![]() Fire is a challenging element to contain, and Leo smolders, desperate to retain a selfish illusion of control. Even if its entire estate bursts into flames, Leo will stay standing, a chimney barely hanging onto the skeleton of a house, as if to prove a point. Even when change is absolutely necessary, it can be challenging for it to make material adjustments, especially if it wasn’t its idea. Leo isn’t going anywhere.Īs a fixed sign, Leo is reluctant to alter its ways and take advice. Beneath the gilded mantel are brick and mortar. After a long day, Leo’s fire can be relied upon for consistent comfort. This hearth may be ostentatious, but it’s also warm and safe. Leo wants you to admire its natural grandeur. Leo is a decadent fireplace in a luxurious mansion, ready to be shown off in a shiny Architectural Digest spread. Leo is very, very aware of its own magnificence and its power to create or destroy. Leo didn’t just discover fire - it knows fire, okay? It gets it. Despite the flaws these celebrities might exhibit, and their inherent irresponsibility, we admire their courage in doing things first, and their bravery in believing they’re the best in a world that discourages ambitious childhood hopes and dreams. Some famous, high-intensity Aries suns include Vincent van Gogh, Billie Holiday, Charlie Chaplin, Elton John, Mariah Carey, Lady Gaga, Lil Nas X, and Harry Houdini. When we say fiery - a fiery personality, a fiery temperament - we are usually referring to an Aries energy: base, loud, and unashamed. It’s an energy that resists reality checks but propels action. Warriors are often young and reckless, ignorant to the dark horrors of ongoing conflict, but eager to prove their mettle. The impulsive energy of Aries might drive conflict, but it also isn’t too stubborn to learn a lesson.Īries is ruled by Mars, the god of war. Aries is a starter, but not necessarily a finisher. Aries is utterly new new like, You must be new here, and new like a fresh wrestler jumping into the ring to relieve their exhausted partner in a tag-team match. Aries is a brash, irascible placement, trigger-happy in the best and worst of ways. There is an eagerness at discovery, an impulsivity that lends itself to doing things right now, and an ignorance of long-term consequences that is both brilliantly youthful and completely irresponsible. Flicking lighters to watch them burn, setting matches to see what happens. Striking the matches was ineffably exciting, even if we didn’t know what we were doing, or understand the ramifications of possibly burning down a hundred-person family celebration as they stumbled through the “Cha Cha Slide.” There were matches sitting alongside after-dinner mints somewhere in the venue, and once we learned how to strike them - a brand-new skill that I’m sure our parents adored - we couldn’t stop lighting shit on fire to see what would happen. Once, I spent the afternoon of a bat mitzvah lighting Kleenex on fire in the sinks of a bathroom with a few of my friends, including the birthday girl. Aries sits at the very beginning of the astrological cycle, which ends on reincarnating, mutable water sign Pisces. The start of Aries season marks the beginning of spring, and the vernal equinox marks the start of cosmic New Year. So in that interest of simplicity, I’ll be explaining each of the three fire signs - Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius - as loud, literal fire metaphors.ĪRIES is a cardinal, initiating fire. Rituals around fire exist in almost every major religion and New Age ceremony, from lighting candles to cremating remains. In tarot, fire becomes the suit of wands, the slice of the Minor Arcana most concerned with action and invention. In ancient Chinese tradition, fire is a yang force called huo that symbolizes enthusiasm and strength alongside impatience and aggression. The link between fire and the act of creation leads spiritual traditions to treat it as a passionate, maverick element. Fire signs tend to be obvious and overt in human beings, too. ![]() Fire can heat your home and completely destroy it, create light in the dark and totally raze a city. The consequences of fire - a substance that can giveth life and taketh away - are obvious and overt. We still call people “fiery,” both as a compliment and an insult. ![]() One of the easiest parts about describing fire signs is that we’ve never really given up on fire metaphors in modern culture. Western astrology divides the zodiac by four elements: air, fire, water, and earth. Photo-Illustration: by Preeti Kinha Photos: Getty Images
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |