LEO: July 23 - August 22

People born under the sign of the lion are often bold, passionate and creative risk takers. Win or lose, Leos make brash moves for what they believe in. Leo loves attention and fame.
On the whole, they are powers for good, for they are strongly idealistic, humane, and beneficent. They have powerful intelligence and are of a broad philosophical, sometimes religious, turn of mind. Those who are devout may become very obstinate in upholding traditional beliefs and will cling tenaciously, but with complete sincerity,                                                             to practices and doctrines that liberal thinkers regard as absurdly out-of-date. These will be found as the 'lions' of industries and at the forefront of the cutting edge of technologies. Fire is spirit. It is the animating force that clings to the physical.  People with a lot of fire in their charts radiate. They cannot stand stale energy; If they have it, they burn it. Each fire sign represents a different stage of passion.

Generous and warmhearted

Creative and enthusiastic

Broad-minded and expansive

Faithful and loving

Pompous and patronizing

Bossy and interfering

Dogmatic and selfish

In professional life, they do well at any vocation at which there is room at the top. As politicians, they are content with nothing less than a powerful position in government. In business, they may be the chairman of their company's board, or at least directors or managers. They are excellent organizers and overseers, often laying the groundwork for new projects. If from the artisan ranks of society they will aspire to become the boss, partly because they are ambitious by nature, partly because they dislike manual labor, preferring to take charge of others doing it. If artistic, Leos can become stars on stage or screen (their bent is serious rather than light drama), maestros as musicians where they will gravitate toward the grand instruments or activities, such as the organ or conducting of orchestras and as painters; anything grand in conception and scale appeals to them. Leo women make exceptionally good welfare workers.

The Leo type is the most dominant, spontaneously creative, and extrovert of all the zodiacal characters. In the grandeur of manner, the splendor of bearing, and magnanimity of personality, they are the monarchs among humans as the lion is the king of beasts. They are ambitious, courageous, dominant, strong-willed, positive, independent, and self-confident there is no such a word as doubt in their vocabularies, and they are self-controlled. Born leaders, either in support of or in revolt against, the status quo. They are at their most effective when in a position of command, their magnetism and innate courtesy of mind bringing out the best of loyalty from subordinates. They are uncomplicated, knowing exactly what they want and using all their energies, creativeness, and resolution to get it, as well as being certain that they will get whatever they are after. Their followers know where they are with Leonians. Leonians think and act bigger than others would normally dare; the ambitiousness of their schemes and idealism sometimes daunt their followers, and their practical hardheadedness and ability to go straight to the heart of any problem reassures those who depend on them. If Leonians meet with setbacks they thrive on adversity.

Leo represents the BIG flame.  Like the lion’s man, like the sun’s corona, shimmering tongues of brilliance explode from a blazing core.  The passion consumes the heart and becomes the main attraction drawing bodies into orbit to feel the warmth.  Leo loves to be that shining light in the center.  Ta-da! A call to action is heralded as an emotional response to the feelings generated by Cancer. The personal ego awakens as the individual 'I', extending itself as a projection on time to mark that place in history. In a demand for social recognition, Leo showers us with solar radiance and crystallizes its image on us through creative self-expression, often hiding a sensitive emotional character questioning its worth. Their faults can be as large in scale as their virtues, and an excessively negative Leonian can be one of the most unpleasant human beings imaginable, displaying extreme arrogance, autocratic pride, haughtiness, and excessive hastiness of temper. If jealously suspicious of rivals, they will not hesitate to use cunning, lies, and trickery to discredit them. Self-centeredness, greed for flattery, boastfulness, bombast, pomposity, snobbish superiority, and overbearing, and intolerant disdain of underlings; to whom they will nevertheless delegate the carrying out of minor details in their grandiose schemes, and from whom they are not above borrowing immoderately if an occasion necessitates it. Any of these can be characteristic of Leo.

Customers have questions, you have answers. Display the most frequently asked questions, so everybody benefits. Add to them a passion for luxury, a lust for power, unlimited sexual lust, and emotional indulgence, and a character emerges that no one would want to know either in public life or private. But their pride may go before a fall, as uncontrolled impetuosity is likely to bring them low. Fortunately, a Leo is rarely so undisciplined as to give way thoroughly to this list of vices, and their tendencies to them are usually balanced by an innate wisdom. Those who are afflicted with them also have the intelligence it takes to consciously and actively overcome them. 

Louis XVI, King of the French, born 23 August 1754 was a Leo.

Early in the Revolution, Lafayette was among the most visible and popular leaders, in part because he participated in the American Revolution and his relationship with George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and others.

Louis XVI ruled as King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791, and then as King of the French from 1791 to 1792. He was married to Marie Antoinette at the age of 15.