2022 Leo Horoscope Preview

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Leo Horoscopes, the Year 2022: 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 2022 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.

2022 Leo Horoscope Overview

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

Areas of Expansion in 2022 for Leo: Intimacy, Shared Finances, Spirit, Outlook, Beliefs

Your Leo 2022 Horoscope points to areas of life that are destined to expand and grow.

Intimacy, Sharing, Sexuality
Shared Finances & Assets
Support
Vision/Outlook
Spirit
Sense of Adventure, Life Experience
Learning/Further Education

Until May 10th, and then October 28th-December 20th, 2022, there is a wonderful, refreshing focus on your private world or intimate life – a possible deepening of a relationship, or an increased understanding of your inner workings–a boost in your relationship with yourself!

Your intimate life continues to enlarge and expand, bringing you more joy and new discoveries.

This influence spans three date ranges, and we’re on the second and third wave this year:

from May 13-July 28, 2021,
from December 28, 2021-May 10, 2022,
and from October 28, 2022-December 20, 2022

In other words, you’re experiencing these themes in steps, the first of which already happened last year from May to July. You begin 2022 having just started the second wave.

During this cycle, you learn to embrace inner change to feel more empowered. There may be more opportunities to find support, financial and/or emotional, but you should be wary of living on credit and borrowing too heavily from the future.

It’s a time to grab opportunities that help you to feel empowered and on top of your life. Conversations are deep and lead to fruitful discoveries. Sexuality is richer. There can be benefits and support coming your way through or from others, whether it’s about a refund, an easier time getting loans or mortgages, a partner’s income increases, or you inherit something valuable.

Combining your resources, talents, and/or money with a partner can improve your financial outlook. You might also benefit from managing others’ resources and talents without the “teaming up” part. It all depends on your current circumstances.

These things are more likely to relate to a romantic relationship, your dating life, leisure activities, or self-expression in your life since Jupiter rules these things in your solar chart. There may be a metamorphosis of sorts related to love, romance, or pleasure. It can be a significant period for sexual discovery and depth.

Potential negatives: Taking on too much debt or relying too heavily on others for support. Be wise when/if lending and borrowing.

Otherwise, it’s a strong period for opening yourself up to others and for feeling more confident about your emotional depths. This is a period when you can quite successfully purge yourself of some of your inner demons, guilt, and buried psychological problems.

While there can be some reality checks, it’s a potent period for psychological growth. Imaginative activities or behind-the-scenes efforts can be rewarding, either (or both) spiritually and materially. Generosity, faith, and compassion increase. You may be opening up to someone special and sharing your burdens.

Booster transits further support these benefits in February, April, and early May. You enjoy striving to improve yourself and your circumstances. You have natural leadership qualities. Finding support or backing for your career, work, or health efforts can be easier. In turn, as you reach for your career goals, your improved confidence reverberates back to your intimate world. You see opportunities where others see obstacles, which is a great quality/asset.

From May 10-October 28, and then from December 20th onward, a new theme emerges in your life, and it’s a wonderfully refreshing one!

Your belief systems, learning experiences, and hunger for adventure begin to develop, grow, and expand. You feel more courageous and spirited as you sense that there is more “out there” for you to learn and take in. This transit is a happy one, although it can be subtle since it runs so smoothly! We may not always notice when things are purring along well.

This influence spans two date ranges, with the first wave happening in full this year, and the second one starting near the end of 2022:

from May 10-October 28, 2022,
and from December 20, 2022-May 16, 2023.

You’re experiencing these themes in steps, starting this year from May to October.

At this time in your life, you’re less likely to sweat the small stuff. You see the broader perspective on life, and you generally feel supported so that more minor inconveniences don’t stress you out quite as quickly.

Your positive outlook is notable during this cycle. It’s wise to aim to learn as much as you can now in preparation for the next cycle, running from May 2023 to May 2024, which puts your career on center stage. You’ll want to be prepared!

Your views on life in a broad sense are changing, growing, and maturing. Connections with faraway cultures, people, or a wider knowledge base can open up opportunities to grow personally. Teaching and sharing knowledge can be in strong focus. It’s a good–perhaps even ideal– time for publishing, writing, and media.

You might consider fine-tuning your talents and skills with higher education or experience during this cycle.

New learning experiences and “life” experiences (adventures, new activities, contacts with others of a vastly different culture than yours, and so forth) are likely to emerge.

