Leo Constellation [Stellarium]
Leo Constellation Astrology
Constellation Leo the Lion, is an ecliptic constellation laying between constellation Cancer and constellation Virgo. Leo spans 40 degrees of the Zodiac in the Signs Leo and Virgo.
| 2000 | 2050 | Star | Name | Sp. Class | Mag. | Orb |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15♌18 | 16♌00 | κ Leo | Al Minliar al Asad | K2 | 4.47 | 1°10′ |
| 17♌53 | 18♌35 | λ Leo | Alterf | K5 | 4.32 | 1°10′ |
| 20♌43 | 21♌25 | ε Leo | Ras Elased Australis | G0 | 2.97 | 1°50′ |
| 21♌26 | 22♌08 | μ Leo | Ras Elased Borealis | K0 | 3.88 | 1°30′ |
| 24♌15 | 24♌57 | ο Leo | Subra | F8 | 3.52 | 1°40′ |
| 27♌34 | 28♌16 | ζ Leo | Adhafera | F0 | 3.43 | 1°40′ |
| 27♌55 | 28♌37 | η Leo | Al Jabhah | A0 | 3.48 | 1°40′ |
| 29♌37 | 00♍20 | γ Leo | Algieba | K0 | 2.08 | 2°10′ |
| 29♌50 | 00♍32 | α Leo | Regulus | B7 | 1.36 | 2°30′ |
| 06♍24 | 07♍06 | ρ Leo | Shir | B1 | 3.84 | 1°30′ |
| 10♍29 | 11♍11 | 72 Leo | Zubrah | M3 | 4.56 | 1°10′ |
| 11♍19 | 12♍02 | δ Leo | Zosma | A4 | 2.56 | 2°00′ |
| 13♍26 | 14♍08 | θ Leo | Coxa | A2 | 3.33 | 1°40′ |
| 16♍53 | 17♍35 | 92 Leo | Congguan | K1 | 5.26 | 1°00′ |
| 17♍34 | 18♍16 | ι Leo | Tsze Tseang | F2 | 4.00 | 1°20′ |
| 18♍42 | 19♍25 | σ Leo | Shang Tseang | B9 | 4.05 | 1°20′ |
| 18♍58 | 19♍41 | 93 Leo | Tziazi | G5 | 4.52 | 1°10′ |
| 21♍37 | 22♍19 | β Leo | Denebola | A3 | 2.14 | 2°10′ |
Ascendant in Leo Constellation
LEO is the strongest sign of the life-giving Sun. One born under Leo should receive many benefits, being endowed with physical as well as spiritual force. Leo’s do not submit to limitations or bend to one’s will. They have the ability to organize and direct. They need to practice self-control. Leo’s strong love for children and a desire to protect the weak, for frailty in others, calls forth Leo’s stronger side. Leo is imbued with gambling spirit, be it life itself or monetarily. Leo’s gain more through mental than physical exercise. Generally, Leo’s are born with pleasing personalities and a keen appreciation of ‘things’. Whoever tries to dominate Leo, finds Leo soon becomes rebellious. Leo is centered on home life, but there may also be much dissatisfaction and inharmony. Leo’s who become despondent impedes their recovery from illness.
NEGATIVE LEO’S: Are often arrogant and overbearing, blusterers, pompous, self-centered with blatant displays of generosity and outwardly they may appear genial and democratic, in practice they are just the opposite and develop a patronizing attitude towards others.
Positive Keywords: Courage, leadership ability, dignity, prideful, generosity, regal personality, independent, optimistic.
Negative Keywords: Dictatorial, impatient, stubbornness, destructive, great extremes.
Sun in Leo Constellation
Positive: Endows its natives with the desire to rule, the native has a commanding dignity,’ an inclination for organization and supervision, one who is generous, one who has a gallant independent personality, one who is ambitious and determined, a courageous person, a good ‘showman’. A constructive elevating personality, the ability to direct, one who is broadminded, disposed to be generous, has good vitality, is positive in thought and action.
Negative: The native tends to be arrogant, hastily forms opinions, has too many likes and dislikes, a dogmatic person, a tendency to shirk duties, obligations. Sometimes quick-tempered, one who is snobbish, of a pompous nature, a blusterer, a self-centered showoff. One who seeks power and authority. Native presents blatant displays of generosity, is patronizing, abuses powers of leadership, seeks praise of efforts by others.
Moon in Leo Constellation
Positive: Endows its native with pride, a dramatic type personality, faithfulness and sincerity, a love for leadership. One who is farsighted, ambitious, self-confident, and self-reliant. One who is honorable, magnanimous, candid and of a persevering nature. A tendency to lead, not follow. One who is fond of dress, home and orderliness. One who is free-hearted by nature and has a love of pleasure.
