Mazal Leo — the Jewish zodiac sign of the month of Av

The character of the mazal Leo

Core portrait

Born in the heart of summer, under the Sun itself, you are a presence: you enter, and the room knows it. There is in you a natural royalty — broad generosity, protection of the weak, a sense of honor, an incapacity for smallness. You see big, give big, forgive big; like the Sun, you do not know how to shine halfway: what you love, you make radiant; what you undertake, you carry high. Your heart is warm and your courage real — you go to the front for your own without one hesitation. Your challenge is that of all kings: pride. The need to be admired can become your prison, and flattery your poison. The accomplished Leo is the one who no longer needs the throne to know who he is.

Leo rising

“The house of life”

According to an ancient teaching reported in the name of the Book of the Angel Raziel, the sign rising on the eastern horizon at the moment of birth is “the house of life” — the door through which each one meets the world. Here is what this house gives to those born under a Leo rising.

Your house of life has a royal gate. You meet the world with presence and dignity: people notice you before you have spoken, they listen when you speak. In this house existence is built in full light — responsibilities come to you, eyes too, and you learned early to carry both. You came into the world through the door of honor: your decisive choices have always had a dimension of pride or greatness — doing things well, doing them grandly, never falling low.

What others see first: The first thing people see of you is assurance: someone confident, generous, solar, made for first places. They sometimes believe you proud — that is the price of the gate: few guess what it costs you to hold it open and upright.

The Moon in Leo

The inner soul

The tradition gives the Moon a place apart: Israel counts its months by her and compares itself to her. The natal Moon describes the emotional life — here is the soul of those whose Moon was crossing this sign at their birth.

Your soul has a royal heart: it loves grandly, rejoices grandly, suffers grandly — and needs to be seen. An unshared joy is, in you, half a joy; an ignored sorrow, a double sorrow. Your sharpest wounds touch honor: ingratitude and humiliation mark you more than anything. For your heart to breathe, it needs sincere recognition, occasions to give and to celebrate, and people around you who applaud without flattering. And what a strength is yours: this generosity of heart — your warmth lifts others up, and your well-placed pride forbids you lowness, even wounded.

The month of Av

The spiritual path of Leo

Av is the month of the Temple's destruction — and the month in which, says the tradition, consolation will be born: you were born to turn mourning into strength and to raise up what has fallen. Hearing is the faculty of your month: your spiritual work is to listen — you who speak so well — for the Sun too must learn the night. Splendor (Hod), your quality of the month, is the one that gives itself: to reign is to serve.