Astrology Readings on CD by Eric Francis Sign dates below are approximate. They now overlap by one day. The date and time of the Sun's ingress to the new sign changes a little each year, so please check with an astrologer if you want the exact position of your Sun, and while you're at it, your rising sign -- this horoscope is written for both your Sun and rising signs. If you find that some other sign's interpretations work for you, then go for it. Happy Spring from Studio Psycherotica - see free
print size illustration at left of homepage. | | Libra Full Moon, Thursday Thursday's Full Moon is a rather stunning, perhaps shocking, grand cross in the Cardinal signs: Sun, Moon, Jupiter, and Chiron, reaching in from Aries, Libra, Cancer and Capricorn, bringing the ongoing Jupiter-Chiron opposition into full focus. Full Moons in general are intense, but this one is especially so, because of the fact that four signs and four planets are involved. There can be a sense of building, cresting, tension and resolution. It has an orgasmic feeling, or a wide awake, stay up all night kind of feeling, or a buzz, a roar or a bright glow. More than a few people are feeling knocked down. As many have noted, folks who don't necessarily "believe in" astrology know the full moon is a real thing, from the guy who runs my local film developing shop, to just about every cop, waitress and ER doc in the galaxy. Take it easy. Really. Note the changes, and how you feel about them. It might not be easy. Full Moons are emotionally challenging enough; Chiron adds a kind of obsessive quality and Jupiter adds a sense of exaggeration -- but both planets are protective influences. The whole aspect is a grand cross because the Sun and Moon exactly square Chiron and Jupiter; two oppositions make a cross, also called a grand square. Squares, in natal charts, are places where people go back and forth, where they can't make up their minds, and he two parts of them may not even get together for lunch, or call each other up on the phone. When there are four squares together, this shifting around and state of incommunicato is a lot harder, and it can feel like outer circumstances hold us to what we know we need -- that is the added influences of the oppositions that occur when planets meet at 180 degrees. Some of you may remember the infamous grand cross-total solar eclipse of 1999, on August 11. Before there was 9/11 there was 8/11, and the two are directly related. You might say that the Sun and Moon "set off" the Chirion-Jupiter opposition. Where they are in your chart, you will be feeling, now. I recognize that this aspect, about which I have not written a whole lot but rarely lose sight of, is having some strange manifestations. When the possibilities of who and what we are expand, we don't always see what we expected to see -- but we do see something different than we did before. I associate Chiron in Capricorn (new this year, and lasting four years) with our need consider the structures of our lives: relationships, commitments, and our existence within any traditional framework (family, a company, a society). But it's a lot bigger, and we are all in the world. We need, I believe, to be aware of the "revolutionary" forces now in control of our government and spreading their influence into the world. Any healing on this level (and we need a rather awful lot of it) is going to be painful first. Part of this process is the ongoing exposure of the shenanigans of those dignified hoodlums and hooligans who play such games on the chess board known as the world (from Enron to the Archdiocese, Exxon to the United Nations, from Washsington to Jerusalem). We may feel lost in the sauce, powerless, confused, patriotic or lied to; after all, we are just little chickens. No doubt, it's all complicated and uncomfortable to think about, and there is an urge to either fall for it, or tune out entirely. But if I may opine, we do have a special need right now to pay attention and learn something about the ways of power. As someone wrote recently, if we don't like what's going on now, we can chalk it up to the price of sleeping through history classes all those years. All the world's a stage, and Chiron is a spotlight, all the more hot and in focus for being at his point of station-retrograde. Currently he's drawing his energy from Jupiter in Cancer. But with this Full Moon, which reaches across all the cardinal signs (the signs where the seasons begin and energy starts to move, again, Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn) we are hearing a call to action. We need to remember that anything political which affects us personally is personal, and thus, anything truly personal is political, or potentially so. We are not separated from the world-at-large, but rather we are part of it and it is part of us. CNN is no substitute for a real connection to our culture, though it is a kind of drug designed to take its place. We are living through an unusually stressful time, I think, the most stressful time in history. Life was always kind of dangerous. But today we practically live in pre-socialized times, where primal fears can and do get us. We have a lot to worry about that is, or seems, well outside our ability to control or even influence in the most minor way, from nuclear cowboys to unemployment to smallpox factories. In such a moment, we have two choices, powerlessness or empowerment. And if you want the second choice, how do you do it? I can only offer one clue: not alone. Or, if somebody is driving you mad, then alone. Meanwhile, easy does it. What we are going through now is just practice.++ | Rock & Roll Astrology Readings on CD by Eric Francis Sign dates below are approximate. They now overlap by one day. The date and time of the Sun's ingress to the new sign changes a little each year, so please check with an astrologer if you want the exact position of your Sun, and while you're at it, your rising sign -- this horoscope is written for both your Sun and rising signs. If you find that some other sign's interpretations work for you, then go for it. | | Aries (March 20-April 21) | | Many people seem to hold bits and pieces of you, and I suggest you go about collecting them, no matter how small. It's as if a part of you got lost within the personal struggle of every person you've ever been involved with, which is a kind of side effect of how closely you identify yourself with the situations of others. This starts as compassion and ends up something else, but right now the most compassionate thing you can do for yourself is study your relationships and identify just where and how you are not free in each of them. That information alone ought to get you pretty close to freedom. | | Taurus (April 21-May 20) | | Depression is the inability to move energy, a kind of downward pressure. You may be feeling some urgency to lift or remove a weight that has followed you for quite some time, and this necessity may or may not make things any easier. You don't have to do anything, of course, but the sense of being compelled to move, change or