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SIGN-BY-SIGN
for February 2001
ARIES
ARIES
(March 21-April 19)
Coming events
may lead you to reconsider some of your ideas about love in light
of your actual experiences of love. Idealism is one thing, but getting
what you need is another. Prevailing cultural teachings on both the
subject of love and of religion tend to pull us way outside of ourselves,
and pressure us into negating what we actually notice about life,
people and the cosmos. Lofty notions about relationships are put into
our minds by everyone from ministers to Hollywood movies (there is
little difference between the grandiose “Love of God” and
glamorized romantic ideals); both fragment us from what we observe
to be true, and what we know we need and desire. God indeed loves
us, and the lips of the beloved are surely sweet. There is no conflict
here, unless we make one. Perfection of the soul is a prerequisite
for neither, but making a few simple decisions surely is.
TAURUS
TAURUS
(April 20-May 20)
You may still be too afraid of yourself to reach the depth you
desire in your relationships. Lurking in the Taurus psyche is the
specter of “narcissism,” which, far from being an expression
of self-appreciation, is really self-judgment. Right now such fears
may be annoying you in subtle ways that magnify into strange forms.
I don’t know exactly what they are; the Tauran heart is a mysterious
place. But there are ways out of the dark. For every experience in
which you feel that another person does not accept you, identify one
place where you are withholding acceptance from yourself, and make
an adjustment. If you are inclined to judge yourself for doing or
feeling something human, forgive another person for doing the same
thing. More than you are in a process of finding love, you are in
a process of dealing with fear; they are closely related, particularly
for you, and especially now. Refer to your dreams for further insight.
GEMINI
GEMINI (May
21-June 20)
You’re about to discover, or rather become, the secret formula
for existence. This revelation, if you’d call it that, will guide
you through what is normally a thorny thicket of love, albeit one
where roses grow galore. There are those times when all that needs
to change is one’s mind for everything to change: one’s
perception of life, one’s idea about oneself. Life may be on
this brink at every waking moment, though it’s typically quite
subtle: but hold on—or rather, hang loose. What now occurs is
not subtle. You may be faced with the question, “What if I woke
up one morning and was a completely different person?” You would
do things very differently, you’d see people very differently
and respond differently. But exactly how would depend on who you invented
yourself to be, which remains an unwritten book. But as you write,
give you a chance to catch up with you; give others a chance to do
the same.
CANCER
(June 21-July 22)
“Every decision you make stems from what you think you are,”
reads the Miracle Sutra. This is the most succinct statement of the
idea of “values” that I can present to you, in this moment
when the value you hold upon yourself indeed matter, and are poised
to influence your life in both its sexual and economic expressions.
What I see is the breaking of an impasse between your view of your
self-value and your view of the value that others have on you. For
a long time these have not added up. Much may seem open to negotiation
but that is not the case, and negotiations, if they are conducted
carefully, will lead to one preordained conclusion: you are, financially,
worth more than you are getting, and in matters of love, you are more
important to people than you recognized previously. Hold these thoughts
and not be swayed by anyone’s doubts, particularly your own;
there are rewards for doing so.
LEO
LEO (July 23-Aug.
22)
The actions of someone close to you are likely to seem puzzling
or heartless. Stand back. This person’s process is entirely
out of your control and beyond your help, and any attempt to rescue
this individual may yield hassles galore. This is not selfish, but
rather a way of allowing another person to make their own choices
and grow up (at best), and not participating in someone’s crime
against themselves (at worst). Meanwhile, the question arises again:
What is the purpose of intimate relationships in your life? Why
do you do it at all? This is not a rhetorical question and I am
not being cynical. You need answers, and answers will come from
questions. This will provide a basis for making far better decisions
about people in the future. If, at this juncture, you proceed with
awareness and a spirit of allowing people to own their stuff while
you own yours, the future is a lot closer, and better, than you
may think.
VIRGO
VIRGO
(Aug. 23-Sep. 22)
It may seem that a rare opportunity for human contact becomes swallowed
by your somewhat ridiculous though in fact highly fulfilling workload,
and if so, it’s time to have a long talk with yourself about
your real priorities in life. Yet work has become a cover for your
struggle with the question itself. Somebody in the equation is always
too busy for love. It’s true that few people could meet your
high standards for what a partner would be, but your projects deliver
real satisfaction. That is because you have reasonable demands on
your projects. Recently, someone has come close to your standards,
but I suspect they were put off by the fact that you seemed to retreat
no sooner than they appeared, and they very likely felt judged in
some way. Take it easy on this person, and take it easy yourself;
he or she will be back in your life before long.
