- Greco-Roman Zodiac: Leo; fixed, fire, ruler
- Zodiacal Associations: animal, Lion (Leo); stone, Sardonyx or Peridot
- Roman Zodiacal associations:
- animal is lion; plant, Sunflower; gem, Cats Eye; color, Yellow; symbol, Lion
- Amerindian associations:
- animal is Sturgeon; plant, Raspberry; minerals, Garnet, Iron; color, Red
- Chinese animal associations: Sheep, Goat or Ram, Dog, Tiger
- Eck-Vidya associations - Mokshove, Diamond, August, Seltea, Years of the Bountiful Earth
4.8.4.1 Western Zodiac: Leo (Walker 291-292)
- in the Zodiac of Dendera, the symbol of Leo was similar to Tarot card "strength"
- a woman taming a lion
- the woman held the lion's tail, waved a flail as if to drive him forward (Budge GE)
- to Babylonians, it was Urgula, the Lioness
- evidently origin of Roman name for star Regulus, the Lion's Heart
- brightest star in constellation of Leo (symbol = midsummer)
- evidently origin of Roman name for star Regulus, the Lion's Heart
- Romans associated the constellation of Leo with Jupiter
- Leon to Greeks; Ser to Persians; Simha to Hundus (="lion")
- high sign of summer, always linked with Sun, said to have a "hot nature"
- said that the hairs of the lion's mane "stand out eminent like sunbeams" (Williamson)
- a long mane of hair was an attribute to Biblical hero Samson
- who descended from Arabic Shamson, a name of the Sun
- honeycomb growing from lion's corpse (Jud 14:8)
- a solar myth copied from lion-slaying sun hero Heracles
- zodiacal lion encounters the sun in the season of honey
- lion as king of beasts
- zodiacal lion assigned "kingly" nature supposedly passed onto Leo people:
- bold, brave, generous, somewhat autocratic
- gifted with leadership, loving money and pleasure
- also some royal faults as tendency to pomposity, overindulgence and egotism
- on balance - qualities of noble
- also partake of free element as befits a creature associated with the Sun
- zodiacal lion assigned "kingly" nature supposedly passed onto Leo people:
- in the Zodiac of Dendera, the symbol of Leo was similar to Tarot card "strength"
4.8.4.2 Western Planet Associations: Sun (Walker 353-354)
- popular European tradition usually made the Sun male and Moon female
- chiefly to assert "his" light was stronger
- and that "she" shone only by reflected glory
- symbols of woman's position in patriarchal society
- Oriental and pre-Christian systems frequently made Sun a Goddess
- royal "families" in Japan traced their descent from the Sun Goddess Amaterasu
- before Islam, Arabs worshiped Attar, Sun Goddess (Larousse)
- Tantric scriptures referred to the Sun as nothing more than the Great Goddess (Mahanervantantra)
- concept reappeared in Revelations 12:1 as the "woman clothed with the Sun"
- some mystics carried contemplation of Goddesses garment to extreme
- blinded themselves with light by staring at sun until eyesight failed
- thus achieving sainthood on theory that having looked at the ultimate brilliance, they could have nothing greater to see
- Vikings worshiped sun as Goddess, Glory-of-Elves, or Sol
- Germans called her Sunna (Branston)
- among Celts she was known as Sol or Sul or Sulis
- her rites were celebrated especially on hilltops overlooking springs
- like the Springs of Bath, which used to be called Aquae Sulis
- Romans set up altars to her as Sul Minerva (Damas)
- various priestesses dedicated to her entered Celtic mythology as Sun women
- like Iseult, Grainne, and Deidre
- Scythian Diana also a solar deity (Markdale)
- many old pagan festivals involving bonfires, torches, candles, and other lights
- originally dedicated to the Sun and its cycle
- popular European tradition usually made the Sun male and Moon female
4.8.4.3 Zodiac: Leo, Ra-Hoor-Khuit (Phenomenon 60-63)
- direction is Fixed; masculine; Fire sign; Ruler - Sun
- Hebrew, Arabic, Greek and Hieroglyph associations
- body part - heart, spine; meridian - heart
- alchemical, digestion; tarot, Fortitude; geomancy, Fortune Major and Minor
- Egyptian Ra Hoor-Khur; Greek Apollo; Roman Helios
- weapons, the Discipline; Genii, Zeirna; perfume, Olibanum
- Egyptian Horus, the Rising Sun; Greek Apollo
- Roman Helios, God of the Sun, Science, and Prophecy
- Leo is self exteriorization, game playing, education, personal magnetism
- sexuality and love, entertainment, pleasure, inflation, speculation
- children, athletics, acling, psychic strength
- actors, athletes, speculators, kings and rulers, famous people, gamblers
4.8 Sturgeon - Ripe Berries Moon
4.8.2 Comparisons of the Western Zodiac, the Medicine Wheel, and the Chinese Zodiac
4.8.4 Western Zodiac
