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LEO 16: This refers to the 16th degree of Leo, a fire sign associated with self-expression, creativity, leadership, and individuality. Astrological degrees often carry specific archetypal meanings, and Leo is particularly tied to the ego, willpower, and the drive to shine or create.
Imagery:(Explosions, Noises): Suggests sudden, intense, and disruptive energy. Explosions imply a release of pent-up force, while noises indicate chaos or a breaking of silence. This could symbolize a dramatic event or emotional outburst.
Ruler of Tyler Robinson killer of C.Kirk - Venus
Sunshine just after a storm: A powerful image of renewal, clarity, or hope emerging after turmoil. It suggests a cycle of destruction and restoration, where light (understanding or vitality) follows chaos.
A giant amusing himself with a child’s doll: Evokes a sense of disproportion or playfulness. A giant (a symbol of immense power or perspective) engaging with something small and delicate (a child’s doll) may indicate a need to handle fragile things with care or a playful exploration of one’s own power.
A ram standing upon a barren rock, pawing the ground: A ram (often associated with Aries, but here in Leo’s context) symbolizes assertiveness, instinct, and determination. Standing on a barren rock suggests isolation or a challenging environment, while pawing the ground indicates readiness for action or frustration with limitations.
Core Themes:
Manifold flash: the beat of production against reduction: This suggests a dynamic tension between creation (production) and destruction or limitation (reduction). A “manifold flash” could imply sudden bursts of insight, energy, or activity that oscillate between building and breaking down.
A crisis in projecting self-reliance: Indicates a struggle to assert one’s independence or identity. The “crisis” suggests a pivotal moment where self-confidence or autonomy is tested.
Enforced surrender to fixed composition alternates periodically with powerful reassertion of innovating will: This describes a cyclical pattern where the individual is forced to conform to rigid structures or limitations (“fixed composition”) but periodically breaks free through bursts of creative or willful energy (“innovating will”).
The constraint in pattern of universal simultaneity: Suggests a universal or cosmic order that imposes restrictions. “Simultaneity” may refer to the interconnectedness of events or the challenge of aligning personal will with larger patterns.
Imposes a problem of instant self-renewal in detail upon the self as a central will-to-form: This points to the need for constant reinvention or adaptation at a detailed level. The “self as a central will-to-form” emphasizes Leo’s core drive to create, shape, and express identity.
Analysis and InterpretationThe interpretation for Leo 16 paints a picture of a dynamic, cyclical struggle between creative self-expression and external or internal constraints. Let’s unpack the key themes and their implications:Tension Between Creation and Constraint:The imagery of explosions, storms, and a ram pawing the ground suggests a powerful, almost primal energy that seeks to break free from limitations. However, the “fixed composition” and “universal simultaneity” indicate that this energy is often constrained by external structures, societal expectations, or cosmic patterns.
This tension is central to the Leo archetype, which is driven to assert individuality and creativity but may face challenges when those expressions don’t align with the broader environment.
Cyclical Renewal:The phrase “sunshine just after a storm” and the oscillation between “enforced surrender” and “reassertion of innovating will” suggest a cyclical process. Moments of crisis or restriction are followed by breakthroughs of clarity, creativity, or renewed willpower.
This cycle reflects the Leo 16 individual’s need to navigate setbacks and rekindle their inner spark repeatedly, much like the sun re-emerging after a storm.
Self-Reliance and Identity:The “crisis in projecting self-reliance” points to a core challenge: how to maintain a strong sense of self in the face of external pressures or internal doubts. The ram on the barren rock symbolizes a solitary struggle, where the individual must find inner strength despite a lack of external support.
The “giant amusing himself with a child’s doll” suggests a need to balance power with humility or playfulness. It may also indicate a tendency to underestimate the importance of small, delicate aspects of life or relationships.
Instant Self-Renewal:The concept of “instant self-renewal in detail” suggests that the individual must constantly adapt and refine their approach to self-expression. This aligns with Leo’s drive to create and lead but emphasizes the need for flexibility and attention to the finer points of their actions or creations.
Universal Context:The mention of “universal simultaneity” hints at a metaphysical or spiritual dimension. The individual at Leo 16 may feel caught between their personal desires and a larger cosmic or collective pattern. This could manifest as a sense of being “out of sync” with the world or needing to align personal goals with universal truths.
