Jupiter in Leo (Oct 2026 to Jan 2027, again Jun to Nov 2027)

Jupiter (Guru) enters sidereal Leo on 31 October 2026 (IST). In mid-December 2026 it turns retrograde, meaning it appears to move backwards from Earth's viewpoint. Moving backwards, it re-enters Cancer on 25 January 2027.

It turns direct again and re-enters Leo on 26 June 2027, staying until 26 November 2027, when it moves into Virgo. So Leo gets two visits: a short first pass and a long second one.

In B.V. Raman's approximate speeds, Jupiter takes about one year per sign, while the Moon takes about two and a quarter days and Saturn about two and a half years.

Skybond's catalog also notes that Ketu (one of the north and south nodes, two shadow points) sits in Leo until December 2026, so Jupiter and Ketu share Leo from 31 October 2026 until Ketu moves on.

Leo is the 5th sign of the zodiac, a fire sign and a fixed sign, and its lord is the Sun.

Jupiter is exalted in Cancer, debilitated in Capricorn, and owns Sagittarius and Pisces. In Leo it is none of these: the Sun, Leo's lord, is one of Jupiter's natural friends in P.V.R. Narasimha Rao (PVR)'s table, so Leo counts as a friendly sign for Jupiter.

P.V.R. Narasimha Rao (PVR), author of Vedic Astrology: An Integrated Approach, offers an analogy for dignity: the own sign is like home, the exaltation sign like a favourite party or picnic, and the debilitation sign like being stuck at a place one hates.

Skybond uses whole-sign houses: the sign of your reference point is the 1st house, the next sign the 2nd, and so on. Count from Leo and you get the house number for any ascendant or moon sign.

PVR puts it plainly: 'We can see which house a planet is transiting in, with respect to natal lagna, and expect the planet to influence the matters of that house'. PVR (§25.2) and B.V. Raman (ch. 34) also count transits from the janma rasi, the sign holding the Moon at birth, so the same count works from your moon sign.

Take Skybond's sample chart (a teaching chart, not a real person): lagna Cancer, Moon in Leo. From the lagna, Leo is the 2nd sign, so Jupiter transits the 2nd house; from the Moon, Leo is the 1st, so it transits the 1st. The same chart gives two counts.

Walk one row of the grid: for Aries, Leo is the 5th sign from Aries, so Jupiter is in the 5th house; for Virgo, Leo is the 12th sign, so it is in the 12th.

Aspects (graha drishti, planetary sight) are listed in Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra (BPHS). In chapter 26 of BPHS (Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, R. Santhanam's translation), every planet aspects the 7th sign from itself; Jupiter additionally aspects the 5th and 9th, Mars the 4th and 8th, and Saturn the 3rd and 10th.

So from Leo, Jupiter aspects three signs: Sagittarius (5th from Leo), Aquarius (7th) and Aries (9th). PVR extends this to transits: 'We can also look at the aspects cast by transiting planets'. If your lagna or moon sign falls in Sagittarius, Aquarius or Aries, Jupiter in Leo is aspecting your 1st house even though it does not occupy it.

B.V. Raman, in Hindu Predictive Astrology, writes of 'the yearly effects from Jupiter' when discussing transits, and cautions: 'There is no denying the fact that the birth horoscope directly affects Gochara results' (gochara meaning transit).

PVR agrees: standard transit results 'are given only for reference. In reality, not everyone with the same janma rasi experiences the same results', and 'The results given by planets depend on what they stand for in the natal chart'. In other words, Jupiter's house shows where to look; what you find depends on your chart.

To go further, Skybond publishes one transit article per event for each of the 12 ascendants, free to read at /transits/{sign}/, and in the app transits are written for your own houses, counted from your lagna and from your Moon.