Fire · Fixed · Ruled by The Sun
Leo
Leo is the part of a chart that shows up in full colour. It tends to describe where you are willing to be seen committing to something.
Leo is fixed fire, which reads as sustained warmth rather than a flare. Wherever Leo falls, the chart tends to give generously and openly, and to want the giving to register.
Wanting to be seen is often treated as a flaw, and in a reflective reading it is simply information. Visibility is how Leo checks that the thing it is pouring into is real. The distinction worth holding is between being witnessed and being approved of, because they feel similar and ask for very different things.
Read by house, Leo shows which room you are most yourself in when the lights are on. That is a resource. It is also a place where a dip in energy tends to be more noticeable, to you and to everyone else.
At its best
Wholeheartedness. The kind of presence that makes other people braver by being in the room.
When it tightens
Performance can start to run the placement. When you notice yourself reaching for a reaction, consider what you would still do if nobody mentioned it afterwards.
Sit with these
- What do you want to be seen doing, and what would you still do unseen?
- Where does your warmth cost you something, and is the cost one you would choose again?
- What is the difference, for you, between being witnessed and being approved of?
The planets in Leo
Sun in LeoMoon in LeoMercury in LeoVenus in LeoMars in LeoJupiter in LeoSaturn in Leo