Sunday, February 22, 2015

The speed of Aries, the stillness of Pisces

If you were lying on a beach in Mexico, relaxed and lazy, you’d still be traveling 1,040 mph as the Earth spins on it axis. And, at the same time, you’d be whirling through space at 66,600 mph as you orbit the Sun. At that speed you could go from San Francisco to Washington DC in 3 minutes. And many of us still don’t think we’re moving fast enough.

We don’t feel the speed, but we can see it in the way we bulge in the middle. In the currents of the Gulf stream. In the underlying sense that there is more to our existence than meets the eye. That some unacknowledged Force holds this whole crazy mess together.

The Force of sparkling enthusiasm is with you.
Here’s your horoscope for the week of February 22nd - 28th, 2015:

ARIES  ☀  (March 21-April 19)
Do you daydream about carrying the Olympic torch, leading the race? You should. Your inner champion is all fired up. This week begins with the Moon (intuition), Venus (heart), Mars (action) and Uranus (rebellion) all in Aries! Expect surprises in your relationships that wake you up to a love you didn’t know you had. Plan to buy your lottery ticket because you’re headed for a winning streak, particularly around March 3rd, 4th and 11th. By the time you get to your birthday month this year, you’ll realize it’s the most fortunate in a long time and your whole life is changing--a metamorphosis. You’re finishing February with your destiny calling you to partnership.
From Aries Maya Angelou): “In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.”
TAURUS ☀  (April 20-May 20)
Sunday is finally a day of rest for you as the Taurus Moon comforts your body with blessed relief from doing. Like the soft quiet of a snowfall, you can be still. You’re heading toward a massive change of heart that releases your repressed strengths and propels you to a quantum leap in consciousness. You dear Taurus get a warm-up to the 7th and final Revolutionary Transformation culminating around March 16th, just on the eve of a new spring. On March 5th there’s going to be a powerful Virgo Full Moon, that prepares the ground for you green thumb to be really useful. How? Virgo is the list-maker, asking you to document and add up the things you’ve done well. Make a list of your own good deeds, a minimum of #20. Consolidate your gains--your acts of courage, your sparkling creativity, your love of family--and know they are worth more than money in the bank. Anger and frustration, kindled by the current wildfires of Aries energy, will show you where you’re still trying to keep tight controls on the call to expand.
From Pisces Albert Einstein: “When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
You’ll have a sense of well being--all’s right with the world--especially from Tuesday evening through Friday morning when the Moon is in Gemini. Also on Tuesday, February 24th, you have a day of sweet connections with those you love, and it has a practical side. Venus is not just about love, she’s also about wealth--so that she can enjoy all the good things of life. She’s began spicing up your friendships on the 20th, and now she’s ready to get serious about your bank account (or doing taxes to get a refund). The goddess of love inside you doesn’t always like to hang out with Serious Saturn, but this week she sees that his practical counsel will take your creative ideas into the marketplace where you will be successful. Look forward to March 3rd, 4th and 11th when a sparkling surprise benefits you. You can thank your lucky stars!
From Aries Joseph Campbell: "Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”
CANCER     (June 22-July 22)
Friday and Saturday, February 27th and 28th, are your best days this week. You have a sense that all is well. Emotional heat is rising for you since last Friday the 20th, and although you’re not one for instant gratification, there’s a restlessness for Cancers right now. The good news is it’s creating activity and opportunity in your 10th house of career, and you have to do is keep up. Keep your eye on the horizon for the Virgo Full Moon on March 5th--you’ll be saying to yourself, and others will be saying to you, “job well done.” The Pisces Sun is supplying solar power to your higher mind, greater awareness of what’s possible, and the physical vitality to go with it.  With the beginning of spring you will see that you’ve completed a long rehearsal, and you’re ready for deeper involvements and more meaningful work.
From Pisces Dr. Seuss: “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.”

LEO ☀  (July 23-August 22)
You aren’t usually competitive, since the power to rule is simply yours by birthright, but from now until March 16th you’ve declared yourself in the race. Aries drive mixes with your natural enthusiasm to push you to take the initiative and lead. And, you’re in no mood to tolerate people who oppose you. Unlike the rapidly moving forest fires of Aries, Leo is fixed fire--you have the staying power of an eternal flame. You’re ready to pit your strength and courage against anyone who tries to dampen your determination to succeed. March 3rd and 4th will be very dynamic, lucky days for creativity and money, and March 11th the perfect day to launch/publish your personal project. The Moon will be in your sign on March 1st, 2nd and 3rd (yes, you’ve heard that date before), which acts like a trigger--shooting a hole in that big pinata in the sky. What you might call dumb luck, is really your Guardian Angels slipping in just what you need.
From Aries James Hillman: “Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.”

