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This issue also includes a full complement of astro-news briefs, this week’s horoscopes for all 12 signs, and striking photographs. As mentioned, you can pick this one up on its own, or you can subscribe for three months here for a better sense of Planet Waves’ tidal rhythms.

The water wall at Gurney's Inn, Montauk, New York. Photo by Eric Francis.

Today is Friday, Feb. 3, 2012. Neptune enters Pisces today at 2:03 pm EST. After fourteen years in what may be the least comfortable sign it could travel through (Aquarius), Neptune is finally coming home for a long spell. The sky is strong and favorable with Pisces energy, rolling out a welcome mat for this transition.

For one thing, Jupiter and Chiron are still in a sextile from Taurus to Pisces, respectively – and each has a strong association with the other’s current placement. Jupiter is the traditional ruler of Pisces; Chiron was discovered while it was in Taurus – right in the degree Jupiter now occupies. It adds up to a lot of strong Pisces energy all at once, but the sextile makes it accessible, and Jupiter in earthy Taurus provides some real grounding for it. Chiron provides a complimentary grounding in the form of focus and a consciously applied visioning power.

The configuration, with Neptune blending into the edges of the aspect, translates to applied creativity for a purpose. Remember: unlike some aspects that can feel like a kick in the ass and others that seem to slide right by, a sextile is an energy you can actually use. And just in case you needed an extra boost in that, Uranus is right at the midpoint between Jupiter and Chiron, urging you to reinvent yourself.

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Today’s Oracle takes us to the Gemini weekly for Oct. 22, 1999.

Somewhere back in your karmic files is a detail about how you tend to attract sexually repressed people, and it then becomes your job to get them, well, over the hump. And there are worse jobs you can have in this world. Lately, though, even the most dazed, confused and shutdown people in your vicinity have been awakening, or at least in my opinion they should be, and you’re in a perfect position to provide an outlet for their newly discovered, if momentary, lapse of erotic denial. Cut these folks some slack. Ask them what they need, and what they want. They’re complicated beings. Not that you are so simple, but at least you can see in black and white instead of a thousand shades of gray.

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. And for your 2012 annual reading, you’ll find Revolution. Revelation. Reality Check.

Chelsea,
I’ve just listened to Eric’s annual on my sun sign Leo. So far just parts 1 and 2…I have to sleep before I hear 3. These are truly fantastic, insightful words by Eric. I’m soon to be 90 y.o. and they are going to be so helpful even at my age. My heart just over-flows with love for what he is doing for all of us. I haven’t even gone to my rising sign yet, hrs. and hrs. of listening to my favorite astrologer. Give him a big hug for me, please. -ellen

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It’s never too late to start living your life fully, but why wait any longer? After months of hard work, Revolution. Revelation. Reality Check. — the 2012 annual edition by Eric Francis — is ready. Each of the 12 signs gets a three-part audio report and a substantial written exploration of the forces that will be shaping your life this year. You can check out the RRR Diary and certain features here, but the written and audio sign reports are a premium service you can access via purchase here.

Below is some of the early feedback we’ve received from people since we released the annual. If you have further questions about all that the 2012 annual by Eric Francis entails, you can post them below, or email Chelsea at chelsea@planetwaves.net or give her a ring at (877)453-8265. Please keep in mind she’s pretty swamped since the RRR release, but rest assured she will get back to you.

By Health Day News, via Reader Supported News

About one million packets of birth control pills are being recalled in the United States by Pfizer Inc. because of a packaging error that could reduce the effectiveness of the pills and cause unintended pregnancies.

Video still from KBSW news broadcast.

The recall of 14 lots of Lo/Ovral-28 tablets and 14 lots of generic Norgestrel and Ethinyl Estradiol tablets was announced late Tuesday after Pfizer discovered that some blister packs may contain either too many or too few active pills and that the pills may be out of sequence. The expiration dates on the recalled packets range between July 31, 2013 and March 31, 2014.

The pills are packaged in blister packs containing 21 active tablets and seven inactive tablets. The packaging error means that the daily regimen for the pills may be incorrect and could leave women without adequate contraception and at risk for unintended pregnancy, Pfizer said in a news release.

Experts said the error could pose real problems for women using the pills.