Practical ImplicationsFor someone with a planet or significant point (e.g., Sun, Moon, Ascendant) at Leo 16 in their natal chart, or for someone encountering this degree in a transit or progression, the following themes may be relevant:Personal Expression: You may feel a strong drive to express your individuality or creativity but face periodic obstacles that test your confidence or autonomy. These challenges are opportunities for growth and renewal.
Navigating Constraints: You might oscillate between conforming to external expectations and breaking free to assert your unique vision. Learning to balance these forces is key.
Resilience: Like the sunshine after a storm, you have the ability to recover from setbacks with renewed clarity and vitality. Trust in your capacity to bounce back.
Attention to Detail: The need for “self-renewal in detail” suggests that small, intentional adjustments in how you present yourself or pursue your goals can lead to significant breakthroughs.
Playful Power: The giant with the child’s doll encourages you to wield your power or influence with care and playfulness, recognizing the value of seemingly small or delicate things.
Broader Context in AstrologyThe imagery and themes align with systems like the Sabian Symbols, which assign a unique image to each degree of the zodiac. For comparison, the Sabian Symbol for Leo 16 is often described as “Sunshine just after a storm” (per Marc Edmund Jones’ original work), which emphasizes renewal and optimism after difficulty. The additional imagery in your text (the giant, the ram, etc.) may come from a different or expanded interpretive system, possibly influenced by esoteric or channeled sources.Leo as a sign is ruled by the Sun, symbolizing the core self, vitality, and creative will. At the 16th degree, the energy seems to focus on the interplay between personal power and external limitations, with a call to navigate this tension through resilience, adaptability, and periodic reinvention.
ConclusionThe Leo 16 interpretation describes a dynamic, cyclical process of asserting one’s individuality and creativity in the face of constraints. The vivid imagery—explosions, sunshine after a storm, a giant with a doll, a ram on a barren rock—evokes a journey of balancing power, fragility, and resilience. The individual is challenged to renew themselves continually, adapting to limitations while staying true to their “central will-to-form.” In practical terms, this degree encourages embracing setbacks as opportunities for growth, wielding power with care, and finding ways to align personal expression with the broader patterns of life.
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Leo 16: Sunshine just after a storm
"Sunshine just after a storm" 16 Leo
This symbol is illuminated 10:30 PM EDT Aug 6 (2:30 AM GMT, Aug 7)
Theme: Dramatic Shift
Inspiration: Pervasive shifts in mood and conscious awareness is like dramatic changes in weather.
Today: Call it 'Change your mind' day. Not change your mind about this or that; change your mind in a deep way of attitude that spreads influence upon all experience.
Feeling down? All changes today. Feeling elated? A more sombre sobriety will even you out.
Consider how when you get something in your head, as the expression goes, and thereby colour everything in the field of your experience. Often this happens with our full compliance as if it is a right to be this way or that towards everyone and everything. But imagine if you foresaw the creative potential in this pervasive human shift capacity?
Be alert for a breakthrough in mood disposition... like sunshine just after a storm. Consider how your whole comportment towards life and all that which comes within it can be creatively influenced by a conscious shift in attitude.
It is a day of self blessings: dark moods can brighten; even moods can spread like wings; bright moods can illumine; and dark moods can motivate. In this way, for whatever you deeply desire, you can change your mind effectively. Changes Mind Often, Fickle, On a Whim
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eheiah (say-HAY-ee-YAH) Longevity
Releases body and mind from negative emotions
Leo 16. An angel appears to lost travelers and shows them the right direction. (Omega Symbol) Manifesting/Experimental
(Degree Angel: Mehiel (MAY-hee-EL) Casting Yourself in a Favorable Light, Vivification, invigoration, enlivenment)
You have the ability to find your way to goals by listening to your inner voice, and are sensitive to the omens and portents you find along the way. You’re at your best when you take spontaneous actions and then find your way as you go. You are aware of stuck places in other people, often when they themselves aren’t. You know how to overcome these, and even if this is not completely possible, you know how to at least loosen them up so that more life energy can come through.
