LEO NEW MOON

Open your heart to yourself first. The rest will follow.
LEO NEW MOON 2023
New Moon 23° 17’ Leo
August 16, 2023 5:38 AM EST
An unexpected tour of the heart will be worth the trip this new Moon in Leo.
Uranus in Taurus squares the New Moon. As Uranus rules Leo’s polarity – Aquarius - this is a potent internal call: for freedom, self-love, and a breaking away from that which doesn’t serve the soul’s evolution.
Retrograde Venus is conjunct the Leo new Moon/Sun combo. Venus is the ruler of Taurus – adding to the urgency to connect with the heart in radical ways.
Mars and Mercury in Virgo are inconjunct the new moon and are trine to Uranus in Taurus. This asks us to release old ideas of self, other, and how we create our precious life experience.
Mercury goes retrograde on 23 August and resumes forward motion on 15 September – remaining in Virgo the whole time. Clearing away beliefs and ideas (especially about ourselves is on the table. Uranus, higher octave of Mercury, goes retrograde in Taurus on 29 August until 27 January 2024 encouraging a long look at how we value ideas, values and beliefs and how that relates to our world view and our actions in the world.
Back to the Sun and Moon in Leo. The essence of Leo is creative self-expression as a way to understand the self, to feel the self, to celebrate the self. Roar! Shake that big Leo head. Proclaim to the savannah that you took down dinner! That you enjoyed that sunrise! That you stood up to the internal chatter and the external “powers that be.”
Be yourself! Feel! Shine! Expand. Fill the heart. Fill the chest with air and roar.
Feel the relief that comes from filling the lungs all the way, by allowing yourself to be as loud and big as you want. With Venus retrograde in Leo until 4 September, we can explore the inner reaches of the heart to locate the personal gem we truly value.
Next - Sneak around. Creep up on the squirrel in the garden. See what it feels like to hold your energy really close in with the self – energy only to be experienced and treasured by you. Feel the full amount of power contained in your physical form. Breathe quietly in and out. Hold the focus of power in the heart. In the silence, say inwardly, “I am here. I am strong. I hold all of the power. I am the power. I create with power. I create with the power of love for myself. Stand in your own glow. Feel it expand like a lion’s mane out from the body; like the rays of the Sun.
I am power. I am Sun. I am creation. I am the heart. I am love.
Take some time to see how it feels. Keep breathing. Hold one hand on the heart and one to the Sun. Feel the Sun run through the hand, up the arm, to the shoulder and into the heart. Feel the heart expand and glow. Breathe in and out. The human heart holds the creative desire that is unique to each of us. We don’t need to necessarily know what the unique quality is. We can hold the hand in the heart, breathe, welcome the Sun and do what feels natural. As natural as the wind mussing our hair. As natural as answering the urging of our inner voice. As natural as dozing and snacking and chatting. Animal stuff. Human stuff. Fire signs can answer the call of the personal Spirit that resides within. It calls and we can answer with a stretch, a yawn, and a step forward into our ever-growing ever-changing creation.
Leo is love. Leo is generous. Leo is expressive. Leo has so much love in the heart it can radiate to the parts of the world that need it with its breath.
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