Leo 2026 Year Horoscope

On the one hand, this is a year of two halves, while on the other hand the pieces that have been shuffled and up in the air for much of 2025 are now falling into place. While the event that literally splits the year in two is Jupiter’s departure from a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart and return to Leo on 30th June, this is when everything else will make sense.

The fact that, until the closing hours of the first half of 2025, Jupiter is in a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart, but you will begin July and the second half of the year with Jupiter in his first full day in Leo, truly makes this a year of two halves.

However, it is far more significant than that. In the first half of the year you are living in the past and in the second half in the future, with an old 12 year Jupiter cycle of expansion drawing to a close in order for another to begin.

Until leaving Cancer, you are in the final months of a 12 year cycle and, in retrograde motion until 11th March, the process of closing old doors is well underway.

By the time Jupiter moves into Leo on 30th June to begin a new 12 year Jupiter cycle of expansion, your luckiest and most expansive year in over a decade, and a year where there is the potential for major new beginnings, you will be ready to move on.

This is also when Saturn and Neptune’s return to your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery will make sense. When Jupiter returns, he will move into a friendly aspect to both and will remain in harmony with them until he leaves Leo in July 2027.

With Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams, returning on 27th January and Saturn, the planet that can give you the power to move mountains if you have to, returning on 14th February, this is something you will have been preparing for over several months.

These are not the only slow outer planets on the move this year. Uranus, who after six years left your career sector last year only to retrograde back in four months later, is also getting ready to leave, this time not returning again for another eight decades. Until then, with a lot of activity in your work sector in January, this will get the new professional year off to an empowered start.

Uranus is here until 26th April, by which time the faster planets, starting with Venus’ return on 31st March and ending with Mars’ departure on 29th June, will be there to lock his influence into place. Meanwhile, this will see Uranus return to your communication sector, where he will not only spend the next six years, but resume a partnership he formed with Pluto in your relationship sector last year.