VIRGO ☀  (August 23-September 22)
You’re offered a cup of comfort as this week begins. Even goddesses need a day of rest. Soon you’ll be gearing up for a monumental shift, like the tectonic plates sliding as they release an inner tension. The Virgo Full Moon that is coming March 5th is your personal easter time--a resurrection of your true Self. Is there a place in your belief system that stills insists the earth is flat because the new vision isn’t perfected yet? The quantum leap you’re asked to take is trusting faith--that if you choose to sail on toward the horizon, you’ll find it never ends. It’s eternal, and therefore true.
From Pisces Anais Nin: ”I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”

LIBRA ☀  (September 23-October 22)
Your 7th house of relationships is so loaded it’s bound to reach a tipping point. Toward what? Your guiding light Venus (love in relationship), Warrior Mars (assertive action), and Uranus (freedom fighter) are all in fiery Aries until March 17th. Your diplomatic velvet glove is coming off! You love to keep the peace, but you slip too easily into people pleasing. But not now. You need to show and tell it as it is, not as you’d like it to be. Libra’s famous iron fist, the one usually hidden by the velvet glove, is there to fight for injustice. You first. You want to embrace Warrior Mars, incorporate his directness. The rebel yell of Uranus is a wake up call to free yourself. The prison door is open--get out there. So what if you fall on your face? Pivotal turning points are coming March 3rd, 4th and 11th, when the archetypal Santa Claus drops opportunities down your chimney. Grab them for yourself.
From Aries Marlon Brando: “There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.”

SCORPIO ☀   (October 23-November 21)
Your gift of stillness, of being able to go deep within yourself while a busy world rushes by, is a blessing to everyone. The Pisces Sun calls you to the sea of collective consciousness, away from isolation, so you can be certain you are not in this alone. You sense the rumbling underground of the clash of the titans--as if your emotional antenna are a seismograph. With both of the cosmic lovers, Venus and Mars, in fiery Aries, your heart is restless but you have no reticence about expressing your love. Friday and Saturday, February 27 & 28th, are softly comforting days to curl up at home by the fire. Heading into a mind-blowing March, look for a trigger on March 10th that releases Generous Jupiter’s surprise opportunities.
From Pisces Anais Nin: “The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.”

SAGITTARIUS ☀   (November 22-December 21)
These are not home fires that are burning, they’re torches you can carry into the competitive world of business. With Serious Saturn in your sign, you have more discipline and depth of concentration than you usually do. This week your career (ambition) is solar powered with playful, loving spontaneity that makes this an enormously creative week for you, particularly Tuesday the 24th. Still, it’s only a warmup for the gigantic shift in perception you are called to in March. Practice daily, being still for a moment in order to allow your perception to shift from horizontal to vertical, lifting you into a moment of timelessness in which the miracle can occur. In addition to buying lottery tickets, you should make a list for Santa. He’s swinging by on March 3rd.
From Aries James Hillman: “We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?”

CAPRICORN   ☀  (December 22-January 19)
It’s now a downhill race toward your next big pivotal turning point, the Virgo Full Moon on March 5th. What happens for you then? Pressure is building You’ll need those goggles because even if you’re standing still your world is speeding toward you. The decision becomes whether or not to be the racer, creating your own lift, or be the wind creating lift off for others. Either way you are called to a new adventure, traveling the realms of the higher mind. Right now there is so much action in your 4th house of homes and family that you may feel frazzled (will be especially true March 4th and 11th). Or, you can keep your stable Capricorn feet on the ground, and benefit more that others from the lucky windfall around March 3rd because you’re willing to go step by step through the details. The real estate deal works because you combed the fine print.
From Pisces Alexander Graham Bell: “What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.”
AQUARIUS   ☀   (January 20-February 18)
The SuperMoon in your sign last week turned out to be more of an ending and culmination than a new beginning. It’s tipped you into a spiritual depth that’s slightly disorienting and strangely uplifting. It’s as if you found the sword to cut right through the Gordian Knot. You got a close up view of the insane loop in the ego’s endless demands for more, because it’s never enough. Restlessness and discontent are a signal that you’re on the edge of a quantum leap. The 24th and 25th are you best days this week. Your self-confidence and vital energy is high. Thursday is lucky, and you get a sneak preview of the over-the-top good fortune arriving March 3rd.
From Aries Gloria Steinem: “ Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”

