I Am, I Do, We Dance. 2/13/12-2/19/12

In General

We exist in a complicated world of both individuals and systems. We are both the product of social interactions and of individual will. We are the keepers of, and responsible for our own destiny. But we must also understand that our destinies are a small piece of something bigger, grander. When we fail ourselves, we fail the world. We must first attend to our own truth, and through that we may attend to the great potentiality of all the world. This is a week to examine how one forms the other, to shadow dance with the divine reflection. This is a week to come to peace with the inner Shiva dancing with the outer Shakti, and find truth in that grand dance.

Aries

Among the Quakers there is an old saying, “Everyone is crazy except for me and thee. And I am not so sure about thee...” I suspect this quotation strikes quite a chord at the moment, Aries. This is the sort of moment where you feel quite lucid and rational and can't quite figure out what is wrong with anyone else. You may well be right. Chances are though, it may not matter. You see most of what your picking up on center around issues in which you have to come to some form of consensus between people to accomplish anything. Holding out for the absolute best, will most likely derail all progress in the muck of trying to prove a point. Best to compromise. You are right Aries. But the rub is: would you rather prove it, or work for constructive solutions... Ya tough call.

Taurus

Usually I can Depend on you to make a well considered decision on any and all practical matters. Usually your instincts in terms of pragmatic decisions are spot on. This is not that week. This week Oh Taurus, do not take a lot of stock in your practical acumen. It has a tendency to veer wildly off. Try to put off any long-term decisions that you can, find trusted council for those you can't, and in the mean time take advantage of this moment to dream. While its a bad week to nail down decisions and make “war-room” style plans, it is an excellent week to get sentimental, surrender to flights of fancy and dream. From these dreams may come great long-term visions! Just wait till you feel a little more grounded to plot a course to the top of those mountains!

Gemini

This is a good moment for caution Gemini. The urge to find adventure, to seek out emotionally new territory is in general a positive one. But do it only from a safe space, and take it slow. Things have a propensity to go really deep really fast at the moment. This trip to the center of your shadow is in so many ways a good thing, but be prepared. This is really a time to make sure you are keeping company, and choosing it wisely. This is truly a moment to tread lightly. But above all else confront things directly, in the end nothing could be more damaging right now that avoiding emotion or conflict. Just breath and take it slow. Don't make decisions in stone. When the smoke clears you can set a better course.

Cancer

These, dear Cancer, are the times that try human souls. The great questions float on the edge of your perception. Who are you, Cancer? What are you really after? In the end it calls into deep question how you exist in the world. How you exist in the world and who you are exist on two sides of the same axis. To understand the subject of your own identity, you must ultimately understand both these things. To find the truth of who you are you on some level have to understand the place that the inside and outside meet, and interact. The world we walk in defines who we are, just as who we are defines the world we walk in. This is a moment to consider integrity, your own story, and where your going. It is time to square up your own sense of self. The rewards are great, but first you must walk through fire. Of course once you truly understand what it means to be you, there is nothing that can defeat you. Good luck.

Leo

Nothing gets in the way of beauty like worry. Nothing kills joy like poking it with your brain. Leo, you lie upon a kings hoard of fine mattresses, and in perfect mood to luxuriate in social interpersonal bliss. Its just that pea... somewhere in the pile. In this case the pea has to do with all those little practical responsibilities that you want to blow off to roll around in the lap of bliss. The trick for you Leo is to cross all your “T”s and dot all your “I”s as best you can, and then step back let go and enjoy. Basically get the practical done, and try to let your mind wander to the fun part. Just do the practical stuff first.

Virgo

This is a time for listening to the heart. This is a time for fine tuning your emotional attunement, it is a time of taking that painstaking attention and turning it to emotional reality, and moreover finding a dream to hitch it to. Your assignment Virgo, is to take someone under your wing and let them teach you how to teach. Its your week to learn what it is to teach, and to learn how to explain to others. Its a skill unto itself and a real trick. Here's a hint, only explain what they need to know right now, and after they have that down pat, only then should you get more specific.

Leo

This week may well be the most challenging to you dear Libra. It is a week for peering into shadows and expanding your mind by facing the fears of your soul. This is a week to keep your own council and find a new definition of your life the holds stronger to the urgings of your heart. This my dear Libra is where the edge of your soul meets the end of eternity. The key? Its all about your heart, your feelings. You must embrace that part of your that is most instinctual because that is where you will become more.

