A conquering generosity: self-confidence, a taste for travel, and a conviction that carries others along.
Leo’s fire finds its horizon in Jupiter: a confidence that expands, teaches, and takes others further.
Making others want to think bigger, through example and good humor.
Promising more than can be delivered, and lecturing people who asked for no advice.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
Members of the same fire family, Leo and Sagittarius answer each other through a trine, the aspect reputed to be the smoothest.
Leo is fixed, Sagittarius mutable: one shines at the center, the other roams the roads. Jupiter holds the east; the Sun, the center. At first contact, you meet an enthusiastic person, who laughs loudly, talks about their latest trip, and is already inviting you on the next expedition.
With the Sun in the 9th house, the one the Greeks called “God,” the search for meaning takes up a lot of room. This combination likes to learn, to teach, to understand other cultures: a stay in Japan, a late master’s degree, a lecture hosted with passion. They have convictions and defend them warmly, often with talent.
Doubled fire has its excesses, though, visible above all in moments of euphoria. Enthusiasm makes you sign too fast, pride then forbids backing out; you commit to three projects at once, you improvise a speech instead of preparing it. The person may also judge those who do not share their ideas. Gemini on the descendant would suggest another school: curious partners, who ask questions and remind them that the truth has several versions.
As a couple, this combination dreams of expeditions: a weekend in Lisbon, a hike in Scotland, a conversation about the meaning of existence until dawn.
Freedom and admiration are both necessary to it. Gemini on the descendant would attract quick, chatty, sometimes fickle partners, who keep the relationship light. Accepting being contradicted, and laughing at its own certainties, would make this couple a true duo of explorers.
Teaching, publishing, tourism, law, international trade, training, the stage: the career paths are many, as long as they widen the horizon.
It knows how to motivate an audience and give an overall vision. Details bore it. A rigorous partner, in charge of following up files, would help it keep its big promises without running out of breath. Overly structured jobs, with no prospect of travel or teaching, would make it flee quickly.
Their days look like preparations for departure: maps, guidebooks, suitcases never quite unpacked, friends from far away who are gladly put up.
The person likes big tables and passionate discussions. They spend easily on a new experience. Keeping a small reserve of money and time for the unexpected would spare them tight months at the end of the month, and a few untenable promises made over dessert.
The great benefic, ruler of the Centaur, would receive no title of its own in Leo; it would nonetheless move there within its triplicity, which was considered a support.
The royal star reigns over its own lands. Dorotheus of Sidon, moreover, assigned the fire triplicity to the Sun for daytime births, to Jupiter for nighttime ones.
Sagittarius rises in the early afternoon, when the August Sun has passed the meridian. In whole signs, it occupies the 9th house, the one the Greeks called “God” and where the Sun had its joy: travel, wisdom, beliefs, studies.
The Sun sign depends on the day of birth; the rising sign, on the time and place.
Sagittarius takes about 2 hr 28 min to rise in Paris: with the Sun in Leo, the rising sign is Sagittarius for a birth during that rise.
A fire sign, fixed, ruled by Sun.
The Leo signA fire sign, mutable; descendant in Gemini.
Sagittarius risingJupiter rules Sagittarius: its place in the chart (sign, house) colors the rising sign.
The page of Jupiter| Sun in Leo | Sagittarius rising | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| July 24Start of the sign | 5:11 PM to 6:00 PM and 6:00 PM to 7:39 PM | 48 min + 1 hr 40 min |
| August 7Middle of the sign | 4:16 PM to 6:00 PM and 6:00 PM to 6:44 PM | 1 hr 43 min + 45 min |
| August 21End of the sign | 3:21 PM to 5:49 PM | 2 hr 28 min |
Legal time in Paris; elsewhere, latitude and longitude shift these times. The rising sign calculator takes them into account.
It is its most visible trait. The trine between two fire signs, with Jupiter added as chart ruler, feeds a contagious confidence and enthusiasm. The person thinks big and brings their circle along. The downside would be a tendency to underestimate obstacles, then take offense when they appear.
Greek tradition placed the Sun’s joy in the 9th house. With Sagittarius on the horizon, the Sun in Leo sits there in whole signs: it would be at home by sign and happy by house at once. The authors would see a life turned toward knowledge, travel, and teaching.
Jupiter, ruler of Sagittarius. Conjunct the Sun in Leo, it would give a flamboyant bearing; exalted in Cancer, a fatherly kindness; in Virgo, an unexpected practical sense. Its sector would reveal the area where the person wants to learn and then teach; its aspects to the Sun, the ease or the effort of this transmission.