Venus crosses into Leo on June 13, 2026 at 6:48 AM EDT and walks straight into a five-day run of exact aspects — quintile Mars, sextile Uranus, trine Neptune, opposition Pluto. Here is what changes for every sign.
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Venus changes signs roughly every 25 to 30 days. The texture of each ingress depends on three things: where Venus is coming from, where she's going, and what other planets are at the boundary to greet her. This one is unusually dramatic because all three answers are loud.
She's coming from Cancer, where she spent nearly a month in soft, home-centered mode and met Jupiter at his exalted best on June 9. She's walking into Leo — fixed, fiery, ruled by the Sun, and the most theatrical of the twelve signs. And the planets standing at the doorway — Mars in Taurus, Uranus in Gemini, Neptune in Aries, Pluto retrograde in Aquarius — are arranged in a way that turns the first week into a sequence of consecutive exact aspects. Compare it with Venus's last sign change, when Venus walked into Cancer and was met at the door by the Moon. Same instinct from the cosmos to roll out a welcome. Different welcoming committee entirely.
Cancer Venus is the version of love that wants to feed you. Leo Venus is the version that wants to throw you a dinner party so everyone sees how much you matter. Same affection, completely different production budget.
Practically, the shift shows up in three ways. First, in dating. Cancer Venus rewarded the slow, the intimate, the deeply known. Leo Venus rewards the audacious — the bold first move, the loud declaration, the date that's actually a date and not "just a hang." Second, in self-presentation. Cancer Venus made you want softness and home cooking; Leo Venus makes you want a haircut, a louder color in your closet, and a reason to be photographed. Third, in creative work. Cancer Venus made things that felt safe to make; Leo Venus wants what you make to be seen. There's a reason most great pop choruses are written under Leo placements.
If you've spent the last few weeks getting very quiet and very inward — and Cancer Venus made many people do exactly that — your body will tell you when this transit lands. Expect the urge to put on something you haven't worn in a year, to text the person you've been thinking about, to actually post the thing.
Most Venus ingresses are quiet after the first day. This one isn't. Between June 13 and June 17, Venus walks straight through four exact aspects in a row — quintile Mars, sextile Uranus, trine Neptune, opposition Pluto. Four planets, four different conversations, all packed into the first 110 hours of the transit.
Quintile Mars, exact around June 14. Venus enters Leo less than a degree away from a quintile — the 72-degree creative aspect — to Mars in Taurus. Quintiles are subtle but specific: they govern creative pattern-making and the kind of physical chemistry that produces art rather than drama. Translation: the first 36 hours are unusually good for making something beautiful with your hands or your body. Choreographers, designers, songwriters, and people who flirt by cooking are going to feel it the most.
Sextile Uranus, exact around June 15–16. Then Venus catches Uranus in Gemini at a sextile — the 60-degree cooperative angle that introduces something unexpected without breaking anything. This is the "I didn't see that coming and I love it" aspect: chance encounters, surprise messages, a stranger's compliment that lands harder than it should, an outfit choice that gets a reaction. Two days in, Venus-in-Leo's appetite for novelty is fully online.
Trine Neptune, exact early June 17. Then Venus reaches a trine — the 120-degree harmonious angle — with Neptune in Aries. Neptune is the planet of dream, fantasy, and what we romanticize. A Venus-Neptune trine is the inspiration aspect, the one that lifts a creative project from a sketch to a real thing. It can also make someone genuinely magnetic to you for reasons you can't entirely defend. Don't fight it; just notice you're under it.
Opposition Pluto, exact June 17 (~5 PM EDT). And then comes the centerpiece. On the evening of June 17, Venus reaches an exact opposition — the 180-degree confrontation — with Pluto retrograde in Aquarius, with both planets sitting at roughly 5 degrees of their respective signs. This is the one that makes this transit different from a normal Venus-in-Leo. Pluto is the planet of power, depth, control, and the things underneath what people say they want. Venus-Pluto oppositions surface those things. On the Leo–Aquarius axis especially, the question is: when you say you want to be seen, by whom, and on whose terms?
