Why the August eclipses blow the roof right the fuck off the house you've been hiding in and how Jupiter plans on pulling you out into the burning light.
"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves." - Edmund Hillary
(July 22 - August 22)
The performance is over. For some. For parts of our collective that used megaphones to hide the emptiness of their arguments. For parts of ourselves that relied on a combination of a surface glamour and drama to hide what’s truly authentic (and therefor vulnerable) and long ready to be witnessed.
So, this will be a very peculiar Leo Season I’m afraid. And it knows it. And of course - as Leos do - it owns it. It will take you on a wild ride one way or another, given the looming eclipses, you’ll most likely be dragged behind kicking & screaming and parts of you deemed unsuitable to survive the fun fair ride ahead aka the rest of 2026 maddening astrology, will be left burning away in the dust. Hashtag sad.
Leo Season invented a dramatic entrance to the already packed restaurant followed by a record scratch sound effect. Insert hair flip. Leo Season also gave birth to a dramatic exit - table flipped and a prosthetic leg thrown at your enemy (if you know you know). The symptoms of Leo Season include feeling too hot to handle, being a bit much.. other people’s eyeballs too busy to take in the sheer volume of your performance to actually roll back in a sheer exhaustion of how obnoxiously you take up space. It’s the August heat..and also…THE HEAT as for the readiness to mate..the summer horny force fed by too much skin on display, the coconut scent of a sun lotion, fizzy drinks, that little Bose speaker membrane vibrating somewhere in the grass and wasps gathering at the pools of melted ice lollies and water melon vodka cocktails served in plastic cups.
After the anxious oversharing and overprocessing of information in Gemini Season and the highly sensitive turn inward to nest and protect our cubs in Cancer Season, Leo usually struts in to teach us a thing or two about where we are too much and why it’s ok to be like that and what glorious gifts awaits those who forget to tend to the fantasies of others about who and how we’re meant to be.
The reckless act of being revealed, the holy audacity of being witnessed and the sacred arrogance of standing unmasked. In the light. In the loving gaze of a Leo, who above all, rewards authenticity.
But this year, the strut is somewhat weighted down by dragging a heavy weight astrology into the story. The season opens with nodal change. South Node - aka what we’re collectively asked to release, sits with the Sun at Leo. The ego shit has to go. The autocracy, the rule of a vapid narcissistic class of performers..and please, Trump is not a politician, it’s a very bad low IQ burned up TV persona, why the fuck did we lift him up to a throne? Yep, the nodal shift issues a red letter notice - that shit is not allowed anymore.
North Node in Aquarius suggests that the next 18 months, we’re waking up from a fever dream of fascist clowns running the show and looking for authentic local heroes, the dreamers, the real changemakers to lead the way out of the smoke of the desolation that 2026 turned out to unleash.
The solar elcipse on the August 12th & the partial lunar eclipse later in August will help. Eclipses are ruthless and necessary. They are a molotov cocktail curveball, a flash wild fire, meteor impact..and they will help put an abrupt end to the hollow performances that somehow got to infect our zeitgeist and make this frankly the stupidest timeline to be alive.
But you know, the usual applies, it’s never just fire and brimstone with all hope being lost. "A day may come when the courage of men fails... but it is not this day.".., yes, that’s Gandalf. The sky does not hand us more than we can bare and the eclipses won’t incinerate the building without clearly marking the safe exit points first. So, below I’ll mark those doors for you. Doors that are transits - both jarring and helpful. Doors that are also chapters in the unfolding story of Leo Season and as dictated by tradition here - beyond the paywall, we’ll investigate how these chapters write themselves into your own rising sign’s narrative.
Grab a watermelon cocktail or three and let’s fucking go!
Leo Season is attending a summer wedding & finding yourself at the end of a long table with people you haven’t really seen in years and realizing - through a few jokes that painfully did not land - you might have been performing a well rehearsed version of yourself to an unsuitable audience and that there was a different, simpler & more approachable version of yourself you allowed yourself to forget, a version that people who know you a while long to see again.
Leo Season is the absolute terror of vulnerability after you’ve done the thing. You stand in the kitchen, palms clammy and ice cold, after you’ve hit send on that first completed draft, after you’ve said the thing - raw and unedited. You did that before second-guessing caught up with you and whoa, is this morifying but also somehow electric? It’s the spontaneity hangover, the embarrassment comedown that’s also simultaneously pregnant with potential!
Leo Season is - with this specific eclipse game board setup - is the moment you stop running frm that D&D big boss, you stop hoarding elixirs & artifacts and just turn around to face that shit. It’s that split second decision to stop being safe and create a scene that everyone will remember forever, even if the Dragon Lord obliterates you.
There’s a power in a power move like that. You might just discover that the dragon’s breath only burns away the armor, the costume, the cosplay of it all … not the person underneath.
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Right at the start of this story, the genre flips. 26th August, lunar nodes change signs. Think similar to what It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia does with each new season. Or American Horror Story (are they fucking bringing the witches back, or what?! I need to know! Balenciaga!!!). Every year and a half, the coordinates on the GPS of fate reshuffle, prepping a new 18 months journey with new dragon bosses to slay (south lunar node points out what we’re releasing) & a new treasure to be located and looted (north node indicates a new direction on the map and what little and big evolutions are to be made for our personal and collective up-leveling).
