It’s finally July and both the heart and the ego want to come forward. How do we meet with one another in this perfect storm between the 2 eras (the old and the new one) is really the question.
The answer, I think, is in the way we are open (or learn to) receive each other. You can’t meet the other with your mind only. You need to meet him/her with the heart.
And this is where most of the work for the next 13 months resides: the heart.
As I’m writing these lines, I am back in Bucharest, trying to settle my energy into the old matrix I call (my) life. After several weeks of intensity, I am finally resting in my own source (and sauce). I am leaving this week for an energetic camp (tibetan reiki), as a new threshold is upon me and the people I surround myself with or that are under my protection.
While on the verge of the final layer of change which will happen at the end of this month, we finally feel that long overdue processes and relations are now finding their much needed dissolution.
Until the Nodes of Destiny switch gear from Pisces-Virgo (the axis of work and healing and endings) to Aquarius-Leo (the axis of the heart and the higher consciousness) around July 29th, we are now charging our souls with the Jupiterian energy in Leo and processing the last structures of attachments with Mercury retrograde in Cancer.
A lot of heart opening energies while we also mourn for our old structures of feeling, perceiving, attaching or running (the famous runner-chaser pattern). And the healing will happen at the same time with the new doors opening ahead of us.
Jupiter in Leo opens up a different type of healing and growth.
For a long time, healing may have meant protecting the heart, softening the survival strategies, returning to the inner child, rebuilding trust, learning to belong to ourselves before belonging anywhere else. The heart was hidden within a strong sanctuary.
But now…hearts will need to be open again with courage and a higher level of consciousness from both parties involved: the feminine and masculine. Until July 25th, 2027, the rite of passage for the heart and the ego will bring forward themes of visibility, performance, creative identity, public influence, personal myth, but all in the service of the great collective.
In astrology, we tend to look at previous cycles to inform the next cycles with some sort of predictability. This time though, Jupiter in Leo arrives in a world that is very different from the world of 2014. The attention economy has matured. Leadership is no longer contained only in institutions; it moves through networks, communities, images, stories, movements, podcasts, newsletters, salons, retreats, classrooms, private rooms, boardrooms, online spaces, and the strange new intimacy of being known by people who may never meet us.
The energy of Jupiter in Leo can put you on the stage, but it cannot guarantee maturity. It can amplify charisma, but not necessarily integrity. It can increase confidence, but it can also inflate the ego. It can bring recognition, opportunity, applause, creative momentum, romance, joy, leadership, influence, and a more theatrical relationship with life.
This time, Jupiter in Leo is the transit of the heart’s education.
Any education starts with identifying the right objectives:
- How radiant is your heart without depending on external validation?
- What is true visibility for you and how can you ground it in real work and service?
- What type of leadership do you exhude?
- Can you shine while also supporting others shine?
- What is your heart want?
“Vanity… Definitely, my favorite sin,” said Al Pacino, right after Keanu Reeves’ character starts buying into the idea that he is an un-defeatable attorney in the movie The Devil’s Advocate.
In its lowest manifestation, Leo is the sign of vanity, spectacle, pride, and self-importance. But at its highest level, Leo is the dignity of being alive. Leo is the solar principle inside the psyche: the power to radiate from one’s own center rather than borrow light from someone else’s approval. Leo is the courage to create. The courage to love openly. The courage to play. The courage to be generous. The courage to stand in front of others and offer something warm, vital, human, memorable.
And Leo rules the heart. The Heart is an organising intelligence. It tells the body what matters. It brings rhythm to life. It gives direction to warmth. And Jupiter in Leo comes to widen these permissions.
For women, and especially for women who lead, create, guide, hold space, build businesses, steward communities, mentor others, raise children, protect families, organise teams, repair invisible fractures, and carry emotional knowledge across generations, this transit has a particular force.
As women, we have been taught, in subtle and obvious ways, to manage other people’s discomfort with our light.
We learned to say, “I am not ready yet,” when what we meant was, “I am afraid of what will change if I stop hiding.” Jupiter in Leo may bring the end of this postponement.
Now it’s the time for radiant women, not only competent and independent ones.
Some of you will experience Jupiter in Leo as public recognition. Others will experience it as creative rebirth. Some will fall in love again with their art, their body, their children, their leadership, their pleasure, their beauty, their laughter. Some will leave the backstage role they have occupied for years. Some will finally publish, teach, perform, speak, dance, launch, direct, mentor, or build the thing that has waited inside them. Some of you will stop hiding behind other people’s visions and begin to author their own.
Jupiter in Leo will expand your heart, but this expansion will be accompanied by sovereignty. The Leo archetype, when healthy, chooses.
Jupiter in Leo can bring forward a new generation of women leaders, or perhaps more accurately, women who were already leaders but had not fully come into view. This transit says: the hidden sovereign begins to appear.
The woman behind the system begins to be seen as the system’s heart.
