Mars in Leo

Mars in Leo is a drive that operates with the body and voice fully engaged. The placement gives a confident, expressive, warmly competitive way of going after what it wants — and tends to do best when the effort has a creative or honorable dimension. People with this Mars typically play to win, but want to win in a way that is recognizable as personally theirs. Day to day, this looks like a person who is energized by performance, comfortable leading, and unusually loyal to the people and causes they have chosen. Mars in Leo does well in creative fields, leadership positions, sport, performance, teaching, and any role that rewards visible courage. The placement is honorable in competition — wants to win fairly — and is often the person in a team that lifts the morale of everyone around them. The shadow is pride and the need for recognition. The same confidence that makes the placement effective can shade into a refusal to take corrections, and the same warmth can shade into a performance of effort rather than the effort itself. There is also a tendency to lose interest when the work goes unseen or unacknowledged. Mars in Leo matures when it learns to act for the work rather than for the audience.