Overall · Week
The period arranges itself around one large theme — the rest will turn out to be its consequence. Name that theme early and everything afterwards gets easier.
Fire begins well and waits badly. Delegate the waiting if you can.
Start of the week
The opening brings energy and the temptation to take on too much. Leave room for the second half.
End of the week
The second half asks for patience: there is movement, but less visible than you would like.
Love & relationships
A warm period for family: good for reconciliations, shared trips and new traditions.
Work & money
Do not take on other people’s areas of responsibility: in this stretch such arrangements become permanent.
Money & finance
Income is likelier to grow by revising the terms of your current work than by changing jobs.
Health & energy
There will be a temptation to put up with an unpleasant symptom. Do not — seeing someone early saves months.
Inner state
It helps to limit the information flow: clarity comes from quiet, not from more data.
About the sign: Leo ♌
- Dates
- 23 July — 22 August
- Element
- Fire
- Modality
- Fixed
- Polarity
- Yang — active, radiating
- Ruler
- Sun
- House
- House V: creativity, children, play, romance
- Body
- Heart, spine, back, circulation
- Stones
- Amber, heliodor, ruby
- Metal
- Gold
- Day of the week
- Sunday — the day of the Sun
Character
Leo tests the world with one question: "am I seen?". They need to put themselves into what they make and to get a response. Recognised, they become generous and magnanimous; ignored, they start chasing attention in ways they later regret.
Leo is the sign of authorship: doing it well is not enough, it must be visible who did it. This is not pure vanity but a way of existing: Leo puts the whole self into the work and therefore hears criticism of the result as criticism of the person. At their best they warm everyone around, are generous with money and attention, cast people in their best role and believe in them more loudly than they believe in themselves. At their worst they become a demanding child extracting attention at any price. Dignity matters more to Leo than advantage: they will lose money sooner than accept humiliation.
What works
Charisma, the ability to inspire, genuine generosity, and a willingness to take responsibility.
What to watch
Pride, a raw reaction to criticism, and a constant need for confirmation that they matter.
In relationships
Leo courts generously and theatrically, and needs the relationship to be a source of pride rather than a secret. They are faithful while they feel like the main person in their partner’s life, and react fiercely to indifference — a slighted Leo leaves beautifully, with the door slammed. Compliments are not flattery to them but currency; ungratefulness destroys them faster than rows. In a couple they tend to take charge of what is best for both, so a partner has to defend the right to their own decisions.
Work and money
Leo is at their best where there is a name and a face: the stage, teaching, leadership, creative work, luxury sales, anything public. They work badly in the shadows and in thankless positions, even for good money. They love money and spend it widely — gifts, experiences, status objects; meanness disgusts them and budgeting is hard. They make an excellent manager exactly when they praise the team in public and claim the credit less often than they would like.
Health and body
The central organ is the heart, and literally so: chronic humiliation, unexpressed anger and unrecognised work are bad for Leo. The back and spine are vulnerable too, especially in those who carry too much. They need exercise taken with pleasure rather than duty, and proper rest without guilt. Sun and movement restore them better than any supplement, though training for an audience brings injuries.
♂ The man of this sign
The Leo man courts in a way everybody hears about: grand gestures, gifts, the best table. He needs a partner he can be proud of and invests in her sincerely — but expects admiration in return, out loud and regularly. He is generous while he feels first; being managed, or criticised in front of others, hits the rawest spot. He strays rarely for sex and often for the admiration that ran short at home. He is good company for someone who can praise sincerely without dissolving.
♀ The woman of this sign
The Leo woman is visible in any room and knows it. She expects to be courted and will not pursue — not from pride, but because that is the right order of things to her. She is loyal and lavishly generous with her own, yet does not forgive neglect: a partner’s coldness reads as an insult to her dignity. She needs a man she can respect and present to others — a weak one she will first pity, then command, and finally stop loving. She rows loudly, makes up warmly, and truly leaves only once.
Decans of the sign
23 July — 1 August · Saturn
The most responsible Leo decan: less glitter, more endurance and real authority.
2–12 August · Jupiter
A generous and fortunate decan: scope, self-belief, patronage of others.
13–22 August · Mars
The hottest decan: drive, competitiveness, a readiness to fight for what is theirs.
How Leo matches the other signs
Sign compatibility
Choose two signs and the gender of each — you get both portraits, the dynamic of the pair and a piece of advice.
♂ ♌ Leo man + ♀ ♌ Leo woman
What works
You see the world in similar ways, you never have to explain the obvious, and that is a huge reserve of trust.
What to watch
The blind spots are shared too. Nobody says "what if we looked at it differently" — find that view outside the pair.
How the pair works
Leo man and Leo woman are two fires: passion, speed and no boredom whatsoever. Both are used to leading, so the pair needs separate territories where each is in charge without competing, and a rule never to settle things when tired.
♂ Leo man
The Leo man courts in a way everybody hears about: grand gestures, gifts, the best table. He needs a partner he can be proud of and invests in her sincerely — but expects admiration in return, out loud and regularly. He is generous while he feels first; being managed, or criticised in front of others, hits the rawest spot. He strays rarely for sex and often for the admiration that ran short at home. He is good company for someone who can praise sincerely without dissolving.
♀ Leo woman
The Leo woman is visible in any room and knows it. She expects to be courted and will not pursue — not from pride, but because that is the right order of things to her. She is loyal and lavishly generous with her own, yet does not forgive neglect: a partner’s coldness reads as an insult to her dignity. She needs a man she can respect and present to others — a weak one she will first pity, then command, and finally stop loving. She rows loudly, makes up warmly, and truly leaves only once.