New Moon & Full Moon posts will be taking a break for the month of August (maybe longer), but our Membership will still receive all my insights via audio inside The Synthesis Membership.

July 24th, 2025 at 9:11pm HST / 12:11pm PST at 2° Leo

New Moons always mark the beginning of a new cycle, a reset, and a fresh start. This New Moon is connected back to the cycle that reached its culmination around February 12 earlier this year.  This cycle has been related to ideas around creative expression, playfulness, shining your light & sharing your gifts, nourishing your inner child, romancing your life in artistic ways, leadership, and falling in love with what it is that makes you unique.  Since February, a chapter related to these topics has been wrapping up and completing, and now it’s time for a fresh new beginning in this arena. 
Now that this previous chapter is complete, it’s time to begin a new one – this time with a deeper commitment to being The Authority in your own life (living according to your unique inner Authority), a stronger connection to your dreams & ideal vision for your life, radically changing your thoughts to liberate your authentic self, and confronting any old, unconscious power dynamics that have prevented you from transforming your life and standing in your power as you share your creative self expression with the world. 
Ruled by the Sun, Leo in its quintessence, is all about Creativity.
Leo energy is connected to the archetypes of the actor/actress, queen/king, playful child, artist, romantic love, and the entrepreneurial journey. 

In its healed expression, Leo is loyal, playful, proud, confident, creative, generous, joyful, romantic, charismatic, courageous, and noble.

In its unhealed expression it can be arrogant, dramatic, narcissistic, childish, egotistical, and self-conscious.

Are you ready for a reset in your relationship to your creative expression, so that you feel joyful & confident expressing yourself authentically?

ASPECTS TO THE Leo NEW MOON

The New Moon occurs at 2° Leo and will be engaged in the following aspects:
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  • Opposed (challenged) by Pluto at 2° Aquarius: 
    • Pluto is the Lord of the Underworld, and is currently retrograde in Aquarius. In this phase he pulls us deep in the undertow, so we can look our shadows in the face.  Where have you been hiding your light, and allowing the expectations of others to affect how you share your unique gifts with the world?  Pluto is here to help you put all of that on the funeral pyre and burn away all of those ways in which you have disempowered yourself, by thinking you’re too weird or unacceptable in any way. Pluto wants you to rise from the flames of this fiery New Moon like the Phoenix, clear, strong, and empowered in your unique, weird, magical, authentic expression.
  • Trined (supported) by Saturn & Neptune at 1° & 2° respectively, in Aries: 
    • Saturn & Neptune in Aries are asking us to become responsible for taking inspired action and moving forward on those dreams. But first, they are both on a retrograde journey to help us recover/remember something essential about becoming responsible for our dreams. Trine to (supporting) the New Moon in Leo, Saturn & Neptune retrograde in Aries are helping us to find the courage, passion, drive & motivation to become the Authority in our lives (instead of outsourcing this to others). The more you connect to your relationship with your individual Authority (whether you have Sacral Authority, Emotional Authority, Splenic, etc) in the setting of your New Moon intentions, the more powerful they will be. 
  • Sextiled (supported) by Uranus at 0° Gemini 
    • Uranus is The Awakener, the revolutionary, the rebel. In Gemini, Uranus is here to bring radical changes to the way we think & communicate about our creative expression in the world. Sextile to (supporting) this new moon, we are invited to experiment with doing something different (and totally unexpected) in how we express ourselves creatively. Let your magic out, and watch how you can even catch yourself off guard!
  • Loosely squared (challenged) by Chiron at 27° Taurus:
    • With all the deep and radically transformational energy of this new moon, we may find some old fears or wounds around our self confidence & how we creatively share our light with the world.  Be gentle with yourself, and nourish your inner child in ways that feel good. Perhaps you need to go get ice cream in the park, blow bubbles, finger paint, or run through the sprinkler (yes, as an adult). Let your inner child PLAY as a way of healing these old wounds, and see what magic reveals itself. 

A really interesting take on the 31st Gene Key came through my unconscious Throat definition when I was recording the audios for the Leo New Moon.  In exploring the ideas around the Shadow of Arrogance, the Gift of Leadership, and the Siddhi of Humility, it occurred to me that for all of us the true “Leader” in our lives is the wisdom of our bodies.  

The Mind, in its arrogance, thinks it knows the best path forward for us, but time and time again, when we allow the mind to make the decisions in our lives, we suffer –  we meet resistance in the form of frustration, bitterness, anger, and disappointment- and most of all… the body suffers. 

When we can get the Mind to finally surrender its white knuckle grip on the steering wheel of our vehicle (the body), and take its rightful place in the backseat – as the passenger – the true Leader emerges – the intelligence of our physical bodies, and in Human Design, we understand this innate intelligence as our unique Inner Authority (Splenic, Sacral, Emotional, etc). 

From this place, through observing the results of our Human Design experiment of trying out what it feels like to allow our bodies/Authority to make the decisions in our lives instead of our mind – the mind can finally see how wonderful & magical, and easeful our lives become when the body makes the decisions.  In this way, the mind finally becomes humble to the true innate leadership of the body, and in this humility, the mind becomes the willing passenger, simply sitting back and enjoying the ride. 

Can you finally get your mind to see its own arrogance in thinking that it can actually make good decisions in your life? 

Can you finally get your mind to surrender to the True Leader within – the innate intelligence of your unique Inner Authority?

I shared a beautiful & inspiring transmission for this Gate/Gene Key in the Audios for The Synthesis Membership.  

In the Synthesis Membership, for each Full Moon and New Moon, I share 3 audio transmissions that are usually around 20-50 minutes each:

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  • An overview of the Full/New Moon in the particular sign.
  • Diving into the details of the various Planetary Aspects that are also involved in the conversation.
  • Exploring the correspondences of the Full/New Moon to the Human Design Gates and Gene Keys.

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NEW MOON JOURNAL PROMPTS
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  • Where in your life are you being asked to make a fresh start& cultivate more courage to shine your light and generously share your gifts in beautiful & creative ways? Check your birth chart for which house 2° Leo lands for clues.
  • In the coming days & weeks, where can you take courageous, inspired actions towards taking responsibility for  living according to your own unique Inner Authority? (while still knowing that you might have to retrace your steps – Mercury Rx)
  • How can you bring more playfulness and joy into your life to expand your faith in the bigger vision of what is possible for you?
  • Are you ready to romance your life? How can you fall in love with the little things, make the mundane magical, and open your heart wider over the next 6 months?

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Empowering & supporting you to love your uniqueness,

Rakai’el

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