Today’s Oracle takes us to the Aquarius weekly for May 2, 2003

The Oracle. By Danielle Voirin.

This is your big moment to act like a Leo. It won’t really be an act, actually. And in fact, you can choose your fire sign. Okay I have a better idea: Firesign Theatre, starring You. Try being Sagittarian for a while, that’s the easiest one to fake. You get like all spacy like you’ve just had lunch with ET and shared a chef salad, but if you tell anyone they’ll think you’re nuts, even though he left his business card. Or like an Aries. Absolutely confident in yourself, you just forget. Let this be a reminder to remember. Ah, and then there’s Leo. How do I describe the relationship between you and your polar opposite sign right now? Aquarius and Leo are exactly the same thing. It’s just that one gave birth to a distant, bluegreen planet that sends out occasional jolts of energy, and the other to a hot young star that blazes all the time.

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Today’s Oracle takes us to the Aquarius weekly from Feb. 21, 2002

Is the fog lifting or is it getting thicker? Is the fog in your mind or is it blowing in from over the water? Or is it rain? Or is it dusk? Or is this all a dream? If you are sleeping it’s a dream and if you’re awake it’s an interesting stretch of the inner journey during which the normal rules of thought and reality are suspended and the principles of quantum physics of poets and of shamans are invoked. In other words your week will go a lot easier if you don’t attempt to apply any rational or linear thought to your reality but instead just observe and interpret the pictures you see in a gentle flowing way.

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Dear Friend and Reader:

Today we’re posting the September Eriscope, which is a sex-oriented horoscope that is published to subscribers as one of our “bonus horoscopes” one Tuesday per month.

As some of you know, I was writing about sexuality long before I even thought of writing a horoscope. Eriscope contains some practical thoughts on applied eroticism; that is, how to think about your sexuality that is outside the usual box, but is also sane and compassionate (at least in my opinion). It is not a “say no” kind of piece of writing; it is definitely “say yes if you want, but think it through first.”

For new readers wondering what other kinds of horoscopes I write (four other columns actually — three other monthly horoscopes, and a weekly horoscope) here is a sample of Planet Waves Monthly, the October column that we published to our subscriber lists yesterday. (This particular column has run continuously since 1996). All subscribers who sign up today will receive horoscopes each Tuesday and Friday with your subscription. To sign up, please check this link.

Today Mercury stations retrograde. There is additional information below, and also at the top of Planet Waves Monthly for October (the one linked in the paragraph above).

Thanks for reading –

Aries (March 20-April 19)
Quite the tale of intrigue is showing up on the September radar, events that seem strange, beautiful and in some way fated. One theme is that for most people, love is based on need, and clearly you’re feeling that. Another is that what appears to be love may be one of several emotions that is not specifically love, but which you have the ability to take to another level. Last is that sex is going to guide you into yourself, into self-awareness of everything you need to feel, express and embrace about yourself. I imagine you’ve got your ear on someone who seems to speak deeply to who you are. Let that message go in and allow your emotions to soak into you until the full spectrum of their contradiction is revealed. You crave sex and you crave unabashed surrender. I assure you that what you truly crave is self-knowledge. Fortunately the way there is illuminated by heat.

Cecilia from Book of Blue. Photo by Eric Francis.

Taurus (April 19-May 20)
Vesta, the most misunderstood of the major asteroids, is in your sign. She is the creative fire of the psyche and you are the one who embodies her. She identifies as sexual and, at the same time, in full possession of her purity. This is not a paradox; it may be that the inner core of sex is the only purity, so closely is it connected with the existence of humanity. The work of Vesta is to hold us to the fire and purge us of all the shadowy emotions we associate with eroticism: shame, guilt or any other sense of wrongness. Then there is the loss of self-possession that sexual involvement so often seems to inflict. Finally there is the tendency to take sexual energy and either stuff it or subvert it into some other form of expression, rather than letting eroticism be the inspiration for expression. Right now these are the themes upon which your life is turning.

