Jupiter crossed into Leo on June 30, 2026 and will stay there until July 26, 2027 — thirteen months in the sign most associated with performance, creative authorship, and the risk of being looked at. It last did this between July 2014 and August 2015. After 2027 it won't return until 2038.
Most Jupiter-in-Leo coverage stops at the vibe: be bold, take up space, shine. That's not wrong, but it's not usable. What's actually useful is knowing when Jupiter reaches the degrees that matter in your chart, and — a detail almost nobody mentions — that Jupiter doesn't reach the last two degrees of Leo until July 2027. If your important placements sit at 28° or 29° Leo, your whole transit is compressed into six days next summer.
Here is the transit with its actual mechanics attached.
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Jupiter in Leo: the dates that matter
| Event | Date | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Jupiter enters Leo | June 30, 2026 | 0°00′ Leo |
| Sun conjunct Jupiter | July 30, 2026 | ~6°31′ Leo |
| Total solar eclipse in Leo | August 12, 2026 | 20°02′ Leo |
| Jupiter trine Saturn (first pass) | September 1, 2026 | 13°42′ Leo |
| Jupiter stations retrograde | December 12–13, 2026 | 27°01′ Leo |
| Sun opposite Jupiter | February 12, 2027 | ~21°55′ Leo |
| Jupiter trine Saturn (second pass) | April 4, 2027 | 17°08′ Leo |
| Jupiter stations direct | April 12–13, 2027 | ~17°00′ Leo |
| Jupiter enters Virgo | July 26, 2027 | 0°00′ Virgo |
Station dates shift by a day depending on your timezone; the retrograde begins on December 12 in the Americas and December 13 in UTC and further east.
The Jupiter–Saturn trine is the underrated item on that list. Jupiter in Leo wants scale and applause; Saturn in Aries wants proof and consequence. When they trine each other — on September 1, 2026 and again on April 4, 2027 — the combination is unusually workable. Those are the windows where ambitious plans have the best chance of surviving contact with a budget. If you're timing something significant, weight those two dates far above the ingress itself. Our guide to Saturn in Aries and personal responsibility covers the other half of that aspect.
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When does Jupiter reach your degree?
This is the part that makes a transit personal. Find the degree of the Leo planet, angle or house cusp you care about, and read across:
| Jupiter's degree in Leo | First pass | Retrograde return | Final pass |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0°–5° | Jun 30 – Jul 23, 2026 | — | — |
| 6°–10° | Jul 27 – Aug 15, 2026 | — | — |
| 11°–16° | Aug 19 – Sep 12, 2026 | — | — |
| 17° | Sep 17, 2026 | Apr 11, 2027 | Apr 15, 2027 |
| 18°–20° | Sep 22 – Oct 3, 2026 | Feb 27 – Mar 18, 2027 | May 9–28, 2027 |
| 21°–23° | Oct 9–22, 2026 | Feb 3–19, 2027 | Jun 5–18, 2027 |
| 24°–26° | Oct 29 – Nov 17, 2026 | Jan 7–27, 2027 | Jun 24 – Jul 6, 2027 |
| 27° | Dec 9, 2026 | Dec 17, 2026 | Jul 11, 2027 |
| 28°–29° | Jul 16–21, 2027 only | — | — |
Three practical readings fall out of this.
If your placements sit in early or middle Leo (0°–16°), your Jupiter transit is already happening, it is a single clean pass, and it will be finished by mid-September 2026. Fast, unrepeated, easy to miss if you're waiting for a sign.
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If they sit between 17° and 26°, you get the full three-pass structure: an opening in autumn 2026, a review during the retrograde, and a resolution in spring or early summer 2027. This is the classic Jupiter arc — the version where something opens, gets complicated, then settles into a different shape than you expected. Note the shape of it: the further into Leo your degree sits, the earlier in 2027 the retrograde revisit lands and the later the final pass arrives.
If they sit at 27° Leo, you get an odd, clipped version: Jupiter arrives on December 9, 2026, stations retrograde at 27°01′ four days later, and slips back below your degree by December 17. Then nothing until July 2027. Eight days, then a seven-month gap.
If they sit at 28° or 29° Leo, you wait until July 16–21, 2027 and then it's over in under a week. Not a lesser transit, just a compressed one. Plan accordingly rather than assuming the whole year belongs to you.
