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