Mars in Leo

When the team is tired and the deadline is tomorrow, you are the one who says, let’s finish it tonight, and makes it sound like the best idea anyone has had all week.

The brightest years

Every two years or so, the Earth overtakes Mars on the inside track, and for a few weeks the red planet is at its closest and brightest, outshining every star in the sky. Some of those passes are closer than others, and in the best years Mars blazes. Leo, ruled by the Sun, gives Mars that kind of light. Your drive is meant to be seen. You work harder with an audience, rise to an occasion, and do your best work when something is at stake.

Leading

People follow you because you go first and you mean it. You lift a tired group, make a hard job feel like a cause, and give credit loudly. Hand you a stage, even a small one, and you fill it. You are generous with your strength: the friend you back in a fight, the colleague you stand beside when the boss is angry, the cause you take up because nobody else would.

Honour

What moves you is honour more than gain, and it always has. You would rather lose well than win meanly, and you expect the same from others. Being treated as small, overlooked or taken for granted wakes your temper faster than any direct attack.

Pride

Pride is the price, and you pay it in full. Once you have taken a stand where others can see, stepping back feels like humiliation, and you will defend a position for weeks after you know it is wrong. You sulk when your work goes unthanked, and you can hear criticism of what you did as an attack on who you are.

In desire you want warmth and a little theatre. You like being wanted openly, and a lover who is shy about you in public will lose you in private.

Give you something worth fighting for and people who are glad you are fighting, and you burn for years without dimming, and anyone near you gets warm just standing there.