The twelve signs · VIII Strength
Leo
The Nemean lion, whose skin no weapon could pierce. Heracles defeated it with his bare hands in the first of his twelve labours.
Its card
VIII Strength
The sign
23 July – 22 August
The Sun in the real constellation
about 10 August – 16 September
Brightest stars
Regulus, Denebola, Algieba
Why two sets of dates? The signs were fixed more than two thousand years ago. Since then the Earth's axis has slowly turned, and today the Sun crosses each constellation weeks later than its sign. Our cards draw the sky as it truly is.