Leo: Hot and Heavy |
The Leo Way
Real Leos are born from August 16 to September 16
Planetary Proclamation
The Sun gives Leo birthright to rule. The Sun is what enthrones Leo; the Sun makes a Leo feel good, alive. The lack of Sunshine will have the opposite effect. Leos trapped in the dark, or in rainy weather start to deflate and decay until the Sun can come out. Pity the Leo in solitary confinement, or who lives in a geographical location where a six-month night is a yearly occurrence. The result of sun-depravation for all humans is unrelenting depression; but Leos feel it far worse.
All Heart, No Brain
The Leo ego is the beating heart. Leos speak from the heart—it aggrandizes them. Behind the display, though, is a puzzlement. Leos cultivate a heart-felt selfishness: what’s best for them is also best for everybody! They assume the rest of the world would be satisfied with the basic elemental aspects of life, as they are. The complexity and purpose of human sacrifice, guilt, anxiety or perspicacity escapes them. The heart allows Leos to live only in the moment; the human memory is suppressed because it harms their egos, and reduces the single-mindedness that they need for the hunt.
Fight, Flight
There’s only two options for a Leo: win or lose; life or death. Leos are intense because they play for keeps. Male Leos live short fast lives unless they’re careful. They expire along with their usefulness. Leo buffoon celebrity Gene Simmons is an example of the has-been. Octogenarian actor Sean Connery is the O.G. Leo. Females fare better through cooperation and community, and, as a result, can delay the inevitable for as long as possible. Forever young and sexually active women Jacqueline Bisset or Kim Cattrall are examples of well-preserved Sidereal Leos living their erotic mantras well into “old” age.
The situation isn’t dualism; Leos are in one mode or the other as in a unity of opposites; their Tao is the dichotomy of predator and prey. You can’t be both; but only in turn. Leos are the living advertisement of their own mind-set. You can’t disassociate a fixed-sign Leo from what he feels because he IS what he feels. There is no artifice; no evolution; the Leo merely refines the objectification of what he or she is. Michael Jackson and Charlie Parker were both Sidereal Leos who never separated from their music or from the images of themselves it created. Both maintained the essence of themselves until their own demons tracked them down and ate them like hyenas do lions in the wild.
Putrefaction occurs in a Leo when what they represent becomes moot. Leo Black Panther and self-proclaimed rapist Eldridge Cleaver faded fast when his crackpot ideas were discarded; Leo Vietnam war criminal and disgraced president Lyndon Johnson folded like a house of cards when his imperialist dream collapsed. Leos live and die by their creed; however archaic and unwieldy. They go down with the ship.
Sex and Anger
The two domains of Leo are fucking and fighting. Sex is domination, the release of anger; Anger is the spool from which sexual desire is uncoiled. Sex with a Leo can involve biting and scratching; Leos can have sex with their enemies, or survive off masturbation for years, since “love” in the human sense doesn’t enter into it, at all. Leo NBA star and egomaniac Wilt Chamberlain claims to have fucked thousands of women, none of whom he gave a damn about. For stunted Leos like this, mere mating is the overweening obligation and quantity is the only yardstick. Leos are at their most fierce during sex and when outraged; the two extremes surrounding a life otherwise dominated by sloth and submission. The normal state of Leo is torpid transference, and they can only be engaged when angry or horny. Sidereal Leo and bad-boy actor and activist Sean Penn is an example of the hot-headed, choleric Leo personality type; out-of-control is normal.
Fats and Death
For Leos to live a long life, they need to control the one thing they crave the most: fat. Fat is what gives them the high-octane energy to burn, but also clogs the heart and veins. The Leo heart must be fat-free to work properly. Any problem with the heart will drain the life out of a Leo, fast. Fats track Leos like a Father Time ready to cut them out of the pride; there’s a limit to the largess of life for the predator. The laws of the jungle are the same for everybody. Unless Leos can learn to save their hearts, from fat—and from hard-heartedness—they will descend from the hunter to the hunted as a matter of course, and meet with a similarly grisly and untimely end.
