Horoscopes

Libra (Sep. 22-Oct. 23)
Libra is the sign of beauty, but let’s face it, the creative process is kind of ugly. This may be why you so often perceive beauty as outside yourself and needing to exist in your environment. The nervous chaos that so often leads to beautiful experiences is not something you want to identify with, but now you have no choice but to dive into those electric-eel infested waters of uncertain depth. Anyway, forget your doubts; forget that you don’t know how to weld or solder, and that half the paints and chemicals in the workshop could eat your liver for breakfast. Forget that creating anything really new feels so, well, egotistical to one so attuned to the world of relationships as yourself. Put on your Mad Scientist hat, get busy, and stay busy till something impressive and inevitable happens. If you get up one morning and say, “I have to call in sick to work to do my real stuff,” do two things: First congratulate yourself handsomely, and second, pick up the phone.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 22)
Whatever shakeup is rumbling through your world, it’s not what you think, and the people who have so recently appeared in your life are about to take on new and unexpected roles. Indeed, you can safely judge nothing by how it appears today, how it seems in your mind, or what you fear the most. Your whole idea of what makes you safe seems to be running in reverse, hence you can eliminate all the factors that are, for one thing, not true, and for another, create the illusion that you’re not standing on solid ground. Notice, though, that the firm earth you seek is a clear sense of ethics in a time when right and wrong are for many people either indistinguishable or matter not. Yes, you’re needing to revise all your ideas about who and what is helpful, who and what feeds your soul, and how you define the truth; but I suggest you be thankful that you’re bothering with the exercise.

You have little patience for politics, perhaps too little. On our planet, when people get together, the collective power created by the encounter must be distributed. People have a synergistic effect, that is, greater than the sum of the parts. Any group can only hope to have someone in its midst who has some worthwhile ideas about what is fair and what is not, what is necessary and what is not—and who has the strength to stand up for them. Yes, there are honest and ethical people all around, but few give a voice to their heartfelt values. Too few are bold and creative. Too many fear “stepping on the toes” of those who step on heads. These days you not only have little choice in the matter of whether to voice your ideas, you also have every reason to speak up for the world you want to see born around you, indeed, a world you can live in and where you are welcome. That world needs you to act—before it takes up a life of its own, not after.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 20)
Another big wave has come in, but like a child at the beach for the first time, you’re learning to dive through head-on. Capricorn is an earthy sign; however, the goat that symbolizes it has the tail of a fish. In fact you are perfectly attuned to live in a world where the facts are wrong, where emotion is shaped and guided by advertising, and where it’s cool to lie as long as you do it well. You thrive in this world because you can see through it all, and because you’re not limited to any one particular dimension or way of doing things. Anyway—the current chapter is about money, using it better, getting clear about it, and making sure that you’re on the winning end of any game where shared resources are being moved. You’ve made large investments into the community chest and the community itself, and what comes back to you is not only destined for a worthy purpose; it is, in fact, your own to have and share.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19)
For many months now, the planetary action has gone from sign to sign like the circus going from city to city. But every now and then it stops somewhere for a while, usually due to a retrograde—in the current instance, that of Mercury. While you may be rethinking some pretty deep stuff and are likely to be making decisions about what is right for you in the long run, make sure you don’t make the mistake of counting yourself as less influential than you are. Remember that you cannot see your actual influence, for the most part. Because of this, I suggest strongly that you work with what you can see and feel, which is your state of mind. Though you will discover this at some point soon, it was at work long before your awareness took over. You are broadcasting so loud and so clear that you’re influencing your entire environment. Keep your focus “in there” and you will have excellent results “out there.”

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Who really knows why some events, people, and circumstances call you into focus and why others do not. Life is full of cycles, the cycles have relationships, and there are intervals when several of the big ones gather and have unusual effects. I concede that the presence of six planets in Aquarius may have you feeling a little nervous because so much seems out of your control, tucked into a blind spot. The point is, you can actually feel what’s going on back there, and at least you’re aware of some unusual activity. If you focus on what you can in fact see and feel rather than what you cannot, and let your instincts guide you the crucial decisions you’re now making, they’ll work out far better than you can imagine at the moment. Typically people wonder “what was I thinking?” when they screw up royally. It seems you’ll look back on some unusual breakthrough and wonder much the same thing.