But Elsa, my Venus in Leo wants my Cancer planets to be defended.

I had an astrology teacher once who always put down Cancers. Never seeing their good points but only that they are needy, clingy, manipulative, smothering…

Any Cancer-lovers out there?

Haha…thanks Elsa

My mom’s a leo, my best friend a leo rising, my nephew is a sun/venus/mars leo. I have Jupiter in Leo. Love me some Leo’s! Wish I knew more of them.

My dad is double cancer, hard placement for a man, but other than that, don’t know many cancers at all!

Mars mercury & sun in Leo in the 9th here, & once I owned that & stopped being afraid of complaints/jealousy for how much fun I was having & for my energetic resources, everything started working GREAT & I realized that shining with all this wasn’t TAKING from people around me. To enjoy this energy & let it shine was actually helping and generous & fun for everyone else too. (whereas, in a cage, those 3 lions are NOT cool to be around–it is sigfried & roy time, it is nowhere near pretty)

But without awareness there’s still that weak spot open to people dogging that Leo!: oh she’s so impractical, who does she think she is? And then because of this, whenever I DO get played, it’s by someone even just intimating that I’m not taking care of them well enough, (ie, ignoring the pride, letting the kingdom suffer, being ungenerous) which used to always work to get me to provide the complainer with a) resources b)protection c)entertainment d) warmth e) love.

(It is simply just easier to abundantly give these things out than it is to draw a messy, bloody, roaring line, which is the only way I REALLY can do that–beyond playing with/training the cubs, that aggression is fierce when it’s activated–and it’s rarely activated in defense (ie, not as an everyday drive & passion in my work, providing dinner).

I think Leo is loyal because the only way we will bother ourselves with drawing a line is if there’s a serious betrayal involved, is if it’s a big deal. (something we just CAN’T justify, explain, or give benefit of the doubt to) The only way to separate & not share our abundant resources rather carelessly as we do is via a big bloody mess. We’re loyal and generous & when it ends is when it’s a big deal. And then it looks like this: blood, claws, & you’re dinner.)

So now I wear my royal Leo purple panties and my big heart with pride and say: if you know that you are taking advantage of the cushy setup I have provided you with & are afraid of the deadly force of one little smack of my paw when I find out, or if you just don’t like the roar, go hang out with a Pisces. They won’t say no to you either.

I’m a leo stellium and don’t feel like a huge cat in public as much as privately. Most of my leonine characteristics pop out when I am drawing, creating, hanging out with my SO (lovin’ or arguin’), etc. Most of my friends are pisces/caps/virgos and they never remember that I am a leo. They think I am way to quiet and considerate. I do love being a leo, without it I would wilt…

I have the mane, the feline face and one ex-b’friend referred to me as ’scrappy’. I’m fit, not scrappy! Oh, that was bad!

And karmically there must be something going on…I was born on my mom’s b’day and my younger sis had a baby girl that was due on our b’day but was two days early…guessing she wanted her ‘own’ day. I wonder if sis has ‘issues’ with me and made another ‘mini me’ to work on them…

Best,