The Sun entered Virgo a week ago, close on the heels of Mercury’s station retrograde, happening entirely in the sign of the virgin. Today’s archive horoscope from 2007 doesn’t say much about ‘purity’ but does give Virgos a guide to handling new information with integrity and a certain kind of persistence — values worth handling with careful awareness as Mercury gets up to its old tricks.

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.

Greetings! I am back to updating the Cosmic Confidential Diary after a few very dynamic days away. In the interest of a smooth re-entry into daily life on the blog, I searched for an archived horoscope that might speak to my recent experiences in a very special community. I found the perfect match in this Scorpio horoscope from 2000.

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.

Hello Cosmic Confidential Visitor. One of the things we’re doing here on the Cosmic Confidential daily blog is selecting horoscopes from the past and letting them see the sunshine. Given all the internal stress we’re feeling with the current astrology and Eric’s potter’s wheel analogy in today’s issue of Astrology News, I thought I’d see what else Eric has said about clay and the self-creative process we’re in, however uncomfortable it may be.

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.

One of the things we’re doing here on the Cosmic Confidential daily blog is selecting horoscopes from the past and letting them see the sunshine. Often I use current astrology to guide my choice of a theme to highlight with these selections, but today I let my mood guide me — admittedly, it was not the most positive or productive mood. As you’ll see, this Leo horoscope from 2000 really answers the call with an attitude check — Eric-style.

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.