23 July – 22 August
Leo
Fixed fire: the sign that will not be done anonymously.
- Element
- fire
- Modality
- fixed
- Ruling planet
- Sun
- Keywords
- presence · warmth · pride
Leo is the only sign ruled by the Sun, and it behaves like it: whatever lands here becomes central, personal and warm, and wants to be seen doing it. That is not vanity by default; it is the conviction that a thing done without your name on it was not really done.
Fixed fire keeps burning at one temperature, which makes Leo placements loyal and generous well past the point of convenience. The shadow is the audience: when the recognition doesn't come, the same placement can turn the whole performance toward getting it, and the work becomes the smaller half of the effort.
Where to go next
Its element
The other fire signs are Aries and Sagittarius. They share the temperament and differ in how they hold it.
Its house
Leo's meaning echoes in the fifth house, which covers the same ground as an area of life rather than a manner.
In your chart
Where Leo actually falls, and which planets are standing in it. It takes about a minute to work out, free and without an account.