This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho: “A life without love is life without life itself. It is just lived at the minimum, somehow lived, in fact a drag.”
Phoebe would like to point out that we all have all the twelve zodiac signs in our horoscope – some with planets in them and some are empty – meaning some of the themes addressed are in the foreground and some in the background of our lives. “I recommend readers to read all twelve quotes, not just their star sign, for a wider perspective on the themes of the month,” she says.
Mood of the Month
“A life without love is life without life itself. It is just lived at the minimum, somehow lived, in fact a drag. It is boredom, meaninglessness… But love brings a transformation. Love is like spring. Suddenly hidden sources start flowing. For the first time one feels the thrill of existence, the adventure, the immense call of the unknown, and a tremendous desire to plunge into the ocean of existence. That’s exactly what love is – a longing to meet with the whole, and in that very longing life starts reaching higher peaks.”
Osho, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Ch 7
Aries
Relevant Planetary Positions: Chiron in Aries. Mars in Taurus until 4th and then in Gemini. Moon in Aries 13th-16th.
Major Aspects for Aries: Mars trines Saturn on 22nd and squares Mercury on 24th. Moon in Aries squares Pluto on 16th.
“Don’t think that you know, and don’t think that you think original thoughts. No thought is ever original. Only experience is original… People go on thinking that something is my own idea. It gives a good feeling to the ego – but no idea is yours. Only consciousness is yours… Knowledge is not going to help… Weeping, crying, tears, love – something authentic, something true, something that arises in your being in this moment, may be of more help. It will give you some taste of reality.”
Osho, Unio Mystica, Vol 1, Ch 3
Taurus
Relevant Planetary Positions: Uranus in Taurus. Mars in Taurus until 4th. Venus in Pisces until 21st, then in Aries. Moon in Taurus 16th-18th.
Major Aspects for Taurus: Venus conjuncts Neptune on 14th, Sun on 26th and Chiron on 28th. Moon in Taurus conjuncts Uranus and squares Saturn on 17th, and squares Jupiter on 18th.
“If you are capable of remaining alert and spontaneous, able to be surprised by life and by yourself, you will become, by and by, more and more interested in the interior-most life, in the core of life. When you see a person, you will not see just the body. Your gaze will become penetrating… you will meet the person. You will shake hands, but not only hands, you will shake the person… The body is just the outermost garment. You have to take care of it. It is not to be neglected, it is valuable, but it is not the end.”
Osho, Ancient Music in the Pines, Ch 2
Gemini
Relevant Planetary Positions: North node in Gemini. Mercury in Aquarius until 15th, then in Pisces. Moon in Gemini 18th-21st.
Major Aspects for Gemini: Mercury conjuncts Jupiter on 5th, squares Mars on 24th and conjuncts Neptune on 30th. Moon in Gemini trines Saturn, squares Mercury and conjuncts Mars on 19th, and trines Jupiter and squares Neptune on 20th.
“‘While reason is still tracking down the secret, you end your quest on the open field of love’.
Your two eyes were searching and searching and were not finding it, and suddenly one day the third eye has opened and you have found it. Your intellect was searching and searching for the secret, and one day intuition has ripened and the heart has known. The intellect goes on thinking and thinking, and never knows, and the heart never thinks; it only knows. The heart is the faculty of real knowing. In the world of the heart, knowing means being; there is no difference between knowing and being.”
Osho, Unio Mystica, Vol 1, Ch 7
Cancer
Relevant Planetary Positions: New Moon in Pisces on 13th. Full Moon in Libra on 28th. Moon in Cancer 21st-23rd.
Major Aspects for Cancer: Moon in Cancer trines Mercury on 22nd and opposes Pluto and trines Neptune on 23rd.
“The moment you decide to reject something pain arises… Watch it inside yourself, become a lab of great experimentation. Just see: you are feeling fear… now there are two possibilities. One is reject it. Hold yourself tight so you don’t start trembling because of the fear. Then the fear becomes a painful thing, it is there and it hurts… The second is, enjoy it. Tremble! Let it become a meditation… Let the trembling become a dance… Cooperate with the trembling and you will be surprised – if you cooperate with the trembling, if you become the trembling, all pain disappears.”
Osho, Unio Mystica, Vol 1, Ch 8
Leo
Relevant Planetary Positions: Sun in Pisces until 20th, then in Aries (Spring Equinox). Moon in Leo 23rd-26th.
Major Aspects for Leo: Sun conjuncts Neptune on 11th, Moon on 13th, Venus on 25th and Chiron on 29th. Moon in Leo trines Venus opposes Saturn and squares Uranus on 24th and opposes Jupiter on 25th.
“The preparation for love is preparation for a deep silence, a virgin silence… It is not an arduous phenomenon. It is not like rising towards a high mountainous peak. It is far more easy. It is totally different – just the opposite – a glacier descending from the peaks of the mountains, slowly without any sound, without any fuss and fury, silently sliding towards the valley… It is easier for the river to go to the ocean because the water is always searching and seeking the lowest point, it is always seeking the deepest valley. It is not a search to be the first but to be the last.”
Osho, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Ch 7
Virgo
Relevant Planetary Positions: Mercury in Aquarius until 15th, then in Pisces. Moon in Virgo 26th-28th.
Major Aspects for Virgo: Mercury conjuncts Jupiter on 5th, squares Mars on 24th and conjuncts Neptune on 30th. Moon in Virgo trines Uranus on 26th, then opposes Mercury and Neptune, squares Mars and trines Pluto on 27th.