The Chandra Symbol for this degree is “A red-faced man, tears running down his cheeks. He is laughing convulsively.” This is a symbol of startling realizations that come so suddenly or unexpectedly that they shock the being into a release of pent-up energy. When the time is ripe clearings and openings happen spontaneously, and they can be a great joy, just as the travelers of the Omega Symbol experience a blissful relief. This degree knows that help is always near, no matter how bleak or hopeless things may look. All that is required is patience and receptivity, and most especially a letting down of the barriers that limiting expectations create.
Pleiadian Symbol: Sunlight glittering on falling rain.
Azoth Symbol: A messenger delivers an unexpected gift.
Seed degree: Libra 5. A flag pole with no flag. (Omega symbol). Clearing away biases and limiting allegiances makes way for help and inspiration coming to one to point the direction forward.
A man raising a crop of marijuana. (Chandra Symbol). Fostering happiness and openness in onesself and others triggers the release of pent-up energies.
Fulfillment degree: Cancer 12. A diamond light enough to float. (Omega Symbol). Receiving and following guidance from higher forces imbues us increasingly with a lightness of being.
Carefully a surgeon begins the dissection of a corpse. (Chandra Symbol). Once all pent-up, chaotic energy has been released we come into the patience and focus needed to look deeply into the nature of things.
Oracle
The dusk was growing, and a lady’s dress was catching on branches and tearing at times as she walked. The child was weeping and hungry, the knight stoic but fearful behind his mask of calm. Their burdens grew heavier as they trudged uncertainly, the forest gradually darkening.
The witch had told them to beware this forest, for when dark came, those who became lost within it must never stop, for hapless travelers who fell asleep here were turned into trees. Hence the old saying, “You are either a part of the journey or part of the forest.”
And then one of them who walked ahead of the others saw in the distance a faint glow, a soft brightness that hovered amidst the trees, and all of them quickened their steps for fear that they might lose sight of it. Soon they reached the edge of the forest, and there, across a small meadow could just be seen, in the last fading light, the place they sought.
The next day none of them remembered the glow that had led them out of the forest, for it is of the nature of angels that they live in moments, being too vast to inhabit memory.
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The storm ended, all Nature rejoices in brilliant sunshine
Recovery
sunrise just after storm
Storms are occasions to unclog our lives, an agency of renewal and revival
It is by no means easy or straightforward to destroy or even significantly diminish a person. Each of us has tremendous resilience and the power to bounce back. Indeed the strengthening process of setback and recovery is what enables self repeatedly to re-grasp itself.
This ability is much more to do with psychological strength than physical. Our inner orientation is what matters most of all – basically are we negative or positive in our general outlook?
The values by which we live endure. No matter what befalls us, certain principles and preferences constantly reassert themselves and prove faithful as measures and descriptive characteristics of our core identity.
Storms arise. Each major life issue can present itself as a turbulent period of emotional instability, a threat to our sense of secure well-being and a reduced degree of confidence in the future. But they pass, and the sunrise speaks to us of both the reliability of life and our unassailable powers of recovery.
The optimist sees the storms as opportunities to clear away the dross of our lives and as an agency towards reconstruction. Everyday stress and strain are employed as resources that sponsor the change process and enable us to enlist certain elements of our experience into some new effort or fresh approach.
So, rather than getting upset over petty things, we use our troubles as entirely necessary means to an end. It is through them alone that we awaken our fullest powers of recuperation. The resultant stability of character inspires others to trust in us, mainly because we trust ourselves.
Because we know we will always recover, we have no fear of the future, nor therefore the present. This faith in the inevitable return of things to their essential nature and is the foundation of exceptional steadiness of perspective. And since we accept everything with poise, fewer dramas occur and life can settle easily into a gentle, reliable rhythm.
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LEO 16
A red-faced man, tears running down his cheeks. He is laughing convulsively.
In the warp between the worlds, being a representative of one world in the midst of another and being almost invisible. Tending to disappear off-screen and reappear somewhere else. Transported by a special destiny, slipping by the borderguards. As the uproar happens the deep observer looks on at the role the self is playing, which is so incongruous to who one is truly. But the karmic instructions are to play along, and later all shall be revealed. This is a very peculiar soul condition--taking all the loose ends and finishing them off, to be sprung into a different realm at last.
