Thank you. Yes, your entire generation is dealing with issues about the power or control you have with partners, former partners, potential partners - and younger people, from babes in arms, through to Millennials.
Camille, this is a background track rather than a high-volume hit. You shine at your brilliant best when you are proudly at the heart of romance or intensely romantic marriage. You also draw admiration and attention when you get it right as a mother, aunt, godmother, or 'Queen to a younger court' in your career, or with your weekend interests. This is how you glow in the dark. But along comes Mars, dithering, and the normal course of events is being affected. Near May 9th, 10th, Mars goes to 9 Leo (transiting Mars in conjunction with natal Sun) when you may want to slow down and cool down.
Alex, you have a stellium in early Leo and so have been directly affected by Mars going backwards and forwards, standing still and getting stuck - with reference to your maternal instinct (the Moon) and also your enjoyment of sexual relationships or courtship (Bacchus). You are inclined towards complicated relationships (Venus) and there is also a frequent moral or ethical question; if something (or someone) is an answer, is it a 'right' answer for you? All of this has been in the frame with lovers, partners, the children or Millennials in your world, for some time. Eventually you have a final answer, as Mars moves off those degrees. The second half of the year will be far less challenging than the first half. The other issue for you is transiting Pluto in opposition to Bacchus, in the last couple of years, which tends to bring powerful, dominating, situations and people in - but your willpower would have got you through that. Pluto in opposition to the Moon and Venus from 3 Aquarius, to 3 Leo, reminds you to keep the stakes as low as possible with your heirs, spares and pretenders to the throne, but also with the royal bedchamber. You will have to make deep changes, to meet deep changes, anyway - but try to minimise what is actually at stake.
I have Juno at 2 degrees Leo and South Node at 15 degrees Leo. I am a Sun in Cancer and the last quarter of 2024 was energetically and emotionally rather difficult with challenges on relationship and finance fronts. When I say challenges I mean disappointments about things not working out and then having to pull back my energy and go to ground for some reassessment. Mars does not like to do either, and it felt very much like I was the woman chastening the lion in the Strength card of the Smith Waite Tarot. Yes, it was character building! Things did not really begin to turn around until early February when some new pathways and perspectives opened up regarding career. I let the relationship stuff go altogether and can now say I have put that disappointing situation well and truly behind me having just met someone new who I have hit it off with. Nothing romantic has happened yet and it may not, but energetically it feels light years ahead of the fraught stuck and confusing situation I was in last year. Regardless of what does or doesn't happen now, it feels like things will move quickly - potentially quite dramatically - and I will know where I stand with it very soon. I have a whole lot of other stuff hooking into Juno natally and by transit, so the situation feels very charged energetically. I met the person in an 11th House situation, which is where Pluto is transiting in my chart. I have a 1 degree Aries Ascendant, so Neptune is conjunct it and Saturn will soon. I have natal Saturn at 1 Gemini, so Uranus will conjunct it soon. I have a 1 Cancer IC, so Jupiter will be there soon. I have Moon at 6 Libra and Uranus 9 Libra. I'm well aware that nothing like this is ever going to happen in my life again. It all feels like a set up for something really, really big!
Hi Jessica, I have Leo in Apollo at 2 degrees. I have someone who comes in and out of my life, and I had to set a firm boundary with him recently to take care of myself. I feel it’s karmic between us. He’s a Scorpio, I’m a Capricorn. Are we done? I sense we’re not, but so much of what you shared in this post resonated.
Hi Jessica,I have a stellium in Leo Ops 1 Jupiter 3 Venus 5 Moon 6 Apollo 7 and Juno 21 Panacea 25 this has hit me extremely hard.I cared for my niece’s children a baby and a 4 year old for 6 months until they moved in March it’s left me heartbroken and missing them terribly.Im hoping to see them next month and hopefully it will ease how I’m feeling
Aha! This makes a lot of sense. I'm a native Leo, with a Leo stellium. My eldest (son also a Leo) & I have only spoken once this year, despite our relationship being strong it feels distant. My daughter a Virgo is in a relationship with a Leo, despite my daughter & I having a strong bond she's gone off the radar too. I feel her partner is an Andrew Tate type who doesnt like strong mothers or the relationship between mother & daughter.
To be fair to both of them, I've not been at my most chatty either but even so this year so far has felt empty without them in regular contact. Do Leo mothers, sons and daughters go back to normal communications post May?