Sex and Fat
Leos should beware of the effect of oil and saturated fats in the diet. While fresh oils like cold-pressed olive oil or natural coconut oil are less harmful, ALL fats turn to acid in the Leo heart and will slow it down and kill it as surely as a bullet will. The advantages to living longer means only one thing to Leo: having sex more often and for a longer part of the lifespan. The demise of the Leo sex drive is like the proverbial Eskimo without teeth; without the libido, life itself becomes redundant. A Leo without sexual desire can only hope for a swift and painless death.
Like a pet cat with too much food available, the Leo will become obese, lethargic and self-indulgent when the fat levels get too high. The adamant flesh-loving Leo will have to give up meat to live longer. Meat eaters die of fat, whether by heart disease or cancer. Meats are the traditional sources of protein, minerals, and B vitamins, but the fats and proteins in meat actually sabotage the body’s own cell-building systems as well. Eating animals and their byproducts for short-term energy gain is a temptation, but leaves behind serious and degenerating problems.
Unless a person is a reverent and consistent exerciser who can regularly reach the inner chemical temperature required to burn fat, whatever fat you eat stays with you forever, clogging veins, spleen and colon until they burst. Fats fill your veins with a pasty splurg, that will eventually smother the overtaxed blood pump—the heart. Heart problems can be prevented and treated with a non-meat, macrobiotic diet.
At the heart is the GRAIN
Leo heart rules the Leo mind. It pays to consider the Biblical prophesy of the lion laying down with the lamb: Leos can and will be successful vegetarians if they follow a modified Macrobiotic diet.
Technically, this means eating balanced meals that consist of two parts whole grains and one part seasonal vegetables, with fermented foods and nonpoisonous favor enhancing sauces. Theoretically, the Macro Way is a state of grace achieved when you simply eat to live, and not the other way around. When it comes to eating, Leos need try to adopt a long term outlook: you’ll be eating every day of the rest of your life, so why eat to shorten your life? Resist the thrall of our food-as-profit-making-commodity culture that beckons us toward nutritional suicide and genetic degradation. Leos! Lead yourself and your pride out of the miasma of nutrition-based illness and its ensuing despair and depression.
The True Greens
If you must eat meat or otherwise put indigestible fat and gristle in your gut, you must also compensate in equal measure by eating roughage. One must endeavor to eat sauteed or steamed greens every day. FYI: there are only three “true” greens: collards, kale and broccoli. Don’t even fool yourself into thinking lettuce, spinach or chard can replace the nutritional value of a True Green. It’s the leathery toughness of the leaf that gives it the biological banquet of vitamins and minerals that you cannot find elsewhere.
Vegetarianism requires a complete mental turnaround for Leo. How to “replace” meat? The bad news is that you cannot. You must find the taste and texture satisfaction some other way. Blood-lust aside, meat by definition is unhealthy: why would you be even looking for a replacement? A sea change must take place. Is the king still liable to the addictions and short-sightedness of a peasant? Do you really want to take dead or rancid cells into the body? Is the raucous taste of meat a legitimate craving or merely a clever package for slow agony and early death? A come-hither smell that leads you to your own version of a Waterloo?
Who said that this trash-or-treasure protein option was actually good tasting, anyway? Your erstwhile dying parents, and their largely prematurely dead forbearers? The vegetarian must think outside the box, in this case, the cage.
Hunger is not unexpected and does not have to be satiated in the fastest possible way. The preparation and cooking of whole grains and true greens will humble Leos and give them time to think.
A large heaping of brown rice or other whole grain contains almost all the proteins and carbohydrates that the body needs; it’s the perfectly balanced food—halfway between acid and alkaline. That’s right: whole grains replaces meat. If you must have a centerpiece on the plate, let it be the grain, not the gristle.
But let’s say you just need the bulk and feel of meat, as well as the taste. The Indonesian staple Tempeh may be your answer. It comes in meat-like slabs, and you can fry it, broil it, and flavor it with bacon-bits if you want; whatever you need to chow down this great source of non-fat protein, B-vitamins and friendly intestinal flora. Enterprising cooks could use gluten—the grain “essence” without the starch—to make into a cutlet-like substitute that can be flavored at will. There IS life after meat, Leos, so take heart, you can still pounce on your prey.
