The Twelve Moods of the Zodiac
Rudolf Steiner had a sense of humor. Along with very serious verses for each zodiacal mood, he also offered a satirical verse that both shed light on the stumblings of a person on an initiatory path and informed us of our own foibles.
See Rudolf Steiner's The Song of Initiation, a Satire.
In a quite serious version, Rudolf Steiner offers twelve verses of the zodiacal moods revealing the human experience as a reflection of the cosmos. The verse for Leo reads:
Invigorate with senses' might
Matured existence of all worlds,
Perceptive element of beings,
Toward the firm resolve 'to be'.
In the surging shine of life,
In the prevailing pains of growth,
With senses' might, arise!
Of these more serious verses, he says, "Thus an attempt has been made to offer a sequence of feeling, sensing, and speaking, which, as it is presented, gives, as it were, another version of the inner soul-feeling in relation to what has flowed into the movements of our solar system. The structure of twelve verses, each with seven lines, corresponds, you could say, to the outer skeleton. If you take this attempt at a twelve/seven-membered poem, however, you will see that what wishes to reveal itself is present in every detail."