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Dear Eric and Team,

There were a number of layers for me that made Planet Waves meaningful to subscribe to. The first and foremost being that for a number of years prior I confess to being a horoscope junkie, always cruising through the freebies as part of a daily ritual. At coffee times I would say to folks in the office, “Well let’s see what kind of day I am having!” Yeah, a bit cynical I guess you could say. When I found PW the quality and passion of the writing hit me right between the eyes, together with the profound accuracy of each piece of writing and how it ‘fit’ with my own experience of my life. Quite simply the experience and interpretation of my own self mirrored your experience and interpretation of the charts. This inspired me to begin to take good astrology seriously, and this has had a ripple effect of helping me to take myself seriously down the years.

I honestly cannot recall one particular article that led me to subscribe. It was more of a need to know more, to be part of PW in whatever small way I could and to show that I really appreciated and valued the passion and commitment of the team.

Certainly, when things have been difficult or challenging with life, I have reflected on the horoscopes and gained new perspective and growth for myself. At present, I am being guided to go beyond my own perceived limits. I guess I have to say that right now you have turned into a mini life coach for me!

Lastly, I want to say thank you. Thank you for having the courage to go for what you believe in, thank you for being so sharp and saying it just as you see it, and thank you for making a difference in my own life. We will likely never meet but I hold your influence in some of the most pivotal moments of my life and I appreciate you as a team individually and collectively. To be honest, I struggle to find a reason why people wouldn’t want to subscribe.

Good luck to you all at PW, and thanks again!

Wendy from Perth

Good morning!

I got back in late from New York City last night and I’m just getting going. I’ll have your new weekly audio once I get a little coffee going. Back soon…

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Today’s Oracle takes us back to the Capricorn monthly of May 27, 2008

Consider the time you invest in yourself now like money in the bank. It may not be particularly useful, but you know it’s there. One of your most important resources is the knowledge base you are developing about a particular subject, and I can tell you from experiences that these take time to develop, to ferment and to put forth their fine results. Remember that you’re trying to do something unusually large, but it’s designed to have significant lasting value. While you cultivate this database, at times you may find yourself in a subtle state of mind where you have access to information that goes beyond anything you’re supposed to know today. File that away as well, and verify it against what you learn later via more conventional means.

(The Daily Oracle is a random selection from one of 10,000 Eric Francis horoscopes. New horoscopes by Eric are published weekly plus twice a month in Planet Waves Astrology News and Planet Waves Light. The Oracle itself is a divination tool available to subscribers to either of these services.)

Editor’s Note: We’ve been asking our clients for feedback about the professional services we publish, and your responses have created the opportunity for an exciting dialog.

Dear Eric,

Since I began subscribing to Planet Waves in 1998, I’ve always felt that I was a participant of a deeper intuitive, visionary, and highly talented home of information that I couldn’t get anywhere else. So I see myself as a member of an evolving group of consciousness.

From the beginning, to my joy and to my amazement, was the way the astrology was written — it presents mind-body-spirit growth factors in the fashion of a personal reading, which goes to the core of challenging spiritual and physical awareness, and balancing our feminine and masculine aspects.  Guiding us within these areas you pose the questions of balance, harmony, and authenticity.

Planet Waves is so far removed from the usual astrology of “your best date nights are June 21st, and…. “The most promising days to land that promotion are… You’ll be at your best to wow everyone at the party on…” Yawn..

Eric, you’re a visionary. You’re a seer. You don’t just present astrology. You teach spiritual growth and mass evolution, and bring it down to practical, physical terms for people to use. Judith Gayle is your earthy, mystical political counterpart, with whom I’d love to sit across the kitchen table with a cup of tea and listen to as well. I know a mystic when I see one. Perhaps it’s a bit unsettling to accept that, I know. Or, perhaps you totally embrace it. And I say USE it as a part of how you identify your work and who Planet Waves is! You quench a thirst for “value fulfillment” as “Seth” would say.

Sending love and abundance to you all!
Triza from Los Osos

TWENTY-FIVE years ago, when I was a high school senior, I was sitting in my room and my mother walked in with a newspaper clipping from The New York Times about a new disease called GRID. This was, I read in our family’s newspaper of record, a disease that was impacting gay men. A few weeks later, she came in with a second article on the same subject. It was a while before the name was changed to AIDS, or that any heterosexuals figured out they might have a stake in the issue.

My mother, Camille, was the source of most of my sex education, at least the face-to-face part, covering the technical issues. This had started some years earlier.

Her theory was it was easier to talk about sex to little kids than to teenagers, so the discussions must have started when I was about 10 and when my brother was about 7. She was at the time an ESL teacher — English as a second language — teaching English to people from Haiti and Puerto Rico. At the time, during the supposedly wild and irresponsible 1970s, educational programs funded by New York City included basic information about birth control and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases.

When she told me the stories of grown women in her class (i.e., even older than her) thinking a 7-Up douche after sex could prevent pregnancy (apparently a rumor in the times before Snopes), I got it on the spot that you just had to teach this stuff. My brother and I got a kick out of the story, too. We had 7-Up in the refrigerator. It now had an erotic connotation.

