| Could you guess? For me, dealing with fear is often a moment-to-moment activity. I live on an inner edge that keeps me deciding each second or minute what I want, and where I want to direct my energy. Sometimes it is easier than others. When I sit down to write this column, or anything else, really, I am choosing love rather than fear. This may be why I am a writer. I get to practice in a very conscious way. I get to meet myself on the edge of awareness, and walk the line. This weekend we are surely exploring an edge. The third and final opposition of Saturn and Pluto is marked by a lunar eclipse in Sagittarius within several hours. Each of us is at some kind of threshold. I say this knowing there are many people who are not conscious of such, but I don't think that includes you. The effects -- at this moment -- may not be 'dramatic' in the life of every person, but we are standing in it right now: the great curve. I lost my datebook this morning, and when I found it, discovered I had a few hours before my first session, so I decided to go into town and have breakfast. Our local restaurant is really, really slow, so I went to the book shop next door, and found The Bird Tribes by Ken Carey. Also known as Raphael, Ken is the channel of The Starseed Transmissions. This book changed my world, when my friend Ginger read it to me on the phone long distance in the summer of 1986. That was the same summer I got the closest thing to proof that ETs exist. With this and other information, I made several choices, but really, one choice, that shaped the direction my life would take since that time. I share a moment of The Bird Tribes with you: Stardust. Frozen starlight. You call it matter. It is an art form with which we have worked for twenty billion years. We have sculpted it into star systems, galaxies, and a universe of rainbow-spectrum worlds. We are the children of light. We have been given the task of creating dimensional reality. We draw order, structure and beauty out of the vibrating music of starlight. From the redwood forests to the microbes, from the gentlest feathered bird to the most substantial ocean whale, our spirits manifest the Creator's designs in all the biological life on this planet. Yet only human circuitry has the capacity to embody the full reality of who we are, of who that Creator is -- of who, in truth, you are. Come, human children, the truth has always been here. Your prophets have ever made it plain. Wherever you have let us land, wherever you have let your consciousness settle upon the waters of your awareness, the open waters of your human hearts, ever we have come to inhabit your shores.
| | 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) | | Easy does it. If you could pull your energy from the mental level to the emotional, you would feel a lot more stable, and any irritation you feel would become a much more meaningful as anger. Do I need to say this? Anger is not merely good; it is a fact of life. If we don't feel anger, we don't feel passion, and we don't feel desire, and we don't really feel pain. For the next few days you can explore making the shift from toying with these things as concepts to exploring them as feelings. After that, it's more likely to just happen for you, at which time you'll need to consciously recognize the power of your feelings, but with your mind. And I think you'll really like the fruits of this whole process. | | Taurus (April 21-May 20) | | It's good to know you're finally looking, or rather, seeing beyond a certain dimension of your self-concept, which has more to do with your God-concept than you may recognize. One of the problems with our collective God-concept is the extent to which it is based on catastrophe and disaster rather than the endowment of life. And while we may tune into the second property occasionally, like when we're in nature, it can be difficult to carry over to situations that somehow seem "different" -- like really trusting the flow of our lives on a body-level, which means, actually trusting our feelings and not just wishing we could. What happens next will help you with this, if you let it. | | Gemini (May 20-June 21) | | No matter what, you have no control over other people. That much becomes obvious after a while. What is not so clear is that we don't actually have control over ourselves. We can only make our choices and do our best, and sometimes those choices are made for us. On this theme, there is a relatively simple equation that sometimes works. If we remember that we have the power to choose, that is often enough to point the way to options we would otherwise surely have missed. Let's call that a theme for this most significant year of your life. | | Cancer (June 21-July 22) | | The theme of "whose fire is it?" could translate to "whose love is it?" or "whose passion?" It is, I say, your love to feel, and yours to give. But if you work with the questions, if you let the questions stand, you can get underneath some of the more challenging conditions that sometimes lead you to do a most singularly inhuman thing: hold back love. The matter, at its core, comes down to one of sacrifice. We might ask, is anything else possible when there is a feeling of sacrifice present? I know, the connection may not seem obvious at first. | | Leo (July 22-Aug. 22) | | The issue of balancing creative versus professional needs will factor prominently in the life of anyone