On July 22, we gain entry to the playful, bold, high energy and passionate realm of the Leos, the drama queen and natural leader of the zodiac.
That means it’s the perfect time for us all to embrace our Leo side.
Leos always put their best version of themselves forward, they show up ready, they come to conquer, and they are always striving to do, be, and get better. A natural glow up expert, an innate personal developer and self-improver. If there’s a secret tip to be had, Leo wants in.
Let the tarot guide you towards your Leo season glow up, including a personalised mantra for your star sign to help you capture and keep that intention! But if you’re still looking for answers, then join me for a full tarot reading over on Etsy.
Aries
March 21 to April 20
Tarot card for Aries for Leo season: King of Wands
Meaning: ‘I show up like fire and lead the way.’
You are taking hold of the wheel and driving yourself to the hot spot this Leo season, Aries! And why not? After all, you’re a Cardinal Fire sign, the first sign of the zodiac, the most competitive and demanding and vital of all 12.
The King of Wands gives you a confidence glow up, a self belief injection, and it all focuses on a new purpose that truly inspires you. This is a season to rise and shine!
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Taurus
April 21 to May 21
Tarot card for Taurus for Leo season: The Empress
Meaning: ‘I deserve beauty, pleasure, and praise — and I claim them without guilt.’
You are are ruled by Venus, represented doubly here by The Empress card which embodies Venus’s qualities, which are beauty, indulgence, wealth, and pleasure. I mean, you’re already blessed, right?
Right. So own it, Taurus. The only glow up you need to work on this Leo season is believing in your own charisma and power of attraction. It’s real and it’s here to stay, it emanates from every pore of your being. You are naturally alluring.
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Gemini
May 22 to June 21
Tarot card for Gemini for Leo season: Queen of Swords
Meaning: ‘My words carry force. My voice is my power.’
You are ruled by Mercury, the communicator, messenger and trickster of the cosmos, who is able to persuade, cajole, manipulate, and ‘sell’ whatever he wishes.
You carry this power too, Gemini, and your glow up homework thus Leo season is to draw this skill out and showcase it, use it, present it, display it, and enjoy weaving the webs of words in your realm that elevate the good, vanquish the bad, and celebrate the successes. Wordsmithing is a super power (in your hands anyway) and there is no realm you can’t rise up within when you let your words go in full flow, with full force. You are a powerful intellect.
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Cancer
June 22 to July 23
Tarot card for Cancer for Leo season: Ace of Cups
Meaning: ‘I love totally, fiercely, and without apology.’
Leo sits next to you on the zodiac wheel so you do share some traits and one of them is deep, enduring passion, a fire within that burns eternal and yearns to catch light with another twin flame. Romance is king.
Your love life realm is going to get a glow up this Leo season. Perhaps a new lover (maybe a fellow Water sign – Pisces, Cancer, Scorpio), perhaps a rekindling of a dwindling existing flame, perhaps (if you’re resolute in your singledom) a new best friend, pet, or family member. Love is what makes your world go round.
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Leo
July 24 to August 23
Tarot card for Leo for Leo season: Strength
Meaning: ‘This is my time to shine — I don’t shield my light for anyone.’
Strength is your sign’s associated tarot card and it brings you all of the power, vitality, force, wisdom, and intuition you need to make this Leo season really count. Sky’s the limit, world’s your oyster.
The key to it? Set a goal, an ambition, a challenge. Make it competitive. Get an ally or foe! Create your own mini quest, lasting the duration of Leo season, capped by a wonderful prize, and set out to do something amazing for yourself and your future.
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Virgo
August 24 to September 23
Tarot card for Virgo for Leo season: The Lovers
Meaning: ‘I’m allowed to be needed, rewarded, and imperfect all at once.’
Leo season, with all its self-confident vibes, ignites a new torch within you. A beacon of ‘I am who I am’ which burns away much of the self imposed judgment, critique, and perfectionism that can hinder your enjoyment and relaxation. Let yourself off the hook, Virgo, and just be.
If it’s wrong, who cares. If it’s not 100% spot on, so what. If it’s broken, let someone else fix it. The Lovers brings you full permission to skate through life, at least for a while, being and feeling everything that comes your way. Live life in the now, as it unfolds, without apology.