Gemini (May 20-June 21)
You may be inclined toward a lot more casual sex than usual this month. Oh, did I just imply that you’re normally accustomed to a good bit of such, and now it’s time for a good bit more? That was totally unconscious on my part! Anyway, pay attention to situations where you are triangulating into or out of a relationship. For you right now, sex is all about those three-sided shapes. If you get involved, don’t be surprised if you get more involved than you were expecting to, emotionally mingled up and connected by some unusual, hidden layer of karma that you make contact with as you plunge into the hot waters of the flesh. Drink from that water and let it be from the stream of remembering rather than forgetting. There is something about your past that you need to embrace and, I trust, give yourself permission to have experienced. The way is open. Continue Reading »

Dear Friend and Reader,

I was in my friendly local yarn store the other day fingering some skeins of yarn. I found a beautiful skein of alpaca from Peru, dyed with natural indigo to the most beautiful shade of blue. It was like a fuzzy twilight. I wanted it badly, had the perfect scarf pattern in mind for it and imagined myself happily knitting with my two cats, warm tea, Brahms and all the trappings that go with fiber work. Then I looked at the price.

A salesman shows a 1kg gold bar in Tokyo. The future price of gold reached as high as $619.30 an ounce at New York Mercantile Exchange on April 17, closing at $618.80 and setting a new high in the past 25 years, up $18.90 than that in the previous trading day.

Since I didn’t have the $30 for the yarn, I walked out of the store empty-handed. I was sad. I don’t want to spend the rest of my life working with crummy yarn because I can’t afford better, but the fact is, I don’t have the kind of money for luxury yarn. To me, this is the way to handle that great power we call wealth in our society: if you don’t have the money, you don’t get the product. To many, that is outdated economics.

Another person would have used a credit card to pay for the yarn, with the promise to pay back the credit card company later. You can pay off your mortgage with a credit card, buy a car with it, pay off hospital bills. With a credit card, you spend the money before you make it.

Money itself has gone from a symbol of property you actually own, to a symbol of a symbol. It has gotten more abstract. You can, essentially, buy whatever you want right now and pay for it later. With a system like that, the here and now of not having the resources to get what you think you want does not exist. There’s a certain timelessness involved with the current system. Buy now and pay later has become another term for: fulfill your desires, no matter the cost.

According to one source, the real reason this crisis has come about is greed. Too many at the top set out to make as much money as possible for themselves at the cost of all the smaller investors. Too many people wanted all the goods, and better than that, with none of the downside. On top of that, the smaller investors, with big dreams of wealth, began pouring their resources into things like loans for houses, selling debt, selling shares before they had bought them, selling mortgage insurance and all manner of things that make absolutely no sense to me.

I ask again, is the economic collapse that we’re facing right now due to greed? And do we all have to take a little bit of responsibility for that? Well, according to the U.S. government, who took it upon itself to buy AIG, we, the People, now own about 80% of that company, which means that for now and far into the future we have to pay for it. Continue Reading »

Dear Friend and Reader:

With the Moon now in Pisces heading for the Full Moon, we are all honorary Pisces, at least in potential. Moody, psychic, emotional, absorbent, creatively charged and perhaps a bit lost: that’s the energy of Phish, added to the Moon — the core personality, one’s needs, the child self.

Eric Francis.

The Moon reaches an exact opposition to the Sun Monday at 5:13 am EDT. It does so in a close conjunction to Uranus. The Full Moon almost always represents a breakthrough of some kind, a release of tension and in extreme situations the breaking of a deadlock. The conjunction to Uranus to me looks and feels like a creative breakthrough, deep and generous, which will take plenty of stuck energy with it.

Uranus is the planet that’s full of surprises, and art is the biggest surprise of all: when you’re really doing it, you have no idea what’s going to come out, what it’s going to look or feel like and in truth little concept of where it came from. This is, by the way, why art is threatening to anyone connected to an ordinary ego state of consciousness: it shows you how ridiculous the notion is that you know who you are. Or for that matter, what you feel.

The Virgo Sun is occupying a critical degree of the zodiac: 22+ degrees of that sign, in the exact place of the Mars-Chiron conjunction of July 7, 1995. This Full Moon may have some overtones of an initiation or growth experience that occurred during that time. Its story is about the controlling or taming of primal instincts; or looked at another way, it’s about having a conscious, respectful relationship with our primal instincts.

