Venus in Leo - Ra Ra Ra Wonders, Miracles & Fallen Angels

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso has Venus in Leo
One of the readers of I Had A Dream Revisited 50th anniversary 28th August 1963
The current High Lama of the yellow hat school of Tibetan Buddism and Tibet's spiritual leader in exile. Escaping to India in 1959, he denounced the People's Republic of China and establishing a Tibetan government in exile. He travels the world for the welfare of the Tibetan nation, underlining the importance of compassion as the source of a happy life. However, world leaders and various institutions face pressure from a economically burgeoning China not to accept or recognise him as he continues to voice an opinion on contentious subjects for China and for repressive regimes in the World, including women's rights, the environment, and sexuality. It has been reported on the 13th August 2013 that the Chinese language website of the Tibetan government in exile was hacked and infected and software used to spy on visitors.
Dalai Lama's Chinese website hacked

From the 27th June 2013 until the 22nd July 2013 Venus was playing around to her hearts content in the sunny, vain-and-glorious Leo the Lion sign. This sign will want to
Ra and Roar itself around the cosmos at the drop of a hat. Ra being the Egyptian Sun god usually depicted with a massive solar disc atop his head mimicking a head-turning hairstyle in a most flamboyant display.

Artist Andy Warhol has Venus in Leo
Born Andrej Varchola into a family that practiced Byzantine Slavic Catholicism. He was deeply religious throughout his life apparently, lighting a candle, and praying for 15 minutes everyday. He also had an alter, crucifix and prayer book on his bedside table and used to volunteer at a shelter serving meals to the homeless.Warhol was also openly gay which is unacceptable to the church unless one is celibate, apparently.

Venus likes to indulge, feed the body, anoint it, make it look, smell and feel ‘ohh la la’ that is what she is about.Venus Come Out Of Your Shell  There are so many things Venus just loves, such as beauty in all it's forms, an appreciation of the finer things in life, like art, culture and social bonds. Relationships are a Venus speciality but money and fairness also part of the desires of Venus. A run through your own list will give you a clue on just how fundamental and central Venus is in our daily life. Love and Money are the two things we all want sorted and in place in order to feel they have got a good handle on life. You can deny one but it is unusual to deny both, at least not intentionally. So what was has it been like with the Lion running the ‘Love ‘n Money Show’? Perhaps we all had to dip deep into our reserves of benevolence and patronage.

Abbé Pierre has Venus in Leo
Born Henri Marie Joseph Grouès he was a French Catholic priest who a member of the  French Resistance during World War 2 and praised as a living legend. He also founded the Emmaus movement that helps the poor, the homeless and refugees. 

We would have demonstrated affection and desires in a very open hearted way but really, as a rule of thumb or just take the whole issue of hairstyles very seriously indeed ha! Venus here in this flamboyant, irrepressible and emotionally buoyant sign will have relatively few issues with displaying itself in its own inimitable way, regardless of the audience response. Regardless only because actually it somehow knows there is a very high chance of the reception will be positive or then maybe not. 

Singer/Actress/Diva Madonna has Venus in Leo
Everything including her name has involved religious iconography, including a cross on stage.

Those who view Venus in Leo with a negative eye are, well frankly, wrong and can be easily dismissed with a flick of the fringe or a rear swaying sashay. Venus in Leo time was all about the warmth, affection, lavish demonstrations, generosity, well so those with Venus in Leo may have told you. Actually these traits will apply whether to those born with this natally, or at any time Venus in Leo sashays on through. 

Singer/Dancer/X Factor Judge Cheryl Cole has Venus in Leo
Her tattooist displayed his work on her bottom in Instagram 2013 in the tattoo parlour temple.

If you wanted to attract, it would have been in your best interest to have been aware that during this time flattery WILL get you everywhere, don’t hold back by the way. Personal charisma, our physical appearance and how we show ourselves will get a boost of juice during these few Venus in Leo weeks as these issues would have risen up the notches. Venus in Leo is excellent for cheerleaders.

