SATURN IN LEO
MORE LEO THAN LEO
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The ten articles in the Saturn in Leo series:
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Who Says I am not Born under the Special Protection of God? Saturn in Leo: Leos feel very special. They feel talented and chosen. This article presents a discussion of the basic issues for Saturn in Leo with examples from the lives of famous people you can learn from. How did Lawrence of Arabia handle Saturn in Leo? Charlie Chaplin? Hitler? How are you going to handle it? By the way, do you know whose quote that is, "Who says I am not born under the special protection of God?"
- You Think Some Great Power Failed You Saturn in Leo in the 10th House: Sample reading for a young man with Saturn in Leo in the 10th house who trained for years for the priesthood only to discover that he was an atheist. Or so he thought. My answer may surprise you.
- Brush up on Your Solar Gods and Heroes This article gives you some inspiration as it explores the symbols associated with the expression of Leo and the Sun in the astrology chart. These are the things to which Saturn in Leo most aspires.
- Your second Saturn Return in Leo Saturn in Leo. Born between 1946-48? Turning 60 soon? So are the countries India, Pakistan, Israel and Palestine. Does this tell you something? Pakistan has been in the news lately. It is becoming the darling of American foreign policy. Read more. Yours is the generation that came into the world on the defensive, fighting for your life, just like these countries.
- Saturn in Leo in History This article highlights events that occurred when Saturn was in Leo all the way back to 0 CE, many having to do with the Middle East. The countries of Pakistan, India, Palestine and Israel are now experiencing their second Saturn Returns.
- When It's Time to Create a Better God Creativity is a big issues with Saturn in Leo. Although this concept may sound strange, considered symbolically, this is one of the most pressing necessities for those with Saturn in Leo,to keep evolving their concept of deity until they get to something they can honestly worship! . Read about Carlos, the Mexican airline pilot, Alexandra the scientist and others who take this personal journey. These are true life stories with the names changed to protect privacy.
- Genesis -- Don't Leave Home without It Saturn in Leo. Find out what the story of creation can do for you in your personal journey!
- When Blessings Turn to Curses Saturn in Leo. This is a very special area of interest for those with Saturn in Leo ... what do you do when there's too much of a good thing? So many of the Saturn in Leo people I read for have so much talent it almost becomes a burden. Are you one of these?
- Frankenstein, a very special myth for those born with Saturn in Leo. Frankenstein is the creature, the created, who figures out he is ugly and turns on his Creator. Do you get it? Read a complete discussion for some core Saturn in Leo issues.
This page is devoted to quotes by those with Saturn in Leo that I thought were particularly illustrative of the issues and those icons that mark your generation. Each quote is followed by a brief discussion to familiarize you with the issue.
We also have icons for you. Nobody knows how to "icon" better than Saturn in Leo.
ICONS FOR OUR TIMES?
the quintessential "Other Woman", Camilla Parker-Bowles
ICON FOR OUR TIMES?
Arnold
ICON FOR OUR TIMES?
OJ Simpson with Nicole
AN ICON FOR OUR TIMES?
King Louis XIV of France
AN ICON FOR ALL TIME!
Talk about famous people ... icons ... all I had to do was type their first names in google and I got pages!
Please notice there is a hint of notoriety with these icons as well as heroic stature. Same goes for Adolf Hitler, Saturn in Leo icon for the 1940s.
QUOTES
Genesis And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Create, create, create. No question Saturn in Leo creates. Question is what! And from where? From the conscious or unconscious mind? Some of the most creative of you, it's hard to tell where fiction ends and life begins. Consider the lives and works of Stephen King and .
Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 1760 The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.
This is one of the most famous quotes about love we know. Used not that long ago by woody Allen in defense of the indefensible, it speaks of the romantic nature of all Frenchmen. France is a Leo ruled country. After all, the Sun-King, Louis XIV ... there's an outrageous icon! Louis took the throne when Saturn was in Leo.
Pascal Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.
