Can you feel the intensity this month? We are moving through something powerful right now — and Leo showed up early, loud and unmistakable.

My name is Irene Schulz, and I use the Akashic Records to read the collective soul field — to see what’s happening beneath the surface of our shared experience. When I open the Records, I receive clear visions and downloads. And when I opened them for July, I saw a fierce lion leaping from the sky onto the earth.

That lion was Leo. And his energy is here ahead of schedule.

What Leo’s Early Arrival Means for You

Leo is associated with courage, confidence, and unapologetic self-expression — and you may already be feeling it, whether or not you knew what to call it. This energy can play out in all kinds of ways:

Setting a boundary with a boss you’ve been tiptoeing around

Having the honest conversation with someone you’ve been avoiding

Finally taking that leap of faith — signing up for the training, the retreat, the thing you’ve been dreaming about

Leo’s energy is all about courage, and right now it is giving all of us a push to move in the direction we already know we need to go.

This Isn’t Ordinary Fire — It’s Solar Fire

Here’s what makes this month different from other fire energy we’ve moved through: Leo is ruled by the Sun.

This isn’t the quick spark of something new starting. It’s steady, radiant fire — the kind that holds its position and doesn’t back down. Fixed fire. That’s why this month feels less like inspiration and more like an undeniable pull toward sovereignty. Toward finally standing in your own light instead of waiting for permission.

So many of us have been stuck in a strange in-between for months, with ground that felt too shaky to trust. That’s shifting now. What felt like pushing through concrete may start to feel like actual momentum. I’m seeing it in my client sessions — things that had been stuck for months are suddenly moving.

2026 Is a Reset Year — And the Old Is Collapsing

Here’s the part I want you to hear gently: if we resist this energy, it can force change whether we’re ready or not.

2026 carries the numerological energy of 1 — the number of new beginnings. And those new beginnings are trying to take root in our lives. The universe is always steering us toward our highest path, and in order to move into something new, the old has to collapse. That might be a job. A relationship. A habit or an addiction.

If you are experiencing the loss of something right now, this energy is likely behind it. Not as punishment — as clearing.

The Water: Surrender Is Not Passivity

Alongside all of this fire, I was shown water. Moving water — the kind that flows around obstacles rather than fighting them.

This is the counterbalance Leo needs. While the fire gives you the courage to move, the water asks you to release your grip on exactly how the movement is supposed to look.

Maybe you’ve dreamed of buying a new property, and one appears — but not in the location you expected. Maybe your desire to attract a new partner brings you someone you wouldn’t normally date. We don’t need to abandon our long-term visions. We simply hold them with open hands and trust that they are working out for our highest good.

In some cases, what you think you want may no longer be in full alignment with where your soul is headed. The destination may look different from the image you’ve been carrying. Let the greater field of intelligence — the one that can see the whole picture — direct your next step. Surrender to each step as it comes, and trust that the path is being built beneath your feet in real time.

Surrender here is not passivity. It is a more intelligent way of navigating.

A Vision of Salt: Purification for the Collective

In addition to the lion and the flowing water, I was shown one more image for July: a Divine hand holding a salt shaker, slowly pouring salt across the earth.

Salt is one of the oldest purification agents across cultures. It preserves. It cleanses wounds. It kills what festers. Symbolically, salt draws out impurity, prevents decay, and neutralizes what’s stagnant or harmful.

This salt is being poured as a purification for the collective field. The density we have accumulated as a species — the fear, the grief, the calcified old stories we’ve been carrying — is being drawn out and neutralized. This is medicine. It is preparing us for what comes next, clearing what would otherwise weigh us down as we cross this threshold.

Because it’s easy to forget, inside the texture of everyday life, that we are not living in ordinary time. We are in the middle of what the ancients called the Shift of the Ages — moving from Pisces to Aquarius, leaving the Kali Yuga and entering the Satya Yuga, ascending from 3D to 5D. These are not small tides. They are the kind of change that reshapes what is possible for entire civilizations. The water element is here to help us move gracefully within them, rather than be knocked down by them.

Watch the Full July Reading

I go deeper into all of this — the lion, the water, the salt — in this month’s Collective Soul Field Reading on YouTube: