Evangelist
Luke the Evangelist
Evangelist1 tradition
Luke's Gospel opens with Zechariah's sacrifice in the Temple, so Luke is the ox, the sacrificial animal. On the zodiac the ox is Taurus. Tradition also makes Luke a physician and the first painter of Mary.
Uses
- Healing
- Sacrifice and service
- Art
- Living creature
- Ox (winged bull)
- Fixed sign
- Taurus
- Source
- Ezekiel 1:10, Revelation 4:7; assigned by Jerome
Working with it
Read the opening chapter of Luke's Gospel slowly, and notice why the Fathers gave him the ox.
Where the traditions place it
- Taurus — Christian mysticism