Today's Reading
Leo horoscope
सिंह · Simha · the Lion
Sidereal Aug 17 – Sep 16·Tropical Jul 23 – Aug 22
Today's panchang · Tuesday, 13 October 2026
Moon in Vishakha · Priti yoga · Shukla Paksha
Computed for New Delhi from the JPL DE421 ephemeris. Sunrise, Rahu Kaal and Abhijit shift with your city — the panchang tool works them out for yours.
Detailed
Today's reading, area by area
Overall
Energy favours completion. Close a loop you've been avoiding — you'll feel noticeably lighter by evening.
Love & Relationships
Your worth isn't negotiable. A relationship that dims you isn't the right fit.
Career & Work
Research and deep work are favoured. Block 2 uninterrupted hours on your most important task.
Health & Wellness
If you're anxious, five minutes outside and a slower breath is a reasonable first thing to try.
Finance & Money
No chart favours an investment. But a long horizon forgives more mistakes than a short one does.
These five notes rotate by sign and by date. They are prompts to think with, not forecasts, and none of them is derived from your birth chart — this page does not know your birth details. The panchang above is computed; these five cards are written. For something actually drawn from your chart, generate a free kundli or speak to an astrologer.
Auspicious
Lucky indicators
Sunday is Sun's weekday, which is why it carries here — the day belongs to the sign's lord, not to the sign, and the number follows the same attribution rather than a separate tradition. The colour does not: every graha that rules two rashis is given a different colour in each of them, so this one is attributed to the rashi itself and not to Sun.
About
Leo — Simha Rashi
Leo is the Sun's own fixed fire sign and the heart of the Kalapurusha. Like Gemini, Sagittarius and Aquarius it neither exalts nor debilitates any of the seven classical grahas — the sign is defined instead by holding the Sun's moolatrikona across its first 20 degrees, so what sits here is read in terms of authority, recognition and self-possession.
Classification
How Simha is classified
Before any prediction, a rashi is placed on a handful of classical axes. These are not interpretive — every authority gives the same answers, and they are what decide which planet is comfortable here, what part of the body the sign governs, and whether a muhurta chosen under it will hold.
Owns Simha. Its placement is what a Leo reading actually rests on.
Which makes Simha a Kshatriya sign in Varna Koota, the first of the eight kootas in Kundli Milan.
Ends holds its quarter of the zodiac.
Alternates strictly from Aries, so every male sign sits at an odd number.
Used in prashna and in siting, where the sign of a chart's ascendant points to a quarter.
The zodiac mapped onto a body from head to feet; Simha is the heart and upper abdomen.
What sthira actually means in practice
Fixed signs hold the middle of each quarter and correspond to the succedent houses. What is established from a sthira rashi is slow to begin and slow to end, which is why construction, long leases and anything meant to endure are timed to these signs.
Dignity
Which planets are strong in Simha
A planet's strength is read first from the sign it sits in. The same Mars is a different Mars in each of the twelve, and the classical scheme is fixed: each planet has one sign it owns, one where it is exalted (uccha) and the sign exactly opposite that where it is debilitated (neecha), always at the same degree.
A planet in its own sign (swakshetra) is never weak, whatever else afflicts it.
A specific arc inside the sign, ranked just below exaltation — the degrees where the planet is most fully itself.
Simha is one of only four rashis in which no planet is either exalted or debilitated — Leo, along with Gemini, Sagittarius and Aquarius. The seven grahas that carry dignities take them across eight signs between them, and these are the ones left over. The classics read this as neutral ground: nothing placed here is amplified and nothing is crippled by the sign itself, so the reading depends more than usual on which house Simha falls in, what aspects it, and the condition of Sun elsewhere in the chart.
Nakshatras
The three nakshatras inside Simha
The rashi is the coarse division. Underneath it the zodiac is cut into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each quartered into padas of 3°20′ — so a 30° rashi holds exactly nine padas and touches exactly three nakshatras, with nothing left over. Your Moon's nakshatra, not your rashi, is what sets your Vimshottari dasha sequence, which is why two people with the same Moon sign can be living through entirely different periods.