PISCES  (February 19-March 20)
Timing is everything. A powerful solar eclipse in Pisces on March 20th will be a pivotal turning point for you. Occurring at the last degree of your sign, there’s both a letting go and finishing up, so that you have the space to visualize and own your greatness. Don’t worry that it feels idealialistic. Striving for your ideal goal is the point of it all. Littleness does not serve you. Embody your inner Einstein, dream of the solution to the problem that you face right now. It’s also the peak of the 7th and final Revolutionary Transformation, and the eve of spring time. You’ve got some prep time between now and the Virgo Full Moon on March 5th, the point at which you must let go of pride and false identity that does not nourish your growth. Think of Star Trek Scottie preparing the spaceship for going to lightspeed--he dumped all the junk he could find. Call Goodwill. Give it all away.

From Pisces George Washington: “We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.”

Sunday, February 15, 2015

Auspicious Aquarius SuperMoon & Chinese New Year

Perk up your ears and try a Spock Mind-Meld under the SuperMoon in Aquarius this Wednesday. “My mind to your mind, my thoughts to your thoughts” is how the incantation goes. The recognition that we are all one mind is reaching a tipping point in Aquarius, the sign of great humanitarians who care about the plight of all people.

“Failure to thrive” is a description of infants who languish, who don’t grow or develop, who eventually may die because they have been deprived of loving touch. You can be well fed, have a roof over your heads, a measure of safety, and still wither away. Likewise, you can live under a leaky roof, with little food, rarely safe, and still thrive if you are loved.

All you need is love? Spock used to say “the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one.” This could only become a conflict if the one or the few have different needs than the many. What if we all have the same need? Love. Plenty for everyone because the more you give love, the more you receive.

Now you have a renewed sense of purpose, more profound, urgently felt. Revolutionary changes have been occurring since Uranus started issuing GET OUT OF JAIL FREE cards March 11th, 2011. You’re moving out of limiting boxes. Some of you left frantic corporate jobs in order to start your own business, or travel to foreign lands to build schools, to save elephants; or you married or buried a loved one with extraordinary compassion, or birthed a baby that you know has a special Calling in this world--as you do.

If you’re awake, you’re saying something like, “Toto, we’re definitely not in Kansas anymore!”

The Chinese New Year begins with the second New Moon after the winter solstice, which is this week’s Super New Moon in Aquarius,* Wednesday, February 18th. This year of the Blue Sheep brings the qualities of boldness, decisiveness, focus and creativity.

Two more tipping points this week: The Sun enters Pisces this Wednesday at 3:49 PM, PST, only two minutes after the New Moon, a month of clairvoyance and compassion. Then Mars, Venus, and the Moon will line up together in Aries on February 20th.** The law of attraction is in full force.

The Force of Universal Mind is with you.
Here’s your horoscope for the week of February 15th to 21st, 2015:

ARIES  ☀  (March 21-April 19)
If you were an astronaut, you’d be landing on the Moon! You are about to be rocketed into a new dimension. Your relationships catch fire with innovative changes beginning this Friday. You want something or someone who is new and different. You’re not interested in the long term, but you want to have some sparkling good times. And why not? You’re absolutely effervescent. And, at the same time you feel a robust physical vitality. Your ambition to accomplish your goals has gone into hyperdrive for the next three weeks. From this Thursday, February 19th, until March 16th (which just happens to be the day of the last of the 7 Revolutionary Revelations), you have all the right stuff. You don’t really need a warm-up for this, but you’re getting one anyway when Wednesday’s Super New Moon in Aquarius meets with the Chinese Year of the Blue Sheep, and brings you an added dose of boldness and creativity.
Plant seeds of letting go: “Realize that when a door is closed, it is because what was behind it wasn’t meant for you.” Mandy Hale

