Sun enters Leo 11:16am today (Raleigh, NC). 10:16am for our friends in Memphis, TN. The invisible old Moon will be close behind, entering Leo at 4:34am Sunday.
Consulting our ancient mandala <<<click on link to go to zodiac mandala, locating Leo (bottom right), we see Sun rules in that sign. While you are at the mandala take a look at Cancer on the bottom (just before Leo, going counter clockwise). See the Moon listed as ruler of Cancer.The
So the Sun and Moon are coruling. Ego and soul are both strong and working together. But by Sun morn the power will not be shared so equally, for the Moon, while fun and inspiring in Leo is not in power. These last 20 or so hours of the Moon in Cancer are like a period of nurturing preparation before the big event.
What big event? The Sun meeting Mars in Leo. The Sun meets Mars about every 26 months. Each meeting happens about 2 signs further in the zodiac than the last. For instance Sun met Mars in Aquarius during the period Hosni Mubarak was struggling to hold power in the face of thousands of protesters demanding his resignation in early Feb 2011.
Sun is in its detriment in Aquarius. Any planet opposite its ruling sign is in the weakest position to fulfill its mandate. For example Venus, the planet of kindness, rules in Libra and is in detriment in Aries. List showing planets in detriment. <<Click on link and scroll down to 2nd list. The list is just a more explicit rundown of rulership/detriment info in zodiac mandala.
So the big light of everyone's life ceded power to the military when Sun met Mars in Aquarius. Two years and 2 months later Sun met Mars in Aries during the hunt for the bombers of the Boston Marathon. Sun was 31 minutes behind Mars the moment of first explosion and was overtaking Mars during the hunt. When the surviving brother was captured the Sun was 24 minutes ahead of Mars.
The last meeting, in Gemini in 2015 was June 17 marked by the Charleston Church shooting. A young man sat in the evening congregation, passing himself off as a fellow worshipper, and then pulled out his automatic handgun and killed 9 people. Sun was 56 minutes ahead of Mars at the moment of the shooting.
This time they meet July 26 at 4 Leo. The closest lineup is 00:57 (July 27) Universal Time which translates to 8:57pm July 26 in Raleigh.
Please, please use this information only as a launch for meditating on the inevitability of violence. We consume a variety of life forms every day, people are dying violent deaths every day. When the Sun meets Mars it just is a matter of ego and will coming together. We are here to learn how to control ourselves while living among others, some with more self control set good examples and bring stability, others with less self control give us opportunities to control ourselves in the face of challenge.
The above examples are hard-to-ignore dramatic events, but there is also a story that was unfolding in each of our lives. Can you recall something about your life during past Sun Mars meetings. It is a revealing meditation to cycle through the dates of Sun Mars meetings and recall events in your life. Surprising and enlightning story lines emerge and your sense of your own history takes on a more organized and forgiven theme.
One last note; while the last three meetups were marked by dramatic events, I don't see a comparable event for the Sun Mars conjunction in Aug 10, 2002. That's the most recent conjunction occurring in the sign Leo. Things were calmer then compared to the last 6 years of Uranus in Aries. Still if you can recall what was going on in your life in late summer 2002 you can get an idea of how the ego is becoming more determined to have fun or get its way in a relatively controlled environment. Now transfer that determination to express yourself in the relative calm of 2002 to the protracted explosion of 2017. Another difference in this meetup is that the lead time was mostly in Cancer, we only now see the Sun entering Leo in the last 4 days before the meeting. In 2002 the Sun was in Leo, therefor ruling, for 17 days before meeting the martial planet.
The first chart for today shows Sun entering Leo and Moon at 19 Cancer. You can see Sun a few degrees behind Mars.
The Sun and Mars will be lined up July 26 8:57pm EDT
