The sign of Leo presents us with the most spectacular personality in the zodiac. A superlative statement usually invites contradiction, but in this case a comparison of the different types will prove this characterization to be correct.
The Aries person, nearest to the Leo makeup, does not have the majesty, the regality, and ability to command respect combined with love, so much a part of the Leo personality. If Aries natives are princes of the zodiac, Leo natives are the kings.
The sign of Leo, ruled by the Sun, reflects the character plainly shown in the symbol of the sign, Leo, the Lion . They are kingly people, heroic, and generous. In appearance, they have a noble carriage. They are poised, commanding and gracious. The shape of the head is good, being neither too large nor too small. The features are usually high-bred, the eye fine, and hair tawny, golden or red. The figure is exceedingly elegant, and the limbs and extremities very finely modeled.
In this sign, as in Aries the deviation from the high type is just a step down. Sometimes it is several steps down, but in any case, the primitive Leo type is a sort of caricature of the noble type, but has rather a fleshy bulging figure heavy and pompous in effect.
The high type of Leo personality is strongly executive. They have a natural command of any situation and can give orders, speaking frankly, and criticizing freely, often offending by bluntness rather than ill will.
There is no ill will in the Leo nature, and nothing small or petty either. Natives simply never see any reason to withhold an opinion, whether flattering or harsh. Despite the fact that because of this quality they are super critical, their employees or domestics adore them, and work willingly, with a real effort to please and serve.
To Leo, the best the world offers is naturally his’ not only for self-aggrandizement, although that does enter into it, but because the Leo instinct seeks the highest honors, the best job, the first place, and “tops” in everything.
Too often this is a just choice. The Leo intellectual equipment is sound. They have a natural comprehension of human problems, are generous and understanding, and have a lot of ”heart”.
From early youth upward they are not plodding students or even searchers after intellectual or abstract truth. That is the work Libra, or Sagittarius or even Aquarius. But Leo is the sign from which the instinctively emotional humanitarian springs. He loves people and life, and his’ leadership springs from the force of his’ will power to communicate this to the world. The world trusts and respects Leo.
These people are not the eternally precocious child type. This sign seeks early maturity, and plunges into the problems of life with zest and enthusiasm.
In the business world, Leo persons fill high executive positions. They often rise to the presidency of a bank, great industrial enterprises. In politics especially, Leo types shine. In this department they can fulfill their Zest for leadership. The theatre or any theatrical enterprise is, however the very best choice for Leo. The sign rules amusement centers, and Leo qualities seek a field that gives them close contact with an audience. They make the ideal impresario. Many famous matinee idols were born in Leo, or had Leo in some important spot in the natal chart.
The advertising business too has certain branches, namely contact and sales, where impressive Leo types are successful. Whatever the Leo profession in the life, it had best be dominant, Original and somewhat sensational.
On the negative side, the Leo personality, when primitive, is that of a swaggering bully. He blusters noisily in the business and home life. The truest description of this type is the Lion in “The Wizard of oz” “who upon the mildest counter attack, broke down and sang, “If I only had the nerve.” “ Alas, this is all too true, for the low Leo type is a braggart, a show off and a faker.
Leo is the sign of love. Other signs have a love ruler ship, but it is a different kind of love. The Taurus love, Venus ruled , has an affectionate, fruitful, womanly quality, material, but warm and enveloping, an atmosphere rather than a quality. The Libra love, Venus ruled, is the esthetic, discriminating love of mind. But Leo, ruled by the Sun controls the love nature and has the fiery, passionate love of the ideal lover, a man’s love, compelling, masterful, and absorbing. It is not fruitful in itself, but it inspires and promotes fruitfulness in others.
Leo is the sign of pleasures, sports and entertainments, gala occasions, fetes, picnics, etc. Every kind of enjoyment is ruled by Leo, and since everything connected with Leo is large fulsome and generous, Leo people are apt to over indulge. They often eat too much. The uncontrolled Leo types are warned against the use of drugs.
The Leo physique is sturdy and robust. It needs to be to stand the drains of the Leo temperament. They over work. They undertake, somewhat like Aries people, tasks beyond human strength. They frequently dissipate in one way or another. They seldom heed warnings and drive themselves into nervous breakdowns. This type fills the sanatoriums seeking diets and rest cures. Leo rules the heart, spine and generative organs. It can easily be seen that a sudden end can be the result of unrestrained Leo desires.
Mars is very powerful in Leo, and this influence brings ( as in Aries) rashness and a susceptibility to accidents. Since Leo people love life more than some of the other Zodiacal types, it might be advisable to use temperance in physical habits, and control all rash inclinations.
Leo woman are gorgeous. Many of them are the picturesque red or golden – haired beauties of stage and screen. Even those not in the public eye are often lovely to look at with poise and outstanding ability of some sort. They too tend toward leadership. They may shine in the business world, but the professional world, especially the theatre, offers the ideal opportunities.
The Leo woman makes a fine wife. Full of passion and fire, she is loyal, responsive, and cooperative. Her energy is boundless, capabilities legion, and her appearance always a credit to her’ husband. However, she is an expensive luxury, dressing extravagantly, and expecting a setting of costly jewels, furs, a fine home, and everything that makes a splendid show.
The primitive type of Leo woman has the proverbial “red headed temper” Storms of unreasonable anger will be her’ family’s daily portion. She never reasons, but acts wholly on the spur of the moment. In her the fine Leo pride becomes arrogance and her blind conceit makes her a noisy, bumptious, gadabout needless to add she is always overdressed.
The Leo lover and the Leo husband have several qualities in common. They are conventionally minded men, but whole-souled in their devotion to the beloved. They are ardent, passionate, generous and give of themselves so completely, that the return of devotion always seems small and inadequate in comparison. This is very sad for Leo, who in consequence feels unloved and unsatisfied. If the wife, children or sweetheart of these Leo men could only realize how much emotional damage they do by unresponsiveness, they would change their attitude and give as heartily as they receive.
Leo people are naturally vital, and they do have a tendency to extremes.
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