POSITIVE TRAITS

Broad-minded, creative, dutiful, enthusiastic, expansive, generous, loving, warm-hearted

NEGATIVE TRAITS

Dogmatic, dominant, interfering, intolerant, over-protecting, pompous

LIKES

Children, drama, grandeur, spending, venturous deeds

DISLIKES

Doing things safely, every-day life, pessimism, small-minded persons

PERSONALITY

Leo is the most dominant, spontaneously creative and outward personality in the entire Zodiac. You are ambitious, bold, strong-willed, positive, independent and self-confident, and you are born to be a leader and a successful organizer. You know exactly what you want, and you use all your energy and creativity to get it. With your straightforwardness and your uncomplicated manner you make your subordinates feel secure. You are very idealistic, benevolent and compassionate. You are very intelligent, and you have got a broad, philosophical and sometimes religious mind.

However, all your positive sides might sometimes turn negative, and turn you into one of the most unpleasant persons imaginable. You might have an extremely hot temperament, and you might be extremely arrogant, autocratic, lazy and haughty. You might be extremely jealous, and you do not hesitate to tell a lie when it serves your personal interests. Furthermore, you might also be self-centred, self-elevating, boastful and supercilious, and intolerant towards your subordinates.

PROFESSIONS

Your biggest need is to create. This, together with your vitality and ambition, makes you often succeed in whatever you do.

You have a natural talent for acting and performing on stage, given your colourfulness and your love of attention and fame. You might also be a powerful politician or businessperson, or a successful musician or social worker.

RELATIONSHIPS

Since you are very open, welcoming, frank, genuine, trustful, spontaneous and warm-hearted, you are easily getting disillusioned if let down by someone you trust.

You are not very good at reading other people’s feelings, and you have tendencies towards favouritism and towards an exaggerated trust in your followers, something which often leads to disappointment.

You have a very strong sex drive, which often makes you indecisive and unfaithful. You love beauty, romance and pleasure, and this easily draws you from one partner to another, and you might have many love-affairs simultaneously. Marriage is hard for you.

You are most compatible to

Aries – Your two very expressive personalities most often fit very well together, and you are housing great admiration towards each other. Both of you want to be in the centre of attention. This is a very physical and fiery relationship.

Taurus – There is a strong attraction between yourself and Taurus. You might fulfil Taurus’s desire for luxury and pleasure. To achieve a long-lasting relationship, though, you have to keep under control your will to dominate and Taurus has in its turn got to control its jealousy.

Cancer – A very good combination of two very different personalities. You might cheer up heavy-hearted Cancer, and Cancer has got great patience with your moodiness. Cancer gladly let you be in the centre of attention, and to be in command – or at least let you believe to be so.

Virgo – Your broad-minded nature is good at over-looking Virgo’s critical and pedantic side.  Virgo likes your way of taking initiatives, your loving nature and your easy-going temper, and you like the intellectual nature of Virgo. Given that Virgo lets you be in centre of attention, this should be a successful and long-lasting relationship.

Scorpio – There is an impending risk for conflict between your two strong-willed personalities. But even so, there actually is a big chance of a long and happy relationship, as the attraction between you is so strong that there is always a will to compromise.

Sagittarius – Your two very decisive personalities has got a big chance to find happiness together, given that both parts are allowed to be in centre of attention.

Aquarius – You like very much the unpredictability of Aquarius, and there is a big mutual understanding between you.

You are not as compatible to

Gemini – There is a strong attraction between you and Gemini. Both of you like glamour, flattering and lots of friends. But despite of this, your relationship is not likely to be very long-lasting. Intellectual Gemini risks fast to loose patience with your emotional, materialistic, possessive and self-centred nature.

Leo – You are a leader, and you always want to be in centre of attention. And between two such strong-willed natures competition and envy very easily arise. This risk to be a relationship filled with conflict.

Libra – Both of you houses great appreciation for luxury and glamour, and you are both very artistic. A warning must be issued, however, that your restlessness, emotionality and constant need for flattering will get on the nerves of Libra after a while.

Capricorn - Pensive Capricorn has a difficult time with your impulsive, outward and easy-going personality.    

Pisces – You like very much being needed and admired, but the affection of Pisces risk to be all too trying for your freedom-loving nature, and your sense of pride over being needed might fast turn into contempt for needy Pisces. Also, your straightforward personality might make you easily hurt the very sensitive Pisces.  

Your opposite

Aquarius

DISEASES

Backache, blood problems, dizziness, fainting, fever, heart problems, palpitation

RULING PLANET

The Sun

RULING DEITY

Sol (Helios) – the Sun God

ENGLISH COMMON NAME

The Lion

KEYWORD

Recognition

PERSONAL KEYWORD

I will

DUALITY

Yang (masculine, bright, hard, active)

TRIPLICITY

Fire

QUALITY

Firm

COLOUR

Gold

STAR STONE

Ruby

METAL

Gold

FLOWER

Rose (sun flower, marigold)

TREE

Citrus trees

ANIMALS

All cats

LUCKY NUMBERS

8 and 9

LUCKY DAY

Sunday

COUNTRIES

France, Italy, Romania

CITIES

Damascus, Los Angeles, Prague, Rome

THE MYTH BEHIND THE SIGN

Hercules was the son of Jupiter – the ruler of all gods, and of the mortal woman Alkmene. Jupiter’s wife Juno, was very jealous, and did whatever she could to make it hard for Hercules. She put a spell on him, so that he in a stage of confusion killed his two children. As a punishment for this act, the gods made him a servant of King Eurysteus in Mycenae, who made him perform one seemingly impossible mission after another.

Hercules’s first mission was to capture the Nemean lion. This creature, which lived in a cave outside the town of Nemea, was no ordinary lion, but the offspring of the monster Tyfon from the war between the gods and the titans. The lion, which had a skin thick as panzer, was spreading terror and death wherever it went along.

Hercules fought the lion for an entire month, before he managed to suffocate it till its death. He then took the lion’s skin and made out of this a cloak which not spear, arrow or sword could ever pierce through.                      

SOME FAMOUS LEOS

George Bernard Shaw, Karl Jung, Mick Jagger, Jacqueline Kennedy, Henry Ford, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Peter O’Toole, Martin Sheen, Dustin Hoffman, Whitney Huston, Alfred Hitchcock, Napoleon Bonaparte, Robert De Niro, Madonna, Roman Polanski, Bill Clinton.