Actress Pamela Anderson has Venus in Leo
Famously discovered at a football game, when her face showed up on big screen she is a vegetarian endorsing PETA who ask us to consider the impact our actions have on animals

We would all have had a month where our relationships may have got a bit more dramatic or melodramatic depending on your bias, and Venus in Leo comes from a very deep bias which basically is: This is beautiful world lets get out and play in it to our hearts content. Self-indulgent, big-hearted and eye-wateringly charismatic, Leo is not one of those signs which says ‘Moi, non!’, therefore when Venus the Goddess of gorgeousness comes to visit this is quite a combo and can be a tour de force!

Mother Theresa of Calcutta has Venus in Leo
Born Agnes Gonxha in Albania, she spent most of her life in the Indian city of Calcutta caring for the sick and poor, especially children and founding the Missionaries of Charity. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and beatified by the Vatican only just one miracle away from sainthood. In 2013 doctors Serge Larivie and Genevieve Chenard, in the journal Studies in Religion/Sciences have criticised her reputation finding her ways 'rather dubious' and that her 'way of caring for the sick, her questionable political contacts, her suspicious management of the enormous sums of money she received, and her overly dogmatic views regarding, in particular, abortion, contraception, and divorce.' Dr Larivie has gone so far as to say
 'Given the parsimonious management of Mother Teresa's works, one may ask where the millions of dollars for the poorest of the poor have gone?'

Before we get too carried away with Venus in Leo it may also be the case that we all may have been much more pompous, vain and dominating and our egos hurt too easily if we did not receive our rightful worship. 
Key to understanding what is going on for us is to look at where in ourselves we are ‘Leo-attuned’, we all have degrees in our birth chart which looks out for any Leo vibration. Where is your personal Leo antenna? It will be good to look at how smoothly do the matters connected to your Leo house and/or planets run? Are they functioning as well as they could, or is there room for improvement?

Scientist Franz Halberg has Venus in Leo
He first used the term 'cicadian' describing the cicadian clock, a biochemical mechanism that drives adaptations to solar & lunar rhythms over 24 hour periods creating cicadian rhythms the optimum feel good. 

If you have Leo spanning the 5th zone of Romance & Creativity, you may find your ‘fun time’ gots a perk as what you do for the sheer love of it deepens and may go to another deeper level. The Guru Purnima गुरु पूर्णिमा is celebrated by both Hindus and Buddhists to give thanks to spiritual and academic teachers. This year it was the 22nd August 2013.
                 
Musician Andy Desmond known as Miten has Venus in Leo 
He performs with musical/ life partner singer Deva Premal after meeting at controversial guru, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh's (known as Osho), ashram in Pune, India when he was 48 and she was 20. They have gone on to become the 'Johnny & June Cash' of sacred music and are highly respected in the spiritual and yoga world for Premal's chantings of Indian Sanskrit mantras and Desmond's musical arrangements. 21 day mantra meditation

French Diet Guru Dr Pierre Dukan has Venus in Leo
Accounting for the best-selling success of his diet book in the UK he acknowledges 'It works and Carole Middleton' after she began the diet the engagement of her daughter Kate Middleton to Prince William was announced and her other daughter, Pippa Middleton also Venus in Leo, swayed her bottom into the press. Dukan was rich and famous.

Is your own Venus is in Leo, was this a time for you to welcome in new arrivals in the form of people or coins? Was this your time to have that ‘Wow factor’ and work it?
If you are a Sun sign Leo then this stuff was easy, right? Well to a point, even a bright shiny leader and ruler needs some down time to re-position the crown, work the hairspray and put in some curlers or gel for that extra bounce other Sun sign may just bounce at the wrong time.

Actor Tom Cruise has Venus in Leo

Looking back on the time that Venus was in Leo we may have had a glimpse of what life is like being so public, noticed and ‘on display’, we may have enjoyed much of it but then realized that actually there is a time and place for some hidden away, quiet me time, just to get things straight, which brings us right into Venus in Virgo which is where Venus has made her next move. With true Venus in Leo style demonstrated by actor Daniel Radcliffe, Venus in Leo as Harry Potter, when we are looking for the wonders we will often also have to battle our own Dementors.

