Leo Horoscope for February 2015

This is a huge time for you, Leo, in every way, a roller-coaster ride of a monthly cycle when exciting scenes flourish, and when you also must at times retreat from the intensity to peer inside yourself and make sure that you first and foremost tend your own garden. While not always easy, this month is full of important lessons to be learned from whatever difficulties you encounter. You are in a gratefully expansive mode, and yet full of contradictions as well. Partnership provides fresh energy with over-the-top excitement to go along with your general enthusiasm, though you are also likely to be abundantly aware of the drawbacks as well as the advantages of jumping ahead. You are conscious of a mystical wisdom that seems to rise up out of your deep places almost unbidden, providing that you can stay open to it.

As the month begins, you are still enjoying the liveliness stemming from the Aquarius New Moon of one and a half weeks ago, which lit up your relationship sector. There has been fresh energy for considering the impact on your life of partnership with others; especially since this New Moon timing was accompanied by a practically simultaneous and intense retrograde of Mercury in the same sector, increasing reflection and introspection as you look more closely into your connections with others, and your relationship dynamics in general. Because this New Moon greatly featured expansive Jupiter in your sign, as you enter into your meditation on relationship you are also likely mulling over issues of identity, optimism and idealism.

In your journey of the heart, you are learning to love yourself in a new and perhaps more joyous fashion, and that has a way of radiating out into the relationships you cherish as well, including romantic partnerships. Allowing this overflow of emotion to expand you with love is a beautiful practice, although the challenge for you is to keep one finger on the pulse of humility and practicality, guarding yourself against drifting off into ethers of pure bliss. The limiting energy of Saturn is also highlighted this month, bringing an antithetical sense of caution and holding back into the picture along with your enthusiasm, and this factor has its plus side as well as its drawbacks. You could find yourself peering with a light gaze into a balanced philosophy, where your heart and your mind are equal contributors for navigating these continued intense times.

With Mars surging through your sector of intimacy and personal evolution, you may find your sexuality and urges for intimate connection on over-drive. With this fiery planetary energy conjunct Neptune at the New Moon, and then conjoined with Chiron on the first of the month, your imagination and fantasies are enlivened and extra-passionate. Whether you share this with a partner or explore on your own, there is certainly a vast landscape of nuance and earthly pleasure for you to discover. It is possible that with Chiron in the picture you may also bump into some sense of painful relationship process, perhaps around reality not matching up to your high flying vision, yet this can also present a poignant opportunity to work with the hurt inside you, and sort through your emotions in a way that brings you into greater presence and simple acceptance of what is.

Your personal philosophy has been undergoing nothing short of a full-blown renovation, and this month the transformation continues. With Pluto still just one degree from exact square with Uranus, which was also conjunct the South Lunar Node at the timing of the New Moon, you may be getting an unusually clear glimpse into the education you have received in this lifetime. Taking stock and inventory of all the most significant lessons of your life experience could give you a more accurate idea of how far you've come, and may assist in gaining a greater knowing of where your inner compass is pointing you in the present. Allowing curiosity combined with a healthy sense of balance to be your guide, you may stumble into some surprising self-realizations.