TAURUS ☀  (April 20-May 20)
Your 10th house of career is activated by the Super New Moon in Aquarius this Wednesday. From Monday afternoon until Wednesday at 3:47 PM, PST, your ambitions shift and you make a new start. You’ll add qualities of a broader audience, peaceful solutions to old problems, and a flexibility that will help you out of a rut. As Warrior Mars and Venus move into your watery 12th house, their fiery creativity will have trouble finding expression. For the next three weeks you’ll take a helping role in your relationships, but be careful that the selfless love your feel doesn’t lead you to bend over backwards, martyr-style. This is not a time when you’ll get credit for your efforts, which can be frustrating. You’re doing inner research. Help arrives with the Sun’s move into Pisces, 2 minutes after the New Moon. Expect your dreams, memories, or a woman in your life to help you see those self-defeating habits that still block your full self-expression. Believe it or not, your best buddy right now is Powerful Pluto, the lord of the underworld. You’re in a metamorphosis, shedding old skin.
Plant the seed of perfect timing: “The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you...perfect, unspoiled...”   Arnold Bennett

GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
The cobwebs of your sleepy mind have been swept away, so you’re mentally very alert. You successfully go after your goals by working with a team, because you can see that your individual interests don’t conflict with the group. The Super New Moon in Aquarius this Wednesday will add a higher dimension of understanding to ideas you’ve been tossing around. The Sun enters Pisces this Wednesday, 2 minutes after the New Moon, and will fill your 10th house of career with loads of Spock-like Mind Melds for the next four weeks. You’ll just have a hunch about what to do, and it’ll be right on. But you won’t feel very assertive, particularly when it comes to your own personal interests. Just be careful not to overwork because you took on some else’s responsibility. When Mars enters Aries Thursday, February 19th, and is immediately joined by Venus the next day, you’ll begin a three week period in which you’re likely to fall in love with a friend--or realize the person you’re in love with is also your best friend. You’ll be the recipient of lots of love and affection, as the fires of creativity and love burn in your 11th house of brotherhood/sisterhood, fulfilling your hopes and wishes.
Plant the seeds of wishes: “There is no world apart from what you wish, and herein lies your ultimate release. Change but your mind on what you want to see and all the world must change accordingly.” A Course In Miracles


CANCER     (June 22-July 22)
Your mood for Sunday and Monday is serene and thoughtful, even a little reserved. Take to to ground your plans for the week because it’s going to feel like firecrackers are going off in your living room by Friday. The Super New Moon in Aquarius, Wednesday at 3:47 PM, can be an intensely emotional time for you. You may get “spooked” by an old memory popping up or an amazing coincidence that feels like deja vu. But once the Sun enters Pisces, Wednesday afternoon, only minutes after the New Moon, you’ll feel your mind and your world opening up with new found optimism. Mars, Venus and the Moon will have entered fiery Aries by Friday, filling your 10th house of career with so much action it will be hard to keep up for the next three weeks. You are working hard and determined to be your own boss--you will not take kindly to being told what to do. Venus will bring someone, probably older, who will act as a guide for your ambitions. Find an outlet for all the creative energy you’ll have, even if it means redecorating the whole office!
Plant the seeds of change: “Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see.” A Course In Miracles

LEO ☀  (July 23-August 22)
New beginnings in the area of your partnerships come with the Super New Moon in Aquarius this Wednesday. Coinciding with the Chinese New Year, it suggests that being flexible will strengthen your relationships. Your 8th house of other people’s money gets highlighted, so doing taxes now will have a strong emotional overtone (some resentment?). The really good news for you begins Thursday with a jumpstart to your aggressive drive, at the same time lady luck throws an opportunity your way. You attract just the right people and circumstances. This good fortune is building toward a jackpot around March 3rd. You’re on fire! This sets off a ton of activity in your 9th house of the evangelist. Feel free to pull out that soapbox, get your point across, others will enjoy your show. It’s a great time to travel (the next three weeks) for pleasure or adventure. You’ll have so much energy beginning this weekend that you must have an outlet or you’ll have a severe case of Cabin Fever.
Plant seeds of intuition: “A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.” Frank Capra

VIRGO ☀  (August 23-September 22)
The Super New Moon in Aquarius this Wednesday brings you a new beginning in your work and/or your health. It’s a great time to begin a new health regime or new diet. Since it’s also the beginning of the Chinese New Year of the Blue Sheep, you want to set new intentions for a more peaceful lifestyle, with regular time for meditation. When the Sun enters Pisces this Wednesday, just a few minutes after the New Moon, your interests are tipped into your house of partnerships for the next month. That’s where you’ll shine. The big line up of relationship energy from the cosmic lovers--Venus and Mars--will stir up passion, or anger and frustration, because it’s all in fiery Aries. This is not a good time to “make nice” and hold it in however, for then your frustrations will “leak” out accidentally. You need lots of down time for the next three weeks.
Plant the seeds of right decision: “Every decision you make stems from what you think you are, and represents the value that you put upon yourself.” A Course In Miracles