Hi Jessica - as insightful as ever. I have Leo at 0 degrees (sun sign). I have not seen my granddaughter since late January due to clashing diaries and separated by water. Will this change? Also what impact will this have with my relationship - I have a partner of two years
Thank you. I'm sorry you've been kept apart from your granddaughter, Felix. Mars Retrograde at 0 Leo passed over your Sun in Leo, and you also had Pluto at 0 Aquarius in opposition to your Sun. This is about you as father and grandfather, but also as partner. You may also have other factors in Leo. You'll find a lot lifts, once Mars is out of the stuck loop and into Virgo - not long to go.
I am sorry your father is in a home. Pluto takes around 20 years to transit Aquarius, in opposition to natal Pluto, Mercury and Jupiter and depending on his age, he may not be here for all those transits (although the Queen Mother lived to be 101). This is about you, his daughter, and any other children or grandchildren. And Pluto is always about power and control, and the transformation of that - compromises over the reins. Mars is far shorter-term, but Pluto is the real story here.
Oh thank you so much for the reply. I have my part of fortune and Leo at 3° but the only other thing I have is my MC which is 12°. Interestingly, both of my girls have Kyron and Leo and my grandson has Jupiter at 14° Leo he he’s an Aries. My dad’s in rough shape physically and he has dementia, but he keeps on keeping on. He’s happy as he can be.😂 he’s very social and likes all the people giving him attention.
Hi Jessica: it’s felt like quite heavy weather with my eldest son over the last 6 months & I have four planets in Leo … Uranus at 2 degrees, Pluto at 38, Fortuna at 12 & Ops at 16, which I guess might explain things 🙂
Uranus at 2 Leo is your story, Harriet, as you were born with Uranus in the Fifth House of motherhood and also courtship - and the bedroom. There is a lifelong pattern here of 'the regular irregular' and quite sudden, dramatic changes which always result in your becoming independent. Here is Pluto at 2 Aquarius (transiting Pluto in opposition to natal Uranus) and so there is a familiar story here. Transiting Mars in conjunction with natal Uranus has added to the feeling of heat, tension (an electrical storm). The latter will disappear sooner rather than later, and the Pluto opposition will slowly wind down. Transits to natal Uranus set us free from situations or people which would have tied us down, long-term, though it may take time and great insight to step back and see it.
Hello Jessica, I have a Leo stellium (6) and one of them is IC Leo at 8 degree . The rest of them are 18 degree Apollo , 20 degree Mars , 25 degree Bacchus & 29 degree in Proserpina . Does this affect me in any way . I am sun Gemini & moon Aquarius . Can you help me understand my chart please . Best regards R
You are heavily Leo and are affected as you 'live' in your Fifth House a lot of the time, so are concerned with the choices you make about courtship, the bedroom, parenthood (yes or no), being a godfather, uncle, father and so on; also any professional or voluntary involvement with the young (young enough to be your own children; like a class that you teach or a team that you coach). You will find the Mars in Leo transit, evident since last year, continues to pull you backwards and forwards without final outcomes or certain answers, for a while. Then it's over. Transiting Pluto will slowly but surely be in opposition to your other Leo factors, so you are being challenged to change the way you deal with (say) your godson or (for example) Millennials who may be part of your professional life. That is very long term.
Thank you Jessica ! Much appreciate your insight . I did not think Leo stellium has so much impact on me . It’s interesting you say Godchildren last year Oct 2024 I had a sudden urge to check on one of my Godchild and a casual convo made her comfy to open up abt teenage peer pressure & how it’s effecting her mentally emotionally even self physical harm & I talked her out providing support constantly all thru new year .. she lives in a diff country than me and finally she came thru and in Jan 2025 she discovered a great book that supported her immensely . I am so grateful for the Force to push me to check on her :) I am curious abt GenZ thought process all the time as they are seeing diff world then me as a teenager . thank you for your help your point well noted . Xx
Thanks Jessica ! From her last message she is excited abt her life spirituality consciousness psychology . Brilliantly proudof her.Actually been mentoring other kids as well they just happen to connect & now they call for some chat to advise or guide . I had no clue I had a millennial connect until you pointed out :) I had some amazing Aunts myself I guess passing the baton on :) Cheers! Thank you for the insight🙏♥️
Thank you sharing - i can see the manifestations of these motions in my own life.
I have 5 Leo in 5 Sun, 3 Leo in Psyche, 10 Leo in Proserpina.
My relationship has been rocky and i ended it. Partner has become paranoid and a bully. We're still on the break up phase rather than beyond it. I still have love for him but his retrogressive conventionality/old fashioned masculinity (for lack of a better phrase) are enough to me to keep us apart. He reached a peak with these 'qualities' now, too much. No good conflict resolution skills. The relationship has def followed stop-start motions. I used to see a partner in him but now i'm dubious whether i can support this role next to him.
