This late summer Full Moon featuring Leo and Aquarius reminds us to go have fun with like-hearted individuals. Find your group and celebrate! Leo is all about the Heart, and when Sister Moon comes around to face this Leo Sun, she has to shine back at him the bigger reality of Aquarius--that we cannot thrive unless we share our heart's love and creativity with others, for others.
A beautiful representative of the Leo Sun is the Egyptian Goddess, Sekhmet: Lioness, Goddess, Heart of the Sun. This ancient goddess comes down to us from the Age of Leo, when the lioness Sphinx watched over humankind. Below are only a few of Sekhmet's names that we still know of from this earlier Age.
Sekhmet, Great One of Magic
Mother
of the Gods
Lady of the House of Books
She Who Walks On
Forests of Rose Petals
One Who Was Before The Gods Were
Lady
of the Place of the Beginning of Time
Lady of Radiance
Revealer
of the Ancient Paths
Flaming One
Finder of
Ways
Protectress of the gods
Lady of the Scarlet-Colored
Garment
Pure One
She of Great Beauty and Hope
Keeper
of the Light
Lady of Strong Love
Self Contained
Only
One
Awakener
Lady of Enchantments
Opener of Ways
Lady
of Transformations
Lady of the Many Faces
(See The Temple of Goddess Spirituality, Dedicated to Sekhmet for more names )
Sekhmet, Leo and the Sun are all associated with the Heart. And like Sekhmet's names, the truth of the human heart is that we are full of possibilities; we are made up of many talents. This divine goddess shows us the abundant gifts that are possible if we trust our hearts to show us the way. This Path of the Heart is the road to Wisdom--to living a fulfilled, whole, self-aware life.
In Gregg Braden's video series Living From the Heart , he talks about the most important question we can ask ourselves: "Who Am I?" A very Leo/Aries sort of question. He then goes on explain how our left brain logic is not the only way to think about life and find direction. He talks about the new scientific discoveries that show us that our hearts actually have more neural networks than our brains. It is this Heart knowledge that gives us connection, compassion and insight into life--our feminine right-brain, the brain of the imagination. It is in uniting our head and our heart that we create a balanced life. " Fusing these two powerful neural networks, the brain and the heart, allows us to open the door to super-learning, deep intuitive wisdom and self-healing." (Gregg Braden)
Too often, our heart wants something and our ration brain tells us why we can't have it instead of figuring out how to get it ! Patriarchy has tried to cut us off from this source of deep wisdom by telling us that our hearts can't be trusted with important issues! Really????
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