Leo Monthly Horoscope June 2018

Leo (Born July 23 to August 2)
AND Leo Ascendant 0 to 10 degrees Leo:

June 2018 Leo Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends

Overview.

The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness

Until June 21st:

The Sun continues to put a spotlight on your solar eleventh house. During this cycle, you are planting seeds for the future, dreaming up plans that you might begin to develop two months down the road, if they still seem viable then. You are more aware of the benefits of networking, and you might find some great ideas through others now. You might be working in a team now.

You could be questioning some of the rules you have been living by and you could be ready to try something totally new. You are more attracted to that which is progressive or unconventional during this cycle.

From June 21st forward:

The Sun travels through your twelfth house now, marking a time of retreat and regeneration. Think about the attachments you have--to things, people, and routines--and consider which ones are dragging you down. This is a time when competitive energies and the ego are on a bit of a break.

It's not the time to push ahead with brand new projects. Rather, it's a time of reflection, dreaming, and recharging your batteries. Situations that have naturally outgrown their usefulness in your life can now be put behind you. Endings of natural cycles may be part of the picture at this time of year. Your energy is largely applied to personal and private affairs now. Your disposition is introspective. Rest and reflect, and prepare for a more outgoing cycle when the Sun moves into your first house.

Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort

Until the 13th: 

Venus continues to transit through your solar twelfth house now. The twelfth house is a sector of endings, privacy, and mental health, and with Venus here, it's possible that you are reviewing your feelings for someone, or enjoying a more private love life for the time being. You may not be open with your affections for whatever reason now, and this shouldn't be a problem—it may be difficult to articulate, verbalize, or intellectualize your feelings for the time being. Doing some soul-searching as well as an enhanced ability to perceive other dimensions in love can lead you to a deeper understanding of your own love needs and possibly of a love relationship. Love might involve some form of sacrifice or simply a lot of giving and lending of support as opposed to receiving during this cycle.

From June 13th forward: 

You could find it hard to deny yourself much of anything during this cycle! This is a time when you naturally let loose your softer, receptive side. Romantic matters, as well as pleasure-seeking activities, come to the fore now. You are more likely to pay closer attention to your physical appearance and mannerisms, aiming to improve and enhance your attractiveness. Others find you especially agreeable and cooperative. You are more gracious, well-behaved (superficial if you are not careful!), and likable now. Take advantage! It's a time when you turn heads, and it's also a period for extra attention to pleasures, pampering, and enjoyment.

Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation

Until the 12th: 

Mercury continues to journey through your solar eleventh house. This is a time when conversations with friends and various networking activities are much appreciated and offer learning experiences. Your ideas just now are especially progressive and unconventional, as you are questioning the rules you typically live by and entertaining some wild ideas.

Not all of these ideas are necessarily going to last or lead to new projects, but it's a time of dreaming up new possibilities and new possible solutions to problems. You are especially interested in spending time with people who are like-minded. Social interactions are more frequent, light, and fun during this cycle.

From June 12-29: 

Your mind is focused on private matters and past issues while Mercury transits the twelfth house of your solar chart. This is a time when you are least likely to speak out of turn or to express yourself freely. You're searching behind the curtain, and examining the past for answers.

This is a good time for research, quiet contemplation, and meditation; but do avoid getting dragged down by issues that have outgrown their worth and purpose. Examining the past in order to improve the future is certainly worthwhile, as long as you don't waste your energy on guilt. Creative endeavors could prosper now, particularly those that draw upon the emotions or that require creative visualization skills, such as poetry, art, acting, and other such activities.

You are likely to require a certain amount of solitude in order to get your thoughts together or to be mentally productive. You are less likely to chat indiscriminately during this transit, and tend to be a little secretive or tight-lipped for the time being. This may be important, in fact, because this position of Mercury is sometimes associated with the uncovering of secrets, so discretion may be in order.

From June 29th forward: 

With Mercury in your solar first house, you are most inclined to speak up about matters that you previously were only mulling over. Your disposition is more intellectual than usual now, and self-expression comes easily. You are sharper than usual--more observant, and more inclined to "live in the head". Relationships with siblings, neighbors, classmates, and casual friends may become more prominent in your life now.

It is likely that you will initiate discussions during this period, evaluate your appearance and the impact you have on those around you, and make contact with others rather than stay chained to any one place or activity.

