Leo on the inside, Virgo on the way in.
Your sun in Leo (fire, fixed) is the engine — what burns at the centre, what holds when you are at home in yourself. Your Virgo rising (earth, mutable, ruled by Mercury) is the door — the way you arrive in a room, the first read the world takes of you, the body you walk in.
Strangers tend to assume you are steady and grounded — that is the Virgo arriving first. Then they get to know you and discover the Leo fire underneath, which can be a layered second read — they have to update their first impression.
Reads as Virgo until you trust them; then Leo comes through. The fixed-mutable mix means you holds on the inside while adapts on the outside — internal and external rhythms are different, which is its own work.