Scorpio

This week has the potential to manifest in a dark paralysis, of anxious and dark thoughts. Or this could be the week you turn, raise your sword and confront the inner demons of your past, stare it in the eyes and move on. It really is that simple. You can find healing in love relationships, past and present. Its all about knowing that you can change the way your life plays out simply by changing what you assume about your life. A positive attitude will not solve every problem, but it may make it easier to get through to a place you can.

Sagittarius

Sometimes its amazing what you can accomplish, when you can own up to the reality that even you oh Sagittarius are not perfect. (no really) And part of this is recognizing the notion that apart from the sum of creation, the idea of perfect actually has no meaning. You can be flawed and do everything that is necessary in your part of creation. We are not perfect because we are pieces of that creation. But because we emanate from that same cosmic source, we are always doing exactly what we need to right now. And it is ALWAYS flawed. At least it is on the small scale. And it is always perfect, at least on the universal scale. When you can embrace this, you can overcome anything that keeps you frozen.

Capricorn

Begin this week on getting your surroundings and physical house in order. This week is all about making sure the laundry is done, dinner is made ahead of time (even made and frozen ahead of time and then stored in the freezer for easy stand-by meals with low hassle). What is the purpose of all these preparations you ask? It is quite simple, you are putting up the practical scaffolding so that when you have to tackle the more personal questions of identity and conquering your insecurities, you have all the back-up you can handle.

Aquarius

Things may feel uncharacteristically personal this week. It may be that you are easily rubbed raw. You could run from this sensitivity, but really Aquarius I am in favor of you investigating how it feels to take things personally, look for direct connections and delve into emotionalism. Try being a bit more “touchy-feely”, and stretch your comfort zone! Am I asking you to abandon what you are? Of course not! I am asking you to try something new... and you always like that, right?

Pisces

Sensitivity is good. Getting your feelings out is great. But Pisces, make sure you know the difference between feeling bad and letting it out, and poking your heart with a stick because the emotional release is such a good thing. Step back and get some air. Try to find the lighter side. This is not about hiding or bottling your feelings, but about giving yourself a break, breathing and deciding that you can choose just to let things be light and easy sometimes...

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Gathering Storms, Fruits of the Soul Week of 2/6/12- 2/12/12

In General

This is a week of soul searching and personal power. It is a week of rich nectar from dark fruits. As we inch our way toward the spring it is a good time for new explorations and internal searches!

Aries

Dissatisfaction is not a comfortable state. It is not supposed to be. It exists as a motivation to growth, to healing, to stretching so that we may become more than we are. Avoid the desire to run away, or give up. This is a time to dig in and do the hard labor that will bring benefits in the long run. For you Aries this is nothing short of a challenge to establish yourself in the world and to own your own personal power. Stick to it. In short, this is your task: to open your heart to a deep almost spiritual resolve and follow it to a new horizon, one drop of sweat at a time!

Taurus

The state of romance may be challenging at the moment Taurus. In part this is because of new ways you have come to understand yourself, and not being quite sure how it relates to the way you are used to behaving in love relationships, or courtship in general. This is not a time to do it by rote, but a time to dig in, pay attention and rewrite your own book of love. Take time with those who are spiritually your closest family to find new ways of understanding your own relational habits, and find new ways of doing it. The benefit will take time, but you will be amazed at how much it will transform your relationships!

Gemini

Gemini, it may feel like you are stuck in a frustrating emotional disconnect. This is really just a symptom of deep, profound, spiritual longing. You stand in the uncomfortable place where identity, ethics, spirituality and your conception of the rules meet. Your current challenge is nothing less than to confront your assumptions of the way your world should be. You must challenge the way your life, ethical identity and sense of spiritual connectedness inter-relate to one another as an integrated system. You are being called upon to rewrite, first, your own rules, and then, start setting expectations for the world around you.  These, of course, should be based on your newly discovered way of being. It is important to begin with the desire to question absolutely everything that you can put into words, and to hold on tenaciously to everything that rings strongly in your heart.

Cancer

In classical astrology Cancer is considered to be conservative. Why is this? Because Cancer is the mother sign, and thus she values things that make for a good world for children. Cancer longs for physical comfort, and predictability, not because the Cancererian values are material, but in fact quite the opposite. Coin buys bread, bread feeds family. Houses shelter children, and the the elderly, and all those who need it most. Cancer's is a story of the responsibilities between humans. This is not in the Aquarian “big picture” way, but in a way that is very much on the ground floor, very personal. Cancer is about family and emotional responsibility. It is in moments such as this that what makes a Cancerian distinctly Cancerian may be seen most deeply. This is a moment in which all the gold in the world may not be enough. This is a moment in which the conservative notions of Cancer draw them deeply into what appears to be uncharacteristically insurrectionist desires. This is the moment when mother wolf begins to snarl, and demand change! Do not discount these feelings Cancer! The moodiness and dissatisfaction you feel right now is in some ways your “raison d'etre.” It is your moment to rear up and be radical in the name of all that is responsible and in a very old sense, conservative.