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Libra
September 24 to October 23
Tarot card for Libra for Leo season: The Magician
Meaning: ‘I attract admiration by being my most authentic, artistic self.’
Leo season is all about letting your inner light shine and, being ruled by beautiful Venus, one your strongest inner lights is your creativity, artistry and aesthetic skill. Whether that manifests in beauty, fashion, homemaking, crafts, design, engineering… you love to create, to upgrade, improve, harmonise, and realign.
Unleash the inner magician! Your glow up is to find classes, projects, collaborators, and tasks that help you brush up skills, express your creativity, and find the praise and admiration you enjoy by presenting beauty to the world! Make Leo season beautiful.
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Scorpio
October 24 to November 22
Tarot card for Scorpio for Leo season: Nine of Cups
Meaning: ‘When I pursue my desires, I become unstoppable.’
You are a deep, dark well of desire, Scorpio, always have been. You feel things deeply and fully, though you often hide this and think it represents a vulnerability. It isn’t. It’s a strength.
This Leo season, be more like a Leo and unleash the full force of your desires and passions, let them be expressed, clarified, given attention, and pursued. Your glow up will come about simply by connecting to your heart’s needs and honouring them by manifesting them for yourself. What other blueprint to follow is there? Someone else’s dreams? No. Not for you.
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Sagittarius
November 23 to December 21
Tarot card for Sagittarius for Leo season: Three of Wands
Meaning: ‘Freedom is my life force — this season, I dance to my own beat.’
Leo season always evokes a ‘do whatever you want to do’ vibe because Leos believe in themselves, act like the boss, and only listen to their own orders! You’re a fellow Fire sign and also have this yearning for independence and freedom and, in the fiery light of Leo’s turn of the wheel, you can manifest it.
The Three of Wands will bring you multiple omens, signs, openings, coincidences, and opportunities to guide you towards an open road, a new horizon, your own space. Tune into serendipity. Release the plans and schedule. Be free and do what unfolds each day.
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Capricorn
December 22 to January 21
Tarot card for Capricorn for Leo season: King of Coins
Meaning:‘Success isn’t quiet — I celebrate what I’ve built.’
You won’t find many Leos hiding their light under a bushel or not showcasing their successes, be more like them this Leo season and celebrate your 2025 show reel and achievements. It’s a long list, I’m sure, because you work so hard and take on so much.
The King of Coins asks you stop, pause, celebrate, recognise. And, in doing so, reassure yourself of how strong, capable, and determined you are. There’s nothing a Capricorn with intent can’t achieve. If you truly believed this, what would set out to do? Maybe it’s time to do it!
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Aquarius
January 22 to February 19
Tarot card for Aquarius for Leo season: The Fool
Meaning: ‘I lead by being boldly, brilliantly myself.’
You are the opposite sign to Leo and therefore enjoy a unique and special kinship with the zodiac’s lion, so Leo season brings you great gifts of confidence, self belief, and power. Use them!
The Fool is a radical, progressive, unexpected but hugely positive and bold leap of faith, and you will make that leap in the coming few weeks. Don’t overthink it, don’t plan it, just feel the moment is right and do it. Don’t ask for permission, don’t apologise, don’t diminish your ideas or ambitions. Be wholly and utterly, every inch, your wild, smart, independent, opinionated self.
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Pisces
February 20 to March 20
Tarot card for Pisces for Leo season: The Star
Meaning: ‘My dreams deserve to live and breathe.’
Borrow some of Leo’s supreme self assurance and confidence and plough it into your most heartfelt ambitions and dreams this Leo season. Leo won’t mind, in fact there’s nothing more true of this sign’s energy than a desire to help and nurture other lovely folk! Your glow up is your goal.
Making yourself feel better or your life flow easier and more aligned to your authentic passions and interests. More of the good stuff, right? Draw out your imaginings, visions, and fantasies. You invest so much of yourself into them, they hold clues to what you most desire. Use this as your blueprint, use this energy to wield and manifest new rituals, routines, relationships, roles, and realities. You can do anything right now, The Star is the tarot’s wish-making card.
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