This is the time to be direct and to communicate your needs and interests. You are more inclined to talk about yourself and your personal past now. This may also be a restless time when it is difficult to turn the thinking process off when it would be better to relax! It is an especially fruitful time for any endeavor that requires dealing with words, ideas, and facts and figures.

Your demeanor is more youthful, perhaps mischievous, light-hearted, and non-threatening so that others may be more inclined to turn to you for advice or pleasant conversation. Using the power of words to attract what you want or to further your interests works best for you now.

Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage

All month:

Mars continues to move through your solar seventh house. During this period, strife is possible in your close personal relationships, as a significant other is now mirroring some of your own issues with assertiveness and anger. Attracting aggression in others during this cycle is a clue that there are unresolved issues within that need tending. You might actually seek some form of conflict, whether intentionally or not, in order to deal with these issues. There can be competitiveness in your life now. Any troublesome issues that have been dormant in a relationship are likely to surface, and can now be handled straightforwardly.

Mars is retrograde from June 26-August 27

All Mars retrograde cycles affect you in the areas of faith, wisdom, perspective, personal philosophy, higher education, travel, and adventure in general because Mars rules your solar ninth house. You could find that you are less confident about expressing yourself in adventurous ways. Your outlook on life in terms of the "bigger picture" could be a little more cautious, and you might find that you temporarily have less faith.

From June 26-August 12

Occurring in your solar seventh house during this period, enthusiasm for a partnership or coming from a partner could appear to be waning. A partner could seem to be less direct or could be harder to reach. Partnering projects or initiatives, or negotiations, could stall, or you could find that you are less confident about expressing yourself well in a one-to-one manner. Watch for pent-up anger and passive-aggressiveness with partnerships. A lover may be especially intense or obsessive, or you could experience this in your own behavior. Refocus, backtracking, and review become necessary and recommended now. This cycle forces you to reorganize your energy with regards to people and partnerships. You could be re-assessing the ways in which you approach relationships, as well as what it is you want from your relationships. You are doing very important "work" that can benefit you greatly. You have the chance to reassess how you've been dealing with partners or potential partners, and you may be finding new and improved ways to get along. If you're stimulating angry situations, you need to consider your role in the interaction. If you're coming on too strong, you need to find ways to tone things down.

Overview Horoscope:

June 2018 Monthly Leo Horoscope: As June begins, you're in a fantastic period for cultivating contacts, getting involved, networking, sharing ideas and time or energy, dear Leo. Valuable new connections can be made, or you may be strengthening your ties with current friends and associates. It's a high-powered time for making friendships work. Progress occurs through groups, like-minded people, friends, networking, associates, and new, experimental, and innovative ideas and approaches.

Especially around the 4-5, you may be giving a lot of thought to friendships, group associations, and long-term goals or you enjoy new insights into these areas of your life. You can feel excited and hopeful about the future. Your personal happiness goals or cherished causes are in focus. You might gain more clarity about or through a friend. Alternatively, this can be a time of further developments on an initiative from late March that is now gaining traction. Friends have something essential to contribute or say right now. The full details of a plan may be born.

Part of you is holding yourself back with Venus in your privacy sector until the 13th. You might take special pleasure in their private life. Dreams can be intriguing, and time in relative solitude can be especially rewarding. Decision making about money and love is not straightforward, though, and it's wise to take your time to come to reliable conclusions. You may not be ready to share your feelings with the world.

From the 13th forward, life enlivens. The New Moon in your friendship sector on the 13th is energizing and can light a fire under you to begin a new project or to make connections. Further, Venus enters your sign, where she will stay until July 9th, clarifying your affections and boosting your feelings of comfort with yourself. You radiate warmth and gentle confidence during this pleasing transit. This is a time to attract good things and considerate people into your life.

Neptune turns retrograde on the 18th, and this shift can temporarily throw you off kilter. It can pull up questions about recent dreams and plans, ownership or sharing issues, or a relationship. Slowing down can be to catch your bearings, and also for getting into closer touch with your true desires. The cycle itself lasts until November and is strong for exploring dreams, motivations, and spiritual needs, however.

The 19-20 is wonderful for tapping into your intuition. A break would be excellently timed now, if it can be managed! You have a stronger drive to enjoy your family or home life and energies support connecting with loved ones and your inner world through musings, journaling, conversations, and fantasies. You might gain valuable insight or inspiration through your communications with loved ones or even through your dreams. New information about a personal, childhood, or private matter can boost your confidence, make you feel happy, and perhaps set the ball rolling towards healing.  There is strong energy for work done behind the scenes and thinking done in relative solitude. The grand design behind recent events continues to unfold for you, as this is an important period of self-discovery.