UK Singer/Songwriter James Blake has Venus in Leo

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Full Moon in Leo - A Wolf in Snow Moon Clothing

Th Holocaust Remembrance Day 28th January, 2013.
The world remembers the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp at the same time as over 65 bodies so far, of young men and teenagers, hands tied behind their backs, gunshot wounds to the head, all summarily executed, were being dragged out of a ditch in Aleppo, northern Syria.

Known as the North Moon, the Ice Moon, the Cold Moon and the Snow Moon, on the 26th/27th January 2012 the Full Moon was in the fixed fire sign of Leo right opposite the cool, scientific and freedom loving Sun in Aquarius. How was it for you? Full Moons are traditionally a time of fulfilment and harvest, a London time of scooping up in our arms all the ripe fruits and bounty fallen at our feet as a result of the seeds sown under the previous New Moon. (New Moon in Capricorn - Serious Changes Germinating). This Full Moon is also known by Native Americans as the Wolf Moon when in the past packs of wolves, during this cold, lean winter time were hungry and howling at the moon. Wolves are predators that inhabit the night time and appear to function well under the moonlight. The image of the 'Big Bad Wolf' is dangerous, deceptive and destructive in folklore. It has also shape-shifted and mutated under the moon into the 'Werwolf', both a supernatural power and a curse. The Leo Full Moon no doubt would have been comfortable taking centre stage with the potential for this kind of drama.

Pioneering Film Director D. W. Griffiths has Sun in Aquarius/Moon in Leo
Best known for the The Birth of a Nation but also causing controversy over his positive portrayal of slavery and the Ku Klux Klan and negative presentation of African Americans.

All sounds well and good but what if the seeds that were sown were from a duff batch, or just good seeds, planted with the best of intentions but left untended, neglected and deprived of vital nutrients. If so, then we would have been staring at an empty and rather disappointing basket of goodies right now and scratching our heads in dulled bemusement, at best and frustrated anger, at worst. For about 5 days on and around this Full Moon time we should be able to gauge whether the ideas, projects or situations we instigated or experimented with at the last New Moon, a few weeks earlier, are worth pursuing or simply releasing. This is one of the Moon's gifts, if we watch her and take note, she could point towards and subtly illuminate our future path. Over these few days check the signs, stare at your basket, make sure that you appreciate the plump, juicy fruits of your labour and be ready to discard those that became dry and withered on the vine and not to your design.

Hollywood Costume Designer Helen Rose has Sun in Aquarius/Moon in Leo
Also famous for designing wedding dresses namely for Grace Kelly and Liz Taylor.
'I..... saw in huge headlines that an atrocious, senseless murder had been committed. I almost fainted when I saw the picture of Babe and of a fellow he had introduced me to as 'his best friend.'They had been accused of murdering a young boy. I was sure that some mistake.... To connect my friend with such a crime was just ridiculous, he was the last person in the world we would suspect capable of such a thing. Though we called him 'Babe' his full name was Nathan Leopold, Jr. and his friend was Richard Loeb'
(students Leopold & Loeb tried to commit 'the perfect crime' depicted in Hitchcock's Rope

The ‘Great Mirror In The Sky', the astrological map, reflects an image and sometimes what is reflected back at us may be difficult to accept in the full glare of the light of day. Yet avoiding looking at the mirror reflections of us will definitely not make anything go away. These shadows and ghosts come out to haunt us at night, anyway. They will not leave us in peace if we ignore them so we may as well accept them as parts of ourselves that need attention and use their whispers and hunches - come the daylight we can often be pleasantly surprised by what we find, hmm, not so bad after all. There may even be days where we say ‘Looking good’ and for all you Leo Moon's you can double that number. The few days that lead up to the Full Moon is the Gibbous period, a time to forage for information and learn by getting our facts stockpiled and being better informed in order to be able to move forward. Moonshine is just another way of looking at sunshine after all and a chance of learning to see things differently.

Actress Nora Gregor has Sun in Aquarius/Moon in Leo
Her most famous role was in Jean Renoir's  La Regle de jeu (The Rules of the Game) and its use of
 'deep focus', where the background action is as important as the foreground, maybe more so sometimes.

