PiscesMoon Astrology

From Leo's Spotlight to Virgo's Healing New Moon

• Kait Leonard • Season 1 • Episode 58

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The cosmos gifts us a rare moment of quiet this week as Chiron, the wounded healer, forms a harmonious trine with the radiant Leo Sun. This powerful alignment illuminates the places where we've been silenced, showing us exactly where healing needs to happen. Many of us carry deep wounds around self-expression—those childhood lessons that taught us putting ourselves first was somehow wrong or selfish. Now, the stars are offering cosmic permission to reclaim our voice and stand confidently in our power.

This healing journey feels deeply personal and introspective, yet it might also involve necessary confrontations or boundary-setting with those who've contributed to our wounding. Whether you're having internal dialogues or external conversations, the energy supports your authentic expression and growth. Remember that Chiron's mythology involves an eternal wound that transforms into wisdom—our healing isn't about "fixing" ourselves once and for all, but rather continuously leveling up our relationship with our wounds.

As the Sun glides into meticulous Virgo on the 22nd, accompanied by a New Moon, we're invited to channel our healing insights into practical intentions. Virgo energy excels at detailed planning and service-oriented action—consider setting specific health goals and writing them down with Virgoan precision. The New Moon offers a perfect reset point, not just for the coming month but for a full six-month cycle that will culminate with the Virgo Full Moon in March 2025. What healing journey can you begin now that will bear fruit by spring? Sometimes the most transformative healing comes through helping others—how might your service to the world become part of your path to wholeness? Whatever intentions you set, trust that this week's gentle cosmic climate is perfectly aligned to support your journey toward becoming more authentically yourself.

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Speaker 1:

Hello and welcome to Pisces Moon Astrology. I'm your astrologer, kate Leonard, and I'm excited to explore the stars with you. Hi everyone, welcome to the week of August 17th through August 23rd. And, unlike most weeks recently, we have a pretty quiet sky and I don't know about you, but I'll take it. I will take it. I'm kind of tired of all the big, you know. Anyway, let's get into it.

Speaker 1:

So this is a week when we are going to be healing, and that can mean a lot of things. We'll talk about it. But on August 18th, chiron the wounded healer is going to make a beautiful trine with the sun, who will still be in Leo, and then on the 22nd we get the sun moving into Virgo and a new moon there. So it's a really interesting week. It's kind of bookended, with the start of a profound healing journey. I think it's going to be a quiet and for most of us, probably a low key kind of week that's a little bit more introspective and internal than a lot of them have been. But ultimately, I think this is going to be a really profound week too. So let's get into what all of this means. Oh, and you know how I always do that part where it's like the other stuff going on in the sky. Yeah, there's not a whole lot. I mean, we've got some continuing energies, but there's not much else starting up new this week. Before I forget, I will take a minute and say thank you for being here. I am, as always, grateful that you take time out and listen to my take on the cosmos. It's really it's important to me and I hope that you find benefit in it. And if you do, I would love it if you would follow and give me a five-star rating and, more than anything, if you would share the podcast with other astro-minded people. I would be so grateful. So, with all of that said, let's get into what's going on.

Speaker 1:

So I think everybody probably knows Chiron, right, the wounded healer. Chiron really often has to do with childhood trauma and, in a natal chart, almost 100% of the time, that's what Chiron's about. Transiting. Chiron is often about those early life traumas, but it doesn't have to be only that. It could be something more recent, some other kind of woundedness that we've experienced in life. But he is the wounded healer, right, and so the mythology is that he gets a wound so horrible that he literally gives up his immortality he doesn't want to do eternity with this wound. And for the rest of his life, though, he becomes a healer, and usually we work through trauma of some kind with him and tend to go on and mentor others in some way. It's very interesting energy.

Speaker 1:

He's in Aries, so one of the things you might consider looking at this week is and the sun is going to help you do that, but I'll get to that in just a minute you know in what ways have you been silenced? Have you been held back from being your true self? Some of us, early on in life, we're taught that we're not allowed to put ourselves first. Right, it's not polite to you know. Do things for yourself or demand things for yourself, because that's selfish. I have a feeling that those kinds of early life lessons are what a lot of us are going to be looking at this week, because Aries is all about the self. I know I always call him the toddler of the zodiac, and that's unfair a little bit, but it's true a little bit as well. And so Aries is really about me myself, my identity, my wants, my needs, my demands, and with Chiron there, it's like where has something in that, something in that need to stick up for ourselves and get what we want in life.

