Leo Weekly Horoscope

This week could feel rather dreamlike one minute, only to turn vividly technicolor the next. You might notice a shift in the energy overhead on the 11th, when Jupiter turns retrograde in Cancer and your 12th House of Fantasy and the Subconscious until March. When Jupiter is in your 12th House, it tends to act like a fairy godparent or guardian angel, working magic and bringing opportunities from where you can’t quite see it or realize it is helping you out, but it can also help inspire you creatively, so you may have had some really brilliant ideas since this planet arrived in this sector back in June. Now, however, Jupiter will be rotating backwards for the next few months, but the nice thing is that this isn’t the kind of retrograde phase you need to fear or worry over; unlike Mercury or Venus retrograde, Jupiter retrograde offers you the chance to return to seeds that Jupiter planted while direct, but that you didn’t have time to focus on in the past. In other words, Jupiter can bring so much positivity and opportunity into your life that it can be difficult to make the most of it all the first time around, so this is a second chance to go back and nurture those opportunities.

The 12th offers a strange combination of energies that could feel both exciting but also a little overwhelming. Messenger Mercury is retrograding through Sagittarius and you 5th House of Passion and Creativity, which can be great for re-working old artistic projects or returning to things that brought a smile to your face when you were younger, but on this particular day it will conjoin red hot Mars in this same sector, who is barreling ahead at full speed. Mars wants to create action wherever it goes, but when it bumps up a retrograde planet like this it can create some confusion. A romantic connection from the past can return to your life for a second-look, or perhaps a certain someone tries to get your attention but it is simply at the wrong time. Avoid jumping to conclusions or onto any bandwagons, as this phase can push you into situations before you are ready.

Also on the 12th,, there’s an important lunation that will be impacting you personally, a balancing Half Moon in your sign, reminding you to take stock of your life and your goals and make sure they are in alignment. This is neither a planting period nor one for harvesting, but simply a check-in time. Where do you stand on the road to your goals? Are you further along than you’d like, or have you perhaps fallen behind a way? It’s time to do what you need to get yourself to where you want to be, so focus on what is missing or standing in the way, and deal with that.