The one who held the room begins to enter the room as herself. This is leadership as warmth with backbone, the ability to animate people toward meaning.
Traditional astrology reminds us that Jupiter is associated with wisdom, law, protection, teachers, priests, judges, benefactors, and the larger frameworks through which human life finds meaning. Psychological astrology reminds us that Jupiter describes the function of belief: where we expect life to support us, where we seek growth, where we overreach, where we find faith. Evolutionary astrology brings another dimension: Jupiter as the expansion of consciousness through experience, the call to move beyond the known horizon.
With Jupiter in Leo, the soul asks to participate in its own mythology. And your heart will leave an undeniable evidence.
For the next thirteen months, creativity is not only an artistic matter. It is a psychological and spiritual practice.
Creativity may mean writing, painting, dancing, filming, performing, designing, singing, acting, styling, teaching, building a brand, launching a podcast, creating a retreat, developing a methodology, founding a company, making a home beautiful, raising children with more freedom, shaping a team culture, building an educational program, creating rituals, telling family stories differently, turning knowledge into language, turning experience into mentorship.
Jupiter in Leo will ask us to make visible all our previous work of the heart and of healing.
In love, Jupiter in Leo can reopen the romantic imagination. It can bring warmth, desire, generosity, play, fertility, theatrical affection, and the courage to be adored. But it can also reveal where love is nothing but ego and foolish games. Some may attract dramatic relationships that mirror unhealed needs for attention. Some may feel the return of passion after a long emotional winter. Some may crave a love that celebrates them rather than merely depends on them.
In work and vocation, Jupiter in Leo can expand leadership, visibility, entrepreneurship, education, public roles, creative authority, and the desire to be recognised for one’s unique contribution. It supports those who are willing to put their name on their work. It favors personal methodologies, signature projects, bold positioning, artistic leadership, public speaking, teaching, storytelling, performance, and any work that requires confidence in one’s own creative center.
But again, Jupiter will demand wisdom. Overpromising is a Jupiter shadow. Expanding too fast without infrastructure is a Jupiter shadow.
In money and value, Jupiter in Leo can increase the desire to invest in beauty, pleasure, luxury, children, art, experiences, education, celebration, travel, visibility, and creative projects. It can bring financial growth through personal talent, leadership, entertainment, education, branding, performance, design, hospitality, and creative industries. But it can also bring excess spending, speculative risk, vanity investments, or the temptation to buy symbols of self-worth instead of building real self-worth.
In the body, Jupiter in Leo invites us back into embodied joy. Leo is linked symbolically with the heart and the spine, and the transit asks us to examine both: the emotional heart and the posture of dignity. This is a year to take the body out of punishment and into celebration.
In friendships and community, Jupiter in Leo brings a paradox that becomes especially important as the lunar nodes shift onto the Aquarius–Leo axis at the end of July. Leo wants to shine as an individual. Aquarius asks what the individual contributes to the collective. Leo says, “This is my heart.” Aquarius says, “How does your heart serve the future?”
This axis will become one of the defining evolutionary teachings of the next eighteen months. With the North Node moving into Aquarius and the South Node into Leo, with Pluto serving in Aquarius, the collective lesson is not to erase individuality, but to purify it.
With Jupiter opposing Pluto, the work of expansion is far from being soft and it brings the need for deep transformation of power, influence, wealth and leadership.
Practising receiving is also part of the story with Jupiter in Leo. Leo is a sign of generosity, but also of reception. So…be ready to play the dance of the heart and of authentic, solar joy.
July’s quality of time and how to process the energetic corridors ahead of us
1.Mercury will be retrograde in Crab until July 23rd-24th. It is one of the 3 stages of final release we get during 2026. The chance to let go of the past and of our past versions we can’t bring into the new era anymore. Past relationships, business contexts, behaviours, choices, a lower level of consciousness and of heart emission will not cross the line into the Aquarius driven energies. Use this time to make peace with yourself, with what you can no longer feel or choose, with your family and emotional hive. Declutter both externally and internally. July 14th New Moon in Crab (in conjunction with Mercury Retrograde in Crab) will accelerate the release and internal realisations.
2.Prepare for your BIG change of Destiny. The end of July brings the end of all endings and the new door we need to step through because our soul made a promise long ago. I will be back with a dedicated newsletter on the Aquarius-Leo energies, but for now just make sure the last structures that need releasing are on your mind but off your soul. July prepares us for the season of Eclipses which this year will happen in Mid-End of August. The lighter you come into the season, the more accelerated it will become for you.
3.The Aquarius Full Moon on July 29 brings the polarity into full illumination. The Moon in Aquarius is close to Pluto, while the Sun in Leo is close to Jupiter. This is a powerful, emotionally intense lunation. It can magnify the tension between personal desire and collective responsibility, between the need to be recognised and the need to belong, between creative sovereignty and social consequence. It may bring revelations around friendships, groups, audiences, organisations, communities, platforms, movements, or the power dynamics inside networks.