♌︎ Zodiac sign · Fire
Leo
The Sun's own fire sign: Leo is light, generosity, and the need to shine where the world can see it.
The Leo character
Leo is warmth, grandeur, and dignity. Generous and big-hearted, it loves recognition and knows how to lead. It needs a stage and an audience that answers back, because without them the glow dims.
Leo in love
In love Leo is bright and lavish: it courts with flair, loves out loud, and gives from the heart. It expects admiration in return, and nothing wounds it like coldness.
Leo at work
A born leader and spark: where a team needs firing up and someone to follow, Leo has no rival. What it can't stand is going unrecognized.
Strengths and shadows
Strengths: generosity, charisma, nobility, will.
Weak spots: pride, vanity, need for praise.
Leo's shadow is empty vanity: dancing for applause, seeming over being, and dimming its own to shine alone.
Leo on the zodiac wheel
The arc 120°-150°, the fifth of the twelve sectors, belongs to Leo, and the Sun crosses it from July 23 to August 22. A diurnal sign of the fixed cross, it holds summer: the season at its densest point. On the wheel it sits right after Cancer and right before Virgo.
Directly opposite, at a clean 180°, sits Aquarius: the most charged axis of the wheel, the one that pulls and clashes at once. At 120° come Sagittarius and Aries, sharing the element fire, and at 60° Libra and Gemini, the friendly element. At 90° stands the square with Scorpio and Taurus: the same fixed cross with different elements, and that is where it rubs. The quincunx toward Capricorn and Pisces closes the list, nothing shared and everything to adjust.
What to remember
The arc 120°-150° is one twelfth of the circle, and the tone of that twelfth comes from the Sun. Your Sun sign is one stroke of the sky: the Moon, the ascendant and the planets weigh as much in your chart as this fifth slice of the wheel does. I don't read fate off fire or off the fixed cross. It's a cast of character, the arc 120°-150° and nothing more, with no verdict in it.
And if you want a talisman, Leo has its own stones and charms, picked by fire and by the Sun.
FAQ
What zodiac sign is someone born between July 23 and August 22?
Leo. The Sun crosses the arc 120°-150° from July 23 to August 22, so any date in that range belongs to this sign. Right on the cusp the boundary drifts by a day, because Cancer runs out before it and Virgo takes over after, so anyone born there should confirm it with a natal chart, which counts year, time and city.
What element and ruler does Leo have, from July 23 to August 22?
Element: Fire. Modality: fixed. Ruler: Sun. Out of that mix comes a diurnal sign that holds summer: fire sets the temperature, the fixed cross sets the way of moving, and the Sun supplies the motive underneath.
Which signs suit Leo best: Sagittarius, Aries or Libra?
The softest angle is the 120° trine: Sagittarius and Aries, sharing the element fire. The roughest is the 90° square - Scorpio and Taurus - together with the opposition to Aquarius. By Sun alone the reading stays coarse, so start with who Leo matches and refine it with the Moon, the ascendant and the exact degree of the Sun.
The whole sky of your birth minute says far more than the Sun alone.
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