Astrology Today: Oracle for Saturday, November 16, 2013

Today’s Oracle takes us to the Leo weekly for July 28, 2006

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This week’s New Moon so close to your birthday is signaling a powerful time of renewal for you, after so many months of clearing the past out of your life. You who are born this week have been living through Saturn in Leo, making a conjunction to your natal Sun, for a year. This has been a time of reckoning, clearing the past and most of all, getting to know yourself as something of an empty vessel. The New Moon in Leo is an invitation to fill that cup, pitcher or ball of light with whatever you want. Saturn almost always represents an exchange, and while you may have made sacrifices, and come to terms with the past. Circumstances have pushed you to exist as yourself in a new way. There has been a lot of give and take in the process, many exchanges with others, and potentially many activities involving sorting out what is fair — and working for it.

Perhaps the most interesting theme is the way in which you are establishing equity both in the context of an individual relationship and, going back somewhat further, in the context of a group relationship. The individual one can be about a close partner or close friend; the group context can be about family, your friends, or the group of people with whom you are employed. In both circumstances, the message, the metaphor, is the same: working out a definition of yourself where you establish and preserve your integrity, as well as create a workable way of relating to others that never omits the fact that you…are you. Now, I recognize that this may sound awfully hilarious, particularly when written from a Pisces (famous for not getting this particular lesson) to a Leo, famous for holding that boundary of self. But with Leo, one of the most common delusions is that you’ve somehow neglected your duty. The sense of responsibility with this sign is so strong that even a normal human conscience can feel like there has been some neglect even when there has been none. With Saturn in your sign, it’s essential that you keep your sense of responsibility in perspective.

And other factors suggest that making sure everyone understands what needs to be done, in the big picture, would be vitally helpful. You can do a lot for the world by doing, but you can get even more accomplished by facilitating action among the many highly energetic people in your life who have something to offer the cause. What cause? Well, life, however you choose to define it: raising the family, keeping the workflow moving, keeping the neighborhood safe, starting a theater company or impeaching Dick Cheney. Whatever you like. Saturn in your sign is evidence that you are taking inner leadership with yourself and thus creating a situation where it will be easier for others to identify. I suggest that if you view this as a burden, figure out a way to get past that, since it’s pretty much inevitable that people are going to be offering you more respect and attention as you master the Saturn principle. And while your realistic attitude may not make you the flavor of the month every month, anyone who is looking knows that the long-run is what counts the most. So, don’t worry if you encounter some resistance on the road to taking over your life and having that energy spread out from you in all directions.

To say you’re doing this would be an understatement. The recent Mars-Saturn conjunction in your sign was a genuine turning point for you. It would seem as if you overcame some huge inner hurdle or point of frustration. I don’t doubt that it was challenging, but I also don’t doubt that you’re feeling a lot better about an emotional situation that was giving you plenty of grief. Some would say you “got over yourself” and others would say you felt what you were feeling so directly that you pushed down some barrier and walked right over it. There was some revelation about your ability to influence, indeed, to shape, your reality. There was some clue that you can be a little pushy if you have to, and the sense that preference does indeed trump responsibility at certain key times.

But there is something significant and immediate you are waiting to learn or discover, which will confirm that you are on the right path. The challenge may involve a confrontation with the beliefs of others. In some lives, this will play out as high drama; but I suggest you take it on a much lower pitch than that. The issue is not what it seems; it’s far subtler; it involves a place you once held in the world that you are now identifying others as holding, and if you can see yourself in others and perhaps give them a few clues for how to see themselves in you, you’ll figure out that everyone is pretty much on the same page. What page is that? It’s our life, and we get to create it.

Note, The Oracle is a random selection from the Eric Francis horoscope archives. Each day we publish one entry from among the 10,000 in our database. It’s a little slice of horoscope history — but chosen by our Oracle program, which always speaks to the present moment. New horoscopes are published each Friday plus twice a month in Planet Waves subscriber edition and Planet Waves Light.

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