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ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY AS NEWSEsoteric Astrology as news for week July 31 – August 6, 2024
Lionhearted Leo Sun, Mercury Retrogrades
Leo is the sign of fun and friendship, of children, games and creative self-identity. Leo’s hair is a mane rising up from a regal high forehead. The lion appears on the arms (logo) of many royal houses. Richard the Lionhearted re-captured the Holy Land. The heart, center of our life force, is overseen by Leo. The heart is where all energy flows and the life-force (blood) emanates. Leo’s opposite is Aquarius, the circulatory system.
Leo is courageous, the lord of the jungle. Leo, the fifth sign, fifth gate and fifth labor, is fixed fire. Like a flame, Leo burns bright. Later their fire burns low, and there is 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 power). The fish (Pisces) later caged and subdued the lions. It’s written the Sun rose in Leo at the world’s creation. Egyptians worshiped the Leo Sun. Sirius, blue star of Initiation, appeared in the sky and the waters of the Nile rose under Leo. Egyptian temples were decorated with the lion. In China, the Leo constellation is the Yellow Dragon with the royal star Regulus. The Buddha loved the lion and often rested on his right side like the lion.
In the esoteric book “Labors of Hercules,” we read of the Nemean Lion, a divine creature as well as from the moon (humanity’s past). When the Sun enters Leo, Hercules embarks on his Leo or Fifth Labor – to destroy the wild parts of the personality (the lion) and to wear the lion’s hide (spiritual protection) as armor (used for the remaining seven Labors).
The lion and Hercules, now stars (ninety-five) in the heavens, signify the personality learning how to submit, adapt to and be directed by the Soul. Under Leo it is good to remember everyone has Leo in their astrology charts. Everyone is noble, everyone is royal, every human life creative, whole and sacred.
Note: Mercury retrogrades Sunday, August 4, 2024 at 4 degrees Virgo. Mercury will re-enter Leo, moving back to 22 Leo, where it stations direct on August 28th. Where are those degrees of Mercury retrograde in everyone’s chart?
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