2020 Leo Horoscope Preview

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Leo Horoscopes, Year 2020: Summary/preview of the year ahead for the zodiac sign Leo.

This forecast is for those with the Sun in Leo (approximate birthdates in the range from July 23rd to August 22nd)* AND those with a Leo Ascendant. Be sure to also see the full Leo 2020 Yearly Horoscope.

By the way, if you want to know your Ascendant, find out with an Ascendant calculator, such as our What’s My Ascendant?, but do note that an Ascendant cannot be determined for unknown birth times.

2020 Leo Horoscope Overview

(Click on any sign above to navigate to that sign’s preview horoscope).

Areas of Expansion in 2020 for Leo: Work, Health, Routines, One-to-One Relationships

Your Leo 2020 Horoscope points to areas of life that are destined to expand and grow.

Work/Routines
Health
Habits
Partnerships
Agreements

Until December 18th, 2020, your work, daily routines, and health endeavors continue to expand, improve, and grow. This is a time when your work projects or duties expand, or you have increased opportunities for employment. You can be so confident in your ability to take on projects and endeavors, however, that you overload your plate, so do watch for that. Even so, Saturn’s concurrent transit can help keep you in line and productive. This influence is with you for all of 2020 with the exception of the last two weeks of the year.

You find more joy in your work (as long as you don’t overload), self-improvement endeavors, and taking care of your health. If you provide a service to others, it is likely to prosper, largely because you’re enjoying it more. You are especially successful in hiring people to work for you, if applicable, and improvements to your working environment are likely. It can be easier than usual to find employment now. You may get a new job during this cycle or significantly improve an existing one. Work tends to be very available to you. You can be very focused on what really matters to get ahead, and recognition for your efforts may be forthcoming, particularly from December forward, when higher-ups recognize your talents and efforts.

You are proud of how useful you are to others during this cycle. The more integrity and honesty you bring to your services, the more “payback” you will receive. Health is likely to prosper now, and medical procedures or programs, if necessary, are more likely to be successful. You are bringing fresh and original ideas to the work you do and the services you offer. Overload or the magnification of problems surrounding work can be experienced during this cycle. There is a tendency now to focus on the details of your work, and you might sometimes feel a little overwhelmed with monotonous tasks. There may be an inclination to put on some weight, however, if you don’t watch your sweet tooth.

Your work might involve more services or the assisting of others during this cycle, and for some, health-related or healing professions can be attractive at this time.

Challenges may occur sporadically during this period with the need for time away from your duties either to take care of yourself or of others requiring care, or the consequences of taking on so much that you have trouble taking time for yourself.

However, for the most part, this is a good time for winning appreciation for what you do or for your skills, enjoying what you do, for finding work, and for working relationships. An influence occurring from February to October supports your sense of a higher purpose and general enjoyment of your work and daily affairs. You take more interest in your psychological health and how it impacts your physical health, and you may receive rewards on financial and/or intimate levels.

Another booster occurs from April to November and is powerful for ramping up your ambition and your sense of personal power for getting things done. You are super motivated to improve your life, particularly through the pursuit of a healthier lifestyle and through your daily routines, habits, chores, tasks, services, and work.

Romance may be closely tied to work and health during this period, which can mean you are pairing up to work or improve your health or you meet a love interest through your work or through the pursuit of health goals. This may instead be about recreation or creativity. There can be opportunities to express or enjoy yourself coming as the result of your work, or chances to bring more creativity to your job. Some might turn a hobby into a vocation or work especially hard on a pastime.

Interestingly, these areas of expansion are also subject to contraction (see below)! These influences don’t cancel themselves out. Instead, they co-exist and they can stir up some wonderful productivity. You may be working hard but thoroughly enjoying it as you do!

From December 19th, 2020 onward, your relationships receive a boost of forward-moving energy. This cycle that lasts for the most part until December 2021 helps you succeed in a partnership or improve your relationship status/situation.

Your partnerships, relating abilities, and powers of negotiation begin to grow and expand. New partnership opportunities can arrive now, or the chance to bring fresh energy to an existing committed relationship emerges. Relationships entered into now are generally successful and happy — they are mutually beneficial. Sometimes, this transit absolves an existing partnership, but if this is the case, it is likely to come as a relief, or it is a “blessing in disguise.” Meeting someone better for you at this point in your life may be a reason for this, although it’s important not to jump into something new blindly. Your ability to get along with others is enhanced as you are especially willing to compromise, and you are more appealing than usual.

