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Sun and Moon pair

Leo Sun, Sagittarius Moon

The Sun in Leo and the Moon in Sagittarius at the same birth: what the two signs share, how often the pair occurs, and when it next happens.

  • Sun
  • Moon
Elements
Both fire
Modalities
Fixed Sun, mutable Moon
Angle between the signs
Trine (120°), counted by sign

How common

1 in 136

0.74% of 2,000,000 simulated births have the Sun in Leo and the Moon in Sagittarius.

about 10th most common of 144Sun and Moon pairs

In plain words

  • Sun in Leo

    In Leo, the Sun expresses itself in a warm, open way.

  • Moon in Sagittarius

    In Sagittarius, the Moon feels and responds in a wide-ranging, optimistic way.

Generic readingA generic description in the style of modern astrology, the same for everyone who has this placement. Not a prediction.

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What does a Leo Sun with a Sagittarius Moon mean?

  1. What the Sun and Moon govern

    One expresses, one responds

    Astrologers treat the Sun as the body that expresses itself and the Moon as the body that feels and responds. Each does it in the manner of the sign it is in.

  2. What the two signs add

    Trine (120°)

    Leo is a fixed fire sign. Fire, earth, air and water are the four elements; fire is classically hot and dry. Modalities group the signs by their place in a season: fixed signs sit in the middle of a season. Sagittarius is a mutable fire sign. Fire, earth, air and water are the four elements; fire is classically hot and dry. Modalities group the signs by their place in a season: mutable signs close a season. Leo and Sagittarius are 4 signs apart, a trine (120°) counted by sign. Hellenistic astrologers hold that signs in trine see each other.

  3. How common it is

    About 1 in 136

    Leo Sun, Sagittarius Moon: 0.74% of simulated births, about 1 in 136; about 10th most common of 144.

How does the pair compare with each placement alone?

  1. Step 1

    Sun in Leo

    1 in 11

    8.78% of 2,000,000 simulated births

    the most common of 12

  2. Step 2

    Moon in Sagittarius

    1 in 12

    8.33% of 2,000,000 simulated births

    within noise of an even split of 12

  3. Step 3

    Leo Sun, Sagittarius Moon

    1 in 136

    0.74% of 2,000,000 simulated births

    about 10th most common of 144

Share of simulated births; the pair is ranked among all 144 Sun and Moon sign pairs, each placement alone among the 12 signs.

How common is each Moon sign for a Leo Sun?

How common is a Leo Sun with each Moon sign?

The average of the twelveBars start at zero.Share of simulated births with the Sun in Leo and the Moon in each of the 12 signs. Share of 2,000,000 simulated births (1950–2024), tropical zodiac.

What happens when a Rising sign is added?

  • Aries6.14%
  • Taurus6.96%
  • Gemini8.39%
  • Cancer9.50%
  • Leo9.67%
  • Virgo9.36%
  • Libra9.38%
  • Scorpio9.66%
  • Sagittarius9.49%
  • Capricorn8.37%
  • Aquarius6.99%
  • Pisces6.11%

An even split of the 12 signsBars start at zero.A third placement splits every Sun and Moon pair twelve ways. Share of simulated births with each Rising sign on the Ascendant, whatever the Sun and Moon.

When are the Sun in Leo and the Moon in Sagittarius together?

Sun in Leo, last pass
ended 23 Aug 2026
22 July 2026, 19:13 UTC to 23 August 2026, 02:18 UTC (about 31 days)
Sun in Leo, next pass
from 23 Jul 2027
23 July 2027, 01:04 UTC to 23 August 2027, 08:14 UTC (about 31 days)
Moon in Sagittarius, last pass
ended 16 Oct 2026
14 October 2026, 00:59 UTC to 16 October 2026, 12:57 UTC (about 2 days)
Moon in Sagittarius, next pass
from 10 Nov 2026
10 November 2026, 08:35 UTC to 12 November 2026, 20:27 UTC (about 2 days)

Last, current and next passes

  1. Sun in Leo

    22 Jul 2026 → 23 Aug 2026 · about 31 days

    last pass

  2. Moon in Sagittarius

    14 Oct 2026 → 16 Oct 2026 · about 2 days

    last pass

  3. Moon in Sagittarius

    10 Nov 2026 → 12 Nov 2026 · about 2 days

    next pass

  4. Sun in Leo

    23 Jul 2027 → 23 Aug 2027 · about 31 days

    next pass

  • The Sun in Leo and the Moon in Sagittarius were last together from 20 August 2026, 08:30 UTC to 22 August 2026, 20:59 UTC.
  • The Sun in Leo and the Moon in Sagittarius are next together from 10 August 2027, 06:35 UTC to 12 August 2027, 17:34 UTC.
  • Each year the Sun is in Leo from about 22–24 July to 22–24 August (UTC dates, 1900–2050).
  • A visit of the Moon to Sagittarius lasts about 2.3 days at the median, from 2.0 to 2.5 days (2,018 visits, 1900–2050).