Around the 21st, however, Venus in your sign opposes Mars shortly before Mars turns retrograde, and relationships can be conflicted but also hold valuable lessons. Cupid's arrows may be flying in the wrong directions now, and it's wise to be sensitive to others now, but it's also a time when you or someone needs some space to figure things out. At the same time, the Sun moves into your privacy sector, signaling the beginning of a month-long period for review, reform, and renewal. This comes at a time when Mars is moving slowly before turning retrograde in your opposing sign, reinforcing the need to take things easy and reassess matters.

Lowered vitality is possible with the retrograde of Mars beginning on the 26th in your partnership sector. Be sure to honor your need for extra rest. It's not the time to push yourself too hard, particularly since the Sun moved into your privacy sector on the 21st - another indicator that you need to slow down, rest, reflect, and observe. Mars' retrograde lasts until August 27th, and the first leg of the journey (until August 12th) especially affects partnerships and close relationships. Buried problems can surface in partnerships, and resolving them can initially seem complicated. Straightforwardly dealing with others can be challenging for one reason or the other. You may be looking to the past for answers during this period. You have the chance to reassess how you've been dealing with partners or potential partners, and you may be finding new and improved ways to get along. Taking things slowly is best now, and in fact, beneficial once you adjust to the shift in energy.

The Full Moon on the 27-28 ties in with a Sun-Saturn opposition. A feeling of being overwhelmed by responsibilities or duties can push you to make necessary changes. Obligations that you've forgotten about or avoided may need your attention now, perhaps with some consequences if you've let something slide. Your need for extra rest is high with both the Sun and Mercury in your privacy sector, but right now, there can be some loose ends or extra work to do before you catch a real break. Once something is put behind you, you'll feel relieved and more balanced inside and out. Mercury moves into your sign on the 29th, and you're finding your voice! You'll find it easier to express yourself and make firm decisions.

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See also 2018 Leo Horoscope.

Leo (Born August 3 to 12)
AND Leo Ascendant from 10 to 20 degrees Leo:

June 2018 Leo Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends

Overview.

The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness

All month:

The Sun lights your solar eleventh house. The Sun illuminates your sector of friends, groups, and dreams coming true this month. It's a sociable sector of your chart, and that's exactly how you are feeling--happy, light-hearted, cosmopolitan, and social. Group affiliations capture your attention. Connections can be made now and networking pays off, or at least satisfies. Being part of a community or circle of friends and building your social network is important to you at this time.

This is a rather happy, goal-oriented cycle. A lively agenda is promised, you're attracting quite a bit of interest, and your energy for making contact with others is high. A stronger sense of community is with you during this cycle. Relationships take on a fun, if impersonal, tone now. Activities with children (especially others' children) may increase. You are more stimulated by all that is unconventional during this cycle, and your ideas are original and progressive now. This is a time to follow your dreams and ideals, and to plant a seed in the form of a wish for the future.

Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort

Until the 22nd: 

Venus continues to transit through your solar twelfth house now. The twelfth house is a sector of endings, privacy, and mental health, and with Venus here, it's possible that you are reviewing your feelings for someone, or enjoying a more private love life for the time being. You may not be open with your affections for whatever reason now, and this shouldn't be a problem—it may be difficult to articulate, verbalize, or intellectualize your feelings for the time being. Doing some soul-searching as well as an enhanced ability to perceive other dimensions in love can lead you to a deeper understanding of your own love needs and possibly of a love relationship. Love might involve some form of sacrifice or simply a lot of giving and lending of support as opposed to receiving during this cycle.

From June 22nd forward: 

You could find it hard to deny yourself much of anything during this cycle! This is a time when you naturally let loose your softer, receptive side. Romantic matters, as well as pleasure-seeking activities, come to the fore now. You are more likely to pay closer attention to your physical appearance and mannerisms, aiming to improve and enhance your attractiveness. Others find you especially agreeable and cooperative. You are more gracious, well-behaved (superficial if you are not careful!), and likable now. Take advantage! It's a time when you turn heads, and it's also a period for extra attention to pleasures, pampering, and enjoyment.

Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation

Until June 3rd:

Mercury continues to transit your solar tenth house. Career matters are busy at this time, and there can be plenty of thoughts and/or conversations about your profession, your reputation, or your social standing during this cycle. It's a good time to analyze your work tasks and to streamline them or improve your skills. There may be increased contact with the public now, or you might experience an increased need to be heard and acknowledged for your intelligence, skills, capabilities, and ideas.

From June 3-17: 

Mercury is transiting your solar eleventh house. Your mind is bright, alert, and active during this cycle, and you have the ability to come up with unusual and inventive ideas. Sharing your thoughts with others is a prime interest. Others tend to particularly enjoy your conversations during this transit--you are willing to listen as well as add your own thoughts.

As well, your ability to grasp unusual subject matter and to intuitively understand what others are trying to say win you some brownie points! You could also do a lot of thinking and musing about your own happiness and long-term goals.

From June 17th forward: 

Your mind is focused on private matters and past issues while Mercury transits the twelfth house of your solar chart. This is a time when you are least likely to speak out of turn or to express yourself freely. You're searching behind the curtain, and examining the past for answers.

This is a good time for research, quiet contemplation, and meditation; but do avoid getting dragged down by issues that have outgrown their worth and purpose. Examining the past in order to improve the future is certainly worthwhile, as long as you don't waste your energy on guilt. Creative endeavors could prosper now, particularly those that draw upon the emotions or that require creative visualization skills, such as poetry, art, acting, and other such activities.

You are likely to require a certain amount of solitude in order to get your thoughts together or to be mentally productive. You are less likely to chat indiscriminately during this transit, and tend to be a little secretive or tight-lipped for the time being. This may be important, in fact, because this position of Mercury is sometimes associated with the uncovering of secrets, so discretion may be in order.

Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage

All month:

Mars continues to animate and energize your solar sixth house. Energy and initiative for work, health, and other daily activities increase. You are self-motivated when it comes to these matters. If there are disagreements and disputes that erupt on the job now, they may be due to a feeling of stress or impatience, or they could come from your desire to get things done independently. It's best to apply energy productively to completing projects that are unfinished or even to get ahead of yourself. It's a strong period for feeling motivated for starting a new health or fitness routine.

Mars is retrograde from June 26-August 27

All Mars retrograde cycles affect you in the areas of faith, wisdom, perspective, personal philosophy, higher education, travel, and adventure in general because Mars rules your solar ninth house. You could find that you are less confident about expressing yourself in adventurous ways. Your outlook on life in terms of the "bigger picture" could be a little more cautious, and you might find that you temporarily have less faith.

From June 26-August 12

Occurring in your solar sixth house during this date range, enthusiasm for your work or health regimes, or for work projects and daily routines, could wane perhaps due to setbacks or stalling. Work itself could seem to be less straightforward or satisfying. New initiatives with these matters may appear less exciting, or you could find that you are less confident about expressing yourself in these areas of life. For some, there can be much preoccupation with your health or work endeavors, and possibly frustration with daily routines. Watch for pent-up anger and passive-aggressiveness on the job. Refocus, backtracking, and review become necessary and recommended now. This Mars retrograde emphasizes practical and work matters. How you organize your time is in question now.

Overview Horoscope:

June 2018 Monthly Leo Horoscope: As June begins, you're in a fantastic period for cultivating contacts, getting involved, networking, sharing ideas and time or energy, dear Leo. Valuable new connections can be made, or you may be strengthening your ties with current friends and associates. It's a high-powered time for making friendships work. Progress occurs through groups, like-minded people, friends, networking, associates, and new, experimental, and innovative ideas and approaches.

Especially around the 4-5, you may be giving a lot of thought to friendships, group associations, and long-term goals or you enjoy new insights into these areas of your life. You can feel excited and hopeful about the future. Your personal happiness goals or cherished causes are in focus. You might gain more clarity about or through a friend. Alternatively, this can be a time of further developments on an initiative from late March that is now gaining traction. Friends have something essential to contribute or say right now. The full details of a plan may be born.

Part of you is holding yourself back with Venus in your privacy sector until the 13th. You might take special pleasure in their private life. Dreams can be intriguing, and time in relative solitude can be especially rewarding. Decision making about money and love is not straightforward, though, and it's wise to take your time to come to reliable conclusions. You may not be ready to share your feelings with the world.

From the 13th forward, life enlivens. The New Moon in your friendship sector on the 13th is energizing and can light a fire under you to begin a new project or to make connections. Further, Venus enters your sign, where she will stay until July 9th, clarifying your affections and boosting your feelings of comfort with yourself. You radiate warmth and gentle confidence during this pleasing transit. This is a time to attract good things and considerate people into your life.