The days before a Full Moon are typically high-tension times. World news has been grim the past few days: devastation created by Hurricane Ike and the frustrated relief effort in and around Galveston, Texas and elsewhere; a head-on train crash in Los Angeles; a series of bombings at Gaffar Market and Connaught Place in India. A plane went down in Russia.

Sun is opposite Uranus, now and for the Full Moon. The Moon, when the crash happened, was exactly conjoined with Neptune, but it has been looming pretty close during the other events. This Moon/Neptune conjunction was one of a series of exact occultations of the Blue Planet by the Moon. This is a little advanced shock of Pisces power infusing the Moon while it’s still in Aquarius.

Remember, we don’t hear the good news on the news, only what has gone wrong. The good news of these days is most likely to apply to anyone who guides their mind, body and soul in the direction of their creative impulses. Get out your camera. Tune your guitar. Dust off your paints. Reality is pliable with these things in your hands.

Additional contribution Genevieve Salerno.

Today’s Oracle takes us to the March 3, 2006 Aquarius weekly

In late December (ages ago, I know), you had a revelation; you came to a point where you truly felt like you were waking up. Yes, it may have been overwhelming, too, but you were definitely feeling the cosmic spark plug go off in your brain. Not a lot of time has passed, and in truth you’ve accomplished an enormous amount — and none of what you’ve done counts for a digression from your true purpose. Nor is it exactly what you would be doing; and as Venus gets ready to make its return to your sign, you get to reorient on your deeper desires, your precise needs and take a little bath in divine nourishment and pleasure.

‘No Values Voters’ Looking To Support Most Evil Candidate

Dear Friend and Reader,

The Friday edition of Planet Waves Astrology News has been sent to subscribers, covering the Full Moon in Capricorn, the energy crisis, Judith Gayle’s account of the ripple effect and of course, the weekly horoscope.

Speaking of the weekly horoscope, Eric is now including a look into the future with a special fantasy report from 2011. Here is “This Week in 2011″:

AS CERES walked over the Aries Point, a national survey indicated that 61% of Americans were growing home gardens. Even a majority of apartment dwellers in New York City were growing easy garden crops like herbs and tomatoes on their terraces and in window boxes. A bipartisan coalition in Congress proposed a garden tax, claiming it was designed to replace lost revenue to the government, as pharmaceutical companies lobbied for a ban on medicinal plants.

The Full Moon in Capricorn can be quite challenging, and Eric writes about this and the people he is close to with a Moon in Capricorn in his lead article:

I take a special interest in the Capricorn Moon. My mother, several significant lovers, a few of my closest friends and two of my very favorite artists have this Moon placement. It always seems to be following me around, and it was certainly showing up with emphasis and a bit of cosmic humor Thursday. It is an interesting, soulful and often difficult Moon to have, and to live with. Its natives often seem to go through undue suffering, and about half the time that suffering engenders not compassion but rather a detached quality, which is often about detaching from one’s own feelings and needs.

The Cap Moon has an astonishing power to compartmentalize; it can keep many different situations going in life, but have them all in separate rooms, and sometimes whoever is stashed in one of those rooms can be forgotten for a while, anywhere from a few weeks to a few years to a couple of decades. Well, maybe not forgotten, but stashed away, out of the way. If you want to have an affair with someone who can keep things both secret and in perspective, this aspect of the Cap Moon’s nature makes them a good choice.

If there are any Aquarians out there who are considering subscribing but are holding back, take a look at your horoscope this week, and realize why thousands of people pay for Eric Francis’ weekly horoscope:

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19)
You know there is a lot you don’t know about yourself, and usually this doesn’t faze you. Now you’re about to make some surprising discoveries, and to unfold some of the hidden dimensions of your psyche that you may not have known existed. In astrology, Aquarius is variously known as one of the most equitable signs, and as one of the most controlling. This power-focused aspect of your nature probably confuses you, as does your tendency to become rigid at certain key times when compromise is called for. Now you can get a look at what is going on in those inner corridors of power. You can see the way your parents imprinted you with their fears and their old-fashioned worldview, clearly enough to do something about it. Don’t worry, even after you revolt against so many dusty old ideas that have nothing to do with who and what you are, you will still have enough old-fashioned respect for tradition to hold your life in order.

Eric Francis will be returning to write for Daily Astrology and Adventure on Monday. Until then, I hope you are enjoying the Full Moon and have a relaxing weekend. Scroll down for the full weekend’s aspects.

