leo season || being seen is scarier than we admit
the sun moves into leo on july 22nd (happy birthday my leo fam!) and after a month in cancer, you're probably going to feel the shift in your body before you understand it in your head.
cancer season was inward. it was home, rest, staying close to the people and places where you didn't have to explain yourself. that was the point, but leo doesn't work like that. leo pulls you out into the open and asks you to be seen, and honestly that's a harder ask than it sounds.
most of us think we want to be seen. we say it all the time. i want to be recognized, i want to matter to people, i want my work to land. then the moment it actually happens, the moment someone really looks, a lot of us flinch. we deflect the compliment. we shrink the thing we just made. we get busy or we get quiet or we make a joke so nobody looks too long. wanting to be seen and being able to tolerate being seen are two different skills, and leo season tends to expose the gap between them.
so this is the season to notice what you do when the attention actually comes. do you let it in, or do you find a way to dodge it. there's no wrong answer here and you don't need to fix it overnight, but it's worth watching, because you can't receive what you keep swatting away.
leo can also tip into performing instead of being. there's a version of visibility that's really just management, where you curate the version of yourself that's safe to be seen and you show that one instead. it looks like confidence from the outside but it's actually the opposite, it's you deciding people can look at the polished part but not the real part. leo season can pull you toward that if you're not careful, especially if being truly seen has ever cost you something. and it might have. if that's you, go gentle. the goal isn't to throw yourself wide open to everyone. it's to let at least the people who've earned it see the version of you that isn't rehearsed.
here's what i would do with this season. pick one place where you've been hiding a little, a piece of work, a want, an opinion you keep softening, and let it be seen without the disclaimer attached. no "this is probably dumb but." no shrinking it before someone else gets the chance to. just put it down and let it be looked at. that's the whole practice.
leo season runs until late august and it builds toward something big, the sun meets jupiter in leo on the 29th, which is one of the most expansive days of the whole year. so consider these first days the warmup. get comfortable being looked at now, while the stakes are low.
if you want to know where leo season is lighting up your personal chart and what it's asking you to step into, readings are open at casa de novas ♡
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