| Degrees in Leo | Nakshatra | Pada | Lord | Navamsa |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0°00′ – 3°20′ | Magha | 1 of 4 | Ketu | Aries |
| 3°20′ – 6°40′ | Magha | 2 of 4 | Ketu | Taurus |
| 6°40′ – 10°00′ | Magha | 3 of 4 | Ketu | Gemini |
| 10°00′ – 13°20′ | Magha | 4 of 4 | Ketu | Cancer |
| 13°20′ – 16°40′ | Purva Phalguni | 1 of 4 | Venus | Leo |
| 16°40′ – 20°00′ | Purva Phalguni | 2 of 4 | Venus | Virgo |
| 20°00′ – 23°20′ | Purva Phalguni | 3 of 4 | Venus | Libra |
| 23°20′ – 26°40′ | Purva Phalguni | 4 of 4 | Venus | Scorpio |
| 26°40′ – 30°00′ | Uttara Phalguni | 1 of 4 | Sun | Sagittarius |
The Navamsa column is the D-9 chart placement of each pada — a separate division from the rashi, read for marriage and for a planet's underlying strength. A planet can look well placed in the rashi chart and thin in the navamsa, which is exactly why the two are read together. Uttara Phalguni straddles the Leo boundary: only pada 1 of it falls in Leo, and the rest sits in the neighbouring rashi. Nine of the 27 nakshatras are split this way.
Solar ingress
Simha Sankranti
The Sun enters sidereal Simha at Simha Sankranti, around Aug 17, and stays about a month. This is a real astronomical event rather than a calendar convention, and it is why the sidereal dates above are the ones a Vedic reading uses — Simha Sankranti is observed as Onam's month in Kerala, where Chingam opens the Malayalam year.
The tropical range you will see elsewhere, Jul 23 – Aug 22, is set from the spring equinox instead of from the stars. The two definitions of 0° Aries drifted apart at roughly a degree every 72 years and now differ by about 24 degrees — the ayanamsa. Neither is a mistake; they answer different questions, and this site answers the sidereal one throughout.
The lord
Sun rules Simha
A daily Leo horoscope is, underneath, a reading of Sun. Where it sits in your chart, which house it occupies, what aspects it, and whether it is running a dasha period decide far more than the sign label does.
More Leo predictions
Questions
Leo horoscope — common questions
Is my Leo horoscope read from my Sun sign or my Moon sign?+
From the Moon. This is the single biggest difference between a Vedic reading and the Western one most people have seen: Jyotish treats the Chandra rashi — the sign the Moon occupied at birth — as primary, and reads the Sun sign as a secondary indicator of vitality and standing. So a daily Leo rashifal is written for people whose Moon is in Simha, not for people born between Jul 23 – Aug 22. If you know your Moon sign, read that one. If you do not, cast a free Kundli and it will tell you, along with your nakshatra.
Why are the Leo dates here different from the ones I usually see?+
Because there are two zodiacs and they no longer line up. Western astrology uses the tropical zodiac, which pins 0° Aries to the spring equinox; Vedic astrology uses the sidereal zodiac, which is fixed to the actual stars. The equinox drifts against the stars by about one degree every 72 years, and the gap has now opened to roughly 24 degrees — that offset is the ayanamsa. So tropical Leo runs Jul 23 – Aug 22 while sidereal Leo runs Aug 17 – Sep 16, and the Sun's actual entry into Simha is Simha Sankranti. Both sets are given on this page: the tropical dates because they are what you recognise, the sidereal ones because they are what the reading is computed from.
Which planet rules Leo?+
Sun. In Jyotish Sun owns Simha, and its moolatrikona — the stretch where it is most comfortably itself — falls at Sun, 0°–20°. That matters practically: a Leo reading is really a reading of where Sun sits in your chart, which house it occupies, what aspects it, and whether it is currently running a dasha period. The sign sets the terms; the lord decides the outcome.
Which nakshatras fall in Leo?+
Three, always. Magha (all four padas, ruled by Ketu); Purva Phalguni (all four padas, ruled by Venus); Uttara Phalguni (pada 1, ruled by Sun). The arithmetic is exact rather than approximate: 27 nakshatras of four padas each is 108 padas, and 108 divided among 12 rashis is nine padas per rashi with nothing left over. Uttara Phalguni (pada 1) is split across the boundary here, so two people can share it and sit in different rashis. Your nakshatra decides your Vimshottari dasha sequence, so it matters more for timing than the rashi does.
What does it mean that Leo is a sthira sign?+
Fixed signs hold the middle of each quarter and correspond to the succedent houses. What is established from a sthira rashi is slow to begin and slow to end, which is why construction, long leases and anything meant to endure are timed to these signs. Simha is one of the four sthira rashis, along with the three at 90, 180 and 270 degrees from it. In practice this is what an astrologer reads before anything else when choosing a muhurta, because it decides whether a thing started under that sign is likely to move, hold or repeat.
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