The Zodiac Sign of LEO

Starting with Aries in March, Leo is the fifth sign of the zodiac. Those who are born from approximately July 23 to August 22 (depending upon the year) are born under the sign of Leo. Leo is a Fire sign. It is also a Fixed sign, meaning that people born under this sign excel and maintaining a steady situation and have endurance.

The element associated with Leo is Fire, and alongside Sagittarius and Aries, it forms the Fire triplicity. (The Fire Triplicity is one of four elemental triplicities in the zodiac, with the other three being Water, Earth, and Air.)

ELEMENT: Fire, Identity
KEY PHRASE: “I Show”
NEED: The need for creative expressive and to be appreciated by others
PLANETS: Ruler: The Sun, Detriment: Uranus, Exaltation: Neptune, Fall: Uranus
MODALITY: Fixed
POLARITY: Active
OPPOSITE SIGN: Aquarius
HOUSE: 5th House of Creative Porjects, Children, Love affairs & Risk taking
SYMBOL: Lion
CRYSTAL: Sunstone, Howlight
BIRTHSTONE: Peridot
ESSENTIAL OILS: Grapefruit & Neroli
PATH ON THE TREE OF LIFE: Path 19, The Intelligence of all the activities and spiritual beings
TAROT: Key 8 - Strength
HEBREW LETTER: Teth: Snake, simple letter: Taste
ALCHEMICAL OPERATION: Digestion
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
Desirable: Loyalty, outspokensness, ardor, kindness, tolerance, generosity, philanthropy, inspiration, magnetism, inspiration, hope, chivalry, industry, fearlessness, magnanimity, idealism, sincerity, hospitality, intuition, comprehension.
Undesirable: Arogance, dictatorial manner, overbearing, condenscension, impeutousness, pomposity, dominance, sensitivity, promiscuity, gullibility, fussiness, striking, hot-headedness

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The Sign of CANCER on the Qabalistic Tree of Life

The Qabalah’s Tree of Life is a glyph that represents, simultaneously, two directions: the flow of the Divine from Above to Below, and the Path of Return to Source, Below to Above, for those on spiritual journeys of enlightenment. It is a glyph that represents all of creation and all the energies of creation.

The Tree of Life is comprised of ten circles called Sephiroth and the 22 paths that connect them. The Paths are subjective, and allocated to the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet as well as the 22 Major Arcana of the Tarot. The 10 Spheres are objective and are considered emmanations of the Divine. They are allocated to the First Swirlings, the Zodiac, the six visible planets, the Moon and the Earth.

Cancer represented on the Tree of Life through it’s associated Tarot Card, which is The Chariot. The Hebrew letter for this path is Cheth, which means fence, enclosure of inner chamber. It’s numerical value is 8.

Interestingly, the Hebrew word for Chariot is Merkabah. An ancient set of manuscripts connected to Rabbinical Judausm, called the Hekhahloth Books, proport to be revelations about the heavenly chariot, called the Merkabah, and give elaborate and detailed accounts of the “Merkabah-world.” Indeed, those who aspired to ride the Merkabah through the “Seven palaces of the Seven Heavens” were called “Merkabah Mystics.”

It is understood in some spiritual circles today that the human aura, which is usually described as egg-shaped, is actually a spinning Merkabah, and that the Chariot in question is our Body of Light. Whether the seven palaces of the seven heavens are in fact the Chakras is a mystery, at least to me. However the Tarot’s Chariot card does seem to contain some interesting connections to traveling Etheric realms in the Body of Light.

Recommended readings:
Jewish Gnosticism, Merkabah Mysticism and Talmudic Tradition, by Gershom G. Schlolem
The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life, Vol I and II, by Drunvalo Melchizedek

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The TAROT CARDS of CANCER

The Major Arcana Tarot Card allocated to the sign of Cancer is The Chariot card. The general meaning of this card is travel, new beginnings, change for the good, introspection, meditation (traveling inwards) and can indicate a spiritual path.
The Minor Arcana Cards of the Two, Three and Four of Cups have less obvious connections to the sign of Cancer. However when a Decan Wheel is consulted (see image below), the first Decan of Cancer is found to correspond to the Two of Cups. The second Decan corresponds to the Three, and the third Decan to the Four. If your Sun sign is Cancer, you can determine which minor card is “your” card, and it can be used as an alternate Identifier, or you may contemplate how the card is thematic in your life. Additionally, using the Decan Wheel allows for time to be introduced into readings.

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Dissolution: The Alchemical Operation of Cancer (VIDEO)

The Alchemical Operation assigned to Cancer is Dissolution. Spiritually, Dissolution involves the breaking down of corrupted aspects of the personality, or personality structures which have been erected due to societal or family programming. These aspects live in the subconscious and can be difficult to access. Certain meditations and practices help to access these structures, which must at least be recognized if not totally dissolved, if personal growth is to occur.

Physically, Dissolution involves turning a substance into a liquid, or dissolving a substance in water or other fluid. Alchemists regarded dissolution not just as a substance simply becoming liquid, but as a return of an element into the womb-like state of it’s elementary principals. 

Qabalistically, the action of performing the operation of dissolution in the material world of Assiah can connect a person more viscerally to the corresponding psychological work of Yetzirah. In other words, the physical action helps the psyche process the equivalent concept in the subconscious, making the psychological-work more accessible.

This experiment is deceptively simple. Bascially melting sulfer and pouring it into water. However on a symbolic level, it is fairly profound.

In this video, I started with powdered Sulfer, which corresponds to the Soul. It also corresponds to the 31st Path of Judgement, the Hebrew letter Shin, which in turn represents the element of Fire. (See Blog post on Correspondences.) So it is perhaps appropriate that to dive into the breakdown of artificial constructs and emotional blocks in our psyche on a Soul level (using Sulfer), we must dissolute Sulfer with Fire.

The heat basically melts the powder into a liquid. This is Dissolution, which corresponds to the 18th Path of the Chariot, the sign of Cancer and Hebrew letter Cheth. This is the journey the Soul takes. The exposure to fire, which initiates the Dissolution, in this case.

The next step was to pour the dissoluted sulfer into water. This is Congelation, which can mean the combining of several elements into a waxy or jelly state; firm but not necessarily permanent. In the video, I must admit that I think I heated the sulfer too long, because the congealed sulfur was fairly hard and not soft. However, still technically congealed. Congelation corresponds to the 16th Path of the Heirophant, the sign of Taurus and the Hebrew letter Vau.

Image from my dream. Artwork by Linda Ruttan Moldawsky

The night after I performed this experiment I dreamed I was taking a shower in a glass container. Then as I woke and was remembering the dream, I saw a image of a large vase containing a thriving bright green bush. I was surprised I had this dream, and that this image came to me, I was not expecting it!

To me the Tarot interpretation is this: The Judgement card represents hearing the call to dissolve certain emotional fears and blocks. The Chariot provided the journey of breaking them down and washing them away, making room for new growth. And the Heirophant was the message at the end, the whispering words of wisdom in my ear, appropriate for my Soul at this time.