Leo horoscope

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.