Positions
Descendant in Leo
Modern
With Leo on your Descendant you are drawn to partners who are confident, warm, and full of heart, the ones who can take center stage and shine. You look across at someone with a strong, generous presence, often because that bold self-expression is the very flame you keep banked in yourself. The shadow is needing a partner to supply the confidence you doubt, choosing the dramatic or the domineering, or projecting your own pride, until you let your own light burn beside theirs.
Traditional (Hellenistic)
With Leo on the seventh cusp the partner is signified by the Sun, sole lord of the sign, and shows as a warm, generous, and dignified figure who wishes to shine and to be admired. The native is drawn to a mate of presence and heart, often one of high spirit or standing, and the union flourishes when the Sun is strong and turns vain or domineering when it is afflicted. The open enemy too is proud and not easily humbled, so read the lord of the seventh for both.
- leo
- descendant
- radiant partner
Sources
- Lilly, Christian Astrology (1647), p. 300Reads the seventh for marriage and open foes; a solar cusp gives a proud, generous, conspicuous partner.
- Valens, Anthologies, Book IIAssigns marriage to the seventh place and judges the partner's dignity by the ruler, here the regal Sun.
- Sasportas, The Twelve Houses (1985)Reads the seventh as the sought partner; a Leo cusp looks for warmth, recognition, and a vivid, creative other.