LIBRA ☀  (September 23-October 22)
Beginning Monday afternoon, and building toward the Super New Moon in Aquarius on Wednesday, your creativity (or it could also be a romance) takes a new turn, a rebirth. Since this powerful New Moon is in harmonious trine to your Sun, your head and your heart are in sync. Trust your hunches and set your intentions, written or on your vision board, in the two hours leading up to it: 1:47-3:47 PM, PST, on the 18th. The Sun enters Pisces a few minutes later, lighting up your 6th house of work, health and healing for the next month. Watch for little self-defeating behaviors to surface, particularly when you find yourself bending over backwards to accommodate a co-worker. But have no fear because your muse, Venus, and her favorite warrior, Mars, will travel side by side in Aries beginning this Friday. Your relationships are on fire with passion and determination. For the next three weeks, the only difficulty you’ll have in forming new and exciting partnerships is little bit of impatience. This begins a new cycle of assertive self-expression in your relationships--you’re going after what/who you want!
Plant seeds of Miracles: “Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The are performed by those who temporarily have more for those who temporarily have less.” A Course In Miracles

SCORPIO ☀   (October 23-November 21)
Your home and family life are a front and center attraction for you Monday, Tuesday and into the Super New Moon in Aquarius Wednesday at 3:47 PM, PST. You have more objectivity than usual to look at family issues and make radical changes. The 4th house also involves real estate, so you could strike a new deal. Right after this powerful magnetic New Moon, the Sun begins his month long trek through Pisces, and your way of expressing yourself in the world begins to sparkle. You’ll be noticed. This happens in your 5th house of creativity and romance, Warrior Mars and his lover, Venus, have been filling your head and heart with sweet poetry, but this changes dramatically (and drama will be the word for it!) when the zodiac’s famous lovers enter fiery Aries together this Friday. You have three weeks ahead of determination and creative drive in your work. There may be frustrations with co-workers, so keep your Scorpio cool. And it’s important for your health that you find a way to vent your anger--don’t hold it in. It’s a wonderful time to turn over a new leaf and change a health habit for the better.
Plant the seeds of clear perception: “What you acknowledge in your brother you are acknowledging in yourself, and what you share you strengthen.” A Course In Miracles

SAGITTARIUS ☀   (November 22-December 21)
You're going to need a fire extinguisher for the almost out of control creative energy that’s coming your way by the end of this week. First, the Super New Moon in Aquarius this Wednesday afternoon marks a new beginning in your 3rd house of communications. Yes, a full inbox, but also your ideas change suddenly and you become quite forceful about getting your point across. It will be hard for anyone to ignore you when you speak. the Sun enters Pisces this Wednesday at 3:49 PM, PST, just 2 minutes after the New Moon. This shines a light of compassion on your home and family life for the next month. Issues of motherhood will be strong, and you may be caring for a parent or family member. Feelings run deep. The fireworks start Thursday when Warrior Mars moves into fiery Aries and your 5th solar house of romance and creativity, followed the next day by Venus. For the next three weeks these cosmic lovers sweeten your relationships with a renewed sense of loyalty and affection. You’ll have the spontaneity of a child--the purest form of creativity.
Plant the seeds of enthusiasm: Leap! It’s what you do best. Leap straight from the problem to the solution. Two sides of the same coin.

CAPRICORN   ☀  (December 22-January 19)
Finish that poem or love song before Thursday, when your drive and determination take a radical shift, away from the empathic waters of Pisces to the aggressive innovation of fiery Aries. Beginning Friday, and for the next three weeks, the zodiac’s famous lovers, Warrior Mars and Vivacious Venus, will march into your 4th house of home and family. Relationships are more affectionate and your home may be up for redecoration. The powerful Super New Moon in Aquarius this Wednesday falls in your house of money and resources, the place where you’ll have more objectivity and a new start. Look for an unusual idea to free you. Immediately after the New Moon, your way of expressing yourself in the world shifts as the Sun enters Pisces. For the next month your focus is on communications, and this is where you’ll shine. You’ll have a telepathic connection with others, and you’ll sense meaning and trends through your heightened intuition. It’s not that logic is out the window, that is never true for Capricorn, but rather you’ll rely on your higher mind for spiritual solutions to everyday problems.
Plant the seeds of holy relationships: “When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him you will see yourself...for in him you find yourself or lose yourself.” A Course In Miracles