Yours and truly,

Today’s Oracle takes us to Jan 04, 2007 - ARIES - Weekly

You’re in no mood to have your precious ideals challenged, but I suggest you not take this as far as looking for a fight. You finally have clear goals that you value more than your beliefs, and it’s time to keep your focus on what really makes a difference. Indeed, your time this weekend would be well spent focusing your priorities and sorting what actually matters from what does not, and there is a difference. It may seem that real progress is going much slower than you had planned, but early next week, a series of rapid developments on the professional front will call for swift decisions that you get right the first time. To the extent that you’ve gained ground as a leader, you now need to back it up with clarity and vision.

Friday 18 July 2008

Eris stations retrograde (21+ Aries)
Venus (6+ Leo) trine Pholus (6+ Sagittarius Rx)
Mercury (12+ Cancer) septile Sedna (21+ Taurus)
Mercury (12+ Cancer) quincunx Ixion (12+ Sagittarius Rx)
Sun (26+ Cancer) opposite Moon (26+ Capricorn) - Full Moon
Mercury (13+ Cancer) quincunx Nessus (13+ Aquarius Rx)
Pallas (23+ Taurus) square Neptune (23+ Aquarius Rx)
Mercury (13+ Cancer) semisquare Orcus (28+ Leo)
Venus (7+ Leo) quintile Admetos (25+ Taurus)
Mercury (14+ Cancer) quincunx Great Attractor (14+ Sagittarius)
Venus (7+ Leo) sesquiquadrate Uranus (22+ Pisces Rx)
Apollo (21+ Leo) trine Eris (21+ Aries Rx)

Saturday 19 July 2008

Ceres (16+ Cancer) opposite Jupiter (16+ Capricorn Rx)
Vesta (6+ Taurus) opposite Hidalgo (6+ Scorpio)
Mercury (14+ Cancer) septile Saturn (6+ Virgo)
Sun (26+ Cancer) quincunx Galactic Center (26+ Sagittarius)
Mercury (15+ Cancer) quincunx Juno (15+ Sagittarius Rx)
Mercury (15+ Cancer) septile Pallas (23+ Taurus)
Mars (10+ Virgo) septile Varuna (19+ Cancer)
Venus (8+ Leo) square Asbolus (8+ Taurus)
Mercury (15+ Cancer) semisquare Amor (0+ Gemini)
Mercury (16+ Cancer) opposite Jupiter (16+ Capricorn Rx)
Eros (5+ Leo) semisquare Logos (20+ Virgo)

Sunday 13 July 2008

Mars (6+ Virgo) sesquiquadrate Eris (21+ Aries)
Pallas (21+ Taurus) septile Aries Point (0+ Aries)
Amor (28+ Taurus) square Orcus (28+ Leo)
Ceres (13+ Cancer) semisquare Orcus (28+ Leo)
Eros (28+ Cancer) quintile Sisyphus (10+ Libra)
Amor (28+ Taurus) semisquare Ceres (13+ Cancer)
Mercury (3+ Cancer) quintile Eris (21+ Aries)
Sun (21+ Cancer) sextile Sedna (21+ Taurus)
Arachne (8+ Libra) quincunx Asbolus (8+ Taurus)
Eros (29+ Cancer) sesquiquadrate Great Attractor (14+ Sagittarius)
Mercury (4+ Cancer) conjunct Kronos (4+ Cancer)
Venus (0+ Leo) sesquiquadrate Juno (15+ Sagittarius Rx)
Mercury (4+ Cancer) sextile Vesta (4+ Taurus)
Eros (29+ Cancer) quincunx Pluto (29+ Sagittarius Rx)
Sun (21+ Cancer) sesquiquadrate Pholus (6+ Sagittarius Rx)
Venus (1+ Leo) sextile M87 (1+ Libra)
Mercury (4+ Cancer) semisquare Apollo (19+ Leo)
Sun (21+ Cancer) sextile Pallas (21+ Taurus)
Sun (21+ Cancer) square Eris (21+ Aries)
Mercury (4+ Cancer) sesquiquadrate Chiron (19+ Aquarius Rx)

Dear Friends and Readers,

Welcome to the new blog! A big thanks to Anatoly our webmaster who has been working hard to get this up and we’re finally done! For now you can access all previous posts at this link. As we edge closer to the Spring Equinox we are stepping into a brave new world, evident in the little and big things taking place around us — and we ain’t seen nothing yet!

