What is the Lion’s Gate Portal 2025? What to do, how to make the most of it

Heart-healing and mane-shaking, the mythic Lion’s Gate Portal peaks on August 8th, 2025, a date observed by ancients, astrologers, and numerologists alike.

How long does the Lion’s Gate portal last?

The portal widens its jaws from July 28th to August 12th, but its powers are thought to peak on the 8th.

What are the origins of the Lion’s Gate, and how can you maximize its potential? Read on to learn more.

Meaning of the Lion’s Gate Portal

The power of the Lion’s Gate lies in the cosmic synergy between stars, signs, and numbers. However, the term itself refers to the annual alignment between the sun in Leo and Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, also known as Alpha Canis Majoris, or the Dog Star.

Ancient Egyptians venerated Sirius as the personification of the agricultural goddess Sopdet. They associated the star’s heliacal rising with the annual flooding of the Nile River and the onset of a new year.

Leo lessons

Aptly, Sirius rises while heart-forward Leo, the sign of confidence and expression, rules the skies.

Leo has an eye-rolling reputation for being extra, for taking up space and asking for more, an undue condemnation that is more of a reflection of their detractors, those who can’t stand to see themselves.

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Indeed, Leo energy offers perennial lessons in self-love; Leos believe that they are entitled to pleasure and deserving of desire and ask for what they want without shame, humility, or hesitation.

Leo doesn’t accept scraps or second best, and neither should we.

In a world that demands we be small, scared, and starved of fulfillment, Leo tells us that we deserve to be brave, to be free, and to be full. 

In the words of author and activist Audre Lorde, “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence; it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”

Indeed, the Lion’s Gate gives us permission to want, and Leo reminds us that we are worthy of worship.

Significance of the number 8

In Numerology, the number 8 is symbolic of abundance and achievement, as well as karmic debts. A power number, eight, is the union of the material and the spiritual, represented by the interlocking circles within the numeral itself.

Predictably, the double dose of 8/8, the eighth day of the eighth month, offers the opportunity for spirit to make the intangible tangible, and for our intentions to become actualities.

In astrology, the eighth house is associated with sex, death, and regeneration, serious and seriously scorpionic business. The eighth house speaks to the cyclical nature of life and loss and also to the unending, the number eight being an upturned infinity symbol.

Consequently, for the ancients and in keeping with themes of death and rebirth, the Sirius star disappears for seventy days every year, and it takes approximately seventy days to complete the process of mummification.

In the tarot, the eighth card is Strength, which corresponds to the sign of Leo and features a woman crowned with the symbol of infinity, calmly keeping company with a lion.

In this sense, the number eight relates to the channeling of animal instincts into focused power, the feral becomes regal, strength begets subtly, and wildness becomes wisdom. The overturned eight stands as a symbol of infinite potential that breathes in, through, and around all of us.

How to manifest during the Lion’s Gate Portal

As the ancient Egyptians did, we can think of the Lion’s Gate as the beginning of a new year and, likewise, offer our reflections on the past and resolutions for the future.

It’s a time for breaking free of form and cutting loose the patterns that prevent our becoming. Leo is associated with children, creativity, and play, and the Lion’s Gate offers the opportunity to revisit our own inner child and to ask for insights on how to carry and care for who we once were and who we might yet be.

Astrological influences on the 2025 Lion’s Gate Portal

This year, the Lion’s Gate peaks on the eve of the Full Moon in Aquarius, a pivotal moment when we reflect on our relationship to the other and the concept of sovereignty and interdependence.

Further, planetary power players Pluto, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus are forming a minor grand sextile around the eighth of August. Add to the star stew that Mars in Libra will aspect Uranus in Gemini and oppose Saturn retrograde in Aries.

The brilliant evolutionary astrologer Sai Avani believes that this Lion’s Gate marks the point at which our collective priority shifts from security to freedom.

“This is a very powerful time just to tune in and be very accepting of your experience; there could be a message, there could be some kind of deep intuition that is arising within you that says take action in this direction, respond or react to the situation in a different way.

The small changes we make in our own lives during this time could add up to a truly powerful collective effect. We’re all in this journey together, we’re all connected, and as we change, so does the world.”

To make the most of the moment, begin the day with a meditative practice. Clearing your mind will allow messages to be heard and desires to be defined.

Remember, to get what you want, you must first ask for it.

To heal, you must acknowledge what has harmed you.

Likewise, the Lion’s Gate requires us to ask and acknowledge out loud. Consider the gospel of apex Leo Madonna, “A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.”

Praise be, Madge. Now go forth, star babies, howl for your healing and roar for your wanting. The world is your echo.

Astrologer Reda Wigle researches and irreverently reports on planetary configurations and their effect on each zodiac sign. Her horoscopes integrate history, poetry, pop culture, and personal experience. To book a reading, visit her website.