The Leo New Moon Total Solar Eclipse arrives August 12th, putting an emphasis on the heart—your creativity, passions, talents, joy, love, self-expression, leadership, and the unique inner essence of your own light only you can bring to the world.



A Total Solar Eclipse is the pinnacle of eclipse energy—one of the rarest and most potent celestial events we experience. This extraordinary lunation amplifies the beginning of a new cycle, marking one of the most significant turning points of the year. It accelerates change, reveals what’s been hidden, brings fated encounters, and ushers in life-changing moments capable of reshaping the course of your life.

Eclipses are main events in Astrology—they have a way of putting life on the fast-track, often compressing what would typically unfold over months or even years into a matter of weeks—or even days. 

Eclipses are considered the most powerful lunations of the year, creating a portal where events speed up, new directions are revealed, trajectories shift and you’re placed on paths that may feel both sudden and unexpected.  Eclipses can coincide with fated meetings, sudden endings and new beginnings, revelations, and opportunities that alter the course of your life.

Eclipses can make life feel like everything is happening all at once.

Give yourself some space and some grace during this powerful portal.

This phase could bring conversations that shift your perspective, new people could enter your life, maybe a long-forgotten dream resurfaces, or opportunities can appear out of nowhere.

Eclipses have a bit of a wild card feel to them and events may seem sudden and unpredictable.

A Solar Eclipse is like a New Moon with ten times the oomph to it and because it's a New Moon, marking the beginning of a cycle, the seeds sown now can reach far into the future.

But the South Node is closely connected to this Eclipse, tying it to the past.

What appears to come out of nowhere may have been quietly waiting for the right moment to emerge.

This Eclipse wants you to remember what lights you up.

It's urging you to reconnect with your forgotten gifts, natural talents, old passions, creative abilities, or parts of yourself that may have been put on a shelf in the name of responsibility, survival, or just the passage of time.

It's time to blow off the dust.

✉️ An Unsealed Letter

The Sabian Symbol for the South Node is:

"An unsealed letter."

That alone feels super symbolic.

Letters contain messages. News. Invitations. Insights. Information waiting to be received.

But an unsealed letter suggests something even more intriguing.

The message already exists. It's already been written.

Maybe it just hasn't reached your awareness yet—or maybe you haven't been ready to fully understand the message or the meaning until now.

Because this Solar Eclipse is closely aligned with the South Node, there is a strong connection to the past.

Something that you thought was finished may not be.  It could be that a forgotten dream, an old passion, a natural talent, a creative ability, a meaningful conversation, an opportunity, or some realization could suddenly become relevant again.

That doesn't mean you're going backward.

The Universe is offering you an opportunity to recognize what still belongs to you moving forward.

The South Node symbolizes wisdom, experience, lessons learned and gifts already earned.

Life gets busy and sometimes there are parts of yourself that get put on hold and this Eclipse may be the time to take another look at what may be calling to you.

There may be a message that's been waiting for you.

Waiting for you to be ready to receive it. Tune in.

Or perhaps there's a part of you that's been waiting to be acknowledged.

Solar Eclipses accelerate events, and this one may bring the people, conversations, opportunities, or realizations that help you reconnect with a part of yourself that has been waiting in the wings.

The Sabian Symbol for the Solar Eclipse is:

"Intoxicated chickens dizzily flap their wings attempting to fly."

Astrologer James Burgess offers a perspective that immediately caught my attention:

"Avoiding spiritual confusion" and "opening to hidden knowledge at the right time and in the right way."

This seems to echo the South Node's Sabian symbol:

"An unsealed letter."

It may be that the message has been there all along, but true understanding only comes when the timing is right.

And Divine timing is always the right time.

This Eclipse is a reminder that you can't force clarity or understanding—it reveals itself when we're open and ready to receive it.

🗣️ Speak From the Heart

On August 11th, Mercury in Leo opposes Pluto in Aquarius, compelling you to speak from the heart.

Conversations carry weight—they're deeper, more honest, intense and revealing. Hidden truths surface. Perspectives shift.

There's little room for surface level bullshit under this influence.

Whether it's through a conversation, something you read, hear, write, or finally have the courage to say—words have the power to transform.