Neptune turns retrograde on the 18th, and this shift can temporarily throw you off kilter. It can pull up questions about recent dreams and plans, ownership or sharing issues, or a relationship. Slowing down can be to catch your bearings, and also for getting into closer touch with your true desires. The cycle itself lasts until November and is strong for exploring dreams, motivations, and spiritual needs, however.

The 19-20 is wonderful for tapping into your intuition. A break would be excellently timed now, if it can be managed! You have a stronger drive to enjoy your family or home life and energies support connecting with loved ones and your inner world through musings, journaling, conversations, and fantasies. You might gain valuable insight or inspiration through your communications with loved ones or even through your dreams. New information about a personal, childhood, or private matter can boost your confidence, make you feel happy, and perhaps set the ball rolling towards healing.  There is strong energy for work done behind the scenes and thinking done in relative solitude. The grand design behind recent events continues to unfold for you, as this is an important period of self-discovery.

Around the 21st, however, Venus in your sign opposes Mars shortly before Mars turns retrograde, and relationships can be conflicted but also hold valuable lessons. Cupid's arrows may be flying in the wrong directions now, and it's wise to be sensitive to others now, but it's also a time when you or someone needs some space to figure things out. At the same time, the Sun moves into your privacy sector, signaling the beginning of a month-long period for review, reform, and renewal. This comes at a time when Mars is moving slowly before turning retrograde in your opposing sign, reinforcing the need to take things easy and reassess matters.

Lowered vitality is possible with the retrograde of Mars beginning on the 26th in your partnership sector. Be sure to honor your need for extra rest. It's not the time to push yourself too hard, particularly since the Sun moved into your privacy sector on the 21st - another indicator that you need to slow down, rest, reflect, and observe. Mars' retrograde lasts until August 27th, and the first leg of the journey (until August 12th) especially affects partnerships and close relationships. Buried problems can surface in partnerships, and resolving them can initially seem complicated. Straightforwardly dealing with others can be challenging for one reason or the other. You may be looking to the past for answers during this period. You have the chance to reassess how you've been dealing with partners or potential partners, and you may be finding new and improved ways to get along. Taking things slowly is best now, and in fact, beneficial once you adjust to the shift in energy.

The Full Moon on the 27-28 ties in with a Sun-Saturn opposition. A feeling of being overwhelmed by responsibilities or duties can push you to make necessary changes. Obligations that you've forgotten about or avoided may need your attention now, perhaps with some consequences if you've let something slide. Your need for extra rest is high with both the Sun and Mercury in your privacy sector, but right now, there can be some loose ends or extra work to do before you catch a real break. Once something is put behind you, you'll feel relieved and more balanced inside and out. Mercury moves into your sign on the 29th, and you're finding your voice! You'll find it easier to express yourself and make firm decisions.

See our Time Line Forecast report for a personalized forecast for the year ahead.

Get your unique Personalized Horoscope for the year ahead—over 100 pages long—for a detailed guide to your best days and your most challenging days for attracting love, career success, communication, and more.

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birth chart reports, relationship reports, future forecasts, and more.

Love & Romance Forecast Report

Love outlook for the year ahead. Try our Love & Romance Forecast report.

Romantic Compatibility Reports

Try Cafe Astrology's in-depth
romantic compatibility reports, including the Synastry and Love Ties reports.

See also 2018 Leo Horoscope.

Leo (Born August 13 to 22)
AND Leo Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Leo:

June 2018 Leo Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends

Overview.

The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness

Until June 10th:

The Sun continues to put a spotlight on your solar tenth house. Satisfaction and fulfillment during this cycle come from doing your professional best, shining as a responsible and capable person, and contributing to the world in practical ways. You might have a chance to receive acknowledgement or praise for your work or good character now. Landing support from authority figures is easier at this time. Avoid the pitfalls of pride or arrogance standing in your way of success.

From June 10th forward:

The Sun lights your solar eleventh house. The Sun illuminates your sector of friends, groups, and dreams coming true this month. It's a sociable sector of your chart, and that's exactly how you are feeling--happy, light-hearted, cosmopolitan, and social. Group affiliations capture your attention. Connections can be made now and networking pays off, or at least satisfies. Being part of a community or circle of friends and building your social network is important to you at this time.

