I reference saying #7 in the Gospel of Thomas about every night when I watch the six o'clock news and witness the debacle of regular looking people losing their temper and killing innocent people in an emotional rage. It's the curse of the astrology sign Leo. I didn't realize it until one of the members of the e-mail discussion group I subscribe to, associated the meaning of Saying #7 with the mass murderer at Virginia Tech a couple of years ago.
7 Jesus said, "Lucky is the lion that the human will eat, so that the lion becomes human. And foul is the human that the lion will eat, and the lion still will become human."
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The group studies the sayings of the Gospel of Thomas one at a time. The moderator sends out a group of translations of the same saying and asks for comments on their meaning. Theoretically, the members respond with their opinions of what the contemporary meaning of the saying might be. That don't happen all that often. It should, maybe, but it don't. The moderators are intentionally slack about sticking to the target. They might interrupt if you go for the player instead of the ball occasionally, but other than that, it's a free-for-all about anything and everything anybody brings up that can draw a response.
Leo, as one of the four fixed signs in astrology is, in that capacity, one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse and one of the four creatures that surround the throne of God in Revelations. Leo is one of what's called the "power" signs whose power, like with the other power signs, is concentrated in the center of the sign on the 15th degree. I've understood the negative attributes of the earth and water power signs, Taurus and Scorpio, but not so much until now the fire and air signs Leo and Aquarius.
Understanding the negative aspect of fire in Leo (ruled by the Sun) as it is explained in #7 fills in the gaps somewhat. It's about this great emotional power that can be used for good or ill. Bill Clinton is a good example. He's a Leo whose charm, wit, and superior personal leadership abilities epitomize the positive attributes of Leo, but his downfalls have always been associated with lousy management of his emotional issues. A conflicted Leo is the ultimate ego-tripper.
On the other hand, Leo's opposite sign Aquarius, the water (of life) bearer, when they get in a lousy mood, do as all opposite sign natives do, they reflect the negative qualities of their polar opposite. Understanding Leo's negative possibilities (including mass murder), helps me to understand what happens when Aquarians lose they rationality. They go from being totally objective in their spiritual service as the water bearer, to unreasonable, murderous intent through abject apathy when they deliberately withhold the ladle. Hannibal Lector.
Which is more evil? To go on a murderous spree killing innocent people in acts of war or to withhold the water of life from it's innocent, dying victims. This dynamic seems key to understanding the fire/air dynamic. The lion/angel dynamic. Guardians of the throne of God supposedly. In the gospel of revelation according to some obviously historical John. Which John appears debatable. He adhered to a system of base four, and then tripled it. The twelve-bar blues is the result of a natural transition of the four beat because of the turnaround. The four directions.
There are two other sets of four in astrology. Since astrology is set up on base twelve there would have to be two other sets of four to account for... eh? The initial set of four is the four Cardinal signs. They represent the four cardinal directions. Then come the four Fixed signs as mentioned, and then the four Mutable signs. Cardinal, Fixed, and Mutable. I often describe astrology as an oracle for thinking about things. A vegetable oracle because it tells an agrarian society when to plant and to reap and to sow. It's the oldest of all ways of dividing and thus conquering ti-me (the-tie-to-me).
I've always known somehow to not deliberately cross the line with Leos when they go horseshit crazy. The only way to stop them is to kill them like a rabid dog. Who wants that? Retreat is my favorite strategy. I might scream at you to run when I comprehend the danger. I might grab you by the hand when I tuck and roll, but if you resist my effort to save you from yourself, I'm gonna leave you be, and save myself.
Understanding the negative potential behavior of Leo as a power sign is an invaluable aid in helping me to understand the negative aspect of Aquarius more succinctly. Now that I realize that I gotta take more care with the people in charge of the water of life, also, the world is a more somber place.
It's not just when mass murders happen that the lion eats the man any more either. It's every time some poor soul blows it and kills the ones they love, and then die in remorse themselves. This happens constantly in my local area. Murder/suicide seems rampant on the six o'clock news just about every night. A virtual continuous slaughter of the innocents. I suspect it happens all over the world and for every kind of reason imaginable. Not armies. Not even agents of any recognized government. I don't know if that actually happens like it do in the movies. But, individuals who take it on their own to kill the people they supposedly love and then kill themselves.
I think a lot of these types of events happen because of the way the world constantly changes. People seem to want the world they live in to stay the same and remain reliable. They want "things" written in stone. I'm astonished to be seeing on the news about all these people losing their homes due to some crisis. BUT, I'm even more astounded by how much money these people paid for these houses in relation to their incomes.
I don't mean just after taxes and fees and enormous rates of interest. I'm watching people who make a dollar above minimum wage buy houses that cost $270,000.00, and then whining and puling about not being able to make their house payments. Much less to buy the gas it takes to go from one to the other and back home. The world they live in is the furtherest thing possible from being written-in-stone, and they buying $270,000,00 houses. How much time could they actually be there, live there, in between the three jobs they gotta work to make the payments. I don't care what you call it, it's not the American dream. These people have been deliberately manipulated and duped. The people who took advantage of them this way are criminals, and more and more, they're not even Americans or prosecutable by American laws.
I disclaim anything I compose and speculate about to be a truth of any order or foundation. I don't know what the truth is fast enough to write it down. By the time whatever it is that I'm channeling gets to my fingers, it's usually a lie. Not a deliberate lie nor told in complicity. It's just never meant to be taken for anything more than a priori speculation. A game I play with myself to pass the ti-me. Fool's gold.
I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