LIBRA
LIBRA
(Sep. 23-Oct. 22)
We are haunted by the past in our relationships, by what might have
been. Andy Warhol went as far as to say that all sex is nostalgia;
that we look for our grade school sweetheart our whole life. Yet we
are not the people we once were; like it or not, experiences have
shaped us, time has made us softer in some ways and harder in others;
more or less trusting, more or less resigned to the hand we’ve
been dealt. There’s not a person on the planet who is not hungry
for love, yearning for understanding. A wide variety of spiritual
paths teach that this is the formula to never find love, and there
seems to be no way out. You have little choice now but to love the
part of you who craves and needs attention, for this is indeed who
needs to be loved. Since it’s not the yearning that drives others
away, but our judgments about it, it’s worth a try.
SCORPIO
SCORPIO
(Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
In your ever-mounting drive to get what you want, pay attention to
what others are offering. What you want is just what you want, but
what you are gifted is yours to receive. The current shape of your
life is not one in which you can take anything for granted, particularly
trust or emotional security, and, much like in dealing with banks,
these things depend upon your ability to maintain an even exchange
of energy with the people around you. You may be inclined to feel
that you have demands, particularly emotional ones, that are not being
met, or perhaps that people are making commitments that are not bearing
fruit. But to what extent was there a spoken arrangement? And to what
extent are you claiming authority? This is all a misadventure. You
have enough of what you need, and the people around you are in fact
being generous with their spirits and their gifts; you merely need
to open your hands to receive, or open your arms to embrace.
SAGITTARIUS
SAGITTARIUS
(Nov. 23-Dec. 21)
There is a beautiful metaphor for relationships which says human encounters
are what happens when two people walking in opposite directions get
a brief chance to meet. Lately, though, it’s felt more like two
trucks passing on the Interstate. Ease back on your fears and discouragement,
if you can, because the word for the month, indeed for the season
and well beyond, is contact. However I don’t suggest you look
for all the usual people in all the usual places. As adventurous as
the Sagittarian spirit is, you do get caught in what one might call
spiritual habits, and these can lead you in circles. It’s impossible
to let go of expectations, but you do need a few new ones; it’s
not usually easy to shift your state of mind, but it’s not so
difficult now. And while your mind often entices you to search far
and wide for what you want, I suggest you look a lot closer to home
for that which will be dearest to your heart.
CAPRICORN
CAPRICORN
(Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Saturn in your fifth solar house (fun, adventure, romance and being
a kid) for the past three years has not been a day at the beach. Saturn
likes to work, and when he plays he likes to cut loose; the most awesomely
indulgent of the Roman festivals was held in his honor, Saturnalia.
Saturn in its seemingly endless but soon-ending journey across Taurus
has been a kind of bane, a weight that has come with its share of
strain and sorrow in not just your personal relationships but also
your creative freedom. We’ll all feel better when Saturn enters
Gemini in early spring (even Geminis); for now we are in the very
significant last moments of the old cycle. Any planet in the last
degrees of Taurus is directly, and visibly, aligned with Alcyone,
in the constellation Pleaides (the Seven Sisters), one of the most
gentle, loving vibrations in the night sky. This is truly a blessing,
if we’re open enough to notice, and gracious enough to accept.
AQUARIUS
AQUARIUS
(Jan. 19-Feb. 18)
You need to remain calm in order to handle the situations you’ll
be facing this month. The first order of business is finding out what
people think and feel, and remembering it. Of course if people change
their minds a lot, this complicates the process, but you’ll have
to hang in with human nature. The real challenge will be dealing with
anger, which you may be inclined to take out on yourself. I just don’t
recommend this, nor do I recommend taking it out on an easy target—that
compounds anger with frustration and guilt. The solution for anger
is to acknowledge it and ask others for help, and remember that there
are times when meditation is more important than communication. There
is, at this time, a sub-population of Aquarians set up for some of
the most brilliant revelations and celebrations in many years, strange
of sorts though it may be. If you’re struggling, remember that
a whole other world is available; another way of looking at life.
PISCES
PISCES
(Feb. 19-Mar. 20)
If you can’t decide whether these are the best times or the worst,
decide they’re the best. Do what you can to make yourself feel
at home on the planet and in your current environment; you can do
quite a bit. Yes, there are sources of irritation, and surely, you’re
feeling like the pressure to change is upon you, and it is. But change
implies a new relationship to the past. The whole issue of the past
is a serious problem because its reality is so convincing, and we
seem to have given up so much; but this attachment is only in our
emotions. Making yourself at home means, more than anything, doing
what you can to catch up with the moment in which you are alive. This
is extremely challenging and few people ever do it. Yet you simply
don’t need what was, and it wasn’t so great anyway. You
do indeed have much to love about what is, which will open your heart
to who and what is to come.
Cut
the grease, clear your karma, be more free, have more sex. Eric Francis
is a professional astrologer doing private consultations. For information
about private readings, see http://www.PlanetWaves.net, or contact
Eric at eric@PlanetWaves.net. Office phone: (845)
339-3339.
Aries
| Taurus | Gemini | Cancer
| Leo | Virgo | Libra
| Scorpio | Sagittarius
| Capricorn | Aquarius
| Pisces
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