flow does not need to compel you to stay put. You can exercise choice, no matter what the outer world says. But the need you now feel, I would propose, is not coming from the outside; rather, it is coming from very close to your core consciousness. | | Gemini (May 20-June 21) | | I want to encourage you to be more curious about yourself. I am going to remind you of this at least five more times between now and your birthday, when you will need the information that deep personal inquiry yields. I don't know you and therefore I cannot comment on the actual state of your relationship to your inner being, but I can tell you that your solar chart says go deeper, and to do it with help, if necessary. How do you judge necessity? Success in this project would likely feel scary or intimidating and not be entirely pleasant. This is why I suggest taking many small steps over an entire season, and working with a seasoned guide. | | Cancer (June 21-July 22) | | You are in a world of enormous possibilities, or in an enormous world of possibilities. Either way, you really cannot lose, unless you consciously choose to give up faith in yourself. It is interesting what happens when we are confronted with the reality of having actual choices. This week's full moon is urging you to lay emotional insecurities aside, and to recognize, and use, the many resources you have available to you. You have considerably more influence in your life and your environment than you may think, as long as you remember to think. | | Leo (July 22-Aug. 22) | | This mysterious calling you are feeling to be among others of your ilk may seem puzzling after so many months, or is it years, of feeling like a stranger in a strange land. You are no longer alone in the world, and neither are people as impersonal as you've perceived them to be. In other words, if you can let go of certain grievances -- for example, any for which you can take partial responsibility -- you will find that many doors open up, both inner and outer. And it would help a lot if you speak the language of those with whom you want to develop an understanding. | | Virgo (Aug. 22-Sep. 22) | | In this season of your life, you will have the opportunity to reconcile what may seem to be two very different beliefs: that you have been wounded beyond the hope of healing, and that you possess a gift of helping others work through their suffering and pain, that is, the gift of healing. For now, you can work with these as separate realities. It may help to know that one side of the equation seems to point toward the past, and the other toward the future. In a short time, they will join places in the present, and you will learn, once again, that your struggles were not for naught. | | Libra (Sep. 22-Oct. 23) | | A crisis of self-confidence is upon you, and it may be rattling your brain. You can afford to take a deep breath. I just want to toss in a friendly reminder that it's not false confidence you seek, but rather the genuine article, and in our world of illusions, one substitutes for the other rather often. But then there is the issue of false lack of confidence, which is usually a learned trait, and a kind of mockery of one of our parents who never quite got it together in life. I am not a yogi, but I can offer you a mantra for the week: "My mother's worst fears were not true." (Even if you're not a Libra, try it -- it will probably work.) | | Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 22) | | It would be nice if friends and enemies were not switching places so casually, leaving you to wonder who is who and what is what. The thing is, you know who people really are, and what their bottom lines are; you are a bottom line person, in the personal sense of the word. But it would be helpful if you looked closely at the math that has led people to their conclusions and limitations, and it would be really helpful if you offered them a little more insight into what has led you to yours. Limitations are actually very helpful, because they provide a defined space within which to accomplish a defined goal. | | Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 22) | | We live in a different world than the one into which you were born, and a radically different world than the one your parents arrived in. Different, but mainly it's awareness that has changed, since most of the uglier facts of our current lives were well established as early as 1945. The gift you offer the world, and your world, is your awareness of what options we have in terms of what we accept as our reality, and what we reject. I know you see the choices more clearly than most, though you have some translating to do. You think on a rather cosmic level, and it would help if you provided more worldly examples of what is possible to those you hope to win to your perspective. | | Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 20) | | You may be wondering whether the people and events of your early life conspired to deny you your rightful place in the world. No doubt, they influenced your perception, and most of us grew up around people whose pessimism (and its results) would have done well to go through three to ten years of good honest psychotherapy. I would suggest, however, that your past did not deny you as much as you may think, though your inheritance is not coming as a lump sum. You need to collect the various gifts you have received and put them together, and then pluck up the courage to step outside the mental framework of the old homestead and get on with your life. You can do it, and you will. | | Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) | | Not providing full disclosure is not being totally honest, and if you would avoid any such temptations as these next few days unfold, you and your close partners will benefit greatly. You are being offered unusual opportunities for bonding and warmth, and they will have more or less depth and power depending on what you choose to reveal about yourself, your feelings and your fears. There is nothing you really need to hide, and no political motivation, that is, the quest for guarantees, should intrude upon affairs of the heart. Anyway, love would be a lot more interesting, and satisfying, without them. | | Pisces (Feb. 19-Mar. 20) | | As gifted as you are at having insight into others, there are mysteries that have persisted for many years, the keys to which perhaps are hung in a blind spot in your consciousness. The current full moon is offering you rather enormous depth into both your own process and those of the people whose lives seem to affect yours so much. If you discover that there is much about themselves that they cannot help, then let the universe ring with the revelation that there's much you can do to help yourself. This holds true for love, for money and your ongoing quest for a little sanity in a very strange world. | Search | Horoscopes | What's New | Index | Consultations  Space graphic above from the Rosette Nebula in Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Sulfur.
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