Venus Enters Leo June 13, 2026: Desire Goes Public
On June 13, 2026, Venus crosses out of Cancer and into Leo — ending four weeks of private attraction and pulling desire toward the spotlight. Here's what shifts for fixed signs and what to watch before Jupiter follows on June 30.
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By Sera Vane·May 14, 2026AI-assisted, editor-reviewed
On June 13, 2026, the way desire wants to be seen changes shape. At roughly 10:47 UTC — 6:46 AM Eastern — Venus ingresses into Leo, moving from one sign into the next, and the planet of love trades Cancer's quiet, security-oriented pull for something far more visible. What was being kept private starts asking for a witness. And it's arriving early: Venus crosses into Leo seventeen days before Jupiter does the same on June 30 — the first time the two benefic planets share Leo since 2015.
Separating conjunction with Jupiter at 26°30' Cancer (3.5° orb); applying opposition to Pluto Rx at 5°11' Aquarius (5.2° orb)
Next phase
Jupiter joins Venus in Leo on June 30, 2026 — benefics share a sign for nine days
The Transit
Venus spends about three to four weeks in each sign on its journey around the zodiac. The handoff from Cancer to Leo is one of its more dramatic mood shifts. Cancer is a water sign that pulls attraction inward — toward home, family, the people whose love feels like safety. Leo is a fire sign that pushes attraction outward — toward style, performance, the moments when feeling becomes visible. Same planet, opposite operating system. Venus in Leo doesn't want to be loved in private; it wants to be loved in a way other people can see.
What gives this particular ingress its weight is what Venus carries with it. At the moment of the sign change, Venus sits at 0°00' Leo, still within a few degrees of a separating conjunction with Jupiter — the same-sign meeting that fuses two planets into one expression — at 26°30' Cancer. Translation: Venus has just spent the back half of Cancer brushing against Jupiter's amplifying signal. It arrives in Leo already touched by expansion, already running warm. But the same warmth that reads as charisma in Leo can read as theater the moment someone's not in the mood for theater. The ingress doesn't reset that quality. It hands it to Leo to do what Leo does best — make it visible, for better and for worse.
Who's Affected Most
Venus in Leo lights up the fixed-sign cross — Leo, Aquarius, Taurus, and Scorpio. Anything in your chart parked in those signs picks up the transit through aspect: conjunctions for Leo placements, oppositions for Aquarius (the 180° face-off that forces a confrontation between two planets' instincts), and squares — the 90° tension angle where two planets demand contradictory things from the same situation — for Taurus and Scorpio. If your Sun, Moon, or Venus sits in any of those signs, the next 26 days run hot.
But the bigger story is the slow-building Venus–Pluto opposition. At ingress, Venus at 0° Leo is already in an applying opposition to Pluto retrograde at 5°11' Aquarius — still a few degrees apart, but tightening through the second half of the month. Pluto in Aquarius is the slow rewiring of group identity, public belonging, and what 'being seen' actually costs. Pulling Venus into opposition with that for the back half of the transit means Leo's straightforward demand for visibility runs into an undercurrent of power. Who's watching. What they want from you. What they're willing to extend in return. Hayden Panettiere's Venus-in-Libra coming-out narrative moved through a related question in a different key — what does it cost to be witnessed honestly — and Venus in Leo asks a louder, less elegant version of it for fixed-sign placements through early July.
Venus also forms an applying trine — the easy-flow 120° angle where two planets cooperate without effort — to Neptune at 4°15' Aries, and an applying sextile, a 60° angle that opens an opportunity if the person reaches for it, to Uranus at 2°46' Gemini. That fire-trine to Neptune softens the whole month with romantic idealism: the soundtrack-of-the-moment feeling, the dressing-for-the-imagined-version-of-yourself feeling. The Uranus sextile keeps it from sliding into pure fantasy by introducing a small jolt of unconventional attraction. People reach for what they wouldn't usually reach for.
When Venus Last Worked Leo
The most recent Venus in Leo ran from August 25 to September 19, 2025 — a clean, fast 26-day transit that overlapped with the back end of Leo season and the start of Virgo season. Most people felt it as a confidence note: a flirt-on-vacation period, a willingness to overdress for ordinary occasions. But the more useful comparison is 2023, when Venus went retrograde — its apparent backward motion when Earth overtakes Venus in orbit, reading as a stalled-out, review-mode period for love and self-image — at 28°36' Leo on July 22 and stationed direct at 12°12' Leo on September 3. That stretched Venus's Leo tenure from late June through October 8, 2023, a full four months of looping through the same questions about visibility, desire, and self-display. The 2026 pass is not a retrograde — Venus moves straight through in 26 days — but it does step into a sign that still holds those 2023 themes in cultural muscle memory. A'ja Wilson's Leo Sun and Mars-Jupiter dominance emerged into national focus during that 2023 stretch; it's not coincidence that Leo-Sun confidence reads bigger in the years when Venus and Jupiter both touch Leo.
