Glad to help. It's not difficult though, you can do it yourself, I'm positive. Take it a bit further and notice the Sun is in the 8th, the house of Scorpio thus ruled by same Mars, while Mars is in the Jupiter's house, natural Saggitarius (optimistic and quite adventurous, to me complements the Leo Sun) and there is a story, I don't think this square is bad actually... There is kind of exchange going on, I think you can use it to your advantage (of course, not knowing the rest I'm just gambling here). The Leo Sun will be coloured by the 8th house (Scorpio) and carry some of the deeper, more secretive, more careful traits of the Scorpio, may bring you some luck with other people's resoursec (Leo is generally lucky in gambling and such and creative ways while Scorpio rules the others' resources) while Scorpio Mars in the house of your broader connections will make you more suspicious as not to jump into anything just like that but when you do YOU'LL DO WITH PASSION AND DEVOTION AND should succeed as Sag will bring chances for expansion, possibly abroad, possibly through luck, possibly through foreigners or academic or spiritual people... Kind of like that.
Yes. And I have Sag rising which all adds in. Definitely expect the best as long as I've planned for the worst (like the best military commanders y'know) and I've had to overcome a tendency to reply "Fine, could be a lot worse!" when asked how things are even if they actually couldn't be much worse at all.
I think what you say about the more careful traits matches my lifelong wish for appreciation (of whateever my natural brilliance is
) without being seen to seek it. Also this thing that makes me strongly aware if anything I say sounds like showing off or like me-me-me. Yes? That may be a bit down to the self-deprecating Brit in me, too.
And yes, when I decide what to do with myself, I do it with deep commitment and passion and stubborn tenacity.
Can't say I've ever been lucky with gambling, in fact when I used to game (in my youth, roleplaying such as AD&D etc) they knew to take the dice off me when it mattered, I was famous for rolling a 1 when I needed a 6! A lot of things tell me I'm supposed to be lucky with others' resources, inheritance, etc, and none of it fits my life at all so far, still looking for the hidden clue somewhere in there. The times I have thought that kind of luck had arrived, inheritance for example, events showed it to be not the great timing I initially thought but the very opposite.
I love travel, and being around foreigners or anyone who's had out-of-the-ordinary experiences, all that goes with Saggy. Perhaps with a Leo love of drama too. Once I learnt the strength of Scorpio in my chart, it made sense of the way I relate to life and to people, unpicking clues, getting deep into what has hurt them, or deep into a subject in a not necessarily fact-bound way.
This last year I've thought a lot about my Saturn in Aries and have felt that I now can, and enjoy, and am good at, Aries behaviour: taking action and decisions, making things happen, leadership. The fact this is comfortable now and is the very opposite of who I always used to be when young (I'm 46) seems to correspond with Saturn's nature, the age thing.
My Uranus half-return was pretty extreme, I lost my health suddenly aged 38 and have just recovered independence (only just) this year. All sorts of revelations and insights in these 7 years.
I got into astrology in the spirit of let's not call it a load of tosh without first testing it to destruction. I've only been seriously looking at it for a number of months but it is proving itself more n more correct, not tosh.
Just gets better and better. Great to have your kind of as-it's-needed advice, there's lots to read but it's easier (as it is with learning computers, or any skill really) to wander around the subject and have someone who knows better on hand as the questions crop up.
