How to Change Your Life in One Year Using the Lion’s Gate Portal
- Bex
- Jul 23, 2025
- 4 min read
My personal story, and how this energy can shape your next chapter
Between 26 July and 12 August each year, a powerful energetic window opens. This is known as the Lion’s Gate Portal, and it is one of the most potent periods of the year for clarity, personal power, and conscious manifestation.
This portal peaks on 8 August and brings a strong invitation to connect with the version of yourself you know you are capable of becoming. It is an opportunity to reflect, reset, and move forward with intention. One year ago, I used this portal to reconnect with my vision. That moment changed everything, even though I didn’t realise it at the time.
What is the Lion’s Gate Portal?
The Lion’s Gate Portal opens each year as the Sun moves through Leo and the number 8 aligns in the calendar (8 August). In numerology, the number 8 symbolises strength, transformation, and infinite potential. In astrology, Leo season brings themes of self-worth, visibility, creativity, and bold heart-led expression.
Together, these energies create a portal for growth, a period where we are more supported in rewriting old stories, setting aligned intentions, and taking brave, authentic steps forward.
It is not about perfect vision or immediate results. It is about claiming your place in the life you truly want and letting go of what is no longer aligned, even if you do not yet know exactly what will replace it.
Why the Lion’s Gate Portal Is So Transformational
This portal is powerful not just because of the cosmic alignments but because it asks you to take full responsibility for your direction. When you use it with awareness, it can become a yearly turning point.
Here is what makes it so effective:
It invites you to pause and reassess your path with greater clarity
It helps you reconnect with your natural sense of confidence and inner leadership
It offers momentum for intention-setting, manifestation, and emotional realignment
It opens the door to future-focused thinking while encouraging you to act in the present
You are not required to have it all figured out. But you are asked to be honest with yourself and courageous enough to name what you truly want.
My Personal Lion’s Gate Story
One year ago, around the 8/8 portal, I was in a space of quiet frustration. My business was gently moving forward, but it wasn’t making the kind of impact I felt it could. I knew I was capable of more, but I didn’t know what steps to take or how it could actually happen.
On 8 August, I sat down and wrote a letter from my future self, the version of me living my dream life in August 2025. I described where I was living, how my work felt, the way my days flowed, and how deeply content and aligned I had become.
At the time, none of it felt logical. I didn’t have a plan or timeline. But I felt something shift just by naming the vision. I released the need to control it. I stopped trying to force the next step. And I allowed myself to believe that this future version of me was already real, and that I would meet her in time.
Now, one year later, I can see that everything I wrote in that letter is unfolding (even though I am yet to open it...saving it for the 8th August!!). My business has grown, I have more work/life balance, I have more freedom, I am living my purpose. I feel grounded, energised, and genuinely aligned. That moment of trust, clarity, and intention was the catalyst. And it began with the Lion’s Gate....and I want you to all be in on that magic!!!
How You Can Work with the Lion’s Gate Portal
This portal is not about magic tricks or overnight change. It is about deep alignment, honesty, and trust. You can use this energy to reset your path, realign your goals, and activate the version of you that is waiting beneath the surface.
Here are some ways to work with the portal:
1. Reflect honestly on where you are.Ask yourself: What feels heavy, stuck, or outdated right now? What are you tolerating that you know needs to shift?
2. Connect with your future self.Visualise the version of you living the life you truly desire. How do they feel? How do they speak, show up, and move through the world?
3. Set intentions that feel true.You do not need to know the how, just name what you are ready to invite in. Keep your intentions rooted in purpose, not pressure.
4. Work with your astrology chart.The Leo energy of the portal will activate a specific area of your chart. When you understand which part of your life is being lit up, you can work with that focus in a much more meaningful way.
5. Anchor the energy through ritual or embodiment.The more you embody your intentions, the stronger your alignment becomes. You might journal, move your body, write your future self letter, or light a candle and speak your intentions out loud.
Go Deeper with a Personal Lion’s Gate Astrology Report
If you would like to work with this portal in a more personalised and meaningful way, I am offering a limited-time Lion’s Gate Astrology Report.
This is a written, bespoke chart reading created just for you. It is based on your unique birth chart and the current Lion’s Gate transits, showing you exactly how this portal is activating your life and what it is asking you to step into next.
In your report, you will receive:
A breakdown of where Leo falls in your chart and the area of life being energised
Personal insights into the themes rising for you now around manifestation, confidence, and alignment
Practical guidance on how to work with this energy over the coming weeks
A free downloadable ritual and integration exercise to use on or around 8 August
This report is not a generic overview. It is grounded, intuitive, and fully personalised to support real clarity and change. You will receive it as a beautifully written PDF that you can return to throughout the portal window.
Bookings are open until 8 August. After that, this offering closes until next year.
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