This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho: “Sometimes, if you feel the thing is too difficult for you or unapproachable for you, be patient.”
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
“Sometimes, if you feel the thing is too difficult for you or unapproachable for you, be patient. Listen. Maybe your heart is not dancing, maybe it is higher or deeper than the heart. There are things of the head, there are things of the heart, and there are things which are beyond… You know something of the heart but you know nothing of the beyond… Even if you can go a little further than you can go right now, even if you can take a few steps towards the unknown, that will be enriching for you.”
Osho, The Diamond Sutra, Ch 7
Aries
Relevant Planetary Positions: Chiron in Aries. Mars in Leo until 29th, then in Virgo. Moon in Aries 1st-3rd and 28th-30th.
Major Aspects for Aries: Mars opposes Saturn on 1st, trines Chiron on 2nd, squares Uranus on 4th and conjuncts Venus on 12th. Moon in Aries trines Venus on 1st and conjuncts Chiron and trines Mars on 2nd, and squares Pluto on 3rd. Then moon in Aries conjuncts Chiron on 29th and squares Pluto on 30th.
“How can a fearful man trust? He is always thinking, he is always cunning, he is always protecting, defending… To trust you need to be brave. To trust you need to be able to risk. To trust you need to move into danger… That moment is a critical moment when you are facing danger and opportunity both. If you don’t go into danger you will miss the opportunity. If you want the opportunity you will have to go into danger. Those who know how to live dangerously, only they are religious.”
Osho, The Diamond Sutra, Ch 3
Taurus
Relevant Planetary Positions: Uranus in Taurus. Venus in Leo until 22nd, then in Virgo. Moon in Taurus 3rd-6th and 30th-31st.
Major Aspects for Taurus: Venus opposes Saturn on 7th, squares Uranus on 8th, conjuncts Mars on 12th, and opposes Jupiter on 22nd. Moon in Taurus conjuncts Uranus and squares Saturn on 4th. Then Moon in Taurus trines Mars on 30th and squares Mercury on 31st.
“Happiness is here-now; it needs no condition. Happiness is natural… There is no reason to find some cause to be happy. Just be happy. Trees are happy and they will not get any beer in the evening and any cigarettes, and they are perfectly happy. Look! And the wind blowing is happy, and the sun is happy and the sands are happy and the seas are happy, and everything is happy except man, because nobody is making any conditions. Just be happy!”
Osho, The Diamond Sutra, Ch 8
Gemini
Relevant Planetary Positions: North Node in Gemini. Mercury in Gemini until 11th, then in Cancer until 28th, then in Leo. Moon in Gemini 6th-8th.
Major Aspects for Gemini: Mercury squares Neptune on 6th, trines Jupiter on 12th, squares Chiron on 19th, trines Neptune on 24th and opposes Pluto on 25th. Moon in Gemini squares Jupiter on 6th, trines Saturn on 7th and squares Neptune and conjuncts Mercury on 8th.
“To listen well ordinarily means to listen in a receptive mood, in deep receptivity. When you listen, if you are arguing, if you are judging, if you are saying, ‘Yes, this is right because it fits with my ideology, and this is not right because it doesn’t appeal to me logically,’ …you are listening but you are not listening well… If you have really opened your ear, and there is no interference and no disturbance inside, …you have not only opened your ear, you have opened your heart.”
Osho, The Diamond Sutra, Ch 3
Cancer
Relevant Planetary Positions: New Moon on 10th in Cancer. Full Moon on 24th in Aquarius. Moon in Cancer 8th-11th.
Major Aspects for Cancer: Moon in Cancer trines Jupiter on 8th, then squares Chiron on 9th and trines Neptune and opposes Pluto on 10th.
“The search for the new cannot be an ordinary search… You don’t know it; you have never met it. The search for the new is going to be just an open exploration. One knows not. One has to start in a state of not-knowing, and one has to move innocently like a child, thrilled with the possibilities. You cannot do anything to create the new because whatsoever you do will be of the old… Act meditatively, act spontaneously. Let the moment be decisive… Utterly abandon yourself to the moment, and you will find every day new openings.”
Osho, The Diamond Sutra, Ch 4
Leo
Relevant Planetary Positions: Sun in Cancer until 22nd, then in Leo. Moon in Leo 11th-13th.
Major Aspects for Leo: Sun conjuncts Moon in Cancer on 10th (New Moon) and opposes Moon in Aquarius on 24th (Full Moon). Sun squares Chiron on 4th, trines Neptune on 15th and opposes Pluto on 17th. Moon in Leo opposes Saturn on 11th and squares Uranus and conjuncts Venus and Mars on 12th.
“With a very great effort you can… move into your inner being. For a single moment thoughts stop and you are lost into the inner splendour… The sky opens, the clouds disappear and there is light, and there is life and there is utter joy, but only for rare moments. Again and again it is lost. […] Nirvana can only be a gift, it cannot be a bargain. It is not business… If you are carrying any motive to gain anything out of it you cannot help anybody – in fact you yourself still need help… You can misguide but you cannot guide.”
Osho, The Diamond Sutra, Ch 3
Virgo
Relevant Planetary Positions: Mercury in Gemini until 11th, then in Cancer until 28th, then in Leo. Moon in Virgo 13th-15th.
Major Aspects for Virgo: Mercury squares Neptune on 6th, trines Jupiter on 12th, squares Chiron on 19th, trines Neptune on 24th and opposes Pluto on 25th. Moon in Virgo opposes Jupiter on 13th, trines Uranus on 14th, opposes Neptune and trines Pluto on 15th.