Meanwhile a past love (big chapter, with whom we maintained our relationship as friendship but with acceptance of limitations as there are still feelings and i have moved on to the relationship i recently ended) has appeared in November & December and eventually vanished onwards.
I do want this friendship but i left it in his hands. Did he check out entirely?
There are also new people, that want to date with me, and i'm taking the chance to meet one of them (no strings attached, just company and good time) next week.
Maybe my brightest prospects are towards the ‘new’ and not yet known?
I do have love for the 2 aforementioned past relationships (i do keep them n separate 'buckets') yet i'm unsure which is the best path forward, for me and for them.
Is there anything that you see for me forward or/and any advice that you could share?
You have quite a lot of Leo in your chart (a stellium) and so have felt the Mars Retrograde in Leo quite strongly. You ended your relationship and your ex-boyfriend is playing the role of Pluto. Pluto is a symbol of male domination and old-school masculine takeover tactics. Pluto in opposition moves very slowly, from Aquarius (this isn't just about the short-term call to action of Mars) and so if you persist with him, romantically, you may find you keep on meeting Pluto in human form. Pluto people can be quite manipulative but they are also passionate and undeniably seductive! Anyone new in your life in the bedroom or at the dating stage may also show up as Pluto in human form. Consciousness is everything in astrology so mindful avoidance of men who take, and take over, will help. You can use the Tarot on my website to personalise the details of this forecast when the time comes.
This makes a lot of sense thank you Jessica 😊
Hi Jessica, So insightful as usual, I have Pluto 6 degrees Leo, so I guess it will be a generational thing in my case.
Thank you. Yes, your entire generation is dealing with issues about the power or control you have with partners, former partners, potential partners - and younger people, from babes in arms, through to Millennials.
Hi Jessica, any ideas on how this might affect Leo Sun 9 degrees?
Camille, this is a background track rather than a high-volume hit. You shine at your brilliant best when you are proudly at the heart of romance or intensely romantic marriage. You also draw admiration and attention when you get it right as a mother, aunt, godmother, or 'Queen to a younger court' in your career, or with your weekend interests. This is how you glow in the dark. But along comes Mars, dithering, and the normal course of events is being affected. Near May 9th, 10th, Mars goes to 9 Leo (transiting Mars in conjunction with natal Sun) when you may want to slow down and cool down.
Thank you!
Hi Jessica power to the Leos🦁hope we all get our clarity soon!
I am a Sun Leo - and also have quite a few early Leo factors according to my birth chart on your site.
Moon and Venus both at 3 Leo
Bacchus at 00 Leo
Panacea at 4 Leo
Any ideas how and what this cycle could complete or sort out for me?
Thank you,
Alex
Alex, you have a stellium in early Leo and so have been directly affected by Mars going backwards and forwards, standing still and getting stuck - with reference to your maternal instinct (the Moon) and also your enjoyment of sexual relationships or courtship (Bacchus). You are inclined towards complicated relationships (Venus) and there is also a frequent moral or ethical question; if something (or someone) is an answer, is it a 'right' answer for you? All of this has been in the frame with lovers, partners, the children or Millennials in your world, for some time. Eventually you have a final answer, as Mars moves off those degrees. The second half of the year will be far less challenging than the first half. The other issue for you is transiting Pluto in opposition to Bacchus, in the last couple of years, which tends to bring powerful, dominating, situations and people in - but your willpower would have got you through that. Pluto in opposition to the Moon and Venus from 3 Aquarius, to 3 Leo, reminds you to keep the stakes as low as possible with your heirs, spares and pretenders to the throne, but also with the royal bedchamber. You will have to make deep changes, to meet deep changes, anyway - but try to minimise what is actually at stake.
Thank you! Right on! This area has been all over the place. Deep changes a coming.
