Leo & the Scorpio Boss

Vibrant 

During your interview, Scorpio wasn't fooled by your act, Leo. He knew you were on and that he was your audience. He was impressed with your vivaciousness, buoyant personality, pas-sion and obvious talent. He was also surprised 

and delighted that you already had a million ideas about how you could help the company expand not only nationally, but also interna-tionally. He liked that you think big. So he hired you on the spot. 

Now, Leo, can you live up to the promise of your sign? 

Using Your Strengths 

Flair. Generosity. Courage. Creativity. Tenacity. Those words are some that are used to describe your personality. All are true, and some are truer than others. Figure out how you can draw on all your personal resources with this job, this career path, and then charge ahead. Your muse is primed and ready! 

Maybe you're the costume designer for a small theater company that Scorpio started several years ago. You've got six months to prepare four costumes for the next play. What happens for you creatively between now and then? Your passion and excitement ratchet upward, and you throw yourself into your work with twelve-hour days, endless sketches, bolts of fabric and patterns. Your muse is so caught up in the work that the weeks and months fly by. And in the end, your tenacity pays off big time. The costumes—and the play—are a huge success. 

When you're engaged creatively, the process is the flair, is the drama. And Scorpio and your audience are applauding. 

Stand Up for What You Believe 

As a fixed fire sign, you probably don't have any problem standing up for what you believe. But if you're standing up to a Scorpio boss with a piercing gaze that seems to peer down inside your soul, your thoughts immediately zips to possible unemployment. You play a mind game with yourself 

If I tell him no, he might fire me. If I tell him no and explain why, he might still fire me. 

If I lose my job, be broke in a month. Forget it. Not worth it. 

Then you toss and turn most of the night, berating yourself for your cowardice and your lack of backbone, knowing you'll be miserable if you have to do whatever this is about. But be-cause you're as stubborn as Scorpio and feel so strongly about this, you go into work the next morning and ask your boss if you can speak to him privately. 

You lay out your objections and/or beliefs about this and do it with all your usual passion and flair and are so convincing that Scorpio replies, "Let me think about it." 

Whether you win or not is irrelevant. The point is that you stood up for what you believed. 

Set Goals 

Since Leos often suffer great insecurities—which is why you (ego) so often crave an au-dience and applause—your first and primary goal is to love and approve of yourself so that other people's opinions cease to matter. "No matter what the problem, the main issue to work on is LOVNG THE SELF," wrote medical intuitive and author Louise Hay. "This is the 'magic wand' that dissolves problems. Part of self-acceptance is releasing other people's opinions." 

If you can achieve this, Leo, then everything else—including the professional goals you set —will take care of itself.