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Leo
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The sign that gets mocked for wanting to be seen, mostly by people who would simply never admit to it.
The basics
Leo is the fifth sign of the zodiac, fixed fire, symbol the Lion, ruled by the Sun. Fixed fire is warmth already lit and keeping going, which is a different thing from the fire that starts something. Its opposite sign is Aquarius.
When the Sun is actually in Leo
The Sun enters Leo on 22 or 23 July and leaves for Virgo on 22 or 23 August. Both ends move. The orbit runs about six hours longer than the calendar year, so the crossing arrives later each year and then jumps back when February gains a day.
Computed from the same ephemeris this site uses for its birth charts, here is where it actually fell across the eleven years 2020 to 2030: the 22th in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2028, 2029 and 2030; the 23th in 2023 and 2027. In 2026 the crossing was at 22 July 19:13 UTC.
Cancer comes before it and Virgo after. A birthday on the 22nd or 23rd of July, or the 22nd or 23rd of August, is genuinely undecided until the year and the hour go in. A good number of Leos are Cancers.
What Leo is actually like
The Sun rules Leo, the only sign the Sun rules, and that is the whole thing: you are the centre of your own chart in a way no other sign is. Not arrogance. The business of being yourself is simply more deliberate and more effortful for you than for people who can disappear comfortably.
Fixed fire is warmth that keeps going. You are generous and the generosity is not strategic, but it is noticed, and being noticed for it matters to you more than you say. Both are true at once and the second does not cancel the first.
You are loyal, open-handed and surprisingly easy to wound, because the confidence is real and it is not armour. People assume anyone that warm must be unbreakable and they are consistently wrong.
The part the lists leave out
You cannot take help in front of people. Praise easily, help badly, because help implies you needed it and the version of you that needed it is not the one you present. That costs you more than the pride ever returns.
You will also choose the option you can defend to an audience over the one you actually wanted, and then feel slightly off about it for a year without identifying why. The audience is usually imaginary. It is still deciding things.
Leo in love
You give a great deal and you want it visibly returned, which is not vanity, it is the same language running in both directions. A partner who shows affection quietly can leave you genuinely unsure where you stand.
Your risk is staying because leaving would look like failure. Leo will take a bad situation that reads as a success over a good one that looks like a retreat, and that is the trap worth knowing about in advance.
Your sun sign is not your chart
If half of that fitted and half did not, the half that did not is information rather than noise. The Sun is one body out of ten, and it is the only one a date on its own can find.
For Leo the Sun is also the ruler, which makes this the one case where a sun sign page describes something central rather than something partial. The Moon and the Rising are still not in it. Your Big Three works out all three, free, and the arithmetic runs on your own device.
Leo is the only sign ruled by the Sun, and the effect is that being yourself is deliberate rather than automatic. Deliberate reads as arrogant to people for whom it is automatic.
What is the Leo weakness?
Accepting help in front of other people. Praise is easy and help is not, because help implies a version of them that needed it.
What are the Leo dates?
The Sun is in Leo from 22 or 23 July to 22 or 23 August. Both ends move by a day with the year, so a birthday on the 22th or the 23rd of July has to be worked out from the year and the hour rather than read off a table.
What is the opposite sign to Leo?
Aquarius. The axis runs between being somebody in particular and being one of a number, and a Leo Sun usually knows exactly which end it prefers.
