Led By the Deep-Down Depths of Our Hearts During This Sizzling Hot (And Historical) Leo Season

Wild Roses and Tiger Lilies with Yellow Flower Photograph Grouping

from Renegade Heifer Photography

Photos: Willow, on Willow's wall 

The Sun and Mercury have just entered Leo, the sign of the rock star, the artist, and the local celeb, and these bodies form their exterior conjunction today on the zero degree of Leo (1:23 p.m. CST), squared by the Moon in Scorpio tonight (10:04 p.m.). 

This Sun-Moon square marks a First Quarter Moon that is absolutely bursting with creative potential, and things have only just begun...

The fiery and passionate Leo influence doesn't fully let up until early October when Venus moves back into Virgo (October 8).

The Sun and Mercury in early Leo join Greater Benefic Jupiter (expansion, wisdom, benefits, luck) in late Leo, while Lesser Benefic Venus (love, relationship, values, money) prepares to retrograde into the sign once again on July 31. 

This concentration of bodies in Leo indicates that things are about to get a whole lot more rock-and-roll. 

Leo is flashy, bold, confident, stylin'. 

Leo has star power, even if it's just local celebrity.

  

Leo is about the tremendous power of art and music and creativity and style and fun and personality and pizzazz to join us all, beaming, at the heart.

It's the power of an old drinking song, it's the power of an old gospel song, it's the power of an old classic that everyone knows the words to.

Leo is hot, there's no doubt about it. 

Leo has sizzle, and squaring Scorpio, that sizzle is enough to make one weak at the knees. Once masculinity and sexuality planet Mars enters Leo on August 8, joining the Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter, we're in full-on heartthrob territory. We're in love with ourselves, with our lives, with our friends, families, and lovers. 

This love carves out your heart, takes full possession of it. It's almost too much. But it can never be enough.

It will be impossible not to follow our hearts and our passions this summer with so much Leo energy involved, squaring Saturn in "can't deny reality" Scorpio. With Saturn involved, some strict restraint will be necessary, to be certain. There will be many instances when we have to play our cards close to our chests. But we're boiling inside. We have the fever. And we'll eventually have to let it out.

This could get very interesting.

Jupiter is in late Leo, on the final weeks of its year-long transit of the sign, and the time is ripe.

Greater Benefic Jupiter doesn't roll back into Leo for another 11 years (2026). Lesser Benefic Venus will not be retrograde in Leo again while Jupiter transits Leo during your lifetime. This extended interaction between the benefic planets makes this Leo season one for the history books.

Believe in the power of your own creativity, your own style, your own personality, your own heart. It's dripping with potency.

With the bodies in Leo working on the square to Saturn in late Scorpio, the creative fertility of this Leo season (July 22 - August 23) is almost explosive. Things are ripe-to-bursting. Things long dormant are coming back to life.

As some readers know, I have been trying my hand at Plutonic punk gardening for the past four years. You can read more about this year's efforts at the end of this article.

For three years, I've had puny gardens. The first year, I got no rain. The second year, I got no direct sunlight. The third year (last year) was the flood that consumed almost my whole town.

But this year:

 

This year, I've have enough lettuce to feed myself, my parents and sister, my cousin, two friends, six seniors at the seniors complex, and some of their family members! I will have enough vegetables stored in the freezer to last two years, more than likely.

Yesterday, on another lettuce run, I stepped out of the car and the ground was alive with masses of little frogs jumping every which way. Frogs are considered a fertility symbol, and this, to me, was another indicator of the fertility and big creative potential of this special summer.

We're painting our lives and our world in bold new colours this summer and fall, led by the fevered and passionate fury of our hearts. This is catalytic creative power, spurring reactions and changes in whatever it touches. We could not possibly foresee the full effect. The ripple effects go on and on and on...

With Venus stationing retrograde on the zero degree of Virgo (July 25), we are being asked to determine precisely what we need to create: in our lives, in our selves, in our relationships, in our social settings, in our communities, in our world.

And with the squares to Saturn in Scorpio, we need to create certain things now. We need certain avenues and outlets for our passions. We need to inject more fun, more style, more heart, more sizzle, more sass, more rock-and-roll into our lives and social scenes.

This is not frivolous stuff. True art and creation are not frivolous things. This is a deep soul need, a need for creative propulsion and advancement beyond old, stagnant scenarios, relationship dynamics, and ways of being. 

We need to release some of the old energy we've been carrying, and the only way we can do it is by being the full and true works of art that we are. 

The way we do it is by taking some calculated risks, opening some rich new facets of our personalities, connected right down deep to the soul. The way we do it is by taking calculated creative risks, putting our personal stamp on things, injecting our personalities and style into the world around us, creating a life we love to live amidst collective chaos and difficulty, while the walls crumble around us, while we face collective annihilation.

This is the type of creative power that grabs you by the deepest depths of who you are, singing it or sculpting it or saying it or painting it in a way that makes it all undeniable.

We are helpless in the face of the tremendous creative power and potential of this summer of 2015. And we love it.

Create a life you love to live so that you would choose to do nothing different if this turned out to be our last days. 

There is a New Moon in Leo at 21 degrees on August 14, followed by the Sun and Venus forming their interior conjunction at 22 degrees Leo on August 15. The percolating creative energy simply explodes into new life, new love, and new beauty at this point. 

Mercury will be in Leo until entering Virgo August 7.

Jupiter leaves Leo for Virgo on August 11.

The Sun will be in Leo until entering Virgo on August 23.

Venus will be in Leo July 31 - October 8. 

Mars will be in Leo August 8 - September 24.