So French. So romantic. So Leo. Cleopatra is the quintessential Leo woman.
Pascal It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
Imagine a consummate rationalist like Pascal talking about the heart! Like the lion in Wizard of Oz. So Leo!
Fyodor Dostoevski Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
Leo kind of love? Yes, absolutely. Leo is the sign that's in love with love and if you have Saturn there, it may take awhile to find out why that doesn't exactly work too well.
LEO TOLSTOY The poet takes the best things out of his life and puts them into his work. Hence his work is beautiful and his life bad.
Here we have that blurred distinction between art and life, fiction and reality. No one would know better the agony and the ecstasy of this than someone born with Saturn in Leo. in truth, some attribute Tolstoy birth under Saturn in Cancer as well, but this is a decidedly Saturn in Leo comment.
Tolstoy History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.
History is a story, myth. It is told differently with each generation. What can be done about this? Not a thing!
Tolstoy Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
To someone with Saturn in Leo, I AM the whole world.
TOLSTOY All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
To Saturn in Leo, love infuses all things with meaning.
TOLSTOY Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.
This shows the special love of Saturn in Leo for children.
TOLSTOY In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
This speaks of the creation or re-creation that comes from pause, refreshment and fun.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
This is a special vulnerability, thinking everyone else is as generous and guileless as you!
Rousseau Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
Watching where we create FROM ....
Rousseau The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
Because vanity could be "the" Leo vice.
Rousseau Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
The Leo loyalty.
Rousseau We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Leos have a special belief in education. It is almost their God.
Arnold Schwarzenegger I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.
This is the noble lion!
Schwarzenegger The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.
Why Leos make such great coaches. You have to believe in yourself.
Schwarzenegger The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
Character building, the special forte of Saturn in Leo.
Schwarzenegger There is no place, no country, more compassionate, more generous, more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.
... and no person more compassionate, more generous, more accepting or more welcoming than Saturn in Leo. Life is a mirror.
Schwarzenegger I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.
This is the proud Leo. Here him roar.
Katherine Mansfield
KATHERINE MANSFIELD Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
This is the profound wisdom of Saturn in Leo. The ability to create out of despair and resignation. Amazing!
Mansfield I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
A simple, humble and proud Leo prayer.
Mansfield It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.
This statement is so profound and could only be said by someone with Saturn in Leo! If all the world's a stage and we but poor players that strut and fret upon it ... best have a mask or two on hand. Got your act together?
Mansfield Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
She even uses the word "act". This is Leo motivation at its finest.
Mansfield Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.
This describes to a "T" the Leo creative genius. There are many reasons to write and many ways to write, but this is the Saturn in Leo way to write.
KATE WINSLET Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
Live, live, that's the Leo message. Praise the Creator by living and living well.
Winslet Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
Amazing statement, just amazing. Worth thinking about for a very long time. All about Leo understanding. What is acting anyway? And where's the real stage?
Winslet Since I was 13 or 14 I've always felt older than I actually am.
That precocious childhood so familiar to Saturn in Leo.
Winslet The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.
Very Leolike attitude toward children. Wants to be one of them!
GEORGIA O KEEFE I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
This seems very Saturn in Leo to me!
O'Keefe Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.
Just not the light hearted or the agonizing intense creator ... just creates how and when she can.
O'Keefe To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.
But that's what it's all about for Saturn in Leo.
ARNOLD TOYNBEE Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
This may be one of the most Leo statements ever made -- fixed + fire = Leo.
Toynbee As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
The stable, noble, reliable, dignified and self aware Leo.
Toynbee History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
The Leo interest in history, like education ... because history is story telling at its very best, full of real-life kings and heroes and beautiful women, world class lovers and ... drama, conflict, bigger than life in every way!
Toynbee Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
Notice the scope of the heart and the great capacity to love.
Toynbee It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Al about goals, achievement, cheering oneself and others on. For Leo, more is more.
Toynbee The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
Another quintessential more Leo than Leo statement.
Toynbee To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
Giving new meaning to the word re-creation.
Toynbee We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.
