Leo Horoscope for March 2026

Welcome to the last two plus weeks of Pisces season, Leo, which is generally a rather mysterious time for you as you contemplate your depths, issues of intimacy, and changing forms of personal evolution. This year it is more intense, perhaps, than in others, with the recent Solar Eclipse in your opposite sign of Aquarius, or your relationships, revealing in Pisces, your sector of partnership agreements, the highlighted presence of relationship-oriented Venus there for added emphasis, conjunct the North Node. The first part of March features as well your ruler, Jupiter, in Cancer, enhancing your twelfth sector of unconscious process. Trickster Uranus is precisely square the eclipse degree of Sun and Moon, so that surprises and synchronicity abound. Mercury retrograding through Pisces all month, counting its post-retrograde shadow period, allows greater levels of contemplation, review, and readjustment, as you consider the impact of partnership upon your existence and your ultimate life purpose. Your beliefs and worldview get a huge boost of complex energy this month as well, since Saturn and Neptune are in close conjunction at the 0° degree mark of Aries in this recent New Moon eclipse, corresponding to your ninth solar sector of higher mind, while Eris and Chiron are also conjunct in the third decant of that sign. The bottom line would seem to be that – in spite of taking partnership in your life more fully into account, along with the pressures of consensus thinking and your earlier conditioning – you are finding your own way through. The very potent Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of March 3rd represents another significant juncture when issues of self and other are once again emphasized. This is also when finding your own unique principles and values becomes even more so exactly what is called for. The late Pisces New Moon that governs the month’s final two weeks is another strong lunation, with a large Aries stellium that presages further rearrangements for your beliefs and worldview. All and all, this is yet another of these exciting and changeful months that we have been seeing lately, when cosmic forces are aligning to announce major transformation within you, and challenging you to keep up.


The following was written by our guest astrologer, Lauren Hansen. You can find her here.


Previous New Moon Eclipse in Aquarius – February 17th
The recent mid-February New Moon Eclipse in Aquarius continues to shape the first half of March, activating your seventh sector of partnership, contracts and relational dynamics, along with your eighth sector of intimacy, shared resources, and exploring psychological shadows. Whether due to an internal revelation or an external event, a turning point is likely to take place within these realms! Relationship surprises and revelations are more than possible, since Uranus’ square magnifies the eclipse’s destabilizing energy, which is why it’s best to stay as open as you can to paradox and synchronicity, letting events simply unfold. It helps when you can practice adaptability and cast a celebratory welcome at the changing tide.

Saturn-Neptune Conjunction – Strongest to March 7th
The rare Saturn–Neptune conjunction remains influential this month, strongest in early March, marking the edge of a pivotal seed moment in your ninth sector of beliefs, worldview, education, and travel! A personal philosophy, belief or possibly a long-standing view you’ve had on the world at large, may come crashing down. All kinds of seemingly well-established inner beliefs and perspectives can meet a limit now, as a new structure around these topics is being formed. Disillusionment must first take place, but the rippling out of this transit might, over time, assist you in solidifying your internal beliefs or in forming a new dream that incorporates travel or any and all forms of education.

Mars Enters Pisces – March 2nd
Mars enters Pisces and your hidden eighth sector and brings a potent energy – awakening psychological shadows, encouraging a personal rebirth and possibly igniting conflict about shared resources. His high-energy presence here can motivate you to show up for anyone in crisis, but he might also stimulate a deep urge to feed your ego through sexual experience. This restless energy can drive personal evolution by inspiring psychological rebirth through deeper intimacy with yourself and others.

Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Virgo – March 3rd
The Lunar Eclipse Full Moon in Virgo triggers your financial axis – bringing in high emotional awareness to your second sector of self-worth, income and physical resources. The Pisces stellium, including Mars, in opposition, powerfully illuminates your eighth sector of shared resources, partnership agreements, and inheritance. A revealing event could catalyze at this time some potent turning point that affects your understanding of your finances or your own internal principles and values as separate from consensus thinking. Your budget ideas might involve profound realizations about your earning capacity, personal values or spending habits. Jupiter’s sextile to this significant lunation allows room for internal investigations and explorations while staying open to unexpected outcomes and manifestations of also the recent solar eclipse!

Sun Trine Jupiter – March 3rd - 6th
For a few days, the Pisces Sun in your eighth sector forms a supportive trine to exalted Jupiter in your twelfth, making this one of the month’s most beneficial transits! This blessed aspect inspires substantial emotional releasing and psychological transformations that can benefit you greatly – leading to a grander and more authentic connection to intimacy, empathy and compassion. Processing grief or loss is most readily available for further healing, and you may receive aid or leniency around financial stresses. The more you let go, shed and release – the better. This clearing is likely to make room for new and more positive unconscious patterns to take shape!

