AN END TO THE ETHIC OF HEROISM (LEO)

[bloom]

I found this and thought it was interesting and didn't know where else to post it:

...Heroism and a heroic style of leadership belong to the sign Leo. Aquarius is the opposite sign and embodies characteristics of detachment, equal membership in a group, committee style deliberation and subordination of individual will to the good of group....


AN END TO THE ETHIC OF HEROISM (LEO) - AND THE CALL FOR ITS OPPOSITE, AN AQUARIAN

"Mankind," states Keegan, "needs not new hardware but a change of heart. It needs an end to the ethic of heroism in its leadership for good and all. Heroism, as we have seen, is not a necessary constant in the way that societies work. Heroism is an irrational and emotional response to challenge and to threat....

"The traditional means by which the leader sought to validate his followers' sharing of the risk he led them to face -- the cultivation of a sense of kinship, the use of sanction, the force of example, the power of prescription, the resort of action -- now all fail. Indeed, what is asked first of a leader in the nuclear world is that he should not act in any traditionally heroic sense, at all.

"An inactive leader, one who does nothing, sets no striking example, says nothing stirring, rewards no more than he punishes, insists above all in being different from the mass in his modesty, prudence and rationality, may sound no leader at all. But such, none the less, is the sort of leader the nuclear world needs, even if it does not know that it wants him."

Students of astrology will recognize the hero (Leo) and his Aquarian antithesis in these descriptions of leadership by John Keegan, one of the foremost writers of enlightened military history in the world today.

These qualities could be construed as Aquarian especially in contrast to the "heroic" Leo:

•inactive
•does nothing
•sets no striking example
•says nothing stirring
•reward no more than he punishes
•insists above all in being different from the mass in his modesty, prudence and rationality

Keegan is describing the extreme committed detachment of the stereotypical Aquarian. In his book, The Mask of Command, John F. Kennedy was rated highly on this score.

http://www.bemyastrologer.com/age_of_aquarius.html#timeline

[hippiechick]

1. Well, the first 4 bullet points fit Bush, perfectly ...

"•inactive
•does nothing
•sets no striking example
•says nothing stirring"



:(

[bloom]

2. The Katrina situation, esp.

Sitting around being a faux leader and allowing others to create mayhem and torture and death - isn't what the author had in mind, I'm sure.

And there will be those who will come along and take advantage of power gaps - so there is that.

[u4ic]

3. How true about *!

Though the Aquarians/strong Uranus people I've known have never been any of those things mentioned. :shrug: