Stop Playing Small: Why Setting Your Intentions on August 8th Can Change Your Life

What Is the Lion’s Gate portal?

The Lion’s Gate portal is an annual astrological event that occurs during Leo season when Earth and the Sirius star system are perfectly aligned with one another. This potent cosmic alignment was celebrated with elaborate temple ceremonies for about three weeks in ancient Egypt. The ancient Egyptians associated the Lion’s Gate portal as a time of heightened spiritual energies that amplify powerful intentions for ascension, manifestation, intergalactic diplomacy, and leadership.

Today many people honor the cresting momentum of the lion’s gate energy on or around the date of August 8th, focusing upon these same ancient Egyptian themes for accelerating their modern day spiritual empowerment.

The lion is the astrological symbol for the sign of Leo, which is an animal spirit guide associated with the unapologetic brilliance of the sun. Lion teaches you how to feel comfortable with being seen for your natural gifts and talents, how to courageously step forward in a leadership role, and how to embrace your personal power beyond codependency.

Lions were always associated with sovereign royalty in ancient Egypt and are also excellent totems for recognizing your true worth as a child of God and cultivating a life of abundance that deeply supports your divine purpose for being here on earth.

The Lion’s Gate portal is a potent time to focus upon your sovereign empowerment, to shine like the sun, and to own your worth as a divine being bravely embodying a heroic human journey.

It’s considered one of the most potent times of the year to face your fears of unworthiness and to integrate the love and courage of your Higher Self’s divinity into your daily life. You may feel an increase of spiritual initiations during this portal, including soul challenges that will help you identify and clear out stagnating belief systems that are blocking you from your best life.

As you bravely roar into Leo season and consciously face these challenges with the intention to reclaim more of your true self, you come into greater alignment with the truth of your sovereign divinity. The Sophia Code teachings share that this inner alignment with your inherent divinity makes a huge impact on how much you are willing to receive in life.

Prosperity consciousness is quite literally, a conscious remembrance of your true nature and allowing that resonance to manifest as abundance in your life.

In ancient Egypt, the Lion’s Gate portal was celebrated from about July 28 to August 12th. During these weeks you may feel more intense emotions connected to repressed feelings that are arising within your conscious awareness for spiritual healing.

You may also receive sudden insights or clarity about important changes that need to be initiated in your life or career. You may even feel a flood of old memories connected to poverty consciousness from this lifetime or another.

The Lion’s Gate is a potent time in which your Higher Self can more easily communicate divine wisdom into your awareness, and to help you shed old limitations that no longer serve you. This portal helps you to embrace the personal upgrades and important next steps that are calling out to you when you feel your soul saying: “Hey beautiful! It’s time to stop playing small and step into the magnificent, abundant, sovereign being that you came here to be on earth!”

Tips for Celebrating the Lion’s Gate Portal During the 2025 Wood Snake Year

Did you catch our amazing Lunar New Year Ceremony? Kaia Ra channeled an important forecast for 2025 with highlighted teachings on how to work with the yin receptive energy of this year, how to make the most of learning from the wood snake totem on themes of healing and abundance, and how to navigate the four quarters of this numerological “9” year with gentle grace. You can catch the amazing Lunar New Year Ceremony replay HERE and still benefit from this divine guidance for the remainder of 2025!

It’s important to remember that the lion is a solar yang animal totem – it’s fiery, pro-active, shining, and loud. Snake totem is cooling, receptive, quiet and mostly hidden in a state of rest. So this year’s Lion’s Gate portal is unifying seemingly polar opposite energies, offering you an unusual alchemy of initiations that will accelerate your spiritual healing during Leo season.

1. Profound Transformation & Rebirth – Snake totem is the master teacher of personal transformation, literally shedding its entire skin to birth itself anew several times throughout the year. This year’s portal could support you to make some extraordinary shifts in both your personal and professional identity, including depths and heights of inner transformation that you’ve never experienced before. 2025 isn’t just about tweaking who you are – it’s about surrendering to a full metamorphosis! The spirit of lion can help you courageously embrace the implications of this much transformation by helping you roar with pride through the vulnerable s-curves of growing into that new skin of such an authentic and sovereign identity.
2. Activation of Ancient Wisdom – Snakes are connected to cosmic and primordial earth wisdom, as well as the kundalini life force energy located in the root chakra. Lion’s Gate 2025 may initiate you with kundalini activations and downloads of ancient knowledge, especially around manifestation, healing, and psychic abilities. You can set your intention that your natural intuition can experience quantum leaps in growth during this next 12 month cycle!
3. Building Strategic Abundance – Wood element is about step-by-step growth, daily expansion, and laying foundations, and Snake totem is incredibly strategic and patient. This Lion’s Gate, you may feel a creative tension between the fierce, pro-active energy of Leo season rubbing up against the cool, calculated nature of the wood snake. Your Higher Self may be sending you ideas for how to build sustainable streams of passive income and systems of abundance that will support you for years to come. Set your intentions for long-term rewards and investments instead of just actions that generate fast cash or heated spending.
4. Healing Our Relationship with the Divine Feminine – Serpent energy has been demonized for millennia, especially the archetype of the wise woman who carries the snake medicine totem. This Lion’s Gate you may feel a personal reclamation of your divine feminine power, including healing ancestral witch or martyr wounds, and stepping into your role as a wisdom keeper.
5. Mastering the Art of Transmutation – Snake totem is associated with mastering the art of alchemy and healing, including the ability to transmute poison into medicine. This Lion’s Gate portal you may feel a strong call to go deeper in your healing journey to face your deepest fears about unworthiness and transform those old wounds into the medicine of empowerment for yourself and others.
6. Earth-based Manifestation – Wood snake totem brings a very grounded, practical, and receptive manifestation approach that balances out the flashy and fiery lion energy of the Leo season. Expect this portal to help you amplify your prosperity consciousness by building abundance through a sustainable and rooted approach.