Leo Monthly Horoscope

Leo – The focus this month is on your Eleventh House (Gemini) and Ninth House (Aries). So, the royal court with all its jesters, ladies-in-waiting and various Frances Drakes and Walter Raleighs. Equally, the need to entertain foreigners, conquer distant lands and perhaps, do a Charles and write your own book (despite the crown).

Friends and Groups

Uranus liberates and exhilarates if you’re doing it right. So, friendships, alliances, communities and sisterhoods/brotherhoods may unshackle you in August 2025. You have some historic outer planet transits to your Eleventh. Do you have Aquarius natal factors? Your natal Eleventh is also under quite transformative transits. If January/February 2026 turns up in your diary, then next year will change your social life.

Of course, August is the focus now and whatever your natal looks like, Uranus in the Eleventh House is Independence Day in your social life and on social media. Uranus is ‘freedom from’ (insert names here) or ‘freedom through’ (insert names here). Groups which pursue freedom and independence can be political in nature for obvious reasons, but your court may exist for apolitical reasons which have nothing to do with noble goals and everything to do with feeling emotionally unshackled. Punk rock was like that.

This transit can make it almost impossible to hang on to the way things used to be as well as the way you view your place in the group or with a particular friend. Shock is common. What happens out of the blue comes as a release. Everything in your social life or the friendship is utterly different afterwards. A new world.

Uranus demands that everyone goes to a different place socially now – including you. What shakes you up and wakes you up at this time may not be what you had planned or expected, but it will at least provide the momentum you need together with the opportunity to extend freedom and seek it too. Uranus transits release everybody.

What if you feel held back by a friend or by a group involvement? The more trapped you feel, the more likely you are to do something drastic. But make sure you understand the consequences if you suddenly decide to take on everything and everybody in your attempt to become a free agent. This may be the Democrats if you are Clinton or Obama. It may be the Spice Girls if you are Geri. Equally, Uranus is so unusual that rebooting, reforming or rejoining the old group can be a revolutionary act. That old Epstein address book. That old political hierarchy. That group with the big platform shoes.

Much more progressive friendships and advanced kinds of group involvements will be the likely outcome in August – the kind that actually make you feel you’re shearing away the past. By the time this cycle is over, no matter if this is about an astrology group, political party, rock band, football team or a tight circle of old friends, you should be much further along. Space, the final frontier?

If you do have Aquarius natal factors, then there will be issues about power and control. How to share it. How to compromise. How to divide time and energy or turf and territory. As I’ve mentioned, this will come to a head in early 2026.

Your Ninth House

The Ninth House transits of Neptune and Saturn in Aries are already showing up in Leo lives. Barred from entering America by fear of Donald’s database (a big clap for AI), Leo travellers are escaping by vicarious armchair travel instead by trotting along to YouTube videos about Texas. Saturn is ring-fenced, heavy, inescapable situations.

The Ninth is foreigners and foreign countries. Neptune is the great escape from reality and the total loss of boundaries. Put them together in the Ninth and you have real choices here about tourism, travel, emigration, immigrants, export, bilingual discussion, translation, foreign publishing, the ‘world’ part of the worldwide web, international students and the like. There are often overlaps with the book world and academia on this transit.

I mentioned the first manifestation of this dual transit earlier. Restrictions, limitations, entrapment and tests of patience are countered with complete denial or total escapism. If you are enrolled at a foreign university and can’t get out of the course, you may counter this by losing yourself in audiobooks about elves when you should be studying.

The other common outcome of this dual transit is actually opting for something which is an outlet – a Never Never Land of endless vacations from reality – only to find that this also comes with high walls, locked gates and no escape despite the escape it paradoxically supplies. You’ve not had this transit very long and it comes to a head in August. So, if you have been muddling through, it may be time to make a choice instead.

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