Meghan 2nd Cusp
Imagery:(Explosions, Noises): Suggests sudden, intense, and disruptive energy. Explosions imply a release of pent-up force, while noises indicate chaos or a breaking of silence. This could symbolize a dramatic event or emotional outburst.
Ruler of Tyler Robinson killer of C.Kirk - Venus
Sunshine just after a storm: A powerful image of renewal, clarity, or hope emerging after turmoil. It suggests a cycle of destruction and restoration, where light (understanding or vitality) follows chaos.
A giant amusing himself with a child’s doll: Evokes a sense of disproportion or playfulness. A giant (a symbol of immense power or perspective) engaging with something small and delicate (a child’s doll) may indicate a need to handle fragile things with care or a playful exploration of one’s own power.
A ram standing upon a barren rock, pawing the ground: A ram (often associated with Aries, but here in Leo’s context) symbolizes assertiveness, instinct, and determination. Standing on a barren rock suggests isolation or a challenging environment, while pawing the ground indicates readiness for action or frustration with limitations.
Core Themes:
Manifold flash: the beat of production against reduction: This suggests a dynamic tension between creation (production) and destruction or limitation (reduction). A “manifold flash” could imply sudden bursts of insight, energy, or activity that oscillate between building and breaking down.
A crisis in projecting self-reliance: Indicates a struggle to assert one’s independence or identity. The “crisis” suggests a pivotal moment where self-confidence or autonomy is tested.
Enforced surrender to fixed composition alternates periodically with powerful reassertion of innovating will: This describes a cyclical pattern where the individual is forced to conform to rigid structures or limitations (“fixed composition”) but periodically breaks free through bursts of creative or willful energy (“innovating will”).
The constraint in pattern of universal simultaneity: Suggests a universal or cosmic order that imposes restrictions. “Simultaneity” may refer to the interconnectedness of events or the challenge of aligning personal will with larger patterns.
Imposes a problem of instant self-renewal in detail upon the self as a central will-to-form: This points to the need for constant reinvention or adaptation at a detailed level. The “self as a central will-to-form” emphasizes Leo’s core drive to create, shape, and express identity.
Analysis and InterpretationThe interpretation for Leo 16 paints a picture of a dynamic, cyclical struggle between creative self-expression and external or internal constraints. Let’s unpack the key themes and their implications:Tension Between Creation and Constraint:The imagery of explosions, storms, and a ram pawing the ground suggests a powerful, almost primal energy that seeks to break free from limitations. However, the “fixed composition” and “universal simultaneity” indicate that this energy is often constrained by external structures, societal expectations, or cosmic patterns.
This tension is central to the Leo archetype, which is driven to assert individuality and creativity but may face challenges when those expressions don’t align with the broader environment.
Cyclical Renewal:The phrase “sunshine just after a storm” and the oscillation between “enforced surrender” and “reassertion of innovating will” suggest a cyclical process. Moments of crisis or restriction are followed by breakthroughs of clarity, creativity, or renewed willpower.
This cycle reflects the Leo 16 individual’s need to navigate setbacks and rekindle their inner spark repeatedly, much like the sun re-emerging after a storm.
Self-Reliance and Identity:The “crisis in projecting self-reliance” points to a core challenge: how to maintain a strong sense of self in the face of external pressures or internal doubts. The ram on the barren rock symbolizes a solitary struggle, where the individual must find inner strength despite a lack of external support.
The “giant amusing himself with a child’s doll” suggests a need to balance power with humility or playfulness. It may also indicate a tendency to underestimate the importance of small, delicate aspects of life or relationships.
Instant Self-Renewal:The concept of “instant self-renewal in detail” suggests that the individual must constantly adapt and refine their approach to self-expression. This aligns with Leo’s drive to create and lead but emphasizes the need for flexibility and attention to the finer points of their actions or creations.
Universal Context:The mention of “universal simultaneity” hints at a metaphysical or spiritual dimension. The individual at Leo 16 may feel caught between their personal desires and a larger cosmic or collective pattern. This could manifest as a sense of being “out of sync” with the world or needing to align personal goals with universal truths.
