ENERGIES OF THE WEEK JULY 22-28, 2024 SUN IN LEO
”Blazing!”
As we leave behind the emotional and introspective waters of Cancer and enter the dynamic, fiery month of Leo, this week brings new vibrations and a renewed sense of purpose, with the Sun making a triumphant entrance into its ruling sign, filling us with new energy and enthusiasm.
✨🎇On Monday, July 22, and after a month in Cancer, which focused on our inner matters and self-care, evoking memories, nostalgia, and family moments, the Sun in Leo brings a new surge of creativity, making us more enthusiastic, daring, and extroverted.
This week is filled with more light, joy, hope, and abundance. In the area of our chart where Leo resides, we begin to feel stronger, more vibrant, confident, and unique. We want to go out into the world, savor the beautiful things in life, celebrate, and shine. With energy-boosting enthusiasm, generosity, creativity, and personal charisma, this is the moment to pay more attention to our image, showcase our abilities, take initiative, and rekindle our relationships.
Utilize this powerful energy to find your true purpose, add a little more sparkle to your life, embrace talents and creativity, enjoy yourself, share your best with others, and illuminate the world as only you can!
On the same day, the trine between Mars and Pluto at 0° Gemini-Aquarius strengthens our willpower and gives us the ability to set new goals, pursue them with passion and determination, make radical changes, and transform situations around us for the better.
Meanwhile, the trine between the Sun and Neptune, formed at 29° Cancer-Pisces, elevates imagination, sharpens intuition, and brings a sense of peace and connection with the world around us. This allows us to be creative, discover new facets of ourselves, and enhance our relationships with a new level of understanding and compassion.
As for the square between Mercury and Uranus at 26° Leo-Taurus, this influence encourages us to be open to new ideas and changes, even if they are unpredictable and disruptive. This energy can bring surprises and pose challenges to our communication, transactions, and movements. However, we can harness it to think creatively and innovatively, break the routine, and change our perspective, leading to greater progress.
✨🎇On Tuesday, July 23, the Sun will oppose retrograde Pluto at 00°.52’ Leo-Aquarius, a challenging aspect that will test personal power and resilience, likely bringing tension, anger, and anxiety, while illuminating your shadows and potentially revealing the strength and light you give away out of fear and insecurity.
This energy directly impacts you if you belong to the early degrees of the Fixed signs Taurus, Scorpio, Leo, and Aquarius and may involve you in power struggles, control games and competition that can be exhausting. You may also experience an internal battle if you resist necessary external changes and transformation.
Pluto’s new position in Aquarius brings a novel energy for all, with new demands, especially for the Fixed signs. Through this opposition, it reminds you that you are now on a different timeline and shows what no longer belongs in your future and needs to be uprooted. At the same time, it gives you the opportunity to discover the power you didn’t know you had and may bring new sources of support that if utilized, will help you evolve.
✨🎇On Thursday, July 25 Mercury, just before moving into Virgo, forms an inharmonious quincunx with Neptune at 29° Leo-Pisces. This alignment can be constructive for fiction, acting, spirituality, and creative work but poses significant challenges for real life. It hides pitfalls for communication and mental health, blurring the boundaries between truth, lies, and fantasy, resulting in confusion and disorientation.
With this aspect creating ambiguity, misunderstandings, dilemmas, deceptions, and illusions, it’s wise to avoid significant negotiations or decisions now and not trust everything you hear, read, or learn, as nothing will be entirely clear, and it might not be what you initially thought. However, you can use this time to re-examine information and redefine plans, take a needed mental break and escape the tough realities in healthy ways through your dreams and imagination.
The sesquiquadrate between Venus and Neptune at 14° Leo-29° Pisces also holds the risk of losing touch with reality and feeling disappointed in relationships and finances, especially if they were based on excessive and unrealistic expectations.
If directly affected by this aspect, this will be the challenge and opportunity to learn to distinguish fantasy from reality, develop a deeper understanding of relationships and real needs, and find refuge in creative projects, art, and spiritual pursuits, which can be redemptive.
✨🎇On Friday, July 26 Mercury, the cosmic messenger, and planet of communication, perception, and learning, enters its ruling sign Virgo, where it will stay until 9/26, with a return to Leo from 8/15-9/8 due to its retrograde motion.