AQUARIUS   ☀   (January 20-February 18)
A powerful punch to the end of your birthday month comes Wednesday with the Super New Moon in Aquarius and the Chinese New Year of the Blue Sheep. Your muse, and the astrological ruler of Aquarius, is Uranus--the mythological god of lightning. Being able to think out of the box, in intuitive flashes, is a trait of all Aquarians which is heightened enormously this week. Beginning Monday afternoon, when the Moon enters your sign, until the peak of this SuperMoon Wednesday afternoon, you have a mental gateway open to original new ideas and reworking old ones. It is easy for you to enlighten you Self! As the gravitational and electromagnetic field maximizes, you can set intentions in meditation that will have powerful and far reaching consequences in your life. Don’t miss this opportunity. Then, beginning Friday, both Venus and Mars will travel side by side in fiery Aries, the sign of new friendships for you. For the next three weeks these cosmic lovers fill your 3rd house of communications with words of peaceful compromise. You don’t have to search for evidence--you are more loved than you realize.
Plant the seeds of friendship: “Friendship is one mind in two bodies.” Mencius

PISCES  (February 19-March 20)
Your birthday month is ushered in by the Super New Moon in Aquarius, and Chinese New Year, both of which occur this Wednesday. Then, at 3:47 PM, PST, just two minutes after the New Moon, the Sun enters your sign. An auspicious beginning to your personal new year. Probably one of the most powerful years for radical changes in your concept of who you are and why you’re here. Be sure to use the hours before this New Moon to set your intentions and goals firmly in mind through active visualization, then celebrate them as if they were already achieved. Your meditations at this time will be very powerful, tapping into the collective consciousness to shift your perception from horizontal to vertical. Expect a miracle! Your 2nd house of money and resources is about to catch creative fire. For the next three weeks, your relationship to money, and the way you handle your resources, will demand your attention. Are you making the most creative use of what you have? It’s the perfect time to start a new project. You are the prophet of springtime.
Plant the seeds of giving: “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift. The rational mind is a faithful servant. We’ve created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” Albert Einstein


*The New Moon in Aquarius, this Wednesday, February 18th at 3:47 PM, PST, is Super because it’s at perigee (closest to the Earth) and syzygy (aligned exactly with the Sun and Earth). The electromagnetic and gravitational fields are more powerful. Magnifying the extremes, the polarities, helps us see what’s really there. We’ve had four New Moons in a row that have occurred in the beginning (00 degrees) of a sign, and now we have the Aquarius New Moon this Wednesday at the very last degree and very last minute, 29 degrees 59 minutes, of the 30 degree solar arc of Aquarius--the tipping point into Pisces. It’s a head start toward feeling the effects of the Pisces Total Solar Eclipse (New Moon) on March 20th, just 4 days after the 7th and final Revolutionary Transformation--a bang not a whimper!

**Warrior Mars gratefully leaves the deep oceans of Pisces, where he’s been slogging around since January 12th, and gains high and dry momentum in Aries beginning this Thursday the 19th. Venus follows Mars into Aries this Friday at 12:05 PM, when she’ll be at her most flirtatious. The Moon follows both Mars and Venus into Aries on the 20th, 3 hours behind Venus.

Sunday, February 8, 2015

Pisces writes a Valentine about forgiveness

In the peaceful light of perfect openness, nothing is hidden and therefore nothing is fearful. The thousands of petty judgements that the ego offers will always yield to love.

The famous mythological lovers, Venus and Mars, are side by side in sweet talking Pisces for Valentine’s Day. You must feel your way through some deep visionary waters. But who’s going to make the first move?

The power of your decisions can restore a broken link, or keep it forever separate.

The Force of selective forgetting is with you.
Here’s your horoscope for the week of February 8th - 14th, 2015:

ARIES  ☀  (March 21-April 19)
You begin this week with a graceful charm and mellow mood. Ideas that you’ve mulled over will find solutions when Mental Mercury picks up the pace beginning Wednesday. Your mind sharpens. Communications make a course correction and get back on track (machines too). You have an unusual degree of acceptance and understanding in your relationships right now. Someone may need to lean on your shoulder and you’re glad to offer solace. This is not a time in which you get obvious credit for the good work you do. It’s a time for more yoga and meditation to help you be content with being in the background for awhile. Valentine’s Day has a cool reserve, but has a stabilizing effect on your relationships.
Food for forgiveness: “Forgiveness is a selective remembering of only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you.”  A Course In MIracles

