Lion’s Gate 2025: a tricky day but one that rewards if we’re prepared to go the distance

This year’s Lion’s Gate falls on Friday August 8, 2025. It’s an 8-8 day, the eighth day of the eighth month in a nine year (2+0+2+5=9), the final year in the current cycle. Its numerology is quite challenging this year (a 25-8 day), requiring us to review our pasts, astutely observing people and our relationships with them, using the tools of discrimination and analysis to gain insights into those relationships. Given 8 is ambitious, determined  and relentless, we are being asked to be thorough as we deepdive. Like learning on the fly.  

The number 8 is like the dog that won’t let go of the bone. There’s just no rest. Lessons come on top of each other, so to speak. On such a day we’re reminded to be determined and focused on pushing through, that is, staying the course. This is a day to gain wisdom and find balance, and while the pendulum may swing from side to side, the challenge is to return to the centre — until it swings again because we’re always learning something and those lessons keep a-comin’! That’s the nature of the 8, doubly so with an 8-8! The 8 is also big-stage energy, it plays out in big institutions such as government and business. It also expresses itself through the legal system, with a strong emphasis on justice: “rewards received, punishments due”, as the Chaldeans put it. That’s how we see the day operating, how the 8 expresses itself. 

That said, the challenge is that the 25 part of August 8, 2025 requires us to take our time deep diving, following where our mind takes us, happily exploring this rabbit hole, that ‘spiritual pathway’, unearthing the depths of our pasts for answers and insights. The 25 is about gaining understanding from acute observation of people and entities, which is consistent with the 8, but usually the gaining of wisdom comes from a period of reflection. That reflection time is condensed to a single day and is undertaken at the same time we are deep diving. That’s why it’s acute. We are asked to deep-dive and learn what the dive means at the same time and be thorough! We are being offered the opportunity to get wise in real time on the fly as we take a journey that’s not preplanned and that can take us in any direction. That’s not easy. Eyes and ears will need to be wide open. It’s worth taking notes.

The Lion’s Gate Portal

The Lion’s Gate Portal is the moment when Sun in Leo aligns with the star Sirius, Orion’s Belt and Earth. This happens when Sirius ‘rises’ or becomes visible again due the Sun’s yearly passing of the star. Why is this significant? Well, Sirius — the Alpha star of the Canis Major constellation — is the brightest star in the sky and is astrologically considered to be a spiritual sun. It was an extremely important body to the Ancient Egyptians who referred to it as the goddess Sopdet. They used the annual rising of this star to note when the Nile would begin its annual flood, feeding the land and bringing harvest and fertility. In astrology, Sirius brings wealth, abundance, fortune and fame. As such, our alignment with this auspicious body means it is an excellent time for manifestation. The breadth of the Lion’s Gate Portal period is considered spiritually significant. But, the peak of the Lion’s Gate Portal falls on August 8, which is also when the Sun is at the halfway point of Leo, a season associated with boldness and confidence. Of course, the Sun is also the ruler of the sign Leo. So in this moment, everything truly is in alignment physically and spiritually.

On the day: August 8

Take this opportunity to go into any and everything; remember, lessons can come on top of each other. In your meditations or quiet contemplation time, ponder any troubling personal relationships you’ve been keen to get some clarity on. Reflect on the ‘problem’ of any relationship, allow yourself to go deep and ask: “What’s this conflict/unease/stress about?” “What am I to learn here?” And stay with it until you get some insights. If you can train your chattering monkey mind to go quiet — go empty, so to speak — the insights have a chance to shine through. Preferably, speak your observations aloud so you hear yourself saying them. Or, say them silently to yourself so you hear the words internally or write them down on paper, focusing on the words and exactly what you are saying with your words. It’s important to record them, or remember them. Much can be learned on the 8-8. Make good use of it. 

When during the day? Anytime will do, though to intensify the 8 energy, choose around 8am or 8pm wherever you are in the world. As best you can, ground yourself, with your bare feet on the earth. Hopefully, it’s warm and dry where you are!

On more thing

To the extent that Lion’s Gates deliver a message for the period from one Lion’s Gate to the next, 25-8 represents a challenge to learn while deep diving at will. That is a call to sharpen our minds (25 represents using the tools of discrimination and analysis), to learn on the fly, to gain the wisdom (8) of the dive as we are diving. And to the extent that the event-stream, as it’s called, is speeding up, 25-8 is perfectly consistent with that acceleration.

The 9-9-9 day: Tuesday September 9, 2025

My original intention was to include my thoughts on the 9-9-9 day in this blog. However, I think that’s plenty for now, The 8-8 is enough to contemplate and think about or feel about. I’ll write up 9-9-9 in late August.

To read my thoughts on 2025 as a whole, including how you might be personally affected over the year, go to The Year 2025. I’ve included how each of our personal years interacts with the global 9 year.

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