Leo Horoscope 2028: Love, Career, Money and Key Dates

For Leo, 2028 is the year you step off the stage to take on the job. In 2027, everything brought you back to yourself: Jupiter and a total eclipse in your sign, the South Node in Leo. In 2028, no slow planet crosses Leo, the eclipses move away from your axis after January 26, and Saturn enters Taurus at 12:04 am on April 13, landing in your 10th house — career, status, ambition — until May 31, 2030. The question is no longer “who’s watching me?” but “what am I responsible for?”

Three movements come on top of that. Venus is retrograde in Gemini from May 10 to June 22, in your 11th house: six weeks to sort through friends, networks and group projects. Jupiter, after thirteen months working on your income, enters Libra on August 24 and opens your 3rd house: speaking and writing. The eclipses move to the Cancer–Capricorn axis, your 12th and 6th houses: backstage and the workshop. And the Sun, your ruler, keeps its season from July 22 to August 22, extended by Mars and Venus in your sign from September 4 and 5: your real season opener.

What changes from 2027

Your 2027 horoscope told the story of a year in the spotlight: Jupiter in your sign until July 26 and then in your 2nd house, the total eclipse of August 2 in Leo, Mars retrograde over your degrees, Saturn and Neptune trining you from your 9th house. 2028 renews none of that: Saturn climbs one house, so does Jupiter, and the nodes leave the you–other axis for the backstage–workshop axis.

First, the empty space: no slow planet in your sign, and the Saturn trine that had been carrying you since 2026 stops on April 13. Neptune stays alone in the 9th house: your convictions keep their inspiration and lose their method. Saturn arrives where Leo likes to be seen, in the 10th house, and it hands out responsibilities there, not applause. Jupiter slides from the 2nd house to the 3rd on August 24, from what you earn to what you say. In early March, the lunar nodes move from your 7th and 1st houses to your 6th and 12th: daily work becomes the direction, and retreat becomes what you learn to let go of.

The four turning points of 2028 for Leo

Four dates cut the year into sections, and each one moves the house where the main action happens.

April 13: Saturn enters Taurus, at the top of your chart

Since February 14, 2026, Saturn has occupied your 9th house and supported your Sun by trine: it gave structure to study, travel and convictions without getting in your way. On April 13 at 12:04 am, it enters Taurus and your 10th house, where it stays until May 31, 2030. A Saturn transit at the top of the chart is about responsibilities taken on and titles earned: a reputation that builds slowly and owes nothing to charm. It squares your Sun, decan by decan: the 1st from April 13 to July 14 and again from October 1, the 2nd from July 14 to October 1. Mars joins it on April 27 and conjoins it on April 30 at 2°16′ Taurus: the commitment you make between April 13 and early May sets the tone for the cycle.

May 10 to June 22: Venus retrograde in Gemini, sorting out your alliances

Venus backs up through your 11th house: friends, networks, groups, causes. From 7:01 pm on May 10 (19°41′ Gemini) to 6:14 pm on June 22 (3°11′ Gemini), with a shadow from April 7 to July 26, your alliances get renegotiated: a friend from the past reappears, a collaboration shows who is really pulling their weight. Mercury goes retrograde in the same place from May 21 to June 14: group conversations get tense before they clear up. For a Leo, who naturally draws a circle, this Venus retrograde asks the only useful question: who is an ally, and who is a spectator? Avoid founding or funding a group before Venus turns direct on June 22; after July 26, you’ll be recruiting people you’ve seen in action.

August 24: Jupiter enters Libra, and your voice gets bigger

Jupiter has been crossing your 2nd house since July 26, 2027: income and the prices you charge. Its retrograde from January 12 (27°31′ Virgo) to May 13 (17°32′ Virgo) puts a rate you adopted in 2027 back under the microscope. On August 24 at 1:04 am, it enters Libra and your 3rd house, until September 24, 2029, in sextile to your sign. This Jupiter transit gives Leo something it sometimes lacks: the urge to explain rather than assert. Writing, teaching, negotiating, siblings, neighbors: everything that runs on words gains scope. On September 24, Jupiter trine Pluto links your voice to a partner: one conversation shifts a balance of power. On September 28, Jupiter opposes Neptune in your 9th house: you promise a trip, a book, a degree faster than you can deliver them. On October 27, Jupiter trine Uranus carries a message out to your networks.

