When the People Face the Lion: A Full Moon Reckoning in Aquarius
Decoding the Lion’s Gate and the Aquarius Full Moon. The Moon reveals. The Lion remembers. The People rise.
This week, the Lion returns, and the Moon lights its path.
The Aquarius Full Moon rises in the night sky on August 9. Most of us know what a Full Moon is. The Moon swings opposite the Sun, fully lit up, emotionally charged, and usually dragging our inner tides with it. Every month, it lands in a different sign, and this time it lights up Aquarius - the sign of truth, rebellion, cosmic insight, and the collective soul. On the other side, the Leo Sun stands tall: the Lion, radiant, sovereign, heart-on-fire.
This opposition alone makes for a powerful lunation. But that’s not all people are talking about this week.
There’s also the Lion’s Gate - a so-called energetic portal that opens every year on August 8. It’s not an astrological event. You won’t find it in any ephemeris or sky chart. It’s a New Age construct, born sometime in the 1990s when mystics started blending astrology with numerology, ancient Egypt, and a sprinkle of interstellar stardust.
In theory, it marks the rising of Sirius (the brightest star in the sky), Leo season’s peak solar fire, and the “power” of the number 8 on the 8th day of the 8th month. In practice, it’s a vibe-heavy day for setting intentions, making vision boards, and posting golden lions to Instagram.
It’s easy to roll your eyes, but maybe don’t dismiss it too quickly, because whether or not the Lion’s Gate is a “real” celestial or even metaphysical event, something is stirring this week, and it’s bigger than hashtags and rituals.
When the Aquarius Moon faces off with the Leo Sun at the Lion’s Gate, somewhere between the ancient sky and modern mysticism, a memory breaks the surface.
It doesn’t ask us to believe in anything.
It asks us to remember something.
A time before clocks and calendars,
when humans built temples to lions,
carved their likeness in stone,
and seemed to remember something we’ve long since forgotten.
Something interstellar echoes through us this week.
It roars through us like memory breaking surface,
calling us back to a truth we once knew,
and may finally be ready to reclaim.
The People Look To The Lion
The idea of the Lion’s Gate Portal isn’t ancient.
It’s a modern mystic creation, born in the late 20th century as New Age thinkers began weaving together ancient astronomy with newer metaphysical languages - numerology, sacred geometry, starseed lore, planetary ascension. And just like that, the Lion’s Gate was born: an energetic threshold said to open each year on August 8.
But while the ritual is recent, the reason it resonates is ancient.
The Lion’s Gate always arrives near the Aquarius Full Moon - sometimes overlapping entirely, and that proximity matters because Full Moons are always felt. Ask any ER nurse, teacher, or police officer - the Moon doesn’t just light up the sky, it lights us up too, pulling something primal from within us all.
But there’s more encoded here than just lunar charge, because the Aquarius Moon rises to face the Leo Sun.
Aquarius is the sign of the People.
Leo is the symbol of the Lion.
This week, at the Lion’s Gate, the People rise to face the Lion.
And something ancient stirs.
The Sky Remembers Us
Each year from late July through mid-August, as the Sun moves through Leo, the brightest star in the sky - Sirius - makes its heliacal rising, appearing just before dawn in the Northern Hemisphere.
To the ancient Egyptians, Sirius rising wasn’t just astronomy. It marked the Nile’s flood, fertility’s return, the new year’s dawn - divine timing, encoded in the sky. It was so significant that they built temples aligned with Sirius, the most famous of which was the Sphinx - the oldest sentinel on Earth.
Most archaeologists now agree that the Sphinx once bore the full head of a lion, long before it was re-carved into the likeness of a Pharaoh. Carved from a single piece of limestone, its massive feline body faces due east, toward the horizon.
A great Lion facing the rising Sun.
For centuries, the Sphinx was thought to have been built around 2500 BCE during the reign of Khafre, but in the 1990s, geologist Dr. Robert Schoch challenged that timeline, arguing the deep weathering on the monument could only have come from heavy rainfall - rain that hadn’t touched the Giza Plateau since 7000 to 10,000 BCE.
In other words: the Sphinx may be over 12,000 years old.
Built not in the age of Pharaohs, but during the Age of Leo.
If the Sphinx was built around 10,500 BCE, facing east, then at that exact moment in time, Leo would have been the constellation rising on the horizon where the Sphinx was looking.
A lion, carved in stone, watching its own reflection rise in the stars.
That’s not architecture, it’s cosmic memory.
The constellations have shifted now, and Pisces - soon Aquarius - rises where Leo once stood, but still, the Sphinx stares east, watching for Leo; an ancient moment encoded in stone of a time when the great Lion rose to greet the dawn…..and possibly, so did we.
A reminder of who we once were, and what we came here to become.
Maybe that was the very first Lion’s Gate.
The Lions Guard the Portal
But why the Lion? Why did our ancient ancestors revere this creature above all others? Why did they carve it in stone and place it at the gates of their most sacred sites?
In ancient Babylon, lions lined the walls of Ishtar’s Gate - fierce sentinels guarding the holy city. In Persia, they flanked the tombs of kings, watching over the soul’s journey beyond death. In Egypt, Sekhmet - the lion-headed goddess - embodied solar fire, sacred rage, and the power to purify through destruction.
In the Bible, the Lion of Judah roars with messianic force, a symbol of divine justice rising. And in the Tarot, the lion in the Strength card doesn’t bow to brute force - it yields only to the grace of inner mastery. You don’t fight the lion. You earn its trust. Even in C.S. Lewis’s Narnia books, the same archetype lives in the divine lion Aslan, who dies and returns to break the spell of a frozen world.
These aren’t coincidences. They’re echoes of a deeper myth that spans continents and cultures.
