Leo Daily Horoscope
♌ The Lion · July 23 to August 22 · Fire · Fixed · Ruled by The Sun
Your reading for today
With the Sun radiating in your sector of self-expression, today is all about shining bright. Whether through your work or personal projects, showcase your talents. Confidence is your ally; let it guide you in taking the lead.
The sky behind this reading
These positions are computed from an astronomical ephemeris at the moment this page loads, not written in advance.
What Leo is really like
Leo is generous by default and wounded by indifference, which is the whole sign in one sentence.
Strengths
- ✦Warm in a way people remember
- ✦Loyal and openly proud of its people
- ✦Creative and willing to be seen trying
- ✦Leads without needing a title
Growth edges
- ✦Needs recognition more than it admits
- ✦Takes being overlooked as rejection
- ✦Dramatic when hurt
- ✦Fixed opinions dressed as confidence
Leo in love
Leo loves out loud and expects the same in return. It gives extravagantly and is genuinely wounded by a partner who is undemonstrative. The lesson is that quiet love is still love, and not everyone performs affection.
Leo at work
Leo belongs where visibility is part of the job: performance, leadership, teaching, brand, anything with an audience. It does poor work in roles where credit is absorbed by someone above it.
Leo compatibility
Traditionally easiest with these signs. Treat it as a starting point rather than a verdict, because Venus, Mars and the Moon shape a relationship far more than two Sun signs do.
Takes more work, and is often the more interesting pairing:
Leo at a glance
- Dates
- July 23 to August 22
- Symbol
- The Lion
- Element
- Fire
- Modality
- Fixed
- Ruling planet
- The Sun
- Opposite sign
- Aquarius
- House
- Fifth House of Creativity
- Body
- Heart and spine
- Birthstone
- Peridot
- Colours
- Gold, Orange
- Lucky numbers
- 1, 5, 19
- Polarity
- Positive
Common questions
What are the Leo dates?
Leo runs from July 23 to August 22. The exact boundary shifts by about a day from year to year, so if you were born on the first or last day of that window, only your birth time and place can settle which sign your Sun is actually in.
What element is Leo?
Leo is a Fire sign and a Fixed one, ruled by The Sun.
Who is Leo most compatible with?
Traditionally Aries, Sagittarius, Gemini, Libra. Sun sign compatibility is only a first sketch though, because Venus, Mars and the Moon usually say more about how two people actually get on.
Is this Leo horoscope personalised?
No. A daily sun sign reading applies to roughly one twelfth of the world at once. For a reading built from your own chart you need your birth date, time and place, which is what the AstroGPT advisor uses.
This is one twelfth of the picture
A sun sign reading speaks to everyone born in a month long window. Your birth chart is built from your date, time and place, so it can say something that is only true of you.
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