The eclipses leave your sign for your backstage

Since summer 2026, the eclipses had been falling in Leo and Aquarius, your 1st and 7th houses; the one on August 2, 2027, in your sign, was the peak. The annular eclipse of January 26 at 6°11′ Aquarius, in your 7th house, closes the series; from the US, it’s only a small morning partial eclipse along the East Coast. The new axis, Cancer–Capricorn, occupies your 12th and 6th houses until September 2029. The partial lunar eclipse on the night of January 11 at 21°34′ Cancer, visible across the US, opens it in your 12th house: rest, retreat, what goes unsaid. On July 6, the partial lunar eclipse at 15°16′ Capricorn touches your 6th house: daily work and health habits. At 10:55 pm on July 21, the total solar eclipse at 29°51′ Cancer, on the last degree of your 12th house, comes four hours before the Sun enters your sign at 2:53 am on July 22: your season opens on a blank page. On December 31, the total lunar eclipse at 10°35′ Cancer, visible from Europe and Asia but not from the US, closes the year in the same place. Eighteen months in which Leo works out of frame.

2028 season by season

The milestones below are in US Eastern Time (New York); they keep the ingresses of Mars and the slow planets, their stations, the eclipses, lunations in your sign or opposite it, and the major aspects between slow planets.

Winter (January 1 – March 19): the other person first, then your Full Moon

• January 3 11:00 am Mars enters Aquarius · 7th house
• January 11 11:13 pm Partial lunar eclipse at 21°34′ Cancer · 12th house
• January 12 3:48 am Jupiter turns retrograde at 27°31′ Virgo · 2nd house
• January 13 1:52 am Uranus trine Pluto · 11th and 7th houses
• January 24 6:02 am Mercury turns retrograde at 19°42′ Aquarius · 7th house
• January 26 10:07 am Annular solar eclipse at 6°11′ Aquarius · 7th house
• February 10 10:04 am Full Moon at 21°24′ Leo · 1st house
• February 10 11:31 am Mars enters Pisces · 8th house
• February 12 6:39 pm Uranus turns direct at 5°56′ Gemini · 11th house
• February 14 7:42 am Mercury turns direct at 3°59′ Aquarius · 7th house
• March 19 3:35 pm Mars enters Aries · 9th house

Mars enters Aquarius on the 3rd, in your 7th house: the other person sets the pace. On the night of the 11th, the lunar eclipse in Cancer, in your 12th house, calls for silence; a few hours later, Jupiter turns retrograde in your 2nd house: your 2027 accounts get a second read until May 13. Mercury retrograde in the 7th house from January 24 to February 14 rewrites a two-person agreement, and the January 26 eclipse, in the same place, closes the cycle that opened in 2026. February gives you back the light. The Full Moon of the 10th at 21°24′ Leo is the only lunation in your sign before August: whatever comes to fruition belongs to you. Less than two hours later, Mars moves into Pisces, your 8th house: shared money, intimacy. On March 19, Mars enters Aries, trine your sign: momentum returns through fire, a few hours before the equinox.

Spring (March 19 – June 20): Saturn climbs, your friends get sorted

• April 13 12:04 am Saturn enters Taurus · 10th house
• April 27 6:21 pm Mars enters Taurus · 10th house
• May 9 4:48 am Pluto turns retrograde at 8°49′ Aquarius · 7th house
• May 9 10:50 pm Uranus trine Pluto · 11th and 7th houses
• May 10 7:01 pm Venus turns retrograde at 19°41′ Gemini · 11th house
• May 13 3:57 pm Jupiter turns direct at 17°32′ Virgo · 2nd house
• May 21 4:41 am Mercury turns retrograde at 16°19′ Gemini · 11th house
• June 7 2:20 pm Mars enters Gemini · 11th house
• June 8 9:49 pm Neptune sextile Pluto · 9th and 7th houses
• June 14 2:05 am Mercury turns direct at 7°45′ Gemini · 11th house