This is a rather happy, goal-oriented cycle. A lively agenda is promised, you're attracting quite a bit of interest, and your energy for making contact with others is high. A stronger sense of community is with you during this cycle. Relationships take on a fun, if impersonal, tone now. Activities with children (especially others' children) may increase. You are more stimulated by all that is unconventional during this cycle, and your ideas are original and progressive now. This is a time to follow your dreams and ideals, and to plant a seed in the form of a wish for the future.

Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort

Until June 5th: 

Venus continues to move through your solar eleventh house. This is a strong time for putting your ego aside and lowering your defenses and simply enjoying people. It's a good time for networking and settling disputes if there are differences to iron out with friends. Cooperation comes easily, and warm friendships can be made during this cycle. Personal freedom is especially important to you right now, and you won't enjoy any associations that limit you. It can also be a good time for earnings from business.

From June 5th forward: 

Venus is spending some time in "hibernation" in your privacy sector. Now, this doesn't necessarily mean that your love life is stagnant, but that your affection is expressed behind closed doors. Attraction to secrets and whispers characterize this period, although for some, it can also be a time of endings, relationship concerns, and wistfulness. Personal and social contacts may be secretive, and there can be secret love affairs, or at least very private love feelings and longings. Shyness can lead to some loneliness or romantic frustration. However, this can also be a deliciously private and intimate time.

Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation

Until the 8th: 

Mercury continues to transit your solar tenth house. Career matters are busy at this time, and there can be plenty of thoughts and/or conversations about your profession, your reputation, or your social standing during this cycle. It's a good time to analyze your work tasks and to streamline them or improve your skills. There may be increased contact with the public now, or you might experience an increased need to be heard and acknowledged for your intelligence, skills, capabilities, and ideas.

From the 8-23: 

Mercury is transiting your solar eleventh house. Your mind is bright, alert, and active during this cycle, and you have the ability to come up with unusual and inventive ideas. Sharing your thoughts with others is a prime interest. Others tend to particularly enjoy your conversations during this transit--you are willing to listen as well as add your own thoughts.

As well, your ability to grasp unusual subject matter and to intuitively understand what others are trying to say win you some brownie points! You could also do a lot of thinking and musing about your own happiness and long-term goals.

From June 23rd forward: 

Your mind is focused on private matters and past issues while Mercury transits the twelfth house of your solar chart. This is a time when you are least likely to speak out of turn or to express yourself freely. You're searching behind the curtain, and examining the past for answers.

This is a good time for research, quiet contemplation, and meditation; but do avoid getting dragged down by issues that have outgrown their worth and purpose. Examining the past in order to improve the future is certainly worthwhile, as long as you don't waste your energy on guilt. Creative endeavors could prosper now, particularly those that draw upon the emotions or that require creative visualization skills, such as poetry, art, acting, and other such activities.

You are likely to require a certain amount of solitude in order to get your thoughts together or to be mentally productive. You are less likely to chat indiscriminately during this transit, and tend to be a little secretive or tight-lipped for the time being. This may be important, in fact, because this position of Mercury is sometimes associated with the uncovering of secrets, so discretion may be in order.

Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage

All month:

Mars continues to animate and energize your solar sixth house. Energy and initiative for work, health, and other daily activities increase. You are self-motivated when it comes to these matters. If there are disagreements and disputes that erupt on the job now, they may be due to a feeling of stress or impatience, or they could come from your desire to get things done independently. It's best to apply energy productively to completing projects that are unfinished or even to get ahead of yourself. It's a strong period for feeling motivated for starting a new health or fitness routine.

Mars is retrograde from June 26-August 27

All Mars retrograde cycles affect you in the areas of faith, wisdom, perspective, personal philosophy, higher education, travel, and adventure in general because Mars rules your solar ninth house. You could find that you are less confident about expressing yourself in adventurous ways. Your outlook on life in terms of the "bigger picture" could be a little more cautious, and you might find that you temporarily have less faith.

From June 26-August 12

Occurring in your solar sixth house during this date range, enthusiasm for your work or health regimes, or for work projects and daily routines, could wane perhaps due to setbacks or stalling. Work itself could seem to be less straightforward or satisfying. New initiatives with these matters may appear less exciting, or you could find that you are less confident about expressing yourself in these areas of life. For some, there can be much preoccupation with your health or work endeavors, and possibly frustration with daily routines. Watch for pent-up anger and passive-aggressiveness on the job. Refocus, backtracking, and review become necessary and recommended now. This Mars retrograde emphasizes practical and work matters. How you organize your time is in question now.