Before I go on to the astrology I have to take a minute to acknowledge the latest bout of insanity in the news. Although, I have to admit I have been a little out of the loop for the past few weeks, yesterday I spoke with a friend in back in NYC who informed of the latest news regarding Governer Spitzer and his involvement in a prostitution ring. I was pretty speechless to say the least, not because of what I heard, but more because of the furor it created.

I am not condoning his actions, but there are greater transgressions made that are “forgiven” or conveniently “forgotten”. Many of you may know or have noticed “politics” is not my thing and I must admit that is largely because I am fairly jaded regarding most politicians. I do though believe the power of change lies with the common people and that’s especially why I admire those who actively take a stance to instigate that change. Here is an excerpt from a letter I received in my mail box today that I thought deserved deeper thought…

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“… let’s also do a little math. Yesterday, the stunning revelation about Governor Spitzer was made public. Today the state GOP called for his impeachment! This administration’s contempt for the rule of law, basic civil rights and our constitutionally mandated system of checks and balances is legion and yet years went by without a word from the Democrats. Nothing. I mean, crickets! Sex with a prostitute as compared with, oh I don’t know:

- Providing false and misleading intelligence to Congress and the American people to sell the Iraq war
- The outing of a covert CIA operative
- The illegal wiretapping of American citizens in violation of the Fourth Amendment
- The politization of the Department of Justice

But holding hearings is and should be a non-partisan act. We cannot allow this or ANY administration, regardless of party, the belief that they are above the law. If allowed to go unpunished the consequences will be devastating. Future administrations will have precedent to break the law with impunity. We are on a very slippery slope here, Friends, and we must do something about it now! These lawbreakers must be held accountable and finally there are rumblings in Congress that, with enough public support they’d be willing to move forward. Oversight isn’t their strong suit as we all know and most of the time they seem to have no other interest than abdicating their own authority. But I see a window here, Folks. So please, Democrat and Republican, Americans of all hue and stripe, this is about protecting The Constitution. I urge you to sign the petition and email the House Judiciary Committee and your own representative letting them know of your support for hearings. I’ve provided links below.

Thanks for taking the time to read my note. And thanks even more for taking a stand. We can do this.”

http://wexlerwantshearings.com/

http://judiciary.house.gov/contact.aspx

http://www.house.gov/pelosi/contact/contact.html

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Now I’m not saying that prostitution is a good thing. I am a woman and know what it feels like to be violated for sex or for money. But this is not about right or wrong — this is about the truth and the truth is — we have bigger issues at stake that we let slide under the carpet. Why does sex have to be such a big issue, frankly I think the only people who are truly going to be affected by his behavior are his wife and family.

How come there is not the same urgency when there are worse transgressions made by politicians that actually affect “us” the people, our rights, liberty and constitution? Every time we feed into this media frenzy all we are doing is giving the real “evil-doers” a chance to get away in a cloud of smoke. Again this is not about right and wrong — which are ultimately moral judgments that society has “agreed” upon. This is about the truth — especially the truth that we are not being told.

Getting back to the astrology — notably Venus is in the last degree of Aquarius and was conjuncting the North Node in Aquarius. Venus in Aquarius does give us an image of a “group of women” which may give us a glimpse into what is surfacing in the news. Mercury not far behind will likely bring more ’shocking’ news. Today Venus ingresses Pisces; as she heads closer towards her opposition to critical unforgiving Saturn in Virgo at the end of the week — we are likely to see a further confrontation of the events that are now being played out.

On a personal level Venus is Pisces is awakening a deep sensitivity, tuning into the softer dreamy vibrations of Neptune. What we likely seek now is a soul connection, a divine experience, a brush with something deeply magical. Her opposition to Saturn is bringing to surface issues and old commitments that need to be re-examined under the light of everything we have recently learnt. As Venus continues her journey through the sign she will go on to make conjunctions to Vesta, Uranus in Pisces freeing us to follow our the gentler musings of our heart.

– Priya Kale

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