HAPPY LEO NEW MOON

Today we empty out, start new...while also, completely full of ourselves.

Leo is about self-expression, confidence, the courage to being seen,
the courage to be yourself.

People always say “just be yourself” ⁣⁣but nobody here has not lived in a white supremacy culture and so we think it means monetary self or binary self or we think we are being ourselves but actually some disembodied version-self.⁣

I suppose sometimes we know who we are by naming the phantom of who we are unable to be ⁣⁣>> what keeps us quiet, inhibited, all the ways we fear visibility.

*But this new moon (mostly) squares Uranus*

...and so this is call to breakthrough, to strike a new authentic chord, because you are the expert on what is true for you (which is that >> you are bizarre as hell). 

Sure, Saturn in Aquarius would say: you can't be this bizarre in a void — Leo isn’t really Leo without it’s audience, and the audience isn’t without its Leo — and so maybe being yourself is also a creative act of not being alone. ⁣

How can we exercise this mutual not-aloneness? 
Jupiter in Aquarius would say: ‘interdependency’ or “friend love” or "stop trying to be famous, start trying to save the world." *

From Aug 11 - Aug 30, Mercury will be in its prized sign of exaltation > Virgo.
With Mars also in Virgo - we have a moment of decisive mechanics - of sorting out the details of our passionate high weirdness, refining any ways we’ve been falsely lulled by leo’s fiery excitement - with great logic, speed and accuracy > we get organized.

Venus enters Libra Aug 16 - Sept 10, deepening our appreciation for others, for the pleasures of relating (and of dessert, color theory, matching chandelier earrings) we may emphasize our social and aesthetic lives, we may come to a balanced perception of ourselves...beyond leo aggrandizement, beyond virgo diminution "there is a field, I will meet you there" * -- you are not perfect, being perfect is what being alone is, you are messy, un-poetic, inconsistent, miraculous, you are mediocre - goals are met and goals are postponed, avoided, missed you are who you are, you are where you're at and that’s always right, that's always radical - I’m not sure what else “being yourself” would mean.

*guerilla girls *rumi

HOROSCOPES

The detailed VIRGO stitch for your cutie LEO costume, based on your rising sign

ARIES: BACK STITCH
TAURUS: HEMSTITCH
GEMINI: LADDER STITCH
CANCER: BUTTONHOLE STITCH
LEO: FEATHER STITCH
VIRGO: CHAIN STITCH
LIBRA: BLIND STITCH
SCORPIO: ZIGZAG STITCH
SAGITTARIUS: BRICK STITCH
CAPRICORN: SATIN STITCH
AQUARIUS: OVERCAST STITCH
PISCES: LOCK STITCH