Full Moons are an astronomical opposition between the Sun and Moon. For astrologers, oppositions bring the potential for both hyper-awareness and a contradictions that need resolution. A balance must be found. Well the attention-grabbing and passionate Leo Moon faced a wake-up call from the dispassionate and fair-minded Aquarian Sun, 'look at me' hollered Luna Leo, 'no, check yourself, before you wreck yourself, reign it in and be aware of others' , finger wags the Solar Aquarian. 

Superstar Footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has Sun in Aquarius/Moon in Leo
The most expensive player in football history

The monthly board meeting of the ‘Full Moon Corps’ necessitated and convened by the Sun and Moon assembled with a few other key representatives present. Mercury, Master of Trade and Communications, Jupiter Master of Sales and Marketing, Saturn Master of Working Constraints & Limitations and Uranus Master of Surprise.

Mercury – The IT Geek from the Department of Aquarius, was dressed in a matching colour to the Sun with the addition of flashes of electric blue and aquamarine. A geek maybe but dressed as a hipster and it seems plugged into the mainframe of information. This Geek chic apparently knows everyone and was absolutely everybody's friend, arriving in unisex clothing, of indeterminate age and flying around, rushed off its winged feet. This Mercury had the Sun's ear, in fact they seem in cahoots about something. 

Motto: Be futuristic and be clever.

Artist & Singer for the band Incubus Brandon Boyd has Sun in Aquarius/Moon in Leo & Mercury in Aquarius
'I have always idolised eccentric people'

Saturn – The Senior Accountant up from the bowels of the organisation, the Department of Scorpio was dressed in a traditional suit cut from an expensive cloth. Traditionally known for being dour and craggy but here in Scorpio he had a roguish glint in his eye. He may be holding on to a secret that only he knows and which seems to give him immense pleasure. Saturn is the elder statesman of the company and also it’s longest serving employee. He rose to the top slowly, diligently working his way up but is now a loyal and valued member of the firm. He knows the ‘nuts and bolts’ of the company and is often called in when things get too out of hand or when the company has over-reached or becomes over-stretched. Saturn is called in to reset the boundaries and to impose the necessary limits. When Saturn enters the room everyone expects to hear the dreaded words ‘austerity’ ‘restrict’ and ‘necessary’. Every one is slightly twitchy and trawling back through their minds to check whether they may well be hauled over the coals or called to account. This month, Saturn is called in again, this time to serve a restraining order on the collective-minded Sun and Mercury, who are both in accordance saying ‘let everyone benefit from the spoils, be even handed and let us share the profits equally’. ‘Now, now’ chastens Saturn, we all love the sentiment but very soon the coffers will dry up and we could have a mutiny on hands’. Saturn also scowls at the drama queen La Luna Leo, whose does not seem to be concentrating on the job at all. In fact, she is acting like it is her divine right to submit expenses for her extra holidays, money for pampering and for various extravagant social events. Saturn is obliged to step in and cut the budget completely and had his eye on the door waiting for La Luna's more restrained, trimmer replacement to appear. Motto: Be responsible and be cautious.

Actor Jack Lemmon has Sun in Aquarius/Moon in Leo & Saturn in Scorpio
'It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.'

Uranus – Head of Research & Development up from the Aries research facility was dressed in a bright red boiler suit. Always surprising, outlandish and odd, he was unmistakably even more brash, youthful and pioneering and appeared to be on the brink of a breakthrough and quite unable to contain his excitement. He appeared frustrated to be called in to such a meeting when there is so much excitement going on elsewhere. His job was to provide back up and bring in further new ideas. He was expected to interject flashes of innovation and bright, exciting news of the latest developments. 'Let's think of a new way around this old problems’, lets think outside the box, go where we have never previously dared. Motto: Be brave and be edgy.