They can't be taken back once spoken—and after what's been revealed, it's difficult to return to what was before.

Something within you shifts at your very core.

Once something is seen, heard, or understood, it's a done deal—you can't unknow it.

That's not as ominous as it may sound.

It brings creative breakthroughs, revealing information, powerful insights, and meaningful conversations.

Whether you're writing, teaching, publishing, creating, or just having an honest conversation, your words have the potential to make a lasting impact—a single conversation, a simple sentence, or a moment of realization has the power to change everything.

Mercury is also moving toward a meetup with Jupiter, adding confidence, conviction, and a broader perspective.

This energy favors sharing your ideas with a wider audience through broadcasting, publishing, teaching, updating your website, recording a podcast, or speaking on stage.

Jupiter helps Mercury get the message out of your head and into the world.

💞 A Love Revolution

Venus now joins the cosmic collab—engaging with the powerful outer planet alignments that are shaping this new era.

Venus shines a spotlight on relationships, partnerships, love, creativity, beauty, finances, self-worth, cooperation, and the way we give and receive as she moves through her home sign of Libra.

This revolutionary energy is reimagining the way you love, relate, connect, create, collaborate, and exchange energies with another HUman.

The people entering your life now may have an important role to play in the next chapter of your story.

This period could bring unexpected conversations that lead to meaningful connections.

New friendships, collaborations, communities, and opportunities that are in alignment may effortlessly appear.

As Juno is still close to Pluto in Aquarius, the theme of evolving relationships, agreements, commitments, and partnerships continues.

This is about transforming the very nature of your relationship experience at the core—not necessarily about attracting someone new.

Old dynamics give way to new ways of relating that are more authentic, with mutual exchange, that can carry you into the future.

Venus across from Neptune in Aries reminds us that every meaningful revolution begins with a vision.

Venus in Libra has a tendency to evaluate relationships, values, and exchanges while seeking balance, reciprocity, fairness, and mutual respect.  Opposite Neptune in Aries—the lines between intuition, ideals, and projection get blurry.

Those rose-colored shades can be a bit tricky.

At the same time, there is something undeniably enchanting about this configuration.

Venus harmonizing with Pluto and Uranus can create magnetic attractions, meaningful synchronicities, and encounters that feel destined.

You may feel inexplicably drawn toward a person, creative project, opportunity, or new direction for reasons you have no real explanation for.

The intense pull is very real though.

This is where discernment becomes key—to know whether you're being guided by intuition, captivated by projection, or a casualty of deception.

That doesn't mean you ignore your feelings.

Keep your heart open while letting time and experience prove what's genuinely in alignment.

🌊 Feeling It All

Mars moves into Cancer on August 11th and immediately meets up with Ceres at 0° Cancer.

This critical degree suggests these themes arrive with urgency, asking for our acknowledgment right away.

Mars shifts our attention inward, focusing on what we're feeling—but Mars isn't content to leave our feelings there.

Mars describes our actions, behaviors, instincts, and responses.

This placement stirs moods, gut instincts, emotional reactions, and deeply ingrained response patterns.

It has a way of needling the places where we seek safety, belonging, comfort, nurturing, and support—revealing what truly nourishes us and what no longer does.

Cancer is not the most comfortable place for Mars, making emotional reactions and automatic responses more noticeable under this influence.

Closely joined by Ceres, the conversation expands to include home, family, caregiving, nourishment, food, children, women's health, and the ways you give and receive care.

Mars asks you to look beyond your intentions and examine actions and consider how you show up for the people you love and how they show up for you. 

After all, people show you how they feel about you. 

Sometimes providing the basics isn't the same as making someone feel safe, seen, supported, or genuinely cared for.

The same is true in your relationship with yourself.  Actions often reveal the truest feelings way more accurately and honestly than words ever will.

This energy is an opening to notice your reactions.

Sometimes your strongest emotional responses point to something older that's asking to be seen, understood, and ultimately healed — it’s not necessarily about what’s happening now. 

Maybe the greatest act of courage inspired by this Leo Solar Eclipse is to stop performing a role and remember what your heart has been trying to tell you all along.

Be Conscious. Be Curious. Be Connected to YOU.

— Christina Celona 🌙🖤

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