PLANET WAVES By ERIC FRANCIS
May 21, 1999Copyright ©1999, all rights reserved, by Planet Waves Digital Media Project.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Learning happens in your body, not just
your mind. If you've ever driven a standard-shift car, you know
what I'm talking about; when you're really in the flow, the mind
steps aside, and the body synchs in with the gears and engine
with expert precision. What we call the mind is then free to
monitor events and make important decisions. This is an excellent
week of developing mind-body contact for you, which will assist
your learning and, it seems, unlearning and undoing that which
is false. Adjustments will be required, but they will be worth
it.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
In his amazing little book *Illusions:
The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah*, Richard Bach explains
that we teach what we most need to learn. With the brilliant
Mercury and the mighty Saturn now transiting your birth sign,
you may feel like you're deep in the middle of what an astrologer
once described to me as "coming to terms" with yourself.
But the question is, what terms? And whose terms? Are you wasting
your precious time on fear? Remember, if you are fearful, you
will teach fear; if you are applying creativity to your situation,
you will both teach and attract creativity. Those are your choices.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
As the season of your birth begins, major
events are unfolding on the relationship angle of your solar
chart. Juno, a powerful asteroid governing matters of marriage
partnership, is getting her clock cleaned by Pluto and Chiron,
two of the most potent activating forces in all of astrology.
Your relationship to yourself is changing. Old values are burning
up. Old visions of who or what you thought you wanted from another
person are evaporating. In their place, new ideas about how you
look at and appreciate The Other are free to be written. No doubt
you're on edge about many things in your life, especially love,
but no doubt, a little extra awareness -- careful monitoring
of yourself and the world around you -- will carry you a very
long way toward what you truly desire, and truly need.
CANCER (June 21-July 22)
In the coming days, you may find yourself
involved a situation in which it does not seem possible to make
a move without causing some pain to yourself, or crisis to others.
At the heart of the matter is your feeling of not being able
to find yourself in the midst of your own reality; as if your
whole life has become a blind spot. Yet in this world, we must
have faith in something, and faith operates best in the dark.
If you cultivate faith in love, and then put it into action by
both giving and receiving kindness and consciousness, you will
discover that events take you to a level of peace and beauty
beyond your wildest hopes.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
Chiron opposite the Sun is what Barbara
Hand Clow described as "a life and death struggle to bring
the self into expression." With the Sun, the celestial body
associated with Leo, now about to enter Gemini, you may become
aware of many selves, and the many lives that they have lived,
and your struggle to bring someone or something into expression
may be quite complex. Yet this is truly the Alchemical Sun, and
that means you have, at this time, a brilliant, burning, awesome
moment of potential to fill your life with an energy of change
so powerful that, well, something meaningful actually changes.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sep. 22)
Your life may seem close
to certain limits at the moment, which could be exhilarating,
or just as nerve-racking. Current aspects
speak of a space that is such a mixture of vulnerability and
power, all I can really say is that from this point on, all differences
of any kind are poised on that razor's edge known as awareness.
Each moment of your life now hinges upon a conscious thought.
Each thought is a turning point; each is a branch in the road
which can lead you anywhere. Tread lightly, but tread ahead.
LIBRA (Sep. 23-Oct. 22)
There are all kinds of ways to be daring,
and to explore the idea of risk. Skydiving and bungee jumping
are one type of dare; acknowledging something about yourself
-- something you perhaps always knew, but were afraid to "let
yourself know you knew" -- is another. The best clue I can
offer you as to what this might be is that it's about something
you secretly want with all your blood and bones. And it will
take some guts to let yourself in on this little secret desire
you're hiding from yourself, or trying to. But you know what
it is. Say it out loud.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 22)
The extent to which our entire human reality
is determined by sex is something about which our culture is
in a state of outrageous denial. Someone recently described the
current retrograde of Mars -- a very Scorpio planet, and the
essential archetype of desire -- as "Violent Spring,"
and I have no doubt that at the core of this violence we are
witnessing in Kosovo, Littleton and elsewhere, is sexual repression,
denial, pain and guilt. In reality, these are all different words
for the same thing. With Mars now transiting backwards in Libra,
the message is clear: do not deny the undeniable. You are alive.
Live that way. Love that way.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21)
This week will have a fated quality to
it, and what unfolds will do so with the utmost precision. Be
prepared to experience a wide range of emotions, and to do so
shamelessly, because in that process you will discover a most
unusual freedom. Indeed, one of our most severe restrictions
(though they are different for men and women) are clamps and
chains placed upon what we are allowed to feel. If you can let
go of these restrictions even a little, it would surprise me
tremendously if you said that in the next seven days, you didn't
learn about yourself as much as you've learned in the past seven
years; and it will not stop there.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
All astrology is prophesy. Even the most
humanistic schools of thought on the matter, which view the stars
as a means of presenting options, even the poetic schools, which
say that the stars present a symbolic picture of reality, and
even the school that says the universe is a predictable machine;
all of them involve a combination of foresight and insight that
requires the astrologer to conjure knowledge from a space of
not knowing. The question for you now, in linewith this, is what
to do if you intuitively know someone close to you is heading
for a potentially difficult situation with a potentially negative
outcome. Do you maintain your silence? It might be very wise.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 19-Feb. 18)
Intimacy requires true bravery. I am a
pretty gutsy person, and when I am approached by someone offering
contact and closeness and acknowledgment -- all of which I deeply
crave -- I often feel my mind fill with raging insecurities,
confusion and fear. I know that I can either hesitate, or accept
the offer and experience whatever comes next. But what is at
the heart of this terror? I suspect it's the business of not
knowing; of not being able to control the outcome; and the simple
fact that when we enter into authentic relationship, we are changed
forever, never to return to the way we were. But isn't it time?
PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20)
Your primary role this week seems to be
witness rather than participant. But when this happens -- indeed,
when either role is entered fully -- a rupture can occur, and
the illusionary wall between "spectator" and "player"
can dissolve, and the two become one distinct experience. For
we are witness to what we participate in, and direct participants
in that which we witness. Awareness becomes so powerful that
all experience is subsumed by the total unity of reality (what
some people call God). And from this perspective, the notion
of *choice* becomes something very new, noticeably different,
and truly important.
FOR THE FAITHFUL
Most who renounce astrology have never
made a serious inquiry into it. So to me, rejection of astrology
without investigation is about as valid as saying "The Beatles
Suck" when a person has not heard a note of their music.
On this point alone, most skeptics lose the astrology argument.
Their quest is not an attempt to seek truth, but to block its
discovery. Skepticism does not make good science; it is not a
hypothesis in itself; it is a refutation of a possible outcome
before the matter has been investigated. The history of science
is replete with examples of things that were "impossible"
or improbable. When there finally were bright, open, or young
enough young minds put to the task, with more modern technologies,
and the benefit of the past, then information and facts, and,
at times, even a level of the truth, were found. Sometimes it
happens.
We have not had time to assemble the reader responses from the past few weeks, which I promied to post here this week. It may take a little while from here, so thanks for your patience -- and thanks for writing. Your words have truly been inspiring.
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