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The esoteric side of Virgo is all wrapped up in the Christ Consciousness which has been permeating the Earth since the beginning of the Piscean Age. Virgo is the reflex action of the Piscean Wave or maybe an inner harmonic. As we have progressed or regressed thru the Age, depending on your predilection, the Virgoan counterpoint has concretized the great mystical movements into compartmentalizations. These are the dogmas of the great religions. Spiritual impulses have become ritualized and then religions have formed as the impulse to a raised planetary vibration has reverberated through the human species or civilization. Only in very few instances have humans resisted the impulse to religion and maintained their spiritual practices. In the Esoteric sense Virgo is the urge the Great Mother has to shield or protect the hidden Christ. In the Exoteric sense the Harvest is the out come of the impulse to individualization. The Woman with the shafts of wheat is the common Cosmic Image we are given from the ancients. The time of harvest is the Virgoan time in the Northern Hemisphere and the image is obvious to the Agrarian Civilizations which have arisen and fallen in this Age. Great Images have withered to give birth to others as step by step mankind has drawn nearer and nearer to a quantum leap into the void of space and time indicated by the culmination of a Great Cycle. The Greeks saw this Era as a harvest of sorts as their symbolism indicates. The Christians see this as the Harvest of perfected souls in the Armageddon which they believe will culminate with the end of this Age. The Hindus call it the Kali Yuga. Just what is the implication of the Sign in terms of Human behavior? First, the Vestal Virgin is not a celibate! She is sexual but not procreative.  When she does procreate she looses her status and becomes the Great Mother who blesses the world with the fruit of her labor. She doles out her bounty according to the Natural Law of the Earth. Virgo is the Impeccable One! Her Harvest is an indisputable bounty! She is absolute in her richness as well as in her eternal renewal. As the power of the Sun begins to wane in the Northern Hemisphere, the plant kingdom prepares for the onslaught of the Winter by laying down it’s seeds in order to perpetuate life. It is here when Civilization in the North realizes its fate and fortune.  Virgo is the time of accounting. The work of the harvest, the backbreaking labor in the fields takes on the sacred context of assurance. Mankind can face the hard winter when the Harvest is in and accounted for and a time of prediction or forward looking is eminent. Of the Human signs of the Zodiac ( Gemini, Aquarius, and Virgo ) only Aquarius is beyond the earth realm having to do with the Heavens. Gemini is truly human representing the male and female duality in many species but Virgo is the Earth in the role of the great Nurturer. I see Virgo as dualistic like all of the mutable signs are supposed to be. Esoterically, Virgo didn’t affect humanity in Lemurian times because Humanity wasn’t in its’ present form as we know it. Humanity was androgynous! I see Virgo as still an Androgynous figure containing both male and female but outwardly female and hiding or shielding the male component within. I see this as an analogy of the literal earth. Crust on the outside protecting the atomic fire within. Yin obscuring Yang! I see this as the Great Mystery of the Life of this planet. The metaphysics of the planet leads us to understand a key to the release of potential in a magnetic sense. I see the polarity of the Mutable Cross as Neutral which encompasses both positive and negative electrical charge in a whirling field of a whirling source. More later!

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Individuation is the key to understanding the next step in the unfolding of the human drama. The Fifth sign of the Zodiac is the sign of the Lion, Leo. Under the sign of Leo ruled by the Sun we discover the real heart of the matter, especially when it comes to us our self, the ego and identity. This is the point where we express our individual need. This is the place where we project outward the image we have of our self and hope to impress others who will recognize us and gravitate to us for whatever reason, usually to fulfill a need. Here is where vitality is transformed into personality and where soul is focused through the lens of ego. The strength of the ego is forcefully radiated in the sign of Leo like the roar of the lion. That is usually enough to inform the creatures of the environment, the King/Queen is here.

When I said above,” The heart of the matter “, I was letting slip the esoteric secret of the sign of Leo. The heart of  the solar system is the sun. IT is the animating force and the source of all that is seen to be the human “body” in relationship to the cosmos as a whole. The solar system, as we are discovering it ( step by painful step ) is the super man, the cosmic man, the form of our being in as broad a context as we can ever objectify.  In a way it is the One God of the Piscean Age or Gods if you will.  It is our environment, our identity and our source. I once remarked in a discussion on World religions, ” Humanity worships itself in the form of the Sun of our solar system and has never had the intelligence to break through that illusion into the realm of the true Creator.” The heart of the solar system and the heart of our own body are one and the same. They even function in a similar manner as pumps, however this is only the surface of the Mystery of Life in this part of the Galaxy. It is the radiant power of the Sun which engenders Life as we know it in its many forms on the earth and through out the system. Leo is the heart of the Zodiac as the Greeks learned it from the earlier civilizations and the esoteric systems encoded in all of the ancient Zodiacs made the fixed cross ( Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius ) the foundation of the human being as Cosmic Man.

When you are following your heart you are being driven by the radiance of the Sun, your Ego is being illuminated by the radiance of the Sun and you will be recognized by others as greater than yourself. Humility is the stance of one whose identity is being recognized as beyond ego and representative of the power of the deity. You are seen as selfless and the selflessness in others is being reinforced by the selflessness you are projecting and thus not seen as ego. Leo’s at their greatest are heart people and they draw other people like the Sun draws water from the Earth to form clouds. The Leo represents the perfect form. The Ideal Form. It is because of the mere presence of an open mind and an open heart. Warmth, generosity,congeniality and compassion for all is the pure Leonine stance. It is the most positive of the positive signs of the entire Zodiacal matrix. I will look at the down side or Leo and more ESOTERIC qualities in part II of Leo, the Heart of the Matter, Astrologically!