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A small closed loop at the foot from which a long curve sweeps up and over to the right, ending in a hook, the zodiac sign for births between 23 July to 22 August.
Also known as: Leo star sign, Leo, Leo zodiac sign
Leo is the zodiac sign traditionally assigned to births between 23 July to 22 August. Astrology classes it as a fire sign of fixed quality ruled by the Sun, and reads the glyph as a lion's mane and tail. The sign no longer lines up with the constellation it is named after.
The astrological sign Leo, which tradition assigns to births between 23 July to 22 August. The dates shift by a day either way from year to year, because they track the Sun's position rather than the calendar.
Encoded at U+264C in the Unicode Miscellaneous Symbols block, alongside the other eleven signs.
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Classified in astrological tradition as a fire sign of fixed quality, ruled by the Sun.
A classification within astrology, recorded here as what the tradition holds. Symbolwise makes no claim that it describes or predicts anything about a person.
The glyph is conventionally read as a lion's mane and tail.
The sign and the constellation of the same name no longer coincide. Precession of the equinoxes has shifted them roughly one sign apart since the scheme was fixed around two thousand years ago, and the Sun's actual path crosses a thirteenth constellation, Ophiuchus, that the twelve-sign zodiac does not use.
A small closed loop at the foot from which a long curve sweeps up and over to the right, ending in a hook.
Astrological tradition assigns the Sun as this sign's ruling planet.
Both belong to the twelve signs of the tropical zodiac.