Leo Ascendant (Sari)

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At 12:06 PM 9/2/06 +0300, Sari wrote:

>Vanessa wrote:

>

>I have felt in my life that sometimes i can glimpse something beyond the big

>picture. As if something is tugging at the back of my mind. As a child i

>constantly had deja vu (It actually got me out of a few binds!) People seem

>drawn to me to talk about their secrets and troubles. Children and animals

>seem to have an affinity for me, and i them. (...)

>

>I have always been drawn to the metalphysical and such but have never

>actually seriously pursued this path to see if i've any talent or gift in

>such. Besides i dont know where i'd begin! More than likely it is as you say

>ungrounded.

>

>Sari:

>

>Curiously enough, I think you describe here your sidereal Leo ascendant. You

>cannot find this kind of description about Leo anywhere, not in tropical

>zodiac, neither on sideral, but this is something I've found studying charts

>and the nature of a strong Sun.

 

Sari, I don't think this describes a Leo ascendant, but it may be the Sun

(ascendant lord) conjunct the Moon, the Moon being the mind. But I hold

reservations about all this belonging to the Sun, so I'll continue to

observe and watch.

 

>Finally I found a great affirmation to my ideas in a book that's not about

>astrology, but about a system based on Rodney Collin and Gurdjieff. The book

>is Susan Zannos' " Human Types - Essence and Enneagram " . Zannos describes

>seven types of people based on planets (but not on astrology per se). Some

>of the planets have changed places IMO, but some descriptions offer fine,

>unique view on the planets as they really work on the charts. The Sun is one

>of those:

>

> " The Solar is the most attractive of all the human types, with a delicate

>other-wordly beauty that frequently seems too refined for this coarse planet

>and the other humans who live on it. (...)

>

>The Solar type seems to have many of the psychological charatersitics we

>associate with children. Solars seem to live in a fairy tale world of

>magical possibilities long after others have accustomed themselves to the

>harsher aspects of reality. They don't seem to recognize limitations, not

>their own, not other people's, and not even the limitation imposed by

>impersonal forces like weather of economic conditions. Of all the types, the

>Solar is least suited to life on this planet. (...etc...)

 

Intriguing enough so I just ordered Zannos' book from an Amazon Marketplace

seller. Around $10 if anyone else is interested.

 

>Talk about charm, idealism, creativity, vulnerability, luminosity,

>sensitivity, obsessions, childlike omnipotency...! I think this is the real

>core of sideral Leo.

 

These traits are a bit too all-encommpassing, Sari. 'Sensitivity' is

difficult to define, for example. But a feeling of omnipotence might belong

to Leo or the Sun. But Sagittarius also leans that way. I do think we have

to distinguish between the Sun and Leo.

 

Time to pull up Leo stelliums in ADB! And perhaps also charts with the Sun

aspecting the Moon....and Sun on the ascendant.

 

Therese