The Lion
Traditional Leo Traits
Generous and warmhearted
Creative and enthusiastic
Broad-minded and expansive
Faithful and loving
On the dark side....
Pompous and patronizing
Bossy and interfering
Dogmatic and intolerant
Leo!
About Your Sign...
The Leo type is the most dominant,
spontaneously creative and extrovert of all the zodiacal characters.
In grandeur of manner, splendor of bearing and magnanimity of
personality, they are the monarch's among humans as the lion is king
of beasts. They are ambitious, courageous, dominant, strong willed,
positive, independent, 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 personal 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, 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 the adversity.
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
which liberal thinkers regard as absurdly out-of-date. These will be
found as the 'lions' of industries, and in the forefront of the
cutting edge of technologies.
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, and 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. 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 it
is rare that a Leo is 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.
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 of 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.
In his or her relations with others
the Leo type is open, sincere, genuine and trusting. Outgoing,
spontaneously warm hearted and plain spoken, though never lacking in
kindliness, Leos are more disillusioned than the average if let down
by those they trust. They are not good judges of character and are
inclined to favoritism and an exaggerated faith in their followers
which too often ends in disappointment. They have a strong sex drive
and are so attracted to the opposite sex that they find it hard to
be constant; they can be so intensely sexual as to become dissolute.
They may have numerous love affairs for their love of pleasure and
beauty is liable to drive them from one attractive partner to
another. They are very much inclined to deceive. Their marriages may
fail for the same reason, yet they are sincere and generous to their
lovers while love lasts, and will remain attached to their homes so
long as it is run for their benefit. They demand service but are
incapable of giving it.
Possible Health
Concerns...
Physiologically, Leo governs the
upper back, forearms, wrist, spine and heart. Its natives are
subject to a number of ailments: pain in the back and lungs, spinal
complaints, diseases of the heart and blood, sickness in ribs and
sides, convulsions, pleasantries, violent burning fevers including,
in former days, when they were prevalent, plague, pestilence,
jaundice, and some afflictions of the eyes.
