So when we play with this new moon's Leo energy, we need to understand that we have a responsibility to be leaders as well as individuals; we have a responsibility to create not only for ourselves but for the greater good.
There's a fairy tale I use in my classes on developing feminine consciousness that helps explain what our purpose is this lifetime. Leo is all about purpose and expressing it in a concrete way. Since we are dealing with so many different crises at this time in our history, concerned people can take up the Leonine responsibility to lead that's one part of our purpose. You might have to lead in your relationships, in your work, in your schools, in your communities.
As many of you know,
fairy tales contain archetypal information about how to meet and solve the
problems and sorrows of life and continue on at a higher level of
consciousness, both collectively and personally. In fairy tales, kings
symbolize a collective dominant such as capitalism or Christianity as well
as a personal dominating belief about yourself. Queens symbolize the
emotional components of that collective paradigm or personal complex.
What happens when it's time for a paradigm shift? How and what would a
fairy tale tell us about that?
In this fairy tale, a king and a queen love each other so much that when the queen dies, she demands that the king only marry again if he can find someone just like her. She wants him to have the same support as she gave him. And because of that twisted promise, he does. His daughter grows up to "look' just like her mother and the king falls in love with her and demands to marry her. This part of the story sets up the situation: the feelings that supported the collective dominant are gone. There is no longer the emotional support for it. But the patriarchally-bound feminine spirit of life is so divorced from the laws of life that it colludes against new life to keep the old king in power. This is part of the feeling tone of this dominant do anything to stay in power, even to killing off the new life, ideas, ideals that want to be expressed.
Instead of stepping
aside and letting a new dominant belief arise naturally from the personal or
collective Unconscious, the Old king wants to continue to rule through his
daughter. He wants to use and manipulate the new feelings that are
arising to continue to hold onto his power.
This has always been
the problem with patriarchy, going back to the old Titans of Greece who swallowed their own children
rather than let them take over rulership when it was time for a change.
This is what we're seeing now in our culture capitalism, the old/new dominant
belief of the world, isn't working. It's based on values which are no longer
appropriate for what we face. And yet patriarchal thinking wants to hold
on to power and would rather have us die than create new life for the future.
In personal terms,
this old king keeps us in line, even when our feelings are telling us that
something is wrong. It's an unconscious set of rules that shapes our
vision of life, until we rebel and set out in search of our individual values
and beliefs. The old king for many Americans is the old religious beliefs
that we no longer value, yet which still unconsciously rule our behavior, keeping
us either bound to its precepts or in rebellion against it. The old king keeps us from
stepping into our personal power.
This fairy tale sets out, in symbolic form, the problems and the solution of a major paradigm shift, one we're going through right now. The patriarchy is so entrenched in our consciousness that even though we are no longer emotionally attached to its rules and beliefs, we let it continue on, sucking the life out of any new alternatives to its rule. This is Pluto going through Capricorn - while its energy is bringing up the 'dirt' about patriarchy and capitalism, the old power structure will do anything to hold onto power. Even make-believe that it has the people's interests at heart.
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