It’s Leo season now. That means something about freedom and self expression and indulging your passions? That’s what a series of astrology apps keep yelling at me, anyway. Isn’t it a little spooky that within the first day or two of Leo season, The Sun reported Leonardo DiCaprio, one of the most famous Leo’s (in name, not sign) has been expressing his creativity through sculpting late into the night with Brad Pitt, his friend on the junket circuit and co-star in Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood? If it’s all true—the Leo season thing, as well as the Leo sculpting thing—then, boy, what a week for Leos.

It kind of seems like an instance in which the stars are being just like us, right? We’re all doing pottery! We all got into it after that bad breakup or that round of layoffs circa 2016. We’re all sculpting up little bowls and mugs and leaving it in a kiln somewhere in Cobble Hill. We‘re all painting some kind of Memphis Design-inspired squiggle on a pot and dousing it in heat until we feel like maybe we could do this full time, maybe this is how to be happy. We’re all even reportedly getting into it, just like Leo. It makes sense! You can’t even look at your phone, with all its reminders of everyone’s excellent vacations, or with its pings from publicists and 21-year-old girlfriends, when you’re covered in clay. The wheel heels, as they say.

The Sun doesn’t say why DiCaprio is sculpting or even whether or not he’s even using clay. Just an assumption of this writer’s part to feel a bit closer to that trademark Leo glow, I suppose. “Simon Boyle’s Bizarre Column” quotes an anonymous source claiming, “Brad's got his own sculpting studio at his house and Leo loves coming over to use it. They sometimes hang out with Brad’s artist pals, but other times it’s just the two of them.”

This source divulges the menu, at least, saying, “Leo brings sandwiches over from their favorite place, Fat Sal’s, and they spend their boys’ nights creating art until the early hours.” So that‘s a pretty solid narrative: Two adult men who were on Growing Pains at one point in their respective careers, fueled by a pastrami and turkey or a salami and ham sammie, putting some sort of structure together in Pitt’s studio, roughly around, like, 1:00 a.m.? If you subtract the Growing Pains and the personal studio of it all, but keep the meats and the sculpting into the night, you’ve got a pretty clear stars are just like us scenario.

Isn’t that what this little bit of gossip is all about? It’s about the weirdness of it all, sure. That two men who have had to get closer than they ever were to promote a movie, spending even more time together in their off-hours, and committing to their artistic pursuits. But it’s really about understanding they, like us, need a creative outlet that is nothing like what we do to support ourselves, far away from the quotidian concerns of our day-to-day, spent with young Instagram models and Margot Robbie. Thank you Leo season, from my Leo to yours.

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