Scorpio/Taurus

The Scorpio/Taurus line of the French seal of Solomon pattern is further accentuated in that it passes exactly through the XIIIth century cathedral of St Cyr and Ste Julitte at Nevers (B Fig 22). It continues into the Taurus side of the zodiac to eventually reach Toledo, Spain’s ancient capital. It wasn’t until 1561 that the capital was transferred to Madrid. The symbolism of the Taurean bull is, of course, of foremost importance in Spanish culture.

Aquarius/Leo

The crucial Aquarius/Leo axis is precisely pinpointed by the XIIIth century Benedictine abbey at Le Mont St Michel (D). Highlighting not only the position of a world renowned religious monument, but also a striking natural feature of the earth.

On the Leo side, the line passes 20 Km south of Lyon (E), over the Alps and out through Menton (F). The location of Lyon in the country zodiac is the same as Pontigny abbey and St Lazare at Avallon in the Auxerre and Vezelay landscape zodiacs.

Lyon, named by the Romans « Lugdunum », « the town of Lug », was of such importance to the Gauls that it was their capital and the god Lug, also known as the « genie », or « guardian » of Lyon, was the most important of their pantheon of gods. The annual pilgrimage to Lyon, « Lugnasadh », in reverence of Lug and the most important Celtic religious festival took place on the 1^st August, which coincides with the sun’s annual passage into the zodiacal sign of Leo.

The Gauls respected the divine pattern in both place and time through their pilgrimages and sacred festivals, but before their arrival in western Europe we know little of their history. The traces left of the Celtic civilisation in France does not give us a complete record of their knowledge. However, the knowledge that remains of their symbolic use of gods and their spirituality provides clear evidence that their high level of culture was achieved by an attempted union between the nation’s collective consciousness and the divine pattern.

The colonisation of Gaul by the Romans brought about many changes to the Celtic civilisation, but the many parallels in their spiritual knowledge were largely continued.

However, the knowledge of the seal of Solomon as a pattern of consciousness can be traced to way before the Celtic civilisation. It is known that the Sphinx at Giza is aligned to face the rising of the constellation of Leo at the spring equinox, which occurred between approximately 10 500 and 8 500BC. The perfectly harmonious location of the sphinx in both place and time is even more evident in that it lies exactly on the Leo /Aquarius axis and in the same zodiacal house as Lyon, the ancient capital of the French zodiac. There is therefore a link between Celtic and ancient Egyptian tradition, which would seem likely to originate from the same source. Lyon, and the pyramids of which the sphinx is guardian, were both places of worship with the aim of achieving the same unification between human consciousness and the divine pattern in aspects of both place and time.

Cancer/Capricorn

The axis’ Leo/Aquarius and Scorpio/Taurus of the French zodiac are, therefore, precisely marked within France by religious monuments of national importance. The Cancer/Capricorn axis passes with the same precision through Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (G).

The legend of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer is that two sisters of the Virgin Mary, Mary Jacobe, mother of Saint Jacques le Mineur, and Mary Salome, mother of Saint John and Saint Jacques le Majeur (of Compostella), arrived at this beach in 42AD. They drifted ashore having left the Holy Land in a small boat without oars or rigging. Their black Egyptian servant, Sarah, is the patron Saint of the Gypsies, or Tziganes. It is to Sarah-la-Kali, or Sarah-la-noire that the