“This is extremely important,” said Dr. Steven Goldstein, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at NYU Langone School of Medicine in New York City. “It is absolutely essential that birth control pills be taken as intended, with 21 medicated pills in a row. Otherwise ovulation could take place and an unintended pregnancy is definitely a possibility.”

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Neptune enters Pisces tomorrow. Fans of astrology consider that to be a big deal. Whether you are among the enthusiasts, a skeptic, or just curious, all of us are in a position to ask the same question. That common inquiry is what the ingress of Neptune into Pisces could possibly mean in your life.

Today is a good opportunity to develop some answers that anybody can understand. We shall begin with two fundamentals, your time and your consciousness. We will then build on those two fundamentals to consider two other things that are a part of everybody’s life, water and thresholds. Let us start with time.

Time matters because you are a mortal being. Putting aside all the technical, philosophical, scientific and religious stuff, we all know that there is finite period between birth and death. Within that period other things begin and end, and many events repeat. There are important times that repeat frequently, like getting hungry, thirsty or sleepy. Then, there are occurrences that are important because they don’t happen very often. The motion of Neptune fits in that latter category. It does not change signs every day or even every decade, and it enters Pisces far less frequently. That tells you the first thing about what Neptune means in your life. It is associated with big chunks of time.

Neptune takes about 165 years to go around the Sun and, hence, through all 12 of the signs in the zodiac. Ask yourself, how many people live even half that long? Neptune has been nowhere but Aquarius since 1998. Ask yourself again, what in your life has and has not changed in the period? That is one way to feel how the astrology works. Your existence, however, is more than just time; it is also consciousness.

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Photo by Eric Francis

Today is Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. This is the last day of Neptune in Aquarius; Neptune changes signs into Pisces Friday just past 2 pm EDT, beginning an era that culminates in 2025. Let’s do a quick almanac check with the rest of the sky and come back to Neptune.

At the moment the Sun is in mid-Aquarius. In the Northern Hemisphere, this is a time of year called Imbolc — which means “in the belly.” We are in the belly of winter, and this is the midwinter holiday, which was in later times called Candlemas. It’s the midway point between winter solstice and spring equinox. The ridiculous tradition of Groundhog Day is a throwback to when these particular points in the cycle of the year were used for divination purposes — that is to say, this is traditionally held as a good time to read tarot, cast runes or throw the I Ching.

The Moon is now moving slowly through Gemini and ingresses Cancer Saturday at 1:03 am EST, where it will immediately pick up on Neptune, newly in Pisces, and Chiron in early Pisces, through a water-to-water trine aspect.

Yet before that happens, we have one more full day of Neptune in Aquarius, where it has been since 1998. In Tuesday’s subscriber edition we asked readers for their comments on this transit. Here is what some of them said.

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Today’s Oracle takes us to the Pisces weekly for August 23, 2007.

This week’s total eclipse of the Moon in your birth sign opens the way to your future. The way to the future is right now, and that is convenient because right now is a truly compelling moment. This moment, in an odd and cosmic way, contains all that you need to know; all the information about how to access the deeper layers of your creative joy, your revolutionary tendencies and your commitment above all else to being as free and as authentic of a person as you can be. You are being invited to let go of an illusion about yourself, and in its place, embrace something real, compelling and inevitable in the best sense of the word.

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. And for your 2012 annual reading, you’ll find Revolution. Revelation. Reality Check.

On Tuesday, Eric sent a letter to Planet Waves subscribers sharing his thoughts about Neptune in Aquarius (which ends Friday after 14 years). He has received many replies, including one from what Eric calls one of his “astrology guitar heroes,” Dale O’Brien. Dale has been one of the pioneering — and most innovative — writers about Chiron, going almost back to the beginning.

Dale considers the review of a recent, major transit to be critical to our understanding, and notes how few astrologers actually do so — perhaps due to the potential embarrassment of predictions that never manifested. Thankfully for Planet Waves readers, Eric is an astrologer of a slightly different stripe. Dale offers a little mythological perspective on Neptune in Aquarius, bringing a sense of “who” we’ve lived through — and “when” — as opposed to simply considering the planet and the sign as “whats.”

You can read Dale’s letter in full here on the RRR Diary — as well as Eric’s Tuesday letter.