09/09/2026
Do you think Mamdani or Trump are expressing the higher or lower energies of their souls?
At the lower expression, Leo Rising can look like:
• “I am the center.”
• A need for recognition, admiration, or loyalty.
• Leadership that concentrates power around the individual.
• Strong identification with being the leader.
• Personal charisma used to strengthen personal influence.
• The group becoming an extension of the individual.
• Pride, self-importance, or difficulty relinquishing control.
But the higher expression of Leo doesn’t require becoming smaller or less powerful.
It changes what that power is FOR.
At the higher expression, Leo Rising can look like:
• “I am a center of light.”
• Visibility accepted as a responsibility rather than sought for validation.
• Leadership that develops other leaders.
• Individual strength placed in service to something greater than the individual.
• Charisma used to awaken, encourage, and mobilize others.
• Power distributed in ways that strengthen the group.
• A strong, self-aware individual who no longer needs everything to revolve around the personal self.
The movement is subtle but profound:
From wanting the group to recognize the individual → to using the individual to strengthen the group.
From “follow me” → to “let us do the work.”
From being the center → to becoming a conscious center within the whole.
This is one of the fundamental ideas behind esoteric astrology: the same astrological energy can look radically different depending upon the consciousness expressing it.
So when you see Leo strongly emphasized in someone’s chart, especially in a leader, don’t only ask whether they are charismatic, confident, visible, or powerful.
Ask: What is their power serving?