Chime, the teenage Maine coon. Photo by Eric Francis.

You make the rules / you say what’s fair / it’s lots of fun to have you there.
– ‘I am a Child’ by Neil Young

Today is Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012, the day of Saturn’s station retrograde in the morning, and the Leo Full Moon at 4:54 pm EST. This is the Sun and Moon in opposite signs, which we described yesterday. We also noted that Mercury is conjunct the Aquarius Sun, which brought up the question of ‘How do you think for yourself’? And an answer came through for today: you think for yourself by being curious.

This is the big difference between adult intelligence and child intelligence. Kids are naturally curious – until, often, their curiosity is killed by authority — in school, church, or by parents. Yet at the same time, kids need structure and healthy boundaries within which to stretch and test their curiosity while still feeling safe.

Right now, the child embodied by the Leo Moon may be opposed to the parental Sun in Aquarius (whose traditional ruler is Saturn, Mr. Authority and Boundaries himself), but it has a little help in keeping things balanced. Mercury making its conjunction to the Sun is basically a big reminder of the kid still inside you – a kid who is unabashedly, gleefully curious about the world.

After all, would you be reading an astrology blog if you’d lost all your curiosity? Of course not. So here is an invitation, just in case you sometimes get so curious about your navel that you forget about the world around you: everything from the dirt in your garden to the hottie in the next cubicle at work to the surreal workings (if it can be said to work) of political process are just waiting for you to begin investigating and discovering.

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Today’s Oracle takes us to the Aries weekly for Nov. 7, 2008.

You seem to have broken free from your tether, but what may be surprising is that it wasn’t a physical bond; it was a psychic one. These are the ties that bind, and they are all the more challenging to deal with when we don’t know quite what’s going on. Part involved the influence of one person. Part involved the influence of a group — your friends, colleagues, some version of your tribe. To be an individual, you need to be mindful of how both of these things can steer you off of the course of your chosen existence. If you feel lost now, it’s because you’re free of these influences for a while, but now you have to determine your own path and your own bearing. It may take a while and what you are likely to discover is that ‘it’ finds you. Really, it’s a meeting and you need to be mindful of when that meeting occurs.

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.

When the Aquarius Sun opposes the Full Leo Moon shortly before 5 pm EST tomorrow, think of it as a sandwich. That’s the operative image to guide you through the next few days to your best advantage. The concept of a sandwich will continue beyond Earth lined up between the luminaries (Sun and Moon) to include two other events on either side of the Full Moon.

In terms of three-dimensional space, Mercury will be joining in. Further extending from space into the temporal dimension of events, Saturn will finally station retrograde in Libra just hours before the Full Moon and Venus will enter Aries just hours after, effectively sandwiching the Full Moon itself between two other significant occurrences.

The motif symbolized by a sandwich can either be a convenient nourishment or an uncomfortable situation, depending on where you see yourself in the picture. Making that theme work for you is the objective of this Full Moon. You can do that starting now and through tomorrow, by evaluating your position between the people, things and events of your life. Then, you can consider how to adjust your position so that the order and placement of people, things and events can actually support you. Visualizing yourself as part of what is going on in the sky is a good way to get some perspective.

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Chime, in Montauk. Photo by Eric Francis.

Today is Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. How are your emotions, ego and thought patterns faring today? The Moon spent the weekend in Cancer and leaves for Leo today at 8:24 am EST, on the way to Tuesday’s Leo Full Moon. This is an unusual event: the Moon opposes the Sun at the moment that Mercury and the Sun are conjunct.

The air is charged; your emotions, and your heart, may be feeling stretched; and there is a pull toward over-thinking, with a question about how we think in groups, and therefore, how we might think for ourselves. That’s what the planetary setup is calling everyone to do. Let’s break the alignment down and see where it takes us.

A Full Moon is the opposition of the Sun and the Moon, with the Earth in the middle. At a Full Moon, the Sun and the Moon will always be in opposite signs. There’s generally a Full Moon in each sign once per year, though occasionally it will happen in the same sign two consecutive times. Because the Sun is now in Aquarius, the Full Moon is in Leo. This is an axis of the zodiac addressing matters of individuality (Leo) contrasted with group interests (Aquarius).

There’s also a planet in the mix right now — the Sun will be exactly conjunct Mercury in Aquarius. This Full Moon is therefore an alignment of the Moon, the Earth, the Sun and Mercury, all exact to the degree. That kind of rare alignment adds extra emphasis to the event, because there is a peak of the Sun-Moon cycle at the same time as a peak of the Sun-Mercury cycle.

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Today’s Oracle takes us to the Taurus weekly for August 1, 2002.

A rapidly-developing set of influences will help you resolve certain challenges that may have recently developed in your home or family situation. But is the healthy new influence luck or is it the intervention of someone’s goodwill? Once you decide give thanks where it’s due. While we’re on the theme of problems and solutions we can (as friends and with any luck as a culture) acknowledge that fear and insecurity are among the greatest drains on peace and happiness. There is an old Yiddish saying that if something does not have a solution then it’s not a problem. These would be good words to live by as the next week progresses.

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.

Editor’s Note: If you want to experiment with tarot cards and don’t have any, we provide a free tarot spread generator using the Celtic Wings spread, which is based on the traditional Celtic Cross spread. This article explains how to use the spread. You can visit Sarah’s website here. –efc

By Sarah Taylor

While archetypes exist eternally, they manifest in reality as symbols. Paradoxically, the symbol is a bridge. Although anchored in daily experience, the symbol points to an archetypal eternity, enabling our limited understanding to touch a transcendent unknowable reality.  – Dr Rachel Hillel, The Redemption of the Feminine Erotic Soul

Photo by Eric Francis.

And now for a friendly challenge — can you explain the game of football in a comment below? That is, explain it so that someone who has never played or followed a game can understand what the idea of the game is. Extra points for explaining what the different positions do. Also — if you have a photo you’ve taken that has some imagery of the New England Patriots and you’d like to see it posted, please send it to dreams@planetwaves.net.

Today’s Oracle takes us to the Taurus monthly for May 9, 2005.

Since you have no easy or practical way to tell what is real and what is a waking dream you may as well treat all your experiences desires and visions as being potentially valid. The same could be said of your fears though for a fear to be valid it does not need to be based on something that may happen. But you may well need to reach into yourself and connect with any part of you that has been hurt by repeated doubt loss or the false message that to have anything in life you must sacrifice who you are. In truth you can only be yourself.

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.