A GLORIOUS ANIMAL EGO
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SIDEREAL LEO Born Aug 16-Sept 15
Planetary Proclamation
The Sun gives Leo birthright to rule. The Sun is what enthrones Leo; the Sun makes a Leo feel good, alive. The lack of Sunshine will have the opposite effect. Leos trapped in the dark, or in rainy weather start to deflate and decay until the Sun can come out. Pity the Leo in solitary confinement, or who lives in a geographical location where a six-month night is a yearly occurrence. The result of sun-depravation for all humans is unrelenting depression; but Leos feel it far worse.
Leo factoid: Leos LIKE to be bitten and scratched.
All Heart, No Brain
The Leo ego is the beating heart. Leos speak from the heart—it aggrandizes them. Behind the display, though, is a puzzlement. Leos cultivate a heart-felt selfishness: what’s best for them is also best for everybody! They assume the rest of the world would be satisfied with the basic elemental aspects of life, as they are. The complexity and purpose of human sacrifice, guilt, anxiety or perspicacity escapes them. The heart allows Leos to live only in the moment; the human memory is suppressed because it harms their egos, and reduces the single-mindedness that they need for the hunt.
Fight, Flight
There’s only two options for a Leo: win or lose; life or death. Leos are intense because they play for keeps. Male Leos live short fast lives unless they’re careful. They expire along with their usefulness. Leo buffoon celebrity Gene Simmons is an example of the has-been. Octogenarian actor Sean Connery is the O.G. Leo. Females fare better through cooperation and community, and, as a result, can delay the inevitable for as long as possible. Forever young and sexually active women Jacqueline Bisset or Kim Cattrall are examples of well-preserved Sidereal Leos living their erotic mantras well into “old” age.
Fire Feeds on Change
The situation isn’t dualism; Leos are in one mode or the other as in a unity of opposites; their Tao is the dichotomy of predator and prey. You can’t be both; but only in turn. Leos are the living advertisement of their own mind-set. You can’t disassociate a fixed-sign Leo from what he feels because he IS what he feels. There is no artifice; no evolution; the Leo merely refines the objectification of what he or she is. Michael Jackson and Charlie Parker were both Sidereal Leos who never separated from their music or from the images of themselves it created. Both maintained the essence of themselves until their own demons tracked them down and ate them like hyenas do lions in the wild.
The Toothless Leo
Putrefaction occurs in a Leo when what they rule becomes obsolete. Leo Black Panther and self-proclaimed rapist Eldridge Cleaver faded fast when his party program was discarded; Leo Vietnam war criminal and disgraced president Lyndon Johnson folded like a house of cards when his imperialist dream collapsed. Leos live and die by their creed; however archaic and unwieldy. They go down with the ship.
Sex and Anger
The two domains of Leo are fucking and fighting. Sex is domination, the release of anger; Anger is the spool from which sexual desire is uncoiled. Sex with a Leo can involve biting and scratching; Leos can have sex with their enemies, or survive off masturbation for years, since “love” in the human sense doesn’t enter into it, at all. Leo NBA star and egomaniac Wilt Chamberlain claims to have fucked thousands of women, none of whom he gave a damn about. For stunted Leos like this, mere mating is the overweening obligation and quantity is the only yardstick. Leos are at their most fierce during sex and when outraged; the two extremes surrounding a life otherwise dominated by sloth and submission. The normal state of Leo is torpid transference, and they can only be engaged when angry or horny. Sidereal Leo and bad-boy actor and activist Sean Penn is an example of the hot-headed, choleric Leo personality type; out-of-control is normal.
Fats and Death
For Leos to live a long life, they need to control the one thing they crave the most: fat. Fat is what gives them the high-octane energy to provide glucose to evertything but the brain, starving that organ, and also cloggings the heart and veins. The Leo heart must be fat-free to work properly. Any problem with the heart will drain the life out of a Leo, fast. Fats track Leos like a Father Time ready to cut them out of the pride; there’s a limit to the largess of life for the predator. The laws of the jungle are the same for everybody. Unless Leos can learn to save their hearts, from fat—and from hard-heartedness—they will descend from the hunter to the hunted as a matter of course, and meet with a similarly grisly and untimely end.
Sex and Fat
Leos should beware of the effect of oil and saturated fats in the diet. While fresh oils like cold-pressed olive oil or natural coconut oil are less harmful, ALL fats turn to acid in the Leo heart and will slow it down and kill it as surely as a bullet will. The advantages to living longer means only one thing to Leo: having sex more often and for a longer part of the lifespan. The demise of the Leo sex drive is like the proverbial Eskimo without teeth; without the libido, life itself becomes redundant. A Leo without sexual desire can only hope for a swift and painless death.
Like a pet cat with too much food available, the Leo will become obese, lethargic and self-indulgent when the fat levels get too high. The adamant flesh-loving Leo will have to give up meat to live longer. Meat eaters die of fat, whether by heart disease or cancer. Meats are the traditional sources of protein, minerals, and B vitamins, but the fats and proteins in meat actually sabotage the body’s own cell-building systems as well. Eating animals and their byproducts for short-term energy gain is a temptation, but leaves behind serious and degenerating problems.