Speaker 1:

Where have we been silenced? And often it's in those early childhood lessons. But it can come from other places Bosses silencing us at work, putting us down, putting our ideas down, lovers who, you know, joke off our ideas or whatever, or demand that they're always first, those narcissist friends we all have one of them who make everything so much about their dramas that we don't get our own needs met in the friendship sometimes. So we can come from anywhere, but it very often starts back in childhood. You know you're not the only person in the universe Now, are you, and it's like, well, I don't know, but I'm an important person in the universe, right? So the sun in Leo still. So, at the beginning of the week the sun is still in Leo, where he's in rulership and he is making that beautiful, harmonious trine to Chiron. So he's really like lighting our path to healing.

Speaker 1:

That is very, very simply. I don't know, is that simple? Well, anyway, that's what it is. The sun is shining the light on wounds that need addressed, ways that we need to heal ourselves so that we can stand in our power and say no, you will listen to my ideas. I do have a voice, my needs do matter, and sometimes I actually am the center of the universe, and while all of that can get really murky when we have trauma, when we're coming from those old tapes, the sun is shining light so that we can see more clearly.

Speaker 1:

Now, often, when I tell clients that there's time for healing, it's a period of healing, and we start talking about what issues I see in their charts, you know, and they start telling me what those things all mean. I often get met with frustration, sadness, even anger, because they're like oh my gosh, kate, I've already dealt with all of this stuff. I've done therapy for 20 gazillion years and I already did the ayahuasca and I did all the healing things, and it gets really frustrating to feel like I have to do more, wait more, though I will remind you that Chiron gets a wound that is eternal. So do we have to do more? Yes, but rather than getting frustrated or angry or feeling like what we've done in the past was a failure, think of it as just leveling up and leveling up and continuing to level up. Yes, we've done work before most of us, but this, with the sun shining on and with Aries involved, a lot of people feel like, well, as long as I can move forward and be productive, then I'm good, right, what do I need to do? And it's like, how about, if you move forward more, you more loud and proud and standing in the sun? Because, remember, the sun is not only lighting our way toward this healing, but the sun is in Leo. So we've got Aries wanting me to be the focus right, me, me, me. And we've got the sun in Leo, me, me, me. And we've got the sun in Leo. Leo's about leadership, royalty standing in the spotlight. So this is really not just that first level healing. This is that work that we do on ourselves so that we come out fierce. We've got Leo the lion, and, and we've got the Aries ram, and we want to come out strong and fierce. And the beginning of this week we've got the energy to do that. We've got the cosmic support. So I think it's really really good.

Speaker 1:

Like I said, I think this week is going to be a little bit more internal. Now, does that mean that you shouldn't confront somebody if you're in the process of your healing journey? You know you're in the middle of all of this energy and you're like, oh, it's my mom, it's my dad, it's my lover, it's my friend, it's my sister, it's my boss, it's that person and I need to tell them. Yes, then do so. While I'm saying there's a lot of internal work, I do think that's where most of our energy is going to be focused, inside us.

Speaker 1:

But we've had so much energy this year about standing in our power. We just got out of a Mercury opposition to Pluto. Before that we had Mars, who, by the way, is the ruler of Aries. He opposed Pluto on April 24th. So this sense of standing in our power has been up for us all year long really, and it's going to be coming up in some interesting ways, moving forward as well. We're not done with this power stuff yet.

Speaker 1:

So if part of your healing means having that conversation, having that argument, having that fight, cutting people off, you know, setting those boundaries, remember, we're still dealing with that Neptune-Saturn stuff going on where oh yeah, that would be Aries right At this point, they're still in Aries and that's about looking at existing structures and seeing what we need to dissolve, what we need to rebuild structures, and seeing what we need to dissolve, what we need to rebuild. So, even though this healing thing is going to have a lot of internal stuff. I also think that we may need to be speaking. You know, there may be conversations that need to be had. Now I'm making it like there's some other person at fault, right? The boss, the mom, the dad, the whoever it can be ourselves. We put heavy trips on ourself. So, especially if your first house is involved with this at all, you know we're cruel to ourselves and we might need to sit down and have a little church chat with me myself and I, which would be very, very Aries now, wouldn't it? So that's the energy that starts our week.

