Quote de jour
"Most mandalas have an intuitive, irrational character and, through their symbolical content, exert a retroactive influence on the
unconscious. They therefore possess a "magical" significance, like icons."
                                                                                                                                                                                                               ~Carl Jung

It's my birthday week and here's a sunny Leo mandala for all you lions out there. Let me hear you roar... Jung was a Leo too, born July 26, 1875. Oddly enough, this is not my favorite of my astrology mandala series. Maybe I was too close to the subject and trying to hard. Leos are ruled by the sun, which is in itself a mandala. The mandala flower for Leos is the sunflower, the black-eyed susan and equinacea. Yesterday, I walked the labyrinth surrounded by flowers in the late afternoon. A light shower of the most delicate raindrops fell like a benediction. 
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