New Moon at 5 degrees LEO
July 28, 2022
11:54am mountain time
New MOON in LEO 7.28.22
The New Moon on July 28 falls at 5 degrees LEO.
Where the New LEO Moon falls in your own chart highlights where your creative intention-setting will blossom. It’s fun and interesting to follow the Moon cycle and the movement of the planets but the real MAGIC happens when you follow the cosmic dance in relation to your own chart. If you are not relating the cosmic dance to your own chart you are missing the relevance and connection to your own life. That’s why events occur and one person is massively affected and another doesn’t notice anything at all. Knowing your chart and relating the planetary rhythms to it gives you a heightened sense of personal awareness and being aware of where you are focusing your attention on your own unfolding journey is what puts you, and keeps you, in the driver’s seat of your life. The more aware you are of where you are the more empowered and JOY-filled you can be. If you want to stay on the proscribed merry-go-round of life so be it, but if you want to run free and create your own ride then being aware of YOU and your desires and your entire unfolding story will set you free.
Curiosity about yourself will lead you into the most treasured territory – the ever unfolding mystery of YOU. The fixed FIRE sign LEO is all about the SELF. Leo rules the heart and the spine, the end all and be all of living in a human incarnation, the very essence of what keeps us in our bodies. LEO rules the 5th house of the astrological chart, the area that rules creativity, love affairs, and children. New Moon in LEO reminds you to fall in love with the child that still lives in you and to do creative, joy-filled activities with her. New Moon in LEO says GET CREATIVE with anything that fills your heart with wonder and delight. Focus only on that and see what unfolds for you.
Retrograde planets July 2022
You are probably familiar with Mercury retrograde as that bit of astrology has hit the main waves of social media but what you may not realize is that all the planets have retrograde cycles. As a planet moves through its retrograde cycle is the time to revisit the effect that planet is creating in your own chart, giving you the opportunity to delve deeply into how best to use that planetary energy for your own insight and growth. Let’s take a look at who’s going retrograde and where.
Jupiter stations retrograde at 8 degrees Aries on the day of the New Moon, July 28.
Jupiter will retrograde all the way back into the previous sign Pisces, to 28 degrees Pisces on November 23. Jupiter will re-enter Aries on December 22, right after the Winter Solstice.
During the months that Jupiter is retrograde consider how and where you expand your consciousness and awareness of your place in the universe. An excellent time to review your philosophy of life, reviewing choices you’ve made (with no judgment!) and considering upgrading your choices to those that align more correctly with what you wish to experience. So for instance, if you are not feeling abundant in love but want to feel more abundant in love, what thoughts are you processing daily that keep you farther way from the love you wish to experience? Are you focusing on the lack or on what you desire?
Saturn is moving retrograde now at 23 degrees Aquarius. Saturn will move retrograde back to 18 degrees Aquarius where it will station direct on October 23. Saturn is the taskmaster of the zodiac, showing you where you step into maturity and responsibility, where you grow by consistent attention to your own growth. Where are you needing to step up and step in to your maturity?
Before Uranus was discovered in 1781, Saturn ruled both Aquarius and Capricorn. Today we consider Uranus the ruler of Aquarius but Saturn still is strongly connected to the Aquarian archetype of chaos and liberation so…where Saturn retrograde in Aquarius falls in your chart will show you where you can be stepping up to the plate to liberate yourself from what keeps you restricted, what keeps you from growing your unicorn horn.
Uranus will station retrograde mid August so we’ll look more at that in a later newsletter.
Neptune is retrograde at 25 degrees Pisces, moving back to 22 degrees Pisces in early December. Connect with your dreams and the information that is coming to you in your meditation time. Connecting with your inner awareness of your deepest connections to Source energy will illuminate your journey.
It’s so much easier to move forward when the path is lit up by your own higher guidance.
Pluto is moving retrograde at 28 degrees Capricorn until October 8 where it will be stationing at 26 degrees Capricorn. Pluto is the roto rooter of the zodiac. Look to where 26-28 degrees Capricorn is in
your chart to see where the deep excavating is going on for you.
Knowing where the planetary energies are moving in your chart will help you to use the planets’ influence to support you in navigating your life journey with more ease and grace.
And who doesn’t want that?