With Mercury in Virgo, logic, critical thinking, practical spirit, and strong analytical skills return. This influence will help us organize, plan, and bring order to our lives, find effective solutions to practical issues, negotiate, learn, and communicate in an organized, methodical, and more effective manner.
This energy will help you see what works and what doesn’t and successfully handle even the most challenging projects that require precision and detail, especially benefiting those belonging to earth or water signs.
With Mercury in the archetype that has heightened awareness of physical health and well-being and is identified with simplicity and purification, this is also the perfect time to seek new ways to improve your health, diet, and fitness and to undertake a more comprehensive detox.
Just make sure to avoid getting lost in the details and the pursuit of perfection, which can be a source of stress and an inhibiting factor for taking risks and being creative.
On the same day, the harmonious sextile of the Sun with Mars at 3° Leo-Gemini enhances eroticism, creativity, and social relationships, providing a strong motivation for action. This aspect if directly affects you, brings great reserves of energy, confidence, self-assurance, and opportunities to promote ambitions and plans, implement your ideas, make significant progress in personal or professional goals, and excel in collaborations and social contacts.
This planetary alignment positively mobilizes primarily the first five days of the fire and air signs, giving them the green light to dare, take risks, achieve what they want, and stand out.
The minor sesquiquadrate aspect of the Sun with retrograde Saturn at 3° Leo-18° Pisces simultaneously brings realism and calls us to overcome the conflict between the need for creative expression and recognition and the need for discipline and responsibility. With Saturn here demands spiritual discipline and boundaries, especially if you want solid foundations in whatever you aim to achieve.
Although our resilience and patience may be tested by external pressures or internal doubts, and the reward and recognition we seek might be delayed, this condition helps us grow and mature emotionally, find our strength, and have faith in ourselves to continue.
On the same day, Chiron’s station to move retrograde until December 30th, traversing 23°-19° Aries, calling us into introspection and reassessment in our healing journey and asking us to make the necessary adjustments. Seeing older wounds that may now resurface and make you feel weak, unanchored, or inadequate, is the moment to see what obstructs and undermines healing in a particular area of your life and seek new means of healing.
Perhaps you need to reassess your limiting beliefs, take responsibility for your wounds and emotional world, and ultimately discover that the remedy is within you, proceeding with new strength, purpose, and a greater sense of autonomy and freedom.
✨🎇On Saturday, July 27, Venus’s quincunx with retrograde Saturn at 18° Leo-Pisces reminds you to take responsibility for relationships and financial issues, recognize your limitations, and reconcile your desires with your obligations.
Even if you experience loneliness and distance in relationships, unmet emotional needs, obstacles in expressing love and creativity, and financial difficulties, you can now give yourself some grace and seek solutions to problems that may stem from the past, combat personal insecurities and give yourself the love and care you deserve.
Additionally, be mindful of what you think and say, as Mercury’s quincunx with Pluto at 0° Virgo-Pisces can be responsible for hurtful words and thoughts that hurt, rifts in relationships, tensions, resentment and subconscious fears that could disrupt your mental peace. Utilize the transformative power of this aspect to uncover truths, make adjustments in decisions and plans, and internal changes that will give you a new perspective.
✨🎇On Sunday, July 28, the Last Quarter Moon 🌗 at 5°.32 Taurus♉ prompts us to reflect on what we have achieved in this lunar cycle and what not, to release what no longer serves us, let go of old habits, and complete unfinished business to move into the new cycle.
From a sign like Taurus which is grounded, stable, practical, and self-caring, we can now seek practical solutions to problems and decide to keep what brings us joy, satisfaction, and security. At the same time, we can make corrections and vital changes, choosing what will ultimately be beneficial in the long run.
This week offers you the opportunity to reconnect with dreams you may have neglected and goals that need renewal. It gives you the opportunity to break free from the chains of self-doubt and embrace your power.
Under the blazing, powerful Sun in Leo, which shines on everyone indiscriminately, the invitation is to reconnect with your heart and inner fire, illuminate the shadows and mistakes of your past, and decide to shine brightly and share with the world your most genuine, authentic, and radiant self!
Wishing everyone a blessed week!✨🎇🕊☮
With love💓💓💓
Sofia Semeli