TAURUS ☀  (April 20-May 20)
Losing patience with your stalled career plans? Projects that have been moving like molasses will really get rolling beginning this Wednesday, February 11th, when Messenger Mercury shifts to forward gear. Remember, your birthday month will be a giant leap forward as the Sun and Mercury will both be in Taurus. And, for now you have the archetypal lovers, Venus and Mars, giving you a friendly wink from visionary Pisces. What would it feel like to be in a happy relationship that you’ve dedicated to the single goal of unconditional love? To conceive of it in mind, infuse it with the power of desire, brings it to reality. Valentine’s Day is a celebration of friendships. Lots of love and affection, especially as the Moon strikes a harmonious chord Saturday afternoon. A sense of well being fills your weekend.
Food for forgiveness: “When you forgive, you in no way change the past. But you sure do change the future.” Bernard Meltzer

GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
Trusting your Second Brain? Your muse, Messenger Mercury, finishes his three weeks of dallying around, studying his navel, and revs up your mental engines. Ideas and projects get a kick start from your higher mind beginning this Wednesday, February 11th. The archetypal lovers, Venus and Mars, are cooperatively side by side in your house of career--expect favorable circumstances to attract just the right person to help you advance, to bring wealth and/or a promotion. This can also show up as public recognition for your work. Attitude of gratitude comes easily to you. You have much to be thankful for now.
Food for forgiveness: “Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.” Martin Luther King Jr.

CANCER     (June 22-July 22)
You are in a hurry to get outdoors, for sports and for standing on your soap box. Your inner crusader has a lot to say, especially after this Wednesday, February 11th, when Messenger Mercury shifts to forward gear. Get a job in product evangelism or find a classroom to teach. Venus and Mars have found a home in your higher mind, where your ideals are inspired by this loving couple. You’re in for a conscious-expanding experience this week through an encounter with someone you love. All you have to do is give up all your preconceived notions about them! Valentine’s Day is perfect for going to a concert or taking a short pleasure trip. You need something new and different--and you’re going to get it.
Food for forgiveness: “Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred. It does not pardon sins and make them real. It sees there was no sin.” A Course In Miracles

LEO ☀  (July 23-August 22)
There’s going to be lots of talk about partnerships you’re in. Beginning Wednesday, February 11th, the messenger planet picks up speed again in your 7th house of relationships, having retreated to more introspective and internal dialogue for the past three weeks. Now the deal gets signed. The archetypal lovers, Venus and Mars, are cooking up a fortunate possibility for financial gain. And, you are ready to live up to the rep you’ve earned, “you’ve never been loved ‘til you’ve been loved by a Leo.” Put it on a Valentine and deliver it with the strong emotional intensity that you feel this week. Your words are deeply meaningful, never superficial. You’re loving the bottom line!
Food for forgiveness: “You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‘I forgive. I’m finished with it.” Maya Angelou

VIRGO ☀  (August 23-September 22)
You are always the zodiac’s most organized worker, and this week Mental Mercury finally shifts into forward gear in your 6th house of work and service to others. Beginning Wednesday, February 11th, projects that have be brewing since January 5th will gather enough energy for you to bring them to harvest. Of all the 12 signs, you have the best lineup of Venus and Mars for Valentine's Day (actually this whole week). The lovers are sweetly side by side in your 7th house of relationships. If you can harness your aggressive Mars energies, and rely more on Venus for an attitude of cooperation, your relationships will have a perfect balance between “his needs-her needs.” I use the word “perfect” with caution, given your natural drive for perfection, however you’re going to come pretty close to it.  
Food for forgiveness: “Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world.” A Course In MIracles

LIBRA ☀  (September 23-October 22)
Your week starts with the Moon in your sign (through late Monday night) giving you a deep resonance with your true feelings about your relationships. Libra’s emphasis on partnerships becomes your hot topic, especially when Messenger Mercury emerges from his mancave this Wednesday, February 11th. He’s been stirring up romance in your 5th solar house since January 4th, and now it has forward momentum. With the archetypal lovers, Venus and Mars, in the deeply compassionate waters of Pisces, and in your 6th house of health and healing, this week is one of reaching out to be of service to others through your work. You have the gift of exceptional craftsmanship right now. You can get an enormous amount of work done and enjoy the process.
Food for forgiveness: “Letting go means some people are part of your history, but not part of your destiny.” Steve Maraboli

