🌑✨ NEW MOON IN LEO — AUGUST’S WILD COSMIC STORY ✨🦁

Hello, Moonbeams!!! 🌙✨

August is writing quite a story across the sky…

Six planets aligning.
The Lion’s Gate Portal.
The Perseid Meteor Shower.
A New Moon Total Solar Eclipse in Leo.
And then, before the month is over… a Lunar Eclipse.

Seriously, Universe? 😳✨

On August 12, the New Moon crosses in front of the Sun during a Total Solar Eclipse, followed by the Perseids lighting up the heavens.

Then, on August 27–28, the Full Moon rises with a Lunar Eclipse.

First, the Sun disappears.
Then fire crosses the heavens.
Finally, the Moon enters shadow.

OH. MY. 🌌

And before we even arrive at this powerful New Moon, we move through the Lion’s Gate Portal, peaking on 8/8 as the Sun in Leo aligns with Sirius—the star often called the Spiritual Sun.

It’s an invitation to become quiet enough to hear what your soul has been whispering.

To trust your intuition.
To release what has outgrown you.
To remember the version of yourself that exists beneath all the noise.

And this year, that energy flows directly into the New Moon Total Solar Eclipse.

Bold. Fiery. Wild. Heart-centered.

This is Leo, after all.

Leo brings the drama, the passion, the creativity, the love—and, of course, the shine. 🦁✨

But here’s the beautiful paradox…

A New Moon is dark.

And during a Solar Eclipse, the Sun itself is temporarily hidden from view.

So rather than searching outside yourself for something to illuminate the path, this energy invites you to turn inward.

Toward your own inner Sun.

Where have you forgotten your light?

Where have you made yourself smaller?

Where have you dimmed your brilliance just a little too much to make others comfortable?

And where are you finally ready to shine again?

❤️ The Heart.
🔥 The Solar Plexus.

Leo is connected with the heart, while its fiery energy beautifully mirrors the Solar Plexus Chakra—the center of confidence, courage, identity, and personal power.

Heart and power.
Love and courage.
Softness and strength.

Pretty perfect New Moon medicine.

And then…

There’s the Eclipse. 🌑

A New Moon already carries the energy of renewal and new beginnings. Add a Total Solar Eclipse, and the invitation can feel even more potent.

Eclipses are often associated with endings, beginnings, revelations, unexpected turns, and course corrections.

Sometimes something leaves because it has completed its purpose.

Sometimes a door closes because another one is quietly opening.

Sometimes the Universe gives us a gentle nudge.

And sometimes…

Apparently, it schedules a Total Solar Eclipse in Leo. 😂🦁✨

So yes…

Expect a few twists.

Thankfully, Venus in Libra brings a little sweetness to all this fire—inviting love, beauty, balance, harmony, and grace into the mix.

And while Venus may bring love into the conversation, this isn't only about romance.

Bring some of that Venus energy home to yourself.

Radical self-love.
Radiant self-love.
Unapologetic self-love.

Maybe this New Moon isn't asking you to become someone new at all.

Maybe it's simply asking you to love more deeply, live more honestly, and shine more fully as who you already are.

🌑 A LITTLE NEW MOON MAGICK

Turn inward.

Journal.
Meditate.
Pull your cards.
Sit beneath the stars.
Take a quiet walk.
Or simply close your eyes and listen.

What has your soul been trying to tell you?

You might work with crystals such as:

✨ Sunstone
✨ Citrine
✨ Tiger’s Eye
✨ Pyrite
✨ Carnelian
✨ Clear Quartz

Light a gold, orange, yellow, or white candle and bring your awareness to the Heart and Solar Plexus Chakras—allowing love and personal power to work together.

Then plant your vision seeds.

🌱 What are you ready to create?

🌱 What are you ready to release?

🌱 What are you done carrying?

🌱 Where have you been dimming your light?

🌱 What would it feel like to let yourself shine without apology?

The sky may grow dark.

The Sun may disappear from view.

But remember…

Your inner Sun is still shining. ☀️

Blessed New Moon, my friends. 🌑✨

May you have the courage to follow that wild little light within you…

wherever it wants to take you. 🦁❤️✨