The Lion's Gate Portal 2023

Today is the center of the lion’s gate portal (8.8)! It is also the quarter moon, and a time when Venus Retrograde both conjoins Black Moon Lilith and squares Uranus.

These transits bring blessings with each challenge. The lion’s gate portal represents a moment when profound strength is available to each one of us.

This is a time when the profound inner light (which is your life force and your true identity), is shining to show you the path forward through whatever your current circumstances.


In these systems, the lion represents the strength of the heart, which sees by its own light. This strength has little to do with physical vigor, and much more to do with your capacity to see beyond fleeting thoughts and emotions in order to transcend into the realm of peaceful consciousness. It’s in this strong, peaceful space that life’s challenges are seen for what they are so that they can be rightly addressed or transmuted.

Venus, Black Moon Lilith, the Quarter Moon, and Uranus are all highlighting this strength for us right now. Old memories, thoughts, and feelings arise to be released. The true light and strength of who you are works on your life circumstances even while you sleep. Now is a great time to open to your cosmic light and refuse to settle for malaise, frustration, or apathy in this life.

Your personal reading will reveal exactly where and how this astrology is at play in your life.