Today’s Oracle takes us to the Pisces – Weekly of Jan 06, 2006

There’s a wave of energy rising in your life now. It’s rising for everyone, but for Pisces there is a particularly intense quality. That does not mean destructive, nor does it necessarily imply productive — but it surely can be. You get to decide, but how exactly you do that may not be clear. As a Pisces, you know more than most that we all have a significant ability to determine what is real for us, and what is not. Yet implicit in that process is making decisions about these things as they present themselves, rather than delaying. The pace of your feelings, your mind and your activities is quickening now. Make sure you take your choices one at a time.

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Today is the 5th anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that killed nearly a quarter of a million people, from Indonesia to Sri Lanka to Africa. At the time, I covered the incident for Jonathan Cainer’s website in my Astrology Secrets Revealed series. The coverage was in two parts, “The Great Wave” part one and part two. These articles examine the basic chart and a second version that includes key minor planets with an aquatic theme. The question I had to confront is: why do these charts have corporate fingerprints on them? My proposal was that the drift of tectonic planets that created the quake was the effect of both the southern ice cap melting, and high air-pressure oil drilling off of Tasmania (which is capable of causing ‘small’ quakes and then setting off a knock effect). There was in fact a small 4.5 strength quake off of Tasmania a few days earlier. But let’s listen to the charts first. If I have a moment over the weekend I will give them a second look. This was a profound event that changed history — but not enough. – EFC

Today’s Oracle takes us to the Gemini monthly of December 2000

You may at last be feeling enough of a sense of your own presence, what you might call a tense of presence, to seek the fulfillment of your own needs in relationship. There can be no underestimating the extent to which you have had to confront isolation born of who you’ve seemed to attract into your life in recent years: people you could describe as incomprehensible, unreachable, strangely unique and perhaps frightening, but clearly, soulfully human. Your isolation was born of your own ideas about what you thought these people thought of you, and the power you thought they held over you. Yet all you needed is what you now have, which is to meet others with your sense of your own being; this is power, and this you have learned.

(The Daily Oracle is a random selection from one of 10,000 Eric Francis horoscopes. The Oracle is a divination tool like tarot cards, and also can be used to research any horoscope for the past 10 years. It is available to subscribers of Planet Waves Astrology News in all its working glory. This is a brilliant piece of programming combined with a full decade of Eric’s writing — when you have a question, it really works (as long as you’re sincere), and we know that you’ll love it. Sign up to discover how and why. Or enjoy one selection free here every day.)

Wishing you a happy holiday. Judith Gayle has written a Christmas letter from Planet Waves, in the post below. For a bit of nostalgia and marking four seasons gone by, here is last year’s Christmas letter, by Fe Bongolan.

By Judith Gayle | Political Waves

Here we are, then, ready to celebrate Christmas 2009 and brace ourselves for the final year of a decade that will go down in history as the volatile introduction to a turning point for humanity. I suppose we could pretend that it’s just like any other holiday season we’ve celebrated, same old same old, but that would be missing the point entirely. This ain’t yer average holiday season; this one has potential to be something more. And in the amazing energy of this Shift of Ages, it is incumbent upon us to take the time to create it differently.

Adorazione del Bambino (Adoration of the Child). (1439-43), a mural by Florentine painter Fra Angelico.

Despite what Jesus, the teacher, told us so long ago about not creating him as a person to worship, we did. It all got contentious after that. The mythologies surrounding his birth are softer than those of his death, easier on the ear and heart. Both speak of hope and the overcoming of darkness, but most of us can take more joy in such a portentous beginning than muster the faith required to accept the end as a metaphysical miracle. Consequently, Christmas is easy on the heart even for those who don’t believe it ever happened. Hard to argue with a baby in a manger and the gentle feelings we can bring to such a moment, and infinitely easier for capitalism and consumerism to ride roughshod over than the sobering energies of Easter.

For many of us, Christmas is a cultural exercise. If we aren’t religious, we still have secular options during this period. Santa, magnificent though he is, isn’t a religious icon, and gives us a place to weather the holiday storm. Particularly since the turn of this new century, the ‘reason for the season’ has morphed in our minds with those who practice a violent, extreme Christianity. It’s pretty hard to warm to a religion that has become repressive, repugnant and so emotionally skewed it feels virtuous in collective prayer for the death of a frail and beloved senator so that its political agenda can be realized.

Hard-core religiosity has always had the ability to harm, of course, to perpetuate the aggressive “us/them” dialogue we’ve been trapped in for the entirety of the Piscean Era. Karl Marx, villain in the eyes of so many, is quoted as saying that religion is “the opiate of the masses,” wielded like a club to control the great unwashed and keep them lulled. Yet that isn’t all he said, and when you examine his commentary in Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, you might even nod your head in agreement:

Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions.

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Today’s Oracle takes us to the Gemini monthly of Aug. 1, 2005

I see a special guest in your house this month. It’s likely to be a woman mature beyond her years and who possesses an unusual depth of intelligence. This person may be younger than you but she’s your teacher and she’s a good one. It helps that you’re in the midst of some kind of personal revelation or breakthrough. But it also appears that you’re not in the mood to go discussing this all over town which is a sound precaution to take. But as for this wise young one you can pretty much tell her anything. Her words will help you feel your own confidence and strength.

(The Daily Oracle is a random selection from one of 10,000 Eric Francis horoscopes. The Oracle is a divination tool like tarot cards, and also can be used to research any horoscope for the past 10 years. It is available to subscribers of Planet Waves Astrology News in all its working glory. This is a brilliant piece of programming combined with a full decade of Eric’s writing — when you have a question, it really works (as long as you’re sincere), and we know that you’ll love it. Sign up to discover how and why. Or enjoy one selection free here every day.)

Dear Friend and Reader:

We’re now in the full momentum of one of those clusters activity that arrives at, well, not quite the perfect time. Mercury is slowing to a station, which technically happens on Dec. 26. Based on the echo/storm theory of Mercury, we know that the three weeks preceding the station have plenty of retrograde effects (called the echo phase) and the few days preceding the station are the most intense of all (called the storm phase). We’re fully into the experience, just as everyone is traveling for the holidays, and doing their best not to get their buttons pushed by the same relatives who always push our buttons.

The Mercury factor suggests: keep Plan B in mind. Check fluid levels in the car before you travel. Bring a flashlight; it’s dark at night this time of year. Skip the scenic route — take a direct way, and know your directions well. Mercury retrograde usually goes fine if we follow the basics. It’s just difficult to get somewhere when the directions are sitting on your desk and you’re roaming around central New Jersey.

Another factor that is amplifying/agitating things is the New Year’s Eve lunar eclipse in Cancer. Eclipses have two dependable feelings: one is that a sense of inevitable transition is coming; and the other is the sense that everything feels just a little more intense than seems normal. There’s that slightly out of control feeling that you fear might become a really out of control feeling. I suggest not getting too caught up in the feeling; compensate not with fear, but with paying attention.
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