The Sun returns to his home sign of LEO every year on approximately July 22nd to 24th and stays until approximately August 22nd to 24th. (If you’re curious as to why the date shifts, read this page on Google).
The Summer is the Season of the Sun
“Lotus seated, lotus in hand, brilliant as a lotus flower and sitting in a seven horse drawn chariot with two arms is the Sun.” *
The Sun in Leo is at home—radiant, fixed, and self-sustaining. As Leo maintains the height of summer, it also governs the 5th house of creativity. Many of us recall childhood summers as golden times—carefree and luminous. When the Sun is in Leo, the soul’s untarnished gold shines the brightest.
Leo season reminds us that at the heart of each of us is a gold that can never be tarnished—only revealed.
The Untarnished Gold Within: Qualities of the Sun in Leo
Each of the following sections is a facet of our soul’s inner gold, showing how the Sun expresses our divine potential through these qualities.
Steadfastness: The Heart That Never Wavers
Steadfastness is loyalty in love and devotion. A man with a strong Sun who chooses you does so wholeheartedly and unwaveringly. This is the most wonderful thing you can experience from a man you love. This kind of unwavering love is one of the purest forms of inner gold. This is why traditionally, wedding bands and rings are made of gold to symbolize never ending love.
People with a strong Sun are reliable, steady, and often excel in leadership or their careers, thanks to the Sun’s natural rulership over career and visibility.
Noble & Protective: Gentle Strength
The Sun symbolizes auspicious masculinity—strong, restrained, and noble. A strong Sun follows a personal code of honor and uses strength only when necessary.
“Gold doesn’t boast—it shines naturally through honorable action.”
Leo belongs to the warrior caste, but the evolved Sun protects without seeking fights. It channels the natural aggression of the warrior productively and selflessly.
Consistent: Gold Glows the Same Each Day
“I am, indeed, a king because I know how to rule myself.” – Pietro Aretino
Consistency is steadiness over time. A strong-Sun person is not swayed by mood but is rational, reliable, and sticks to proven methods.
My husband, with Moon and ascendant ruler Jupiter in Leo, is predictably consistent. I once saw him return a wallet stuffed with money—without taking a cent. That’s a noble quality of the Sun.
Idealistic: The Soul’s Vision of What Could Be
The Sun “looks up.” Inspired from within, it lives by ideals and leads with vision. Even in politics—where compromises are necessary—the Sun seeks positive outcomes for everyone in his kingdom. The Sun rules politics. Every president or leader will have the Sun either as the Atmakaraka (career planet), with the Atmakaraka, in the sign of Leo, or aspected by the Sun. There are other ways for the Sun to be a career planet too.
A corrupted Sun suffers deeply under his rationalizations. He will look for ways to redeem himself and win back his self-respect and the respect of others. But even when tarnished by life, our inner gold (soul) remembers what it is and seeks redemption.
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Inspired: The Divine Spark That Guides Us
When the Sun transits through the first house of your birth chart once a year, no matter what sign it’s in, you will feel inspired. If you’ve strayed off your path, you’re set back on it again.
The Sun expresses itself best in Aries, Leo, Sagittarius, Cancer, Pisces, Gemini, Virgo, and Scorpio.
Saturn (Capricorn and Aquarius) and Venus (Taurus and Libra) signs challenge the Sun. Saturn “looks down” with fear and caution and is a servant. Interestingly, Saturn is the son of the Sun in Vedic astrology, and we need both planets to be successful, but at different times and in different ways.
Venus is about personal desire, relationships, and love, while the Sun is about the Self and doing what he is divinely inspired to do – his soul tasks. The Sun tends to sacrifice his personal desires, while Venus is all about personal desire. When the Sun is in a Venus sign, Taurus or Libra, he needs permission and validation from others before he acts. He worries too much about being perceived as selfish.
Still, the Sun inspires us to stretch and become more of who we are meant to be no matter what sign he occupies.
When we follow our true inspirations, our inner gold gleams brighter.
Confident: Acting Without Needing Permission
The masculine energy of the Sun is confident in its expression. This side of us will act without fear of failure and will be brave in the face of danger. The Sun knows he can care for the future by following his true inspirations. True inspirations come from the divine, so he has little or no fear.
The Sun in Leo knows he is fully capable of moving in the world without worrying about the “how” of it all; he knows he will get what he needs when he needs it.
The soul (our inner gold) doesn’t need approval—it knows its worth.
Commanding: Presence That Radiates Authority
A strong Sun person has a natural commanding presence. These individuals may even have square features—physically (face and body) or energetically (solid and reassuring)—and tend to become leaders when the Sun is high in the sky (in one of the houses from the 7th to the 12th house) in the birth chart. The Sun most loves to be in the 9th house in the birth chart.
Gold commands attention because it’s rare, real, and valuable in every culture throughout time.
Your Own Inner Sun
Miragem by Miriam Homem de Mello
The Sun represents your soul and conscious connection to your divine spark. It differs from the Moon (mind/ego) and from the Atmakaraka (essence). The Sun links you to the collective soul and reminds you that with the soul, everything is always all right.
Let the Sun in Leo remind you: you are not here to dim your light—you are here to remember you were gold all along.
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- The Sign of Leo in Vedic Astrology
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*Footnote:
- Lotus seated, lotus in hand: Surya is often depicted sitting on a lotus or holding one in his hands. This is because the lotus flower symbolizes purity, spiritual enlightenment, and its opening with the morning light is connected to the sun’s rising.
- Brilliant as a lotus flower: This highlights Surya’s radiant nature and his connection to the symbolic brilliance of the lotus flower.
- Sitting in a seven horse drawn chariot: Surya’s chariot, pulled by seven horses, symbolizes his journey across the sky and represents the seven colors of light, the seven days of the week, and/or the seven chakras.
- With two arms: While some Hindu deities are depicted with many arms, Surya is typically shown with two, holding the lotuses.
