"So im stable in personal life and career/ but flaky in relationships."
This is probably due a lot to the Uranus/pluto in 7th. Difficult combination to handle until you mature later in life.
"People with charts that have strong Leo factors born during that period are going to seem more intense, more dominating, more resentful, vengeful, etc, because of Pluto's placement"
Would you describe yourself as dominating, resentful, vengeful?
Elena,
I am often perceived by other people--especially people born with Pluto in Leo--as extremely intense and transformative. I have been accused of holding grudges, but I don't act on them and have never behaved vengefully. But I find that people born considerably after I was don't see me that way--just people whose Plutos are in Leo. Younger people have always been very attracted to me. My life partner is 18 years younger and we have been together for decades. His Pluto being well into Virgo, doesn't get triggered by my Leo sun the way so many Boomers' Plutos do.
So I do think some of the bad rap Leos get comes from experiences with Boomer Leos which has colored a lot of writing about them during the period when Boomers were in the cultural ascendancy.
With Pluto somewhere else in the chart I'd expect Leos to be childlike, playful, and self-obsessed in the way kids are, without that tinge of "and they drive me crazy" you often hear when people describe Leos they know.
I think there is something to that theory.
Leos that were born in the Baby Boomer era often have Sun conjunct Pluto in Leo. And so their Leo like solar qualities are tinged with that Plutonian intensity and obsessiveness that just pure Leo does not always have.
We've just visited a dear friend, a woman in her late 70s, with sun conjunct Pluto. She is just a power house of strength-- which she uses wisely through her many civic responsibilities. She's been appointed to several boards in her county and community; and is still working in her life-saving job at her community hospital.
It just pains me when people revert to pop-schlock sun-sign astrology; usually in a negative way.
Obviously, you're excluding me with my Leo ascendent !!
I can honestly say that with every single leo I have met I have not liked any of their qualities. The attention seeking behaviour that they ALL have is enough to make me vomit. And the fact they get upset if they don't get that attention leaves me feeling the same. So in fact I can stereotype.
That you feel such strong emotion when exposed to that particular energy suggests to me that their freedom to behave the way they do strikes a wounded place in your psyche. Is it that you rigidly forbid yourself to ask for what YOU need and hence resent seeing people who are able to do that? Is it that you have suppressed the childlike uninhibited side of your nature that isn't afraid to show emotion when unhappy and thus feel the need to suppress that kind of display in others?
You will grow much faster into the most powerful person you can be when you begin to realize that what you respond to the most negatively in others is often something you can't deal with in yourself.
Like eg: my husband has two Leo friends. One leo friend arranged a birthday dinner. The other leo, who was sick with bronchitis and sinus infection decided to make his birthday on the same night, just to get his friends to choose who they liked more.