New Moon in Leo: Take a Creative Risk

This Friday, August 14 (7:53 am PT), we welcome a New Moon in the fixed fire sign of show-stopping Leo, beckoning flash, fun, and friskiness - as well as a great need to be admired and adored!

Remember: New Moons are seed-planting times. For the remainder of the month, we are invited to strike a pose, take a chance and do something big and showy. The Leo Moon, Sun, and Venus ménage à trois is spurred on by a lovely trine to trendsetting Uranus. Uranus is in fellow fire-starter sign of Aries, making sure we try something fresh and don’t get stuck in ‘old hat.’

This is a fah-bulous time, Darling, to put energy toward launching a new creative project with an element of risk – putting on a house concert or producing a CD, for example. Or hosting a grand summer's end party at your house-castle in which you invite everyone you know to bask in your presence. Or take a trip to a new, exotic country and broadcast it via your blog. Or begin a super-involved renovation that will cost a pretty penny yet look fantastic in the end - so worth it. Or splurge on a new wardrobe to strut your stuff in back to school, at a festival, or at your new job… Whatever the showy-risk is, the sign of Leo ensures that you will fill yourself up with the sunshine of inner confidence in order to do it.

Reinvent the Wheel: Chiron Quincunx

Chiron, aka the Wounded Healer, in ultra-sensitive Pisces, makes a tight quincunx (150-degree) aspect with the Sun, Moon and Venus all in self-expressive Leo. Quincunxes force us to think outside the box and come up with completely new, often strange and unexpected solutions to challenges. This is a paradoxical New Moon that will require both internal and external adjustments. Chiron in Pisces (2010-2018) is helping us all to heal old trauma and hurts by rinsing salt from our wounds through feeling our feelings without judgment or repression, and through coming out of old martyr or victim complexes. How might this impact our delightfully spunky and optimistic need to share our big lion hearts? Is Chiron going to be a buzzkill?

No way. When Chiron in Pisces looks askance at showy, standout Leo, it is creative genius at its finest hour. Let the imagination seduction begin. Herein lies a major opportunity to “feel the fear and do it anyway.” Even if you’re scared and face the risk of failure or (gasp) rejection, put yourself out there anyway! The ‘worst’ that could happen is that you stumble, and learn in the process what your true needs are. Unlikely, so long as you keep listening to your heart-art. Chances are, you will pull it off with panache and a splash!

Dolce and Gabbana

"Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what no one else has thought." ~ Albert Einstein (Pisces)

The ‘risky-frisky’ element of this New Moon makes it even more important to cultivate one of the best aspects of the sign of the Lion: healthy self-love. When you believe in your self, your heart, your art, your unique and special purpose, you shine bright. In fact, this is what is known as charisma. It actually sparkles and can be seen as an aura of glamour in those that have it.

Think about the admired rock stars or famous actors you’ve encountered face to face or in a live performance. They positively shimmer, don’t they? That’s star power. That’s charisma. Some lucky individuals are born with a natural confidence, while some of us must do the work of cultivating it. But we all have access to stardust – in fact, we are made of it.

Transiting Saturn finishing up his final hour in Scorpio will be squaring the New Moon, so be forewarned that you will probably have to roll up your sleeves and do some WORK (a four-letter word for pleasure-loving Leo) to get this party started. The cool thing about Saturn’s influence is that while he does make us put some elbow grease into it, he always gives us a reward. The work pays off. Your fire will positively glow and we will all benefit from the warmth.

Worried about coming across as “too full of yourself”? Throw that question out the window. Love yourself through any self-doubt. Remember: you deserve it. Get out there. We need your shimmer.

Erin Reese is an author, spiritual guide, astrologer, and modern psychic reader based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She works with clients all over the world. For readings and spiritual counseling by Skype, phone or email, contact her directly. She can be reached at erin@erinreese.com.