“Sunlight is the best disinfectant.” The next month is all about assessing your beliefs and goals – aligning your vision and your values and your actions. The Sun in Leo wants you to SEE yourself clearly. Does your self-image match what you do with your days? Are you allowing yourself to express your unique genius, your creativity, that thing you can do that nobody else can? Be brave and tell the truth. Poke a flashlight into the dark corners of your psyche. Minimize cognitive dissonance. Demand integrity, which is of course another word for “wholeness.”
There’s a beautiful line from Khalil Gibran’s book “Jesus, the Son of Man”: “His body was single and each part seemed to love every other part.” That could be a motto for the Sun in Leo.
In the Sun-into-Leo ingress chart, cast for the Eastern United States, we find that the Sun, Venus, and Mercury are all conjunct in Leo and all sitting together in the First House, the house of personality and what you show the world. For many of us, it’s not easy to develop and maintain an accurate self-image, or the kind of confidence that I refer to as “healthy-selfish.” We’re always on the verge of tipping into egotism on one side or self-abasement on the other.
Fortunately, however, the next thirty days will provide us with many wonderful opportunities of enjoying our “selves” – understanding, appreciating, and relishing our uniqueness. It almost feels like we have more free will than usual, like our choices are less “fated” or less circumscribed. Our desire-nature (Venus) and our ability to think rationally and communicate (Mercury) are partnering beautifully with our ego identity (the Sun). Take notes on what makes you feel healthy and joyful. Write it down so you won’t forget. What do you “know for sure” (as Oprah says)? What do you believe?
This stuff can change over time! Our selves are not static. Your natal chart ripens and evolves as you get older. And especially right now, with the South Node and Neptune traveling together in Pisces, approaching their conjunction (plus the influence of the Pisces Moon in the ingress chart), there’s a good chance that you’re hanging on to some old belief systems that don’t really serve you anymore. Let them dissolve! It’s part of life! There’s absolutely nothing wrong with discarding an outworn belief system. Once upon a time, you learned that even books *without* pictures could be fun to read, and that maybe Santa Claus doesn’t get to EVERY single house on Christmas eve. You had to reevaluate the way you looked at the world. It’s part of growing up. Keep on growing up! You can do it!
The importance of clarifying our *current* beliefs is also part of the message of the T-Square between Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune that has been running since last fall. The three Big Guys have been pushing and pulling us in different directions, trying to make us decide what is most important to us and how hard we’re willing to work for it, so that we’ll be ready to hit the ground running after Jupiter enters Libra in September.
The Leo Sun this month will also be working with the T-Square, helping Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune to integrate their various needs and desires. Get yourself “together.” This is prime-time for cultivating wholeness. You’re going to NEED that clarity, that integrity next week when Uranus stations, causing a crisis that demands we stand up for we believe in – and you’ll need it again, on August 24th, when Mars and Saturn meet up in Sagittarius and start a new two-year cycle around how you act on and fight for your beliefs.
So get going, everybody! Love passionately, play hard, cultivate awareness.
