New Moon in Leo | August 2020
New Moon in Leo
18 August 2020
10:41 pm EST
The New Moon is an opportunity for us to “become new” or renew our relationship to the sign it falls in each month. With the New Moon in Leo, we are invited to renew our radical love of self and life, to find play and joy inside this now moment, to remember our childlike innocence, and to radiantly shine as the unique spark of the Divine that we are.
Leo needs no outer validation and needs not run all over town doing things in order to be enough or establish a sense of self-worth. For Leo, the enoughness is simply in BEING.
Think of the Lioness: she need not prove her power; she simply IS powerful. So are you. How can you invoke your inner lion or lioness?
Fun practice:
Leo is the King/Queen archetype. Put on your imaginary crown (or a real one!) and walk down a hallway or nature path (ahem, CATwalk) embodying the King or Queen that you are.
Enhance your strut with a song that captures this spirit (suggestions: Woman Like Me by Nicki Minaj, Love Myself by Hailee Steinfeld, I Love Me by Meghan Trainor, Born this Way by Lady Gaga).
Inhabit this feeling of being the inspired leader of your own domain. What does it feel like? Memorize this feeling in your bones and return to it anytime, this month or otherwise, when you would benefit from this remembering.
The Sabian symbol for this New Moon at 26 degrees Leo is “After a storm, a Rainbow appears.” It’s important to remember, in this year of great unrest, that even the darkest storms produce the most stunning of illuminations. Savor those rainbows, friends.
Leo medicine is heart medicine. It lends courage and vitality. It reminds us that the light shines indiscriminately upon every animate being the same. It reminds us that the sun still exists even in the darkest hour of the night. It reminds us that play and hard work can live inside the same life. They must.
