Today’s Oracle takes us to the Capricorn weekly from July 9, 1999
The Oracle. By D. Voirin.
You are in the process of getting some planetary shock treatment, and honey, the Good Lord knows you need it. So turn up the juice. If you can let go, even for a moment, of all the images you have of yourself, of your ideas of right and wrong, of propriety, of the scourge of correctness, you will find this process much easier. Look around and everywhere you will see mirrors of what you are. Not what you envy. Not what you wish you could someday be, or fear that you will never be, but of the actual stuff of which you’re made. Remember that in this life, we learn by example, especially how to be original.
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Today’s Oracle takes us to the Capricorn weekly from Aug. 30, 2004
The Oracle.
Under any other circumstances, I would probably suggest that in the search for happiness, personal matters take priority over professional ones. But you have been so effective at rolling away the stone that separated you from intimate contact with your fellow humans that there’s little else you can do except let the present catch up with the future. The life you knew and the self who lived it seem to be falling away one chunk at a time, and now that it’s begun, this process will see itself through. Meanwhile, opportunity is beckoning, and you are someone who wears success well. There is one quality that must carry over from your personal relationships into your professional affairs and back, which is exceptionally direct communication. Begin with the facts, then move onto opinions. Get used to being one person with one agenda. And sacrifice no truth on the altar of fear.
(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.)
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. This is just a picture of the thing (we know the text is small, we’re working on that). It is available to subscribers of Planet Waves Astrology News in all its working glory, not a static photo like the one above. 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.
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. This is just a picture of the thing (we know the text is small, we’re working on that). It is available to subscribers of Planet Waves Astrology News in all its working glory, not a static photo like the one above. 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.
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. This is just a picture of the thing (we know the text is small, we’re working on that). It is available to subscribers of Planet Waves Astrology News in all its working glory, not a static photo like the one above. 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.
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. This is just a picture of the thing (we know the text is small, we’re working on that). It is available to subscribers of Planet Waves Astrology News in all its working glory, not a static photo like the one above. 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.
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).
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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 »
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 »
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.
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