Singer James Brown has Uranus in Aries/Leo Moon
'The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing'

Jupiter – Head of Sales and Marketing, from Gemini/Gemini, is dressed in a ‘bang on trend’ clothes and ready to be very direct. Usually one for wild gesticulations and big gestures but for a while seemed distracted by a torrent of emails, texts and phone calls. His attention is scattered and hardly focused on the job in hand which looks like a bit of a clean-up operation. None the less, much like his buddy of the moment, Uranus, he had been called in to provide support by bringing tales of new and exciting horizons within touching distance. Motto: Be sharp and be informed.

The Simpsons creator, Matt Groening has Sun in Aquarius/Moon in Leo & Jupiter in Gemini
'I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time..I love the idea that we put in jokes the kids don't get and that later, when they grow up, read a few books, go to college and watch the show again, they can get it on a completely different level'

The Ego orientated Leo Full Moon and the Everyman Sun in Aquarius does point towards issues of flagrant self interest versus universal charity that we could be faced with in spades in the coming days. 

General Douglas MacArthur has Sun in Aquarius/Moon in Leo

'The American Caesar' ,his son Arthur MacArthur changed his name and 'went missing in action' 

to avoid his father's 'relentless love' and of course the expected West Point military route.

We could also feel an inrush of faith and hope as a result of the Jupiter effect, or experience a sizzling sense of breakthrough with the Uranus effect, and obviously the balancing, doubting, cautious voice, warning us against over reaching will come with the Saturn effect. A mixture of boundless ideas and hope with the tinge of cautious realism well actually that may be a great cocktail, let's have a double. There does appear to be quite a bit more emphasis on the expansive, illuminating and experimental right now, so lets go with our ideas, give them room and air to breathe, lets dare to dream and try the what ifs and why nots and embrace the novel and the new. Have little fear because Saturn will restrain our more 'pie in the sky ideas' whilst providing practical support for the more workable ones. Looks like a 'win/win' put that way. However, it is also true that many people will either unconsciously or wittingly pass through this week with little or no noticeable change in their day to day lives. Daily life and it’s rituals will ebb and flow as per usual, both inner and outer events could seamlessly blur into our usual repetitive routines. Hopefully, a significant number of us will register the alterations and will be affected by, the shifting currents of change mirrored in the skies. Maybe we can capitalize on the changes, tack favourably with the trade winds, surf on that jet streams, if only in our minds and introduce the changes or at least the costume changes.

Forerunner of burlesque Gypsy Rose Lee has Sun in Aquarius/Moon in Leo
'I wasn't naked I was completely covered by a blue spotlight'

This Full Moon was also at 7 degrees of Leo, in the middle of the constellation of the Crab. Here lies the nest of Praecipe, known as The Beehive, or Crib, this is a cluster of stars that brings to mind the industrious bee and draws on this adventurous energy. Tapping into and relating to this energy can feed our spirits and nurture our nascent dreams. It also has a repution for reckless adventure and a driven nature so we may feel that we must press on and go about our 'busy-bee-ness’ but it can get a little carried away and invite overindulgence, a love of stimulants and narcotics.

Actor Oliver Reed has Sun in Aquarius/Moon in Leo
Known for his 'excessive binge bouts, macho image and bellicose demeanour he went for a combination, drinking 106 pints of beer on a two-day bender, during an arm-wrestling competition in Guernsey.

The choice is always ours. Calm down our mawing egos and yet find ways in which to show-off our unique individuality. Cater for our own needs whilst not impinging on others. Respecting the call of our inner natures as well as allowing for the variety of different calls of others.  Drive ahead with our vision, be brave, pioneering and risk taking whilst also heeding due care and caution. Be informed, clever, smart, objective and experimental. Yet, don’t lose focus or get too scattered and find ways to stay connected to other things besides simple facts, such as emotions, the unknowable, the irrational and the intuitive. Phew! time for those those stimulants.

We will have gathered more energy to forge ahead but then again so will everyone else around us. The need to respect and listen to what others have to say may just save us and those around us, an exhausting, draining and needless confrontation.

Full Moons are a time of high tides and surging seas as we have seen quite literally.(Taurus full Moon - Shelter From Hurricane Sandy). They can also be a time of dazzling insights, brave ideas and optimism. We want to surge forward with our dreams and visions. Now we also want to be brave, informed, clever and a tad cautious. We really needed that Leo Full Moon to have cast light to some darker corners of our life and like a follow-spot shine the blessings of the universe on our path. Maybe we all will not have the idea of taking centre stage. Ok, so some of us can all also feel a bit like we are stumbling around in the dark, a little on the lost side for a while, relying only on instinct and yes, just howling at the moon occasionally.