The positive potentials of this transit are many: You can negotiate more successfully, and, if applicable, win in legal matters. Legal matters or challenging relationship problems from the past can be resolved, and more casual disputes can be settled amicably as well. You may find yourself taking on the role of consultant or advisor, or you could benefit from help from same. Good publicity may come your way. If your career has you working with or before the public, you can safely expect increased popularity now, particularly if you do counseling or negotiating in your job. Relationships and partnerships benefit from expansive, warm energy, difficult relationships may be absolved, and/or successful new ones are entered into during this period.

Jupiter rules your sector of creativity, romance, recreation, leisure, and hobbies. Any of these things can be strongly tied with partnerships during this time. A romantic or business partnership could form through leisure activities. This can be a time of expressing yourself more creatively through a relationship, or when others encourage you to express yourself. For some of you, social activities are strongly associated with a partnership. A partnership may strengthen as you enjoy yourself more frequently or pursue a creative venture together.

This can also be a time when shared beliefs, interests, and ideologies are a focal point in a close relationship. For some, a significant person comes into your life with common educational goals or belief systems, possibly through long-distance connections, schools, or publishing/online activities. For many of you, you are attracting people who want to help, who are on your side, and who take a strong interest in you.

Potential negatives: You may be attracting partners who are more concerned with freedom than with pairing, or who seem to be quite extravagant or full of themselves. There could be troubles associated with an existing partner’s extravagance or demand for freedom.

However, for the most part, you are likely to enjoy an improved social life during this cycle. You learn a lot through your experiences and interactions with an important “other.” Something interesting happens in December when Jupiter and Saturn align in your partnership sector. Jupiter expands and Saturn contracts, and in many ways, these energies are opposite in nature. However, when these bodies come together, we’re inclined to make things happen–often very useful, practical, and beneficial things! Alliances might be made, and partnering matters are strong, committed, clear, and beneficial. The realization of a goal may seem more possible through collaboration or through the support of a special person in your life.

In fact, the very areas of life that are expanding this year are also contracting. Ideally, you come to a good balance between the two. A partnership may form that is also practical in the year ahead, or for some, a difficult relationship irons out or ends, and this can feel right to you.

Areas of Contraction and Lessons in Simplicity: Work, Health, Habits, Partnerships, Contracts

Your Leo 2020 Horoscope points to areas of contraction, restriction, and necessary “slimming down” in order to test for stable foundations. There are always areas of life that require more simplicity. Tests may be part of the picture as you learn that life with only growth and expansion can run away with itself.

Work
Health
Habits
One-to-one Relationships

Until March 21, 2020, and from July 1st to December 16th, the areas of your life that require a “back to basics” approach are associated with the sector of your solar chart that governs work, health, daily routines, employees, pets, and habits. There may be tests of sorts in these areas of life as if the universe is checking that the foundations are strong. Things built on weak foundations may crack under the pressure of these tests. Those that are strong will endure and strengthen.

This influence is with you on and off until near the end of the year 2020. It’s phasing out this year! It can be felt most strongly earlier or later in the cycle, depending on whether you were born earlier or later in the sign of Leo. This year, those born with a Leo Ascendant of 21 to 30 degrees, and those born from August 14-22, are most directly affected.

Tests can come to work and working relationships during this cycle. Responsibilities in your daily life can weigh heavily – they appear magnified. Do be sure that you are tending to your responsibilities, and not letting them pile up. Some of you might even experience some form of loss or scandal on the work front, or possibly some heavy-handed activity and powerplays with co-workers.

For those of you unhappy with your job or out of work, you are not likely to jump to grab just any position that comes along now. You are looking for something mature, long-term, and reflective of your values. However, because you are more discriminating now, the pickings might seem to be slim.

The monotonous part of your work can seem harder to take, and it’s up to you to work on restructuring enough to make it work for you. Try not to see flaws, complain, and leave it at that. Take it upon yourself to make whatever adjustments you can that will improve your working conditions. The rewards may be slow to transpire, but they’re great when they do come!

This can be true of daily routines, not just working conditions. Health matters might be a little more problematic than usual. Even so, these are likely to be minor problems that can be fixed with extra attention. Essentially, this transit gives you a kick in the pants to get your self-care programs into good shape!

