Tuesday, February 7, 2012

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!

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