It's Always Leo Season

I’ve always enjoyed learning stuff about zodiac signs and how they apparently impact our lives. But I don’t know that I ever so much thought of it impacting mine, until I walked into a little coffee shop on Newbury Street, Boston. The door swung open and the little bell on the handle chimed a merry tune.

“Hi, how are you?” I said as I walked in.

“Oh my god you MUST be a Leo!” The girl behind the counter exclaimed, kind of half bouncing.

“Oh, yeah, I am. August 18th.” I responded pretty surprised. “How did you know?”

“You just carry yourself with the type of confidence only a Leo could have!” She laughed. “You mean cockiness?” I joked back, knowing the particular stereotype of Leos that wasn’t, in my case, too far off.

This was a few years ago now and since then I have experienced similar occurrences multiple times. Maybe it’s the fact that I have thick, curly, red hair, similar to a main I suppose. Or maybe it really is an outward confidence that I show the world. I will also be the first to admit that I can definitely be cocky and self-centered. Though at the end of the day I would give anything for those I care about. Which I have learned is quite lion-like. My sign makes sense, it suits me, or maybe I suit it.

Nowadays I pay attention to what people say about me. Little things like “ya just had to be the center of attention didn’t ya?” When referring to my childhood photos of a particularly precocious little girl giving a stellar performance of a play I likely came up with on my own. Or the time that when my little school troop put on a comedic version of Shakespeare's Macbeth, I was Macbeth. Not for a lack of young boys to play the part, but rather a lack of them wanting to argue with me in being the star.

I laugh a lot at these things now, as does anyone that knows me. The Leo energy clearly exuded itself at a young age for me. I used to get annoyed at other kids birthday parties because I wasn’t the main character. I wish I could find those pictures now. But feel free to visualize a bunch of little children gathered around the cake excitedly and myself, standing around with a look of disdain that no logical 7 year old should have. Ridiculous honestly.

People say that everyone notices me in a room. Though I give that largely to the fact that I’m a 5’10 redhead who regularly wears heels. People naturally notice the giant with the obnoxious laugh. I don’t think that all of my attributes fall to where the stars were when I was born. But I do think that some of them may have dropped a bit of magic in there.

Whether the stars aligned to influence who I am today or if I’ve somehow followed a predetermined path of lion-like leadership. I can’t disagree that I don’t share a lot of the traits of your typical Leo.

I will argue that Leo Season is the best season. It’s the middle of summer, everyone is happy. All of the other Leos seem to shine a little brighter and everyone jokes about how obnoxious it is. But how fun to have something of such a wild nature to relate to! A great honor to be associated with lions and their pride and protectiveness. Even if they are cocky or overbearing at times. They perhaps deserve to be, being King of the Jungle and all.

What an absolute Leo thing to say.