2018 Leo Horoscope Preview

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Leo Horoscopes, Year 2018: Summary/preview of the year ahead for the zodiac sign Leo.

2018 Leo Horoscope Overview

The following is an overview horoscope for the zodiac sign of Leo the Lion for the year 2018.

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Leo Horoscope Preview for 2018

Areas of Expansion in 2018 for Leo: Home, Family, Romance, Entertainment, Hobbies

Your Leo 2018 Horoscope points to areas of life that are destined to expand and grow.

Home
Family
Romance
Hobbies
Creativity

Until November 8, 2018, you are more confident about your family, living arrangements, and living conditions. While this is a rather domestic transit, relationships with anyone you feel especially connected with emotionally can benefit. You are comfortable with your position, and you may be building loving and secure connections with others. There can be special attention to the comfort and beauty of your home or a stronger desire to connect with your roots. There is a stronger ability to bounce back from problems.

Your inner world, family life, domestic activities, and domestic arrangements expand and grow. Relations with family can be especially pleasant and supportive. You might move to a new home, likely a bigger one, or expand real estate holdings. Some of you can get a mortgage or support that allows you to expand your home base. Family itself can expand, or there might be an addition to your home. Some might take on a roommate for example, or bring more friends to their home. Others might pool resources with a partner and move in together. Entertaining in the home can be emphasized if that is something that makes you happy. Otherwise, you can experience a stronger sense of peace and privacy in your home life.

Because Jupiter is the natural ruler of your solar fifth house of entertainment, children, creativity, and romance, home life can be rich for developing your creative side and for exploring hobbies and other forms of entertainment. There may be an expanded family experience now. There can also be a strong desire to express your creativity through attention to the home and domestic pursuits.

Generally speaking, more positive energy is brought to your domestic world, and long-standing problems with family might be put to bed. Do be careful about overextending yourself with home improvements, or larger accommodations that are beyond your means. Your personal life tends to overshadow your professional life or material activities during this cycle. Relationships with family can improve significantly now, although pre-existing problems might be magnified initially.

This can be a good time to set up a home business or for home studies. On a more psychological level, confidence in yourself and feelings of security increase during this period.

Potential problems: Excessive money spent on home improvement, too much emphasis on the home to the point that other areas of your life suffer, or some unwillingness to expand your horizons. Avoiding or escaping responsibilities may be a problem from time to time. You may be wanting to please too many people, and overdoing things leaves you exhausted, as it seems there is never enough time and energy to meet all your needs.

However, from December 2017 to August 2018, there is an excellent influence with you that helps you strengthen and make the most out of the positive effects of this transit. There may be increased resources available to you for improving your home life. You also benefit from a home-work or home-health connection that gives your life a nice boost, and this happens from January to September 2018. When daily routines and work mesh well with home life as they do now, you’re in great shape!

For the most part, you are likely to feel emotionally secure and supported during this cycle. This is a time of nest-feathering. It’s a strong time for psychotherapy and purging as you are willing to look at the root of problems. It’s a good time for long-term financial planning and strengthening your financial picture through some form of pooling of resources. There can be more power and resources available to you to establish yourself, especially through a home or property, but also for long-term business endeavors.

From November 8, 2018, onward, your creative, playful, and romantic side expands and grows. This is a powerful time for self-expression, new forms of entertainment, and romantic explorations.

Because there has been rather serious or even tough energy in these areas of life in recent years, this new cycle with you until December 2019 can come as a breath of fresh air. You need to have some fun with this!

Your focus turns to having a good time, enjoying life, and expressing yourself in freeing, rewarding ways. Your romantic and creative worlds begin to expand and grow. You are learning to express yourself playfully and creatively without apology, and you are more willing to take some personal risks in order to do so.

Romantic opportunities tend to abound during this cycle; or chances to kick back and have fun, express yourself in unique ways, and pursue hobbies and entertainment are abundant. Creatively speaking, you can be filled with ideas and plans for realizing a dream.

This can be a fertile time on many levels, physically and emotionally. This position is associated with casual dating and exploring romantic possibilities.

Potential negatives: Excessive emphasis on, or attention to, having fun to the detriment of other life departments. You may especially need to come to a balance between attention to work and health routines and attention to romantic and creative needs, as both are strong pulls, particularly in December.

However, for the most part, you are likely to feel supported and confident during this approximately year-long cycle. A lover, child, or friend can open your mind or heart to new experiences. Creatively speaking, you can be well-received and your audience is likely to expand.

Areas of Contraction and Lessons in Simplicity: Work, Health, Habits

Your Leo 2018 Horoscope points to areas of contraction, restriction, and necessary “slimming down” in order to test for stable foundations. There are always areas of life that require more simplicity. Tests may be part of the picture as you learn that life with only growth and expansion can run away with itself.

Work
Health
Habits

Until 2020, the areas of your life that require a “back to basics” approach are associated with the sector of your solar chart that governs work, health, daily routines, employees, pets, and habits. There may be tests of sorts in these areas of life as if the universe is checking that the foundations are strong. Things built on weak foundations may crack under the pressure of these tests. Those that are strong will endure and strengthen.

This influence will be with you until 2020. It can be felt most strongly earlier or later in the cycle, depending on whether you were born earlier or later in the sign of Leo. This year, those born in the first eleven days of Leo or with a Leo Ascendant of 1-11 degrees are most affected by it in 2018.

