Every year on August 8, the astrological world penetrates another important gateway in the celestial calendar: the Lion’s Gate Portal, approached at full light of the Lion symbolised by the constellation of Leo. Affectionately, astrologers call this date the ‘new year’s day’ for setting resolutions, goals and intentions. This guide will outline what it means and how to go about manifesting those dreams…
What is the Lions Gate Portal?
The Lions Gate 2024 is an annual time of astrological opening when Earth aligns with the star Sirius, the Galactic Centre, and the sign of Leo, creating a powerful and expansive portal of energy that pours onto the planet during a specific segment of time. Between July 26 – August 12, we find ourselves moving into peak alignment which occurs on 8/8, or August 8th.
How the Lions Gate Portal Gets Activated
When we think of the astrological constellation, Leo, the first planet that comes to mind is the apparent Sun itself — our closest star. Thus, this super-activated time means that Leo is stimulated with the Sun’s vibrations and their combined energies put emphasis on the mind, consciousness, and ways of thinking – which translates to new thought patterns, and new possibilities for working through old emotional wounds and patterns.
Energy Significance of 8
In the sacred science of numerology, the number 8 denotes countlessness, or infinity. To double 8, which is number-symbolically known as abundance (8+8=16, 1+6=7) is to quadruple the power, thereby evoking more abundance, more infinity, more balance.
Astrology
In Leo, we are in the season where this fixed Lion zodiac sign reigns over us. Fierce and bright, Leo radiates with the courage and strength of heart-centered fire it represents. Regenerative and powerful, a Lion sways her pride. Lion energy blows through and past people, animals, and things as it vibrates with the restless energy we associate with the Leo archetype — which is the very deity that the astrological constellation Leo represents.
History
During the time of the Lions Gate Portal, the ancient Egyptian people celebrated their new year, auguring the arrival of the Nile’s flood with the rising of Sirius and the hieroglyph known as “Seizer of the Sky”. This meaning relates to the coldest season of the Egyptian year when the flooding of the Nile River would bring life to the ground, revitalizing every form of living being.
Mythology
It is said that Leos have hearts of fire, and any Leo will tell you that they do! This hot temperament translates to courage, bravery, as well as a pronounced pride that lends courage and mercy to the lioness’s heart. The Lion’s golden mane and rose-hued eyes mount the head, honouring the crown of the physical body, the skull, and the surrounding crown chakra.
How to Benefit From the Lions Gate 2024
1. Set Clear Intentions: From the Lions Gate Portal, you can ask for more love to flow into all your relationships, no matter how challenging or loving. Write your requests down and repeat them to yourself, picturing the ideal outcome as vividly as you can. Then, watch the pattern play out.
2. Meditate and Connect: From the Lions Gate Portal, invoke your will for an even stronger and more resonant connection to the higher frequencies of Spirit and transpersonal consciousness. Focus your attention on the emerald-green power center of your being, located in the heart. Feel it pulsing as a radiant, golden orb.
3. Practice Gratitude: From the Lions Gate Portal, call upon all the forces of light to reveal the things that most deserve your appreciation. Ask yourself what you want to hold onto, what you never want to lose, and remember to deeply thank the higher power of the Universe for everything it has chosen to place in your path.
4. Give of Self: From the Lions Gate Portal, discover the rewards of authentically giving to others. Engage in joyful activities and send thoughts of appreciation and love to those you care about.
5. Release: From the Lions Gate Portal, allow all the dense, dense, heavy, old feelings and forgotten thoughts, past situations and experiences in your cells to rise to the surface of your awareness. This way, there is a chance that you will let them go before they congeal into a tangle of retrograde vibrational energy that restricts your capacity for forward movement.
Ritual
1. Lions Gate Meditation: To perform this meditation, sit in a quiet space and light a candle. Then get comfortable. Relax. Take some long, slow deep breaths. Visualize engorging beams of golden light pouring from the cosmos, flowing over you, into you.
2. Crystal Work: If you own citrine, tiger’s eye, or carnelian crystals, this is the time of year to place them on your altar, take them with you, and meditate with them.
3. Journaling: If you keep a journal, use it to write everything that you experience, feel, perceive.
Conclusion
The Lions Gate Portal 2024 brings together energies in space, time, and on Earth for a high degree of time-space coherence, opening the door of awareness between both realms. Think of this as the amplifier dial being turned up and observing your innate capacity to receive the radio waves emanating from the heavenly realm. It is akin to the integration of meditation and brain activity, higher frequency consciousness and human awareness, incarnation and transcendence – it just feels really, really good.
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