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Sign 5 of 12 in the horoscope

Are you really a Leo?

By the horoscope, yes, and your sign stays yours. The stars behind it have quietly moved along, though: Leo runs from 23 July to 22 August 2026, and on those dates the Sun passes through Cancer and Leo. This is the sky behind your sign.

An engraved plate of Cancer, the Crab, in the style of an old star atlas, with its real stars traced over the figure
Cancer, where the Sun spends 19 of Leo’s 31 days, engraved in the old atlas style with its real stars traced over the figure.

Leo against the sky, 2026

The horoscope says
23 July to 22 August · 31 days
The Sun is really in
  • Cancer 23 July to 10 August · 19 days
  • Leo 11 August to 22 August · 12 days

The Sun reaches the constellation Leo on 11 August, in time for the sign’s last 12 days.

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Why the sky behind Leo has moved

Leo’s dates were set more than two thousand years ago, pinned to the March equinox, when the signs took their names from the constellations the Sun was crossing. Since then Earth’s slow wobble, called precession, has carried the equinox about a twelfth of the way round the sky, roughly one day’s worth every seventy years. Your sign has kept its dates, and the stars behind them have simply moved along: that is why the Sun now spends Leo’s days in Cancer and Leo.

These dates are computed for 2026 from the constellation boundaries the International Astronomical Union fixed in 1930. A boundary can fall a day earlier or later in another year, so for the particular day, and hour, you were born the calculator will check it for you.