Practical ImplicationsFor someone with a planet or significant point (e.g., Sun, Moon, Ascendant) at Leo 16 in their natal chart, or for someone encountering this degree in a transit or progression, the following themes may be relevant:Personal Expression: You may feel a strong drive to express your individuality or creativity but face periodic obstacles that test your confidence or autonomy. These challenges are opportunities for growth and renewal.
Navigating Constraints: You might oscillate between conforming to external expectations and breaking free to assert your unique vision. Learning to balance these forces is key.
Resilience: Like the sunshine after a storm, you have the ability to recover from setbacks with renewed clarity and vitality. Trust in your capacity to bounce back.
Attention to Detail: The need for “self-renewal in detail” suggests that small, intentional adjustments in how you present yourself or pursue your goals can lead to significant breakthroughs.
Playful Power: The giant with the child’s doll encourages you to wield your power or influence with care and playfulness, recognizing the value of seemingly small or delicate things.
Broader Context in AstrologyThe imagery and themes align with systems like the Sabian Symbols, which assign a unique image to each degree of the zodiac. For comparison, the Sabian Symbol for Leo 16 is often described as “Sunshine just after a storm” (per Marc Edmund Jones’ original work), which emphasizes renewal and optimism after difficulty. The additional imagery in your text (the giant, the ram, etc.) may come from a different or expanded interpretive system, possibly influenced by esoteric or channeled sources.Leo as a sign is ruled by the Sun, symbolizing the core self, vitality, and creative will. At the 16th degree, the energy seems to focus on the interplay between personal power and external limitations, with a call to navigate this tension through resilience, adaptability, and periodic reinvention.
ConclusionThe Leo 16 interpretation describes a dynamic, cyclical process of asserting one’s individuality and creativity in the face of constraints. The vivid imagery—explosions, sunshine after a storm, a giant with a doll, a ram on a barren rock—evokes a journey of balancing power, fragility, and resilience. The individual is challenged to renew themselves continually, adapting to limitations while staying true to their “central will-to-form.” In practical terms, this degree encourages embracing setbacks as opportunities for growth, wielding power with care, and finding ways to align personal expression with the broader patterns of life.
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Leo 16: Sunshine just after a storm
"Sunshine just after a storm" 16 Leo
This symbol is illuminated 10:30 PM EDT Aug 6 (2:30 AM GMT, Aug 7)
Theme: Dramatic Shift
Inspiration: Pervasive shifts in mood and conscious awareness is like dramatic changes in weather.
Today: Call it 'Change your mind' day. Not change your mind about this or that; change your mind in a deep way of attitude that spreads influence upon all experience.
Feeling down? All changes today. Feeling elated? A more sombre sobriety will even you out.
Consider how when you get something in your head, as the expression goes, and thereby colour everything in the field of your experience. Often this happens with our full compliance as if it is a right to be this way or that towards everyone and everything. But imagine if you foresaw the creative potential in this pervasive human shift capacity?
Be alert for a breakthrough in mood disposition... like sunshine just after a storm. Consider how your whole comportment towards life and all that which comes within it can be creatively influenced by a conscious shift in attitude.
It is a day of self blessings: dark moods can brighten; even moods can spread like wings; bright moods can illumine; and dark moods can motivate. In this way, for whatever you deeply desire, you can change your mind effectively. Changes Mind Often, Fickle, On a Whim
-------------------
eheiah (say-HAY-ee-YAH) Longevity
Releases body and mind from negative emotions
Leo 16. An angel appears to lost travelers and shows them the right direction. (Omega Symbol) Manifesting/Experimental
(Degree Angel: Mehiel (MAY-hee-EL) Casting Yourself in a Favorable Light, Vivification, invigoration, enlivenment)
You have the ability to find your way to goals by listening to your inner voice, and are sensitive to the omens and portents you find along the way. You’re at your best when you take spontaneous actions and then find your way as you go. You are aware of stuck places in other people, often when they themselves aren’t. You know how to overcome these, and even if this is not completely possible, you know how to at least loosen them up so that more life energy can come through.
