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Horoscopes 9-03
by Eric Francis

Aries (March 20-April 19)
Your soul may be screaming, or perhaps rejoicing, that all the old moorings are gone, all the notions that kept you clinging to yourself, and all the fear that they engendered. Recently I had a breakthrough about the nature of fear and guilt in my own life, and why these were so persistent. I realized in a rare moment of tuning into my psychic metabolism that I was addicted to these emotions and was, quite literally, feeding on negativity. In our world, we do have a choice of what power source we hook up to. Certain factors may mask the option, or create the sense that the qualities of existence never change. You are being confronted with the naked truth of your existence and the raw elements of consciousness. What you are made of changes as fast as your choices.

Taurus (April 19-May 20)
What were you afraid of? I wonder if we need to even go there. It would be mighty embarrassing. “I was afraid I might offend someone by breathing. I was afraid that if I took a chance, I would fail, so I failed by not taking a chance. I was afraid that if I let myself think, I might have to change.” Enough, right? Safety isn't all that safe. Often it seems like safety is just sitting around waiting to be threatened. You've likely discovered you need a more interesting game to play. Your new game needs to go beyond rationalization, beyond microscopic details shutting down the whole production, and a galaxy beyond the conservative reticence that so often binds you to your chair. You used to be a child. That child felt the struggle but was not overcome by it.

Gemini (May 20-June 21)
Memory and emotion are closely related. Cognition can be painfully divorced of feeling and contact with past experience. I suggest you use your brain as a cross-referencing tool, and spend a lot of time researching your footnotes. Memory and emotion need to guide your idea process and choices this month. You are very well positioned to break free of goals that are not your own, of vague notions of what you want that can never materialize because they lack substance, and in particular of your parents' delusions about the world. You are about to be pointed in a very clear, sure, and productive direction. But if you're stifled by unanswered questions, nagging doubts, and frustration you can quite feel, you may keep wandering. Your feet know the way—especially your toes.

Cancer (June 21-July 22)
One-on-one relationships tend to triangulate, that is, become threesomes. Even the paragon of bonded union, monogamy, does this in the form of a child being born, which changes all the dynamics of the original partnership. You could say that we change the world by showing up, and the world has a reaction, which we feel. Presently, you're learning new methods of making your impression on reality and, at the same time, structuring your life so that the world is less able to exploit your resources. What you're actually doing is changing the pattern of your relationships. Even under the best circumstances this is extremely challenging, but you presently have both unusual strength and an unusual necessity to make it happen. Just watch the energy flow around those third parties, and pay attention when you find yourself becoming one.

Leo (July 22-August 23)
Generally we bring part of ourselves into each relationship. Few partnerships can withstand a person showing up with their whole being, curious as this sounds. When one relationship becomes our primary vehicle for self-expression, what often happens is that many other aspects of who we are can get left outside the temple. I suggest you track what you bring into each partnership, and do your best to bring all of you into all of them. If an aspect of who you are or what you feel is not welcome with someone, now is the time to find out how and why. There was a time in your life when group encounters and same-sex intimates were much more important to you than they are today. They served a vital purpose—as vital as you.

Virgo (August 23-September 22)
Those who debate conspiracy theories often miss the point that everything happens by conspiracy. That we may miss the connections doesn't mean they're not there. Your primary role within your life this month is to see the contact points, the places where cooperation flows, and the networks of communication through which everything materializes. Wherever you go, notice how you're walking on and existing within the web of life, and are as much part of it as a spider is her web. Your world is poised to expand vastly and rather incredibly through these networks, if you can hold awareness of them and resist the rather strong temptation to feel like you're alone. Remember, how one person may be treating you has nothing to do with how everyone else is treating you.

Libra (September 22-October 23)
The sun's entry into your sign on September 23, always a global event called Equinox, arrives with some extra fanfare this year. Mars and Mercury end their retrogrades around the same time, which suggests a phase of fast, important communications, changes at work, and a rare-enough moment of being plunged directly into The Moment. I hope that all will be enough to remind you of who you're most definitely becoming. I understand that much of your growth process currently seems to be hidden in your psychic blind spot, but that's to keep you focused on the main event. The stars, in particular, a star called Saturn, suggest strongly that, for now, take care of your role in the outer world, and your inner world will take care of itself. Don't think about much. Just be conscious.

Scorpio (October 23-November 22)
We don't often think of confidence as something we sacrifice for the sake of another person, but I suggest you check out the possibility that this happened or is happening to you. You're now traveling a stretch of the cosmic highway where the past has an extraordinary bearing on your experience of reality, and your history is only going to keep coming in closer. You may have the unusually strong feeling that something happened, something that colors you now and that you want to get clear about. If you feel that you've made some kind of mistake or suffered a loss of faith that has changed everything, you've got reason to take heart. What you gave up wants you as much as you want it. Confidence is just the beginning; it is the key to so much else.

Sagittarius (November 22-December 22)
Emotionally this has been an extraordinarily complex stretch of your life. Yet your real concerns have barely arisen to the surface of awareness, as far as I can tell. What is the source of your doubt? Your anger? Your quest to reconnect something within yourself that at one point seemed to be joined, but now feels like an impossible union? I suggest that as the month unwinds you're in an excellent position to investigate the unknown. I suggest you evaluate the catastrophic fears of one of your parents, and assess how his or her psychic residue is holding you down. Since so much is pulling you up toward your dreams, your more beautiful objectives, and your succeeding at specific goals, the more you can do to free yourself from the bottom, the higher you will climb.

Capricorn (December 22-January 20)
Humans seem to bear the burden of self-identity more than any other creature. We have a dire need to know ourselves, to understand ourselves, and to declare that identity in a meaningful way. Your quest to do this is finally taking you beyond the often-frustrating efforts that have dominated the past couple of years. The right combination of ingredients, that is, conditions, people, maturity, and the willingness to confront yourself honestly, are assembling themselves. Moreover, you are being directly supported by an unusual gust of good fortune and faith in yourself. Ah, but be wary: help your children before you save the world. Remember, as you go through your alchemical changes, the prayer, “We are all one.” Take your power first as the strength to live, rather than as the drive to do.

Aquarius (January 20-February 19)
After seven years in Aquarius, Uranus spent the spring and summer in Pisces, and now returns to your sign for the duration of the year. This stands as one last reminder of what you've been through, of what you've learned, of who you've become, and of your real gifts. In the larger scheme, the wave-front of your growth is about taking those developments and embodying them directly as the values that sustain you rather than as things you “identify with” or “understand.” It is not enough to think innovatively. One must be innovation. What is the difference? The risk factor. Social theory is safe. Truly revolutionary values are dangerous, especially when put into action. You will know the difference on the emotional level. What you're seeking feels less like turbulent air and more like hot liquid in your heart.

Pisces (February 19-March 20)
What you need is to feel good. From there, you can make sane decisions that reflect your true intentions, and as I'm sure you've noticed by now, opportunities for decision abound. Let yourself be reminded by every discomfort, every moment of fear or doubt, every sense that you've slipped back into old ways, that you seek a future different than the past. Be careful what you allow yourself to believe. This month, lack of immediate results is no indication whatsoever of the larger direction in which you're headed. Hold out faith that all these changes will work out, and they will. Part of feeling good means, very simply, emphasizing the positive and accepting it as evidence of what can be. Yes, in this world, everything is possible. You just need to narrow the possibilities a little.

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