By all means, yes, we are God like!
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.
She's sure got the camp and melodrama down ... like her tawdry husband and a black queen's contempt for her subjects.
Steven Spielberg I dream for a living
Of course you do! You have Saturn in Leo.
Stephen King : Every one of these is so perfect, I will not comment further!
Each life makes its own imitation of immortality.
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Nobody was really surprised when it happened, not really, not on the subconscious level where savage things grow.
People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.
Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off.
You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.
Alexander Solzehnitsyn A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
The war cry of the Leo ... "Long live happiness!"
Solzehnitsyn Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
Isn't that what Leo is all about?
Solzehnitsyn You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in you power.
I'm not sure I can put into words why this is so Leo but I think it's because he understands what is in our hearts.
James Barry God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
Such sentiment could only be Leo.
Barry Life is a long lesson in humility.
Beneath this is the great Leo pride.
Barry The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
Fantastic! Again, where's that line between fiction and reality?
Barry Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
That Leo sunshine.
Barry To die will be an awfully big adventure.
Well, to Leo, every thing is an awfully big adventure.
Barry The most useless are those who never change through the years.
To change is to be very creative.
OJ SIMPSON The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.
That is until the day you completely stop taking responsibility for yourself and get on cocaine.
NELSON MANDELA If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Some more of that profound Leo knowledge about the heart of wo/man.
Mandela Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
Sun and glory, two favorite Leo themes.
Thomas Jefferson Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Of course you want to know who you are. You're a Leo!
Jefferson I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Deep inside every Saturn in Leo is a Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy candy heart.
Jefferson In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Leo. Fixed + fire.
Jefferson One man with courage is a majority.
And he's likely to be a Leo. Think about the lion in Wizard of Oz, seeking courage.
Jefferson Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
There it is again ... life's a stage.
JEAN COCTEAU An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
Interesting take on Leo creativity.
Cocteau Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
That's because creativity is a marriage between the conscious and the unconscious just like birth is a result of marriage.
Cocteau Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
So who could possibly be more alive?
Cocteau It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
The great IAM that IAM.
Cocteau Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.
And who would know better than Saturn in Leo, the sign born to create Gods and worship them.
Cocteau One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
Amazing take on "reality" versus a creation.
Cocteau The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
And the drama.
Cocteau There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
The dignity, the truth, the courage, the conquering hero, that's Leo.
Cocteau You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
How can you know life, creation, without knowing death, destruction?
Cocteau Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Interesting comment on creation. (See Frankenstein story.)
CONRAD HILTON Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.
Great Leo quality.
T. S. Eliot Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
Whatever it takes to create ?!?
Eliot Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
Wanting to feel important ... being self centered ... these can be Leo.
Eliot I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
Why wouldn't the King of the Zodiac be a royalist? All the things on that list are pretty classy.
Eliot It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
The Leo lover .... [unless of course "he" is Cordelia.]
Eliot Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
This is so Leo I can hardly out it into words!
Eliot The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
Absolutely. Creation is beyond the conscious control.
Eliot We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
Absolutely fantastic rendering of the intense spiritual quest of the Leo.
ADOLF HITLER When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already... What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community."
Makes ice run in your veins, eh? The child ... Leo!
Hitler Who says I am not under the special protection of God?
The great need of the Leo to feel special.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
These are self evident ... from one of the most creative, talented and successful people who ever lived.
I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.
I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.
Salman Rushdie A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Very Leo in its firm pride and respect for others' right to create their own worlds and works. By all means, if you do not like your version of the world, create another.
Rushdie Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
Just an incredible backward glance at the self centeredness of Leo.
Rushdie Our lives teach us who we are.
Life is all there is, all that matters. We are alive!!
Thomas Edward Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
Another Saturn in Leo who knows the hearts of wo/man.
BEETHOVEN Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
So heroic! This says so much about "talent".
Beethoven Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
Heroic and romantic, that's Saturn in Leo.
Beethoven What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.
The war cry of the Saturn in Leo "IAM that IAM".
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