Negative: The native is conceited, jealous, entertains selfish motives. Has an overbearing manner, is a social climber, may be unfaithful, develops into a ‘pushy’ arrogant person. A gambler with life or whatever. Is fond of too much pleasure, entertainment and social affairs. Develops a disregard for facts. May be boastful. An insincere person, one of an insensitive nature. A tendency to ‘bull’ their way through any situation. Ostentatiousness.
Mercury in Leo Constellation
Positive: Endows its natives with an impressionable and optimistic nature, one who is persistent, ambitious and appreciative. The native has a tendency to ‘lead and direct’. One with determination and plenty of self-confidence. The native has a strong positive, persevering intellect, can be blunt and outspoken. Has high ideals and may become a good organizer. One who can be witty, entertaining and dramatically eloquent. A strong-minded, dogmatic pleasure-loving person.
Negative: Native develops a tendency to brag, be too abrupt, rude and crude, prejudiced. Blunt in speech, overbearing in attitude. Too demanding and tactless. One who is officious, arrogant and fickle. Of a low sensual nature. Inconstant in affections.
Venus in Leo Constellation
Positive: Endows its natives with an appreciative, companionable nature. One who is chivalrous, tends to be graceful and attractive, diplomatic and sociable. A fondness for pleasure and travel. The native is warm-hearted and loyal. Has the ability to turn their desires on and off at will. Open-minded and sensible.
Negative: The native may develop an insensitive nature, become extravagant and somewhat of a spendthrift. There will be a tendency to be cold and selfish. A tendency to misdirect dramatic inclinations. The native can almost at will become sensual or reverse themselves and be cold and selfish. An insincere nature.
Mars in Leo Constellation
Positive: Endows its natives with a venturesome, active, industrious nature. One who is fearless and independent in all their dealings. Native has a keen sense of honor and responsibility. Native is enthusiastic, enterprising and outspoken, even to the point of creating embarrassment. One who is strong, forceful and determined in argument. A sincere companion, far sighted, open-minded and some tendency to be idealistic. The native can be forceful in carrying out assignments and has good organizing ability. Native is ardent in their admiration for the opposite sex. One who is venturesome and often takes pride in their ability to take risks.
Negative: Imparts to its natives a bombastic, overly enthusiastic manner. One who has a fiery temper, subject to foolhardiness, recklessness. A danger of inordinate affection. Native is overbearing- and of a suspicious attitude. One who is insincere and inconsiderate. Subject to unbridled passions. [1]
Leo Constellation Astrology
In mundane astrology Leo Constellation is associated with royal events especially the ascension or death of kings and queens, the election or death of heads of state, assassinations uprisings and massacres, currency and the stock exchange, the Vatican and European Union.
“Who can doubt the nature of the monstrous Lion, and the pursuits he prescribes for those born beneath his sign? The lion ever devises fresh fights and fresh warfare on animals, and lives on spoil and pillaging of flocks. The sons of the Lion are filled with the urge to adorn their proud portals with pelts and to hang up on their walls the captured prey, to bring the peace of terror to the woods, and to live upon plunder. There are those whose like bent is not checked by the city-gates, but they swagger about in the heart of the capital with droves of beasts; they display mangled limbs at the shop-front, slaughter to meet the demands of luxury, and count it gain to kill. Their temper is equally prone to fitful wrath and ready withdrawal, and guileless are the sentiments of their honest hearts”. [2]
Leo. The Lion.
Legend. This constellation represents the Nemean Lion, originally from the Moon, that was slain by Hercules.
Ptolemy makes the following observations: “Of the stars in Leo, two in the head are like Saturn and partly like Mars. The three in the neck are like Saturn, and in some degree like Mercury. . . . Those in the loins . . . Saturn and Venus: those in the thighs resemble Venus, and, in some degree, Mercury.” It is said that the stars in the neck, back and wing all bring trouble, disgrace and sickness affecting the part of the body ruled by the sign, especially if they happen to be in conjunction with the Moon. By the Kabalists, Leo is associated with the Hebrew letter Kaph and the 11th Tarot Trump “Strength.” [3]
Leo, the Lion… lies between Cancer and Virgo, the bright Denebola 5° north of the faint stars that mark the head of the latter constellation; but Ptolemy extended it to include among its ἀμόρφωτοι the group now Coma Berenices. In Greek and Roman myth this was respectively Λέων and Leo, representing the Nemean Lion, originally from the moon, and, after his earthly stay, carried back to the heavens with his slayer Hercules.
