The Character

of your Sun Sign

Leo

You're inhabited by pride and very prone to action. Should you experience the brutal loss of a motivation or of your faith in action, you'd be inclined to settle down in a failure neurosis — for it's less painful for your pride to be yourself responsible for your lack of success than to see it imposed on you by someone else or by circumstances. However, sometimes you will purely and simply ignore failure and continue as if it did not exist, thus replacing confidence with tenacity.

You suffer very much when the difference is too great between the dream you nurture and the reality you live. Your superego is exaggerated and can incline you to excessive exigency towards yourself as well as towards others.

One can often reproach you for being self-centered. In any and all common enterprise, you've too much of a tendency to take all the credit without showing the part of merit that comes from one or the other of your collaborators. Of course, it's you who arouse things, who awaken inspiration, who stimulate dynamism; of course, it's almost innocently that you occupy the first place or try to do it; of course, you make efforts to reach that place. But it rarely comes to your mind that others can hardly put up with being mere pawns in your personal game. They themselves long to improve their images. One could accept your legitimate pride, but you discredit yourself when this pride proves to be mere conceit.

Among your greatest defaults one must also list this irascible temperament which sometimes makes you flare up in blind, devastating rage, with great gestures which sweep away all that's within your reach. One can also list your candid self-confidence which borders on naiveté and becomes unbearable only when it turns into despotism.

The other side of the coin shows us an entirely different personality who is capable of great sentiments, is of extreme nobility, devoid of all pettiness, endowed with a profound sense of justice and an idealism full of panache and magnanimity. Your worth mainly resides in your frankness, your sincerity, your integrity.

Your clear, flexible, very sensitive intelligence permits you to grasp problems immediately. You possess a remarkable mind for synthesis and a vivid appetite for creation. Let's also list courage, authority, definite concern for your honor and your reputation. Your personal charisma gives you a powerful ascendancy over other people.

You're generous, enthusiastic, energetic. You have not only the desire but also the capacity to command. Your influence all naturally attracts a small court around you. And as you appreciate to be the sighting mark of your circle, you quite readily assume responsibilities. It's in this way that your authoritarian tendencies may prevail and incite you to take the interests of others lightly.

In all cases, you've a stronger need of success than other people. Repeated failures are apt to undermine you and you've much difficulty recovering from them. You like the concrete and the stable too much to feel well at ease in the precarious and the transitory.