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Sun and Moon pair

Leo Sun, Virgo Moon

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

  • Sun
  • Moon
Elements
Fire Sun, earth Moon
Modalities
Fixed Sun, mutable Moon
Angle between the signs
Semisextile (30°), counted by sign

How common

1 in 138

0.73% of 2,000,000 simulated births have the Sun in Leo and the Moon in Virgo.

about 20th 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 Virgo

    In Virgo, the Moon feels and responds in a careful, detail-minded 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 Virgo 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

    Semisextile (30°)

    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. Virgo is a mutable earth sign. Fire, earth, air and water are the four elements; earth is classically cold and dry. Modalities group the signs by their place in a season: mutable signs close a season. Leo and Virgo are 1 signs apart, a semisextile (30°) counted by sign. Hellenistic astrologers call signs this far apart in aversion: they hold that the two signs do not see each other.

  3. How common it is

    About 1 in 138

    Leo Sun, Virgo Moon: 0.73% of simulated births, about 1 in 138; about 20th 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 Virgo

    1 in 12

    8.38% of 2,000,000 simulated births

    within noise of an even split of 12

  3. Step 3

    Leo Sun, Virgo Moon

    1 in 138

    0.73% of 2,000,000 simulated births

    about 20th 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 Virgo 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 Virgo, last pass
ended 9 Oct 2026
7 October 2026, 02:52 UTC to 9 October 2026, 08:10 UTC (about 2 days)
Moon in Virgo, next pass
from 3 Nov 2026
3 November 2026, 08:27 UTC to 5 November 2026, 14:38 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 Virgo

    7 Oct 2026 → 9 Oct 2026 · about 2 days

    last pass

  3. Moon in Virgo

    3 Nov 2026 → 5 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 Virgo were last together from 13 August 2026, 10:18 UTC to 15 August 2026, 14:19 UTC.
  • The Sun in Leo and the Moon in Virgo are next together from 3 August 2027, 17:57 UTC to 5 August 2027, 18:54 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 Virgo 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, 13:56 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 Virgo 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

This pair has the Sun in Leo, its home sign, and the Moon in Virgo, the next sign on. By sign they are in aversion: Virgo is the second sign from Leo, and Hellenistic astrologers hold that a sign and its neighbor cannot see each other. The Moon has no domicile, exaltation, detriment or fall in Virgo, though Mercury, the planet that rules the sign, has both domicile and exaltation there. The Moon stands roughly 0° to 60° ahead of the Sun along the zodiac: roughly a young crescent after new Moon, though sign distance is coarse. Moon and Sun are in a feminine earth sign and a masculine fire sign respectively. Look next to Mercury and to the Sun's house.

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
  • Paulus Alexandrinus, Introductory Matters

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.

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 Virgo are adjacent signs, one sign apart, a semisextile. A Leo Sun is fixed fire and a Virgo Moon is mutable earth, so the pair shares neither element nor modality. Modern psychological astrology reads the Sun's aim as expressive visibility and the Moon's need as order, usefulness and getting details right. The combination is associated with generosity expressed through craft and service. The tension described is between display and self-scrutiny, with warmth tempered by a critical eye on its own performance. Hellenistic astrologers treat adjacent signs as being in aversion, meaning no aspect links them. They give the Moon no domicile, exaltation or fall in Virgo and weigh its phase and house instead. The modern reading leans on the contrast between the signs.

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: Virgo is 1 sign from Leo (aversion), fixed fire with mutable earth; the Moon has no domicile, exaltation or fall in Virgo. Replaced 'no rank by sign' with the exact dignities. 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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