Love Notes for Your Vision :: Leo Edition
In this episode of the Inner Circle Podcast, we explore the archetype of Leo and what it teaches us about creative expression, pleasure, and leadership rooted in authenticity. Leo season invites us to remember that our brilliance isn’t something to shrink or tone down—it’s something to be shared. As visionaries, artists, and changemakers navigating a complex world, it’s easy to question whether our joy and self-expression are still relevant or responsible. But Leo reminds us that joy is generative. Beauty is strategic. Pleasure is a legitimate measure of success.
We talk about the creative sovereignty that Leo season activates—how to lead from your essence instead of performance, how to reclaim aesthetics as part of your value system, and how to stop dulling your light just to make others comfortable. We also explore the myth of the perfect strategy and why authentic resonance is the real momentum builder. If you’ve been holding back, playing small, or over-editing your presence, this episode is your invitation back into center stage—on your terms.
What We Explore in This Episode:
Why Leo season is a key moment to reconnect with authenticity, especially in times of global unrest
The myth that seeking beauty or impact makes you superficial, and how Leo reframes that
Why pleasure and joy are essential indicators of alignment for visionary work
How to build resonance through authenticity, not performance
The difference between strategy-as-performance vs. strategy-as-devotion
Why there’s no one formula for success—and how to trust your unique rhythm
Leo season arrives like golden hour, drenching the world in warmth, color, and unapologetic presence.
This season is a soft place to land in the midst of cosmic weather as Mercury Retrogrades, Saturn Retrogrades, and Uranus in Gemini brings sudden chaos and change. With Eclipse season looming near, the Leo season grants us permission to keep things authentic and sexy even as the world burns in the back drop. This attitude makes chaos a little bit easier and grants us the will to keep showing up even when things feel uncomfortable.
In the zodiac, Leo is the archetype of creative sovereignty. It is ruled by the Sun and charged with the radiant power to express, to delight, and to lead from the heart. For visionaries, Leo season is a permission slip to remember that being in your essence is not a liability. Leading, creating, and building from your radiance doesn’t automatically mean that you will be taken less seriously. Your authentic presence, your boldness, your brightness, your desire to be seen in well-regard are not too much or wrong. It’s part of your medicine.
There is a narrative in some entrepreneurial spaces that says wanting more visibility, wanting to do things beautifully, or create a bigger impact makes you superficial or egotistical. Leo says otherwise. Leo reminds us that the light we shine can be nourishment. That to create with joy, to move through the world in style, to build something that both feels good, does good, and looks good is a service to humanity. There is no shame in enjoying your work. There is no shame in allowing yourself to be loved for it. There is no shame in wanting to visually look good while doing it either.
So here are a few love notes for your vision this Leo season:
It’s okay to want to make a bigger impact. It’s okay to desire the spotlight or to be well-liked and well-regarded in your circles. You’re not shallow for wanting to be well-liked and well-regarded. You’re not shallow for wanting to make a bigger impact in the world.
It’s okay to want your offerings to look and feel beautiful. It’s okay to not want to half-ass it. Your aesthetic instincts are part of your medicine. Making things beautiful is not extra; it’s part of how your work communicates its value, its intention, its soul.
Pleasure is a KSI, too. You deserve to feel good in your process. You deserve to experience joy not just at the finish line, but in the making as well. Pleasure-seeking is a creative rite for visionaries with powerful impact-potential. Choosing to do things in ways that not only do good in the world but feel pleasurable in your system amplifies the impact you make.
You don’t need to dull your essence to be more palatable. Your essence is not a liability. If people knew who you were deep down, they would breathe a sigh of relief. They would have more of you to love and appreciate and feel encouraged to be authentic, too.
There are many, many pathways to success. There is no one formula, no single system, no perfect strategy. Leo teaches us that authenticity is the core strategy. Radiance is what magnetizes the right opportunities and connections. When you show up as fully you, you create the conditions for resonance and that resonance builds its own momentum.
Let this season be a reminder to come back to your soul center. To lead from your radiance and your devotion to your vision.
