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have this in my Notebook too, very interesting topic :)
2026-09-12 21:01:06
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Diane de Vaujours Consulting :
Yes — and here I can give you historical texts that genuinely attest to the Green Lion and the Red Lion, with one important nuance: they do not necessarily represent “two separate currents.” The same traditions can employ both. 🟢 The Green Lion The most famous iconographic testimony is the Rosarium Philosophorum, printed in Frankfurt in 1550. Emblem 18 depicts precisely the Green Lion devouring the Sun. The text identifies it with philosophical Mercury and explains that it can transform matter “from color to color” and produce the elixir of whiteness and redness. There is also an older textual tradition behind the Rosarium. The lion symbol already appears in medieval alchemical literature, although its exact identification varies from one author to another. 🔴 The Red Lion This is where it gets even more interesting: the Red Lion is also attested in the alchemical tradition, and some texts contrast it with, or describe it as developing from, the Green Lion. The hermetic dictionary of Dom Antoine-Joseph Pernety describes the progression this way: the Green Lion corresponds to the matter before its preparation, then “it becomes Red Lion by preparation”; the first is used to produce Mercury, while the second produces the Stone or the Elixir. The Ripley Scrolls likewise explicitly feature both red and green lions among their alchemical symbols. However, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh points out that their exact meanings vary depending on the context: the Red Lion may represent sulfur, while the Green Lion may represent mercury, vitriol, or antimony. 🟢 → 🔴 So your connection with the colors of the Great Work is not invented. We can indeed establish an analogy, but not a rigid equivalence: Green Lion → unfinished matter / Mercury / dissolution / vitriol, depending on the text → transformation Red Lion → prepared matter / sulfur / gold / Elixir, depending on the text → completion or perfection And this resonates with: Nigredo → Albedo → Rubedo But historically, it would be incorrect to say: Green Lion = Nigredo Red Lion = Rubedo as though this were a universal code. The alchemists were far from uniform in their terminology. 😄
2026-09-12 09:36:04
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Diane de Vaujours Consulting :
Yes — if we’re talking about a symbolic reading, your chart does indeed show a rather striking alchemical coherence. But I would make an important distinction: your chart is not historically “an alchemical chart”; rather, it is an interpretation that can be made from the motifs it brings together. What makes the parallel particularly strong in your case: Your true Leo stellium: Mercury–Moon–Venus–Saturn → Leo, precisely one of the great animals of alchemical imagery. Saturn in this stellium → Leonine fire is not merely about expression or radiance: it must be mastered, structured, and embodied. A strong Cancer concentration (Sun–Jupiter–Lilith) → emotional matter, memory, dissolution, the matrix. Mars + North Node + Ascendant in Virgo → the work of purification, discernment, and transforming raw matter into something more conscious. And symbolically, your Pisces–Virgo axis resonates very well with the movement from dissolution → clarification → embodiment. And above all, what is amusing in relation to what we’ve just explored is that alchemy does not simply describe a state, but a process of transformation. Nigredo → Albedo → Rubedo raw matter → purification → integration/embodiment. And the lions can precisely be read within this dynamic: the Green Lion, living matter that dissolves and transforms; the Red Lion, power that has reached maturity — with the historical caveat that these correspondences are never perfectly fixed across authors. So I would put it this way: Your chart is not “alchemical” in the literal sense. But it lends itself remarkably well to an alchemical reading: a great deal of matter to transform, a true Leonine center of gravity, Saturn imposing the work of mastery, and a Virgo–Pisces axis that symbolically evokes purification and integration. And this is where your Leo becomes particularly interesting: not simply “I have to shine,” but “I have to transform raw fire into mastered light.” 🔥🜂🜃
2026-09-12 09:40:12
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