Re-releasing this episode from August 2024!

In today’s we episode explore the myths, magic, and misinformation about the so-called Lion’s Gate. This cosmic portal is said to occur on August 8th each year, but what is it really referring to?

Join us to unravel this phenomenon and find enchantment without needing to invent a “Galactic New Year” out of thin air.

Themes in this episode include:

* Origins of the Lion’s Gate Myth

* Flooding of the Nile

* Dog Star Sirius

* Cosmic Technologies of Timekeeping

* Manifestation Practices

* Self-study in Relationship with Cycles

* Longing for Authenticity

* Fixed Fire Season of Leo

* And more…

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Image and text from Sirius and the Flooding of the Nile: this week on the Storyteller's Night Sky Interlochen Public Radio | By Mary Stewart Adams

“Every year in August, the constellation Orion returns to northern hemisphere skies at dawn, bearing with him the brightest star in our sky after the Sun ~ the star Sirius.

Sirius played a significant role in every aspect of Ancient Egypt culture, a role that carried on well into the 20th century, because its heliacal rising in mid-August each year was the signal from the natural world that the mighty river Nile was about to flood. At the heliacal rising of Sirius, people would move off the flood plain to make way for the river, which would rise up to 46 feet in some places!

The ‘heliacal rising’ is the first appearance of a bright star in the morning sky, before sunrise. It’s a word that derives from Helios, the Greek God of the Sun who bore the Sun through the sky in his golden chariot (…)”

“The Aswan High Dam was opened in 1970, and centuries of Nile River flooding ceased.

Still, Sirius continues to rise, and ceremonies celebrating the annual flood still occur, which is understandable, given that the dam is not quite 50 years old, but the cultural life inspired by the Nile’s annual flooding has existed through all ages of recorded history, and was rooted in the stars.”

More on the Constellation: Sirius and Orion’s Belt Constellation from EarthSky

The Lion's Gate Portal: Tracing the Origins of a New Age Myth Article by Celeste Mott

“Prior to the late 90's, nobody appears to have heard of the Lion's Gate (besides as one of the seven gates into Old Jerusalem). A search of peer-reviewed articles returns no results with that search term, indicating a lack of academic or folkloric interest in the subject. Searching by date, there are only three results for "lion's gate portal" between 1980 and 1999. Between 1999 and 2010, we have four pages of Google results. Today, Google returns over 87,000 results for the term.”

Top searches for the Lion’s Gate craze as of this recording …

Article in Women’s Health Mag UK with numerous false and unfounded claims:

Lion's Gate Portal 2024: How to quantum leap your manifestation powers during this cosmic vortex

“On the 8th of August, we celebrate a cosmic alignment between Sirius, the Sun, the Earth and the ‘galactic centre’, which is the central point of the Milky Way.

This date is known as Galactic New Year and is thought to be the day when Light Codes are strongest.”

p.s. Galactic New Year according to who? The Galactic Center is in the constellation of Sagittarius.

Learn more about Islamic roots and Astrology from Historian Ali A. Olomi

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