Leo Moon sign
A Leo Moon sign means the Moon was in Leo when you were born. It crosses the sign in about two and a half days, roughly once a month. This page says what the tradition makes of it, how it mixes with each Sun sign, and when the next six crossings are.
- Ruled by the Sun
- No dignity for the Moon here
- About two and a half days a month
The Moon in Leo
Alan Leo, Astrology for All, 1899. Public domain, and the full text is readable online.
Leo Moon personality
Warm feeling that wants to be seen, and is wounded through pride.
- GiftsWarmHonourable, generous with money, candid and warm hearted, with a gift for music, poetry or painting. It rises into positions of responsibility and wins the favour of those above it.
- StrugglesLavishEasily moved in matters of the heart, and fond of luxury: pleasure, perfume, jewels and fine clothes.
Leo says this position lifts the native into places of responsibility and prominence, and gives authority over others as head, manager or director. It brings the favour of people in higher positions than their own, and no hesitation about coming before the public.
He calls the nature honourable, generous in money matters, high minded, candid and warm hearted, susceptible in affairs of the heart and a sincere lover. He adds a love of luxury, pleasure, perfume, jewels and fine clothes, and a gift for music, poetry or painting.
The Moon is one placement among many. See your whole birth chart, free, on Natal Chart Maker.
Alan Leo, Astrology for All, 1899, the chapter on the Sun and Moon combined
A Leo Moon with each Sun sign
Alan Leo read the Moon together with the Sun. Find your Sun sign below.
Aries Sun, Leo Moon
A very harmonious pair. Remarkable intuition, a warm and affectionate heart, clear thinking and a pull towards religion and the metaphysical. Disappointment in love hits hard, while ambition, music and drama bring success.
Taurus Sun, Leo Moon
Feelings run high: a habit of exaggerating, going to extremes and being drawn to speculation. Ardent affections and a vivid, poetic imagination. It has to guard against over-indulgence, and the character often firms up later in life.
Gemini Sun, Leo Moon
Too little firmness behind this Moon, so too much impulse and easily moved affections. An active imagination with poetic and dramatic ability, a gift for fiction, and a fondness for display.
Cancer Sun, Leo Moon
Very keen and sensitive feelings, restless in love and inclined to go to extremes. A great love of drama, romance and strong sensation, and a very strong affectional nature.
Leo Sun, Leo Moon
Independent, rather proud and self-centred, but very kind and generous, and able to hold its own through difficulty. A great desire for affection, yet often too reserved. Suited to teaching, concerts and entertainment.
Virgo Sun, Leo Moon
Stirs up the feelings with little steadiness behind them, so there is a hunger for new attachments and many love episodes. It softens the critical Virgo streak. Too much religious feeling does harm here.
Libra Sun, Leo Moon
A very good pair for the feelings: balanced, refined and drawn to spiritual things, sometimes too idealistic. Poetic and musical ability, with plenty of room for the artistic or moral side to grow.
Scorpio Sun, Leo Moon
An inharmonious pair. It intensifies passion and desire and turns the mind to romance in unhealthy ways. Pride, some arrogance and a strong love of power.
Sagittarius Sun, Leo Moon
A splendid fire pair and the most affectionate of the group. Proud, quick and alert, able to sense other minds and to foresee the future. Love goes out to many, which can bring confusion.
Capricorn Sun, Leo Moon
Not very harmonious: the pull towards affection works against an inner ambition. Yet marriage can go well. A love of display, and high ideals about its surroundings.
Aquarius Sun, Leo Moon
Intensifies love and the wish to be devoted to one person, even to worship those it loves. A peculiar pair, with psychic ability.
Pisces Sun, Leo Moon
Inharmonious in practical life: a constant yearning for the unattainable and a love of the romantic, the occult and the mysterious. It can lead into positions that cannot be held, and to erratic moods.
Alan Leo wrote this in 1899, and a whole chart says far more than two placements. See your Sun and Moon together, free.
The doctrine of dignities, standard in Western astrology since the Hellenistic period
Where the tradition places it
The tradition gives the Moon no special strength or weakness here.
There are only four signs where the Moon has a formal dignity. It rules Cancer, is exalted in Taurus, is in detriment in Capricorn and is in fall in Scorpio. In the other eight, including this one, the tradition treats it as a guest that takes the colour of the house it is standing in.
So the reading of these days comes from the sign itself rather than from the Moon's standing in it, which is what the section below sets out.
The doctrine of the elements and the modes, and habit built on top of it
What these days are used for
Being seen, and being generous.
- FireOutwardFire moves outward. The tradition gives these days to starting things, to saying them out loud, and to spending energy rather than saving it.
- FixedHoldingA fixed sign sits in the middle of a season, so the days are read as holding: the impulse is to keep what is already there.
The tradition gives these days to performance, to children and to anything done in front of other people, and reads slights taken now as remembered longer than they deserve.
This is tradition and habit, not a measured effect. It is here because it is what the sources say, and each part carries the name of the source it came from.
The next six Leo Moons
| Enters Leo | Time | Leaves for Virgo | Time | Stays |
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Questions people ask
What does a Leo Moon sign mean?
That the Moon was in Leo at the moment you were born. In astrology the Moon stands for feelings and instinct, so a Leo Moon is read as a warm, generous and ambitious emotional nature, open hearted and at ease in front of others.
How long is the Moon in Leo?
About two and a half days each month. The exact length changes a little because the Moon's speed changes, and the table above gives the real figure for each crossing.
Is a Leo Moon the same as being a Leo?
No. A Leo Sun means the Sun was in Leo at your birth, which is late July to late August. A Leo Moon can happen in any month of the year.
Does the Moon sign depend on where I was born?
The sign itself is the same everywhere at the same moment, because it is measured from the centre of the Earth. What changes with your place is the local clock time it starts and ends, which is exactly what decides your sign if you were born near a crossing.
Positions and times are calculated in your browser with an open astronomy library and match published ephemerides to the minute. The birth chart reading is written from Alan Leo, Astrology for All, 1899, which is in the public domain. The dignities and the doctrine of the elements are standard traditional astrology. Tradition is labelled as tradition throughout, and the sources page sets out what is calculated and what is not.