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New Moon in Leo

5:11am, 25 July 2025 - local time, Kurrajong, NSW Australia

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This is a very complicated New Moon, with lots of big players getting into the game... or rather this New Moon really initiates some of the big picture energies of the outer planetary alignments that have been moving into new positions over the past weeks.

In and of themselves, New Moons are initiations periods - that dark moment when a seed germinates in the soil, invisible and yet highly potent. They are times when energies are ripe for manifestation. In Leo we are getting a bright glimpse, something is shining forth and showing both its teeth and its vulnerabilities. Leo is ruled by the Sun and because all New Moons are conjunctions between the Luminaries, Leo New Moons always have extra potency. Leo energy always asks two things of us - unabashed authenticity and the bold willingness to walk off the stage in search of our rightful audience if the current one is unable to appreciate our true selves.... and not in a hissy fit or a cloud of shame, but in non-judgmental curiosity for the better fit that awaits us all. Your current audience might actually need a love story and what you were born to give is action and swashbuckling adventure. No one need be wrong or bad here... it's just about finding what actually goes together. Think of it like a puzzle - don't force the pieces, just keep plugging away until they actually match.

This New Moon is opposite Pluto, the lord of shadows and obsessions and things that make us cringe and want to turn away. And so a very big part of this means facing our fear demons head on. Allowing ourselves to feel our insecurities and vulnerabilities and just allowing the discomfort of it to be there without needing to tell ourselves a story about it. Well, sure we could... this is a New Moon in Leo after all - drama queen galore if that is the path we want to walk down, but remember that you are in your seed and germination stage... is that really what you want to grow? especially given the big picture nature of the outer planetary patterning that is being initiated? We stand on the cross roads and we can allow our small selves to carry the day and choose the next 8-14 year chapters, or we can stand strong in our center and face the onslaught of our own discomfort and by doing so, help to turn the tide of the global story by showing up in our authentic truth. Being naked in public is never comfortable.... and even though it is going to be hard to sense and realise, know that everyone is in the same boat at this time. So your individual bravery and loving compassion and authentic vulnerability will by its very nature help others to realize their own possible potentials (Leo and the Sun are both known for their generous giving life force energy).

This Moon is also sextile Uranus in Gemini, so it is really a time when we can catapult into new paradigms by leapfrogging with one another - for good or for ill. Ultimately Uranus wants freedom, but if we cannot harness our courage and dare to reach for what our soul authentically hungers for - to be seen and appreciated for who we actually are - we will choose petty rebellions to fuel our discontent and waste this golden opportunity for mind blowing growth and change. And again this will set the tone for the next 8 year Uranus cycle.

This Moon is also trining the Saturn-Neptune conjunction in Aries - both of these planets are retrograde and so it means we need to revisit our responsibilities for our own spiritual growth. Saturn conjunct Neptune asks us to get real and grow up, to do some hard and honest work on our spiritual evolution. The Aries energy lets us know that it is going to take the fire of our will power to actually stand in our rightful place. And with Aries' ruler Mars in Virgo conjunct the South Node we know it will be key for us to give up and let go of our need to be right or perfect as well as our stories of guilt and shame that go along with those needs. Those stories are all tied up with the ways we by-pass spiritually. In order to really evolve as individuals we need to first connect with our real and true selves - warts and all... and without the shame and guilt. Because unconditional compassionate love means we ALL belong. "God don't make no junk." When we can show up as our whole selves and share that with one another, then we easily can begin to create community and belonging that flips the table on all the fear mongering and scarcity mindset patterns that have come to dominate the global reality. Or we can get righteous and insist we have already done our work and have risen above all that nonsense, slamming the door to what actually shows up on our path... sure.... that's an option. Just know that Neptune's passage through Aries is a 14 year story. Start as you mean to go on, because if there is one thing that Saturn is known for - its determination and that means it will follow a long and harrowing path to its very end as much as it would be determination to scale the legendary heights of Shangrila.

And before you scoff and go on your merry way, I offer the words of my wise teacher, Steven Forrest 'to see the glass half full is just as true as to see the glass as half empty. One perspective is far more liberatory and leads to much more creative and generative solutions to the real problems that plague us than the other'.  

I will say it again... we are at a crossroads, your choices and where you choose to place your foot next matters - not just for you personally, but for the wider we. Each of us casts a vote every moment, and some moments are more potent and decisive than others. This New Moon is one of those decisive moments, so stay present and stay rooted in your true heart. When you notice you have drifted off course - and you will - give yourself all the love and compassion you have to offer in that moment as well as a big hurray for noticing and then get your ass back in alignment with you deepest truest heart centered attention and set your determination to stay present and mindful and true to yourself for as long as you are able. We are the ones we've been waiting for... not our fantasy super hero selves, but the true rickety, shamozzle of humanity that we actually are. Creation in all her wisdom, made us just right for this moment. So be Honest and be Vulnerable. Shine YOUR light and trust in what made you.

Go Team!