The North Node in Aquarius will asks us to figure out why and how the collective good, the local community, the good changes we make in our immediate environment might be a way forward out of the shadows of our current timeline, rather than relying on the false promises of those who bought their way to the top of the power pyramid, built a spaceship to fuck off and leave us all fighting for scraps on the planet they looted into oblivion. Terrible necessary shi(f)t. And as if you needed more D&D sounding shit - the lord of the underworld sits directly on this point of destiny. Pluto, also in Aquarius, giving this journey a flavor of a total & revolutionary dismantling of how power is organized in this realm. Yeehaa, bring it on!
South Node in Leo is leave the performance the fuck behind. Whatever is built for applause only, whatever is in-authentic and made for appearances, whatever is screaming loud to cover for the hollow center, whatever and whoever is not of real substance, real warmth that comforts rather than burns. Real confident and heart-centered ego that gets shit done, that is not running on the fumes of external validation.
The nodes travel through each sign for 18 months at a time and come back to the same coordinates approximately every 18 years. So, you most likely have been doing this quest before. December 2007 to August 2009, May 1989 to November 1990. If you were born within these timeframes, you’re having a nodal return, which is the Cave Master (ok, ok, I’ll stop here with the D&D) tapping your forehead, palm outstretched, wanting to investigate your character chart, double and tripple checking you are actually playing the type of character with the type of destiny within the type of scenario that you’ve been sent here to complete.
Then a very Leo thing happen..instead of letting you breathe and spacing out two big big badaboom events - Jupiter Cazimi in Leo and a Full Moon in Aquarius - they are served on the same day, a fucking Wednesday.
29th July, Jupiter aka the planet of more more more gets purified, recharged, system updated to the latest version in the creative fires of Leo Sun.
The story it tries to install into your book of life is of owning your weird and wonderful. All of it. Of placing a crown upon your own head. Of creativity, visibility, leadership, confidence you can own & healthy ego you can drive up the hill towards the expansion made possible through all of the above. Wednesday is a fucking glorious inception of a side quest unfolding over the next full year. Notice this energy and try learn to wield it, unapologetically because there ain’t no other way with Jupiter. And with Leo.
And then to insert a bit of drama, the full moon is doing it’s thing, aka blasting some Plutonian radiation (Pluto in Aquarius plays a huge kind of a villain role here) onto the eclipse stories that started back in February, with the solar eclipse in Aquarius.
So, think back with me to the February this year. The eclipse has uncovered something, didn’t it. It might have abruptly cause something to crash and a new course corrected destination been installed into your internal GPS navigation system. So during this highly merciless Full Moon in Aquarius, the light will fall into the corners where something festered, where mold grew and rot might have set in.
Masks fall of, costumes burn away, set pieces collapse. This smells like power dynamics catching fire, this sounds like an uninvited intervention & looks like crossing a threshold of no return (that’s Pluto’s contribution, what’s done cannot be undone). The full moon-Pluto conjunction possibly manifests as a certain direction in your life (and our collective story), certain relationship, maybe a career, a project you’ve been defending for two years out of habit but with no passion, something that definitely crawled into that corner to die a while ago being illuminated and the universe - far from being cruel just for the love of the drama - hands you some useful tools at the same time to clean up and sanitize that shit.
Because a construction of something that will actually last, that will keep you safe in the battering shitstorms of our current maddeningly idiotic timeline, can only start when the foundational rot is dealt with first. Courage, pipsqueak!
August is a fire siren instead of your usual morning alarm. Amplified by Jupiter, a Total Solar Eclipse in Leo on August 12th is a flamethrower to the spectacle of ego-horrors that run the current global shitshow. This is rage quitting. Pivots that are gloriously dramatic and necessary. Around August 17, Mars-Neptune square plunges the still smoldering pile of horseshit under water and we momentarily lose the sense of which way is up. But at the same time, Venus & Jupiter go about kissing on each other & it’s that sweet sweet glimmer of hope, The Star in tarot - first flicker of something new being born seen through the smoke of The Tower that’s been struck down by lightning. A promise of something softer, a new opportunity born in that angry-red haze of Mars, in those Neptunian mists of confusion.
And it wouldn’t be a Leo if it did not go out in style - the Sun pulls a curtain on this whole spectacle in 29th degree of Leo on August 22 - your last chance to impress me and save yourself from elimination. DON’T FUCK IT UP!
When the Sun exhaustedly slinks off into Virgo, gasping for some healing through order, you will be changed. Maybe simplified but simple means not primitive. Simple often means more authentic, so the Leo would have taught you their most profound lesson.
Below, just a little skip pass the velvet rope which is a VIP lounge area reserved for those incredibly kind readers, who treated me to a coffee through subscribing, we’ll glean some further wisdom through those August transits & take a close look at how Leo Season 2026 writes itself into your own rising sign’s story.
What type of plot twists the lunar nodes, the eclipses, the Mars-Neptune square, the Venus-Jupiter sextile and the final battle of Sun and South Node conjunction prepped for your August chapter!
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