Leo

Nothing in the world would feel quite as nice as turning tables, cutting corners and just making anything more direct than it seems to want to be right now. I am not advising you to completely resist this impulse, but I do want you to try very hard to take the feelings of others into account. This is a moment when it could be very easy to step on toes. These toes may be owned by people that it will benefit you in the future to be at least on good working terms with. Be very careful about your temper. That said, it is a good time to reorder the physical nature of your reality. Take a deep look at your job and finances, and make some very deep changes.

Virgo

It may be hard to balance your emotions this week. Dealing with groups of people, especially ones you don't know well may be especially tricky this week. In addition, there may be an overwhelming urge to take off, maybe a quick vacation, maybe a trip to the woods. I encourage such a trip, or making plans for just that sort of thing. I just want to ask one favor: make this little escape count. (Even if it is just a quick escape to a local park) I want you to open yourself up to new possibilities. I want you to dedicate this time to a new understanding of how you assert what you need in social circumstances, directly and honestly. Its about meditating on full disclosure with yourself so that you can fully disclose with others.

Libra

This may well be a week of low energy levels accompanied by emotional distance and a touch of cynicism, made all the more painful because of a streak of emotional idealism that is running through you. The best answer to all of this, is throw away convention! This is a week to throw caution to the wind and grab on to new experimental ways of conducting your life! This is especially true of your love life and what you see as your professional craft. Its time to spice things up, try something new, and if it doesn't work try something else. This is a good week to remember that classic mantra, “this too shall pass.” Not necessarily because it is the worst time ever, (although it will aid in the painful bits) but just because the excitement of embracing change will bring the light you need to balance some very serious energy!

Scorpio

It may be easy to be misanthropic and cynical right now. This is particularly difficult because this is paired with a distinct streak of romanticism rising in your blood and an emotional point of view that is more interested in tallying a score sheet of wins and losses than experiencing the moment. It is times like this that we turn to the power of forgiveness. Forgiveness is not a gift we give others but one we give ourselves. We must actively choose to forgive, we must actively choose to live without bitterness or else the very power of that bitterness will starve our souls and keep away the very things that can prove that cynicism wrong! Sometimes it is more important to survive, more important to enjoy the life you are given than to hold onto past facts. Scorpio, this is a time to embrace the unknowable good because only with that can any of us overcome the list of sorrows that have past.

Sagittarius

The dream of adventure seems perpetually thwarted by the momentary reality of mundane needs. The drudgery can feel a bit much, and lets face it, February can be a bit dreary for many of us no matter the weather specifics. Truly, Sagittarius the best solution to all this is to find some adventure where you are. It is a time to try on a new wardrobe of identity. It is time to try playing new roles in your life. If you are always the outgoing one? Try playing the one who follows- just to see what its like. Do you usually go off the cuff? Try planning something. The point is not to change who you are, but to try on a new skin for a bit. Besides, who knows something might stick... and if not it will reveal valuable information and a new point of view!

Capricorn

Caution is your motto, and your instincts are perfect. From a slow painful attention to detail and hard work you can build all of the recognition you crave. This is nothing if not a time to flex your strategic long term muscle. Keep your cards close to the chest... but then again, what else would I expect?

Aquarius

You may find yourself strangely romantic. You may also find yourself discouraged by what feels like a lack of vision in those around you. Look for new exciting experiences in venues of people in which you don't really know anyone. Enjoy the excitement of the greater marketplace, both to take in the wares and to people watch. You will find surprisingly personal pleasure by getting out of your personal world!

Pisces

This is a week to find self empowerment through taking decadent care of yourself in simple mundane ways. This is a week for soul searching, but only from the vantage point of a hot tub, and a pedicure and/or a mud-mask. This week, oh Pisces, is in fact about very deep and even difficult emotional issues. But I urge you to consider finding the best in self love and creature comforts with which to confront these shadows! Remember what you knew as a small child: there is no fear that cannot be overtaken by a teddy bear and a favorite blanket!