Overview Horoscope:

June 2018 Monthly Leo Horoscope: As June begins, you're in a fantastic period for cultivating contacts, getting involved, networking, sharing ideas and time or energy, dear Leo. Valuable new connections can be made, or you may be strengthening your ties with current friends and associates. It's a high-powered time for making friendships work. Progress occurs through groups, like-minded people, friends, networking, associates, and new, experimental, and innovative ideas and approaches.

Especially around the 4-5, you may be giving a lot of thought to friendships, group associations, and long-term goals or you enjoy new insights into these areas of your life. You can feel excited and hopeful about the future. Your personal happiness goals or cherished causes are in focus. You might gain more clarity about or through a friend. Alternatively, this can be a time of further developments on an initiative from late March that is now gaining traction. Friends have something essential to contribute or say right now. The full details of a plan may be born.

Part of you is holding yourself back with Venus in your privacy sector until the 13th. You might take special pleasure in their private life. Dreams can be intriguing, and time in relative solitude can be especially rewarding. Decision making about money and love is not straightforward, though, and it's wise to take your time to come to reliable conclusions. You may not be ready to share your feelings with the world.

From the 13th forward, life enlivens. The New Moon in your friendship sector on the 13th is energizing and can light a fire under you to begin a new project or to make connections. Further, Venus enters your sign, where she will stay until July 9th, clarifying your affections and boosting your feelings of comfort with yourself. You radiate warmth and gentle confidence during this pleasing transit. This is a time to attract good things and considerate people into your life.

Neptune turns retrograde on the 18th, and this shift can temporarily throw you off kilter. It can pull up questions about recent dreams and plans, ownership or sharing issues, or a relationship. Slowing down can be to catch your bearings, and also for getting into closer touch with your true desires. The cycle itself lasts until November and is strong for exploring dreams, motivations, and spiritual needs, however.

The 19-20 is wonderful for tapping into your intuition. A break would be excellently timed now, if it can be managed! You have a stronger drive to enjoy your family or home life and energies support connecting with loved ones and your inner world through musings, journaling, conversations, and fantasies. You might gain valuable insight or inspiration through your communications with loved ones or even through your dreams. New information about a personal, childhood, or private matter can boost your confidence, make you feel happy, and perhaps set the ball rolling towards healing.  There is strong energy for work done behind the scenes and thinking done in relative solitude. The grand design behind recent events continues to unfold for you, as this is an important period of self-discovery.

Around the 21st, however, Venus in your sign opposes Mars shortly before Mars turns retrograde, and relationships can be conflicted but also hold valuable lessons. Cupid's arrows may be flying in the wrong directions now, and it's wise to be sensitive to others now, but it's also a time when you or someone needs some space to figure things out. At the same time, the Sun moves into your privacy sector, signaling the beginning of a month-long period for review, reform, and renewal. This comes at a time when Mars is moving slowly before turning retrograde in your opposing sign, reinforcing the need to take things easy and reassess matters.

Lowered vitality is possible with the retrograde of Mars beginning on the 26th in your partnership sector. Be sure to honor your need for extra rest. It's not the time to push yourself too hard, particularly since the Sun moved into your privacy sector on the 21st - another indicator that you need to slow down, rest, reflect, and observe. Mars' retrograde lasts until August 27th, and the first leg of the journey (until August 12th) especially affects partnerships and close relationships. Buried problems can surface in partnerships, and resolving them can initially seem complicated. Straightforwardly dealing with others can be challenging for one reason or the other. You may be looking to the past for answers during this period. You have the chance to reassess how you've been dealing with partners or potential partners, and you may be finding new and improved ways to get along. Taking things slowly is best now, and in fact, beneficial once you adjust to the shift in energy.

The Full Moon on the 27-28 ties in with a Sun-Saturn opposition. A feeling of being overwhelmed by responsibilities or duties can push you to make necessary changes. Obligations that you've forgotten about or avoided may need your attention now, perhaps with some consequences if you've let something slide. Your need for extra rest is high with both the Sun and Mercury in your privacy sector, but right now, there can be some loose ends or extra work to do before you catch a real break. Once something is put behind you, you'll feel relieved and more balanced inside and out. Mercury moves into your sign on the 29th, and you're finding your voice! You'll find it easier to express yourself and make firm decisions.

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