The lion hovers as a symbol over Av, the most mournful month on the Hebrew calendar. 

The temple in Israel was destroyed twice:

The month in which the Jewish people twice suffered the destruction of their temple and were twice exiled from their land,

Israel goes into exile:

thus making the month of Av into a spiritual status or a muzzle of a father which regulates power,

repairs social stigma and utilizes reciprocity where it is required. 

On the new moon of AV:

This is also the month when Aaron the high priest died, after Israel had completed their 40 years in the wilderness.

The Zodiac sign of the month of AV:

The Zodiac sign “Lion” stands for Simeon the 2nd son of Jacob, also representing the Religious system.

Its zodiac sign is the lion, Leo, which the midrash sees as appropriate in many ways:

Israel suffered punishments because it did not heed the words of God, of whom it is said, “A lion has roared, Who can but fear?” (Amos 3:8). 

The prophet Jeremiah described Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian destroyer of the First Temple as a lion in the verse

“The lion has come up from his thicket”:

The destroyer of nations has set out” (Jeremiah 4:7). 

And the Temple itself, like Jerusalem, is called Aries, the lion of God, as in “Ah, Ariel, Ariel” (Isaiah 29:1).

Most of the evil, (the destroying of God’s first and second temple, the bringing back of the evil report by the ten spies into the camp of Israel,

the persecuting of Israel or the Jewish nation in Europe).

All these evil events that intended to destroy God’s faith, people,

and religion ; all took place in this month of Av. and thus making the month into a time of mourning.

The prophetic promise of this month:

In the prophetic end time days of Hamashiach (Messianic era),

this same month of “Av” (Zodiac sign of the month of Av) will also become the month,

or sign in which the evil energies of hate, Anti Semitism against God’s people (Jewish nation),

and religion, will be transformed, and converted into the joy,

the celebration and the acceptance of God’s people and God’s religion.

Article written by Ap Ngabo Alex