Jupiter Enters Leo on June 30, 2026: Find Your House
Jupiter enters Leo on June 30, 2026 for the first time in twelve years — opening a thirteen-month window of growth in whichever house Leo rules in your chart, with a Chiron square waiting at the door.
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By Sera Vane·May 12, 2026AI-assisted, editor-reviewed
The last time Jupiter moved through Leo, Hamilton was making its Off-Broadway debut and Taylor Swift's 1989 World Tour was the highest-grossing North American tour of 2015 — the spotlight went to performers who had already put in the work. On June 30, 2026, Jupiter ingresses into Leo — crosses from one sign into the next — for the first time in twelve years, opening a thirteen-month window where the part of your chart that holds ambition, creative authority, and the need to be witnessed starts to expand.
13 months, with a brief retrograde pass through early Leo in late 2026
Affects most
Fixed signs (Leo, Aquarius, Taurus, Scorpio) directly; every chart through the house Leo rules
Key aspect
Jupiter square Chiron in Aries, exact July 1, 2026 (0.34° orb) — third pass of a cycle
Backdrop
Jupiter opposite Pluto at 4°53' Aquarius (4.89° applying orb); Mercury retrograde 26°14' Cancer; Venus 19°20' Leo
The Transit
Jupiter, the planet of expansion, abundance, and the search for meaning, leaves Cancer at 0°00' Leo on June 30, 2026. Where Cancer asked Jupiter to grow inward — through home, family, the felt sense of belonging — Leo asks it to grow outward, into performance and the public claim to one's own identity. Jupiter takes thirteen months to traverse the sign, exiting July 26, 2027. Two factors complicate the launch: Jupiter forms a square — the 90° tension angle where two planets demand contradictory things — to Chiron in Aries on July 1, the day after ingress, and it opens an opposition (the 180° face-off across the zodiac) to Pluto in Aquarius. Mercury, meanwhile, is retrograde — moving apparently backward as Earth overtakes it, reading as a review-mode period — at 26°14' Cancer through the ingress, holding the moment in editing energy rather than release.
Who's Affected
Every chart has Leo somewhere, even if no planet sits in it. The house Leo rules in your chart is the room Jupiter is about to redecorate for thirteen months. If you know your rising sign — the zodiac sign that was ascending on the eastern horizon at your birth, which sets the wheel of houses — use it; if not, your Sun sign is a fair substitute. For fixed signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius), the transit makes the loudest contact: Leo placements feel a personal renaissance, Aquarius placements feel a relational mirror, Taurus and Scorpio placements feel the tension of the squares Jupiter forms to them over the year. For the rest of the zodiac, Jupiter passes through one specific house — career, partnership, money, family, creativity — and stays long enough that whatever lives there gets slow-burn growth rather than a fast bloom.
The catch: Jupiter expands whatever it touches, including the parts of you that are not yet ready for expansion. Leo's shadow is the need to be seen at the expense of being real — the performer who can't stop performing off-stage, the public-facing person who hasn't checked in with their private one in months. The Chiron square fires one day after ingress; it suggests the drive to perform collides almost immediately with unresolved wounds about whether the spotlight was ever truly earned. For some, the transit reads as an unambiguous green light to scale a creative practice. For others, it surfaces a quieter, older question: is this what I actually want, or what I want to be seen wanting?
Historical Parallels
The last Jupiter-in-Leo period ran from July 16, 2014 through August 11, 2015. Hamilton opened Off-Broadway at The Public Theater on January 20, 2015 and transferred to Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre by August 6 of that year — both inside the window. Taylor Swift's 1989 World Tour grossed $250.7 million across 2015, the highest-grossing North American tour of the year. The pattern was visible: the work that won the spotlight was the work whose author had been quietly making it for years. Lin-Manuel Miranda had been writing Hamilton since 2008; Swift had been recording 1989 since 2013. Jupiter in Leo did not produce these careers from nothing — it amplified what was already there. The 2026–2027 transit tends to do the same: the projects most ready for visibility are the ones that have been built away from it.
There's a key difference this time. The 2014–2015 transit happened with Pluto in Capricorn and Saturn in Sagittarius — outer-planet pressure was pointed at institutions and worldview, not at the audience itself. In 2026, Jupiter enters Leo opposite Pluto in Aquarius — the late-degree polarity between individual creative authority and collective systems — and squares Chiron in Aries within a day of ingress. The expansion is wired into a harder structural moment. Read the comparison in tandem with Neptune's retrograde in Aries, which begins later the same month and asks a parallel question: what part of the dream you're building is real, and what part is a story you're telling yourself?
