DivinationA divination practice
♌Leo
23 July – 22 August · Fire · Fixed · ruled by Sun
Reading for the current moment…
Every day
One reading per planetary day.
- SundaySun
- Your own day, and the light is on you whether or not you asked for it. Spend it on something you would do unwatched. That is the version of you people are actually drawn to.
- MondayMoon
- The Moon dims the stage and you feel unaccountably small. Nothing has changed about your standing. Mondays simply take the audience away, and you are allowed to exist without one.
- TuesdayMars
- Mars gives you the courage for the direct conversation. Have it early. By evening the courage curdles into something more like a performance, and the performance will not land.
- WednesdayMercury
- Mercury asks you to listen for longer than is comfortable. The person in front of you is nearly at the real thing. One more silence from you and they will say it.
- ThursdayJupiter
- Jupiter is your natural ally — warmth meeting generosity. Give something away today with no expectation of return. It comes back in a form you would not have chosen and would not have thought to ask for.
- FridayVenus
- Venus asks whether you are loved or admired, and whether you have been accepting the second in place of the first. Choose one person and be unimpressive with them tonight.
- SaturdaySaturn
- Saturn asks what you are building that will stand without you in the room. Not a rebuke — a compliment about scale. Spend an hour on the thing that does not need your presence to work.
Every week
One reading per quarter of the moon.
- New moonthe dark of the moon, the start of a cycle
- The dark moon leaves you without your usual light, which is the only condition in which you make genuinely private decisions. Decide something now that you do not announce.
- Waxing moonfirst quarter, the moon filling
- The build suits you when there is something to show at the end. Set the showing date this quarter, then work backwards. You are more disciplined with an audience than without, and there is no shame in using that.
- Full moonthe moon at its brightest
- The full moon is your natural weather — everything visible, everything warm. Be careful only of the moment when being seen replaces being truthful. You can feel exactly when it happens.
- Waning moonlast quarter, the moon emptying
- Release the role. There is a part you have been playing so long that people ask for it by name, and you outgrew it some time in spring. Nobody will mind. They mostly did not notice.
Every month
One reading per solar month.
- January
- Capricorn season asks for work without recognition, which costs you more than it costs most. Do it anyway, and mark your own progress somewhere private. January is not a judgement on your worth.
- February
- Aquarius season sits opposite and hands you other people. A group needs something you have. Give it without needing to be its centre and watch how much easier everything becomes.
- March
- Pisces season softens the edges and you are quieter than usual. Let it be quiet. What you are making in private this month is better than what you would have shown in public.
- April
- Aries season is fire feeding fire. Start the thing you have been describing. You have described it enough that people can nearly see it; the only remaining step is unglamorous.
- May
- Taurus season demands patience and offers pleasure in exchange. Accept the trade. What you consolidate now is what you will be standing on when your own season arrives.
- June
- Gemini season fills the diary with good company. Say yes broadly. One of these rooms contains the person who changes the shape of your autumn.
- July
- Your season opens. Ask for the thing. Directly, of the person who can actually grant it, without the elaborate framing you usually build first.
- August
- The heart of your season. Everything is warmer, louder and more possible. Spend it on people rather than on proof — the proof was never what you wanted anyway.
- September
- Virgo season makes you self-critical in a way that masquerades as rigour. Some of the criticism is useful. Keep the two per cent that leads to an action and discard the rest without ceremony.
- October
- Libra season is easy and sociable and slightly aimless. Use it to repair something. An apology given lightly in October saves a whole conversation in February.
- November
- Scorpio season asks what you are underneath the warmth. It is not a pleasant month and it is a clarifying one. Whatever you find is less shameful than the hiding of it was.
- December
- Sagittarius season gives you the horizon and the party at once. Go. Say the toast. You are the person in the room who can make other people feel the year was worth something.
Written for this collection in the idiom of a modern astrological column. The other signs.