Esoteric Astrology as news for week August 5 – 11, 2026
Leo – Noble, Regal, Creative, Bright Like the Sun
The sign of Leo represents the fiery life-giving Sun. Leos, like the shining Sun they represent, often become the dramatic center of everyone’s universe. Leo calls us to discover our creativity, expressing it with imagination, inspiration and
originality. This is our task during Leo. We know ourselves more deeply by what we create. “I am what I create,” we say to ourselves proudly. We want the world to see and recognize this too. That recognition helps us unfold.
Leo is the sign of friendship and fun, of children, games and creative self-identity. The heart, center of our life-force, is overseen by Leo. The heart is where all energy flows and the life-force (blood) emanates. At birth, the radiant Life Thread from Shamballa flows through the head and into the heart of the newborn.
Leo (fixed fire) is courageous, the lord of the jungle and Hercules’ Fifth Labor. Like a flame, Leo burnsbright for a while. Later their fire burns low, an ebb and flow of life energy
In the Old Testament Leo is the Lion of the tribe of Judah. In the New Testament, the Christians were thrown to the lions (symbol of Roman pagan power). The fish (Pisces faith) later subdued and caged the lions (aggressive Roman empire). The lion appears presently on the arms (logo) of many royal houses. Richard the Lionhearted re-captured the Holy Land.
It’s written the Sun rose in Leo at the world’s creation. Egyptians worshiped the Leo Sun when Sirius, blue star of Initiation, appeared in the sky and the Nile rose. Egyptian temples were decorated with lions and cats. In China, the Leo constellation is the Yellow Dragon, the royal star Regulus. The Buddha loved the lion and often rested on his right side like the lion.
In the esoteric blue book, “Labors of Hercules” (A.A. Bailey), Hercules encounters the Nemean Lion, divine and from the moon (humanity’s past passions to be left behind). Hercules’s Fifth Labor was (is) to destroy the past (the fierce, wild, uncontrolled lion of the personality) and to keep the lion’s hide (spiritual protection) as armor (used for the remaining seven labors, Virgo to Pisces).
The lion and Hercules, now stars in the heavens, signify humanity’s different tasks and stages of awareness. Everyone has Leo in their astrology charts. All hearts and minds of all of humanity are (created) equal. Everyone is noble, everyone is royal, every human life is creative, whole and sacred.
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