Jul 23 – Aug 22

Leo 2026 horoscope

The big themes of your year

Jupiter in Cancer, solar house 12

During this cycle, Jupiter works quietly. It's a good year for introspection, spirituality, rest and preparing for a fresh start. You may feel the need to withdraw a little, tend to your inner world or help others behind the scenes. Answers tend to arrive through intuition, dreams or your most private creative work. What grows now isn't always visible from the outside, but it's laying the groundwork for a more visible period of personal expansion.

Jupiter in Leo, solar house 1

This year growth starts with you. Jupiter expands your confidence, your presence and your appetite for discovering who you could become. It's a strong cycle for launching personal projects, treating your image more generously and trying experiences that once seemed out of reach. Opportunities tend to show up when you take the first step. The only caveat is excess: so much enthusiasm can lead you to take on more than you can sustain. Choose carefully where your energy goes and let optimism work in your favor.

Saturn in Pisces, solar house 8

Saturn crosses the area of what's shared and what runs deep. It's a cycle for putting joint arrangements in order, reviewing the commitments you've made with others and facing emotional themes that usually get sidestepped. Intimacy may require trust built step by step. It's also a good time to close lingering processes and accept change with maturity. Working through these questions calmly leaves you stronger, with a more honest relationship to power, control and vulnerability.

Saturn in Aries, solar house 9

During this transit, Saturn structures your worldview. You may feel a need to examine your beliefs, commit to demanding studies or bring more rigor to plans for travel or expansion. Ideas you once accepted without question may now ask for firmer grounding. This isn't a time of closed horizons but of horizons chosen with discernment. What you learn through effort now can become a solid philosophy of life and a kind of authority rooted in real knowledge.

Eclipses

New Moon in Aquarius · Solar eclipse

· In your house 7

A solar eclipse is an especially potent New Moon. Symbolically, it marks a starting point in the area of life it touches and lends itself to planting intentions with full awareness. Its themes are read over several months, so there's no need to rush. Notice what begins to stir.

This New Moon plants seeds in your one-on-one relationships. It's a good time to set intentions about how you want to relate to a partner, collaborators or close friends. Think about which agreements serve you and which need a second look. A renewed commitment or an honest conversation can mark a real beginning.

Full Moon in Virgo · Lunar eclipse

· In your house 2

A lunar eclipse is a Full Moon turned up a notch. It tends to spotlight whatever has ripened and reveal what's ready to be released. It doesn't foretell specific events; it invites awareness. Give yourself room to feel before deciding, and let your emotions settle.

The Full Moon puts your resources and values in the spotlight. It's a moment to see clearly how you've managed your time, energy and belongings over recent months. Something may come to fruition, or an imbalance may become obvious. Celebrate what you've built and release habits that no longer give you stability.

New Moon in Leo · Solar eclipse

· In your house 1

A solar eclipse is an especially potent New Moon. Symbolically, it marks a starting point in the area of life it touches and lends itself to planting intentions with full awareness. Its themes are read over several months, so there's no need to rush. Notice what begins to stir.

This New Moon opens a cycle centered on you. It's a fertile moment for setting intentions around your image, your energy or the way you meet the world. Ask which version of yourself you'd like to grow over the coming weeks, and write down one simple aim. A small gesture that's truly yours carries more weight than a grand plan.

Full Moon in Pisces · Lunar eclipse

· In your house 8

A lunar eclipse is a Full Moon turned up a notch. It tends to spotlight whatever has ripened and reveal what's ready to be released. It doesn't foretell specific events; it invites awareness. Give yourself room to feel before deciding, and let your emotions settle.

The Full Moon shines into the depths: intimacy, trust and what you share with others. Something hidden may come to light, or an emotional process may reach its natural end. It's a good time to release grudges, fears or attachments that have served their purpose. What you let go of now leaves you lighter.

Mercury retrograde

Mercury stations retrograde in Pisces

This transit invites you to review what's shared: joint arrangements, pending paperwork and questions of trust. It's a good time to return to deep conversations left open or to research something carefully. An old emotion may ask for attention again; hear it out without hurry. Reviewing now brings clarity.

Mercury stations retrograde in Cancer

This transit invites you to look inward. It's a good time to write, meditate, notice mental patterns or wrap up matters you've been putting off. Dreams or intuition may bring answers. There's no need to force clarity: it will arrive calmly, in its own time.

Mercury stations retrograde in Scorpio

This transit invites you to revisit home and family matters. An unresolved topic, a memory or someone from your family's past may resurface. It's a good time to tidy up, fix something around the house or return to a conversation left unfinished. What you review calmly now can ease long-standing tension.

Times are shown in your local time zone.

How this horoscope is built

We count the solar houses from your sign and look at which planets move through them on these dates. It's a general reading for your sun sign; for something personal, your full birth chart is far more precise.