SCORPIO ☀   (October 23-November 21)
You get a serene sense of well being this Tuesday and Wednesday when the Moon is in your sign. Communications in or about your home and family really pick up, especially this Wednesday, February 11th, when the messenger planet shifts into forward gear. Ideas that have been “on hold” since about January 21st are energized and pop up to be dealt with. The archetypal lovers, Venus and Mars, are happily side by side this week in your 5th house of romance and creativity. You always feel things intensely (Scorpio never does anything superficially), and now deeply erotic energy is magnified--just in time for Valentine’s Day. Don’t go it alone or the downside of this is jealousy and impatience. Draw on your higher mind for the union of souls, which is what you truly desire.
Food for forgiveness: “I forgive my enemies, but I never forget their names.” John F. Kennedy

SAGITTARIUS ☀   (November 22-December 21)
Messenger Mercury shifts to forward gear Wednesday, February 11th, in your 3rd house of communications which expands your bandwidth. Follow the breadcrumbs back to early January, and pick up the idea you forgot about--it’s now ready to be implemented. On February 13th you have a very fortunate day for chatting it up with your partner or close friends. You can really get your point across now. The Moon in your sign from Thursday morning to Saturday afternoon, lights up your intuition with a new sense of optimism. You have every reason to hope that your life it turning in a very favorable direction, just in time for Valentine’s Day. Venus and Mars in your house of home and family have you creating something lovin’ from the oven. Or, start a DIY project at home. Family roots, including childhood memories, pop up. Pay attention. Here’s a chance to free yourself of them.


Food for forgiveness: “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and to realize that prisoner was you.” Lewis B. Smedes

CAPRICORN   ☀  (December 22-January 19)
If you haven’t written that song about love yet, you’ll get the impetus and wind back in your sails beginning this Wednesday, February 11th. The messenger planet in you house of resources will turn deals your way and give you an original idea about how to earn money. Valentine’s day is packed with so much lovin’ feeling that even you, dear dignified and reserved Capricorn, will initiate public displays of emotion--love that is. Hold up that sign saying “FREE HUGS” and watch yourself be amazed by how many people are drawn to you. Your inner artist is in residence, and your intellect very active. Take advantage of Saturday and Sunday which are your best days this week, especially for communications and contracts. Just watch out for petal-to-the-metal need for speed. The Moon cools your emotions down when she hikes into your sign on the afternoon of February 14th. Forget about the past. Put that poem to music.
Food for forgiveness: “One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” Rita Mae Brown

AQUARIUS   ☀   (January 20-February 18)
The big news for you this week centers around mid-week when Messenger Mercury, who’s in a prolonged stay in Aquarius, ends his retrograde journey on Wednesday, February 11th. Your mind is crystal clear and your inbox overflowing. Venus and Mars, the archetypal lovers, bring beauty and wealth as they fill your 2nd solar house with all the lovely things money can buy. You’re ready to initiate a new enterprise. Your birthday month will end on February 18th with an unusually powerful crescendo--a Super New Moon in Aquarius and the eve of the Chinese New Year. This is a major time of initiation for you--plant new seeds. A project or relationship that you begin now will have the effect of shifting your consciousness to a new dimension, a spiritual brotherhood.
Food for forgiveness: “Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world.” A Course In MIracles

PISCES  (February 19-March 20)
Activity and ambition is amped up when the messenger planet shifts to forward gear Wednesday, February 11th, having taken you on a journey back to January 5th--about the time you’d begun your New Year’s resolution to get out more. Your dreams are rich with imagination, and you can remember a lovely childhood event in which it was clear that you were loved. Warrior Mars in your 1st house of self-confidence is boosting your aggressive drives, just in time for Valentine’s Day. Somebody’s got to make the first move! You won’t overlook sending love to anyone, and woe be it to anyone who overlooks you. You’re in an affection mood all week, and willing to compromise, but not to bend over backwards. Your warmth and desire for peace attracts others to you.
Food for forgiveness: “To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten.” A Course In Miracles


P.S. In celebration and gratitude to the thousands upon thousands who practice forgiveness every day, as if their lives depended on it, and have found forgiveness by taking responsibility for their own behavior:

“Selfishness, self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate. Sometimes they hurt us, seemingly without provocation, but we invariably find that at some time in the past we have made decisions based on self which later placed us in a position to be hurt. So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making.” Alcoholics Anonymous