This isn't a doom aspect. It's a clarifying one. It tends to bring out who actually has a hold on you — the ex who still texts on bad nights, the parent whose approval you still chase, the institution whose validation you keep performing for. The good outcome of June 17 is recognizing one of those holds and quietly stepping out of it. The bad outcome is escalation drama — possessive arguments, jealousy spirals, a power play disguised as romance. If you've been tracking the spring Venus-Pluto square, you'll recognize the family resemblance — same theme, sharper angle. Stay aware. Sleep before you send.
After June 17, the aspect run ends and Venus has an unusually clear runway through the rest of Leo. She moves through the middle and late degrees of the sign with no further outer-planet contacts and exits into Virgo around 10:36 AM EDT on July 9. The Sun won't enter Leo until July 22 — after Venus has already left. That's worth flagging: there is no Venus–Sun conjunction in Leo this year. Venus is the herald of Leo themes, not part of the chorus that arrives with the Sun.
Aries. Leo activates your fifth house — romance, creative work, children, joy, gambling, and the parts of life that exist to be enjoyed rather than endured. After the heavy spring you just had with Mars and Saturn working through your sign, this is exactly the transit you needed. The June 17 Pluto opposition can surface a creative project's real power dynamics — usually around credit or who actually controls the work. Don't let drama eat the joy. Make the thing.
Leo. Venus is in your first house, your literal body and self-image. You will, factually, look better in photos. People will be more drawn to you than usual. Use it: this is a window for rebranding, restyling, getting the headshot redone, posting the work you've been sitting on. The Pluto opposition lands across your relationship axis on June 17 — a partner, business or romantic, may surface a deeper-than-expected pull. Don't shrink from the conversation, but don't let it turn possessive.
Sagittarius. Venus in Leo lands in your ninth house — travel, foreign places, study, big-picture meaning, anyone whose worldview is genuinely different from yours. Romance with someone from elsewhere is unusually likely. So is a trip you book on impulse and don't regret. The Pluto opposition can sharpen a question about belief — religious, political, philosophical — but Sagittarians usually like that kind of clarification.
Taurus. Venus is your ruling planet, so any Venus transit reaches you. Leo activates your fourth house — home, family, where you came from, where you live now. After last spring's Venus-in-her-own-sign window, this is a different kind of Venus reach: less about your personal pleasures, more about whether your home actually reflects who you are now. The June 17 Pluto opposition lands across your home/career axis — a real conversation about which of those is taking priority, and whether the trade is still working. With Mars in Taurus backing you up all month, you have the energy to act on the answer.
Virgo. Leo activates your twelfth house — dreams, retreats, the private parts of life, the things you don't post about. This is a quieter Venus transit for you, but not a small one. It's the version that wants you to admit, even just to yourself, what you've actually been wanting. The Pluto opposition can surface a long-buried craving you haven't let yourself name. The honest move is to write it down somewhere only you read.
Capricorn. Leo activates your eighth house — intimacy, shared resources, debts, taxes, the things two people negotiate when they decide to share a life. For Capricorns currently in serious partnership, this is a real-talk transit. The Pluto opposition on June 17 can clarify what's actually being shared — emotionally, financially, sexually — and whether the balance still feels fair. Don't avoid it. Use it.
Gemini. Leo activates your third house — communication, siblings, short trips, the daily texts and conversations that make up most of your life. Venus in your third is a charming-words transit: you'll be writing better, pitching better, flirting better. The Uranus sextile peaks around June 15–16 right inside your own sign, which makes the surprise-encounter energy especially live for you. Lean in.
Libra. Libra is Venus-ruled, so this transit reaches you fully. Leo activates your eleventh house — friends, networks, the community you spend time in, your hopes for the future. This is a friendship-glow transit. Existing friends become unexpectedly important; new ones land in your orbit through groups, parties, or online communities. The Pluto opposition can surface a power dynamic in a group context — who's actually leading, whose voice is actually heard — but the resolution typically clarifies rather than ruptures.
Aquarius. Leo is your opposite sign, so Venus in Leo means Venus is sitting in your seventh house of partnership — directly across from your Sun. That's not bad news; partnership-axis transits tend to bring relationships into focus. The catch is the June 17 Pluto opposition, which is happening across your own sign. Pluto sits at 5 degrees Aquarius all year, and on June 17 Venus stares him down from across the room. For Aquarians, this is the most personal version of the transit. Old patterns about being chosen, being seen, being wanted — they surface. The healthy version is rebuilding self-worth on more honest ground. The unhealthy version is fixating on someone who isn't ready.
