Planetary Influences：Ruling planet:Sun;First decan:Personal planet is Sun. Virtues：Perceptive, strategic, responsible. Vices：Confrontational, provocative, bossy. Careers：Radio host, actor, sports commentator. Skills & Aptitudes：Strongly influential, imagination, self-motivation. Compatible with：April 21–25, June 21
Witty charmer
Considerate and cheerful, with an ambitious personality, you can radiate confidence and be charming and generous. As a Leo, you are dignified and honorable, with a sharp intellect. This suggests that you are a good psychologist who understands people and what motivates them. With your personal touch, you have the talent for making people feel special and important.
The double influence of your ruling planet, the Sun, also suggests that you are proud, but you may have to learn to differentiate between being dignified and being arrogant. Since you like to be treated well and receive compliments, you may find it hard to accept criticism. By creating harmony and balance in relationships, you can communicate your thoughts and ideas more easily.
Although tenacious and persistent, with the power to pull through and endure, you may need to overcome a tendency to be too rigid in your outlook or be obstinate and impatient. With calmness, you can present new ideas to others in an entertaining and logical manner in order to persuade them to see things from your perspective. This helps you take the lead and use your ideas in a constructive way.
Incisive thinking and the ability to think fast indicate that you are an assertive communicator who likes to be direct and clear. Despite your mental precision, it may be wise to avoid an inclination for sarcasm when you need to release your frustrations.
Your natural vitality and desire to shine may draw you to sports, games, and social activities. From the age of twenty-seven, when your progressed Sun moves into Virgo, there is an increasing desire for practical order, analysis, and efficiency in your life. There is a turning point for you at the age of fifty-seven, when your progressed Sun enters Libra. From this time you may develop a desire to be more involved in your close personal relationships, and you may turn from more practical considerations to more aesthetic ones.
Sun: Leo
Decanate: Leo/sun
Degree: 3°45’-5° Leo
Mode: Fixed
Element: Fire
Although your Sun’s degree is not linked to a fixed star; some of your other planets’ degrees certainly will be. By having an astrological chart calculated, you can find the exact position of the planets on your date of birth. This will tell you which of the fixed stars listed in this book are relevant to you.
You are usually willing to work hard to achieve your objectives and want to be at the forefront of your activities. Headstrong, however, you can at times ignore your deep intuitive feelings in an attempt to get your own way. At times, you can display incredible moments of insight at lightning-fast speed. This can be reflected in a wonderful humorous outlook that carries a profound wisdom locked up behind a joker’s facade.
You need to be constantly initiating new projects, preferably involving people. You are highly sociable and need the stimulation of lively debate to keep you on your toes. At times you can take a warm interest in the affairs of others, being kindly, considerate, and courteous. If you become too serious, however, you can turn stubborn and incite trouble.
Your natural confident front and enthusiasm, combined with your strong power to influence people, suggest that you can be an ideal leader. Your gift of gab plus your shrewd intellect make you an excellent candidate for a career such as promoter, negotiator, agent, or salesperson. Similarly, you can do well as a writer or lecturer. Being a naturally good psychologist, you may be drawn to professions such as counseling or public relations. If in the business world, your organizational and strategic skills often attract you to large projects. Alternatively, the entertainment or art world may appeal to you from the director’s chair. Although independent, you may find many advantages to working cooperatively with others.
Famous people who share your birthday include Swiss psychologist and writer Carl Gustav Jung, playwright George Bernard Shaw, singer Mick Jagger, novelist Aldous Huxley, film directors Stanley Kubrick and Blake Edwards, and writer James Lovelock.
Sees the big picture and aims for it, linked to abundance and material wealth, and uses financial success to give back to others. With a number 26 birthday, you have a pragmatic approach to life, executive ability, and a good business sense. Usually responsible, with a natural aesthetic sense and a love of home, you need to build a solid foundation or find real stability. Often a tower of strength for others, you are willing to support friends, family members, and relatives who turn to you in time of need. You may nevertheless need to guard against materialistic tendencies and a desire to control situations or people. The subinfluence of the number 7 month indicates that you have to find a balance between your needs and your obligations to others. Being a perfectionist, you like to pay attention to small details and create beauty and harmony. The idealism and strength suggested by your birthday shows that you are a cautious character, with strong values and sound judgment.
• Positive:creative, practical, caring, responsible, proud of family, enthusiastic, courageous
• Negative:stubborn, rebellious, unstable relationships, unenthusiastic, lack of persistence
You are likely to possess a youthful and playful quality in your relationships that can be highly attractive but irresponsible. Being sociable and entertaining, you find it easy to make friends and are an excellent host. You enjoy sharing with those you love and can be warm and charming. Even though you may find playing the field attractive, you prefer establishing a more long-term commitment with someone who can understand your needs and desires.
You might start to look for an exciting partner among those born on the following dates.
Love & friendship:Jan. 6, 16, 22, 26, Feb. 4, 14, 20, 24, Mar. 2, 12, 18, 22, Apr. 10, 16, 20, 30, May 8, 14, 18, 28, June 6, 12, 16, 26, July 4, 10, 14, 24, 31, Aug. 2, 8, 12, 22, 29, Sept. 6, 10, 20, 27, Oct. 4, 8, 18, 25, Nov. 2, 6, 16, 23, 30, Dec. 4, 14, 21, 28, 30
Beneficial: Jan. 6, 17, 23, 31, Feb. 4, 15, 21, 29, Mar. 2, 13, 19, 27, 30, Apr. 11, 17, 25, 28, May 9, 15, 23, 26, June 7, 13, 21, 24, July 5, 11, 19, 22, Aug. 3, 9, 17, 20, Sept. 1, 7, 15, 18, 30, Oct. 5, 13, 16, 28, Nov. 3, 11, 14, 26, Dec. 1, 9, 12, 24
Fatal attractions:Jan. 22, 23, 24, 25, 26
Challenging:Jan. 24, Feb. 22, Mar. 20, 29, Apr. 18, 27, 29, May 6, 16, 25, 27, 30, June 14, 22, 25, 28, July 12, 21, 23, 26, Aug. 10, 19, 21, 24, Sept. 8, 17, 19, 22, Oct. 6, 15, 17, 20, Nov. 4, 13, 15, 18, Dec. 2, 11, 13, 16
Soul mates:Jan. 13, Feb. 11, Mar. 9, Apr. 7, May 5, June 3, 30, July 1, 28, Aug. 26, Sept. 24, Oct. 22, Nov. 20, Dec. 18
July 26 people have the potential to blaze a fiery trail through life, for their strong will-power, unusual independence of thought and action and predilection for idiosyncratic expressions of individuality mark them out as commanding and influential personalities. The success of those born on this day is largely deter- mined by the responses that they arouse in others, who they will use to evaluate the effectiveness of their often radical theories through the responses that they elicit by their declarations. They may thus attract admiration or ridicule in equal measure, but since in many respects the primary motivating factor behind their actions is to draw attention to themselves, they typically accept the love or loathing that they provoke with equanim- ity, knowing that they have accomplished their aim of publicizing themselves or their beliefs. Natural per- formers, July 26 people are especially suited to careers in the arts, or else in such creative commercial profes- sions as the media or advertising.
The energetic and extroverted face that these indi- viduals present to the world often masks their deeper, more introspective side that enables them to plot a clearly delineated course through life, which they then follow with remarkable fixity of purpose and tenac- ity. Their professional and private personae may be so different as to seem schizophrenic—especially if they are women—for when out of the public spotlight they guard their privacy jealously and ground themselves in a closely knit circle of friends and family members, of whom they are fiercely protective and on whom they lavish enormous affection.
