Good morning. Wednesday is usually audio day — but I’m taking the week off from doing new astrology interpretations.

Here is the audio archive so you can browse weekly presentations going back to spring.

And here is the September Monthly Horoscope — usually a subscriber product for those who receive Planet Waves Astrology News and Planet Waves Light. For new readers, I want you to see the work that we do for our subscribers here at Planet Waves. We will be back with an archive selection later, new tarot writing by Sarah Taylor, and Len Wallick’s daily astrology feature tomorrow.

PS, for those following the egg scandal — half a billion factory-made eggs recalled for fear of salmonella — you might enjoy this short video on cage-free egg farming.

Today’s Oracle takes us to the Aquarius weekly of July 9, 1999

This is one of those weeks when I really have to ask you what’s happening in your life rather than telling you much of anything. So please let me know. I can, however, say this. If you cling to what you believed yesterday, you will find that life is difficult, and conversely, if you are finding that life is difficult, it’s very likely because you are clutching old ideas. Somewhere it was written in stone that in order to have integrity, we have to think the same thing all our lives. But to paraphrase Gandhi, it’s more important to be real than it is to be consistent.

(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.)

Betty Dodson's dildo collection on her mantle piece. "Make sure you tell them that I've had my way with every one of them," she said, as I photographed her collection for 15 minutes. I was there Monday afternoon doing a business consulting session for her web-based erotic education projects. Photo by Eric.

Betty Dodson turns 81 today. Author of Sex for One and the producer of many erotic education videos, I never miss teaching her chart at a speaking engagement. Betty is a one-woman sexual revolution, having split off of the ‘straight’ feminist movement and being banished from the conventional art world because of the sexual content of her work. I have some thoughts to share about her new work, and her new business partnership with Carlin Ross, but I’ll save that for next week when I’m back in business as a writer. For now I will share last year’s biographical tribute on her 80th birthday, and an astrological analysis of her chart from two years ago. Here is a Planet Waves discussion thread called Art and Education. She contributed the lead article in a Planet Waves series called Fucking Like a Feminist a few years ago.

I write about her a lot; here is another — Betty makes a cameo in my article on the Aries Moon called The Dauntless Moon, along with Salvador Dali, Jerry Garcia and Andy Warhol.

Betty — happy birthday. I plan to be your astrologer for a long time.

Here is an astrological glyph legend.

Pisces Full Moon, simplified chart.

This is the simplified chart for the Pisces Full Moon. It’s easy to see how the Sun and Moon aspect so many planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Chiron, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. You can tell because either the numbers are in close proximity (in the 2-3-4 range) or in the case of Chiron, Uranus and Neptune, the numbers are very high (27 to 29 range) which still picks up the planets with relatively low numbers. The result is an aspect structure that is in place at the time of the Full Moon, and with which the Full Moon energetically vibrates.

Here is an astrological glyph legend.

Pisces Full Moon, with three centaurs (Chiron, Pholus, Nessus), three asteroids (Vesta, Juno, Pallas), and three dwarf planets (Ceres, Pluto and Eris).

This is the detailed chart for the Pisces Full Moon.

Here is an astrological glyph legend.

By Len Wallick

At 1:03 pm EDT the Moon in early Pisces exacts its opposition to the Sun in early Virgo, less than two days after the Sun has entered the new sign. An opposition is when two are directly across the circle of the zodiac from each other, 180 degrees apart, with Earth in between. The opposition of Sol and Luna is what we refer to as a Full Moon. It happens every 29 days or so.

Conceptually, the Full Moon represents the culmination of whatever started when the Sun and Moon were conjoined, otherwise known as the New Moon. Keeping in mind that our objective for this week is to get and stay oriented, let’s back up a bit and do just that.

The big picture — the cardinal T-square –  remains in place, and this Full Moon connects to it from many angles. Get out your paper and writing instrument once again. Draw a circle then draw a cross in the circle. The four parts of the circle are the seasons, the lines are where the cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn) begin. It takes the Sun a year to go around the circle, counter-clockwise. When it crosses one of the four lines, a new season begins.

Jupiter is retrograde in eaerly Aries and Saturn is direct in early Libra. Their opposition is separating but still functional; we can still feel it. Pluto is retrograde in early Capricorn. It’s square (90 degrees or a right angle away from) to both Jupiter and Saturn is likewise separating but continues to be operative. This is the current rendition of the cardinal T-square. Expansion on the one side, represented by Jupiter. Contraction of the other side, represented by Saturn. A pushing in and pushing out at the same time, creating a shape like two hands shaping clay on a potters wheel. The nature of that shape is being mediated by Pluto, the planet of transformation and metamorphosis, located in the sign of the established order.

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Today’s Oracle takes us to the Sagittarius weekly of Nov. 11, 2007

You have become a friend to instability — perhaps too good of a friend. Your current astrology, and that for the foreseeable future, is about grounding yourself and your intentions. Yet you need to be aware of a split you may be struggling with. To one side, you are striving to pull yourself into focus and take authority in a somewhat conventional way. To the other side, you are being fired up by a vision that is threatening to challenge every pre-existing concept of who you are or what you want. You would be in pretty big trouble if not for the balance. It may be causing you some tension, but in reality that tension is your most potent leverage point.

(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.)

By Len Wallick

At 1:27 am EDT today, the Sun left Leo, the sign it rules, and moved into Virgo. That significant change will be followed in quick order by the Pisces Full Moon tomorrow.

Even without the Mercury retrograde and the cardinal T-Square going on, it could be considered a challenge to process the synchronous events of a sign change of the Sun and a Full Moon. When you add those things all together the bar could well raised to the level of intimidating, but by now we’re used to it.

The implied theme for the week is therefore gaining and keeping functional orientation; which means balancing the emotions of Pisces with the mental base of Virgo. That orientation will begin by taking what is essentially a concurrent set of events and breaking them down: conscious ananalysis. Today the focus will be the Sun’s ingress to Virgo. That will leave Sol’s opposition to Luna as tomorrow’s subject.

Part of that orientation is being able to use, honor and enjoy astrology without being caught up in the hype. Consider this simple example. You pick up a hammer in one hand, a nail in the other and you use the hammer to drive the nail into a piece of wood. It is not necessary to believe in the hammer. It is a tool. It works if you use it correctly. If you don’t know what you are doing you bend the nail, split the wood, injure your thumb or some combination of the three. Same with astrology. It is a tool. Practice helps.

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Today’s Oracle takes us to the Scorpio weekly of Nov. 3, 2006

Yesterday’s ideas are too often of little use today. But the planets and the intelligence that orchestrates them are suggesting strongly that you not only hold on to your ideas, but also dust them off every day and take them one step further. Let this be a devotion over the next month. Take a chance on the possibility that you’re cultivating a garden, or a particularly brilliant project, or solving the oldest, most troubling problem you’ve faced all your life. This may seem like an unlikely week, but sooner or later, the knot untangles. It may as well be now. Family Focus: A child understands something that an adult caregiver does not.

(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.)