“Memory is a dead thing. Memory is not truth and cannot ever be, because truth is always alive, truth is life. Memory is the persistence of that which is no more. It is living in a ghost world, but it contains us, it is our prison. In fact it is us. Memory creates the knot – the complex called ‘I’, the ego… It is artificial; it is arbitrary. It is put together; it can fall apart any moment and when the new enters there is fear. The ego is afraid it may fall apart… That’s why you don’t accept the new with joy.”
Osho, The Diamond Sutra, Ch 4
Libra
Relevant Planetary Positions: Venus in Leo until 22nd, then in Virgo. Moon in Libra 15th-17th.
Major Aspects for Libra: Venus opposes Saturn on 7th, squares Uranus on 8th, conjuncts Mars on 12th, and opposes Jupiter on 22nd. Moon in Libra squares Mercury on 15th, trines Saturn on 16th and squares Pluto on 17th.
“Even happiness is a turmoil; even happiness is a kind of fever… If you are too happy you will not be able to sleep in the night, you will not be able to relax, in the same way if you are too unhappy… Both are tiring. When happiness tires you, you start moving towards unhappiness. When unhappiness tires you, you start moving towards happiness, and that’s how the pendulum of life goes on swinging, swaying from one extreme to another… Heaven and hell! Say goodbye to both, and then arises a totally new world which you have not ever dreamed of. Then there is utter serenity.”
Osho, The Diamond Sutra, Ch 6
Scorpio
Relevant Planetary Positions: Retrograde Pluto in Capricorn. Moon in Scorpio 17th-19th.
Major Aspects for Scorpio: Sun opposes Pluto on 17th and Mercury opposes Pluto on 25th. Moon in Scorpio trines Jupiter on 17th and on 18th trines Mercury, squares Saturn and opposes Uranus, and on 19th squares Venus and Mars and trines Neptune.
”Don’t be lukewarm… create a life of great passion. Whatsoever you do, do it passionately. If you sing, then sing passionately. If you love, then love passionately. If you paint, then paint passionately. If you talk, then talk passionately. If you listen, then listen passionately. If you meditate, then meditate passionately… When the passion is great the ego dies… There is a quantum leap from passion into compassion, but the quantum leap happens only when you are boiling at one hundred degrees.”
Osho, The Diamond Sutra, Ch 4
Sagittarius
Relevant Planetary Positions: South Node in Sagittarius. Jupiter retrograde in Pisces re-enters Aquarius on 28th. Moon in Sagittarius 19th-21st.
Major Aspects for Sagittarius: Mercury trines Jupiter on 12th and Venus opposes Jupiter on 22nd. Moon in Sagittarius squares Jupiter on 19th and trines Venus and Mars, and squares Neptune on 21st.
“Change should come from the innermost core; it should not come from the periphery. And all the turmoil is on the periphery. Deep down there is no turmoil. You are just like the sea… the deeper you go there is more and more calm. At the deepest part in the sea there is no turmoil, not a single wave… First go deeper into your sea so you achieve a calm crystallization, so you achieve the point where no disturbance ever reaches… Once you are there you have become a master. Now whatsoever is unnecessary can be dropped.”
Osho, A Bird on the Wing, Ch 6
Capricorn
Relevant Planetary Positions: Pluto is retrograde in Capricorn. Saturn is retrograde in Aquarius. Moon in Capricorn 21st-24th.
Major aspects for Capricorn: Mars opposes Saturn on 1st. Moon in Capricorn opposes Mercury, trines Uranus and conjuncts Saturn on 23rd.
“That’s what all are doing in the world – trying to have a life according to their own desires and plans and projections… Everybody is trying to go upstream, everybody is trying to fight with life, with nature, with God… and the fight is going to lead you into deeper and deeper frustrations because you cannot win… Existence is vast, is enormous. You cannot win against it. You can only win with it… The man of understanding surrenders… He says, ‘I am no more. Flow through me. Let me be just a hollow bamboo, a reed flute’.”
Osho, The Diamond Sutra, Ch 7
Aquarius
Relevant Planetary Positions: Uranus in Taurus. Saturn in Aquarius. Full Moon in Aquarius on 24th. Moon in Aquarius 24th-26th.
Major aspects for Aquarius: Mars squares Uranus on 4th and Venus squares Uranus on 8th. Moon in Aquarius conjuncts Saturn on 24th and squares Uranus and opposes Mars on 25th.
“All ideologies are of the mind, and if ideologies are of the mind they cannot take you beyond the mind. No ideology can become a bridge to reach beyond the mind. All ideologies have to be dropped, only then the mind will be dropped. […] Mind cannot conceive of anything new. Mind is incapable of conceiving the new. Mind lives in the old – mind is the old. The new never happens through the mind. The new happens only when mind is not functioning, when mind is not controlling you, when mind has been put aside.”
Osho, The Diamond Sutra, Ch 1
Pisces
Relevant Planetary Positions: Jupiter and Neptune in Pisces. Moon in Pisces 26th-28th.
Major Aspects for Pisces: Sun trines Neptune on 15th. Mercury trines Neptune on 24th. Moon in Pisces conjuncts Jupiter and opposes Venus on 26th, conjuncts Neptune on 27th and trines Mercury on 28th.
“No method is needed, no path is needed, no technique is needed. All techniques and all paths and all methods have to be dropped. You have to be in a state of utter silence so that you can hear the still small voice within you. It has been there all along, but you are so noisy with your desires that you cannot listen to your own music… Drop all the methods that you have accumulated through asking how. Just fall into a silent space – it is a knack, not a technique. Looking at the morning sun rising, just sit silently and look. What is there to be done?”
Osho, The Diamond Sutra, Ch 4
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