The Chandra Symbol for this degree is “A red-faced man, tears running down his cheeks. He is laughing convulsively.” This is a symbol of startling realizations that come so suddenly or unexpectedly that they shock the being into a release of pent-up energy. When the time is ripe clearings and openings happen spontaneously, and they can be a great joy, just as the travelers of the Omega Symbol experience a blissful relief. This degree knows that help is always near, no matter how bleak or hopeless things may look. All that is required is patience and receptivity, and most especially a letting down of the barriers that limiting expectations create.
Pleiadian Symbol: Sunlight glittering on falling rain.
Azoth Symbol: A messenger delivers an unexpected gift.
Seed degree: Libra 5. A flag pole with no flag. (Omega symbol). Clearing away biases and limiting allegiances makes way for help and inspiration coming to one to point the direction forward.
A man raising a crop of marijuana. (Chandra Symbol). Fostering happiness and openness in onesself and others triggers the release of pent-up energies.
Fulfillment degree: Cancer 12. A diamond light enough to float. (Omega Symbol). Receiving and following guidance from higher forces imbues us increasingly with a lightness of being.
Carefully a surgeon begins the dissection of a corpse. (Chandra Symbol). Once all pent-up, chaotic energy has been released we come into the patience and focus needed to look deeply into the nature of things.
Oracle
The dusk was growing, and a lady’s dress was catching on branches and tearing at times as she walked. The child was weeping and hungry, the knight stoic but fearful behind his mask of calm. Their burdens grew heavier as they trudged uncertainly, the forest gradually darkening.
The witch had told them to beware this forest, for when dark came, those who became lost within it must never stop, for hapless travelers who fell asleep here were turned into trees. Hence the old saying, “You are either a part of the journey or part of the forest.”
And then one of them who walked ahead of the others saw in the distance a faint glow, a soft brightness that hovered amidst the trees, and all of them quickened their steps for fear that they might lose sight of it. Soon they reached the edge of the forest, and there, across a small meadow could just be seen, in the last fading light, the place they sought.
The next day none of them remembered the glow that had led them out of the forest, for it is of the nature of angels that they live in moments, being too vast to inhabit memory.
--------------------------------------------------------------
The storm ended, all Nature rejoices in brilliant sunshine
Recovery
sunrise just after storm
Storms are occasions to unclog our lives, an agency of renewal and revival
It is by no means easy or straightforward to destroy or even significantly diminish a person. Each of us has tremendous resilience and the power to bounce back. Indeed the strengthening process of setback and recovery is what enables self repeatedly to re-grasp itself.
This ability is much more to do with psychological strength than physical. Our inner orientation is what matters most of all – basically are we negative or positive in our general outlook?
The values by which we live endure. No matter what befalls us, certain principles and preferences constantly reassert themselves and prove faithful as measures and descriptive characteristics of our core identity.
Storms arise. Each major life issue can present itself as a turbulent period of emotional instability, a threat to our sense of secure well-being and a reduced degree of confidence in the future. But they pass, and the sunrise speaks to us of both the reliability of life and our unassailable powers of recovery.
The optimist sees the storms as opportunities to clear away the dross of our lives and as an agency towards reconstruction. Everyday stress and strain are employed as resources that sponsor the change process and enable us to enlist certain elements of our experience into some new effort or fresh approach.
So, rather than getting upset over petty things, we use our troubles as entirely necessary means to an end. It is through them alone that we awaken our fullest powers of recuperation. The resultant stability of character inspires others to trust in us, mainly because we trust ourselves.
Because we know we will always recover, we have no fear of the future, nor therefore the present. This faith in the inevitable return of things to their essential nature and is the foundation of exceptional steadiness of perspective. And since we accept everything with poise, fewer dramas occur and life can settle easily into a gentle, reliable rhythm.
--------------------------------------------------
LEO 16
A red-faced man, tears running down his cheeks. He is laughing convulsively.
In the warp between the worlds, being a representative of one world in the midst of another and being almost invisible. Tending to disappear off-screen and reappear somewhere else. Transported by a special destiny, slipping by the borderguards. As the uproar happens the deep observer looks on at the role the self is playing, which is so incongruous to who one is truly. But the karmic instructions are to play along, and later all shall be revealed. This is a very peculiar soul condition--taking all the loose ends and finishing them off, to be sprung into a different realm at last.
Meghan 2nd Cusp