While the work we do may sometimes feel too routine or boring, it can also give us a strong feeling of purpose. We want to be needed, we want to help and support others, and to do our share. If you’ve been overdoing a supportive role, or if you’ve been scattering your energies and haven’t truly noted just how much you do, then Saturn here will stimulate you to tidy up. In the end, you can, in fact, feel more joyful about the services you provide and the support you give, after taking a realistic look at these things and making the necessary adjustments.

Seek ways to balance your activities and responsibilities. This is also an excellent time for simplifying and structuring your life. Because the energy of this theme is comfortable and understandable to you in these areas of life, you may very well welcome the structuring energy of this transit on your daily routines. The last time similar themes occurs was 1988-1990.

Especially in January, you’re determined to make something work. It’s an ambitious time, and transits now can serve to break something down so that you can rebuild it better. Disciplined efforts to advance can pay off now. What’s best about this influence is that while it’s been with you for several years, this time around, you are feeling happier to discipline yourself, enjoying your work or health pursuits more as you put in the effort.

From March 22nd to June 30th and December 17th forward, the areas of your life that require a “back to basics” approach are associated with the sector of your solar chart that governs close personal relationships, such as marriages and other committed partnerships, long-term associations, open enemies, negotiations, agreements, and contracts. There may be tests of sorts in these areas of life as if the universe is checking that the foundations are strong. Things built on weak foundations may very well crack under the pressure of these tests. Those that are strong will endure and strengthen.

This influence is only just getting started in 2020! While it’s weaving in and out of influence in 2020, you’ll experience it more consistently from December 17th forward. This influence lasts until March 2023.

It can be felt most strongly earlier or later in the cycle, depending on whether you were born earlier or later in the sign of Leo. This year, those born with a Leo Ascendant of 0 to 2 degrees, and those born from July 23-25, are most directly affected.

For those of you who are in committed partnerships, there can be some strains on your bond during this cycle. A partner might feel like a “heavy” in your life–perhaps even a dark cloud hanging over you at times–and any feelings of restriction that you feel or have felt in this area of life may seem magnified in your mind now. A partner might also seem cautious, distant, critical, or defensive. You need to open your mind to the possibility that a partner is providing you with important life lessons – about traditions, simplifying your life, and responsibilities. Do not automatically discard what they have to say. Take your time on this one. If, however, a partner is challenging you to the point of breaking, then steps need to be taken to improve the situation.

For those of you who are not in committed relationships, it is quite unlikely that you’ll enter a new long-term partnership or commitment rashly. Some of you might begin one but will do so quite cautiously and carefully. Some of you might be attracted to older or more mature and established people as partnership “material”. This can be a make or break period for many of you. If you decide to make a commitment to someone, it’s likely to be a long one.

Those of you who are single might nevertheless feel some angst or pressure. This lack in your life might suddenly seem magnified, like a gaping hole. You might lose hope, temporarily, that you’ll ever find a strong, committed partnership. Feelings of loneliness may run deep this year, but the universe is sending you a message through this experience regardless. It is awakening you to a need. In time, you will find ways to satisfy this need.

Some of you could be making a commitment this year. A relationship can encounter some tests or complications, but if it’s strong, it will weather the storm and you could decide to take it to another level. If not, remember that relationships lost during a Saturn transit to your partnership sector, if at all, may have needed to end. This is a time when you may be seeing the less flattering side of others, and through your relationships, of yourself as well!

Others may be restricting you, or at least that’s how you might perceive things, and you may not be at your best in terms of overall energy. Some areas of your life may seem to be breaking down before they get better. There can also be bone and teeth problems – something that often happens with hard Saturn transits. Tidy and organize your life as much as possible in order to minimize the challenges.

Seek ways to balance your life in terms of pleasures and responsibilities. Don’t turn your back on commitments and traditions entirely, and aim to learn and grow as much as possible from your experiences. The benefits of this transit are great, even if they sometimes feel slow to make themselves known! Incidentally, the last time this theme occurred was from 1988-1990.

In the first year of this influence, you get help from an influence already mentioned in the first section on Expansion above. This helps you find ways to enjoy what you’re doing, or at the very least, recognize that you’re growing through it, even as you work on the tougher stuff. It’s also another indicator for possibly partnering up to work or improve health, or of meeting a significant someone through work or the pursuit of your health goals.