Cancer. Venus just left your sign after a 25-day Venus return that included her exalted-Jupiter peak on June 9. Now Venus is in your second house of money and self-worth, which is the natural follow-up: you've felt loved; now let yourself be paid. The Pluto opposition can surface a money-power conversation — a salary, a contract, a debt — and the right move is the more honest one, not the more comfortable one.
Scorpio. Leo is your tenth-house sign — career, public image, the work you're known for. Pluto, your traditional ruler, is currently in your fourth house in Aquarius, which means the June 17 Venus-Pluto opposition lands across your career-and-home axis. For Scorpios, this is a real question: is the public version of your life still aligned with the private one? Use the transit to ask. Don't use it to blow anything up.
Pisces. Leo activates your sixth house — daily routine, work, health, the small repeated decisions that build a life. Venus here is a glow-up transit for the unglamorous parts: meal-prepping but better, gym routine that finally feels like self-care instead of obligation, work environment that suddenly feels human again. The Pluto opposition can surface a power dynamic in a work-or-health context, but Pisces typically reads those signals quickly and adjusts.
The whole transit window divides cleanly into three phases. June 13–17: the aspect run. This is the loudest five days of the transit. If something is going to start, end, ignite, or clarify, it's going to do it here. Use the energy. Plan dates, pitches, debuts, and the photographs you'll wish you had taken. Stay aware of the Pluto opposition on June 17 and don't escalate a conversation that's already heated. Sleep before you send.
June 18–July 1: the cruise. After Pluto, Venus has clear sky for two weeks. This is the steady, generous, summer-romance Venus that Leo is famous for — fewer fireworks, more sustained warmth. Good for the second date that turns into the third. Good for the creative project that needs you to keep showing up. Good for buying yourself something genuinely beautiful that you'll still love a year from now.
July 2–9: the wind-down. Venus moves into the late degrees of Leo and starts to soften toward the next ingress. The performance instinct cools off. The creative project wants to be edited, not started. The relationship wants to be tended, not declared. By the morning of July 9 — around 10:36 AM EDT — Venus crosses into Virgo and the room gets quieter again.
Whatever you build during this window — the relationship, the rebrand, the creative debut, the public version of yourself — build it for the version of you that actually wants to be seen. Leo Venus is allergic to performance for performance's sake. She rewards confidence that's yours, not borrowed.
Venus enters Leo on June 13, 2026 at 6:48 AM Eastern Time, which is 10:48 UTC. The ingress lands less than a day before an exact Mars quintile, two days before a Uranus sextile, and four days before the centerpiece Venus-Pluto opposition — making the first week of the transit unusually aspect-rich and vivid.
Venus stays in Leo for approximately 26 days, from June 13, 2026 through the morning of July 9, 2026, when she enters Virgo around 10:36 AM Eastern Time. Notably, Venus exits Leo before the Sun enters Leo on July 22, so Venus is the herald of Leo themes rather than part of a Sun-Venus stellium this year.
Venus in Leo favors bold romantic gestures, public declarations, and being explicitly seen by the person you want. Existing relationships gain warmth and visibility. New connections often start with a memorable first impression. The risk window is June 17, when the Venus-Pluto opposition can surface jealousy or possessive power dynamics if left unaddressed.
Venus reaches an exact opposition to Pluto retrograde in Aquarius on June 17, 2026, around 5 PM Eastern Time, with Venus at approximately 5 degrees Leo and Pluto at 5 degrees Aquarius. The opposition clarifies power dynamics in love and self-worth — who actually has a hold on you and whether you're willing to step out of it.
Leo experiences the equivalent of a Venus return in their first house, with notable boosts to appearance and self-presentation. Aries gets a fifth-house romance and creativity window. Sagittarius receives a ninth-house travel-and-meaning trine. Libra, the other Venus-ruled sign, benefits in friendships and community. Aquarius faces the most personal version through the Venus-Pluto opposition across its own sign.