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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nPart of why I believe that Leo is such an old thing is because the Great Sphinx is, so far as I can tell, the oldest physical object on the planet. It’s so old that they were repairing it during the Old Kingdom. I’m in the camp founded by John Anthony West and Sarite Sanders that says the sphinx is a lot, lot older than any academic archeologists think, and as far as I’m concerned the sphinx is a testimony to Leonine energy. In the doctrine of signatures this includes the Sun, the element gold, the heart and the enduring quality of humanity’s drive to express the vital force.<\/p>\n
The Leo personality is more complex than it seems on the surface, moved by a mix of empathy (Cancer influence) and service (Virgo influence) that defy the pride and self-centeredness usually associated with this sign. On a good day, Leo is a mix of all three, which balance one another out. Everyone has Leo in their chart, and the placement of this sign within the wheel of the houses can be nearly as significant as the placement of the Sun. You can think of the sign Leo as being a ‘second Sun’. Leo is a zone in the chart where we get results, though these results may come from the toil and labor sometimes associated with this sign, or letting the natural abundance flow. The Sun’s rays burn out, and as with tarot trump XIX The Sun, you have to make sure that its rays don’t scorch what they would seek to nurture.<\/p>\n
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That said, we are a Sun-depleted culture. Depending on who you ask, 90% of people are vitamin D deficient, a nutrient that can only be synthesized by the skin when exposed to the Sun, or by supplementation. This lack of vitamin D is one of the most significant causes of both depression and immune system weakening; with healthy levels, we could wipe out a lot of both cardiovascular disease and cancer. We worry about skin cancer and slather ourselves with SPF 99, without realizing this cuts off our one and only source of natural vitamin D. Currently the levels known to work are about 12 times higher than the recommended daily allowance of 400 IUs. We really need about 5,000 units a day, which we would get from half an hour of good strong sunlight on bare skin.<\/p>\n
For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, the Sun’s course through this sign is the peak of summer. In two weeks we have the Midsummer holiday, sometimes known as Lammas. This is an agrarian holiday involving wheat, loaves of bread and sometimes called the Feast of Fruits. Leo is a fixed sign. The fixed signs are always at the peak of a season; for example, Taurus is the peak of spring and Aquarius the peak of winter.<\/p>\n
On Sunday afternoon the Moon enters Aquarius and about six hours later makes an opposition to the Sun; this is the Aquarius Full Moon. It’s an amazing event: the Sun and Moon make aspects to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto. The closest aspect is Sun trine Jupiter \/ Moon sextile Jupiter. This event will pour some fresh energy into the prevailing tired state of affairs on the planet, as we’ve just lived through eclipses and are in the midst of many outer planet sign changes that are compelling us to adapt, adapt, adapt.<\/p>\n
Till then, the Moon will be in Sagittarius and then in Capricorn. Today the Moon will pass through late Sagittarius and make a conjunction to the Galactic Core. That’s some big energy coming through — maybe a transmission of missing information. Listen up!<\/p>\n
Catch you later and — don’t miss the really amazing thread on Planet Waves readers’ experience of therapy, a few posts down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Later today the Sun ingresses Leo, the 5th sign. I believe that Leo is one of the oldest signs of the zodiac, that is, its mythological roots go the deepest. The myths involving the signs are the ones that far predate the Greek and Roman myths that run around as planets like so many new … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}