JULY 24 to AUGUST 23.
CUSP: RUNS JULY 22 to JULY 28.
The constellation Leo--the fifth sign of the zodiac, and the middle point
of the magnet of the Fire Triplicity--is a masculine, fiery, changeable,
northern sign, governing the heart and blood of life. The higher
attributes are belief and self-control.
Persons born under this sign are kind-hearted, sympathetic, and jovial.
The willpower is firm, and is combined with enterprise and perseverance.
Their bearing is perfectly natural and without self-consciousness. They
are animated and convincing talkers, and excel in repartee. They always
make a point, and never fail to see one.
Leo gives to those born under its influence a lofty mind, a spirit of fair
play, an unbending dignity, and a generous heart. While they have a great
respect for law and authority, their imperious and independent nature
causes them to feel resentment when commanded.
The special aptitudes of the subject will be of a martial character. They
make many friends to whom they are devotedly attached, and who frequently
impose upon them. Their actions are guided by their impulses and emotions.
Leo people are steadfast, virile, proud, and liberal, with great
brilliancy that may render them egotistical and presumptuous. The temper
is kindly though firm, courageous, and magnanimous.
Those born under this sign are likely to have strong, wiry bodies, round
heads, light complexions, keen perceptive faculties, deep, mellow voices,
and friendly expressions of the eyes. They walk with a quick, buoyant
step.
Their physical temperament will be nervous-sanguine, with remarkably fine
health and a long life.
They will find their most congenial friends, first, among Sagittarius
people; next, among those born under Libra and Aries.
The faults of these persons are trickery in business affairs,
prevarication, and laziness. They are chronic borrowers. They are
hot-headed, impetuous, fiery, and passionate. Leo is the only sign
governed by the sun, and to this solar influence is ascribed the passion
and impetuosity of its subjects.
A union with a person born in Sagittarius or in Aries is likely to be most
happy and to produce the strongest offspring. Leo children are quick to
observe any duplicity or inconsistency on the part of those around them,
and will meet it with corresponding hypocrisy and a deep cunning.
The gems are the ruby, diamond, and sardonyx. The astral colors are red
and green. The flower is the morning-glory, the one which responds most
readily to the influence of the sun. The lucky months for a Leo subject
are January and October. Sunday is traditionally the most fortunate day of
the week.
The ancient Hebrew tribe over which Leo has rule is that of Joseph. The
ruling angel of the sign is Verchiel.
August, originally Sextilis, the sixth month in the pre-Julian Roman year,
received its present name from the Emperor Augustus, in the year 8 B.C.
August was selected, not as being his natal month, but because in it his
greatest good fortune had come to him, and it is a rather curious example
of the irony of fate that he should have died August 29, 14 A.D.
As July contained thirty-one days, and August only thirty, another day was
added, in order that Augustus might not be in any respect inferior to
Julius Caesar, his predecessor, in whose honor the month of July was named.
Napoleon Bonaparte, Sir Walter Scott, General Ballington Booth, and Mrs.
Grover Cleveland were born under Leo, and are good examples of the
soldierly, commanding characteristics, and the ability to make friends, of
the sign.