The Egyptian king Necepsos, and his philosopher Petosiris, taught that at the Creation the sun rose here near Denebola; and hence Leo was Domicilium Solis, the emblem of fire and heat, and, in astrology, the House of the Sun, governing the human heart, and reigning in modern days over Bohemia, France, Italy, and the cities of Bath, Bristol, and Taunton in England, and our Philadelphia. In ancient times Manilius wrote of it as ruling over Armenia, Bithynia, Cappadocia, Macedon, and Phrygia. It was a fortunate sign, with red and green as its colors; and, according to Ampelius, was in charge of the wind Thrascias mentioned by Pliny, Seneca, and Vitruvius as coming from the north by a third northwest. [4]
Constellation Leo [Urania’s Mirror]
Here we come to the end of the circle. We began with VIRGO, and we end with LEO. No one who has followed our interpretation can doubt that we have here the solving of the Riddle of the Sphinx. For its Head is VIRGO and its Tail is LEO! In LEO we reach the end of the Revelation as inspired in the Word of God; and it is the end as written in the heavens. BAILLY (Astronomy) says, “the Zodiac must have been first divided when the sun at the summer solstice was in 1o Virgo, where the woman’s head joins the Lion’s tail.”
As to its antiquity there can be no doubt. JAMIESON says, “the Lion does not seem to have been placed among the Zodiacal symbols, because Hercules was fabled to have slain the Nemean Lion. It would seem, on the contrary, that Hercules, who represented the Sun, was said to have slain the Nemean Lion, because Leo, was already a Zodiacal sign. Hercules flourished 3,000 years ago, and consequently posterior to the period when the summer solstice accorded with Leo” (Celestial Atlas, p. 40).
There is no confusion with this sign. In the ancient Zodiacs of Egypt (Denderah, Esneh) and India we find the Lion. The same occurs on the Mithraic monuments, where Leo is passant, as he is in Moor’s Hindu, and Sir William Jones’s Oriental Zodiacs. In Kircher’s Zodiacs he is courrant (running); in the Egyptian Zodiacs he is couchant (lying down). In the Denderah Zodiac he is treading upon a serpent, as shown in Mr Edward Cooper’s Egyptian Scenery. Its Egyptian name is Pi Mentekeon, which means the pouring out. This is no pouring out or inundation of the Nile, but it is the pouring out of the cup of Divine wrath on that Old Serpent.
This is the one great truth of the closing chapter of this last Book. It is THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH AROUSED FOR THE RENDING OF THE PREY. His feet are over the head of Hydra, the great Serpent, and just about to descend upon it and crush it. The three constellations of the Sign complete this final picture:
- Hydra, the old Serpent destroyed.
- Crater, the Cup of Divine wrath poured out upon him.
- Corvus, the Bird of prey devouring him.
The Denderah picture exhibits all four in one. The Lion is presented treading down the Serpent. The Bird of prey is also perched upon it, while below is a plumed female figure holding out two cups, answering to Crater, the cup of wrath. The hieroglyphics read Knem, and are placed underneath. Knem means who conquers, or is conquered, referring to the victory over the serpent. The woman’s name is Her-ua, great enemy, referring to the great enemy for which her two cups are prepared and intended. The Syriac name is Aryo, the rending Lion, and the Arabic is Al Asad; both mean a lion coming vehemently, leaping forth as a flame!
It is a beautiful constellation of 95 stars, two of which are of the 1st magnitude, two of the 2nd, six of the 3rd, thirteen of the 4th. The brightest star, α (on the Ecliptic), marks the heart of the Lion (hence sometimes called by the moderns, Cor Leonis, the heart of the Lion). Its ancient name is Regulus, which means treading under foot. The next star, β, also of the 1st magnitude (in the tip of the tail), is named Denebola, the Judge or Lord who cometh. The star γ (in the mane) is called Al Giebha (Arabic), the exaltation. The star δ (on the hinder part of the back) is called Zosma, shining forth.
Other stars are named Sarcam (Hebrew), the joining; intimating that here is the point where the two ends of the Zodiacal circle have their joining. Another star has the name of Minchir al Asad (Arabic), the punishing or tearing of the Lion. Another is Deneb Aleced, the judge cometh who seizes. And another is Al Dafera (Arabic), the enemy put down. [5]
References
- The Power of the Fixed Stars, Joseph E. Rigor, 1979, p.109-110, 316-317, 322, 326-327, 331-332, 336.
- Astronomica, Manilius, 1st century AD, p.237.
- Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology, Vivian E. Robson, 1923, p.48.
- Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning, Richard H. Allen, 1889, p.252, 253.
- The Witness of the Stars, E. W. Bullinger, 39. Leo (the Lion).
