Lion - Symbol - Plant-Based Ivory Pendant

Dimensions: 2.8 cm

Complete with an adjustable black waxed cotton cord with a sliding knot.

Position in the zodiac: from 120° to 150°

Sign: fixed

Gender: male

Corresponding element: fire

Symbolism

It corresponds to the fifth house of the zodiac, which is the phase of the subject's full maturity and therefore their self-assertion in every sense.

It is the sign of energy, ambition, and pure vitality. The Sun shines in the sky at the height of its brilliance, and the harvests are gathered in the fields.

It is the sign of triumph and glory, the great phase of the completion of the work.

Seasonal symbolism: it represents the full blooming of summer. The great dry heat characterizes the climate. The rains become sparse. In the fields, everything ripens.

It is the time of the great harvest. The night is warm and starry, and everything seems to want to rest in the quiet of long siestas.

The planets in Leo: the Sun is in its domicile, Saturn and Uranus are in exile, Neptune is in fall.

Plants and flowers: oak, wheat, and sunflower

Fragrance: Incense

Metal: Gold

Color: Yellow

Lucky day: Sunday

Lucky number: 1

Nations, regions, and cities of the sign: the Alps, Bohemia, Chaldea, France, Italy, Romania, Sicily, Bombay, Bristol, Chicago, Cremona, Damascus, Philadelphia, Portsmouth, Prague, Ravenna, Rome, and Syracuse.

The Myth

For Jung's followers, the Sun means, in a female horoscope, the Animus, that is, the unconscious male image, and, in a male horoscope, the personal Shadow, that is, the repressed unconscious values. According to mythology, the Sun is represented by the god Apollo, who takes on its appearance. Apollo was, in Greek art, as Ducati said, "the ideal model of youth with a luminous intellect in a body impeccable in the freshness of flesh and the iron vigor of muscles". He can send diseases and heal with his arrows, which are at the same time beneficial or harmful, like the rays of the Sun.

Just as the excessive summer heat of the Sun is harmful to plants and animals, Apollo's anger can be fatal, as is revealed in the myth of Hyacinth. In every Leo there is the archetype of Apollo, and every Leo can go through this stage, just as in every Leo there is the archetype of Hercules, and they can go through this phase. Hercules was the most famous and popular of the Greek heroes, the protagonist of an endless number of legends. The myth says he was the son of Zeus and Alcmene, the wife of Amphion, whom Zeus fell in love with and whose honesty he deceived by presenting himself under the appearance of her absent husband. The goddess Hera, extremely jealous, felt a deep hatred for Hercules even before he was born, to the point of delaying his birth, to prevent him from coming into possession of the kingdom of Mycenae. At a few months old, Hercules strangled two snakes sent by Hera to kill him. The story tells that, with the complicity of Zeus and Athena, Hercules managed, through deception, to be nursed by Hera herself while she slept. The goddess, upon waking, pushed the child away, and the milk that splashed formed the Milky Way. However, the little milk Hercules took from the goddess was enough to give him immortality and apotheosis.

The Characteristics

He has the royalty and the qualities of the king of the forest from which he takes his name; he is authoritarian, bold, energetic; even when he presents himself in an opaque, aloof, neurotic way, he is actually trying to distinguish himself from the crowd, not to blend in.

Always keep in mind the famous line from Leo Nanni Moretti: "Will people notice me more if I don't go to the party, or if I go and stay alone in a corner without talking?". They are passionate, fiery, intelligent creatures, but often excessive, peculiar, annoying, in this without half measures. Those who live next to them must have the patience and irony to smooth out the corners, remembering that the generosity of a Leo as a friend or partner is munificent, worthy of a king.

Material

Corozo, or "Vegetable Ivory" or "Tagua", is made from the dried seed of the tropical plant "Phytelephas macrocarpa", usually called the elephant plant (Phytos = plant, elephas = elephant).

The plant, similar to that of the coconut, grows in the humid equatorial belt of central South America (Ecuador).

Each plant produces 8-10 infructescences a year, each containing 250 seeds. When fresh, they contain a milky white liquid that, after 9 months of maturation, solidifies and transforms into a white material entirely similar to animal ivory.

Corozo nuts, after drying, are cut into slices. The turned slice becomes a regular-sized washer.

The original color, from optical white to antique ivory, must be considered "the natural" par excellence.

Dyeing with natural earths emphasizes the shape and highlights its unique and extraordinary veins, very similar to root.