Actor & Singer for Brooklyn's TV on the Radio, Tunde Adebimpe has Sun in Aquarius/Moon in Leo
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50 Shades of Play - New Moon in Leo

On 17^th August 2012 the Moon moves out of it’s dark Balsamic phase and starts afresh. Waiting in the wings for its cue is the New Moon. This month the New Moon occurs in 25 degrees of Leo. This degree falls one degree shy of the Fixed Star Alphard, which lists ‘unethical’ and ‘lacking in control’ as its likely possibilities. Taken by itself it may pass by unnoticed but on this New Moon it is not just ‘by itself’ for there are some other critical planetary bed-fellows pulling at the duvet and making a nuisance of themselves. Most notably, Venus in Cancer's opposition with Pluto in Capricorn as well as Mars in Libra's conjunction with Saturn exalted in Libra.

The Venus opposition with Pluto at the time of the New Moon would have just passed its peak but will still be in operation. It will bring to the surface simmering and smoldering resentments, shady obsessions and secret compulsions. Sex could get seedier or steamier; either way what is normally hidden under the duvet may be dragged into the glare of over-exposure. We should start to get used to dragging the shady into the light because Saturn is about to leave its journey through Libra and enter Scorpio in a few months. Saturn makes sure we know what coming to us, it punishes and disciplines our 'out of bounds' behaviours and in the sign of the Scorpion it will have its beady eye on taboos and private affairs. In other words what you thought could be kept a naughty secret may be secret no more. But Saturn is not yet in Scorpio, it is still in Libra and at the New Moon gets a shunt from the planet Mars, the warrior – Mr Action Man swings into LibraTown (relationships) and teams up with the Sherif (Saturn) to finally rid the town of the outlaw menace and bandit infractions. ‘Rules is rules and you gotta live by them or suffer the consequences’ shouts the Sheriff 'oh, and while your about it, clean up your act'.

For us simple townsfolk going about our ordinary business in LibraTown this new posse combination of Saturn and Mars may just shake things up, we may cast anxious eyes over our Libra stuff like our relationships, commitments and contracts and double check to make sure that everything is ok, and if it isn’t then drastic action may have to be taken. 

This may be us taking some action, rectifying things before the posse comes' a knocking, or we may dally, close our eyes and whistle which means the posse will do it for us anyway.

Venus’s position comes into the Pluto Uranus square (Uranus vs Pluto), a combination of heavy proportions and it goes to form a T-square, Venus acting as a trigger or release for the tight and explosive energies of the two outer planets. This energy may be declining slightly in potency but will be sparked off again by the New Moon. There is also another building T-square or more accurately a Grand Cross on the horizon again, which directly involves the New Moon, Neptune in Pisces and the Nodal axis of Gemini and Sagittarius. Whilst not really exact, on the 17th it is ‘in the mix’ and gathering momentum. The next day the Moon moves exactly into its Grand Cross position, and although fleeting it can still act as a trigger. A few days later, on the 23rd the Sun moves into Virgo and also keys into the Grand Cross position exactly.

Essentially this criss-crossing of planetary energies could bring some new and surprising events, information or people into our lives. New Moons are times when there is often a spark of novelty or freshness, as we start again or begin new projects or undertakings. The few days around the New Moon is excellent for trying out new things, whether experimenting with new styles trying, new tastes or generating ideas this is a time for experimentation and play. 

All joyful participation will be rewarded and flavoured with renewed hope and a child-like innocence (remember that). Try something new, have a go at that class you keep stalling on starting, be brave and definitely make that bid. The inclusion of the Nodal energies in the building T-square will amplify the ‘fated’ or destined quality and could be the breath of fresh warm air to form extra ripples over the surface tensions that speeds our boat of dreams along the deep Neptunian waters.

Ok, so let's dream a little......

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