The New Moon in Leo on the 2nd of August 2016 occurs just hours after Mars re-enters the sign of Sagittarius, the sign that it went into retrograde in on April 17th. Mars entered Sagittarius on March 5th and then retrograded back into Scorpio May 27. Mars has been direct since June 29, but there are several important dates that mark other parts of the Mars retrograde storyline to note for this month. The first is this week, with Mars re-entering Sagittarius, next is August 22, when Mars leaves shadow (by entering the same degree of Sagittarius that it was in on the 17th at the start of the retrograde), and the 24th, when Mars will form a conjunction to Saturn, who it has been hovering close behind for the last few months. (Top image: Randy Gallegos) The New Moon in Leo is interacting closely with the Mars-Saturn dynamic, with both the Sun and Moon (New Moons are when the Sun and Moon are conjunct) trining Saturn in Sagittarius. Mars will have just re-entered Sagittarius, with some unfinished business to take care of that calls back to what was unfolding on a soul level March 5 – May 27 of […]