Mars is slowing down, standing still for the next six weeks right in the middle of Leo, so if you're born around the 8^th to the 12^th August or for that matter the 4^th to the 8^th of February, expect the pace of life to be faster, more dynamic, more impulsive, potentially clumsy and accident prone as well as having more assertive, energetic and projective ability.  There can be an almost childlike enthusiasm coupled with a desire for achievement that could easily go over the top if you're not careful.  With most of the active day by day planets in the heavens in Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius, there is a fixed quality about these few days that on the positive side can be seen as durable, persistent, reliable, steady and thorough.  Alternatively, stubborn, cantankerous, immovable, resistance to change and sheer bloody mindedness can also be evident.  A day for perseverance, and keeping your head relatively low.