Love & Relationships
2.5Not a day for ultimatums. What feels urgent now will look ordinary within the week.
17 August – 16 September
Leo Rashi
In short
2.5/ 5 · OverallLeo (Simha), Sunday, 25 October 2026: 2.5 out of 5, with the Moon in Meena (Revati nakshatra), the 8th house from Simha.
The Moon is in your eighth house — the Chandrashtama window. Energy runs low and small setbacks feel larger than they are. Postpone decisions rather than forcing them.
Budha governs the Moon's nakshatra, quickening speech, trade and paperwork. Write the message, send the invoice, make the call.
In detail
Career & Work
4.5A strong window for initiating. Approach the person whose approval you need instead of waiting to be noticed.
Money & Finance
4.5Money that was owed to you becomes collectable, and a small recurring cost can be cut cleanly.
Health & Energy
3Stamina is fine, patience is not. Move the body to settle the mind.
Suggested remedy
Offer water mixed with raw milk at a Shiva temple.
About Leo
Simha is seen. Ruled by Surya, it has a natural relationship to authority and a real, unforced generosity — Simha gives, and gives publicly, and means it. The dignity is genuine rather than performed. What complicates it is that Simha needs the recognition it pretends not to need, and can mistake being contradicted for being diminished. At its best it uses its visibility to make room for other people.
Simha — known in English as Leo — is the sidereal zodiac sign of the Lion, ruled by Surya (Sun). It is a fire (agni) rashi of fixed (sthira) quality: in Vedic astrology that pair describes how a sign begins things, holds them, or adapts to them.
In the sidereal zodiac the Sun passes through Simha from roughly 17 August to 16 September. Western astrology uses the tropical zodiac, where Leo runs from 23 July – 22 August. The two differ by about 24 degrees — the ayanamsa — which is why your Vedic rashi is usually the sign before your Western one.
Simha contains Magha, Purva Phalguni, Uttara Phalguni (Pada 1). Each rashi spans 30 degrees and holds two and a quarter nakshatras, so the nakshatra locates a planet far more precisely than the rashi alone, and it is the nakshatra that determines your Vimshottari dasha sequence.
In Indian and Nepali practice your rashi is your Chandra rashi — the sign the Moon occupied at your birth, not the Sun. The Moon governs the mind, and it is the Moon's daily transit counted from your rashi that a daily rashifal actually reads.
In traditional matching, Leo tends to find easy ground with Aries, Sagittarius, where the element and the ruling planets agree. Aquarius asks more work — not incompatibility, but a difference in pace and priority that has to be named rather than assumed. Ashtakoota Gun Milan looks at eight factors and not only the rashi, so treat sign-to-sign compatibility as a first indication rather than a verdict. Leo Compatibility — Which Rashis Match Leo
- Ruling planet
- Surya (Sun)
- Element
- Fire (Agni)
- Quality
- Fixed (Sthira)
- Symbol
- Lion
- Nakshatras
- Magha, Purva Phalguni, Uttara Phalguni (Pada 1)
- Sun transits this rashi
- 17 August – 16 September
- Western (tropical) dates
- 23 July – 22 August
- Gemstone
- Ruby (Manik)
- Lucky day
- Sunday
Nakshatras
Method
How this reading was calculated
These are the sidereal positions the prediction is derived from. You can check every one of them against any panchang.
- Moon in
- Pisces
- Sun in
- Libra
- Moon's nakshatra
- Revati · Pada 2
- Tithi
- Chaturdashi · Shukla Paksha
- Chandra gochar
- 8th house from your rashi
Frequently asked questions
What are the dates for Simha rashi?
The Sun transits Simha from about 17 August to 16 September each year in the sidereal zodiac. In the Western tropical zodiac, Leo covers 23 July – 22 August. The roughly three-week gap between the two is the ayanamsa — the precession accumulated between the fixed-star zodiac and the equinox-based one.
Which planet rules Simha?
Simha is ruled by Surya (Sun). When a Simha chart is read, the condition of that planet — its sign, house, aspects and dasha — carries much of the weight.
Which nakshatras fall in Simha?
Magha, Purva Phalguni, Uttara Phalguni (Pada 1). A rashi spans 30 degrees and contains two and a quarter nakshatras, so the nakshatra fixes a planet's position far more precisely than the rashi, and it sets the Vimshottari dasha sequence.
Why is my Vedic rashi different from my Western star sign?
Because the two zodiacs start from different points. The tropical zodiac begins at the spring equinox; the sidereal zodiac used in Vedic astrology is fixed to the stars. They have drifted about 24 degrees apart, so people born in the first three weeks of a Western sign usually fall in the previous rashi.
Is rashifal based on the Sun sign or the Moon sign?
The Moon sign. In Indian and Nepali usage your rashi is the sign the Moon occupied at your birth. A daily rashifal reads the transiting Moon counted from that sign, which is why the prediction changes every day or two as the Moon moves.