The Heart of a Lion

In the year­ly jour­ney around our star, we have fin­ished the first of the three acts that are shaped by the four ele­ments of life. We have tak­en the leap into Fire that is Aries, we have touched the Earth in Tau­rus, we have flown into the Air by Gem­i­ni, and we have plunged down into the Water that is Cancer.

It is by Fire that we find our inspi­ra­tions, and by Earth that we expe­ri­ence our man­i­fes­ta­tions, and by Air that we reach for our under­stand­ings, and by Water that we make our­selves whole. Now it is time for you to begin once again, to turn the page of life and lis­ten to the Fire that is the light of your soul.

For the past 30 days, you have fol­lowed your feel­ings, as you dipped your cup into the well of mem­o­ry and remem­brance, you felt the car­ing of the roots that made you, that hold you, and secure you, and which will ever point you towards your des­tiny in the stars. It is our com­mon fate and for­tune, for one and for all, to feel these con­nec­tions stretch­ing back to the begin­nings of cre­ation and down to this present day. For the Spir­it with­in us is like a rib­bon of light made by love, which we most per­son­al­ly expe­ri­ence in the care and love of moth­er and father, grand­fa­ther and grand­moth­er, of our sis­ters and broth­ers, held as we are in the love that made us and forms the chord of life to our ever­last­ing spark of the divine.

For the next 30 days, and for­ev­er and ever in your own nature too, you are inspired by the Spir­i­tu­al Fire of Leo that begins this sec­ond act of life. The Fire of Leo is of a fixed nature, it is pur­pose­ful, deter­mined and stead­fast. Here the Spir­i­tu­al Fire becomes focused and res­olute, shin­ing and affirm­ing the eter­nal val­ues that forged and form the Uni­verse. For humans, these eter­nal val­ues behind Cre­ation are revealed by your con­duct, when­ev­er you stride upon the stages of life, it will be by hon­or, in respect and through love for one another.

You hon­or your­self when you show con­sid­er­a­tion to your fel­low humans (and all oth­er life-forms too); you earn the respect you seek when you treat those before you as they are, just like you, a spark of the divine; and you feel the love that is your true nature when you love who­ev­er is before you as you are made to love, unconditionally.

For just as in your heart, and in the heart of our star, so it is true of every par­ti­cle and being of Cre­ation, at the cen­ter of one and of all, there is the spark of the Divine which is pure uncon­di­tion­al love. It is the foun­tain-source of the song that is Cre­ation, and so you must be what you are, you are a cre­ator too.

When you align your man­ner and pur­pos­es to your own spark of the divine, then the song of what­ev­er you cre­ate rings “true”, it feels authen­tic to you and is wel­comed by oth­ers who respect and hon­or the gift of your con­tri­bu­tion to the greater song that is life.

It is by Leo that you will strive to bring out the best from your­self; and it is by your exam­ple that you will inspire oth­ers, so that they will find with­in them­selves the courage to be their bet­ter selves too, to stretch beyond the ordi­nary and become a star among the stars, singing our songs of Creation.

This this is true mean­ing of lead­er­ship; it is not about direct­ing or order­ing anoth­er to do this or that, no that is not lead­er­ship, that is con­trol. Lead­er­ship is about being a light for one anoth­er, so that we encour­age one anoth­er to be bet­ter than we were before. We are here to inspire one anoth­er so that the light of the One beams from their eyes, and their love and laugh­ter and joy of being part of the mar­vel of becom­ing, it is this which makes real the des­tiny that we all will reach some­day, to become as we came from, to be a bright and shin­ing star.

We do not need, nor should we look for lead­ers who tell us what to do; we need only to look with­in our­selves and feel the light of love that is there, and then look to those who inspire us with the light of love with­in them too.

It is in Leo that we can see one anoth­er for who and what we real­ly are, to know the truth that is held in your heart which is Love of the One, which is the heart of the Lion.

Be fear­less, be respect­ful, be loving.

Be one with the Lion and let your heart soar.