As of 16 October 2026, 15:08 UTC. Dates are UTC, tropical zodiac, read from the ephemeris's table of sign entries. This page refreshes hourly.

How do different traditions read a Leo Sun with a Sagittarius Moon?

AI-written text that an AI research review then checked against sources. No person has reviewed it; the notes and references behind each check are under its label.

Hellenistic

The astrology of the Greek-speaking Mediterranean from roughly the 1st century BCE to the 7th century CE, as recorded by authors such as Vettius Valens, Dorotheus and Ptolemy.

AI-written, checked by AI

1 Oct 2026

A Leo Sun and a Sagittarius Moon share the fire element: Sagittarius is four signs ahead of Leo, a trine, a harmonious configuration for Hellenistic astrologers. The Moon has no domicile, exaltation, detriment or fall in Sagittarius, though the Sun is in its own domicile, the sign it rules. The Moon stands roughly 90° to 150° ahead of the Sun along the zodiac, roughly the waxing gibbous stretch, but sign distance is coarse. Jupiter, the planet that rules Sagittarius, is a benefic and a day-team planet, as the Sun is, while the Moon is on the night team. That grouping is sect, the tradition's sorting of planets into day and night teams. In Dorotheus' triplicity scheme the Sun rules the fire signs by day and Jupiter by night. The tradition looks next to Jupiter's placement.

A note on “detriment”: the early Hellenistic texts note a planet opposite its own sign without naming it. The term is defined only in late and medieval sources, and scholars disagree on whether the idea was implicit earlier.

Sources

  • Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, Book I
  • Dorotheus of Sidon, Carmen Astrologicum
  • Chris Brennan, Hellenistic Astrology: The Study of Fate and Fortune (2017)

What was checked

An AI research review checked this text against sources on 1 Oct 2026. No person has reviewed it.

Reviewer's notes

Sign-count configurations (Ptolemy I.13, I.16) and Moon-phase ranges (rechecked by arithmetic against the Sun in Leo and the lunar-phase angles) hold. Changed 'easiest' wording to Ptolemy's 'harmonious' where it appeared. Dorotheus' triplicity lords confirmed.

Sources consulted

Modern psychological

The 20th-century Western approach shaped by Alan Leo, Dane Rudhyar and Liz Greene, drawing on Jungian psychology.

AI-written, checked by AI

1 Oct 2026

Leo and Sagittarius are four signs apart, a trine by sign, and both are fire. A Leo Sun is fixed and a Sagittarius Moon mutable, so a steady purpose meets an adaptable need. Modern psychological astrology reads the Sun's aim as visible expression and the Moon's need as freedom, perspective and honest talk. Modern readings associate the combination with optimism and generosity, with a shared ease between identity and feeling. The tension described is a shared dislike of limits, and a tendency toward overreach when neither side applies a check. Hellenistic astrologers read the trine as ease and give the Moon no domicile, exaltation or fall in Sagittarius, so the Moon's phase and house carry the judgment.

Sources

  • Liz Greene and Howard Sasportas, The Luminaries: The Psychology of the Sun and Moon in the Horoscope (1992)
  • Stephen Arroyo, Astrology, Psychology, and the Four Elements (1975)
  • Chris Brennan, Hellenistic Astrology: The Study of Fate and Fortune (2017)

What was checked

An AI research review checked this text against sources on 1 Oct 2026. No person has reviewed it.

Reviewer's notes

Verified: Sagittarius is 4 signs from Leo (trine), both fire, fixed versus mutable; the Moon has no domicile, exaltation or fall there. Replaced 'Authors associate' and 'no rank by sign'. Modern interpretive keywords are consistent with the sign keywords in the project reference data but were not checked against the books' own text. Brennan's coverage of aspects, sect and aversion is confirmed from contents summaries and reviews, not from the pages.

Sources consulted

Where they differ

Hellenistic astrology reasons from technique: essential dignity, sect and configuration by sign. Modern psychological astrology reasons from element, modality and the planet's function. They start from different questions, so the same placement can read differently, and neither reading is the verdict. Both use the tropical zodiac here.

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