In the fairy
tale, the princess, just like her mother, is a Father's Daughter, which means
that her perception of life is based on a masculine paradigm and belief
system. We are all men and women alike Father's Daughters. Our
feminine nature has been vilified and tamed by the patriarchy's rules and
beliefs. While the princess is smart and independent, she isn't free to
express herself and chose a king of her own desires. She is going to be
forced to marry her father! (While many storytellers see this as a fairy
tale about rape and incest, on a larger social scale, it is about the rape of
the individual soul by the Patriarchy the Father!)
So it is up to the
princess to solve this problem if she wants a life of her own. It is the
feeling, intuitive feminine side of life which is being dominated and used by
the patriarchy. So it is this feminine consciousness especially in
women which must go on the heroine's journey and transform in order to bring
down the father's rule and discover a new king and new rules.
Astrologically, this is the Cancer energy that is the grounding energy of the Cardinal T-square. A new relationship to our emotional body is in order. Feminine consciousness needs to be transformed and freed from the grip of patriarchy if we're going to change ourselves and change the world. (Next month we'll continue the story about how the princess takes things into her own hands.)
This Leo story calls
to our royal nature to face the fact that the old king keeps us from our unique
vision and creativity, for we have to give that creativity to feed his visions
rather than our own.
The Sabian symbol for the Moon and Sun at 18* Leo is: A chemistry teacher questions his students about a complex synthesis. How do we mix the basic elements of life to create our life? We do it through all the tests we go through in life, all our experiences that finally take on meaning for us. There are stages of learning, development and spiritual growth we need to go through to arrive at a new integration of heart and mind, soul and spirit. Our inner teacher wants to know if we get it!
We are still in the season of Lammas. May your first harvests be fruitful and remember to make them sacred!
From Bernadette Brady's Visual Astrology newsletter:
By 12 August look to the west for the first crescent moon in the early twilight and then keep watching above this moon (below if you are in the southern hemisphere) to see the three lights of Venus, Mars and Saturn.
Then listen for news of reconciliation or the beginning of talks that attempt to heal old wounds. In your own life this is also a time to heal old wounds, so reach out to those inyour life who are in exile in some way. Families and friends also have times of conflict and times of healing. This I believe is a time of healing.
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