I have Juno at 2 degrees Leo and South Node at 15 degrees Leo. I am a Sun in Cancer and the last quarter of 2024 was energetically and emotionally rather difficult with challenges on relationship and finance fronts. When I say challenges I mean disappointments about things not working out and then having to pull back my energy and go to ground for some reassessment. Mars does not like to do either, and it felt very much like I was the woman chastening the lion in the Strength card of the Smith Waite Tarot. Yes, it was character building! Things did not really begin to turn around until early February when some new pathways and perspectives opened up regarding career. I let the relationship stuff go altogether and can now say I have put that disappointing situation well and truly behind me having just met someone new who I have hit it off with. Nothing romantic has happened yet and it may not, but energetically it feels light years ahead of the fraught stuck and confusing situation I was in last year. Regardless of what does or doesn't happen now, it feels like things will move quickly - potentially quite dramatically - and I will know where I stand with it very soon. I have a whole lot of other stuff hooking into Juno natally and by transit, so the situation feels very charged energetically. I met the person in an 11th House situation, which is where Pluto is transiting in my chart. I have a 1 degree Aries Ascendant, so Neptune is conjunct it and Saturn will soon. I have natal Saturn at 1 Gemini, so Uranus will conjunct it soon. I have a 1 Cancer IC, so Jupiter will be there soon. I have Moon at 6 Libra and Uranus 9 Libra. I'm well aware that nothing like this is ever going to happen in my life again. It all feels like a set up for something really, really big!
Hi Jessica, I have Leo in Apollo at 2 degrees. I have someone who comes in and out of my life, and I had to set a firm boundary with him recently to take care of myself. I feel it’s karmic between us. He’s a Scorpio, I’m a Capricorn. Are we done? I sense we’re not, but so much of what you shared in this post resonated.
Hi Jessica,I have a stellium in Leo Ops 1 Jupiter 3 Venus 5 Moon 6 Apollo 7 and Juno 21 Panacea 25 this has hit me extremely hard.I cared for my niece’s children a baby and a 4 year old for 6 months until they moved in March it’s left me heartbroken and missing them terribly.Im hoping to see them next month and hopefully it will ease how I’m feeling
I am Leo rising at 1 degree, Mercury 3 degrees, Venus 8 degrees, Sun 13 degrees, and Jupiter 15 degrees. I am feeling the pluto opposition so hard.
Hi Jessica, thank you, very grateful. My NN is at 3 degrees Leo if you have any advice.
Aha! This makes a lot of sense. I'm a native Leo, with a Leo stellium. My eldest (son also a Leo) & I have only spoken once this year, despite our relationship being strong it feels distant. My daughter a Virgo is in a relationship with a Leo, despite my daughter & I having a strong bond she's gone off the radar too. I feel her partner is an Andrew Tate type who doesnt like strong mothers or the relationship between mother & daughter.
To be fair to both of them, I've not been at my most chatty either but even so this year so far has felt empty without them in regular contact. Do Leo mothers, sons and daughters go back to normal communications post May?
Hi Jessica - as insightful as ever. I have Leo at 0 degrees (sun sign). I have not seen my granddaughter since late January due to clashing diaries and separated by water. Will this change? Also what impact will this have with my relationship - I have a partner of two years
Thank you. I'm sorry you've been kept apart from your granddaughter, Felix. Mars Retrograde at 0 Leo passed over your Sun in Leo, and you also had Pluto at 0 Aquarius in opposition to your Sun. This is about you as father and grandfather, but also as partner. You may also have other factors in Leo. You'll find a lot lifts, once Mars is out of the stuck loop and into Virgo - not long to go.
Thanks Jessica - I also have Leo at
27 degrees in Venus
2 degrees in Vesta
29 degrees in Apollo
6 degrees Prosperina
Does this affect things at all?
I just checked my dad’s chart. He has Pluto, Mercury, and Jupiter all in Leo. He’s in a nursing home now.
I am sorry your father is in a home. Pluto takes around 20 years to transit Aquarius, in opposition to natal Pluto, Mercury and Jupiter and depending on his age, he may not be here for all those transits (although the Queen Mother lived to be 101). This is about you, his daughter, and any other children or grandchildren. And Pluto is always about power and control, and the transformation of that - compromises over the reins. Mars is far shorter-term, but Pluto is the real story here.
Oh thank you so much for the reply. I have my part of fortune and Leo at 3° but the only other thing I have is my MC which is 12°. Interestingly, both of my girls have Kyron and Leo and my grandson has Jupiter at 14° Leo he he’s an Aries. My dad’s in rough shape physically and he has dementia, but he keeps on keeping on. He’s happy as he can be.😂 he’s very social and likes all the people giving him attention.
Makes me hopeful. Natal Mars at 18 degrees Leo
Hi Jessica: it’s felt like quite heavy weather with my eldest son over the last 6 months & I have four planets in Leo … Uranus at 2 degrees, Pluto at 38, Fortuna at 12 & Ops at 16, which I guess might explain things 🙂
Uranus at 2 Leo is your story, Harriet, as you were born with Uranus in the Fifth House of motherhood and also courtship - and the bedroom. There is a lifelong pattern here of 'the regular irregular' and quite sudden, dramatic changes which always result in your becoming independent. Here is Pluto at 2 Aquarius (transiting Pluto in opposition to natal Uranus) and so there is a familiar story here. Transiting Mars in conjunction with natal Uranus has added to the feeling of heat, tension (an electrical storm). The latter will disappear sooner rather than later, and the Pluto opposition will slowly wind down. Transits to natal Uranus set us free from situations or people which would have tied us down, long-term, though it may take time and great insight to step back and see it.