Speaker 1:

Then, around the 22nd, the sun moves into Virgo and, oh my goodness, is that not a whole other vibe? But here's what I find really, really interesting about it. Oh, and, happy solar return to all of you. Virgo suns out there. Here's what I find really, really interesting about this. You know, we all know that side of Virgo, that's the administrator, right, I know? Yeah, what we really mean to say is like picky. We all know that picky administrator kind of Virgo. But actually Virgo is of service, it's maybe the most service-oriented sign, and it's also all about health and healing. So what's interesting about this is we're getting the new moon on the 22nd.

Speaker 1:

So a new beginning, that lunar cycle starting up, time to set our intentions, time to consider manifesting. And what should we be manifesting? Well, health healing, whether that's sound mental health, emotional stability, physical healing, whatever it is. This is the perfect time to set those intentions, because we've just come out of that beautiful trine. We know what we're working on. We may have already cleared it up by the time we get to the end of the week new moon, but we may not. It may be an ongoing process now that our way has been lit. But now we can set the intentions.

Speaker 1:

And I want to say one quick thing here. Virgo is really about being of service. Sometimes the most healing thing we can do is volunteer, go, help others, be of service to people. The community, heaven knows. Right now our world needs us all. Whatever your thing is the environment, homeless people, battered women, whatever your thing is, people, battered women whatever your thing is you're needed, we're all needed. And sometimes that act of service where we really get involved and become part of the good, it's so healing and empowering and can be so beautiful.

Speaker 1:

The new moon in Virgo is a time to maybe set the intention to be more involved to heal others. Chiron becomes the healer right. Something to think about, anyway, moving on, the other intentions, of course, to set are just what health goals do you have? Again, this can be spiritual health, it can be whatever you want to define health, as it's time to set those intentions Now. Virgo likes details, so write down your intentions, journal about it, set a schedule, outline your new diet, whatever it is, you know. Get into the details of it, because Virgo loves doing that and is really good at it and can maybe help us stay on track by helping us, you know, spell it out, make a plan, put it on the calendar, whatever it is, so we can use that side of Virgo too.

Speaker 1:

And the other thing that I want to remind everybody we always, always, always think of the lunar cycle as being about a month, and it is. It's about a month until we come to the next new moon, and so we can usually make really good progress toward our goals during that first month. But that's not actually the only way to look at the lunar cycle. It's actually complete when we get the full moon in Virgo. So we start with the new moon in Virgo and then we go till we get the full moon in Virgo, and that gives us about six months. This one is going to happen on March 3rd, 2026, of course, and we will get that culminating point when it's actually time to complete this cycle and move on. To complete this cycle and move on.

Speaker 1:

So set your intentions for health healing service may be a part of that and definitely look at those intentions as being for a month, you know, really getting a foundation. But also think bigger picture. How do you move forward? So, if this month is really about working on diet, exercise, therapy, you know, whatever it is, how does that become more? How do you increase that so that it's a six-month goal? So look at where you want to be in a month. What's reasonable, where can you get to in a month? But then where will you take that moving forward?

Speaker 1:

I love it. I love it a lot. I think this is a quieter for most of us. Some of us are going to be yelling at people I'm just going to say it, right, but for most of us this is going to be a quieter month, a more introspective month, but I think it is so, so profound and I think we come out so much better for it and it's part of that theme we've been dealing with all year how do we become more authentically who we are and I think this week is a big part of getting there. So I hope that's helpful. Yeah, I hope that's helpful.

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Let me know, come on over to Substack and leave me comments. Or another place that you can leave comments is if you go to the YouTube channel. It's the same thing you're hearing here. There's no video yet, but I am on YouTube and it's an easy place to leave comments. If you want to do that, all right, I would love to hear from you and I want to say again, thank you so much. Please share, follow, like, do all this stuff, leave comments and yeah, I'm just, I'm really grateful and until next week, go out and seize the energies of the stars. This is my wish for you always and, yeah, I'll talk to you soon. Bye.