The day of the month on which the you were born – regardless of which month or year it is – is a key numerological indicator, providing an excellent “thumbnail sketch” of standout traits. It strongly influences your Life Path and is helpful in choosing your vocation, since it carries its greatest influence between approximately your 28th and 56th birthdays. This is one of the four most important numbers in a chart, the others being the Soul Urge, Expression and the Life Path. You may find that you vibrate to one or more of these numbers, i.e., feel a particular draw to them without consciously knowing why.

A birthday on the twenty-third day of the month indicates a sympathetic, sensitive, understanding person with a practical turn of mind. You have an uncanny ability to diagnose physical ailments and would therefore be well suited for a career in medicine (but not surgery, since the mission of this vibration is to build and heal instead of tear downand destroy). Your technical ability and practicality may give you an interest in law, chemistry or stocks, but you are simply too practical to succeed in art. Self-sufficient, popular and sociable, you do not suffer from an inferiority complex. You get a lot out of life because you make the best of any situation. You’re a good friend who is willing to take on many responsibilities.

You are inclined to work well with people and enjoy them. You are talented and versatile, very good at presenting ideas. You may have a tendency to get itchy feet at times and need change and travel. You tend to be very progressive, imaginative and adaptable. Your mind is quick, clever and analytical. A restlessness in your nature may make you a bit impatient and easily bored with routine. You may have a tendency to shirk responsibility. Very sociable, you make friends easily and you are an excellent traveling companion.

• Ruler: Sun | Element: Fire

• Spirit entering the realm of the individual person; ego development, setting yourself apart from the rest of the world, becoming your own person; self-expression, being true to your inner nature, acting from the heart; dawning awareness of self in relation to others.

• Ego, self-centered, arrogant; fixed, stubborn, persistant; artistic or creative expression as a vehicle for revealing “who I am”; needs to be a center of attention, requires acknowledgment and approval, likes to be noticed and appreciated (“ego-strokes”); personal integrity, true to self, honorable, trustworthy; kingly, self-assured, confident.

• The lion is the King of the Beasts, and Leo is King of the Zodiac. His royal presence demands respect, and he bestows generous largesse on all. Zodiac Lions are like the Sun itself, warm and radiant, ready to help great and small, and if your Sun is in Leo you will give without counting the cost…but you do like to be thanked. No-one is kinder than a Lion, but you can be badly hurt if people ignore or misunderstand you.

• If Leo is your Rising Sign, you’re naturally cheerful, and walk out onto the world’s stage with a smile on your face. People are drawn to you, heads turn, and …let’s be honest… you love it! You’re neither proud nor pushy, but sometmes people see you like that, and that can make you feel very lonely, yet not for long, for you soon bounce back and are your old cheerful self. Naturally romantic, you love to have a mate who is as loyal to you as you are to him or her.