Tests can come to work and working relationships during this cycle. Responsibilities in your daily life can weigh heavily – they appear magnified. Do be sure that you are tending to your responsibilities, and not letting them pile up. Some of you might even experience some form of loss or scandal on the work front, or possibly some heavy-handed activity and power plays with co-workers.

For those of you unhappy with your job or out of work, you are not likely to jump to grab just any position that comes along now. You are looking for something mature, long-term, and reflective of your values. However, because you are more discriminating now, the pickings might seem to be slim.

The monotonous part of your work can seem harder to take, and it’s up to you to work on restructuring enough to make it work for you. Try not to see flaws, complain, and leave it at that. Take it upon yourself to make whatever adjustments you can that will improve your working conditions. The rewards may be slow to transpire, but they’re great when they do come!

This can be true of daily routines, not just working conditions. Health matters might be a little more problematic than usual. Even so, these are likely to be minor problems that can be fixed with extra attention. Essentially, this transit gives you a kick in the pants to get your self-care programs into good shape.

While the work we do may sometimes feel too routine or boring, it can also give us a strong feeling of purpose. We want to be needed, we want to help and support others, and to do our share. If you’ve been overdoing a supportive role, or if you’ve been scattering your energies and haven’t truly noted just how much you do, then Saturn here will stimulate you to tidy up. In the end, you can, in fact, feel more joyful about the services you provide and the support you give, after taking a realistic look at these things and making the necessary adjustments.

Seek ways to balance your activities and responsibilities. This is also an excellent time for simplifying and structuring your life. Because the energy of this theme is comfortable and understandable to you in these areas of life, you may very well welcome the structuring energy of this transit on your daily routines. The last time similar themes occurs was 1988-1990.

Areas of Excitement, Innovation, Independence, and Speed

Your 2018 Leo Horoscope points to areas of your life that seem to speed up so that you can take some risks, innovate, and revolutionize.

Belief Systems
Travel
Perspective
Education
Career
Reputation

In March 2011, you entered a lengthy cycle in which your belief systems and knowledge change and develop, and this is active until March 2019. However, this year, some new areas of your life are affected — your career and reputation in particular — from May 15th to November 6th. This theme fades out and then returns in March 2019 more consistently. In 2018, this is how everything breaks down:

Until May 15th and then from November 6th forward, you continue to experience a spiritual awakening of sorts. Travel opportunities may arise. Learning needs to be exciting or cutting edge for you in order to keep your interest, but while you are less interested in traditional subjects or methods of learning, if you are on an educational path, be sure to “endure” some of these things so that your training is relevant to your career goals. Life experiences are unpredictable and exciting. You are embracing change and easily incorporate changes into your personality.

This may be a time when your life path takes an unexpected turn. Although this can happen in 2018, this influence has been with you for many years. The urge to get out and about is bound to grab hold of you. Make sure you don’t shirk important responsibilities or jump on a bandwagon that is impractical, particularly in early November and mid-December when you could feel some tension as both home/family and adventure/studies/travel can be strong draws and it’s difficult managing both. Borrowing too heavily to finance your adventures may be a problem for some at this time.

Otherwise this is a good time for opportunities related to travel, publishing, promotional activities, favorable legal outcomes, or education. This can be a very romantic and creative period. Certainly, you’ll find channels and outlets for self-expression that can be very personally rewarding.

From May 15th to November 6th, 2018, your career, professional projects, reputation, and public image open up and change. These areas of life can be unpredictable – the wildcard areas of life – but also highly stimulating and innovative. You can bring fresh insight to your work.

This may be a time when you take an unexpected turn in your work. Although this can happen in 2018, this influence spans many years, returning more permanently in March 2019. Make sure you don’t jump on a bandwagon that is impractical. Also, while you prefer to set your own pace in your work, try not to become a loner in your professional life. Others can have valuable input that you might miss while you’re too busy asserting your independence!

Note that this influence kicks in more consistently from March 2019 forward (until April 2026).

Areas of Change, Purging, & Transformation

Your 2018 Leo Horoscope reveals areas of life in which change and transformation take place. It’s a time for “out with the old, in with the new.”

Health
Work
Service
Routines & Habits
Partnerships
Personality
Independence
Private or Spiritual Life

Attitudes towards work, services you provide for others, daily routines, and health continue to transform this year, and they will for many years to come. This is a good period for ridding yourself of bad habits or routines, but be careful that you don’t replace one bad habit with another!

Of course, there can be times when these alterations cause friction, and in 2018, this is more likely to happen in late November, when overdoing and overscheduling can be a real problem, eating into your creative or romantic life. Watch for excess and burning the candle at both ends, which is a real temptation.

In 2018, the Moon’s Nodes and eclipse activity continue to encourage finding a balance between partnering and independence — this is the challenge (and the joy). Your personality and your partnerships evolve in important ways. Your definitions of “me” and “you” are transforming. Issues of personal courage, confidence, and independence come to the fore. Personal appearance, your body, and your image become especially important. For some, marriage or divorce will be in focus. For most, carving out a personal identity that includes a significant other who furthers their own personal growth will come into strong focus.

The North Node in your own sign until November 6th points to a real need to learn how to rely on yourself, which ultimately will bring you joy and opportunity. Work on the balance between independence and partnership, particularly around the eclipses in January/February and July/August.

An eclipse in mid-July, as well as the North Node’s new transit of your privacy sector from November 6th, pulls up themes that will play out more fully in 2019, but a first nudge occurs now. The North Node in your sector of endings, spirituality, and privacy from November forward points to a real need to connect to your inner world, as well as to help and support others, as these things can bring wonderful benefits and much joy to your life.

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