Okay, astro snapshot time:

Moon in Leo: Most likely, your mother was a proud woman and you drew in pride through her milk. Pride can manifest in various ways, from the subtle to the obvious, but your earliest emotional programming taught you that you are someone special and that you deserve to be paid attention to and, yes, deferred to. Naturally warm, generous, and fun-loving, you may find it hard to express or even to acknowledge feelings that are ignoble or unworthy: things like neediness, shame, fear, or envy. Those are for lesser people—ordinary people. You love applause and you expect to be in charge.

Scorpio Ascendant: You grew up in an environment that you did not experience to be safe, and learned early to watch your own back. The people responsible for your well-being—like your own mother—let you down or betrayed you, giving you serious difficulties around the issue of trust. You learned how to read people without letting them read you, learned how to press their buttons or twist their knobs to get them to act the way you needed them to act. You probably keep a poker face and rarely smile. You’re conflicted inside because you want relationships that are close, intimate, and caring, but you can’t help keeping people at arm’s length, not letting them into your world.

Sun in Capricorn: Your mission in life will be related to the Capricorn themes of ambition, social ascendancy, and managing sometimes limited resources. Your view of the world may have been shaped by early experiences of lack, including the experience of your own father, who may have been distant, unavailable, a task master, or a disappointment to you. These things may have embittered you, but they have also made you resourceful and given you staying power. With your Scorpio Ascendant, you are probably a very effective and even formidable person who achieves his or her goals. With your sunshiny Moon in Leo, people mostly don’t realize what a tough customer you are.