Moon in Leo
Feeling is large, warm, and needs to be witnessed to feel real.
The Moon is the sign that matters most here
Ask a Western astrologer for your sign and they answer with the Sun. Ask an Indian astrologer and they answer with the Moon, because in jyotish the Moon carries the mind: how you take things in, how you settle, what you need to feel safe. It is also read in the sidereal zodiac rather than the seasonal one, and the two have drifted about 24 degrees apart.
The practical consequence is that roughly four people in five get a different Moon sign here than in a Western chart. If you were told your Moon was in Virgo, Leo is the sign directly before it, and this is the reading jyotish would actually use.
What a Leo Moon is like
A Sun-ruled Moon has emotional generosity and emotional pride in the same package. A Leo Moon gives warmth without accounting for it, and needs, more than it likes to admit, for that warmth to be seen and returned.
Your Moon is in Leo, which means your heart is warm, proud, and generous. You need to be genuinely seen by the people you love, and in return you make them feel golden.
How it settles, and how it strains
What settles it. Being genuinely appreciated by someone whose opinion it respects. Applause from the wrong person does nothing.
Where it strains. Wounded pride, which is difficult to distinguish from principle from the inside.
The birth stars inside Leo
A sign is 30 degrees, and a nakshatra is 13 degrees 20 minutes, so Leo holds 2 whole birth stars and shares the rest at its edges. Your nakshatra refines this reading considerably: two people with the Moon in Leo can be very unalike if their birth stars differ.
Sidereal positions use the Lahiri ayanamsa, the Indian government standard. The Moon crosses a sign in roughly two and a half days, so a date alone usually settles it, but a birth time removes any doubt.