Happy Birthday, Leo!! -- It's time to celebrate your time of the year! -- Part 1

The Sun moved into Leo
about 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon.

Just a big kid at heart
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Happy Birthday, Leo!!
You are the birthday child this month!!

When you get done admiring the elegant refreshments someone who knows you well has undoubtedly provided to celebrate the occasion, when you need a break from gathering in the compliments, the congratulations, and all the other admiring attentions of your friends, relatives and any passers-by you can attract into noticing you ... and all the fuss and hubbub ... pull up a comfortable chair and sit down for a minute.

I promise to be suitably respectful here amid the festivities while we talk about your favorite subject in all the world . . .YOU!!

Well, maybe with good reason you feel this way. A Leo soul is an interesting expression of life -- the true showman and star of the Zodiac, and like all good actors he has a personality for all occasions and he does play his roles so well.

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A spirit with many facets ...
all of them fun.

He can be a delightful mix of youthful exuberance, playfulness, enthusiasm and joy ... like a real-life Peter Pan, the kid who refuses to grow up. He can be an inspiring leader ... able to rally followers and inspire confidence with his own dramatic displays of courage and personal charisma. He can be the elegant, creative artist and performer who knows how to charm his audience and hold the spotlight of attention like a well-polished jewel in the palm of his hand.

He can fool all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time ... and, in fact, is famous for wielding that talent. Indeed, on occasion, there is nothing so rousing as a true Leo on full display -- even with all the pomp and ceremony aside, which it rarely is, if he gets his way.

But he can also be insufferable, arrogant, temperamental, over-bearing, self-involved, pretentious ... and patently ridiculous, when finally his own pride topples him and his fondness for the sensational, attention grabbing gestures sends him way over the top.

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Leos love to take risks and take chances.

That happens. In fact, that happens a lot. Leos are natural gamblers. They love to take a chance, to roll the dice, to set up that risky situation where they could win really, really big -- and then put themselves, their abilities, their nicely-polished and fluffed-up egos, and their sincere belief that they deserve the Grand Prize on the line ... and see what comes of it. They are, after all, a Fire Sign who believes "No guts, no glory." And Leo craves huge helpings of public glory.

Do they win with this strategy a lot? You bet. Luck is very often on their side. And sometimes the true key to winning is the willingness to try. The breath-taking example Leos set for the more timid signs, (especially Pisces and Virgo, for instance) can be inspiring for everyone who sees it in action ... even if some of the other executive signs (like Capricorn) see Leonine bravado as unnecessarily full of flash and dazzle at the risk of solid success.

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To win, you gotta get in the game.

They have a point. If winning is the goal, sometimes Leo puts himself way too far out on a limb to even lay claim to common sense. It's when you understand that, for Leo, winning is only a component in the prize he wants -- Winning Big ... is the real plum -- it all makes sense. He's willing to take spectacular chances because he needs the notice ... the gasps of anxiety from the audience with all eyes fixed on him as he does his high-wire acts.

He needs to succeed in a most public arena -- with stakes worth the alarm and tension, and then some. You don't do this by being a wimp and playing it safe. You do it in that exhilarating way -- with flair and style -- that Leos naturally carry out so well.

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Winning is great; losing is not.

When you win, of course, it's marvelous. There are flashbulbs popping and champagne all around. And Leos can give the most wonderful off-the-cuff acceptance speeches -- acknowledging how, in all modesty, they deserve every smidgen bit of this award and celebrity.

But obviously, big risks are big risks because of the potential down-side. That can be significant. And when Leo catches his toe in a crack right at the moment of making his great leap for the big brass ring, and does a pratfall instead, his ego is often not equipped to handle well the bruises and scrapes he gets for his trouble.

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