Mars in Aries until April 27 crosses your 9th house in trine to your Sun: the New Moon of March 26 at 6°03′ Aries favors a departure or an enrollment. On April 13, Saturn enters Taurus; the New Moon of April 24 at 5°09′ Taurus, in your 10th house, carries a career intention; Mars arrives there on the 27th and conjoins Saturn on the 30th at 2°16′: the career decision gets made right there. May gets tangled: Pluto turns retrograde on the 9th in your 7th house, Venus on the 10th and Mercury on the 21st in Gemini, your 11th house. On May 13, Jupiter turns direct in your 2nd house: money moves forward while friendships are under revision. Mercury turns direct on June 14.

Summer (June 20 – September 22): backstage, then your comeback

• June 22 6:14 pm Venus turns direct at 3°11′ Gemini · 11th house
• June 23 11:18 pm Saturn square Pluto · 10th and 7th houses
• July 6 2:19 pm Partial lunar eclipse at 15°16′ Capricorn · 6th house
• July 11 9:18 am Neptune turns retrograde at 8°54′ Aries · 9th house
• July 20 4:09 pm Mars enters Cancer · 12th house
• July 21 10:55 pm Total solar eclipse at 29°51′ Cancer · 12th house
• July 22 2:53 am Sun enters Leo · 1st house
• August 5 4:10 am Full Moon at 13°27′ Aquarius · 7th house
• August 20 6:44 am New Moon at 27°56′ Leo · 1st house
• August 22 6:17 pm Saturn turns retrograde at 11°19′ Taurus · 10th house
• August 24 1:04 am Jupiter enters Libra · 3rd house
• September 4 10:36 am Mars enters Leo · 1st house
• September 5 7:17 pm Venus enters Leo · 1st house
• September 10 12:21 am Mars sextile Jupiter · 1st and 3rd houses
• September 15 12:57 am Mars opposite Pluto · 1st and 7th houses
• September 16 10:21 pm Mars trine Neptune · 1st and 9th houses
• September 18 8:06 pm Uranus turns retrograde at 14°14′ Gemini · 11th house
• September 19 12:27 pm Mercury turns retrograde at 18°36′ Libra · 3rd house
• September 21 7:54 am Mars square Saturn · 1st and 10th houses

Venus turns direct on June 22; late the next day, Saturn forms its first square to Pluto between your 10th and 7th houses: career and relationship pull in opposite directions, and the question comes back on November 15. On July 6, the lunar eclipse in Capricorn reorganizes a work routine in your 6th house. Mars enters Cancer on July 20, in your 12th house; the total solar eclipse at 10:55 pm on July 21 falls on the last degree of that same house, and the Sun enters your sign at 2:53 am on the 22nd. Your season begins with a disappearing act. The Full Moon of August 5 at 13°27′ Aquarius, in your 7th house, lights up your relationship; the New Moon of August 20 at 27°56′ Leo is the intention for your year. Saturn turns retrograde on August 22, Jupiter enters Libra on the 24th, Mars enters your sign on September 4 and Venus follows on the 5th. Mars sextile Jupiter on September 10 gets things moving, Mars opposite Pluto on the 15th brings a confrontation, and Mars square Saturn on the 21st calls you back to order.