“The way is right before your eyes, but your eyes are not right before the way. They are closed, closed in a very subtle manner. They are clouded. Millions of thoughts are closing them, millions of dreams are floating on them… All that is, is right before you. But you are not here. You are not in that still moment where eyes are totally empty and you see, and you see that which is. So the first thing to be understood is how to attain unclouded eyes, how to make eyes empty so that they can reflect truth, how not to be continuously in a mad rush within, how not to be continuously thinking… When thought is not, seeing happens!”
Osho, And the Flowers Showered, Ch 10
Libra
Relevant Planetary Positions: Full Moon in Libra on 28th. Venus in Pisces until 21st, then in Aries. Moon in Libra 1st-2nd and 28th-30th.
Major Aspects for Libra: Venus conjuncts Neptune on 14th, Sun on 26th and Chiron on 28th. Moon in Libra trines Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn on 1st. Moon in Libra opposes Venus and trines Saturn on 28th and trines Mars and Jupiter on 29th.
“Religion is the greatest creativity because it is an effort to give birth to yourself, to become a father and mother to yourself, to be born again, to be reborn through meditation, through awareness. Poetry is good, painting is good, but when you give birth to your own consciousness there is no comparison. Then you have given birth to the ultimate poetry, the ultimate music, the ultimate dance… On the rung of creativity religion is the last. It is the greatest art, the ultimate art – that’s why I call it the ultimate alchemy. ”
Osho, Ancient Music in the Pines, Ch 8
Scorpio
Relevant Planetary Positions: Pluto in Capricorn. Moon in Scorpio 2nd-4th and 30th-31st.
Major Aspects for Scorpio: Moon in Scorpio trines Venus, opposes Uranus and squares Saturn on 3rd, and then squares Mercury, opposes Mars and trines Neptune on 4th. Moon in Scorpio squares Saturn and opposes Uranus on 30th, and trines Mercury and Neptune, then squares Jupiter on 31st.
“Between the two banks of life and death flows the river of love. And that is possible only for a person who does not take life for granted, who moves deep into the quality of being alive and becomes existential, authentic. Love is for the person who accepts death here and now and does not postpone it. Then between these two a beautiful phenomenon arises – the river of love… Life and death are there, but love has to be materialized. That is the goal of being a human.”
Osho, Ancient Music in the Pines, Ch 8
Sagittarius
Relevant Planetary Positions: South node in Sagittarius. Jupiter in Aquarius. Moon in Sagittarius 4th-7th.
Major Aspects for Sagittarius: Jupiter and Mercury conjunct on 5th. Moon in Sagittarius opposes Mars on 4th, squares Venus on 5th and squares Neptune on 6th.
“You are the mountain and beyond lies the way. Crossing yourself is very difficult… You are such a mass of contradictions! One fragment of you goes to the east, another goes to the west. You are not moving in one direction. You cannot as you are, because to move in one direction you need an inner unity, a crystallized being. As you are you are a crowd with many selves, with no unity… How can you move towards the divine? The divine needs total commitment, nothing less will do. But how to commit totally – you are not a total being! This is the mountain.”
Osho, And the Flowers Showered, Ch 4
Capricorn
Relevant Planetary Positions: Pluto in Capricorn. Saturn in Aquarius. Moon in Capricorn 7th-9th.
Major aspects for Capricorn: Saturn trines Mars on 22nd. Moon in Capricorn trines Uranus on 7th, and conjuncts Pluto on 9th.
“If a person can accept his reality as it is, in that very acceptance all tension disappears. Anguish, anxiety, despair – they all simply evaporate. And when there is no anxiety, no tension, no fragmentariness, no division, no schizophrenia then suddenly there is joy, then suddenly there is love, then suddenly there is compassion. These are not ideals, these are very natural phenomena. All that is needed is to remove the ideals, because those ideals are functioning as blocks. The more idealistic a person is, the more blocked he is.”
Osho, Unio Mystica, Vol 1, Ch 8
Aquarius
Relevant Planetary Positions: Uranus in Taurus. Mercury in Aquarius until 15th. Jupiter and Saturn in Aquarius. Moon in Aquarius 9th-11th.
Major aspects for Aquarius: Mercury conjuncts Jupiter in Aquarius on 5th. Moon in Aquarius squares Uranus and trines Mars on 9th, conjuncts Saturn and Jupiter on 10th, then conjuncts Mercury on 11th.
“Don’t expect anything in the future. Don’t corrupt it, because if all your expectations are fulfilled, then too you will be miserable… Happiness is possible only through surprise. Happiness is possible only when something happens which you had never expected, when something takes you completely unawares. If your expectations are fulfilled a hundred per cent, you will be living as if you are in the past… Everything will be just a repetition… and repetition can never be satisfying. The new, the novel, the original is needed.”
Osho, Ancient Music in the Pines, Ch 8
Pisces
Relevant Planetary Positions: Sun in Pisces until 20th (Spring Equinox). Neptune in Pisces. Venus in Pisces until 21st. Mercury enters Pisces on 15th. New Moon in Pisces on 13th. Moon in Pisces 11th-13th.
Major Aspects for Pisces: Neptune and Venus conjunct on 14th. Neptune and Mercury conjunct on 30th. Moon in Pisces squares Mars on 11th and conjuncts Venus and Neptune on 13th.
“A person who is in search of a higher blissfulness has to be ready to suffer. This may look a paradox to you that a man… who is awakened is blissful absolutely, and also suffers absolutely. Of course he is blissful inside – the flowers go on showering there – but he suffers for everybody all around. He has to, because if you have sensitivity for blessings to become available to you, suffering will also become available to you. One has to choose. If you choose not to suffer… then you will not attain to blissfulness either because they both come by the same door.”
Osho, And the Flowers Showered, Ch 9
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