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The Moon in Leo

Leo is fixed fire, ruled by the Sun. This page covers what that means for the Moon, how often it happens, and when.

  • Moon
  • Leo
Element
Fire
Modality
Fixed
Ruler
Sun
Dignity of the Moon
No essential dignity in the traditional scheme
Last in Leo
until 7 October 2026, 02:52 UTC
Next in Leo
from 1 November 2026, 04:18 UTC
Next visit lasts
about 2.2 days

How common

1 in 12

8.37% of 2,000,000 simulated births have the Moon in Leo.

within noise of an even split of 12

In plain words

  • Moon in Leo

    In Leo, the Moon feels and responds in a warm, open 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 the Moon in Leo mean?

  1. What the Moon governs

    The Moon feels and responds

    Astrologers treat the Moon as the body that feels and responds. It does that in every sign; the sign changes only the manner.

  2. What Leo adds

    In a warm, open way

    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. Its ruler is the Sun. Traditional astrology gives the Moon no domicile, exaltation, detriment or fall in Leo.

  3. How common it is

    About 1 in 12

    Moon in Leo: 8.37% of simulated births, about 1 in 12; within noise of an even split of 12.

How common is the Moon in Leo?

How common is the Moon in each sign?

An even split of the 12 signsBars start at zero.Share of simulated births with the Moon in each of the 12 signs. Share of 2,000,000 simulated births (1950–2024), tropical zodiac.

When is the Moon in Leo?

Moon in Leo, last pass
ended 7 Oct 2026
4 October 2026, 22:54 UTC to 7 October 2026, 02:52 UTC (about 2 days)
Moon in Leo, next pass
from 1 Nov 2026
1 November 2026, 04:18 UTC to 3 November 2026, 08:27 UTC (about 2 days)

Last, current and next passes

  1. Moon in Leo

    4 Oct 2026 → 7 Oct 2026 · about 2 days

    last pass

  2. Moon in Leo

    1 Nov 2026 → 3 Nov 2026 · about 2 days

    next pass

  • A visit of the Moon to Leo lasts about 2.3 days at the median, from 2.0 to 2.5 days (2,019 visits, 1900–2050).

As of 16 October 2026, 12:20 UTC. Dates are UTC, tropical zodiac, read from the ephemeris's table of sign entries. This page refreshes hourly.

How do different traditions read the Moon in Leo?

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

The Moon in Leo is in the Sun's home sign, a masculine, fixed fire sign. The tradition lists no domicile, exaltation, detriment or fall for the Moon there. Domicile is the sign a planet rules, its home. Hellenistic astrologers describe the Sun and Moon as the two lights, the chart's pair of rulers, here with the Moon as a guest in the Sun's home. The Moon is a feminine night-team planet in a masculine sign, a partial match of gender. Night-team belongs to sect, the tradition's sorting of planets into day and night teams. The Sun's own condition becomes the key fact, because the tradition reads the Moon through the Sun as the lord of Leo. Saturn is in detriment in Leo, a point about the wider chart. Look to the Sun's sign and house next.

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
  • Vettius Valens, Anthology, Book I
  • 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

Checked sign element, modality and gender, domicile, exaltation, detriment and fall against the project data and Ptolemy, plus sect and sign relationships; all consistent. gender/sect match claims rest on Ptolemy and a secondary source. Detriment is stated as a table fact where it appears; its Hellenistic status is disputed (secondary source only). Source works confirmed to exist and to treat the topic (Valens Book I opened; others via secondary pages).

Sources consulted

  • Loeb text of Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos I: planet genders (I.6), diurnal/nocturnal planets and Mercury as morning/evening star (I.7), masculine/feminine and bicorporeal signs (I.11–12), houses of Sun, Moon and Saturn (I.17), exaltations and depressions (I.19); Ptolemy does not rank domicile above exaltation penelope.uchicago.edu (opens in a new tab)
  • Riley's translation, Valens Anthology Book I: day/night sect of each planet, and the natures of the signs (house of, masculine/feminine, bicorporeal) skyscript.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
  • table of dignities; Hellenistic authors treated domicile, exaltation, triplicity and bounds as comparably influential, ranking and point scores came later (secondary source) en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)
  • masculine signs are diurnal and feminine nocturnal; ancient authors (Dorotheus, Serapio) say planets do better in signs of their own gender or sect; secondary source sevenstarsastrology.com (opens in a new tab)
  • Anthology, ten books, c. 150–175 CE, Riley translation online en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)
  • Brennan, Hellenistic Astrology: The Study of Fate and Fortune, February 2017, survey of the tradition's techniques goodreads.com (opens in a new tab)

Modern psychological

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

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1 Oct 2026

Leo is a fixed fire sign with positive polarity, the sign the Sun governs, and a Moon there sits in the Sun's home. Modern psychological astrology reads the emotional need here as warmth returned: to be noticed, appreciated and welcomed. Fixed fire is associated with loyal, generous feeling and a dramatic emotional register. The tension authors describe is dependence on acknowledgment, where an unnoticed effort can sting out of proportion. Hellenistic astrologers give the Moon no domicile, exaltation, detriment or fall in Leo and consider it in the home of the Sun. The Moon is measured against the Sun by phase. Their reading depends on whether the Moon is waxing or waning and on its house and aspects. Modern authors rely on the sign's character.

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)
  • Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, Book I (dignities and sect)

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/element/modality, ruler and dignity claims checked against the project reference data and Wikipedia; the per-sign tendencies attributed to modern authors are confirmed only against a popular secondary description, not the books. Narrowed the Hellenistic "no rank" wording to "no domicile, exaltation, detriment or fall" so the claim matches the four dignities checked.

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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