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Sun in Leo

You walk the path of the romantic performer as the urge to shine and harness creative vision is expressed through the archetype of the ruler, entertainer, and magical child.  The shape of your noble charisma and admirable influence is defined by your ability to harness your theatrical essence, utilize your confident vitality, sustain your charismatic identity, empower your generous consciousness, and nurture your affectionate energy.  It is through the archetype of the brave knight/lady that you realize your creative potential and core identity, impressing others with your regal bearing.  The element of fire is your spiritual fuel motivating you to command the stage with your courageous, warm presence.  The Sun is dignified in Leo as it governs this sign.  So naturally you feel empowered to live a special destiny as a troubadour of humor and high drama.  The people await your natural talent if you have the courage to develop it and express it.  The experience of joy through playful entertainment, sensational drama, and radiant spontaneity is what your life force burns for. 

You can recharge you vitality through creativity, recreation, and romance.  Colorful rainbows span the distances of your domain.  You are the minstrel who performs songs in strange taverns to remind the people of what is pure and truthful.  In your song and poetry the legends of history remain alive full of engaging characters and daring plots.  You are the wise, generous monarch who protects her realm with might and power.  Yet your love of the people seeps throughout the vales and passes of your kingdom.  Your vision reaches across the seas where you encourage your vessels to explore and trade.  After the domestic sensitivity of Cancer, the preceding sign, Leo emerges to ignite the sacred flame of creative deeds.  The leadership and morale of nations depends on this fiery archetype.

            Wholeness emerges in your life when you integrate the opposite sign of Aquarius into your dramatic nature.  The expressive ruler who governs by divine right must become the visionary humanitarian who sees that all beings are worthy of life.  Only then can creative individuality be honored in the world, opening the space for true community and possibility.  The spiritual principle of Leo is creativity.  It is through our human creativity that we know the full extent of eternal being’s gift of life.  If we argue for limitations we have to live with them, but if we argue for our possibilities we get to create them.  For the Leo Sun person, that realization is worth the weight of worlds in gold.  The ancient traditions say the world is waiting breathlessly for the children of divinity to claim their birthright as men and women of the cosmos.  People like you Leo must lead the way to that omega point in the tapestry of time unfolding. 

The Sun takes on extra significance in your chart because it governs the sign of Leo.  Examine its house position and aspects with double the normal amount of attention because they deserve it.  Anything tied into a Leo Sun takes on grand dimensions.  The Sun’s symbol represents the unique point of individual consciousness surrounded and nurtured by the circle of spirit.  Leo is the highest example of this symbolism.  You were born to shine by using your gifts in the field of life experience that holds the Sun.  The aspects to your Sun are vital to your creativity, spiritual recharge, and self-actualization.  They will add their unique dimensions to the field of your charisma if you can get in touch with their meaning.  Your purpose involves becoming a source of creative encouragement, generosity, and dramatic enactment, for your sign makes life worth living.  To whom many gifts are given, more is expected.  Ultimately, Leo is about giving love to the world through awakening your inner child, cultivating hobbies that express your soul, and mining your artistic talents.  To do all this, you must cultivate enduring faith in the images that reside in your heart.     

When you become aware of your shadow you can transmute it into light, turning weaknesses into strength.  The shadow of Leo includes childishness, self-centeredness, power-hunger, domination, narcissism, tyranny, and arrogance.  The list goes deeper.  It all adds up to excessive pride.  The humble monarch is the greatest of all.  Learn to see yourself as a servant of those who you would entertain and govern.  With the love and joy of the Sun as your guide you are called to claim your nobility and courage.  Go forth and invoke the creative power of humanity.
 

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