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CYCLES OF THE HEAVENSAUGUST - LEO
The Sun enters the sign of The Lion on the 22nd July and the mythic nature of the heavenly landscape shifts from the imaginative, nurturing, watery terrain of the Crab ruled by Luna, the Lady of the Night, into the bright realm of Sol, the Divine King, Lord of Light and Summer. The imaginal tone now becomes one of power, stability and kingship, as the focussed power and light of fixed fire radiates out across the land. The energy of fire is the creative energy of life, which in Leo confers a vitality and warmth, as Leo enriches life with the power, illumination and light of the Sun. Fire, whose light brings insight and vision, is naturally attuned to the realm of archetypes and symbols and looks to the spiritual heights both without and within to discover pattern and meaning, in order to infuse life with insight and understanding. It is this perception which bestows an openheartedness and a generosity of spirit in this sign. This is the time of the sustained strength of the sun’s power and light which generates a warm languorous mood in the summer landscape and which swells the crops and sweetens the fruits for the first harvest at Lammas tide. Here we expand both our hearts and our visions as we stretch out on a warm summer’s day replenishing our spirit in the summer’s light.
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