During this period, you might have the opportunity to reach a broader audience. You might choose to learn a new language or take on other exciting studies.

You get exceptional support from friends and associations, or you are particularly inspired to grow, improve, explore, discover, and move outside of your comfort zone. It’s a good time to feel both motivated and inspired. People and experiences outside of your norm can affect or inspire you.

You’re likely to enjoy opportunities to expand your experiences and impress others. Education can be transformative now, leading to meaningful opportunities. Picking up new interests and expanding your knowledge can profoundly impact your love life, leisure time, or creativity. For creative sorts, your creations can reach a much wider audience during these periods of your life.

Areas of Contraction and Lessons in Simplicity: Partnerships, Contracts

Your Leo 2022 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.

A Significant Other or Association
One-to-one Relationships

All year, 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 began in 2020 and will last 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 12 to 25 degrees, and those born from August 3-16, are most directly affected.

For those of you who are in committed partnerships, there can be some strains on your bond during this cycle. For example, 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 magnify in your mind now. A partner might instead seem cautious, distant, critical, or defensive. You need to open your mind to the possibility that someone is providing you with important life lessons – about traditions, simplifying your life, and responsibilities. In other words, 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 less likely 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 magnify, and it can feel 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, awakening you to a need. In time, you will find ways to satisfy this need. Patience is usually necessary during Saturn’s transits.

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 1991-early 1994.

You might partner up to work or improve health, or you could meet a significant someone through work or the pursuit of your health goals.

Areas of Excitement, Innovation, Independence, and Speed

Your 2022 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. Be 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! Otherwise, this can be a powerful period of innovation.

Your career, professional projects, reputation, and public image continue to speed up, stimulate, and open up this year. You might learn to let go of limiting self-consciousness in these areas. As long as you don’t push it too far, you can free yourself from some of the fears you may 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 in 2022 and in the years ahead (it lasts until 2025-6). More courage is with you this year for breaking out along new paths.

You’re often 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.

While there can be times when an erratic, unpredictable, abrupt, or rebellious theme in these areas of your life can clash with other life departments, in 2022, you seem better able to take advantage of the positive potentials of these themes. Particularly in February and July, there can be opportunities to advance materially or emotionally by thinking of your future. These are times when being progressive and willing to make some minor changes can pay off. For example, you could be changing your definition of success, perhaps in ways that also benefit the group or the planet as a whole, and it can be most satisfying.

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
Career or Life Path
Responsibilities
Reputation
Home Life

Attitudes towards work, any 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!

This is a very long-term influence that is once again active all year (it began in 2008 and lasts until 2024).

Of course, there can be times when these alterations cause friction, such as pressures to perform and obsessions with taking care of details. Watch for excess and burning the candle at both ends, which is a real temptation.

However, this theme is also strong for making long-lasting beneficial changes to your habits, work, and routines. You’ll find it easier to direct your energies constructively this year, particularly in February and May. February is especially strong for reaching higher in your work or with your responsibilities. You’re feeling a sense of purpose and mission. It’s possible you connect with someone who promote you in some way or play a helpful role. May brings another boost–you are likely to enjoy increased influence and support as you embrace your ambitions.

In 2022, the nodes and eclipses challenge you to pour more concerted effort into your career or responsibilities.

The North Node transits your solar tenth house from January 18th forward, calling special attention to your career, life path, responsibilities, and reputation. This transit calls on you to sort out your life plan, and it can be about discovering your needs to balance professional and personal life. Aim to nurture, embrace, and develop your desire to feel accomplished and to meet your responsibilities for best results.

Note that with the North Node at the top of your solar chart most of the year, it can be particularly important for you to strive toward putting yourself “out there” more often. It doesn’t have to be a dramatic move–in fact, you can do so in steps–but allowing yourself to feel entitled to expressing yourself professionally or as a leader in some way will grow on you, and over time, you’ll feel more comfortable and natural about it.

Your Planetary Ruler in 2022: 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 2022 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.

2022 Yearly Overview Horoscopes:

See also 2025 Summary Horoscopes for neat summaries of the year ahead for each sign, 2024 Yearly Horoscopes for detailed forecasts for each sign, 2025 Yearly Love Horoscopes for love guides to the year, and 2025 Preview Horoscopes for a preview of the year ahead.