Moon in Leo

Alan Leo 1899 splits the chart between two lights, with the Sun as life and the Moon as form, and he says the Moon governs the personal and physical characteristics. A Moon in Leo thus puts the Sun's own sign in the Moon's seat of expression. That is a small paradox within his scheme, the form side dressed in the colors of the life side.

Ptolemy (Ashmand's 1822 translation) counts Leo among the fixed signs, whose effect on the mind he lists as constant, firm and strict, with a liking for honor. Read through his rule that the Moon governs feeling, the firmness would attach to emotional habits. Lilly 1659 names no dignity for the Moon here.

Raphael's Guide of 1877, matched here by list position because its planet symbols are damaged, gives a tall, well-made figure with large bones, aspiring and lofty and ambitious and persevering. Modern astrology supplies the rest, commonly a warm wish to be noticed.