Again and again, the Lion appears at the threshold.
Guarding temples.
Flanking portals.
Waiting at the gate.
A mighty symbol of power, protection, wisdom, and divine authority.
But what if the Lion isn’t just a symbol?
What if it’s a memory?
A marker of where we came from.
A reminder of our lineage.
Because some say the Lion doesn’t just guard the portal.
Some say the Lion is our bloodline.
Lions From Outer Space
In the late 20th century, a new human origin story began to emerge, not from telescopes or temples, but from trance states and star transmissions. According to this new line of thought, life on Earth didn’t begin with the Big Bang Adam, Eve, and a snake with an apple, but something far stranger.
It began with Lions.
(Don’t stop reading - I know this sounds nuts, but it’s about to get interesting. Stay with me.)
Across a wave of channeled material, visionary texts, and regression accounts that emerged over the last fifty years, one thread kept returning: a race of lion-headed, humanoid beings from the Lyra star system.
This idea took hold in the 1970s and '80s, gaining traction through the work of hypnotherapist Dolores Cannon whose clients recalled “Ancient Ones” involved in the genetic tuning of early humanity.
In later channellings from people like Barbara Marciniak, Lyssa Royal Holt and Valerie Barrow, many of these “Ancient Ones” were identified as lion-headed Lyrans - 6th- to 9th-dimensional beings said to exist in a state of light and sound rather than dense matter. Feline in form and profoundly heart-centered, they are guardians, architects, and warriors of consciousness, not conflict. Their energy carries wisdom, courage, and a deep, ancient sense of galactic memory.
According to the various channeling and remembering, the Lyrans (among others) were the original architects of galactic civilization, said to have seeded Earth with consciousness, laid the energetic blueprint for Atlantis, and encoded their legacy in stone - perhaps even in the form of the Sphinx - but their cosmic plan was derailed by manipulation, war and trauma. Earth was quarantined, our memory wiped, and the human journey sealed in a karmic loop we’ve only just begun to break.
But the Lions did not forget us.
Cannon suggested that as Earth’s frequency rises over the coming decades, the veil is thinning and the old codes are awakening. We are beginning to remember, not just who we are, but where we are from.
So, if you've been feeling restless, dream-heavy, or on the verge of something you can't name - you're not broken. You're remembering.
The People rise to face the Lion.
As guide.
As guardian.
As genetic ancestor.
I’m not saying lion-headed star beings definitely seeded Earth, but I’m also not saying they didn’t. Sometimes, the soul recognizes something long before the mind agrees. Myth, after all, speaks to what’s true beyond proof.
Whether you take all this as literal truth, mythic metaphor, or memory wrapped in symbol, the lion-hearted message remains:
This is a time for remembering.
Myth Is Memory
There’s no peer-reviewed proof that lion-headed beings from Lyra seeded the Earth, or that the Sphinx was built in their honor. Maybe it didn’t happen the way the stories say, but that doesn’t mean the stories are wrong.
Whether it was the Lion of Judah tending the Garden of Eden, or the lionesses of Lyra singing Earth into form, the myth persists, the archetype remains, and the Lion’s Gate still beckons us to remember.
Myth speaks in frequency, not fact.
Myth is a mirror.
It names what lives in us.
And sometimes, remembering isn’t about facts.
It’s about frequency.
The Lion’s Gate doesn’t demand belief.
It simply calls.
And this week, it roars.
The Roar Returns
And so, under this Aquarius Full Moon, as the Lion’s Gate swings open, the invitation becomes clear:
We must remember who we are.
This isn’t just about planetary transits or symbolic lions - it’s about frequency. Aquarius is the sign of cosmic consciousness, truth revealed, collective awakening. It doesn’t care for masks or dogma. It cracks open illusions to remind us of our soul’s original frequency.
This Moon faces the Leo Sun, and the Leo Sun holds the gate.
If Aquarius is the People and Leo is the Lion, then this is the moment the People face the Lion within.
Under the light of the Aquarius Full Moon this week,
we will see institutions cracking under the weight of truth.
Public figures breaking script to speak from the heart.
Systems fracturing, and light pouring through the fault lines.
And through all of this, an opportunity rises for your own inner knowing to roar back online.
Because Aquarius doesn’t just expose - it awakens.
It says: you are not powerless, and you never were.
The Lion behind the gate is not some deity in the clouds.
It’s the divine power within you, waiting for permission to rise.
This week, that Lion stirs.
And if you’re feeling the ache and the dissonance,
the knowing that you can’t name,
don’t fear that you might be broken.
Smile, because you’re remembering.
The Lion’s Gate isn’t a spectacle in the sky - it’s a mirror.
And under the light of this Moon, the People rise to meet it.
This is not the end of the world.
This, my friends, is the return of the roar.
My intention in my writing is to lessen the climate of fear around world events by offering clarity and cosmic context for what’s unfolding; to bring context to the chaos. I believe our highest calling right now is to anchor in the vibration of love & truth and call in a more beautiful world, and to do that, we must lean out of fear. I hope you read this with an open, uplifted heart.
I love this. We live in a wild time where it's clear that *something* is awakening in our cosmic consciousness. Personally, I've had bits and pieces of Yeats' "The Second Coming" playing on a loop in my brain lately and the imagery of the Lion, of the Sphinx, and of things falling apart because the center is no longer able to hold is only rising in intensity. While a favorite of mine in my undergrad English Lit days, I hadn't read it in probably 20 years but strangely, it popped into my head a few weeks ago compelling me search it back out. Hopefully, whatever rough beast is slouching toward Bethlehem is better than our current predicaments...
Wow! I fully enjoyed this post! Thank you! That “somewhere between the ancient sky and modern mysticism, a memory breaks the surface.” Let it rise…and roar!