There's a second historical hook worth naming. The last time Jupiter spent a full year in Leo was July 2014 through August 2015 — a stretch defined culturally by the rise of Empire, the early Beyoncé Lemonade preview rollout, and a notable spike in glossy, big-feeling pop. Jupiter doesn't reach Leo for the full 2026–27 tour until June 30, but Venus is scouting that terrain seventeen days early. The two benefics share Leo from June 30 through July 9, an overlap window that hasn't happened in eleven years.
How It Lands by Sign
Venus in Leo June 13 – July 9, 2026 — How It Lands by Sign
Aries
5th house. Romance and creative work want an audience. Make the gesture you'd normally rehearse forever — and post it anyway.
Taurus
4th house. The home becomes a stage. Host the dinner, repaint the wall, make the kitchen the room everyone gathers in.
Gemini
3rd house. Your voice runs warmer and bolder. Pitch the idea you've sat on — the room is listening differently now.
Cancer
2nd house. Money mood turns generous and slightly performative. Spend on something visible that improves how you carry yourself daily.
Leo
1st house. Image-update season. Re-introduce yourself through how you look, lead, walk into rooms, and quietly expect to be greeted.
Virgo
12th house. The private-rehearsal house. Practice the bold version of yourself alone first. Public performance arrives next month.
Libra
11th house. The friend group glows up. Be the person who organizes the night out, not the one waiting for the invite.
Scorpio
What to Watch For
The first ten days run almost entirely on the Venus–Jupiter–Neptune trine and the Uranus sextile. This is the soft-launch portion: extra attention, a warmer welcome on social channels, a flirt that lands. The aesthetic leans theatrical — dress like the version of yourself you'd be cast as. Charli XCX's Leo stellium — the cluster of three or more planets in one sign that amplifies that sign's signature — is exactly the energy template for the first half of the transit. Loud, fixed-fire, unapologetic, dressed for the room before the room shows up.
The yellow-light window opens around June 21–28, as the Venus opposition to Pluto in Aquarius tightens toward exact. The signal: the desire for recognition runs into the question of what's being asked in exchange. Aquarius–Pluto themes are subtle but real — group expectation, parasocial pressure, the way 'being seen' by a community can quietly become 'performing for' it. Watch how compliments land. Watch what feels transactional. Robert Lewandowski's Leo Sun running into a contractual-recognition story this year reads as a public-version case study of the same pattern: visibility that comes with terms attached.
Then Jupiter ingresses into Leo on June 30, joining Venus for the final nine days of the transit. The energy doesn't double — it lifts a different register. Jupiter's signature is expansion through belief; Venus's is attraction. Sharing Leo, they tilt toward the kind of confidence that doesn't need permission first. Use that window. By July 9, Venus moves into Virgo and the mood quiets down — the same desires, dressed differently.
One last note: Venus at 0° Leo also forms a separating square — the 90° tension angle — with Chiron in late Aries that's almost exact at the moment of ingress. Chiron in Aries is the wound around starting again as yourself, asserting without apology. The square is fast-moving and won't dominate the transit, but on day one there's a quick sting: an old story about whether your version of bold is acceptable. Note it. It passes.
When exactly does Venus enter Leo in June 2026?
Venus enters Leo on June 13, 2026 at approximately 10:47 UTC — about 6:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time. This is a standard-speed direct ingress, with no retrograde phase involved. The planet then stays in Leo for roughly 26 days before exiting into Virgo on July 9, 2026.
How long does Venus stay in Leo in 2026?
Venus remains in Leo for roughly 26 days — from June 13 through July 9, 2026 — before moving into Virgo. That's a typical Venus transit window. The 2023 Venus retrograde extended a similar Leo tenure to almost four months, but in 2026 the planet moves through Leo direct, without looping back.
Is Venus in Leo good for starting a new relationship?
Venus in Leo tends toward bold, theatrical first chapters — declarations, public attention, the willingness to be seen wanting someone. Connections that begin during this transit often carry that signature: visible, generous, a little dramatic. Whether the relationship sustains depends on how comfortable both people are with sustained visibility once the early spark settles.
What's the difference between Venus in Cancer and Venus in Leo?
Cancer pulls attraction toward safety — home, family, people whose love feels protective. Leo pushes attraction outward — style, performance, moments when feeling becomes visible. Same planet, opposite operating system. Cancer wants love that nourishes privately; Leo wants love that's witnessed. The June 13 ingress is the handoff between those two registers.
How does Venus in Leo 2026 compare to its 2023 retrograde?
The 2023 Venus retrograde stretched the Leo transit from late June through October 8 — almost four months of looping through visibility and self-image questions. The 2026 transit is direct and clean: 26 days, no backward motion, no review-period intensity. Same sign, but a faster, less recursive pass through Leo's territory.
10th house. Career visibility spikes. Take the meeting where you'll be seen, not just heard, and dress for the photograph.
Sagittarius
9th house. Travel, teaching, publishing. Share the thing you keep researching — it doesn't need one more polish first.
Capricorn
8th house. Intimacy gets honest about what it costs. Have the money-or-desire conversation you've been quietly deferring.
Aquarius
7th house. Partnership axis lights up. Say what you actually want from the other person — out loud, not in your head.
Pisces
6th house. Daily routine wants pleasure. Add the small luxury — better coffee, longer walks, a softer shirt, a real lunch.