Fall and year’s end (September 22 – December 31): your voice takes over

• September 24 3:39 am Jupiter trine Pluto · 3rd and 7th houses
• September 27 6:42 am Mars sextile Uranus · 1st and 11th houses
• September 28 3:29 pm Jupiter opposite Neptune · 3rd and 9th houses
• October 11 6:30 am Mercury turns direct at 3°29′ Libra · 3rd house
• October 19 12:19 am Pluto turns direct at 6°24′ Aquarius · 7th house
• October 23 9:11 pm Mars enters Virgo · 2nd house
• October 27 5:03 am Jupiter trine Uranus · 3rd and 11th houses
• November 7 11:21 pm Neptune sextile Pluto · 9th and 7th houses
• November 15 7:29 am Saturn square Pluto · 10th and 7th houses
• December 16 3:56 pm Neptune turns direct at 6°06′ Aries · 9th house
• December 21 3:46 am Mars enters Libra · 3rd house
• December 31 11:51 am Total lunar eclipse at 10°35′ Cancer · 12th house

Fall belongs to Jupiter in Libra, in your 3rd house, and to Mars, still in your sign until October 23. On September 28, Jupiter opposite Neptune is the date to watch: a speech that sounds too good, a promise to double-check. Mercury turns direct on October 11; the New Moon of the 17th in Libra lets you restate what September got wrong. Mars enters Virgo on the evening of October 23, in your 2nd house: until December 21, your energy goes to whatever pays, and its trine to Saturn on November 5 connects work and status. On November 15, Saturn’s second square to Pluto demands a call between your job and your partner. Venus enters Sagittarius late on December 14, in your 5th house, with the New Moon the next evening: December is tender. Mars enters Libra on the 21st, and the total lunar eclipse of December 31, seen from Europe and Asia rather than the US, closes the year in your 12th house.

Love and relationships: Leo in 2028

For Leo, love in 2028 plays out less inside the relationship than in the people around it. Pluto has occupied your 7th house since 2024, and the January 26 eclipse closes eighteen months of redefining partnership there; Mercury retrograde in the same place from January 24 to February 14 reopens a conversation you thought was closed. Venus retrograde from May 10 to June 22 backs up through your 11th house, not your 7th: a friend who matters more than expected, an old flame who comes back through your shared circle, a couple judged by its friends. If you’re single, you’ll meet people through groups; if you’re in a couple, your entourage says what it thinks.

Your charm window comes late and comes clear: Venus in Leo from September 5 to October 2, while Mars crosses your sign from September 4 to October 23. Two dates to handle with care: Mars opposite Pluto on September 15, a power struggle between two people, and the Full Moon of August 5 at 13°27′ Aquarius, in your 7th house, which shows what the other person is going through. Jupiter in the 3rd house from August 24 softens things: love travels through words and letters. The year ends in the 5th house, with Venus in Sagittarius on December 14 and the New Moon of December 15: pleasure, flirting, children. Be careful on June 23 and November 15, when Saturn square Pluto sets your ambitions against your relationship.

Work, career and money

Career is the big subject of 2028. Saturn enters your 10th house on April 13 and stays until May 31, 2030: two years in which Leo earns status on merit, through responsibilities accepted. The New Moon of April 24 in Taurus and the Mars–Saturn conjunction of April 30 are the starting point; Saturn’s retrograde from August 22 to January 5, 2029 checks that the position is sustainable. Saturn’s square to your Sun can weigh on you: more is asked of you and you get less applause. The July 6 eclipse in Capricorn, in your 6th house, reshuffles daily life, and the North Node settles there from March: the year’s direction runs through work done well, not through the shop window.

On the money side, Jupiter stays in your 2nd house until August 24: retrograde from January 12 to May 13, it revisits a rate set in 2027, then boosts what pays. After that, expansion changes focus: in the 3rd house, Jupiter favors whatever sells through words — training, writing, negotiation. Mercury retrograde in Libra from September 19 to October 11, in that same house, sends a contract back for review; Jupiter trine Uranus, on October 27, opens an unexpected channel to a network. Mars in Virgo from October 23 to December 21, in your 2nd house, is the stretch for sending invoices, and its trine to Saturn on November 5 makes income and recognition line up.

