Leo is a hot, dry, burning, fiery, choleric, feral, furious, bru-tish, barren, quadrupedian, strong, eastern, masculine, northern, diurnal, and violent sign, of long ascension. The house of the Sun. The native born under this sign is generally of a large body, broad shoulders, austere countenance, large eyes, dark yellow, or reddish hair, strong coarse voice, oval ruddy coun-tenance, of a high, resolute, unbending, ambitious temper, yet often generous, free, and courteous: the latter part of the sign is said to produce a weaker body, with lighter hair. It governs the heart and back; and its diseases are pains in the back and ribs, syncopes, fevers, convulsions, pestilence, small-pox, measles, jaundice, and inflammations. It denotes accidents by fire, explosions, and combustible materials, and is wholly barren. Its colours are red and green.

It rules over Italy, Bohemia, France, Sicily, Rome, Bristol, Bath, Taunton, and the west of England, Cremona, Prague, Syracuse, Ravenna, and Philadelphia. In horary Astrology, it is found to be a symbol of wild beasts, furious animals, woods, forests, dens, deserts, rocky inaccessible places, castles, forts, parks, king's palaces, ovens, fire places, manufactories where large fires are kept, glass houses, distilleries, chymical laboratories, powder mills, and fire places in domestic apartments. It is generally deemed by Astrologers, to be a fortunate sign.