Areas of Excitement, Innovation, Independence, and Speed

Your 2020 Leo Horoscope points to areas of your life that seem to speed up so that you can take some risks, innovate, and revolutionize.

Career
Reputation
Responsibilities
Life Path or Direction
Long-term Goals

All year, your career, professional projects, reputation, and public image continue to open up and change. These areas of life can be unpredictable – the wildcard areas of life – but also highly stimulating and innovative. You can bring fresh insight to your work.

This may be a time when you take an unexpected turn in your work. Make sure you don’t jump on a bandwagon that is impractical. Also, while you prefer to set your own pace in your work, try not to become a loner in your professional life. Others can have valuable input that you might miss while you’re too busy asserting your independence!

Your career, professional projects, reputation, and public image continue to speed up, stimulate, and open up this year. These areas of life can be unpredictable – the wild card area of life – but also highly stimulating and innovative. You can bring fresh insight into your work. You can also learn to let go of limiting self-consciousness. As long as you don’t push it too far, you can free yourself from some of the fears you have of not living up to others’ expectations, particularly those of parents or society in general.

Your career, life path or direction can alter now as you seem to need to express yourself more authentically now and in the years ahead. More courage is with you this year for breaking into new paths.

You’re in particularly good shape in March to April this year for bringing a progressive, innovative, and unique spirit to your work or reputation. You are getting into better touch with your intuition these days, and this can have a wonderful effect on your approach to your career or direction.

Note that this influence runs all the way until April 2026! It’s a significant, sometimes disruptive, but ultimately enlightening transit.

Areas of Change, Purging, & Transformation

Your Leo Horoscope reveals areas of your life in which change and transformation take place in the year ahead. It’s a time for “out with the old, in with the new.”

Health
Work
Service
Routines & Habits
Private or Spiritual Life
Friendships/Kinships
Romance
Joy & Recreation

Attitudes towards work, services you provide for others, daily routines, and health continue to transform this year, and they will for many years to come with a long-term, overarching trend still active. This is a good period for ridding yourself of bad habits or routines, but be careful that you don’t replace one bad habit with another!

Of course, there can be times when these alterations cause friction, and in 2020, this is more likely to happen in January and October when you can feel quite a bit of pressure to perform and when it can be difficult to catch your breath in spots. Watch for excess and burning the candle at both ends, which is a real temptation. However, this year is particularly supportive of making long-lasting beneficial changes to your habits, work, and routines.

In 2020, the Moon’s Nodes and eclipse activity encourage connecting with your purpose, spirituality, and balancing attention to physical and emotional health until May/June. The North Node in your sector of endings, spirituality, and privacy until this time points to a real need to connect to your inner world, as well as to help and support others, as these things can bring wonderful benefits and much joy to your life continuing since 2019.

From May/June forward, you’re challenged to balance your personal life with your connection with others and the community. There is a strong calling to pay special attention to friends, groups, community, and happiness goals. These areas of life will be the source of much joy and interest as you are challenged to make improvements here through to next year. This is a time for exploring your need to connect with a cause, group, or community. One of the major keys to happiness in 2020 and 2021 is learning to team up with others successfully instead of going it alone or pushing too hard to stand out as unique.

Your Planetary Ruler in 2020: The all-mighty Sun is your planetary ruler, although it’s technically a star, not a planet. The Sun never retrogrades, and while you are not immune to the retrogrades of Mercury and other planets, of course, you tend to plod along at a steady pace. As well, in the year 2020 specifically, planets never retrograde in your sign, and this helps you feel that you’re moving forward with fewer obstacles than usual.

The Sun is in your sign every year from approximately July 23rd to August 22nd, and this can be a time for renewal after which there is a new personal beginning. The Sun is particularly supportive of you from March 21-April 2o and November 21-December 20.

*It’s important to note that birthdates for Sun signs are always approximate since the starting date and time varies a bit every single year. If you were born on one of these cutoff dates (commonly known as a “cusp”), you can get a definitive answer using a Sun Sign Calculator. You can also write reports@cafeastrology.com with your birth information and we can let you know your true Sun sign if you were born on or beside the approximate date range given for any sign of the zodiac.

2020 Yearly Overview Horoscopes: