Leo Monthly Horoscope

Your Lifestyle, Wellbeing and Workload

Leo, this is the firm, final, fixed and finished end point with your lifestyle, wellbeing and workload. You can’t really separate your body from your job or your unpaid work or study. In fact, from head to toe, everything is connected. We include your mind in that, too, as mental health is obviously about self-care as much as the issues you might take to a doctor or healer.

Ever since Pluto changed signs in 2008, you’ve had around 16 years of questions about ‘fitness for duty’ or ‘fitness for service’ as so much of what you do is about putting other people first. This can be the case even if you’ve been the President of the United States which Barack Obama was. Leo, you have quite naturally kept your mental and/or physical health issues to yourself unless it was obvious to others. Pluto in Capricorn has challenged you to find your self-control and willpower all this time and you are now stronger for it.

Capricorn weather, prolonged for years (virtually climate change in your chart) rules your wellbeing, job, unpaid work, full-time or part-time study and your housework. People, organisations or situations which have pushed you very hard have come and gone. Now, in November 2024, you sign off for the last time in 248 years. And so, to your doctor, hypnotist, naturopath, surgeon, personal trainer, yoga teacher or your health insurance, medication, food, drink, drugs, and the rest. You are proceeding towards a reckoning-up and rebalancing here by the 7th of December as Ceres in Capricorn succeeds where Pluto in Capricorn leaves off. This may be a half-and-half arrangement with yourself, him, her or ‘that’ in your life.

Workload is the other sign-off here. For some Leo people, this is clearly the end of a job, redundance, retirement, promotion, or a new role. In other cases – depending on your health situation possibly interfering with work, housework, study and so on – it’s a year-end wrap. You will unwrap it in a thorough way in November and early December.

As I’ve said, this may have been about your unpaid work, as much as your paid work, or a university/college degree. Housework is integral as is the care of a dog or cat (all ruled by the Sixth House in your chart). It all adds up to 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and what you are doing now is quite momentous. You are stronger. Not quite invincible, but you must feel quite close to that. Your stoicism is formidable. Pluto’s gift to you for all that you have been through with workload and wellbeing since 2008 is tremendous self-respect, self-reliance and deep self-knowledge.

This cycle can end in a trivial way. You move into an apartment with a dishwasher, drier and service (a cleaner). You realise the dog which bullied you when a puppy is now a completely different creature. More seriously, Leo, if you have been undermined, ignored or short-changed professionally by jealous rivals, you will now see them moved out of the picture, for whatever reason. Or – you will simply no longer care.

You, You, You – Leo Weather

Mars Retrograde in Leo needs some tactics. Leo rules the First House of your solar chart, which is where you focus on your title, reputation, personal appearance, persona, profile, packaging and presentation. Half the battle is how you are known or viewed – how you appear. Expect delays, stop-start, and even cancellations between now and 2025. Plan accordingly.

This is the full timetable of Mars Retrograde in Leo:

* November 2024: Mars 0 to 5 Leo
* December 2024: Mars 6 to 2 Leo (Backwards or Retrograde).
* January 2025: Mars 1 to 0 Leo (Backwards or Retrograde).
* February 2025: Mars vanishes from Leo
* March 2025: Mars vanishes from Leo
* April 2025: Mars 0-5 Leo (Retracing his steps)
* May 2025: Mars 5 to 20 Leo (Retracing his steps)
* June 2025: Mars 21 to 29 Leo (Finishing the cycle)

Mars rules what you attack (so, attacking your appearance as an example) and also what you pioneer (so, pioneering a new way to promote yourself online). Mars is also associated with a battering ram approach – ramming forward, locking horns and charging in. Just be aware that doing this regarding your own name, face, appearance and projected personality will involve reversals and perhaps cancellations. If you jump the gun on a name change, for example, or your Facebook status (if you are even on there), then you may have to un-jump later on.

Do you have Aries factors in your natal chart? Double that message. There is more to this profile business than meets the eye, especially in 2025, when Saturn and Neptune enter your natal First House. If this is about branding, you may want to seek impartial professional advice.

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