Vitamins and Minerals
The vitamin hand-maiden to the Leo king is vitamin E. This derivative from wheat germ is actually an oil which disperses and emulsifies the “bad” fats and other acidic gunk in the bloodstream and muscles. Vitamin E is the forgiving vitamin—when you take it you are forgiving yourself your wretched excesses, and healing all the damaged tissue that injuries have left behind. By megadosing 6,000 I.U.s of vitamin E. every day, you are cleaning out the very toxins and impurities in the blood that you may have put there earlier with a lousy diet. Vitamin E will burn away the greasy leftovers in the blood, leaving your veins clear, your heart strong, and, most important; increase the libido and virility.
Leos will also be pleased to know that vitamin E makes for beautiful, healthy hair—along with vitamin C and the B-vitamins. It’s worth mentioning that the HAIR TEST, an inexpensive and non-invasive alternative to the blood test, is also the best way to check for anemia or any vitamin or mineral deficiency. A hair test can tell the body’s overall condition more accurately than blood—hair is the final product—a printout our body’s chemistry.
The blood test is a only snapshot of a circulating “highway” of information—all about transition—while the hair represents the entirety of our chemical wellness. Most doctors don’t know or feign ignorance of the hair test because it adds nothing to their profit margins. In the case of Leo, deficiencies revealed by a hair test are usually zinc, calcium, magnesium, and shortages of vitamins A, D and the B-complex.
The Leo Legacy
Leos can spin out of control when faced with who they really are—always a shock after having been mesmerized by one’s own reports of ones own greatness. The resulting complete loss of Leo vitality can be reversed by embracing change and humility. For the king of beasts, less can be more. Less fat; more energy, less meat; more life. Less authoritarianism; more freedom.
INSUFFERABLE, LIBIDINOUS, LOVABLE LEO
Mate, Hunt, Eat, Sleep—Repeat
A Leo life can be quite simple. Like the life of a predator, it can be brutal or beautiful, depending on how you look at it. Leo is an animal. Don’t look for human characteristics in Leo, they aren’t there. To think Leos are human is misplaced anthropomorphism. Others may transcend their
animalness: Aries, the ram, through action; Taurus the bull, through possessions; Sagittarius the centaur through idealism; but Leo does not deviate. Leo is nature in the raw.
Leo isn’t just an animal, Leo is the king of the jungle—putting itself above all others, and taking the best for itself. For each of its narrow feeding roles, the Leo excels. First we have the image of the huntress, with bow, sitting on the throne with her pet lion alongside her. Then Leo eats, rapaciously and ravenously; food is the prey. Then Leo wants sex, prowling that hunting ground for pliant flesh. Then Leo sleeps, reverently supplying its tremendous ego with the energy it needs to resuscitate.
Men and women Leos differ in important ways; The male Leo dominates; displays his libido, assumes rulership of the pride, defends the pride. The female runs the pride, kills the food, protects the cubs, and is the mainstay of the Leo society. Male Leos are expendable and interchangeable, they come and go according to their ascending or waning power. Females remain, and collectively build for the future. Females keep the faith.
Wham-bamm I'm the Man
As far as the sex goes, anyone who has seen or heard cats having sex knows there doesn’t seem to be much pleasure involved; it’s mostly dominance in action, an ego trip for the male and a necessary (but ecstatic) evil for the female. Sex in Leo land is more show than go; it’s quick and then you’re stuck together like two mismatched puzzle pieces. It’s unevolved. Take the infamous pairing of two star-crossed lovers, Leo Bill Clinton and Cancer Monica Lewinsky. He was destroyed politically because of his not, not-having-sex with her; but the sex actually defined and characterized Lewinsky because of her role in it. The active and passive roles; the division of labor tween the male and female for Leo men is obvious, and totally unfair. Like every code of the jungle, there is no balance, only the strongest survive and only reckless acts of random violence prevail.
In order to avoid violence, one must threaten it, have the greatest game. Everything a Leo does is with an audience in mind, they pose, show teeth, roar, like a jungle version of vogueing. Bluffing to forestall a confrontation. Yet Leos also have the BEST qualities of animals; they are loyal and affectionate; the emotions, however primitive, are real; Leos don’t prevaricate, they don’t play games, what you see is what you get. When you befriend a Leo, you get a life-long comrade—unless he sees you as prey. The Leo makes you proud to be you; Leo pride is infectious and invigorating. Leo can be like the Sun rising in the midday, a joyful, exuberant roar of the audacity of life, the sheer awe and majesty of the self in action.