One night after dinner, she dumped the contents of an envelope onto the kitchen table, revealing all kinds of little gadgets: diaphragms and various IUDs, condoms and tubes full of spermicide and little pamphlets. After that night, I was probably the only kid except my brother for 75 miles around who could tell you the difference between a Copper 7 and a Lippes Loop. (Both are intra-uterine devices. The Copper 7 was later the subject of a serious medical scandal and subsequent lawsuit, because it sterilized a lot of women.)

To her credit, there was no moral message whatsoever: she assumed that her sons would be sexually active, and the obvious choice for her as a parent was to make sure we began that journey from the standpoint of awareness and not ignorance, making choices about family planning instead of playing in the casino of life. She did not want any unplanned grandchildren, either.

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By Len Wallick

“Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.”
- Humphrey Bogart – from the motion picture ‘Casablanca’

Yesterday’s blog set the theme. The daily, ephemeral aspects and transits are informing us as we proceed through the co-incidence of two continuous, long-term astrological phenomena.

One of the continuums is the current eclipse cycle. Eclipses tend to take place in pairs. One at the Full Moon, called a lunar eclipse, so called because Earth is in between, blocking the light of the Sun, turning the bright silver orb a dusky red. The other half of the pair takes place at the New Moon. It is the solar eclipse. This time Luna is the pickle in the middle. It will more or less block the Sun from our view. There are about two weeks in between. It can be said to be a space and time out of space-time. Events go in one side and come out in a very different form in a very different place on the other. Hence it can be said to be a continuum.

The other continuous phenomena is the years-long cardinal t-square. A dance of Pluto, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter crossing back and forth over the first degrees of the cardinal signs Capricorn, Libra and Aries, respectively.

The intersection of the two continuums was quite literal last weekend when the opposition of the Sun and Moon superimposed on the t-square, transforming it into a grand cardinal cross. Although the Moon has moved on, the Sun’s current placement means the grand cardinal cross is still functional even as you read this.

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Today’s Oracle takes us back to the Scorpio monthly of January 9, 2007

In my ideal cosmos of astrology, no Scorpio would ever have to work for money. You would, instead, be the master of manifestation; the people in the world who teach us all that there is infinite abundance, and that all we need to do is ask with our hearts and we shall receive, as we need. I trust you have this gift, and that you know you have it perfectly well. But Scorpio is the sign of commerce and trade, and of all forms of business arrangements that involve using the resources of others. You are, in a sense, bound into relationships that must, by their nature, become enterprises, and through these, everyone thrives. This is why integrity is so important to you; it represents the many threads that hold together these journeys of coexistence and survival. We so often forget that trade and commerce, for all their injustices, are what on many levels hold the world together and encourage people to act on their common sense. What if you could combine these two extraordinary properties, that is, your ability to divinely manifest, and your extraordinary gift for mustering up cooperation and a sense of community? I would say that if any year was the year, this is it. Set the example, Scorpio. Show us how it’s done.

(The Daily Oracle is a random selection from one of 10,000 Eric Francis horoscopes. New horoscopes by Eric are published weekly plus twice a month in Planet Waves Astrology News and Planet Waves Light. The Oracle itself is a divination tool available to subscribers to either of these services.)

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Hi Eric –
I found you on Jonathon Cainer’s site years ago, I don’t remember how long ago, whenever you were first a guest I suspect. I felt immediately a sense of coming home with you and your team.

Your writing and your caring attention, kindness and presence which is so strong in each of your thoughts and words brings me to another place where I feel a sense of “I am alright just the way I am.” I have a few friends who allow me that; I think to find it online is awesome… thank you!

For me, I feel as if I am a member of your family, growing up and learning along side you all. No matter what the time of day it is, if I need a little boost or a word of wisdom I can always find it in your pages, whether it’s the Friday editions or the daily astrology, and for that you have my heartfelt thanks and gratitude. That’s of course in addition to the amazingly accurate horoscopes and all the other wonderful writing you do.

So there! That’s what I think

lovelovelove,
Lucinda from Burlington

Cousins & Fellow Travelers,

I will be speaking in New York City on Tuesday night, on the topic of relationships: specifically, about the similarities between monogamy and polyamory. The talk is sponsored by Open Love New York. The talk is based on my recent article, The One and the Many.

It’s from 7 pm to 9 pm on Tuesday, June 29. The location is Roy Arias Studios, Times Square Arts Center Building, 300 West 43rd Street at 8th Ave, room 500 A on the 5th floor.

Take any subway to Times Square or Port Authority.

Admission is $10 at the door or $8 for Open Love NY members with member bracelet.

Note, this is going to be a personal kind of event in a small venue. If you’ve wanted to meet me for a while, this is a good chance, and there will be some social time afterward. So to all my soon-to-be friends in Brooklyn (or Manhattan), see you there.

– Eric Francis