Mercury retrograde cycles, December 2023, April, and now August, is to better appreciate your need for greater spiritual purpose and emotional connection are met by engaging with the dynamic and animating creative life force.
Additionally, you may be experiencing new opportunities on the career front or through a new business venture. However, as August 20 approaches, these new opportunities may bump up against your commitments over the last year to a committed partnership or to a significant other whether a business or personal partnership. You might struggle to balance what is expected of you in a new career opportunity with what is expected of you in your relationships. The goal is to balance how you manage your role as a responsible person in the lives of others with how you show up in relationship for others.
Libra
This Mercury retrograde will have you re-evaluating your social beliefs and the social collectives that you passionately pour yourself into. From August 5 to August 29, you may experience some delays or setbacks caused by illness, injury, or low energy that transition into frustrations in how you communicate with and receive communication from the friend groups that you belong to.The lesson of the last three Mercury retrograde cycles, December 2023, April, and now August, is to better appreciate how your need for social connection, relationships, and networking are met by engaging with the dynamic and animating creative life force.
Additionally, you may be experiencing new opportunities through your higher ideals or how you seek higher purpose, for example, a chance to study something new and expansive, highlighting how your ego-self is fed by following your higher purpose. However, as August 20 approaches, these new opportunities may be in tension with the work you’ve been doing over the last year to develop your work and daily habits to attune to the mundane affairs of daily life. You might struggle to keep track of your daily to-do list or to reflect on what truly inspires your higher vision. The goal is to discern using your higher mind what right moral action is in your work and daily life.
Scorpio
This Mercury retrograde will have you re-evaluating your career and public mission in the world, and your vision of yourself as someone that stands out from the crowd. From August 5 to August 29, you may have miscommunication or conflict within your social networks that transitions into blockages or setbacks on the career or business front. The lesson of the last three Mercury retrograde cycles, December 2023, April, and now August, is to better appreciate how curating a professional role in the world is met by engaging with the dynamic and animating creative life force.
Additionally, you may be experiencing new opportunities in your shared resources, emotional investments, and interdependent bonds, for example, cash flow from inheritance or through a partnership. However, as August 20 approaches, these new opportunities may be in conflict with the work you’re doing over the last year on cultivating your unique, individual self as the creative project of your life. The time you’re spending on developing your creative and artistic sensibilities needs a container separate from the duties and obligations created by a shared life, investments, or committed relationships. Maybe it’s time to set an intention to create space for the fullness of who you are within the life you’ve created.
Sagittarius
This Mercury retrograde is all about your higher philosophies and belief systems, how your authentic sense of self expands through engagement with your higher ideals. From August 5 to August 29, you may experience setbacks on the career front or in your public mission in the world that transitions to blockages or delays, for example, in long distance travels. The lesson of the last three Mercury retrograde cycles, December 2023, April, and now August, is to better appreciate how the needs of your higher mind are met by engaging with the dynamic and animating creative life force.
Additionally, you may be experiencing growth or new opportunities in the form of a new significant relationship. However, as August 20 approaches you may feel that the new relationships you’re finding are in tension with the work you’ve been doing in reworking and establishing a foundation of home for yourself. For example, a new relationship may highlight for you the tension between carving out spaces of familiarity and emotional comfort with the growth mindset that a new relationship may offer. The goal is to better understand how the process of maturation requires establishing a foundation expansive enough to share with another.
Capricorn
This Mercury retrograde will have you re-evaluating your shared resources, interdependent bonds, and emotional investments. From August 5 to August 29, you may experience long-distance travel delays or setbacks that transition into conflict over shared resources. The lesson of the last three Mercury retrograde cycles, December 2023, April, and now August, is to better appreciate how learning to coexist in the spaces and places of emotional belonging means engaging with the dynamic and animating creative life force.
Additionally, you may be experiencing a new opportunity in the form of increased work responsibilities. However, as August 20 approaches, the opportunities that come from a new area of work may be in tension with all the effort you’ve put into expanding your social mediums through new social connections and/or by learning something new. For example, maybe the to-do list is filling up now in ways that limit how much time you can spend floating around, fully immersed in the world right around you. The goal is to learn to sift through the information overload, deciding what information can be put to use through skills that you can offer to others through work.
Aquarius
This Mercury retrograde might have you re-evaluating your significant one-on-one relationships and partnerships, whether business or personal. From August 5 to August 29, you may experience delays or setbacks in your shared resources, debts, or taxes that transition into communication breakdowns or conflicts with close others. The lesson of the last three Mercury retrograde cycles, December 2023, April, and now August, is to better appreciate how your ability to create and sustain meaningful connections and relationships are met by engaging with the dynamic and animating creative life force.
Additionally, you may be experiencing new opportunities through a new romance, relationship to children, hobbies, or passion projects. However, as August 20 approaches, these new opportunities may constrain your material or financial resources that you’ve been working to better cultivate and steward over the last year. You may struggle to balance what brings you true joy with what you can afford in this season. The goal is to better steward the things in life that you value but that money cannot buy while also learning to steward your material resources you need to survive.
Pisces
This Mercury Retrograde in Leo might have you re-evaluating your daily to do list, health habits, and routines. From August 5 to August 29, you may experience delays or setbacks in your communications with significant others that transition into delays or setbacks on getting what you need done in your day-to-day life. The lesson of the last three Mercury retrograde cycles, December 2023, April, and now August, is to better appreciate how showing up as a responsible agent in the world with skills that you can offer in service to others means engaging with the dynamic and creative fire that is the life force.
Additionally, you may be experiencing opportunities on the home front, maybe a major move is on the horizon. However, as August 20 approaches, the opportunity to change and expand by uprooting your home may bump up against the work you’re doing over the last year, focusing on “you” as the creative project in this season. You may struggle to balance all the energy you’re pouring into your spaces of privacy and retreat with the work you’ve been doing to establish your presence out there in the world in order to be well received by others. The goal is to better understand how the home you create and root yourself in is meant to be a container for your chosen self to incubate and emerge.