The King is Dead, Long Live the King
A word of caution: in the jungle, there are no old lions; hyenas catch up with them and kill them in turn; thus is the life of the predator. Leos burn fast and die young, unless they wise up and stop lording over others, the only way of avoiding an unpleasant demise. Only when a male Leo loses his arrogance can he be said to really integrate and survive the ego-trip. The female, of course, lives on through her cubbies. She represents the survival of the Pride.
WHAT IS A KING WITHOUT A KINGDOM?
Those “Virgos” born between Aug. 23–Sept. 16. are really LEOS! From Sept. 17 to 22, Virgo stays Virgo. The confusion arises because typical astrologers are wrong by 24 degrees. This is a huge discrepancy: Virgo and Leo couldn’t be more different. For one, Leos behave like animals and Virgos are all-too-human.
Sidereal astrology will give us the real picture, since it’s based on a much more accurate mathematical model. Using this correct (and easily verifiable) map of the Zodiac we’ll see a major change in the way eight out of ten people identify themselves, since they will change signs to the previous sign. Up until now, we’ve all been hoodwinked by a bunch of quacks—the traditional astrologers who have been mainly spreading confusion.
Most Leos, rather than accept the wrong archetype, would rather discount astrology all together. Imagine the King of the Beasts, mistaken for the quiet, crafty Virgo! True Leo can only roar in protest. This is the sign of the best and the worst of the animal kingdom. Leos understand animals and animals understand Leo. From the noble savage to the wounded animal, it’s all part of the Leo heritage. Leo is the idealization of the Superego, the creator, defender and destroyer of life.
Inside Leos harbor the instincts, elegance and ferocity of the predator. There’s no human emotions to clog up the arteries. Leos demand—and take—what they need for survival, yet they can also put their lives on the line to defend the pride. Leo loyalty is never questioned, it is assumed.
The real Leo strength comes from the complex society of lions—the most socialized and therefore the most successful predator community. However, it’s primarily the FEMALE that gives the group its strength and cohesion. It’s the raising of cubs that make survival and propagation possible. Male and female roles must combine to promote the interests of the pride, although male Leos are often brainless and impetuous. In the wild, male lions often kill or exile their possible competition, and that can even include their own male cubs.
That’s the tip-off to Leo’s much deeper nature that includes another classic archetype, the huntress. Leos, male or female, are ALWAYS on the hunt. Whatever the prey happens to be, the Leo brain, such as it is, is hardwired to find and kill food. For the Leo, food can cover almost anything, from sex to money, the hunt is the game and its reward; and Leos take it very seriously. Anyone who interferes with a Leo while they hunt is in danger. This shows the absurdity of the bastardized astrology system that depicts them as Virgos, who are fixers, builders and critics, and, if anything, might well be the prey of the actual Leo in the Zodiacal jungle.
Leo doesn’t adapt and assimilate like a human; they are a fixed, bestial sign; they only learn to do what they do better, rather than change on a daily basis like the chameleon Virgo. The Leo heart beats loudly; they are simple and direct, there is no hiding what they feel. The modest, mutable Virgo has a much different view of the universe, and never the twain shall meet.
Why sun signs as health indicators?
The sun signs are not the definitive indicators of which disease will affect which person. To the serious student of astrology, the ascendant, the sixth house, and natal Mars’ sign and their planetary rulers also influence a person’s health, not to mention environment and learned behavior. Calculating a Sidereal chart of those planets' signs will be enlightening, however.
Anything that helps us to achieve self-awareness, self-reliance, and self-healing is useful. The usefulness of this approach is in its application by the reader. All that is necessary is that you be able to recognize a few of the characteristics arranged here by zodiac sun sign—enough of them to stimulate you to look deeper still into the nutritional factors and chemical compounds that make your body work. Although we are predisposed by socialogical factors to be the people we are, we can, by consciousness and connection with our Universe, gain a greater understanding of ourselves and our fellow beings.
Hopefully, there is a lot of good information you can use in these pages, regardless of signs. Sidereal astrology fuses the archive of ancient Zodiacal archetypes to modern astronomical, socialogical and pyscological narratives. Your welcome.
