: leo - your year in the stars :
Your astrological year, from your birthday in 2008 through to your birthday in 2009, promises to be an eventful one, during which you can address and reconcile some of those issues that have proven so problematic recently. Events impact mainly in two areas, affecting firstly the regular running and routine machinations of your everyday life with your working day strongly emphasised. Here you can expect the changes that took place during early 2008 to continue, while secondly, your relationships with other people, both on a personal and a professional level are also in the spotlight. How strongly others feature is the most important thing to remember about the coming twelve months.

Although Saturn’s passage through Virgo shows a growth process during which you’re coming to terms with what really matters to you and focussing your attention on this, the majority of the slower moving outer planets congregate around the western half of your horoscope and mean you ignore the input and influence of other people at your peril, because they will be of primary importance in your development too. This will always prove challenging, highlighting as it does one of your main dilemmas. Your sign rules the heart itself and so you’re chivalrous, generous, magnanimous and on a good day truly noble both in thought and deed, just like it tells you in the astrology textbooks.
But you’re a fire sign and you’re competitive as well, you want to succeed, to shine among your contemporaries and to be a person of note, repute and renown. In short, you want to be a winner and in any situation where this is true, there are bound to be other people who turn out to be the losers too. It’s important always to realise then, that just as it’s great to be gracious in defeat, being worthy of victory is an equally admirable trait. Remember over the past few years, some of your biggest issues have been caused by people who one way or another you seem to have offended or upset. This could be professionally or personally, while the most damaging scenarios have involved an element of both. Others have then responded in ways you weren’t expecting and to be honest, this often has hurt you very deeply, since there were you thinking the situation was one way, when in fact it turned out totally differently. Still the keyword is response and ensuring you don’t see a repeat is how you’ll get the best from this situation now. Not everybody is as competitive as you and some even value the sensitivities of others more than a purely personal advancement alone…

You can still get ahead because that’s how you are, and being stuck in some kind of menial role is a disservice both to you and to the universe. But help those who have assisted you, make them a part of your success and let them shine in their own ways, without feeling your ultimate triumph can only be complete when the opposition lies broken and bleeding on the floor, because this is what will separate a transitory glory from real greatness in the end. The chance exists for you to heal a number of wounds you’ve suffered as a consequence of your close connections and also have inflicted on other people no matter how unintentionally. This might dent your pride a little, since saying sorry really is one of the hardest things for you to do, but will see you better in the longer term through a stronger network bursting with renewed support.
: leo - july 2008/july 2009 :
Handled correctly, you public reputation skyrockets especially from January onwards, while you’ll find the more open, receptive, selfless and compassionate you can be, the better this reflects on you and ultimately furthers your own progress. At the same time with a little effort on your part your more personal relationships improve enormously as well, or move along tremendously if they’re good already. Partnerships and business collaborations are favoured and even your competitors seem less formidable than usual. All in all, the more you involve others, the better things go, especially with people from different backgrounds, of different ages, nationalities, races and religious belief.

Meanwhile change is on the way and while 2008 sees certain influences on your side, 2009 throws you to the wider world, especially at work though not necessarily in any bad way. You need to know what’s right for you and so long as you do this, things should go very well. Money is a factor and any measures aimed at reducing your expenditure are recommended. Involve others where you can but don’t depend on them, life means give and take so for things to work at their best, people need at least as much back from you as you are gaining from them.
 © Paul Wade 2008 leo - your character
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