Health, energy and balance

Mars doesn’t go retrograde in 2028: Leo’s energy runs on a calendar, without breakdowns. Mars in Aries from March 19 to April 27 is the first peak; Mars in Cancer from July 20 to September 4, in your 12th house, is the deliberate dip. Then Mars crosses your sign from September 4 to October 23: seven weeks at full power, except on September 15 (opposition to Pluto) and September 21 (square to Saturn). The eclipses of January 11, July 6 and December 31, in your 12th and 6th houses, are about rhythm: sleep and routines become the foundation of being seen. Saturn square your Sun mostly wears out those who refuse to delegate.

By your birth date

The Sun moves about one degree a day, and a slow planet only occupies ten or so at a time. Depending on your birthday, Saturn, Jupiter and Uranus don’t reach you on the same dates: the table gives them, and the paragraphs read them.

Born July 23 – August 1 (1st decan): the busiest decan

You stack up the contacts: Neptune in trine all year inspires you, Pluto in opposition from your 7th house transforms a close bond, Uranus in sextile until May 30 refreshes your friendships. Saturn arrives in square on your degrees from April 13 to July 14, then again from October 1: the career load lands on you first. The January 26 eclipse at 6°11′ Aquarius faces you directly, and Mars opposite Pluto on September 15, at 6°40′ Leo, falls on your degrees. Jupiter in sextile from August 24 to October 10 lightens things: your words carry.

Born August 2–12 (2nd decan): Saturn’s summer, Jupiter’s fall

Uranus moves into sextile on May 30 and stays: your networks change, and that suits you. Saturn holds you in square from July 14 to October 1, right in the middle of your season: responsibilities get heavier just when you’d like to shine, and the Full Moon of August 5 at 13°27′ Aquarius opposes your degrees. Mars square Saturn on September 21, at 10°34′ Leo, also lands on you. Jupiter in sextile from October 10 to November 28 rewards you: fall is your best stretch.

Born August 13–22 (3rd decan): the freest year

Saturn supports you by trine until April 13, the last of 2027’s gifts: whatever you finish this winter is solid. After that, no slow planet touches your degrees until Jupiter’s sextile, from November 28, which carries on into 2029. In between come your two lunations: the Full Moon of February 10 at 21°24′ Leo and the New Moon of August 20 at 27°56′ Leo fall on your degrees, one to complete, the other to begin again. You are the decan that gets to breathe in 2028.

Dates to circle in your 2028 calendar

1. January 11: partial lunar eclipse in Cancer, your 12th house, visible across the US that night — a need to withdraw.
2. January 26: annular solar eclipse in Aquarius, the last on the Leo–Aquarius axis.
3. February 10: Full Moon at 21°24′ Leo — what comes to fruition in your sign.
4. April 13: Saturn enters Taurus, your 10th house; Mars conjoins it on April 30 — the career decision.
5. May 10: Venus turns retrograde in Gemini until June 22, your 11th house — sorting out your allies.
6. July 21: total solar eclipse in Cancer at 10:55 pm; the Sun enters your sign at 2:53 am on July 22.
7. August 20: New Moon at 27°56′ Leo — the intention for your year.
8. August 24: Jupiter enters Libra, your 3rd house — thirteen months for your voice.
9. September 4: Mars enters Leo until October 23, and Venus follows on the 5th — your season opener.
10. December 31: total lunar eclipse in Cancer, visible from Europe and Asia — the year closes backstage.

Leo Ascendant: this page is for you too

If you have a Leo Ascendant, the solar houses on this page become your actual houses: Saturn enters your 10th house on April 13, Jupiter your 3rd house on August 24, and the Cancer eclipses fall in your 12th house. Read this page for career and backstage matters, and your Sun sign for willpower and image. The Ascendant calculator needs your birth time and place; without a time, your Sun sign and its decans are enough.

None of these dates decides for you. A transit points to an area of life and a moment; the response is yours, and that is the principle behind our ethics charter.

Leo in 2028: frequently asked questions

Further reading

Start with your Leo 2027 horoscope; then read about the Saturn transit, the Jupiter transit, Venus retrograde, the South Node and the Leo sign. The 2028 Horoscope page brings together the other eleven signs, and the Leo daily horoscope follows the sky day by day.