New Moon In Leo August 4, 2024
“Spotlight”
The New Moon occurring in the fiery sign of Leo, a zodiac known for its self-luminous nature and its ability to illuminate the lives of others, is a boundless source of strength, enthusiasm, talent, and expressiveness.
Under the rays of its life-giving ruler, the Sun, this moon is the one that will inspire you more than any other to become all you want to be!
Despite coming in a chaotic month full of drama and paradoxes, this moon serves as a reminder of your power and worth. It places you in the spotlight and encourages you to focus on your passions and loves, to reconnect with your inner flame—the spark of all creation—and to become the protagonist on the stage of your life. This is a time to believe in yourself more and to harness your unique gifts and innate leadership abilities to make a difference and start something new that bears your name and fills you with pride.
For Leo, life is a grand terrain where one is called to play, risk, and win, utilizing personal radiance, courage, passion, love for adventure, generosity, and unshakeable self-belief. The New Moon at 14:11 on August 4, 2024, in the 12°33′ of Leo, offers a broad field to strive, prove your abilities, and achieve greatness.
This powerful call to action, growth and expansion will resonate strongly in the particular house area of your life it occurs and especially if you have personal planets and points in fire and air signs near 10°-14° degrees. It’s time to conceive something significant that speaks to your heart and to move passionately and boldly to bring it to life.
The luminaries (Sun and Moon) work harmoniously, forming sextiles with Mars, the planet of will and action, and Jupiter, the planet of great vision, luck, and opportunities, both in Gemini converging into conjunction (August 14). This configuration provides great motivation, courage, readiness, and intensifies our needs and desires, enhancing hope, optimism, and faith in achieving much.
There’s a sense of confidence, freedom, and significant ambition in this moon, stemming from the very favorable planetary synergy in Gemini and Leo, signs of masculine nature. This energy compels you to open new chapters in your life, be at the center of events and interest, radiate brilliance and self-confidence, and interact more creatively and generously with others while having multiple opportunities and alternatives.
Jupiter’s touch in Gemini multiplies everything: ideas, proposals, acquaintances, contacts, and a desire for more knowledge, experiences, travels, expansive plans, and creative endeavors. Moreover, areas like education, media, publishing, tourism, commerce, public relations, the entertainment industry, and sports could now have excellent performance and be in the spotlight.
Alternatives are necessary, as indicated by Mercury in Virgo, who is the host of the impending Mars-Jupiter conjunction and Venus, which will enter Virgo a few hours later. Mercury, stationed at the time of the New Moon and preparing for retrogradation, warns us about upheavals, communication and travel challenges, urging us to have a plan B, give credit time, and reassess our data before drawing conclusions.
Mercury in Virgo’s need for organization, attention to detail, and evaluation will force us in the coming period to rethink our intentions and any new beginnings we are planning, to see the logistics and what is useful to move forward. Even in relationships, desires, values, and finances, reassessments will occur as Mercury moves in tandem with Venus in Virgo, forming an extended conjunction due to retrogradation until August 12. This influence brings a more critical disposition and the need to scrutinize everything, implement systems, and make corrections.
Caution is needed everywhere! In transactions, purchases, travels, information exchange, electronics and media we use, and in what we say without thinking to the wrong person, time, or in the wrong way, which we might regret later.
Mainly because the energies of the New Moon will escalate at the volatile and eventful Full Moon in Aquarius on August 19, where with Mercury’s involvement, disharmony with Uranus, and the critical mutable square of Jupiter-Saturn to be repeated two more times interacting with Mars and Venus, unpredictable developments are expected to test our limits and resilience, requiring rule adherence, responsibility assumption, and readiness for changes.
Regarding the conjunction of Mars with the royal fixed star Aldebaran at 9° Gemini, the Watcher of the East traditionally associated with crusades, religious wars, and leadership, it indicates possible rekindling of conflicts, violent events, and potential natural loss of a leading figure during this lunar cycle.
This condition potentially poses risks for personal life due to impulsive decisions or ignorance of danger for those directly affected, having planets at the end of the 1st decan of Mutable signs, Gemini, Sagittarius, Virgo, Pisces.
Venus, at the time of the Full Moon, in the last critical 29° Leo, in conjunction with the fixed star Regulus, the heart of the lion believed to give recognition and success often of short duration, as it involves the risk of nemesis and downfall for those who succumb to passions, warns us to be careful in handling and decisions regarding romantic life.
The call here is to see what has disappointed you, potentially affecting your health, and needs immediate healing. Mainly because Venus is also at the apex of a difficult YOD formation, the finger of God, forming quincunx with Pluto at 0° Aquarius and Neptune at 29° Pisces, taking the place of Mercury, who was in exactly the same position at the end of July. This formation reveals that you possibly became enslaved and sacrificed for a relationship, love, or ideal. You believed, invested, compromised for something that now disappoints, hurts, costs and weakens you.
As Venus struggles from this difficult position to see her higher good and overcome mistakes, addictions, and idealizations under the uncertainty and illusions created by Neptune, and the pressure for transformation exerted by Pluto, there is an urgent need for reprogramming and restarting. Venus is also moving away from the square with Uranus, which has brought upheavals and awakenings.
This is a challenging task for Venus and those who are currently affected by this demanding configuration in the corresponding degrees. It calls them to see a difficult situation as it is and not as they want it to be, to manage it, and to fight to reconnect with their lost self-worth and strength.
A planetary synergy is here to show you what is best for you now, so you can gather your pieces, distance yourself from situations, people, and relationships that do not have healthy boundaries and do not honor you, and make room in your life for something new by following the path of forgiveness to the past, the others and especially to yourself.
The Sabian symbol for the New Moon, “An old sea captain rocking in a chair,” signifies the maturation, awareness, and wisdom present at this stage. This withdrawal is one of peace, tranquility, and reflection, not necessarily resignation, as the rocking reveals a willingness to reflect and perhaps the desire and decision to start a new chapter.
Thanks to the harmonious trine between the Lights and the North Node in Aries, you may also trust the very positive flow of energy that brings you to the right place, at the right time, and close to people who can play a pivotal role, supporting the achievement of goals and ambitions, and leading you on the path of destiny.
Under this moon, I hope you have the clarity and sobriety to see all the beliefs, ideas, conditions, and people you have outgrown, to release what does not align with your truth, and to claim the happiness you deserve. So, open your heart, and reconnect with your inspiration, unique gifts, and passion for all you can create.
The New Moon allows you to rewrite your story, share your light with the world around you, and become a channel of the universe’s creative intelligence.
The spirit of Leo reminds us that we are born to shine and can reach our highest potential when we trust the wisdom of our hearts, believe in our abilities, and courageously share our authentic selves.
Blessed New Moon to all! ✨🌙🕊☮
With love💓💓💓
Sofia Semeli