You can look up your own degrees with our birth chart calculator.
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What Jupiter in Leo actually amplifies
Jupiter's function is expansion — of whatever it touches, including things you would rather it left alone. In Leo, the territory is:
- Authorship. Not just creativity in the hobby sense, but putting your name on things. Leo is the sign of the signature.
- Visibility. Being watched, and how you behave when you are.
- Play, children, and romance in its early, delighted form. Leo governs the courtship phase more than the partnership phase.
- Generosity, and its shadow, performance of generosity.
- Confidence, and its shadow, the inability to tolerate not being the reference point.
The honest version of a Jupiter transit is that it enlarges your existing pattern rather than replacing it. If you already under-claim credit for your work, Jupiter in Leo tends to hand you situations where under-claiming costs you something visible. If you already over-explain your own importance, it tends to hand you a bigger stage and a longer fall. This is why "Jupiter brings luck" is such an unsatisfying summary — Jupiter brings more, and more is only lucky when it lands somewhere you've built for it.
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How Jupiter in Leo lands for each sign
Read for your rising sign first, then your Sun. Rising sign tells you which house Jupiter is transiting, which is where the change actually shows up.
Aries — Jupiter moves through your fifth house: creative work, romance, children, risk-taking for pleasure rather than profit. The most straightforward placement in the zodiac for this transit. The risk is spending the whole year in the fun and none of it in the follow-through.
Taurus — Fourth house. Home, family, property, and your relationship with where you're from. Expansion here often looks like more space, more people in it, or an unavoidable conversation about a family pattern.
Gemini — Third house. Writing, speaking, siblings, short trips, the sheer volume of your communication. With Uranus also in Gemini, this is a loud year for your ideas. Choose fewer of them.
Cancer — Second house. Income, possessions, and self-worth as a measurable thing. Jupiter here often expands earning capacity and expenses at the same rate, so track both.
Leo — First house. Jupiter in your own sign, once every twelve years. Identity, physical presence, how people describe you when you're not there. The classic Jupiter-in-the-first pitfall is expansion in the literal sense; the classic gift is being taken seriously without having to campaign for it.
Virgo — Twelfth house. The quiet one. Rest, retreat, the unconscious, endings that need to happen before the next thing can start. Jupiter enters your sign in July 2027, so treat this year as the preparation, not the performance.
Libra — Eleventh house. Friendships, networks, groups, long-range hopes. Your social world widens. The useful question is which of these connections you'd still want if they stopped being useful.
Scorpio — Tenth house. Career, public reputation, the thing you're known for. One of the strongest placements for the transit — but tenth-house Jupiter raises visibility whether or not you're ready to be visible.
Sagittarius — Ninth house, and Jupiter's own natural home. Travel, study, publishing, belief. If you have been putting off a course, a move, or a large question about meaning, this is the year it gets easier rather than harder.
Capricorn — Eighth house. Shared resources, debt, inheritance, intimacy, and other people's money. Less glamorous, often more materially consequential than the flashier placements.
Aquarius — Seventh house. Partnership — romantic, business, legal. Jupiter opposite your rising sign tends to bring significant others into focus, sometimes by bringing more of them than you asked for.
Pisces — Sixth house. Daily work, routines, health practices, service. The transit shows up in the texture of your ordinary Tuesday rather than in a headline. Expansion of workload is the common form; expansion of competence is the better one.
For a wider view of how this fits into the rest of the year, see our 2026 zodiac predictions.
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The retrograde: December 12, 2026 to April 12, 2027
Jupiter turns retrograde at 27°01′ Leo and reverses to roughly 17°00′ Leo before turning direct — about ten degrees of backtracking over four months.
Retrograde Jupiter is not a punishment phase. Its practical signature is that external expansion pauses and internal reassessment takes over. Opportunities that looked obvious in October often need renegotiating in January. Things you committed to in the autumn get audited.
Three things worth doing in that window:
1. Reopen the terms, not the decision. Retrograde Jupiter is much better at renegotiating than at abandoning. 2. Check what you agreed to when you were feeling expansive. Leo Jupiter is generous in the moment and occasionally overcommitted by December. 3. Let the April station be the deadline. Jupiter stationing direct at 17° Leo in April 2027 is the natural point to relaunch, and the Jupiter–Saturn trine on April 4 sits right beside it.
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