Venus Enters Aries – March 6th
As Venus ingresses into Aries, she enters her sign of detriment and your ninth sector. Venus is likely to be successful in persuading you to broaden or deepen personal philosophies through meeting new people or witnessing impactful artistry! This transit supports spontaneous vacations, travel trips that expand your world view, and happily interacting with people from different walks of life. This is also the sector of types of education, plus your beliefs and worldview, so that you may see pleasant shifts there or enjoy your studies more than usual now. Perhaps a helpful mentor may come along to aid you in your learning.

Venus Conjunct Neptune and Saturn – March 6th - 9th
As Venus instills the Saturn-Neptune alignment with her disarming attitude – you may become more gentle and understanding with yourself around the inner beliefs or worldview opinions you’ve carried up until recently. It’s as if Venus is soothing you through this possibly uncertain and uncomfortable time – because as your perspective shifts, it can be painful to accept the disillusionment. Her involvement also helps you make sure the new structure forming around your relationship to the outside world, higher education and inner beliefs is a more beneficial one!

Jupiter Stations Direct in Cancer – March 10th
The great teacher, Jupiter, stations direct in its exalted position of Cancer, in your twelfth sector. A surge of excitement around the spiritual dimensions of life could overcome you, coupled with a positive impulse to expand your awareness around your unhelpful unconscious patterns. Empathy is emphasized and you may be less concerned with ego centered desires, instead acting on compassion and care. Oftentimes, this transit is associated with receiving help or spiritual insight from unexpected places – through new spiritual teachers or even strangers that may suddenly appear.

Mercury Retrograde Conjunct Mars – March 13th - 15th
As Mercury retrogrades in conjunction with Mars in your eighth sector, an old and toxic compulsion may come back online for reexamination! Deep-seated desires could flood your mind and questions around who to trust or who to be honest with may plague you a bit – but while intense, this transit sharpens curiosity about the hidden and unknown, pushing you to investigate beneath the surface. These are discoveries that can spark a meaningful psychological shift once Mercury stations direct!

New Moon in Pisces – March 18th
The New Moon in the last degrees of Pisces activates your mysterious eighth sector of psychological shadows, shared resources and sexuality – and may be ushering in a fresh start by providing you with greater emotional clarity in this department. Your ninth sector of personal beliefs, teaching and travel might also come into focus as well, as the Sun and Moon in this late Pisces lunation are only two degrees away from the Aries sign. The supportive sextile to Uranus in your tenth sector is important so that surprises and unexpected realizations continue to pour in, just as Mars reached his opposition to the recent Full Moon eclipse degree. This might reflect a change in your understanding of issues involving career or public status, or your evolving beliefs and worldview. The Aries stellium in this New Moon configuration brings novel perspectives to inner issues affecting your career and in being adaptable around where life is taking you.

Aries Equinox – March 20th
The moment that the Aries Equinox hits and the astrological new year begins makes for another important juncture especially for your Sun-ruled sign. This annual transit powerfully illuminates your ninth sector – where as many as seven planets are lined up – encouraging bold adventures, higher learning, anything that expands your mind, broadens your perspective or grows intellectual capacities! Your attention is focused on personal growth and new experiences.

Mercury Stations Direct – March 20th
Mercury/" class="air" title="Click to learn more..." data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">Mercury Retrograde in Pisces shifts as Mercury stations direct in your eighth sector. It is still quirky yet begins its recovery. Over the next few weeks of the post-retrograde shadow period, you should be able to untangle any confusion that may have come up during the retrograde, in regard to the financial accounts or assets you share with others. Financial delays and miscommunications with those you share resources with taper off as Mercury picks up speed. As the mental fog continues to lessen, your ability to be articulate and understand your deep desires also improves.

Sun Conjunct Saturn and Neptune – March 20th - 26th
As the Sun highlights this rare Saturn–Neptune meeting, the major realizations emerging within your ninth sector may stand out more distinctly! The Aries Sun also emboldens you to make the intentional adjustments necessary to build a more authentic structure around your beliefs and personal perspective – possibly seeking guidance or higher education. It could be good timing to follow your enthusiastic curiosities about life and the world at large.

Venus Conjunct Eris and Chiron – March 20th - 26th
As Venus conjuncts Chiron and Eris in your ninth house, old wounds tied to rigid dogmas or old childhood trauma could resurface. You might be able to use Venus’s softening influence to face these feelings with compassion, channeling them into creative outlets or supportive relationships to foster authentic growth.

Venus Enters Taurus – March 30th
As Venus ingresses into her sign of domicile, Taurus, she enters your tenth sector of the career, authority and public life. Your attitude towards career responsibilities softens, professional recognition is likely and you may even feel a new level of closeness to co-workers or a superior. Whether career related or not, your public image is likely to improve! Venus also slips cosmic factors into this sector – inspiring you to follow mystical outcomes or indulge your artistic creativity more than you previously allowed.