Moon in Leo
Your Moon sign describes your emotional and instinctual energies. Another key component in the makeup of the basic ego/personality, your Moon sign reveals those things you do instinctively, how you are likely to react emotionally, how you give and receive nurturing, as well as the genetic or cellular memories carried within the unconscious mind. It describes your emotional, instinctual, genetic and intuitive makeup.
With the Moon in the dramatic, generous and fun-loving sign of Leo, you are likely to be a person of emotional warmth and abundance, ever ready to shine this abundance of emotional intensity upon those you hold near and dear. The sign of Leo is ruled by the Sun, and associated with royalty. Thus, your emotions are likely to share in this solar quality, radiating out warmly to those you feel benevolent toward, and perhaps striking out fiercely at times against those who have lost your favour. On an instinctive level, you are likely to feel strong emotions, and a passionate intensity that needs to be expressed. Leo is a very dramatic and creative sign, so that those with the Moon in this sign do best when they allow themselves the spontaneity and exuberance that this sign suggests.
Leo is a sign of leadership, and on an instinctual level, you may feel that you are here to lead others. Thus, you do well in control of situations, especially social ones, and have natural executive and leadership abilities that inspire others to follow you with confidence. You will find that others rally easily to your sunny disposition, wanting to follow you on the road to the next adventure. Your natural sense of fun and joy flows well with your desire to do things, and do them well. You have a warm and generous disposition and can really encourage and support others with your abundance of emotional warmth.
But when you let your inherent sense of pride, and belief that you are always right, make you overly demanding, dismissive or controlling, you will find that others want to then rebel, and you will have trouble balancing your innate need for recognition and approval with the fact that your troops have up and left you! Leo must be very careful not to let their natural sense of authority and royalty become self-centeredness and domination. This will lead to isolation, and the unhappy experience of not having other persons around you to share your abundant emotional energy. At its’ heart, Leo is a very sensitive and impressionable sign, and you are easily hurt when you don’t get the recognition that you feel you deserve. Leo needs approval and recognition in order to keep its inner fires burning, and you need to find ways to be with other people, enjoying their company and taking up your natural leadership role, without isolating anyone, or making others subject to your, at times petty, emotional demands. Learning to recognize the extent of your passions, and then recognizing that others needs are just as “special” as your own keeps your feet on the ground, and happy experiences in your life.
