ALMUTEM
Mars in Leo
Mars represents your energy, your desire and the courage to act. In Leo, it expresses itself with warmth, pride and a longing to shine.
Mars passes through Leo — fixed fire, house of the Sun — as a peregrine, with no dignity of his own, yet on soil of fire akin to his. Here the ardour weds itself to pride: the force wants splendour, the fight wants an audience, and every blow asks to be seen and applauded. The Sun lends nobility to the martial surge, and Mars serves as sword to the crown, a captain who commands at the head of the host. It inclines to a brave magnanimity, to a command that brooks no rival, to a taste for the broad gesture and the combat of honour. It gives loyal courage, a warmth that draws others along, a will to lead from the front and not the rear. It tends to the arrogance that mistakes will for right, to the wrath of a sovereign crossed. Like the lion that roars before it springs, it gives warning and imposes itself by its presence. The danger is that of a force that needs a throne: brave while it reigns, wounded when none behold it.