How It Lands by Sign
Jupiter in Leo 2026 — How It Lands by Sign
Aries
5th house. Creative expression, romance, and play expand. Make the work that scares you, publish the draft, ask the person out.
Taurus
4th house. Home and family take center stage. Renovate the space, host the gathering, reset the relationship with where you came from.
Gemini
3rd house. Voice and writing amplify. Pitch the column, launch the newsletter, say the thing you have been rehearsing for months.
Cancer
2nd house. Earnings and self-worth expand together. Raise the rate, list the side project, name what you are actually worth out loud.
Leo
1st house. You. New look, new public claim, new everything. Show up bigger than feels comfortable, especially in the first three months.
Virgo
12th house. Behind-the-scenes work pays off. Finish the book draft, the therapy chapter, the project you have not yet announced.
Libra
11th house. Networks and friendships open. Join the group, attend the panel, let the right people see what you are actually making.
Scorpio
What to Watch For
Three calendar moments structure the transit. The first is the ingress itself on June 30, 2026, with Venus already at 19°20' Leo and Mercury retrograde at 26°14' Cancer — a handoff under review energy, not a clean launch. Whatever Jupiter expands in week one tends to need editing in week two; that is a feature, not a flaw. The second is the Chiron square exact on July 1 — the third and final pass of a cycle that first fired in October and December 2025 with Jupiter still in Cancer. Old wounds about visibility, identity, and being chosen surface for the last formal contact. The third is Jupiter's retrograde in late 2026, when the planet doubles back through early Leo and asks whether the public claim made over the summer was the real one or a rehearsal.
The version of Jupiter-in-Leo that wins is the version that does not require performance to be real. The trap, especially for fixed-sign placements, is mistaking expansion for inflation — taking the bigger stage, the larger story, the more visible role, and quietly losing the practice that earned it. Watch for that distinction around the September 2026 trine — the easy-flow 120° angle where two planets cooperate without effort — to Saturn in Aries, when the transit's most stabilizing aspect arrives. Jupiter is also still close to the late-May Sagittarius Full Moon when it ingresses, and the Gemini New Moon two weeks earlier sets a tone of split focus that Leo is being asked to consolidate. If the past few weeks have felt like too many doors at once, the Leo ingress is the room you actually walk into.
When does Jupiter enter Leo in 2026 and how long does it stay?
Jupiter ingresses into Leo on June 30, 2026 at 0°00' Leo and remains there until July 26, 2027 — a thirteen-month transit. A brief retrograde in late 2026 returns Jupiter to early Leo before it moves on, but the bulk of the transit unfolds across that window.
Which zodiac signs feel Jupiter in Leo 2026 the most?
The fixed signs feel it most directly: Leo placements receive Jupiter in their first house, Aquarius placements across the partnership axis, and Taurus and Scorpio placements navigate the squares Jupiter forms over the year. Every sign, though, hosts Jupiter in a specific house — that house is the angle that matters.
Is Jupiter in Leo a good time to start a creative business?
It can be, but timing matters. Jupiter tends to reward work already in motion more reliably than it launches new ventures from zero. The strongest windows are after Jupiter clears the Chiron square in mid-July and after the September 2026 Saturn trine, which adds structural follow-through to the expansion.
How is Jupiter in Leo 2026 different from Jupiter in Leo 2014?
The 2014–2015 transit happened with Pluto in Capricorn pressuring institutions. The 2026–2027 transit happens with Pluto in Aquarius pressuring identity and collective systems, and with Jupiter immediately squaring Chiron in Aries. Expect the spotlight to come with a harder reckoning about whether the visibility was actually earned.
What does Jupiter opposite Pluto mean during the Leo ingress?
Jupiter at 0° Leo opposite Pluto at nearly 5° Aquarius creates a polarity between individual creative authority and collective systems. The opposition is wide on ingress day but tightens over the year. Expect a recurring tension between making the personal claim and answering to the larger group.
10th house. Career visibility climbs. Take the promotion, the speaking slot, the byline. Authority is being handed over — claim it.
Sagittarius
9th house. Travel, teaching, publishing expand. Book the trip, pitch the talk, finish the degree. The horizon line moves out.
Capricorn
8th house. Shared resources and intimacy deepen. Renegotiate the joint money, the inheritance, the closeness you have been guarding.
Aquarius
7th house. Partnership comes into focus. Define the contract, propose the collaboration, name what you actually want from the other person.
Pisces
6th house. Daily work and health routines refine. Hire the coach, restructure the schedule, find the rhythm that lets a larger life happen.
