Nov. 13, 2009 – Sagittarius – Weekly

If you’ve been keeping any secrets from yourself, they are about to burst into your awareness with a passion. If you’ve been feeling lost, murky or depressed, you’re about to wake up, and wake up rather suddenly. If you’ve been feeling bored, get ready to feel extremely curious. You will benefit from encouraging yourself to be extra passionate or expressive, to the point of what may even feel like lewd; that’s the hot zone. This is the moment when you discover how ridiculous it is to maintain an image. You’ve been feeling held down because you’re holding so much inside, and that includes what you cannot admit in polite company. So get yourself into some inappropriate company as soon as possible, and check your judgments at the door.

March 1, 2000 – Aries – Monthly

Anything you do that reminds you how much you already have will serve to enhance your sense of prosperity and good fortune. So the idea is to keep reminding yourself, indulging or experiencing those areas of your life in which you have plenty. If you do, I suggest that lack of any kind will prove to be some form of an illusion, which means a misperception or an easily-remedied situation. By “easily” I don’t mean to imply effortless, but rather involving effort in which your movements are not frustrated by pointless setbacks. And it’s all for a very good cause. You are well-poised to enter an unprecedented phase of earning your living by doing what you truly believe in — so, consider once again what that might be.

June 24, 2008 – Virgo – Weekly

You have a right to change who you are, and you’ve probably decided the time to do so is now. Indeed, it would appear that you have embarked on one of the most detailed and energetic self-improvement programs of your life. Before you get too far, I would propose that changing who you are is not nearly as important as re-visioning how you feel about yourself. Notably, the influences that are pushing you, and pushing you so hard, to improve yourself are likely to be sending you negative, conflicted or frustrated signals. Another set of influences is encouraging you to accept yourself exactly as you are right now. I recognize the difficulty of this paradox, and I know how pervasive it is in spiritual and self-help circles. The whole game seems to be founded in the need to change, and is activated by acceptance. But we don’t necessarily see that acceptance is the form of change that makes all others possible. Obviously, putting yourself under a lot of pressure does not work. If, however, you discover that you are already under some enormous psychic pressure or carrying what seems to be a burden you don’t understand, that is a sign that you need to switch methods. You may not recognize that what you are going through now is indeed a burden, even though you may feel it is a virtue.

April 4, 2003 – Cancer – Weekly

Those who take care of aquarium fish know that the health of the water is the health of the critters who live in it. If you have a problem with the fish, test the water, nourish and help the water. Life is an interconnected network, and this is the dominant quality of your sign. Perhaps that’s why ancient astrologers put the emphasis on family bonding on the sign Cancer. You are in a stage of life when the health of your family and community is the same thing as your own health. Work for the wellness of the whole, and work for seeing contact points where either healing or difficulty are transmitted. There is more to this holistic approach than you may imagine. A single individual within a group dynamic who is struggling can throw off the energy of everyone close by. It may not always be possible to know what’s happening — but look for clues within certain distinctive one-to-one partnerships.

Sept. 10, 1999 – Virgo – Weekly

The New Moon in your birth sign on 9-9-99 has to be telling you something. But more than what this beautiful synchronicity is saying, I am more interested in what you are asking. The Nines represent the brink of change or completion. Yet astrology is far better at raising questions than it is at providing answers. The biggest question I see is, if you could change your relationship to your entire past, what would you create? This may involve a revisioning of history, a re-use of the lessons you learned in your family, or, most likely, tapping into cultural and genetic resources that are far deeper than any parent, grandparent or great-grandparent ever hinted might be yours.

Oct. 09, 2009 – Gemini – Weekly

Mercury is about to become free of its retrograde in Virgo, a transit that has made progress seem like a thing of the past. The process has certainly given you plenty to meditate on, and you may be wondering if you’re any better for having gone through so much mental and emotional introspection. I suggest that you not try to make up your mind about this right now; try to avoid judging anything at all. Simply move forward and see where you end up in a few weeks. For a while you’ll still be covering what seems like old territory, doing some things over and rethinking history yet again. You’ll notice the difference vividly when you arrive in new territory, and that’s the time to keep your focus on what is new and what you’re creating.

June 20, 2007 – Virgo – Monthly

You seem to be in the process of negotiating with your idealism. What is realistic, what is possible, and what from the “impossible” category is worth attempting? There are no right answers to these questions, nor can you know in advance which of your current investments, endeavors or relationships will bear the fruit you can almost taste. You simply must persist, but it’s not a persistence of logic; rather, you can guide yourself by the tides of your feelings, which at times will seem to be on the ebb and the flood simultaneously. The one thing you can do that will set you way ahead is to be completely honest with yourself about how you feel, and how you feel about the people who surround you. The chances are you will learn some things about friends and associates that you were not expecting to find out. Some of this may fall under the heading of what the world these days calls “too much information,” but I assure you there is no such thing.

Feb. 11, 2000 – Scorpio – Weekly

I’ve been getting loads of mail about an article on the Planet Waves web page about something called “compersion” — that is, the love we feel when others feel love, or the love others feel when we love someone besides them. Our models of relationships parallel our market economy, where everything can be arranged with the swipe of a plastic card. We do indeed take people as property, we use them as such, and typically dispose of them when we’re finished, often feeling like we were the ones who were used. Compersion, that is, a concept of love that includes freedom as its main ingredient, is often seen as a radical idea. It may be, but surely, with the way your potential for love is expanding every day, it also would be a very practical one.

Sept. 4, 2009 – Gemini – Weekly

The creative process is not arts and crafts. Rather, it’s about everything from doubt to confronting your sense of emptiness to exploring the feelings and memories that we are basically all conditioned to ignore. In sum, you go deeper, and that depth often requires the use of a working medium that could be clay and it could be a camera and it could be your notebook. Let it become a sacred space, but not so sacred that you fear that what you create there will be known to others and influence their healing process. You’re not alone in going through what you’re experiencing. The feelings running through your body are part of a collective current shared by millions of other people, each in their unique way, and each equally meaningful.

Feb. 1, 2000 – Leo – Monthly

A door into your life keeps opening and closing. Or rather, it opens and somebody comes in, and you kick them out and/or close and lock the door. You may not think you’re doing this, but so it goes. Orchestrating, enumerating or dictating reality are just poor methods for preventing others from consciously having a real impact on you, or overwhelming you. Coming up with scores of reasons why you cannot trust, and then, with your responses, making those reasons real, is only keeping you in isolation from what you really want inside. In order to trust, you will have to use your intuition, and remember that trusting is itself an act of trust. But I am here to tell you that that doorbell is about to ring again, there’s very likely to be somebody really there, and the door’s hinges are working and the knob turns. If you don’t use that door, it could be a while before it works so well again.