who actually feels both, and you count. For some, there is the added factor of balancing in the needs of children, which may seem to add infinite complexity to the equation. But to you who seeks more dearly than anything at all in this life to express your creative soul, remember, you are endowed with the gift of creation, and your mind, in its most natural state, is able to make solutions and see possibilities where a moment ago there were none. | | Virgo (Aug. 22-Sep. 22) | | This week's lunar eclipse in Sagittarius reaches across the most emotionally sensitive area of your solar chart. But there is so much happening in your career angle at the same time that there has to be a relationship between how secure you feel and how you project yourself into the world, in terms of what you create and achieve, and how you are known. Perhaps that's an obvious connection, but not to everyone, and besides, this particular water runs deep, and deep may mean beneath the layers of awareness. The more sensitive you are, the more powerful you are. A very old insecurity is losing its grip -- and frankly, you wear your true confidence very well. I suggest you treasure it. | | Libra (Sep. 22-Oct. 23) | | It's important that you keep your emotional balance at work. You are at the top of your game right now, and there is more to come. But over-emoting can give the feeling of too much ego. Though this may not be an issue now, it could be inside of a few days, as Mars crosses the most dynamic career angle of your chart, at which point name of the tune will be balancing out your male and female energies in a very conscious way; this is the spiritual game known as mastering one's ego. We all need to have an ego and we do need to express our passion. But as someone once said to me, ego makes a great slave and a terrible master. | | Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 22) | | The continuing saga of your life is about to finally give you a break, but before that happens, you'll likely start to feel like you have more energy to meet the many challenges you face. But the greatest virtue you could hope for now is just simply patience, because it's going to take a little while for things to work out. You would do well to disconnect from what seems like the state of perpetual flux of one particular person or situation. Remember that no one can enter into a clear agreement unless they know where they stand and that, if it's not obvious, is the root of the problem. But meanwhile, don't be surprised if your own position starts to squirm. Everything will squirm around right eventually. | | Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 22) | | The child you once were is changing, growing up and wanting more of your attention. We could look at development into being a true adult as what happens when parts of us, scattered or lost across the years, suddenly come back to life, seek experience and catch up to who we are now. There is a child part of you who is all about needs and security. There is another child part that is all about play, magic and laughter. The two are about to meet face to face. They are really the same person, but they have different experiences: one is based on being helpless, and the other on being independent and intelligent. They will learn a lot from one another. | | Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 20) | | When we let go of a fear, we usually forget it. No matter how much mental working out we do, no matter how much emotional processing, what ultimately happens is that it disappears without a trace. If I describe the fear that I am perceiving in your solar chart in too much detail, we both might miss the point. But it has a lot to do with a perception you may have that unless you are perfect, you are worthless. Once you've dealt with this, it would be great if you could remember, just a little, that you once feared this, and that it was not true. | | Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) | | Do we trust ourselves with power, even the power of awareness? Do we trust ourselves with the power to breathe life into our own creations? We all learn from example, and that may be the only way we ever learn at all. Examples of those who use power wisely and justly are few. But there are some in your life now, at least one male and one female, and they are in your life as models. Often such people will teach by what they do, not say, or, sometimes, what they don't do. Anyway, it would seem that you are about to be shown some very fine examples of breaking the rules. | | Pisces (Feb. 19-Mar. 20) | | A few themes that have arisen recently in the Pisces horoscope have been parental relationships and the shifting of your security base. You are coming from a whole new perspective, at long last. This week, I suggest you look for news, information, vital history or an inheritance from the general direction of your father and your father's way of life, as well as his genetic lineage. No matter how you dice it, something is truly settling for you, and your main project is now growing accustomed to your new-found confidence. It's not as easy as you might have thought, but you're surely up to the challenge. | Search | Horoscopes | What's New | Index | Consultations  Space graphic above from the Rosette Nebula in Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Sulfur.
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