The Lion

Strengths

• ✦Charisma and natural presence
• ✦Courage in the face of adversity
• ✦Generosity and loyalty toward the group
• ✦The ability to unite and inspire

Shadows

• ◦Pride that can blind
• ◦A sometimes excessive need for admiration
• ◦Difficulty accepting not being the center of attention

In love

You love out loud, with broad gestures, gifts and declarations that leave no room for doubt. You need the person you love to admire you, but above all to choose you — not for your mane, but for what beats beneath it. What frightens you is indifference: a partner who no longer looks at you wounds you far more than any argument.

At work

You naturally take the lead of a team, often before anyone has asked: your voice carries, your enthusiasm pulls people along, and they follow. You shine when you embody something — spokesperson, team leader, teacher, any role where your presence serves a project larger than yourself. What drains you is invisible work, the tasks where no one will ever see what you gave.

Taming its shadow

Your pride is not your enemy, it is your armour — the trouble is that it cuts you off from the feedback that would make you grow. Once a month, ask someone you respect to tell you one thing you do badly, and listen to the end without answering. Learn, too, to applaud someone else at the centre of the room: you will discover that your light does not dim when another one comes on.

When it calls you

The Lion calls you when you physically miss the sun, when you dream of crowds turning towards you, when a chance to speak in public shows up three times in the same week. He often comes when you have been fading into the background for too long, out of politeness or fear of taking up too much space. He asks you to step out and let yourself be seen — not to collect compliments, but because someone is waiting for you to set the example.