Thank you 🙏🏼
Hello Jessica, I have a Leo stellium (6) and one of them is IC Leo at 8 degree . The rest of them are 18 degree Apollo , 20 degree Mars , 25 degree Bacchus & 29 degree in Proserpina . Does this affect me in any way . I am sun Gemini & moon Aquarius . Can you help me understand my chart please . Best regards R
You are heavily Leo and are affected as you 'live' in your Fifth House a lot of the time, so are concerned with the choices you make about courtship, the bedroom, parenthood (yes or no), being a godfather, uncle, father and so on; also any professional or voluntary involvement with the young (young enough to be your own children; like a class that you teach or a team that you coach). You will find the Mars in Leo transit, evident since last year, continues to pull you backwards and forwards without final outcomes or certain answers, for a while. Then it's over. Transiting Pluto will slowly but surely be in opposition to your other Leo factors, so you are being challenged to change the way you deal with (say) your godson or (for example) Millennials who may be part of your professional life. That is very long term.
Thank you Jessica ! Much appreciate your insight . I did not think Leo stellium has so much impact on me . It’s interesting you say Godchildren last year Oct 2024 I had a sudden urge to check on one of my Godchild and a casual convo made her comfy to open up abt teenage peer pressure & how it’s effecting her mentally emotionally even self physical harm & I talked her out providing support constantly all thru new year .. she lives in a diff country than me and finally she came thru and in Jan 2025 she discovered a great book that supported her immensely . I am so grateful for the Force to push me to check on her :) I am curious abt GenZ thought process all the time as they are seeing diff world then me as a teenager . thank you for your help your point well noted . Xx
Cheers Ray, I am glad the psychic astrology helped with your godchild and hope she is slowly getting better.
Thanks Jessica ! From her last message she is excited abt her life spirituality consciousness psychology . Brilliantly proudof her.Actually been mentoring other kids as well they just happen to connect & now they call for some chat to advise or guide . I had no clue I had a millennial connect until you pointed out :) I had some amazing Aunts myself I guess passing the baton on :) Cheers! Thank you for the insight🙏♥️
Dear Jessica,
Thank you sharing - i can see the manifestations of these motions in my own life.
I have 5 Leo in 5 Sun, 3 Leo in Psyche, 10 Leo in Proserpina.
My relationship has been rocky and i ended it. Partner has become paranoid and a bully. We're still on the break up phase rather than beyond it. I still have love for him but his retrogressive conventionality/old fashioned masculinity (for lack of a better phrase) are enough to me to keep us apart. He reached a peak with these 'qualities' now, too much. No good conflict resolution skills. The relationship has def followed stop-start motions. I used to see a partner in him but now i'm dubious whether i can support this role next to him.
Meanwhile a past love (big chapter, with whom we maintained our relationship as friendship but with acceptance of limitations as there are still feelings and i have moved on to the relationship i recently ended) has appeared in November & December and eventually vanished onwards.
I do want this friendship but i left it in his hands. Did he check out entirely?
There are also new people, that want to date with me, and i'm taking the chance to meet one of them (no strings attached, just company and good time) next week.
Maybe my brightest prospects are towards the ‘new’ and not yet known?
I do have love for the 2 aforementioned past relationships (i do keep them n separate 'buckets') yet i'm unsure which is the best path forward, for me and for them.
Is there anything that you see for me forward or/and any advice that you could share?
Thank you :)
You have quite a lot of Leo in your chart (a stellium) and so have felt the Mars Retrograde in Leo quite strongly. You ended your relationship and your ex-boyfriend is playing the role of Pluto. Pluto is a symbol of male domination and old-school masculine takeover tactics. Pluto in opposition moves very slowly, from Aquarius (this isn't just about the short-term call to action of Mars) and so if you persist with him, romantically, you may find you keep on meeting Pluto in human form. Pluto people can be quite manipulative but they are also passionate and undeniably seductive! Anyone new in your life in the bedroom or at the dating stage may also show up as Pluto in human form. Consciousness is everything in astrology so mindful avoidance of men who take, and take over, will help. You can use the Tarot on my website to personalise the details of this forecast when the time comes.