Unless a person is a reverent and consistent exerciser who can regularly reach the inner chemical temperature required to burn fat, whatever fat you eat stays with you forever, clogging veins, spleen and colon until they burst. Fats fill your veins with a pasty splurg, that will eventually smother the overtaxed blood pump—the heart. Heart problems can be prevented and treated with a non-meat, macrobiotic diet.
At the heart is the GRAIN
Leo heart rules the Leo mind. It pays to consider the Biblical prophesy of the lion laying down with the lamb: Leos can and will be successful vegetarians if they follow a modified Macrobiotic diet.
Technically, this means eating balanced meals that consist of two parts whole grains and one part seasonal vegetables, with fermented foods and nonpoisonous favor enhancing sauces. Theoretically, the Macro Way is a state of grace achieved when you simply eat to live, and not the other way around. When it comes to eating, Leos need try to adopt a long term outlook: you’ll be eating every day of the rest of your life, so why eat to shorten your life? Resist the thrall of our food-as-profit-making-commodity culture that beckons us toward nutritional suicide and genetic degradation. Leos! Lead yourself and your pride out of the miasma of nutrition-based illness and its ensuing despair and depression.
Bow Down Before the True Greens
If you must eat meat or otherwise put indigestible fat and gristle in your gut, you must also compensate in equal measure by eating roughage. One must endeavor to eat sauteed or steamed greens every day. FYI: there are only three “true” greens: collards, kale and broccoli. Don’t even fool yourself into thinking lettuce, spinach or chard can replace the nutritional value of a True Green. It’s the leathery toughness of the leaf that gives it the biological banquet of vitamins and minerals that you cannot find elsewhere.
Vegetarianism requires a complete mental turnaround for Leo. How to “replace” meat? The bad news is that you cannot. You must find the taste and texture satisfaction some other way. Blood-lust aside, meat by definition is unhealthy: why would you be even looking for a replacement? A sea change must take place. Is the king still liable to the addictions and short-sightedness of a peasant? Do you really want to take dead or rancid cells into the body? Is the raucous taste of meat a legitimate craving or merely a clever package for slow agony and early death? A come-hither smell that leads you to your own version of a Waterloo?
Meat Stinks—the Case Against Predation
Who said that this trash-or-treasure protein option was actually good tasting, anyway? Your erstwhile dying parents, and their largely prematurely dead forbears? The vegetarian must think outside the box, in this case, the mental cage. Hunger is not unexpected and does not have to be satiated in the fastest possible way. The preparation and cooking of whole grains and true greens will humble Leos and give them time to think.
Grain, not Gristle
A large heaping of brown rice or other whole grain contains almost all the proteins and carbohydrates that the body needs; it’s the perfectly balanced food—halfway between acid and alkaline. That’s right: whole grains replaces meat. If you must have a centerpiece on the plate, let it be the grain, not the gristle.
But let’s say you just need the bulk and feel of meat, as well as the taste. The Indonesian staple Tempeh may be your answer. It comes in meat-like slabs, and you can fry it, broil it, and flavor it with bacon-bits if you want; whatever you need to chow down this great source of non-fat protein, B-vitamins and friendly intestinal flora. Enterprising cooks could use gluten—the grain “essence” without the starch—to make into a cutlet-like substitute that can be flavored at will. There IS life after meat, Leos, so take heart, you can still pounce on your prey.
Vitamins and Minerals
The vitamin hand-maiden to the Leo king is vitamin E. This derivative from wheat germ is actually an oil which disperses and emulsifies the “bad” fats and other acidic gunk in the bloodstream and muscles. Vitamin E is the forgiving vitamin—when you take it you are forgiving yourself your wretched excesses, and healing all the damaged tissue that injuries have left behind. By megadosing 6,000 I.U.s of vitamin E. every day, you are cleaning out the very toxins and impurities in the blood that you may have put there earlier with a lousy diet. Vitamin E will burn away the greasy leftovers in the blood, leaving your veins clear, your heart strong, and, most important; increase the libido and virility
Recommended Vitamins Brands
HEALTHY ORIGINS, 100% natural Vitamin E, 1,000 IU caps
CARLSON Vitamin A & D combination, 25,000-1000 IU caps
CARLSON Vitamin C powder with Calcium
KAL Dolomite Calcium & Magnesium, powder
JARROW Formula B-complex caps
All items are available at: iherb.com.
Leo and the Hair Test
Leos will also be pleased to know that vitamin E makes for beautiful, healthy hair—along with vitamin C and the B-vitamins. It’s worth mentioning that the HAIR TEST, an inexpensive and non-invasive alternative to the blood test, is also the best way to check for anemia or any vitamin or mineral deficiency. A hair test can tell the body’s overall condition more accurately than blood—hair is the final product—a printout our body’s chemistry.
The blood test is a only snapshot of a circulating “highway” of information—all about transition—while the hair represents the entirety of our chemical wellness. Most doctors don’t know or feign ignorance of the hair test because it adds nothing to their profit margins. In the case of Leo, deficiencies revealed by a hair test are usually zinc, calcium, magnesium, and shortages of vitamins A, D and the B-complex.
The Leo Legacy
Leos can spin out of control when faced with who they really are—always a shock after having been mesmerized by one’s own reports of ones own greatness. The resulting complete loss of Leo vitality can be reversed by embracing change and humility. For the king of beasts, less can be more. Less fat; more energy, less meat; more life. Less authoritarianism; more freedom.
